Botticelli - Sept. 2024

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you trip the light fantastic with me on The Sidewalks of New York?
  2. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French minion in the highly acclaimed, often imitated, never-improved-upon, lavishly decorated, light-tripping, somewhat condescending 1950’s BBC Radio series The Goon Show?
  3. Did you trip a little light fantastic in Mary Poppins Returns?
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M

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with M.
  3. Human.
  4. Female.
  5. Created after 1950.
223

I am not Willard Mitt Romney.
I am not… Muhummad Ali?
I am not Marie Curie.

Take 3 DQs. That Goon Show trivia is still tripping me up…

224

#1 is Mamie O’Roarke.
#2 is Jim “Greasepants” Moriarty.
#3 is Lin-Manuel Miranda.

DQs:

  1. American creator?
  2. Best known from TV or movies?
  3. Protagonist?
225

M

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with M.
  3. Human.
  4. Female.
  5. Created after 1950.
  6. American creator.
  7. Best known from TV/movies.
  8. Protagonist.
226

IQs:

  1. Did you start your own production company with your husband?
  2. Did your father appear in an eponymous TV show?
  3. Are you Moose’s girlfriend?
227

DQ: Best known from TV?

228

IQs:

  1. Have you been portrayed by both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Darryl Hannah?
  2. Did you star in I Was A Teenage Werewolf?
  3. Did you star in Teen Wolf?
229

I am not… Mary Tyler Moore?
I am not… Marlo Thomas?
I am not Midge.

I am not… MIchelle the Mermaid?
I am not Michael Landon.
I am not Michael J. Fox.

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M

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with M.
  3. Human.
  4. Female.
  5. Created after 1950.
  6. American creator.
  7. Best known from TV/movies.
  8. Protagonist.
  9. Best known from TV.
231

IQs:

  1. Are you Bangladesh’s new interim head of government?
  2. Did you once get a fit of inappropriate giggles at a funeral?
  3. Did your movie career as a leading man begin by playing a drunken cowboy?
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#1 was Morticia Addams. Daryl in a badly done TV remake, and Catherine in Wednesday.
Correct on the other two.

1 DQ reserved.

233

All correct.

IQs:

  1. Did you relocate to Minneapolis after your fiance left you?
  2. Are you a widow with three children, one of which is a theoretical physicist at CalTech?
  3. Did you suffer a very public nervous breakdown on TV?
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Take a DQ.
I am not Mary Richards.
I am not… Melvyn Douglas?

I think this is Mary Richards again. If not, take a DQ.
Big Bang Theory, right? Take a DQ.
I am not… Murphy Brown?

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  1. Yes, I missed the previous question.
  2. Correct
  3. Mary Hartman - she broke down on The David Susskind Show and was institutionalized

3 Marys!

1 DQ reserved

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Note, should be 2 DQs reserved - even though I got the show correct, I have no idea about character name. I’m guessing Mary Leonard, now, though?

237

Okay, I understand. I was confused by question #1.

2 DQs reserved

And I think it’s still Mary Cooper.

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  1. is Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (which I only know because I heard an interview with him on NPR this morning). 2. is indeed Mary Richards. 3. was Lee Marvin, whose first lead role was the drunken gunslinger Kid Shelleen in Cat Ballou.

DQs:

Last name begins “A” - “M”?
Comedic actor?

More IQs:

Did your presidential campaign spread and establish that most ubiquitous Americanism, “OK”?
Did you claim to drive off the devil by throwing shit at him, a claim later bowdlerized to throwing ink?
Were you an 12th c. Irish saint, supposed author of a series of prophecies about future popes, that most historians think was a 16th c. forgery?

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IQs:

  1. Do you dote over your second-born son, much to the consternation of his older brother?
  2. Did you trade sexual favors to a client for, among other things, free Omaha Steaks?
  3. Did you weigh over 200 lbs. in high school?
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2 was rapper M.I.A.

DQ: created after 1980?

IQs:
1. Were you a major on the hunt for the elusive “Puppet Master” in Ghost in the Shell?
2. Were you chief of the SIS?
3. Did you have an early role in All About Eve?