Botticelli - August 2019

[atimnie]

IQs:

IQ1: Are you known for starting a revolution in men’s magazines in the mid-50s?
IQ2: Are you an eccentric billionaire movie producer and pilot of wooden planes?
IQ3: Are you the quiet Beatle?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Tom Lehrer write a song asking whatever happened to you?
2. Were you quoted as saying “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people?”
3. Did the Thing recently beat you in a comic book battle?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQ1: Were you FDR’s Secretary of Commerce, and a key architect of the New Deal and the Lend-Lease program?

IQ2: Were a former vice-president who ran against Richard Nixon, during which campaign a famous picture was taken of a hole in your shoe sole?

IQ3: Were you an Irish-Italian mafioso-turned-F.B.I. informant, whose story was the basis of a classic Mafia movie?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first VP?
Were you the most famous fictional person to serve on the board of the Baltimore Symphony?
Were you arguably Carthage’s greatest general?

Respectively:
I am not Hannibal Hamlin.
I am not Hannibal Lecter.
I am not Hannibal.

@atimnie

IQs:

IQ1: Are you known for starting a revolution in men’s magazines in the mid-50s?
IQ2: Are you an eccentric billionaire movie producer and pilot of wooden planes?
IQ3: Are you the quiet Beatle?

IQ1: I am not Hugh Hefner.
IQ2: I am not Howard Hughes.
IQ3: I am not George Harrison.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did Tom Lehrer write a song asking whatever happened to you?
2. Were you quoted as saying “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people?”
3. Did the Thing recently beat you in a comic book battle?

1. I am not Hubert Humphrey.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not the Hulk.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQ1: Were you FDR’s Secretary of Commerce, and a key architect of the New Deal and the Lend-Lease program?

IQ2: Were a former vice-president who ran against Richard Nixon, during which campaign a famous picture was taken of a hole in your shoe sole?

IQ3: Were you an Irish-Italian mafioso-turned-F.B.I. informant, whose story was the basis of a classic Mafia movie?

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Isn’t this Adlai Stevenson? Were you also thinking of Humphrey?
IQ3: I am not Henry Hill.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Swept me on the three Hannibals. Well done.

IQs:

Did you play Mickey on L.A. Law?
Did you and your wife once break a bed, as your wife embarrassedly told domestic staff?
Were you FDR’s cadaverous aide, who lost a son during WWII?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Tom Lehrer write a song asking whatever happened to you?
2. Were you quoted as saying “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people?”
3. Did the Thing recently beat you in a comic book battle?
4. I am not Hubert Humphrey.
5. Take a DQ.
6. I am not the Hulk.

Correct, H. L. Mencken, Correct.

DQ: Real?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you an adventure-loving princess in a series of children’s books by Ursula Vernon?
2. Did Katnip chase you?
3. Did you write Theogony?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you play Mickey on L.A. Law?
Did you and your wife once break a bed, as your wife embarrassedly told domestic staff?
Were you FDR’s cadaverous aide, who lost a son during WWII?

Respectively:
I am not Harry Hamlin.
I am not Harry Truman.
Take a DQ. (Probably a Harry.)

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Are you an adventure-loving princess in a series of children’s books by Ursula Vernon?
2. Did Katnip chase you?
3. Did you write Theogony?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Herman.
3. I am not Hesiod.
   DQs:

1. real

[atimnie]

IQs

IQ1: Did you inspire the stage name of perhaps the greatest magician/escape artist of all time?
IQ2: Were you the star of “Safety Last”?
IQ3: Did you attempt an assassination to impress a movie star?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you an adventure-loving princess in a series of children’s books by Ursula Vernon?
2. Did Katnip chase you?
3. Did you write Theogony?
4. Take a DQ.
5. I am not Herman.
6. I am not Hesiod.

#1 is Princess Harriet Hamsterbone. Correct on the others.

DQ: Male?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you head coach of the Baltimore Ravens?
IQ2: Are you IQ1’s brother, coach of Michigan?
IQ3: Were you the first head coach of the Chicago Bears?

[De_La_Rue]

@atimnie

IQs

IQ1: Did you inspire the stage name of perhaps the greatest magician/escape artist of all time?
IQ2: Were you the star of “Safety Last”?
IQ3: Did you attempt an assassination to impress a movie star?

IQ1: I am not Robert Houdin.
IQ2: I am not Harold Lloyd.
IQ3: I am not John Hinckley.

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Are you head coach of the Baltimore Ravens?
IQ2: Are you IQ1’s brother, coach of Michigan?
IQ3: Were you the first head coach of the Chicago Bears?

Take 3 DQs.

DQs:

1. real
2. male

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you play Mickey on L.A. Law? - Yes, Harry Hamlin
Did you and your wife once break a bed, as your wife embarrassedly told domestic staff? - Yes, Harry Truman, during his and Bess’s extended stay at Blair House
Were you FDR’s cadaverous aide, who lost a son during WWII? - Harry Hopkins

Harry x3!

DQ:

Last name start with H?

IQs:

Were you Stonewall Jackson’s near-legendary mapmaker?
Did you die in San Francisco in 1870, before you could write your memoirs?
Were you the first flag officer of the Continental Navy?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you head coach of the Baltimore Ravens?
IQ2: Are you IQ1’s brother, coach of Michigan?
IQ3: Were you the first head coach of the Chicago Bears?
Take 3 DQs.

John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, George “Papa Bear” Halas

DQ: Alive?
DQ: Last name begin with H?
DQ: American?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did your company eventually expand to create “the Great American Chocolate Bar”?
2. Did you often hang around with Churchy la Femme in the comic strip Pogo?
3. Were you on of the few survivors in the play Hamlet?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Were you Stonewall Jackson’s near-legendary mapmaker?
Did you die in San Francisco in 1870, before you could write your memoirs?
Were you the first flag officer of the Continental Navy?

Take 3 DQs.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did your company eventually expand to create “the Great American Chocolate Bar”?
2. Did you often hang around with Churchy la Femme in the comic strip Pogo?
3. Were you on of the few survivors in the play Hamlet?

1. I am not Milton Hershey.
2. I am not Howland Owl.
3. I am not Horatio.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American

(Knowed Out: note that EH already asked about the last name starting with H)

[Knowed_Out]

Missed EH’s DQ. Change my “Last name begin with H” to “Holding a DQ”

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you Stonewall Jackson’s near-legendary mapmaker? - Jedediah Hotchkiss
Did you die in San Francisco in 1870, before you could write your memoirs? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, the Rock of Chickamauga (he always used the “H.”)
Were you the first flag officer of the Continental Navy? - Esek Hopkins

DQs:

Political/military?
Died since 1900?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Monty Python depict you, ahistorically, falling from a modern building?
Were you the person mentioned in his last words?
Were you the plucky young hero of the movie The Iron Giant?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Swept me.

IQs:

1. Did you write Godel, Escher, Bach?
2. Were you a famous 20th Century Amerian caricaturist?
3. Did you compose The Planets?

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did Monty Python depict you, ahistorically, falling from a modern building?
Were you the person mentioned in his last words?
Were you the plucky young hero of the movie The Iron Giant?

Respectively:
I am not Horatio Nelson.
I am not Hardy.
I am not Hogarth.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Godel, Escher, Bach?
2. Were you a famous 20th Century Amerian caricaturist?
3. Did you compose The Planets?

1. I am not Douglas Hofstadter.
2. I am not Al Hirschfeld.
3. I am not Gustav Holst.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with H
4. dead
5. American
6. not political/military
7. died after 1900