Botticelli - Dec. 2016

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
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#1. I am not Prof. Harold Hill.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Correct.
Robert A Heinlein (The Number of the Beast, in which that was his interpretation of said number).
Homer Price.
DQ1: Living?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

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The Austinite who edited Rolling Stone was O. Henry

And the guy who tried stealing a fortune in bonds was Hans Gruber, in “Die Hard”

Van Helsing wasn’t who I had in mind, but your answer kinda works.
DQ1) First name starts with H?
DQ2) American?

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Previous IQs:

Is Bruno Ganz one of the most recent actors to portray you? - Yes, Adolf Hitler. Ganz was actually very good in Downfall; too bad he’s best known now for being in all those “Hitler throws a tantrum” YouTube videos.
Did you supposedly tell Abraham Lincoln to “Get down, you damn fool”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., during the 1864 Confederate attack on Ft. Stevens, part of the defenses of Washington.
Are you that person’s literary dad? - O.W. Holmes Sr.

DQs:

Born east of the Miss.?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Were you assassinated in Operation ANTHROPOID?
Were you that person’s immediate superior?
Did you die in Spandau Prison?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Only name starts with H
  6. Not American

EH, given #6 above, I’ll let you re-ask your DQs.

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#3. I am not Rudolf Hess.
Take another 2 DQs for the others.

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Did astrologers visit you to ask about the birth of a new king?

Did the U.S. postal service’s motto (“Neither rain now sleet nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers”) come from your writings?

Did you famously note that one can never step in the same river twice?

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  1. I am not Herod.
  2. I am not Herodotus.
  3. I am not Heraclites.
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IQ1: Were you a Babylonian king now best known for the laws you enacted?
IQ2: Were you a first-century Roman poet?
IQ3: Were you an ancient Greek who experimented with steam power and wind power?

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Were the Thompson Twins named after characters you created?

Did you really hate Mordecai and his kinsmen?

Did you use your adulterous wife as a metaphor for idolatry?

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ding,ding,ding!

I am indeed Hammurabi.

Good job, SCA!
I’m guessing that only having one name placed the person in antiquity without any questions regarding time needed.

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Good job, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you assassinated in Operation ANTHROPOID? - Reinhard Heydrich, a top SS official known as “the Butcher of Prague”
Were you that person’s immediate superior? - Heinrich Himmler.
Did you die in Spandau Prison? - Yes, Rudolf Hess.

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Yep. :slight_smile: (Well, that and not being known for the Arts…)

Those were Horace and Hero (aka Heron) of Alexandria.
I am now N.

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IQs:

  1. Do you grow orchids and solve crimes?
  2. Were you a deadpan comic actor contemporary with W. C. Fields?
  3. Are you best known for writing brief comic verse?
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Not Nero Wolfe.
DQ.
Not Ogden Nash.

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IQs:

After the humiliating capture of much of your army’s supplies, were you nicknamed “Commissary”?
Did you face off against Cornwallis at Guilford Court House?
Did a well-known book of yours have an incongruous discussion of patronage in the early U.S.?

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Correct, Ned Sparks, correct.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Did you play Lois Lane in The Adventures of Superman?
  2. Were you the Man from U.N.C.L.E.?
  3. Did you play the Joker in Batman?
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DQ.
Not … Nathanael Greene?
DQ.

DQ.
Not Napoleon Solo.
Not … Jack Nicholson?

N

  1. Real
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#1 was Noel Neill. Correct on the others.

DQ: Male?