Botticelli March 2016

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Gary Cooper (super duper)

DQ: known for sitcoms?

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Sounds more like a trouper than a trooper…

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
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My favorite bit about “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: Puttin' on the Ritz - Bertie Wooster - YouTube

Previous IQs:

Are you SpongeBob’s pet? - Yes, Gary the Snail.
Did Donald Trump famously fire you? - Gary Busey.
Were you accidentally injected on live TV with a needle that someone else had already used? - Talk-show host Gary Collins, in a segment on vaccinations.

Gary x3!

DQs:

First appeared on TV after 1960?
British?

IQs:

Was your show adapted for American TV as All in the Family?
Did you make special notations in your diaries that, at least one biographer believes, indicate when you whipped yourself?
Were you the firebrand editor of The Liberator?

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Gary x6 - KO also had three of them. :smiley:

Three DQs.

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American**, but created by an American**
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
  11. First appeared on TV after 1960
  12. Not British

Note the slight addition to #6.

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IQ1: Are you a surly TV news show manager who went on to become a surly newspaper editor-in-chief?
IQ2: Did Andy Kaufman play you in Taxi?
IQ3: Were you nicknamed “New Dwight” in the final season of the US version of The Office?

166

Not … Lou Grant?
Not Latka Gravas.
DQ.

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correct x2, Clark Green

I thought Latka would be it

DQ: Sitcom from the 80s?

168

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American**, but created by an American**
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
  11. First appeared on TV after 1960
  12. Not British
  13. Sitcom not from the '80s

Note the slight addition to #6.

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Previous IQs:

Was your show adapted for American TV as All in the Family? - The BBC’s Alf Garnett of 'Til Death Us Do Part became Archie Bunker.
Did you make special notations in your diaries that, at least one biographer believes, indicate when you whipped yourself? - William Gladstone.
Were you the firebrand editor of The Liberator? - Ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

DQs:

Lead character?
Appeared in a sitcom set in America?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you work as a taxi mechanic?
Were you “the Welsh Wizard”?
Were you originally described as buck-toothed and frizzy-haired?

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Still not Latka Gravas.
Not … David Lloyd George?
Not Hermione Granger.

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American, but created by an American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
  11. First appeared on TV after 1960
  12. Not British
  13. Sitcom not from the '80s
  14. Not a lead character
  15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America
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I’ve been away because of computer troubles. Let’s see now…

IQs:

  1. Did you paint Blue Boy?
  2. Did you write The Bab Ballads?
  3. Were you the wife of the prophet Hosea?
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Welcome back!

Not Thomas Gainsborough.
Not W S Gilbert.
DQ.

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Thanks!

Correct, correct, and Gomer.

DQ: Sitcom from the 1970’s?

174

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Ninotchka?
  2. Did you star in Meet Me In St. Louis?
  3. Did you and your friend Jacques help Cinderella in the Disney cartoon version?
175

IQ1: Are you an ex-soldier who permanently resides in Fawlty Towers?
IQ2: Are you a castaway played by Bob Denver?
IQ3: Did Hugh Laurie play two versions of you in Black Adder?

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You swept mine. Thought for sure it was Latka - and had overlooked the earlier not-Latka answer! I hang my head in Botticellean shame. I have a feeling I’m not going to recognize our mystery person’s name when it’s revealed.

IQs:

Was the museum named after you in Boston notoriously robbed?
Did you play a lawyer and an ambassador?
Were you Mr. Darcy’s young, naive sister?

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DQ.
Not Judy Garland.
Not … Gus?

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American, but created by an American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
  11. First appeared on TV after 1960
  12. Not British
  13. Sitcom not from the '80s
  14. Not a lead character
  15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America
  16. Sitcom not from the '70s

I’ve decided to modify my answer to #3. I considered both forms of the answer before providing the first one, but I now think it would be better to say that it’s a one-word name that is always preceded by a title or honorific.

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#1 was Greta Garbo. #2 was correct. #3 is either Gus or Gus-Gus, depending on your source, so, correct.

DQ: European?

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Ahem.

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Sorry - didn’t realise you and KO had posted while I was answering PP. :o

DQ.
Not Gilligan.
Not Prince George.

Three DQs.

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American, but created by an American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
  10. Known for sitcoms
  11. First appeared on TV after 1960
  12. Not British
  13. Sitcom not from the '80s
  14. Not a lead character
  15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America
  16. Sitcom not from the '70s
  17. Not European

I’ve decided to modify my answer to #3. I considered both forms of the answer before providing the first one, but I now think it would be better to say that it’s a one-word name that is always preceded by a title or honorific.