Botticelli February 2015

Thread Games
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  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
  5. Protagonist
  6. Movie(s) released before 1990
  7. Comedy is one of the genres
  8. Character is American
  9. Actress is beautiful, but is more noted for talent
  10. Character appears in more than one movie
  11. Movie released after 1960
  12. Actress has not won an Oscar, but was nominated once
  13. Name starts with WA-WI
  14. First movie in which character appears was not nominated for Best Picture Oscar, but was for another category
  15. Action/adventure is another genre
  16. Do not recall if the character uses a gun: will say highly unlikely that she did
  17. Movie released after 1975
  18. Caucasian
  19. On the right side of the law
  20. Not blonde

Guessing time!

42

DQ: Are you Joan Warner (played by Kathleen Turner) from Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile?

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Actually, it’s Joan Wilder, but close enough.

Congrats Professor!

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Well, that’s what you get with memory sometimes. It was the only action comedy series with a female protagonist I could think of.

Aaand, I am L.

45

IQ1: Are you a cyclist whose LIVE STRONG bracelets raised money for cancer research?
IQ2: Are you a boy band singer who trained to become an astronaut, but lost the opportunity when all your sponsors pulled out?
IQ3: Did you formerly portray an FBI director in charge of paranormal activities on *Fringe *and do you now promote Cree light bulbs?

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Take 2 DQs. If #1 isn’t Lance Armstrong, take 3 DQs.

47

IQ1) Are you a short, gay, alcoholic who wrote magnificent lyrics?

IQ2) In a famous song, did you wonder aloud why none-too-bright people were romantically smitten?

IQ3) Were you The Rifleman?

48

Take DQs for the first 2. I am not Lucas McCain.
I forget who recorded Why Do Fools Fall In Love.

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Lucas McCain is correct.

Richard Rodgers’ old partner Lorenz Hart was the short, gay, alcoholic lyricist.

Frankie Lymon (with the Teenagers) sang “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?”
DQ1) Real person?

DQ2) Male?

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IQ1) Did you call David Carradine “Grasshopper”?

IQ2) Was Jim Plunkett’s alma mater named after you?

IQ3) Did you take a break from bleak, depressing foreign dramas to make the even MORE depressing movie musical*** Lost Horizon?***

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
52

They made a musical of Lost Horizon??
Take 3 DQs.

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All right, Prof. P.!

Previous round IQs:

Did your mom make you give up your dream of serving in the Navy? - George Washington.
Were you the sole casualty of your ship in its best-known battle? - Capt. John Worden of the ironclad USS Monitor, temporarily blinded when the pilothouse was hit in his ship’s March 1862 battle with the CSS Virginia.
Were you Lincoln’s SECNAV? - Gideon Welles.

On to L…

IQs:

Did a colleague guess you were dead by two key clues?
Did an actress have to bulk up by drinking disgusting milkshakes to play you?
Was your wife particularly salty?

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Keye Luke (formerly Charlie Chan’s #1 son) was Master Po on Kung Fu.

Jim Plunkett won the Heisman trophy at a college named for… tycoon Leland Stanford.

Liv Ullmann gained fame in bleak, tedious existentialist films by her lover Ingmar Bergman. But Bergman’s worst films weren’t as depressing as the musical of Lost Horizon (score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David).

Watch… if you DARE!

DQ1) Alive?

DQ2) Last name start with L?

DQ3) American?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with L
  5. American
56

Take 2 DQs. I am not Lot.

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Previous IQs:

Did a colleague guess you were dead by two key clues? - Secretary of State William Seward was not told of President Lincoln’s death while recovering from an assassin’s knife attack. He figured out that Lincoln was gone, however, when he noticed a flag outside at half-mast, and knew the President would’ve visited him if he could.
Did an actress have to bulk up by drinking disgusting milkshakes to play you? - So Sally Field said in an NPR interview, while preparing to play Mary Todd Lincoln.
Was your wife particularly salty? - Yes, Lot.

DQs:

Died since 1970?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did you provide Mater’s voice in a Pixar film?
Did Civil War hero Chamberlain go by this middle name throughout his childhood?
Was your dad nicknamed “Light-horse Harry”?

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correct, Lance Bass, Lance Hendrikson

holding 2 DQs until I see the next page

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with L
  5. American
  6. Died before 1970
  7. Not political/military
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I am not Larry, the Cable Guy.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Robert E. Lee.