Botticelli February 2021

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Yes, I am

Uncle Henry

from the works of L. Frank Baum: Uncle Henry (Oz) - Wikipedia

Well done, Prof. P.

How did you even guess this?

I can’t believe kitap didn’t guess him. I’m very surprised at having an Oz character show up again so soon after Polychrome.

Having checked EH’s list of letter usage:

I am

IQ1: Did you have an airbourne delivery service?
IQ2: Were you a tailor whose promotion caused officials to quit their jobs?
IQ3: Were you an English chef with a Canadian show?

#1 I am not Kiki.
#2 I am not Ko-ko.
#3 I am not Graham Kerr.

Congrats, Prof.! The best I could come up with was Ham, from the Doc Savage series (though Ham is not a common name and he first appeared after 1920).

IQs:
1. Did you direct Dr. Strangelove?
2. Has it been claimed you inspired the character of Dr. Strangelove, although you probably didn’t given that when the movie was made you were a mere Harvard professor and not a US National Security Advisor or Secretary of State yet?
3. Did you write On Thermonuclear War (and are a likelier inspiration for Strangelove)?

#1. I am not Stanley Kubrick.
#2. I am not Henry Kissinger.
#3. Take a DQ.

IQs:

Did your daughter serve as US ambassador to Japan?
Did yours, too?
A relative of theirs, did you make a cameo appearance as Murphy Brown’s latest secretary?

#1. I am not Robert Kennedy (??)
#2. I am not Ted Kennedy (??)
#3. I am not John F. Kennedy, Jr.

IQ1: Were you killed, not by the airplanes, but by beauty?
IQ2: Did you create Bat-man?
IQ3: Did you create the Fantastic Four?

  1. I am not King Kong.
  2. I am not Bob Kane.
  3. I am not Jack Kirby.

3 was Herman Kahn. Correct on 2 and 3.

DQ: real?

Clean sweep!

IQ1: Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard?
IQ2: Did you run for US President on the platform of abortions for some, miniature American flags for others?
IQ3: Were you IQ2’s opponent in the same presidential election?

Take 3 DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real

Kelis - singer of “Milkshake”
Kang and Kodos, space aliens from The Simpsons - specifically the 1996 Halloween episode

DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Alive?

Holding the third DQ

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Dead

I kept think H must be an Edgar Rice Burroughs character, so…

IQs:

  1. Did you marry Loyse of Verlaine in the book Witch World?
  2. Did you play the main protagonist in 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
  3. Are you the dragon who employed Cimorene in the book Dealing with Dragons?

IQs

  1. Did your name supposedly loosely translate to “I should worry?”
  2. Did you play Mrs. White in a movie, now considered a cult classic?
  3. Have people created conspiracy theories tying your death to a very famous actress/ icon and a political dynasty?

Previous IQs:

Did your daughter serve as US ambassador to Japan? - JFK (Caroline)
Did yours, too? - Jackie Kennedy
A relative of theirs, did you make a cameo appearance as Murphy Brown’s latest secretary? - Yes, JFK Jr.

DQs:

American?
Last name begin with K?

IQs:

Were you a widely-loathed cavalry general during the Civil War?
Were you a Latin American specialist in the Kennedy Administration?
Did you joke that if the United Nations left NYC and sailed away, you’d be down on the docks, waving a not-so-fond farewell?