Botticelli, September 2025

Thread Games
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V

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with V
4. Dead
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Did not die before 1900
8. Known for the performing arts
9. Best known from movies or TV
10. Did not die before 1990
11. Died after 2010
12. Probably best known from TV
13. Best known for one Tv show, though I was in a lot of others
14. Known for acting
15. Did not work with an ensemble cast on TV
16. First name begins A - M
17. Not best known for TV show from the 1960s
18. The lead actor of my best-known TV show
19. That show was not a sitcom
20. Neither the show nor I won an Emmy
21. Not best known for TV show from the 1970s

Please ask your “Firstname Lastname” DQs before 2400 EDT tomorrow, Saturday 6 September.


Somebody get it right, please – I’m not sure I want to do three games in a row. :smiley:
(EH & Prof: Have any of us done a triple like that yet?)

42

Not that I recall.

And right now I’m drawing a blank…

43

I have a guess…

44

I don’t think we have had a triple.

Are you Jan-Michael Vincent?

45

Yes! I am Jan-Michael Vincent, star of the mid-80s Airwolf, which Wiki calls “an American action military drama television series”.

Take it away, Professor!

46

Only the one?

47

Thank you,

I am

O!

48

Brilliant guess, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Did you take a plane off from Chicago at the end of a movie?
  2. Did you govern a unified Germany as its first chancellor?
  3. Were you a heavier-than-air flight pioneer who died while gliding?
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Only the one show, you mean? Wiki lists 31 other TV shows and TV movies, but he wasn’t the star of them. 54 movies, too (of which I’ve seen one, and possibly a second one). I based my answer to DQ12 on the statement that “[d]uring the height of his career, Vincent was the highest-paid actor on American television.”

50

What was your guess?

51
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Otto von Bismarck.
  3. I am not Orville Wright.
52

Good job Prof! I was going to guess Abe Vigoda up until Answer 19.

IQs:

  1. Are you an original cast member/muppet from Sesame Street?
  2. Were you married to Blanche Madison before she threw you out?
  3. Did your company locate their corporate headquarters in Madison, WI in 1957?
53

Otto the Autopilot, from Airplane!
Correct on #2
Otto Lilienthat was #3 - he is credited with developing the modern wing shape.

DQs:

Real?
Female?

54

Jan-Michael Vincent.

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  1. I am not Oscar the Grouch.
  2. I am not Oscar Madison.
  3. I am not Oscar somebody, but take a DQ.
56

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
57

All correct; #3 is Oscar F Mayer.

Oscar x3!

DQ: Alive?

58

IQs:

  1. Did you share an onscreen kiss with Steve Carell?
  2. Are you married to Hyacinth’s sister Daisy?
  3. Did you create a comic about a man who drives a school bus by day and fights vampires in a post-apocalyptic warzone by night?
59

No, only the one Jan-Michael Vincent (as opposed to the multiple Jan-Michael Vincents seen in the accompanying Youtube clip in the above post).

IQs:
1. Did you show Vladimir Putin Dr. Strangelove?
2. Were you shot by Jack Ruby?
3. Did you write Grapefruit?

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Good job, Prof. P.. I wouldn’t have guessed JMV.

On to O.

IQs:

Were you a Civil War general after whom a major university was named?
Were you, since 2000, photographed enjoying ice cream with two Japanese women in kimonos?
Did your respected boss’s headstrong son fire you, which many people both then and later thought was a big mistake?