Botticellii -- Dec 2025

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Fred Weasley was a character; I was looking for the actor Tom Felton.
#2 was Tom D. Fitzgerald, from the children’s books.
#e was Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Tom x 3!

DQs:

First appeared in a work of prose fiction?
First appeared before 1900?
First name begins with F?

142

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of prose fiction
  4. First appeared before 1900
  5. Last name begins with F
143

F it is!

IQs:

Did you lead the RNC in the Eighties?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you FYI’s “action guy”?

144
  1. I am not Frank Fontana.
    Take 2 DQs.
145

Correct. The others are Frank Fahrenkopf and Frank Furillo (on Hill Street Blues).

Frank x3!

DQs:

American character?
Created by an American?

IQs:

Were you a noted flatboatman in early American folklore?
Was your son killed by a future Civil War general?
Did President Truman appoint you Chief Justice of the United States?

146

2 (My Brilliant Friend) was Elena Ferrante; 3 (starred in a 70s TV sitcom with a live-in housekeeper) was Florence Henderson.

DQs:
1. originally from a novel?
2. main character?

IQs:
1. Cracking safes at Los Alamos? Sketching a topless Marie Curie? Asking for a “map of the cat”? Surely you’re joking, Mister…
2. Were you Lola in Run Lola Run?
3. Did your sister Jackie marry your boss Ralph?

147

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of prose fiction
  4. First appeared before 1900
  5. Last name begins with F
  6. Not an American character
  7. Not by an American author
  8. Originally from a novel, or what would be reprinted as a novel
  9. Not the main character
148
  1. I am not Mike Fink.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Richard Feynman.
    Take 2 DQs.
149

2 was Franka Potente; 3 was Sally Forth.

DQs:
1. British character?
2. created after 1800?

150

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of prose fiction
  4. First appeared before 1900
  5. Last name begins with F
  6. Not an American character
  7. Not by an American author
  8. Originally from a novel, or what would be reprinted as a novel
  9. Not the main character
  10. British character
  11. Created after 1800
151

Mike Farrell (as Capt BJ Hunnicutt)
Correct (good catch with Fitch, almost no one remembers him)
Correct (although you sound a bit winey)

DQs:

Known for detective fiction?
First name begins with A-M?

152

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of prose fiction
  4. First appeared before 1900
  5. Last name begins with F
  6. Not an American character
  7. Not by an American author
  8. Originally from a novel, or what would be reprinted as a novel
  9. Not the main character
  10. British character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Not known from detective fiction
  13. First name is never stated, at least in the original novel
153

IQs:
1. Were you Dipper and Mabel’s other great-uncle on Gravity Falls?
2. Are you a gay former congressman?
3. Did you play Ann Darrow?

154

Take 3 DQs.

155

IQs:

  1. Are you the rotund member of a trio created by Gilbert Shelton?
  2. Are you companion to Prince Hal?
  3. Did you take a group of orphaned street urchins, training them to become pickpockets?
156

1 was Ford Pines; 2 was Barney Frank; 3 was Fay Wray.

DQs:
1. created by British author?
2. created before 1850?
3. story is Christmas-related?

IQs:
1. Did you design a line of rainbow-and-neon-colored school supplies in the late 80s and 90s?
2. Did you voice Piglet, and also guest-star on Star Trek (“Wolf in the Fold”) and the Twilight Zone Christmas episode (“Night of the Meek”)?
3. Are you the title character of a recent Guillermo del Toro film, played by Oscar Isaac (not Jacob Elordi)?

157

Correct, correct, Laurence Fishburne

DQ:

  1. Created by Charles Dickens?
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ISWYDT :wink:

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted flatboatman in early American folklore? - Yes, Mike Fink
Was your son killed by a future Civil War general? - Francis Scott Key
Did President Truman appoint you Chief Justice of the United States? - Fred Vinson

DQs:

Tale is a dramatic one?
A “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you a young Ebenezer Scrooge’s boss?
Did Orson Welles play you in an oversize suit of armor?
Did you praise Gen. George Washington’s New Jersey campaign of 1776-77 as “the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military achievements”?

159

Yes! I am old Fezziwig!

Glad tidings to you, EH!

160

Thanks! Our next letter will be

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