Botticelli - December 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Are you prime minister of Haiti?
  2. Are you the tricorned-hat-wearing villain of the Purim story?
  3. Do you host Documentary Now!?
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not…trying to remember the spelling…Haman?
  3. Take a DQ.
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DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name begins with “H”.
  3. Male.
  4. Created after 1960.
  5. Created before 1990.
  6. From a filmed dramatic work.
  7. Main character.
  8. Not from a film.
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1 was Ariel Henry; 2 was correct; 3 was Helen Mirren.

DQs:
1. created after 1975?
2. from TV?

125

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name begins with “H”.
  3. Male.
  4. Created after 1960.
  5. Created before 1990.
  6. From a filmed dramatic work.
  7. Main character.
  8. Not from a film.
  9. Created before 1975.
  10. From TV.
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DQ: From a police or detective show?

1 DQ reserved.

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correct
H RIder Haggard
Adm William “Bull” Halsey


DQ1: Adult character?


IQ1: Were you one of the elder gods, known as the King in Yellow?
IQ2: Were the title character the same name in an SF novel?
IQ3: Did you write about #1?
DQ2: American character?

128

IQs:
1. Did you star in and survive the making of Roar, and in fact founded the Roar Foundation to provide sanctuary for exotic felines and big cats?
2. Oh my god! Where did you get that brownie?
3. were you told “Over there. There’s a whole pile of them”?

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DQ: From a TV show that aired in black&white?

IQ1: Did you and your family live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
IQ2: Were you forced to adorn your clothing with the first letter of the alphabet?
IQ3: Did SpongeBob and Patrick ride you when returning from Shell City?

130

DQ: Christmas-related show?

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  1. I am not Hastur.
  2. Take a DQ. I assume that’s “Were you the title character in an SF novel of the same name?”
  3. I am not H.P. Lovecraft

Take 3 DQs.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Hester Prynne.
  3. Take a DQ.
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DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name begins with “H”.
  3. Male.
  4. Created after 1960.
  5. Created before 1990.
  6. From a filmed dramatic work.
  7. Main character.
  8. Not from a film.
  9. Created before 1975.
  10. From TV.
  11. Not from a police or detective show.
  12. An adult character.
  13. No nationality specified, but culturally American or Canadian. Spoke American-accented English.
  14. From a Christmas-related show.
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1 was Tippi Hedren; 2 and 3 were George Harrison and Homer Simpson, in an exchange in “Homer’s Barbershop Quartet”.

DQs:
1. from a Christmas special?
2. human?
3. created before 1970?

“What a nice fella.”

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DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name begins with “H”.
  3. Male.
  4. Created after 1960.
  5. Created before 1990.
  6. From a filmed dramatic work.
  7. Main character.
  8. Not from a film.
  9. Created before 1975.
  10. From TV.
  11. Not from a police or detective show.
  12. An adult character.
  13. No nationality specified, but culturally American or Canadian. Spoke American-accented English.
  14. From a Christmas-related show.
  15. From a Christmas special.
  16. Not human.
  17. Created before 1970.

And that brings us over 20 DQs, so no more IQs, please. Ask your remaining DQs by midnight EST Saturday, December 16.

135

I think you missed my earlier DQ.

Herman Munster
Correct
David Hasselhoff

DQ: From a stop-motion animated special?

Holding 1 DQ

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I did, yes. Apologies. I was posting from my phone last night, which makes scrolling back and forth a bit more difficult.

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name begins with “H”.
  3. Male.
  4. Created after 1960.
  5. Created before 1990.
  6. From a filmed dramatic work.
  7. Main character.
  8. Not from a film.
  9. Created before 1975.
  10. From TV.
  11. Not from a police or detective show.
  12. An adult character.
  13. No nationality specified, but culturally American or Canadian. Spoke American-accented English.
  14. From a Christmas-related show.
  15. From a Christmas special.
  16. Not human.
  17. Created before 1970.
  18. Not from a show in black and white.
  19. From a stop-motion animated special.
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correct
see below
correct


“Were [you] the title character [of] the same name in an SF novel?” Regis Hastur, in The Heritage of Hastur, one of the Darkover books by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I’ll pass on the QD, since I mangled the IQ so badly.

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Previous IQs:

Were you nicknamed “Coach” and exposed, late in life, as a child molester? - Yes, disgraced Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert
Were you the villain in Annie? - Mrs. Hannigan
Did you liken the sales of a work of yours to that of a cold drink in a particularly warm place? - Ernest Hemingway bragged that one of his books was “selling like iced daiquiris in Hell” (a phrase which I love)

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a dentist wannabe at the North Pole?
Were you a computer pioneer who got a US Navy destroyer named after her?
Did you have “the face that launched a thousand ships”?

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I don’t know the computer pioneer, and I am not Helen of Troy, but…

Whoop! Whoop! Ding Ding Ding! Yes, I am Hermey the Misfit Elf, from the 1964 Rankin-Bass claymation special Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Congratulations and well done, @Elendil_s_Heir!

(And commiserations to @De_La_Rue - I think she or he had Mariah Carey in the last round, but I swooped in and stole it, and I suspect EH just did the same thing. @ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness was on the right track too, I think.)

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Woohoo - good one, SMV! I was thinking it just might be everyone’s favorite tiny dentist: Hermey | Christmas Specials Wiki | Fandom

Thanks to DLR, CFOHG and others for useful clues along the way.

Correct as to Helen of Troy; the computer pioneer was this remarkable Navy rear admiral: Grace Hopper - Wikipedia

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