Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
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  1. I am not Rod Taylor.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not George Takei. Oh, my!
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Correct and correct; the second was Fred Thompson, on Law & Order and In the Line of Fire.

DQ:

Best known as a lead actor?

IQs:

Did you let loose with an epic rant about American society in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World?
Did you star in a TV-movie remake of It’s a Wonderful Life?
Were you that person’s father, also a noted TV actor?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
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  1. I am not Spencer Tracy.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Previous IQs:

Did you let loose with an epic rant about American society in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World? - Spencer Tracy was in the movie too, but the rant was by Terry Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln19l9RtWg
Did you star in a TV-movie remake of It’s a Wonderful Life? - Marlo Thomas
Were you that person’s father, also a noted TV actor? - Danny Thomas

Thomas x3!

DQs:

Best known for one TV show?
Won an Emmy?

IQs:

Was the Spartacus Youth League aligned with you?
Were you the satyr-like butler in the very, very bad movie Manos: The Hands of Fate?
Did you play the lead in The Limey?

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I was thinking “My Cousin Vinny” and “Independance Day”, but there’s two problems with that:

  1. he wasn’t the DA in My Cousin Vinny, he was the “expert witness”
  2. His name is James Rebhorn, who ain’t got “T” as an initial.
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
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#2. I am not Tor (??). Two “very”'s are not enough for how bad that was.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Was the Spartacus Youth League aligned with you? - Leon Trotsky
Were you the satyr-like butler in the very, very bad movie Manos: The Hands of Fate? - Close; it was Torgo
Did you play the lead in The Limey? - Terence Stamp

Three DQs reserved. Lemme think.

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IQ1: Were you a one-hit wonder whose only hit was a cover of a song famously covered by Frederick Frankenstein and his creation?
IQ2: Are you a feline driver?
IQ3: Was Jerry Falwell convinced your handbag and purple skin was a coded attempt to corrupt children?

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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Toonces.
  3. I am not Tinky Winky, a Teletubby.
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Taco - sole hit was an early MTV era new-wave cover of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Was the TV show best known for a sitcom?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
  16. Best known show not a sitcom
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DQ:

Greatest fame before 1960?

Two DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
  16. Best known show not a sitcom
  17. Greatest fame in the 1950s
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DQ:

Was a genre show (Western, detective, science fiction, hospital, cops, etc.)?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
  16. Best known show not a sitcom
  17. Greatest fame in the 1950s
  18. Genre show
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IQ1: Were you an astronomer with a brass nose?
IQ2: Were you a storyteller who was the best selling toy of the mid-1980s?
IQ3: Were you a local newscaster about whom the Dickies sang about being stuck in a pagoda with?

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Last reserved DQ:

From a Western?