Botticelli March 2024

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Did Vida Blue (the band) have a rhythm section?

Anyway, on the IQs:

  1. Were you one half of an early film comedy duo?
  2. Were you nicknamed “The Bull of the Woods” for your deep, booming voice?
  3. Were you a session guitarist who played on virtually all of Michael Jackson’s Thriller?
162
  1. Were you one of the authors who wrote Sorcery and Cecelia?
  2. Did you marry Jaelithe in the Witch World books?
  3. Does Gina Bellman play you on Leverage and Leverage: Redemption?
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Welcome back, kitap! Hope you’re doing better.

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Dunno, not Satan-Man and not Stan Musial.

Russell Batiste Jr., the third-named member of Vida Blue in that Wiki article, is a drummer, so I guess so.

Not Stan Laurel, dunno and dunno.

Dunno x3.

Yes, a warm welcome back, kitap!

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So - rhythm and blues, then?

Correct, General Edwin V. Sumner, and Steve Lukather.

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

166

#1 was Montague Summers.
#2 was Evil Roy Slade.
#3 was swingin’ Peter Sellers.

3 DQs reserved.

167

Caroline Stevermer (with Patricia Wrede), Simon Tregarth, Sophie.

Thank you; I had a close, completely unexpected, death in the family.

3 DQs reserved.

168

DQ: Last name starts with S?

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you play the old faithful family retainer in The Last Remake of Beau Geste?
  2. Were you a WWI fighter pilot celebrated in song and story?
  3. Were two characters in a recent sitcom named after you?
169

My condolences, kitap.

Dunno, not Snoopy and dunno.

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
170

IQs:

  1. Were you a former baeball player turned barkeep?
  2. Were you the real-life pitcher that #1 was based on?
  3. Were you the German royalty who Parliament decreed would be the ancestor of the British royal family?
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#1 was Spike Milligan.
#2 is Correct.
#3 was Sheldon Leonard, comic and TV producer, and source of The Big Bang Theory names.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?
  3. Known for the Arts?

1 DQ reserved.

172

Dunno, dunno and not Sophia of Hanover.

173

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
  4. dead
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
174

Sam Malone, “Sudden” Sam McDowell, and correct.

DQ: Died before 1950?

1 DQ reserved.

175

Sam Malone, from Cheers, of course! :man_facepalming:

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
  4. dead
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. died before 1950
176

DQ: Died before 1900?

177

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
  4. dead
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. died before 1950
  8. died before 1900
178

DQs:

  1. Died before 1800?
  2. First name began with S?
  3. Known for the military?
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IQs:

  1. Did you play Mr. Bumble in the movie Oliver!?
  2. Did you play Mr. French on the TV series Family Affair?
  3. Did Leslie Ann Warren play you in the movie Clue?
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Dunno, not Sebastian Cabot and not Miss Scarlet.