Botticelli: Early December 2012

Thread Games
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Correct on Reed and Dawson. The character was Ray Kinsella, who was indeed played by Costner.

DQ: Are you alive today?

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IQs

Was your middle name the same as the last name of someone who once held your important political job?
A noted athlete, did you have the same last name as a much-later noted musician?
Did you play a noted British literary character in movies set long after that character would actually have died?

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IQ1: Does your wife have some ‘splainin’ to do?
IQ2: Do you repeatedly (and emptily) threaten to knock your wife, “straight to the moon!”?
IQ3: Are you a new-wave musician married to a former supermodel?

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No

IQ1: Not Ronald Wilson Reagan
IQ2: Dunno, take a DQ
IQ3: Not Nazi fighting Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone.

Not Ricky Ricardo, Ralph Kramden, nor Ric Ocasek.

Summary:
T

  1. Not alive today.
45

Just noticed the typo in the summary above.

That should read:
R

  1. Not alive today.
46

Yes, Ronald Reagan.
Rogers Hornsby, early baseball star, and Bruce Hornsby.
Yes, Basil Rathbone.

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Do you find it very hard to talk in the presence of women?
Did you play a tenant, a detective and a dad?
Did you ruin the cake that everyone was looking forward to?

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Yes.

IQ1: No idea. Another DQ for you.
IQ2: Not Paul Reiser in Mad About You, the Beverly Hills Cop movies, and My Two Dads respectively.
IQ3: Not Richard Harris singing MacArthur Park?? If not, take another DQ.

Summary:
R

  1. Not alive today
  2. Male
48

IQ: Were you the “Gipper”'s Treasury Secretary?

49

Raj, in The Big Bang Theory.
Not who I was thinking of; I’ll rephrase below.
Richard Harris sang that “someone” left a cake out in the rain, so it wasn’t him. I was thinking of Wreck-It Ralph, in the recent (and pretty good) movie of the same name.

DQs:

Real?
Last name begin with R?

IQs:

An American actor who is now deceased, did you play a tenant, a detective and a dad?
Did you “say a few words on behalf of the leadership”?
Did a TV series based on a book about you win your creator three Emmys?

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Not Donald “only one A” Regan

Yes
Yes

3 more DQs for you.

Summary:
R

  1. Not alive today
  2. Male
  3. Real
  4. Last name begins with ‘R’
51

IQ1: Does everyone know you do not take prisoners?

IQ2: Did you write of a detective that stayed home to look after his orchids?

IQ3: Did you write of a swordsman with a big nose?

52

IQ: Were you an automotive pioneer who cofounded a ritzy British company?

53

IQ1: I have a feeling I’m going to :smack: when you tell me, but take a DQ.
IQ2: Not Nero Wolfe creator Rex Stout.
IQ3: it’s been over 25 years since college French class…the playwright that did Cyrano de Bergerac… Take another DQ.

Neither something Rolls nor Henry Royce.

54

Rolls build early cars.

55

John Ritter on Three’s Company, Hooperman and 8 Simple Rules.
Randy Newman, in his Vietnam War tune “Song for the Dead.”
Rolie Polie Olie, from the book of the same name by William Joyce: ShareTV is Now Closed

DQs:

American?
Best known for the creative arts?
Born since 1900?

IQs:

Did you wash a pot that might not even have been dirty?
Did you employ a famous cartoonist from Lancaster, Ohio?
Did the people demand your release from the local big cheese?

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yes
yes
yes

1: Take a DQ. Sounds like a nursery rhyme
2: Not William Randolph Hearst? - only newspaper man with an ‘R’ I can think of,.
3: Not Roger, who the crowd wanted released in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.? “Vewy well. We will wewease Woger!!”??

Take 1-3 DQs, depending on how I did.

Summary:
R

  1. Not alive today
  2. Male
  3. Real
  4. Last name begins with ‘R’
  5. American
  6. Best known for the creative arts
  7. Born after 1900
57

VP candidate Paul Ryan, for a photo op during his recent visit to an Ohio soup kitchen.
Yes, Hearst, who employed Richard Outcault, cartoonist of The Yellow Kid.
Yes, either Roger or Roderick, in The Life of Brian.

DQ:

Actor?

IQs:

Was a famous photo taken of you right after you woke up?
Did your son eventually hold the same top job you did, and in a sentimental gesture wear the same particular garment associated with that job?
Was your photo once swapped by a newspaper with that of a local undertaker?

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Bang on with Rex Stout.

  1. is the Dread Pirate Roberts, from the film ‘The Princess Bride’.

  2. is Edmond Rostand, who, indeed, penned the enduring classic play ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’.

If may, I will hold off until Elendil’s Heir’s DQ is answered. No sense in trumping my partner’s ace…

59

I’m a hyphenate, but yes, actor is one of them.
IQs:

2 sounds familiar, I’m thinking a judicial robe. John Roberts, Sr.? Total guess
Take 2 or 3 DQs.

Summary:
R

  1. Not alive today
  2. Male
  3. Real
  4. Last name begins with ‘R’
  5. American
  6. Best known for the creative arts
  7. Born after 1900
  8. Actor, among other talents.
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Rita Hayworth: http://thehairpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Picture-59.jpg
Randolph Churchill’s son Winston became Chancellor of the Exchequer, just as his father had been, and wore his robes of office.
Civil Rights Movement leader Roy Wilkins, in East Liverpool, Ohio in 1963.

DQs:

Musician, too?
Died before 1980?
Best known for movie roles?

IQs:

Did you play an iconic role decades before a second person with a similar name played it?
Are you the second person referred to above?
Did a picture of you eating alone become an Internet meme?