Botticelli - August 2017

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Knowed_Out

Grrrrr…

IQ1: Did you compose the *Water Music *suite?
IQ2: Are you a Bohemian Jewish composer whose music was banned during the Nazi regime?
IQ3: Are you an Italian composer who wrote the opera La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny)?

1. I am not George F. Handel.
   Take 2 DQs.

[Knowed_Out]

Gustav Mahler, Giuseppe Verdi

DQ: Famous for a crime?

holding a DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with G
4. American
5. Dead
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Political/military, but NOT best known for it
8. Died before 1950
9. Known for a single event
10. Caucasian
11. Not a businessman/entrepreneur
12. Greatest fame before 1900
13. Not associated with NYC
14. Died after 1875
15. Infamous for a crime

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQ:

Did you assassinate a U.S. President in the late 1800s?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did Mark Twain help get your memoirs published, greatly aiding your family financially? - U.S. Grant
Did you play the designer of the Titanic? - Victor Garber
Were you a Pittsburgh Pirate often compared to Yosemite Sam? - Phil Garner

Three DQs reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQ:

Did you assassinate a U.S. President in the late 1800s?

Yes, I am Charles Guiteau, who shot and killed Pres. Garfield in 1881. Good job, EH!

[Knowed_Out]

Upon hearing his sentence, Guiteau proclaimed “You are all low, consummate jackasses!”

If Social Media were around then, it would have become a meme.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Thanks! Your question about Princip suggested you just might go for another assassin.

Continuing our march through the alphabet with

H

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. A president’s grandson, did you discover your father’s corpse hanging in a backroom of a local college when you thought you had just seen it safely interred in a stone vault?
2. Though a married man, were you seeing Marilyn Maxwell on the side?
3. Did you go to really great lengths to avoid your nagging wife Stella?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you compose Symphonie fantastique?
IQ2: Are you the first boxer to be recognized as a septuple champion?
IQ3: Did you play Adrian Monk’s new psychiatrist after the death of Stanley Kamel?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. A president’s grandson, did you discover your father’s corpse hanging in a backroom of a local college when you thought you had just seen it safely interred in a stone vault?
2. Though a married man, were you seeing Marilyn Maxwell on the side?
3. Did you go to really great lengths to avoid your nagging wife Stella?

Not Benjamin Harrison (tells us more of that story!), dunno, and not Harry Mudd.

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Did you compose Symphonie fantastique?
IQ2: Are you the first boxer to be recognized as a septuple champion?
IQ3: Did you play Adrian Monk’s new psychiatrist after the death of Stanley Kamel?

Not Hector Berlioz, dunno and not… Harry Hamlin?

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Is your wife a bigfoot?
IQ2: Were you lead singer for the Playboys?
IQ3: Were you half of Chesterbelloc?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

#2. I am not Gary Lewis.
#3. I am not G. K. Chesterton. (?)
Take a DQ for #1.

Uncle Gus.
Correct.
Correct.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. A president’s grandson, did you discover your father’s corpse hanging in a backroom of a local college when you thought you had just seen it safely interred in a stone vault?
2. Though a married man, were you seeing Marilyn Maxwell on the side?
3. Did you go to really great lengths to avoid your nagging wife Stella?

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Benjamin Harrison (tells us more of that story!), dunno, and not Harry Mudd.

Regarding #1:

From
A Treasury of Great American Scandals, by Michael Farquhar.

When John Scott Harrison died in 1878, body snatching was still a fairly common occurrence. There was money to be made selling corpses to medical schools, which used them to teach anatomy, and “resurrectionists”, as the thieves were called, did brisk business. During Harrison’s funeral, it was noticed that the grave of a recently buried friend, William Devin, had been disturbed. Further investigation revealed that the body had been stolen. To avoid such a fate for their deceased dad, the Harrisons bricked up his grave, cemented it, and laid a ton of marble slabs upon it. They also hired two watchmen. The body of John Scott Harrison, they believed, was safe and sound.

After the burial, Harrison’s son John Jr. and his nephew George Eaton went to Cincinnati to look for their friend William Devin’s missing corpse. A search of the Ohio Medical College proved fruitless, until the two men were about to leave. One of them noticed a rope hanging in the chute through which cadavers were hoisted up to the school’s dissecting room. The rope was taut, as though something heavy was hanging from it inside the chute. Pulling it up, they found a naked body with its head and shoulders covered by a cloth. When the cloth was removed, the men got quite a shock.

“My God!” gasped John Jr. in horror, “that’s my father!” Indeed, it was Harrison instead of Devin who had been buried in the disturbed grave the day before. The gruesome discovery caused an immediate uproar, led by Benjamin Harrison, who arrived the following day. Although it was never discovered who took the corpse to the Ohio Medical College, the school was blasted in the press and subjected to an investigation. Dr. William Seely tried to defend the institution, saying that the entire affair “matters little, since it would all be the same on the day of resurrection.” This was not something the Harrisons wanted to hear, especially future president Benjamin, who never got over “the taste of hell which comes from the discovery of a father’s body hanging by the neck, like that of a dog, in the pit of a medical college.”

So, it wasn’t Benjamin but John, Jr. who found it, but I was remembering Benjamin, so that counts as a correct answer.

#2 was Bob Hope. Correct on #3.

DQ: Real?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you compose Symphonie fantastique?
IQ2: Are you the first boxer to be recognized as a septuple champion?
IQ3: Did you play Adrian Monk’s new psychiatrist after the death of Stanley Kamel?

Not Hector Berlioz, dunno and not… Harry Hamlin?

correct, Hector Comacho, Hector Elizondo

DQ: Male?
DQ: Last name starts with H?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you Tony Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard?
2. Were you the star of your own comic strip, created by Frederick Burr Opper?
3. Were you Fawcett Comics’s superpowered rabbit hero?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Terrible story, Prof. P. - but good to know. Thanks. Mary Roach’s *Stiff *has some similarly interesting but horrible stories about body-snatching to help doctors in training.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you Tony Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard?
2. Were you the star of your own comic strip, created by Frederick Burr Opper?
3. Were you Fawcett Comics’s superpowered rabbit hero?

Not Happy, dunno and dunno.

H.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with H

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you Tony Stark’s chauffeur and bodyguard?
2. Were you the star of your own comic strip, created by Frederick Burr Opper?
3. Were you Fawcett Comics’s superpowered rabbit hero?

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Happy, dunno and dunno.

#1 was indeed Happy Hogan.
#2 was Happy Hooligan.
#3 was Hoppy, the Marvel Bunny.
DQs:

1. Created by an American or Americans?
2. Created after 1899?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you hear a Who?
2. Were you a poet contemporaneous with Homer?
3. Did you write Steppenwolf?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did you recently have your initial displayed prominently with an arrow pointing right?
IQ2: Did Mojo Nixon sing that you must die, don’t let him get back together with Glenn Frey?
IQ3: Did you launch the website Ain’t It Cool News?

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Did a short story begin with your being recommended for a medal, and end with your being fined and sent out to the boondocks?
IQ2: Did you have what appeared to be a garden shed on the back of your tricycle?
IQ3: Were you Eric and David’s mother?