Botticelli - April 2024

Thread Games
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I bow to your and the Prof’s Botticelli kickassery.

IQs:

  1. Did you win an Oscar for your role in a movie opposite Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berrigan, and Jeffrey Jones?

  2. Did one of your roommates call you “Ferret Face”?

  3. Your most famous role notwithstanding, do you not normally speak with a braying “Lo-awn Guyland” accent?

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Third-question guess. Awesome.

IQs:

  1. Were you the title star of a “comic book inside the strip” in Lil’ Abner?

  2. Did you draw the “What’s New With Phil & Dixie” comic strip in Dragon magazine in the 1980s?

  3. Did you lead a guerrilla band in the southern theater of the American Revolution?

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IQs:
1. Are you a former Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, the creator of TV shows like 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and author of the memoir Bossypants?
2. Did you crack safes and ask for “a map of the cat”?
3. Were you the leather-jacketed breakout character of Happy Days?

124

Yeah, I did, but to be fair, it was the first question in a round in December when everyone was doing Christmas-related people, and I guessed Tiny Tim. So, it wasn’t completely an out-of-the-blue guess.

125

IQs:

  1. Were you born Leslie King, Jr.?
  2. Are you Pearl Slaghoople’s son-in-law?
  3. Did you play Dr. Bombay on Bewitched?
126

Great job, SCA - impressive!

F it is.

IQs:

Were you a movie character named after an American car?
Were you a radio, book and movie character named after a British car?
Were you regarded as something like a demigod in Aldous Huxley’s sf novel Brave New World?

127

1, DQ
2. Not Frank Burns
3. Not Fran Whatshername the comedian (Drescher?)

  1. Not Fearless Fosdick
  2. Not Phil Foglio
  3. Not Francis Marion
  1. DQ
  2. DQ
  3. Not Arthur Fonzarelli

DQ x3

  1. Not Ford Fairlane
  2. Not Ford Prefect
  3. DQ
128

Correct on Frank Burns and Fran Drescher. 1 was F. Murray Abraham, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus.

DQ: Real?

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F

  1. Real
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#1 was Pres. Gerald R. Ford.
#2 is Fred Flintstone.
#3 was Bernard Fox.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
  3. American?
131

1 was Tina Fey; 2 was Richard Feynman.

DQs:
1. known from the arts?
2. first name begins with F?

132

F

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. American
5. Known from the arts
6. Last name begins with F

133

For the record: Stanley Yelnats, Yzma and Yvette.

IQs:

  1. Did you Impress Mnementh in the Pern books?
  2. Did you Impress Canth in the Pern books?
  3. Did you write, among other books, Midworld?
134

Here’s Fran Fine trying wasabi and sounding quite a bit different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YLkLOYrswU

IQs:
1. Were you a pizza delivery boy who got cryogenically frozen December 31st, 1999 only to wake up a thousand years later in the WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW on Futurama?
2. Were you a First Lady of the US who founded a center named after you?
3. Did you tell us to not turn around, because the Kommissar’s in town?

135

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you play the owner of A-1 Sporting Goods on Sixteen Mile Road?
  2. Did you write Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe?
  3. Did you preach the sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”
136

IQs:

  1. Did you die in the Battle of Hogwarts?
  2. Were you known as the Queen of Jazz?
  3. Did Michael Douglas play you in a very recent TV mini-series?
137

IQs:

  1. Were you a structural engineer who built an eponymous machine, after being tasked to come up with a marvel for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago that would beat Gustave Eiffel’s recently opened Tower in Paris?

  2. Did you write Tender Is The Night?

  3. Were you a Jewish factory supervisor, wrongfully convicted of and lynched for the murder of a 13 year-old Irish girl in Atlanta?

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  1. Not F’Lar
  2. Not F’nor
  3. Not Alan Dean Foster
  1. Not Fry
  2. Not Betty Ford
  3. DQ

This should make up for it:

DQ x3

DQ x3

  1. Not Mr Ferris
  2. DQ
  3. DQ
139

3 was Falco.

DQ: died after 1960?

140

The late Joe Flaherty (as Harold Weir in Freaks and Geeks), Fannie Flagg, and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

DQ: Known from TV or movies?

2 DQs reserved.