Botticelli - Jan. 2016

Thread Games
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Product associated with transportation, in a way

Could that mean luggage? Parcel delivery? Auto insurance?

Flint and steel do no good when it’s raining. I got nothing.

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“Had military significance, but did not serve” - aircraft weaponry? Engines?

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I sincerely doubt it’s Sir Orson Phartucchio Jumbojet III. Still clueless here.

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The deadline having come and gone, it’s

Fred T. Jane

The creator of Jane’s Fighting Ships, which is still published to this day, as are various spinoffs about aircraft, armor, guns, merchant shipping, etc., also bearing his name:

Thanks, all. I’ll start the next round in the next day or two.

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Arrrrgh! When I was in high school I spent hours reading through that book - the public library bought the new edition***** every year, and when reprints were offered of the WWI and WWII editions they bought those, too.
***** As well as the new edition of Aircraft.

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Good one, EH!

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Thanks! Our next letter is

F

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Will Smith’s love interest in Independence Day?
  2. Were you a detective who was the lead character in an eponymous Broadway musical circa 1900?
  3. Were you a con man posing as a film director and played by Peter Sellers?
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IQ1: Were you Oliver North’s secretary?
IQ2: Are you one of the stars of mid-60’s movies Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo?
IQ3: Are you the other star?

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IQ1: Did you write about Doc Caliban and his associates, Jocko Simmons and Porky Rivers?
IQ2: Did you star in a comedy that was later remade with Stallone playing your role?
IQ3: Were you the Arizona Balloon Buster?

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Not Felicia Rashad (?), dunno and dunno.

Not Fawn Hall, Annette Funicello or Frankie Avalon.

Dunno any of these three.

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Philip Jose Farmer (The Mad Goblin).
Louis de Funes (Oscar).
Medal of Honor recipient Frank Luke.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
One DQ reserved.

Unfortunately the complete Oscar doesn’t seem to be available on Youtube any more (though a few clips are). I don’t speak French, so I couldn’t understand a word they were saying, but it was hilarious.

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[QUOTE]

IQs:

  1. Did you play Will Smith’s love interest in Independence Day?
  2. Were you a detective who was the lead character in an eponymous Broadway musical circa 1900?
  3. Were you a con man posing as a film director and played by Peter Sellers?
    Not Felicia Rashad (?), dunno and dunno.
    #1 was Vivica A. Fox.
    #2 was Foxy Quiller (the hit song was Quiller Has The Brains)
    #3 was The Fox in After The Fox.

DQ: Last name starts with F?

2 DQs reserved.

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IQ1: Are you a mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service who usually greets his employees with “Good new, everyone?”
IQ2: Did you exile a janitor and two robots into space and force them to watch bad sci-fi movies?
IQ3: Did your name become an adjective for a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term?

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Not… Dr. Farnsworth? Dunno the bad guy from MST2K; not Faust.

F.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
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DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?
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IQs:

  1. Did you play the Riddler on Batman?
  2. Did Rudy Vallee play you on Batman?
  3. Did Eli Wallach and George Sanders both play you on Batman?

All questions refer to the 1960’s TV series.

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Not Frank Gorshin, dunno, and dunno.

F.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. dead
  5. American
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Dr. Raymond Forrester

DQ: Known for the arts?

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IQ1: Are you the lead vocalist for Limp Bizkit?
IQ1: Are you a former Tennessee senator who played the chief DA in Law and Order?
IQ3: Are you a longtime sound effects producer and joke writer for the Howard Stern Show?