Botticelli - July, 2014

Thread Games
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  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Alive
  6. In the performing arts
  7. Born before 1980
  8. Actress
  9. British
  10. TV
  11. Born after 1960
  12. I think she is, but she is not regarded as a sex symbol
202

Take 3 DQs

203

Take another DQ. I was thinking of Rick Springfield’s “Jesse’s Girl.”

204

DQs:

  1. Known from American TV?
  2. Known for one show in particular?
205

#1 was Jessica Lange.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Julie Christie.

206

IQs:

  1. Are you the patron saint of lost causes?
  2. Did you write the poem Sea Fever?
  3. Did you say “Sock it to me” on Laugh-In?
207

DQ1: In addition to television work, have you also appeared in theatrical films?

IQ1: Did you marry your co-star from a George Lucas-produced fantasy film?
IQ2: Did you dance in both a Monty Python film and Benny Hill’s TV show?
IQ3: Were you the more socially respectable half of a pair described by Robert Louis Stevenson?

208

IQ: Are you a romance novelist, and sister of the catfighter?

209

Previous IQs:

Did your son Patrick die soon after his birth? - Jackie Kennedy
Were you a noted Ohio potter of the 19th century? - Jabez Vodrey
Were you duped by the Red-Headed League? - Jabez Wilson, in the Sherlock Holmes story

DQs:

Brunette?
Best known for comedy?
Appeared for more than five years on the same show?

IQs:

Did you command the U.S. troops receiving the actual Confederate surrender at Appomattox?
Did you command the Confederate troops as they surrendered?
Did President Kennedy particularly enjoy your diplomatic memos?

210
  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Alive
  6. In the performing arts
  7. Born before 1980
  8. Actress
  9. British
  10. TV
  11. Born after 1960
  12. Not regarded as a sex symbol
  13. Not known from American TV
  14. Known for one show in particular
  15. Not known for theatrical films
  16. Brunette
  17. Best known for comedy
  18. Appeared for more than five years on the same show
211

Not St. Jude, dunno, not Judy Carne

212

dunno, dunno, not Dr. Jekyll

213

Miss this?

214

The only thing I can think of is that Streetfighter parody with cats, damn you! Take a DQ.

215

dunno, dunno, not LBJ?

216

Previous IQs:

Did you command the U.S. troops receiving the actual Confederate surrender at Appomattox? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Did you command the Confederate troops as they surrendered? - John Brown Gordon
Did President Kennedy particularly enjoy your diplomatic memos? - LBJ was no diplomat; this was economist and author John Kenneth Galbraith, JFK’s ambassador to India

These DQs will take us to 21. I’m drawing a blank on this brunette British actress, born between 1960-80. What should we ask next?

217

Correct on Jude and Judy. John Masefield wrote Sea Fever.

So she’s a British actress on a British TV series known to Americans…

Hmm.

IQs:
Did you play a companion to the 1st Doctor?
Did you play a companion to the 4th and 5th Doctors?
Did you play a companion to Matt Smith’s Doctor, and will be to the next Doctor?

218

And she’s best known for comedy. Carol Cleveland, Diana Rigg, Judi Dench (already guessed)… hmmm. What was the name of the lead actress on Fawlty Towers? Or Absolutely Fabulous?

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That was Jackie Collins

DQ: Award winner?

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don’t remember the name, ditto, not Jenna Coleman

You are so warm, you have got a hot foot. I will give you this hint: She played the Doctor’s companion exactly one time.