Mailboxes and Radiators: A 24-Question Quincy Jones Quiz by BruceM

This hastily written quiz exists because of a bombshell of a Quincy Jones interview, published in February 2018 by what branded on-line destination, part of New York magazine's web site?

Early in that interview, Quincy Jones uses a particular adjective to compare Michael Jackson to what Florentine diplomat (1469-1527) who also wrote Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy?

Two answers required. Bad was the third of three Michael Jackson albums produced by Quincy Jones. Name both of the first two, released in 1979 and 1982.

Peggy Lipton (Quincy Jones's third wife) played Julie Barnes on what ABC crime drama (1968-1973)?

Peggy Lipton also played Norma Jennings, the Twin Peaks character who owns what fictional diner, also briefly known as Marty's Railroad Cafe?

Give the first name of the older daughter of Jones and Lipton (older sister of Rashida Jones), also the name of a fashion line she designed for Disney Couture.

The woman from the previous question was engaged to what musician as of his 1996 death?

Two answers required. In the interview, Quincy Jones mentions that his daughter was working with a certain designer, who told him that a particular celebrity wanted to have dinner with him. "She had the most beautiful legs I ever saw in my life. Wrong father, though."

Name both that designer -- he wrote the memoir American Dreamer and hosted the short-lived contest show The Cut -- and the beautiful-legged woman at the heart of the anecdote.

Two answers required. Paul Schneider (as Mark Brendanawicz) is one of three actors to play a main or recurring character depicted as dating Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) on Parks & Recreation. Name both of the other two actors. (The actors, not the characters!)

Rashida Jones also played which character in early seasons of The Office (U.S. version)? This employee of the Stamford branch of Dunder Mifflin dates Jim Halpert, just as Jones dated John Krasinski in real life.

"He’d fuck anything. Anything! He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye."

What debut novel by James Baldwin tells of Harlem native John Grimes (based on Baldwin himself) and of the Pentecostal church?

"It was the '70s! Drugs were still good, especially [BLANK]. If you did enough cocaine, you’d fuck a radiator and send it flowers in the morning.”
--Jennifer Lee Pryor (Richard Pryor's widow)

The brand name of what sedative-hypnotic drug fills in that blank?

(We will accept either the singular brand name or the commonly used plural form as quoted.)

Two answers required.

"Picket lines and picket signs
Don't [BLANK] me with [BLANK]
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on"

What two words fill in those blanks from a Marvin Gaye hit song?

In the interview, Quincy Jones mentions becoming the first black vice president at a record label, because of which he didn't actually get paid for producing the records of what 1960s teen sensation? This singer-songwriter's hits included "It's My Party" and the sequel, "Judy's Turn to Cry."

Jones claims that what Chicago mafioso was behind the killing of John F. Kennedy? This Sicilian-American started out as a getaway driver for the 42 Gang before taking over the Outfit.

Two answers required.

"[BLANK] keeps trying to get me to go to [BLANK]. No thank you. "

The names of what inventor/investor (also recently in the news) and what annual gathering (ethos: "leave no trace") fill in those blanks?

What is Quincy Jones's astrological sign (and that of the interviewer, we learn)? This is also the astrological sign of Justin Bieber and Steph Curry, among others.

According to Linda Goodman, "Very few of these people can stand being confined for long in one place. You'll have better luck if you wander into a spiritual seance, visit an art gallery, walk through a convent or a monastery, attend a concert or catch a floor show in a nightclub."

"[S]he was fucking up every take because her necklace or bracelet was rattling in the microphone. It was just her that had a problem."

According to Jones, which singer nearly ruined "We Are the World"?

Although not mentioned in the interview, Jones wrote "The Streetbeater," which would become the theme song of what 1970s sit-com?

Jones does mention what 1990s sit-com, along with Mad TV, noting "That syndication money is great, man"?

Jones wrote the music for this show's theme song, though the star of this show wrote and performed the lyrics.

Either of two answers is acceptable. You like Brazilian music? Jones describes two Brazilian musicians as "the kings": Name either of those musicians in the Tropicália artistic movement, who were both arrested in 1969. Along with Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Tom Ze, and Torquato Neto, they had released the album Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis in 1968.

Speaking of Brazilian(-style) music, the 1962 Quincy Jones song "Soul Bossa Nova" appears in the Sidney Lumet film The Pawn Broker, which was not only Jones's first film score but also the feature film debut of what actor? (Uncredited, as a man on the street.)

This five-time Oscar nominee has just one Oscar (as of February 2018) for Best Supporting Actor in Million Dollar Baby

"Soul Bossa Nova" is also the theme song for what film franchise, whose title character has appeared in three movies (so far), released from 1997 to 2002? The creator of this franchise/character may have first encountered "Soul Bossa Nova" as the theme song for the Canadian game show Definition.