Botticelli - Feb. 2016

Thread Games
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Still thinking…

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OK. Are you Chef Boyardee?

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Born in Italy, I came to America when I was 16 and joined my brother in the restaurant business. I opened my own restaurant twelve years later, in Cleveland. My recipe for spaghetti sauce was so popular that customers wanted to teke samples home, so I began bottling it; within three years I was selling it nationwide.

My name is Ettore Boiardi, but to make it easier for Americans to pronounce I spelt it phonetically as my brand name: Chef Boy-Ar-Dee.

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Wow. Well done, EH! I would never have guessed him.

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Good choice for a mystery guest, SCAdian. One of those “hidden in plain sight” types.

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Thanks! As it happens, we did Boiardi awhileback - see post 60 here: Botticelli September 2011 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

Our next letter, continuing our march through the alphabet, is

C

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IQs:

  1. Were you Lincoln’s first Secretary of the Treasury?
  2. Were you Lincoln’s first Secretary of War?
  3. Were you Lincoln’s first Secretary of the Interior?
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Not Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron or Caleb Blood Smith (great name!).

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IQ1: Did you play a submariner, two field marshals, and a psychotic bank robber?
IQ2: Did you write about Henry, Beatrice, and their friends?
IQ3: Did John take your place in working with Mike and Joe?

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IQ1: Were you mayor of Detroit from 1974-1994?
IQ2: Were you a rock guitarist known for hits like *Maybelline *and Roll Over Beethoven?
IQ3: Were you fined $757 for refusing to play in front of a segregated audience in Augusta Georgia in 1961?

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Correct on all three. (No surprises there.)

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Minnie the Moocher?
  2. Did you have a hit with Orange-Colored Sky?
  3. Did you have a hit with Pennies from Heaven?
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Not Cliff Robertson (a guess), not Beverly Cleary, and dunno.

Not Coleman Young, I really should know #2 but I’m blanking, and not… Johnny Cash?

Not Cab Calloway, dunno and dunno.

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Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music, Waterloo, The Night of the Generals, and The Silent Partner).
The two field marshals were Wellington and Rommel.
Correct.
Chad Mitchell. When he dropped out of his eponymous trio, John Denver was selected as his replacement.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

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Correct on the Hi-De-Ho Man. #2 was Nat “King” Cole. #3 was Bing Crosby.

DQ: Last name starts with C?

1 DQ reserved.

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correct, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles

holding 2 DQs

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IQ1: Did Flora MacDonald take you for a boat ride?
IQ2: Were you noted for being friendlier than others like you?
IQ3: Did your brother Buck die as a result of wounds received in two shot-outs with the police?

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Chuck Berry - d’oh! I could see him in my mind but just couldn’t come up with his name.

Dunno the first two; not Clyde.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
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DQ: Alive?

IQs:

  1. Did you play the “Hercules Poirot” character in Murder By Death?
  2. Did Carrie Fisher give you the Lifetime Achievement Award on a quasi-important awards show?
  3. Did you team up with Mike Myers for two movies based on your SNL skits?
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IQ1: Are you the CEO of Godfather’s pizza who ran for the Republican nomination for President in 2011?
IQ2: Are you a former Black Panther honcho who fled the US for 7 years and returned to join the LDS church?
IQ3: Are you a veteran supporting actor, possibly best known for your role as Dick Halloran in the 1980 film The Shining?

DQ: American?

holding a DQ

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Not James Coco, C-3PO or… dammit, I’m blanking. Dunno.

Not Herman Cain, dunno, and not Scatman Crothers.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. dead
  5. American