Botticelli #32

Thread Games
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Were you personally humiliated on December 7, 1941?

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Do you like to tiptoe through the tulips?

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HK is not:

Helmut Kohl, longtime German chancellor
Henry Kaiser, American industrialist
Horatio Kitchener, the first Earl Kitchener (the heavy in one of my favorite movies, Breaker Morant)
Hans Kung, renegade theologian
Harvey Kuenn, Tigers batter
Herbert Khaury AKA Tiny Tim

astorian, you get a DQ as to the Dec. 7, 1941 question.

HK

  • is male
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Husband E. Kimmel was the base commander at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941- fairly or unfairly, he was vilified for unpreparedness after the Japanese attack.
DQ: Are you a fictional character?

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I was talking about Heidi Klum, of Project Runway.

DQ: Were you born (or created, if you are a fictional character) in the 20th century?

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Have you been given the unenviable job of President of Afghanistan?

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Are you a prolific avant-garde guitarist?

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Were you a children’s TV host(ess) in the 1960s and '70s?

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Did you save the day, over Jimmy Stewart’s objections, in “Flight of the Phoenix”?

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HK isn’t Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, or Hardy Kruger from Flight of the Phoenix.

Biffy, you stumped me. Take two DQs.

HK

  • is male
  • is not fictional
  • was not born in the 20th C.
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Did you refrain from singing or tap dancing in “Day of the Triffids”?

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Are you the one movie critic to whom even Roger Ebert can say, “Dude, you need to go on a diet, PRONTO”?

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I can’t resist asking this one: are you a Japanese, uh, “girl” with a twin sister named Mimmy?

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The guitarist is another Henry Kaiser (grandson of the industrialist).
The children’s show host(ess) is Hobo Kelly.

DQ 1: Are you American?
DQ 2: Are you a military figure?

IQ: Are you the world’s best-selling classical recording artist?

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Did you kill Mr. Orange before dying yourself?

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Were you released from British hands in 1997?

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Are you a rather dim county official on “Green Acres”?

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I’m not Harvey Keitel, Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs, nor am I Hank Kimball of Green Acres.

Otherwise you all stumped me. Astorian, take two DQs. Leaper, Biffy and Dead Cat, one each.

HK was:

  • male
  • not fictional
  • not born in the 20th C.
  • American
  • a military figure
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The classical best-seller is Herbert von Karajan.

DQ: Were you born in the 18th century?

IQ: Were you the USA’s first Secretary of War?

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You got me!

I’m Henry Knox, George Washington’s chief of artillery, the first Secretary of War, and the namesake of Goldfinger’s target, Fort Knox.

Good job, Biffy!