Botticelli - September 2017

Thread Games
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Not Radagast.
Not Basil Rathbone.
DQ.

Not Ricky Ricardo.
Not Roger Healy.
DQ.

DQ.
Not Roy Hinkley.
Not Col Robert Hogan.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with R
  4. American
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
  7. Considered a good guy
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Not associated with NYC
  10. Not created after 1990
  11. First name starts with R
  12. From a TV series
  13. From a sitcom
  14. Unusual first name
  15. White
  16. Not the male lead of the sitcom
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Correct, Correct, Randolph Mantooth.

DQ: Created after 1970?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the supply clerk on MASH*?
  2. Are you one of the Teen Titans, whose father was the demon Trigon?
  3. Were you a Time Lady who served for awhile as a companion of the Fourth Doctor?
64

Only Rs I can think of are Radar (company clerk) and Rizzo (motor pool?), so DQ.
DQ.
DQ.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with R
  4. American
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
  7. Considered a good guy
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Not associated with NYC
  10. Not created after 1990
  11. First name starts with R
  12. From a TV series
  13. From a sitcom
  14. Unusual first name
  15. White
  16. Not the male lead of the sitcom
  17. Not created after 1970
65

Robert Hartley

Holding 2 DQs.

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IQs:

Were Curunir and Olorin also of your order? - Yes, Radagast, one of the Istari or wizards of Middle-earth
Do many people prefer Jeremy Brett to you in your iconic role? - Yes, Basil Rathbone, well-known for playing Sherlock Holmes
Were you Samwell’s hard-nosed father? - Randall Tarly, in Game of Thrones, who told his son he’d better join the Night’s Watch or he’d die in a “hunting accident”

DQ:

Usually the straight man?

IQs:

Were you the Partridge Family’s manager?
Was a Tom Conti movie named after you, a dog?
Did you play Insp. Adam Dalglish for many years?

67

#1 was Radar. I misremembered his job title.
#2 is Raven.
#3 is Lady Romana.

2 DQs reserved.

68

No idea on the other two, but yes, I am Reuben Kincaid, manager for Shirley Partridge and her family.
And I had such a nice ‘S’ picked out for the next game…

69

Good job, EH! I never watched that one…

70

Don’t think I ever did, either, even if just to lust over Susan Dey…

71

Thanks. I vaguely remember the show from my childhood (although Susan Dey definitely was a draw), and in thinking through the DQ answers so far the name of the manager just popped into my head for some reason.

Previous IQs:

Was a Tom Conti movie named after you, a dog? - Reuben, Reuben
Did you play Insp. Adam Dalglish for many years? - British actor Roy Marsden

So of course our next letter is

S

72

IQ1: Did you play Chris and Keith’s sister?
IQ2: Did you play Chris and Keith’s mother?
IQ3: Did you play Chris and Keith’s other sister?

73

IQs:

  1. Are you the editor of a very popular study Bible?
  2. Did you have a very recent hit with Stay With Me?
  3. Are you a mean ol’ puddy tat?
74

IQ1: Did you play the seventh incarnation of Doctor Who?
IQ2: Did you play the eleventh incarnation of Doctor Who?
IQ3: Are you the wife of several Doctor Who incarnations, played by Alex Kingston?

75

Not Susan Dey (le sigh), not Shirley Jones, and dunno.

Dunno, not Sam Smith, and not Thyl, I mean, Sylvester.

Dunno x2; not River Song.

76

#1 is Cyrus Scofield (of the Scofield Reference Bible) Correct x2.

DQ: Real?

77

Correct.
Correct.
Suzanne Crough.
Hoping, of course, that you wouldn’t remember that Chris and Keith were the youngest and oldest Partridge boys…
DQ: Male?

78

Sylvester McCoy, Matt Smith

Last name start with S?

Holding a DQ

79

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle?
  2. Did you have a hit with Moonglow and the theme from Picnic?
  3. Were you aka Wesley Dodds?
80

IQ1: Did you write A Brief History of Time?
IQ2: Did you pen the tunes “Oh! Susanna” and “Swanee River"?
IQ3: Did you compose ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’?