Botticelli Feb. 2022

Thread Games
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IQs:

Did you tell Ned Ryerson not to date your sister?
Did you run the bar where the FYI staff hung out?
Did you play Sgt. Bilko?

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I am not Punxsutawney Phil, Paula Prentiss, Phylicia Rashad, Phil, or Phil Silvers, but I am indeed Phil Connors! Chosen solely because, yes, the game started on Groundhog Day.

Next round goes to Elendil’s Heir.

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Well done, EH! Good choice, DLR!

24

Thanks. I love that movie.

Our next letter is

B

25

IQs:

  1. Who’s that knocking at my door? (cried the fair young maiden)
  2. Did James Caan play a fictionalized version of you in For The Boys?
  3. Are you playing the villainous Firefly in the upcoming Batgirl movie?
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IQs:
1. Did a painting of yours, “The Man of Sorrows”, go for $45.4 million at a Sotheby’s auction last month, following another high-price sale of a painting of yours last year, “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” (although neither are arguably the work you’re best known for)?
2. According to a 1930 Rudy Vallée song, are you loved by every college boy–but the singer is the one who’s loved by you?
3. For a time, were you the most famous American hater of broccoli?

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Not the Bandersnatch, Bob Hope or Brad Pitt.

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Not Botticelli, Brenda Lee or GHWB.

29

2 was Betty Co-ed.

DQ: real?

IQs:
1. Did you in fact raise your daughter Deborah in an air crib, and did she turn out perfectly fine?
2. Did you write and draw picture books such as Animalia and The Eleventh Hour?
3. Are you Jonah Hill’s sister?

30

#1 was Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Brandon Frazier.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with B?
31

Dunno, not Sandra Boynton, and not Breanna Hill.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
32

1 was B.F. Skinner; 2 was Graeme Base; 3 was Beanie Feldstein.

DQ: main character?

2 DQs reserved.

33

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
34

IQs:

  1. Are you a hen who accompanies Dorothy in The Return to Oz?
  2. Were your last words a blessing on the man who ordered your death?
  3. Were you an English actor who came to America and was the father of two American actors, one of whom was a presidential assassin?
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IQs:
1. After meeting your computer-selected college roommate, did you think “There are still a few bugs in the system”?
2. Do you have the same last name as the main character of the long-running film series in which you played his secretary?
3. Did you call hakarl the most disgusting thing you’d ever eaten, and didn’t like chicken McNuggets very much either?

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Not Bubbly, dunno and not Booth.

Not B.D. from Doonesbury, dunno and dunno.

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#1 was Belinda.
#2 was Billy Budd.
#3 was Junius Booth. ( I know you know way too much about Lincolniana to let you get away with just a last name here.)

DQs:

  1. Created after 1900?
  2. Originally from a prose novel?
  3. Good guy?
38

You didn’t ask for the Booth patriarch’s first name… but oh, all right.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
39

2 was Samantha Bond; 3 was Anthony Bourdain.

DQs:
1. novel published after 1950?
2. American author?
3. adapted into film?

1 DQ reserved.

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B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film