Botticelli, May 2011

Thread Games
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The Weight Watchers spokesman was Tom Lasorda. I was alluding to his predecessor, Walter Alston.

DQ: Are you best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)?

IQ: Were you known as “Old Aches and Pains”?

262

:smack:
IQ: Are you the One?

263

Dunno about “Old Aches and Pains.” Ask another DQ.

panamajack, no, I’m not the Highlander.

  1. Last name starts with A
  2. Fictional character
  3. Human
  4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that
  5. Male
  6. 20th Century
  7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that
  8. Not a detective/private investigator
  9. Older than age 21
  10. Good guy
  11. Best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)
264

Tom Anderson (who sounded exactly like Hank Hill… wonder why!) was the elderly neighbor who kept suffering at the hands of Beavis and Butthead.

And Hoyt Axton wrote top ten hits for Ringo Starr (“The No No Song”) and Three Dog Night (”Joy to the World”).
DQ1: Have you appeared regularly in a TV series?

DQ2: Have you appeared in multiple novels?

265

IQ: Are you a rich brat who hates automobiles and sneers at the “Riffraff”?

266

IQ: Do you help ISIS fight ODIN?

267

Were you reverting to your ‘H’ name? I’ve only seen one of the movies, so I don’t know if he changes his name to an ‘A’ one.

268
  1. Last name starts with A
  2. Fictional character
  3. Human
  4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that
  5. Male
  6. 20th Century
  7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that
  8. Not a detective/private investigator
  9. Older than age 21
  10. Good guy
  11. Best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)
  12. Appeared regularly in a TV series
  13. Has appeared in multiple novels
269

Dunno. Ask a DQ.

No, I’m not secret agent Jonathan Mallory Archer, codename DUCHESS.

He goes by Adrian Something, doesn’t he? Y’know, the Highlander, as played by Christopher Lambert.

270

No, he’s Connor MacLeod, of Clan MacLeod, and he is immortal. The actor who played Duncan MacLeod on the TV show is named Adrian Paul.

271

The rich brat who disdains the riffraff is George Amberson, hero/vilain of “The Magnificent Ambersons.”

DQ: Are you American?

272

Ah, that explains it. Thanks. Ask a DQ.

I’ve seen the movie but don’t remember a bit of it.

  1. Last name starts with A
  2. Fictional character
  3. Human
  4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that
  5. Male
  6. 20th Century
  7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that
  8. Not a detective/private investigator
  9. Older than age 21
  10. Good guy
  11. Best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)
  12. Appeared regularly in a TV series
  13. Has appeared in multiple novels
  14. American
273

IQ: Did your big brother co-write and sing “Friday on My Mind,” years before producing your debut album?

274

Mr. Thomas “Neo” Anderson was “The One” in The Matrix series.

DQ: Are you a medical professional? (Coroner counts for that)

275

Hmm. Dunno. Ask a DQ.

  1. Last name starts with A
  2. Fictional character
  3. Human
  4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that
  5. Male
  6. 20th Century
  7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that
  8. Not a detective/private investigator
  9. Older than age 21
  10. Good guy
  11. Best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)
  12. Appeared regularly in a TV series
  13. Has appeared in multiple novels
  14. American
  15. Not a medical professional
276

Luke Appling, longtime Chicago White Sox shortstop.

DQ: Was your TV series science fiction?

IQ: Were you the head of the SCLC?

277

IQ: Were you the captain of the world’s first starship?

278

Ooo, I should know the SCLC head, and I’m sure I’ll recognize the name as soon as you say it, but you got me. Ask another DQ.

  1. Last name starts with A
  2. Fictional character
  3. Human
  4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that
  5. Male
  6. 20th Century
  7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that
  8. Not a detective/private investigator
  9. Older than age 21
  10. Good guy
  11. Best known for appearances on screen (film and/or television)
  12. Appeared regularly in a TV series
  13. Has appeared in multiple novels
  14. American
  15. Not a medical professional
  16. In sort of a science fiction TV series

No, I’m not Apollo.

279

WAs Thinking Archer(Enterprise) rather than Apollo

DQ: Do you have a nemesis?

280

IQ: Are you the only *other *surviving Death Star attacker?