Botticelli - August 2024

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Thanks!

I am…

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Ah, good job, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SECNAV? - Yes, Gideon Welles
Later a well-known writer, did you serve at the Battle of New Hope Church? - Oops, got my wires crossed; that was Ambrose Bierce, who obviously wasn’t a “W”
A Tennessean, did you write about your adventures with “Company Aytch”? - Yes, Sam Watkins

On to H!

IQs:

Did President Carter fumble your name at the Democratic National Convention in 1980?
Did the same man who wrote about you, also write about a failed German invasion of Great Britain during WWII?
Did you win at Saratoga but lose at Camden?

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Congrats, Prof.!

Previous round wrap-up:

1 was Martha Washington; 3 was Walter Sobchak, in The Big Lebowski.

IQs:
1. Did you have a sign on your desk that said “The buck stops here”?
2. Were you a Blondie in Rapture with a Heart of Glass?
3. Were you the Big Lebowski?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the namesake of an ACM Award for young innovators in computing?
  2. Are you the police chief of Hawkins, Indiana?
  3. Did you act in both Rebel Without A Cause and Giant, but not as the lead?
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Congrats!

  1. Does Honor Raconteur write a series of fantasy books about you titled “The Case Files of [blank blank]”?
  2. Were you Simon Templar’s main girlfriend?
  3. Were you the main character of Thorne Smith’s The Night Life of The Gods?
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  1. I am not Hubert Humphrey (??)
  2. I am not Adolph Hitler (??)
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Harry S. Truman.
  2. I am not Deborah Harry.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Jim Hopper.
  3. Take another DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

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3 was David Huddleston.

DQ: real?

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DQ:

  1. Real
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#1 was Grace Hopper, kinda-inventor of COBOL.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Dennis Hopper.

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Last name begins with H?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
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I think I’ve figured this game. If this post is in error, let me know.

I.Q.:

  1. Were you immortalized in legend by besting a drilling machine?
  2. Were you a German physicist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves?
  3. Did you take a shot at infamy to impress a young lady in 1981?
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IQs:
1. Did Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas work for you?
2. Did you play one of Beauty’s sisters in the Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theater version of “Beauty and the Beast”?
3. Were you a bowling alley worker in one of the Dude’s hallucinations in The Big Lebowski, presumably influenced by the TV news he watches early on?

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Welcome to the game, knoodler!

  1. I am not John Henry.
    Take 2 DQs.
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  1. I am not Col. Harlan Sanders (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
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Congratulations, Prof! Good guess! And welcome, knoodler!

IQs:

  1. Were you three brothers who agreed to a single combat against three brothers from another city, to settle a war?
  2. According to Monty Python, are you a boozy beggar who can think you under the table?
  3. Are you famous for your hints?
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Thanks guys!

  1. Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
  2. John Hinckley, jr

2 DQs reserved

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2 was Anjelica Huston; 3 was Saddam Hussein.

DQs:
1. American?
2. living?

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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Martin Heidegger.
  3. I am not Heloise.
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
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IQs:

  1. Were you a British politician who shares a name with a candy bar?
  2. Did you die in a bunker with your new bride?
  3. Did you lead a military campaign against the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War?

DQs:

  1. Alive after 1960?
  2. European?