Botticelli August 2023

Thread Games
401

But of course. Let’s next go with

H

402

IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous kid star of a comic strip in which you never talk?
  2. Did you create the famous ukiyo-e print The Wave?
  3. Did you costar on Mad About You?
403

IQs:
1. Did you write Tono-Bungay?
2. Did your husband use the alias “Carlos Danger”?
3. Were you in Havoc?

404

I’m not Harold, Hasekawa or Helen Hunt.

405

Dunno, not Anthony Weiner’s long-suffering wife Whatshername Hadid, and dunno.

406

1 was H.G. Wells; 2 was Huma Abedin; 3 was Anne Hathaway.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with H?
3. male?

407

Huma! :man_facepalming: That’s it.

Check out Weiner if you haven’t already - one of the best political documentaries I’ve ever seen. He granted the filmmakers full backstage access at the start of his NYC mayoral campaign - and they were there to capture the slow-motion trainwreck when his sexting scandal broke.

H.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with H
  3. male
408

#1 was Henry.
#2 was Hokusai.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?
409

IQ:

  1. Were you challenged “to the pain”?
  2. Was a Britcom based on hte whacky hijinks of you and your family canceled for pure offensiveness after just one show.
  3. Are you the Greek equivalent of Juno.
410

IQs:
1. Do you play Golda Meir in Golda?
2. Are you another character (played by Liev Schreiber) in Golda?
3. Are you Russell’s partner in Laurie King’s Mary Russell mysteries?

411

IQs

  1. Were you the nation’s first notorious serial killer?
  2. Did you write an essay bemoaning the South’s lack of cultural sophistication, called “The Sahara of the Bozarts”?
  3. Were you the lead actor in what many police officers call “the most accurate police procedural on TV”?
412

Dunno, not Hitler and not Hera.

Not Helen Mirren, Henry Kissinger or Sherlock Holmes.

Not that other, much worse Holmes; not H.L. Mencken and dunno.

H.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with H
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. not American
413
  1. Prince Humperdinck from the Princess Bride
    Other two are correct.

DQ: Died before 1900?

414

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Did you live with the odium of having discovered sodium?
2. Were you childhood friends with Truman Capote?
3. Are you the title character of a novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

415

OK you got Hera, lets turn it up a notch.

IQs

  1. Are you married to the goddess of spring?
  2. Are you married to the goddess of love, but are otherwise pretty lame?
  3. Are you a goddess who appeared in MacBeth?
416

Not Herodotus, Harper Lee or Mycroft Holmes.

Bring it! I’m not Hades, Haphaestus or Hecate.

H.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with H
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. not American
  6. died before 1900
417

No. 3 was Hal Linden, who played the eponymous precinct chief in Barney Miller.

DQ: European?

Ooh, someone’s tossed down the gauntlet.

IQs:

  1. Were you the first female philosopher and mathematician whose life is well-recorded?

  2. Were you a member of the Pima tribe, and one of the soldiers in the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph?

  3. Are you the personification of Ireland, the Irish equivalent of Uncle Sam or John Bull?

418

Ugh. Pride goeth before a fall. I’ve heard of her but don’t remember her name, not Hank Iforgethislastname, and dunno.

419

Clean Sweep! Good job

Since SMV once again sniped me (that female mathematician IQ was mine damn it!). I’ll start with an easy one and then work forward through my Hum110 syllabus

1, Did you write about Achileas sulking like a spoiled brat, until the death of his boy toy snapped him into action.
2. Along with the answer to the previous IQ were your poems responsible for much or our knowledge of Greek myths.
2. Did you write the history of the Peloponnesian war.

420

1 (sodium) was Humphry Davy.

DQ: died after 1700?

IQs:
1. Did you say mornings were for coffee and contemplation?
2. Were you played by Wanda Sykes on History of the World, Part II?

3. Did you used to get off elevators and say “Who would have thought he had so much blood in him”?