Botticelli - July, 2014

Thread Games
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Jeez, this thread is either feast or famine… sometimes it’s days between posts, sometimes it’s minutes.

IQ1: Are you a DJ who ran for governor of NY with the intention to resign after getting all the roads fixed?
IQ2: Are you a former SNL cast member who voiced Duncan the Doughnut in Wreck-it Ralph?
IQ3: Did you produce numerous stories of honest boys outwitting evil, greedy squires, and malicious youths?

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3 DQs

1: Not Hammurabi
Take 2 DQs

Yes

3: Not King Hamlet or Old Hamlet as some editions name the Ghost.
Take 2 DQs.

1: Not Howard Stern?
2: Take a DQ
3: Not Horatio Alger

Summary:
H

  1. Real
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#1 was Hector Hammond. #2 was Hiram Fly (on the Milton the Monster Show on Saturday mornings).

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Alive?
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Those were:

Howard Hesseman
Harry Hopkins

Holding on to my DQs until you answer, get asked the existing DQs

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Yes
No

Summary:
H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not alive
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DQ: American?
DQ: Died after 1900?

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IQ1: Is a literary award named after you?
IQ2: Were you David Bowman’s opponent?
IQ3: Did you write about the adventures of Thorby Baslim-Krausa?

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IQs:

  1. Did your comic book spinoff from the pages of Man-Thing?
  2. Were you one of the Goon Show actors?
  3. Were you an anthropomorphic equine who palled around with Mickey, Donald and Goofy?
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IQ: Are you a poker player with the ironic nickname “Action Dan”?

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IQ: Were you a college basketball player who died on the eve of the tournament?

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Yes and Yes

1: Not Hugo Gernsback
2: Not HAL 9000
3: Take a DQ

Take 2 DQs (No ‘H’ in Peter Sellars or Spike Milligan - must be one of the others)
3: Not Horace Horsecollar

Take 2 DQs

Summary:
H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not alive
  4. American
  5. Died after 1900
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Those were:

Dan Harrington
Hank Gathers

DQ: In the Arts?
DQ: Born East of the Mississippi?

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#1 was Howard the Duck. Great comic book, terrible movie.
#2 was Harry Secombe, who played Neddie Seagoon, the central character around whom all the episodes spun.
#3 correct on Horace.

2 DQs reserved for the moment.

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Yes
No

Summary:
H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not alive
  4. American
  5. Died after 1900
  6. In the Arts
  7. Not born East of the Mississippi
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IQ: Are you a magician who died on Halloween?

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correct, Horatio Sanz, correct

DQ: Performing arts?

IQ1: Were you the White House Chief of Staff under Nixon?
IQ2: Did you create the stop motion technique known as “Dynamation”?
IQ3: Did you invade Northern Italy in the Second Punic War with elephants in your army?

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IQ: Did you build a wall in the British Isles?

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DQs:

  1. Last name starts with H?
  2. Died after 2000?
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Not Harry Houdini
Not Hadrian

1: Not Haldeman
3: Not Hannibal
2: Yes, I am Ray Harryhausen

Man, I gotta start picking harder ones. That’s two in row that have been solved in less than a day. Congrats,** Knowed Out**

ETA: Oops, missed your DQs, Prof. Doesn’t really matter now.

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Congratulations, Knowed Out!