Botticelli - May 2021

Thread Games
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Barney Miller
Correct
“Multiple” Miggs

DQ: TV show has been adapted into feature film?
Holding other DQ

143

IQ1: Did you often instruct your partner to “Book 'em, Danno”?
IQ2: Were you a secret agent who frequently saved the day using whatever resources you had at hand?
IQ3: Are you a former Red Sox relief pitcher turned bartender?

144

I am not Steve McGarrett, MacGyver or Sam Malone.

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not originally from prose
  4. Originally from movies or TV
  5. Last name starts with M
  6. Created by Americans
  7. Would be alive if real.
  8. Main character
  9. First appeared after 1950.
  10. Possibly American, possibly presumed but I don’t believe it was ever made clear.
    11.First appeared on TV
  11. From a genre show
  12. First appeared before 1990.
  13. Did not win an Emmy for the role
  14. White dude.
  15. First appeared after 1970.
  16. Has been adapted into a feature film.

I need to clarify 15: white dude on TV.

145

IQ1: Did you refer to yourself as the equalizer?
IQ2: Were you a proclaimed insane member of a team of mercenaries framed for a crime they didn’t commit?
IQ3: Did you and your family get lost in time on a rafting trip?

146

I am not H M “Howling Mad” Murdock or Marshall but yes!!!

I am ROBERT MCCALL!!! Lead character on the TV show The Equalizer! Played by Edward Woodward.

Good job!!

147

Good job, Chock!

148

Well done, CFOHG!

Previous IQs:

Were you a chemist before going into politics? - Margaret Thatcher
Were you, too? - Angela Merkel
Were you the matchmaker and town drunk in Innisfree? - Michaeleen, in the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man

149

Next up…

T

150

IQs

  1. Did your partner pen a poem about a particular flower being what it is?
  2. Did you voice Ms. Frizzle?
  3. Were you considered the Man of a Thousand Faces?
151

IQs:

  1. Were you a chemist before going into politics?
  2. Are you a fictional youth whose hand was crippled whilst making a silver dish?
  3. Did you write Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats?
152

Take a DQ
Not Lily Tomlin
Take a DQ - I associate that with Lon Chaney. Can’t think of a T person.

Not Margaret Thatcher
Not Johnny Tremain - [bartsimpson] - “they should call this book Johnny Deformed” - [/bartsimpson]
Not T.S. Eliot

153

Alice B Toklas (Gertrude Stein’s partner)
Correct
Fred Travalena, frequent Carson guest

DQs

  1. Male?
  2. Real?
154

Swept me. Right down to the Bart impression.

IQs:

  1. Did you play the heavy in the TV-movie version of The Perils of Pauline?
  2. Are you a Grammy-winning performer of blues and world music?
  3. Did you have a hit with She Blinded Me With Science?
155

DQs:

T

  1. Male
  2. Real
156

Take a DQ
Not Taj Mahal?
Not Thomas Dolby

157

#1 was Terry-Thomas. Correct on the others.

DQ: Living?

158

IQ1: Were you the hero of a series of books about a young inventor in the nineteen-teens?
IQ2: Were you the hero of a similar series from the 1950s?
IQ3: Did you write “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava”?

159

IQs:

  1. Were you a blind oracle of Apollo who spent seven years as a woman?
  2. Did you write The Joy Luck Club?
  3. Did you write The Wonderful O?
160

IQs

  1. Was your professional acting job that as a baby double when you were 25?
  2. Did you bring sexy back?
  3. Are you one of the Kids in the Hall?
161

Not Tom Swift
Take 2 DQs

Take a DQ
Not Amy Tan
Take a DQ

Take a DQ
Not Justin Timberlake
Take another DQ