December Botticelli

Thread Games
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And that brings us to…

I am R!

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IQ1: Did you play a character named Johnny Hooker in a 1973 film?
IQ2: Did you use a gun to frighten off a shoplifter in “The Blues Brothers” movie?
IQ3: Does Indiana want you?

103

IQ: Did your hubby broker peace between Egypt and Israel?

104

IQ1: Is your best friend a gunslinger called Hipshot?
IQ2: Were you Lord of Annandale before becoming king?
IQ3: Is your love deeper than the holler?

105

Not Robert Redford. Take a DQ for #2. Not R. Dean Taylor.

106

Take a DQ.

107

If #2 is Robert the Bruce, take 2 DQs. Otherwise, three.

108

Correct on Robert Redford and R. Dean Taylor. Number 2 was looking for Ray Charles, who played the owner of Ray’s Music Exchange.

DQ: Male?

109

Way to go, Prof.!

Previous IQs:

Are you a cartoon canine whose initials appear on his collar? - This was Scooby Doo.
Are you best friends of that canine? - Shaggy, natch.
Were you a cartoon character with a three-syllable name, the last of which was an abbreviated nickname for a kind of pet? - Snagglepuss.

On to R…

IQs:

Were you an early baseball great who had the same last name as a later pop music star?
Did you serve as a young aide to Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant?
Did you and one other music-mad colleague, although amateur actors, appear in a crowd scene of a professionally-staged opera?

110

That was Rosalynn Carter.

DQ: American?

111

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not American
112

#2. I’m not Robert Todd Lincoln.
Take 2 DQs (or 3 if I’m wrong).

113

IQ: Were you a martyred Israeli PM?

114

Rick O’Shay.
Correct on Robert the Bruce.
Randy Travis.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Living?
IQ1: Was Marcel Marceau a frequent guest on your show?
IQ2: Are you probably Jim Kjelgaard’s best-known creation?
IQ3: Were you Germany’s Foreign Minister in the early 1940s?

115

I’m not Itzhak Rabin.

116

I am not Red Skelton. Take two more DQs.

117

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not American
  3. Real
  4. Dead
118

Correct on Red Skelton.
Big Red, the Irish setter.
Joachim von Ribbentrop.
DQ1: European?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Were you Henry and Eleanor’s son?
IQ2: Was your body found under a car park last year?
IQ3: Were you allegedly poisoned, shot, and clubbed before being thrown into a river?

119

#1. I’m not Richard. #3. I’m not Rasputin.
Take a DQ for 2.

120

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Not American
  3. Real
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Known for the Arts