Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
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Well it’s a good thing that guess was enough to get the win, or I might have tried “Annie Solomon” for my final question, which would have been a miss of humiliating proportions.

I was mostly trying to hit the profession with my last two DQs, so I tried educator, then tacked on “tutor” when I thought about The Miracle Worker. (If I had missed, I would have asked about the medical profession.)

OK, on to the next round. I am

F

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IQs:

  1. Were you the big name star of a sitcom in which you only briefly appeared per episode?
  2. Did you have hits with Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Honeysuckle Rose?
  3. In the comic strip Peanuts, do you have naturally curly hair?
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IQs:

Did you lead the RNC in the Eighties?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you the action guy on FYI?

64

Take 2 DQs.
I am not… Frederica?

Take a DQ.
I am not Frank Furillo.
Take another DQ.

65

#1 was Fred Macmurray of My Three Sons. Typically he’d show up near the end of the show to give one of his sons his wise fatherly advice.
#2 was Fats Waller.
#3 is Frieda.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with F?
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F.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with F.
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IQs:

  1. Were you the “bad guy” in the early seasons of M * A * S * H?
  2. Were you mayor of New York City during the Depression?
  3. Did you write The Conning Tower for The Herald Tribune?
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Previous IQs:

Did you lead the RNC in the Eighties? - Frank Fahrenkopf
Did you command Hill Street Station? - Yes, Capt. Frank Furillo (loved that show!)
Were you the action guy on FYI? - Frank Fontana, on Murphy Brown

Frank x3!

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you say that Washington’s 1776-77 New Jersey campaign was “the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military achievements"?
Were you the son of two fictional psychologists?
Were you Earl Warren’s predecessor as Chief Justice of the United States?

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I am not Frank Burns.
I am not Fiorello LaGuardia.
Take a DQ.

I am not… Ferdinand Foch?
I am not… Frasier Crane, Jr.?
I am not… Felix Frankfurter?

Tough ones.

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F.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with F.
  4. American.
  5. Is part of a franchise that has been rebooted multiple times. The first incarnation of the character would not be alive today; later incarnations probably would be.
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Correct, correct, and Franklin P. Adams.

DQ: From a series of novels?

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IQs:

  1. Are you and your brother Joe boy detectives?
  2. Was your roommate Oscar Madison?
  3. Are you the hero of the Sharknado series?
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I am not Frank Hardy.
I am not Felix Unger.
Take a DQ.

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F.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with F.
  4. American.
  5. Is part of a franchise that has been rebooted multiple times. The first incarnation of the character would not be alive today; later incarnations probably would be.
  6. From a series of novels.
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Correct, Correct, and Fin Shepard.

1 DQ reserved.

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  1. Are you Nancy Drew’s friend Bess’s cousin?
  2. Are you a Bobbsey twin?
  3. Are you their twin?
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Take 3 DQs.

I haven’t run everyone into a dead end, have I?

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George Fayne, Freddie and Flossie. Or Flossie and Freddie if you prefer.

DQ:

  1. From a mystery series?
  2. Has the series ever been adapted?

Nah, sometimes there’s a small lull, that’s all.

1 DQ reserved.

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My grandson visited us yesterday, so that took up most of my time.

DQ: Created after 1959?

IQs:

  1. In the French version of your story, were you known as Guy L’Eclair?
  2. Are you Santa Claus’s brother?
  3. Are you a magician who occasionally battled the Justice League of America?
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Take a DQ.
I am not Fred Claus.
Take another DQ.