Botticelli, August 2025

Thread Games
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I’d already asked about Cronkite, as it happens.

Previous IQs:

Are you Mrs. Tom Hanks? - Yes, Rita Wilson
Did Family Guy joke about your (supposedly) very pointy chin? - Reese Witherspoon
Were you the female lead in the movie The Puppet Masters? - Julie Warner

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you FDR’s next-to-last VP?
Were you, in a Stephen King book, disastrously elected President in 1968?
Did your dog’s bungee cord lose its bounce?

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She may be a newsperson or show presenter. Hmmmm…

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Oops. Missed that.


IQ: Do you turn letters on a game show?

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Take 3 DQs

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YES!! I am

Vanna White!

Good job sussing her out, SCA!

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Previous IQs:

Were you FDR’s next-to-last VP? - Henry A. Wallace
Were you, in a Stephen King book, disastrously elected President in 1968? - George Wallace, in an alternative timeline in 11/22/63 (he expands the Vietnam War and repeatedly uses nuclear weapons)
Did your dog’s bungee cord lose its bounce? - Wallace, in the window-washing scene of the Wallace & Gromit film A Close Shave

Wallace x3!

I’m not really sure that game shows are of either “the arts” or the “performing arts,” as such, although they’re certainly a form of entertainment. But well done, in any event, SCA!

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I defined game shows as entertainment, but if not part of the arts, then what would it be?

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Just… entertainment? Pro wrestling and game shows are both in that gray area, I’d say.

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Good job, SCA!

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Wow, great get SCA!

Probably have to put reality show celebrities in the same gray area?

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My turn in the barrel again, eh?

I don’t think ‘R’ has been used recently, so…

I am R.


Wiki includes professional wrestling as a performing art. Vanna’s role seems to fit under stagecraft, which is also listed there. I think most, if not all, reality shows would count as improv, a subset of acting.

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IQs:

  1. Did you create the characters Gertrude and Heathcliff?
  2. Did Gene Autry have a hit song about you?
  3. Did you star in the 90’s Mummy movies?
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Not Red Skelton
Not … the Yellow Rose of Texas?
Not … Rachel Weisz?

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  1. Correct.
  2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  3. Correct.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

Did you co-anchor the ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith?
Did Doonesbury parody you with a glitchy TV persona?
Did you die while riding a Greyhound bus to Florida?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the first Philadelphia Philly to have his number retired by that club?
  2. Did you speak out in praise of a Supreme Court nominee, saying that mediocrities needed representation on the bench?
  3. Could your character make a telephone out of coconut husks but not fix a hole in a boat?
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DQ x3

DQ
DQ
Not Russell Lastname (Johnson?)


R

1. Real

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#1 was Robin Roberts.
#2 was Roman Hruska.
Correct on #3, Russell Johnson, The Professor from Gilligan’s Island.

DQs:

Male?
First name begins with R?

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R

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name begins with R.

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Harry Reasoner
Ronald Reagan (as Ron Headrest)
Ratzo Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy)

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Known for arts?
  3. Born after 1950?