Botticelli - January 2017

Thread Games
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Three DQs.

H

  1. Real
42

#1 was Anthony Head.
#2 was The Big Giant Head.
#3 was Roy Head.

Head x3.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
  3. Last name starts with H?
43

IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn, O Love Divine, That Stoop’st To Share?
  2. Did you write Go Set A Watchman?
  3. A cartoon character, did you have “the greatest show in town”?
44

You swept mine.

IQs:

Were you a Bond girl who had nothing to do with bees?
Were you Capt. Miller’s right-hand-man in Saving Private Ryan?
Have you played a Soviet functionary, a British mobster, a funny pirate and a private eye?

45

DQ.
DQ.
Not Huckleberry Hound.

Not Honeychile Rider.
DQ.
DQ.

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with H
46

#1 was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#2 was Harper Lee.
Correct on Huck.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Died after 1900?
47

Previous IQs:

Were you a Bond girl who had nothing to do with bees? - Yes, Honeychile Rider
Were you Capt. Miller’s right-hand-man in Saving Private Ryan? - Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore)
Have you played a Soviet functionary, a British mobster, a funny pirate and a private eye? - Bob Hoskins, in Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Hook and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

DQs:

Political/military?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you allegedly sigh, “Oh, to be seventy again”?
Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works?
Were you the daughter of Amy Adams’s character in Arrival?

48

DQ.
Not Hastur.
DQ.

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Political/military
49

IQs:

  1. Did you say “Give me liberty or give me death”?
  2. Were you president at the start of the Great Depression?
  3. Did Mickey Rooney star as you in a series of films?
50

Previous IQs:

Did you allegedly sigh, “Oh, to be seventy again”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., so the story goes, said this to a law clerk when, at age ninety, he saw a beautiful woman pass on the street.
Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works? - Yes, Hastur.
Were you the daughter of Amy Adams’s character in Arrival? - Hannah

DQs:

Ever held elective office?
Ever held appointive office?

IQs:

Did you retire to Spiegel Grove?
Were you Lincoln’s first VP?
Did you have the nervous habit of often rubbing your elbows?

51

Not Patrick Henry.
Not Herbert Hoover.
Not … Andy Hardy?

DQ.
Not … Hannibal Hamlin?
DQ.

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Political/military
  8. Never held elective office
  9. Never held appointive office
52

A clean sweep.

IQs:

  1. Were you sponsored on the radio by Bon Ami?
  2. Were you aka the Fat Fury?
  3. Were you a bald little boy who never spoke in a comic strip bearing your name?
53

DQ.
DQ.
Not Henry.

54

#1 was Paul Harvey.
#2 was Herbie Popnecker (comic books).
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Military?
  2. Died before 1860?
55

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Political/military
  8. Never held elective office
  9. Never held appointive office
  10. Military
  11. Did not die before 1860
56

Previous IQs:

Did you retire to Spiegel Grove? - Rutherford B. Hayes: Spiegel Grove - Wikipedia
Were you Lincoln’s first VP? - Yes, Hannibal Hamlin, Republican of Maine.
Did you have the nervous habit of often rubbing your elbows? - Henry Halleck, Lincoln’s de facto military chief of staff in the last years of the Civil War.

DQs:

Served in the Civil War?
Was a general?

IQs:

Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”?
Were you, with John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s two personal aides?
A war hero, did you run against James Garfield in the 1880 election?

57

IQs:

  1. Are you the subject of a current hip-hop Broadway success?
  2. Did you write the hymn I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say?
  3. Did you say, “An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”?
58

Three DQs.

Not … Alexander Hamilton?
DQ.
DQ.

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Political/military
  8. Never held elective office
  9. Never held appointive office
  10. Military
  11. Did not die before 1860
  12. Did not serve in the Civil War
  13. Was not a general

Re DQ5 and DQ7: Think outside the box.

59

#1 is correct.
#2 was Horatius Bonar.
#3 was Georg F. W. Hegel.

2 DQs reserved.

60

Previous IQs:

Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas of Civil War fame
Were you, with John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s two personal aides? - John Hay
A war hero, did you run against James Garfield in the 1880 election? - Winfield Scott Hancock

DQs:

Native American?
Best known for a single battle?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you not really an insane equine?
Did you most famously play a Georgia house slave?
Was your adorable mutt named Ribsy?