Botticelli - March 2018

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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IQ1: Are you a contributor to Parade magazine, once considered Cecil’s rival?
IQ2: Are you a former owner of the Cincinnati Reds who was banned from managing them because of pro-Nazi views?
IQ3: Are you a British comedian with prominent misaligned eyes?

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#3. I am not Marty Feldman.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

You are a real person and not mythical. Was your mom Euterpe tied up and robbed by criminals? - Michael Dukakis
Have you played a bank robber, a detective and a magician? - British actor Eddie Marsan, in Hancock, Sherlock Holmes and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Have you played a mobster’s moll, a detective and a sorceress? - Helen Mirren, in The Long Good Friday, Prime Suspect and Excalibur

DQs:

Won an Emmy?
Greatest fame before 1990?
Best known for comedy?

IQs:

Did you play Cmdr. Adama’s daughter?
Were you a film bombshell with a five-letter first name?
Were you a film bombshell with a seven-letter first name?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
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Take a DQ for #1.
2) I am not Jayne Mansfield.
3) I am not Marilyn Monroe.

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Marilyn Vos Savant, Marge Schott, correct

DQ: Known for sitcoms?

holding a DQ

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
  14. Best known for a sitcom
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Previous IQs:

Did you play Cmdr. Adama’s daughter? - Maren Jensen on the original Battlestar Galactica
Were you a film bombshell with a five-letter first name? - Yes, Jayne Mansfield
Were you a film bombshell with a seven-letter first name? - Yes, Marilyn Monroe

DQ:

Greatest fame before 1970?

IQs:

An actress, were you one of the permanent cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Did you write A Wrinkle in Time?
Were you a U.S. senator who shared a name with two Chief Justices of the United States?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
  14. Best known for a sitcom
  15. Greatest fame before 1970
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#1) I am neither Rose Marie nor Mary Tyler Moore.
#2) I am not Madeleine d’Engel.
Take a DQ for #3.

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IQ1: Did you play Aunt Clara in Bewitched?
IQ2: Did you play Darin’s mother in the same series?
IQ3: Are you Samantha’s father?

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  1. I am not Marian Lorne.
  2. I don’t remember ever seeing Darren’s mother. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Maurice.
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correct, Mabel Albertson, correct

Darin’s mother was with Serena and started gossipping about Endora, so Serena turned her into a cat.

What? Elizabeth Montgomery was hawt!

DQ: Star of sitcom?

holding 2 DQs

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
  14. Best known for a sitcom
  15. Greatest fame before 1970
  16. Not the star of the sitcom
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I feel like we have enough info, but so far I’m drawing a blank.

DQ: Did the sitcom take place in America?

holding a DQ

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
  14. Best known for a sitcom
  15. Greatest fame before 1970
  16. Not the star of the sitcom
  17. The sitcom took place in America
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KO, you are so going to kick yourself…

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Previous IQs:

An actress, were you one of the permanent cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show? - Thought it was Rose Marie for sure!
Did you write A Wrinkle in Time? - Almost right - it’s Madeleine L’Engle
Were you a U.S. senator who shared a name with two Chief Justices of the United States? - Warren G. Magnuson (and Earl Warren and Warren Burger)

DQs:

B&W sitcom?

IQs:

Were you referred to as “the Vilnius schoolteacher”?
Did future author Pat Conroy graduate from a school you headed?
Did your dad win glory at the 1864 Battle of Franklin?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Dead
  4. Female
  5. American
  6. In the Arts, broadly defined
  7. Died since 1964
  8. Actress
  9. Not remembered as a beauty
  10. Did some movies, but best known for TV
  11. Won an Emmy
  12. Greatest fame before 1990
  13. Best known for comedy (though she did some drama)
  14. Best known for a sitcom
  15. Greatest fame before 1970
  16. Not the star of the sitcom
  17. The sitcom took place in America
  18. Black & white, turning into color