Botticelli - August 2016

Thread Games
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Previous thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=797340

Continuing our march through the alphabet, our next letter is

R

Have at you!

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IQ1) Is the penultimate you retired and living like a king in Patagonia?
IQ2) Were you one of two USA gymnasts to compete in the women’s all-around final in the Rio Olympics?
IQ3) Were you the personal bodyguard for the Empire’s only non-human Grand Admiral?

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Dunno x3, although I assume the third is a Star Wars question.

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The Dread Pirate Roberts, Aly Raisman, and Rukh. (Yes, that one was a Star Wars thing - I still mourn the original EU.)

DQ) Female?
DQ) Real?
DQ) Is R the initial of your last name?

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Damn, you’re good!

R.

  1. female
  2. real
  3. last name starts with R
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IQs:

  1. Was a candy bar named after you?
  2. Did you write most of the Oz books after L. Frank Baum passed away?
  3. Were you stricken to find out that when your husband died he was meeting with his old mistress?
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IQ1) Are you widely credited as saying “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit next to me”?
IQ2) Did you ever play a character who destroyed his own happily-ever-after by looking at a penny?
IQ3) Did your death inspire an urban legend about a cursed character?

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Not “Baby Ruth” Cleveland, dunno, and not Eleanor Roosevelt.

Not Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Christopher Reeve or… dunno.

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Correct. Ruth Plumley Thompson. Correct.

DQ: Living?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Bolivar Shagnasty, Cauliflower McPugg and Junior, the Mean Widdle Kid?
  2. Were you the male lead in What’s Up, Doc??
  3. Did you arrange and conduct the orchestra for three albums with Linda Ronstadt?
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Dunno, not Ryan O’Neal (love that movie!), and not Nelson Riddle.

R.

  1. female
  2. real
  3. last name starts with R
  4. dead
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#1 was Red Skelton. Correct and correct.

DQ: Died after 1900?

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IQs:

  1. Did you dance in a lot of films with Fred Astaire?
  2. Were you nominated for an Oscar for your performance in Howards End?
  3. Are you a popular TV chef-host on the Food Network?
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Not Ginger Rogers, dunno, and not Rachael Ray.

R.

  1. female
  2. real
  3. last name starts with R
  4. dead
  5. died after 1900
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George Reeves, whose suicide initiated the myth of the Superman Curse.

DQ: Died after 1950?

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Correct. Vanessa Redgrave. Correct.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

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IQ’s:

  1. Is your father one of the preeminent stoners in history as well as a comic actor?
  2. Did you voice Box in Logan’s Run?
  3. Did you sing about Jessie’s Girl?
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Dunno, not Roscoe Lee Browne, not Rick Springfield.

R.

  1. female
  2. real
  3. last name starts with R
  4. dead
  5. died after 1900
  6. died after 1950
  7. known for the Arts
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IQs:

  1. Were you a Western villain played by John Astin in a TV movie?
  2. Did Tony Randall play you in a comedy film also starring Jayne Mansfield?
  3. Were you Jayne’s character in the above-mentioned film?
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[QUOTE=Johnny Ace]

  1. Is your father one of the preeminent stoners in history as well as a comic actor?
  2. Did you voice Box in Logan’s Run?
  3. Did you sing about Jessie’s Girl?

[/QUOTE]

Rae Dawn Chong, correct, correct.

DQ:

American?