Botticelli - May 2021

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. American creators
  5. Not originally from prose fiction
  6. Created before 1980
  7. Originally from movie or television
  8. Created after 1900
  9. First name starts with F
  10. Known as a performer
  11. Would be alive today, if real
  12. American character
  13. Not best known as an actor
  14. Not Caucasian, but has Caucasian traits
  15. Originally from TV
  16. Not a musician (sings occasionally, but that’s not his focus)
  17. Created after 1965
  18. Not usually the protagonist
  19. Not human
  20. Not originally animated, or best known to be animated, but has been animated.
  21. Has appeared in a number of movies, some on the big screen, some made for TV, along with at least four TV series
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I don’t have any outstanding DQs, so I’m going straight to: Are you Fozzie Bear?

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Wokka! Wokka!

Nice job, Chock!

The Caucasian traits I mentioned are his clothes, and the fact that he was named for and somewhat modeled after Muppet puppeteer/engineer Franz “Faz” Fazakis.

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Wokka!! Wokka!!

I am W

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IQs:

  1. Did you compose Classical Gas?
  2. Were you half of a comedy doubles act that was only beaten out at the Box Office during the Depression by Laurel & Hardy?
  3. Were you the other half of that act?
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IQs

  1. Are you considered the father of free verse?
  2. Were you the veep under President Peanut?
  3. Did you win your third Oscar for your role as Judge Roy Bean?
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Not Mason Williams
Take 2 DQs

Take a DQ
Not Walter Mondale
Take a DQ - only Judge Roy Bean movie I’ve seen is the one with Paul Newman

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IQ1: In a TV appearance, did you recite a poem suggesting that people should enlist in the Marine Corps?
IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?
IQ3: Do Brits look for you in crowd scenes?

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Correct on Mason.
The comedy team was Wheeler & Woolsey.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with W?
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Walt Whitman
Yes
Walter Brennan in “The Westerner”

DQs

  1. Male?

Holding one DQ

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Good job, CFOHG!

Previous IQs:

Were you a prominent roboticist and political leader on Aurora? - Dr. Han Fostolfe, in Asimov’s The Robots of Dawn
Did Don Vito Corleone take an interest in your Hollywood career? - Johnny Fontane, in The Godfather
Did you play an unimpressed waitress in Mystery Men ? - Claire Forlani

On to W.

IQs:

Did the Pope give you a special flag for your big venture?
Did Dr. Maturin tend to you while you were still a royal duke?
A living person now, is your youngest child (of three) named Louis?

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DQs:
W

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Male
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Not John Wayne
Take a DQ
Not Wally, renamed Waldo in the US

Not William the Conqueror?
Take 2 DQs

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:white_check_mark:
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
:white_check_mark:


DQ: Living?


IQ1: Were you Clarence’s friend and Theodore’s brother?
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?
IQ3: Did you hold conversations with an animal voiced by Rocky Lane?

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DQs:
W

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Male
  4. Living
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Take 2 DQs
Not Wilbur

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Wally Cleaver.
Ward Cleaver.
:white_check_mark:


DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: American?

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My other DQ:
Born after 1970?

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IQ1: Did you and your dog have a Grand Day Out?
IQ2: Was your dog a sheep rustler?
IQ3: Were you the last king of England?

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IQs

  1. Did you rep NAPA before becoming a commentator?
  2. Did you play a character who left your wife for Martin Sheen?
  3. Are you a musician who has to fight to use your stage name after someone tried blackmailing you under a different pseudonym?