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Quailman · Post Post #1 (isolation #0) » Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:22 am

Stumper: Did you flirt with your son (played by Michael J. Fox) in a 1985 movie?

Quailman · Post Post #6 (isolation #1) » Fri Oct 31, 2003 7:57 am

It was

Back to the Future

, and his mother was played by Lea Thompson.

General: Are you alive?

Stumper: Did you introduce a song by saying, "we never, ever do anything nice and easy."?

Quailman · Post Post #8 (isolation #2) » Fri Oct 31, 2003 8:37 am

Stumper: Were you the Velvet Fog?

Quailman · Post Post #11 (isolation #3) » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:02 am

The Velvet Fog was Mel Torme's nickname. I guess that is a little more obscure than Mr. T. I can get a lot more obscure, though.

General: Are you from the Americas?

Stumper: Were you a famous British highwayman (outlaw) of the 18th century?

Quailman · Post Post #19 (isolation #4) » Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:02 am

Stumper: Did you direct

Sling Blade

?

Quailman · Post Post #25 (isolation #5) » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:17 am

Stumper: Did you write the short story on which Danny Kaye's

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

was based?

Quailman · Post Post #27 (isolation #6) » Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:15 am

Danny Kaye starred in the movie version of James Thurber's story.

General: Are you known for contributions to Arts & Entertainment, including literature?

Stumper: Were you

That Girl

?

Quailman · Post Post #29 (isolation #7) » Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:45 am

It's not a trick question. Marlo Thomas starred in the TV series

That Girl

.

General: Are you known for contribution(s) to scientific field(s)?

Stumper: In the TV series

Make Room for Daddy

, were you the person they were making room for?

Quailman · Post Post #34 (isolation #8) » Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:10 pm

Make Room for Daddy

was an even older TV series that featured Marlo Thomas' father - Danny Thomas.

...thinking about my general...

Quailman · Post Post #37 (isolation #9) » Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:15 am

General: Are you known for contributions to Medicine & Health Sciences, Paleontology or Archaeology?

Stumper: Did you pilot the Enola Gay over Hiroshima?

Quailman · Post Post #42 (isolation #10) » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:37 am

Colonel Tibbetts flew the plane (which was named after his mother) that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

General: Physics and/or Mathematics?

Stumper: Are you a fictional little girl who can talk to animals?

Quailman · Post Post #45 (isolation #11) » Wed Nov 05, 2003 8:22 am

Eliza Thornberry, from

The Thornberrys

on Nickelodeon.

General: Are you from the USA?

Stumper: Did you start a fast food chain and name it after your daughter?

Quailman · Post Post #47 (isolation #12) » Wed Nov 05, 2003 10:37 am

Stumper: Did you win a medal in figure skating at the 1988 winter olympics (Calgary)?

Quailman · Post Post #50 (isolation #13) » Wed Nov 05, 2003 4:32 pm

Debi Thomas.

General: Are you known (outside your own circle of colleagues) for one particular invention or discovery?

Stumper: Did you hit your 400th career home run this year, all of them with the Chicago White Sox?

Quailman · Post Post #53 (isolation #14) » Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:12 am

Cadmium wrote:I figured you would have known this one after the Robin Hood clue.

That's when I figured it out.

I'm running out of Thomases - Marlo, Danny, Dave, Debi, and Frank.

Stumper: Were you a Native American athlete in the early 20th century who won the Olympic decathlon, and went on to play both professional footbal and baseball?

Quailman · Post Post #57 (isolation #15) » Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:34 am

Jim Thorpe was considered by many to be the best athlete ever. I checked after posting that, and he won both the decathlon and pentathlon at the same Olympiad. One is 10 track and field events; the other is 5 different sports.

I will hold off on my general since MathCam seems to be on track for solving it.

In the meantime - Stumper: Are you a hot South African actress who appeared in

Mighty Joe Young

and

Playboy

?

Quailman · Post Post #59 (isolation #16) » Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:05 pm

Okay.

General: Are you Linus Torgvalds?

Quailman · Post Post #64 (isolation #17) » Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:10 am

MathCam: Of those three, it had to be Torvalds, because the letter is

T

. Good job, Cam!