Botticelli - June 2013

Thread Games
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Not Margaret Houlihan. DQs for 2 and 3.

Oops - never even thought of starting a new thread. Sorry about that…

Take three DQs (though that second one is bugging me).

Not Hammurabi.

Not The Incredible Hulk. DQs for 1 and 2.

Might as well, as we’ve gone this far…

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#1 is Harpo Marx (Xapno Mapcase took his name from the way Harpo transliterated the Russian version of his name when he toured Russia.) #2 is Hans Holbein the Younger.

Waiting on answers to previous DQs before I ask more.

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Oops - sorry about that! This weather is frying my brain…
H

  1. Real
  2. Male

And I thought of Holbein, too, dammit…

404

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. European?

I thought you might remember Holbein, since you said you loved Vermeer’s work.

405
  1. Right, quite right, you’re bloody well right…
  2. is Seamus Heaney, an outstanding Irish poet/writer/translator.
  3. is Reginald Hill, British mystery writer. His best known series features Dalziel and Pascoe, two policemen whose mis-matched natures make them an ideal team.

DQ1 - Is ‘H’ the initial letter of your last name?
DQ2 - Are you renowned for your contributions to The Arts, broadly defined?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the title star of a silent comic strip in the 1950s-60s about a bald kid?
  2. Did you star in a movie with Sally Field and Harrison Ford about a vet who wants to be a worm farmer?
  3. Are you “the boy who lived”?
407

IQ1: Are you bad, like Jesse James?
IQ2: Did you depict a Rake’s Progress through your engravings?
IQ3: Did the Flower Power generation seem to particularly grok your most popular work?

408

Let’s do these first, this time… :slight_smile:

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not European
  5. ‘H’ is initial of last name
  6. Known for contributions to the broadly defined Arts
409

Neither Henry nor Harry Potter. DQ for 2.

Worm farmer???

Neither Hogarth nor Heinlein. DQ for 1.

That’s one of two Heinleins that I could never manage to finish…

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  1. and 3. are correct.

#1. is John Lee Hooker, and that’s a direct quotation from ‘I’m bad like Jesse James’.
DQ: Were you born after 1900 AD?

411

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not European
  5. ‘H’ is initial of last name
  6. Known for contributions to the broadly defined Arts
  7. Born after AD 1900
    Question for all: What would your opinion be of Thomas Woodrow Wilson as a ‘T,’ or John Calvin Coolidge as a ‘J’?
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Jimmy Carter exuberantly referred, in a speech at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, to “Hubert… Horatio… Hornblower [caught himself] HUMPHREY!”
Whig titan Henry Clay was a friend of Mary Todd’s family.
Dashiell “Dash” Parr, very fast kid in The Incredibles, and Dashiell Hammett, writer.

DQs:

American?
Died since 1950?
Actor?

IQs:

Does your statue stand outside the Massachusetts State House?
Are you usually not rated by the pros when your peers are?
Was your first name Rubeus?

I don’t think that’s fair play, since those are not the names by which they’re commonly known; likewise Stephen Grover Cleveland.

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The movie is Heroes, with Henry Winkler as a troubled vet. It came out shortly after Happy Days ended and Winkler thought he could have a career as a leading man. It was a dramedy.

I agree with Elendil’s Heir. J. Paul McCartney is a P, not a J.

I’ll hold onto my DQ for the moment.

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IQ1: Are you a prophet?
IQ2: Are you a different prophet?
IQ3: Are you a king of Tyre?
For me, it depends on the obscurity of the middle/other name. In your two examples, I didn’t even know Woodrow Wilson or Calvin Coolidge had another name. In the case of, say, John Paul Jones, (Bass, keyboards for Led Zeppelin for you young folk.) I reckon he’s fair game under both ‘J’ and ‘P’, because I’ve never heard him called just ‘John’ or ‘Paul’, always ‘John Paul’. For the record, his nickname is ‘Jonesy’.

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Okay, let’s try this again… (Computer was being non-cooperative this morning.)
H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not European
  5. ‘H’ is initial of last name
  6. Known for contributions to the broadly defined Arts
  7. Born after AD 1900
  8. American
  9. Died since 1950
  10. Not an actor
    Thank you, EH - I knew there was a third president on that list, but couldn’t remember offhand who it was. Thank you also, Prof P - I didn’t know Sir Paul’s first name wasn’t Paul. For the record, I agree with the two of you.

Never heard of your JPJ, Le Ministre (not the sort of music I listen to) - to me, JPJ is a long-dead naval officer.

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Neither Alexander Hamilton nor Hagrid. DQ for 2, and for 1 as well if I guessed wrong.

Not Habakkuk, Hosea or Hiram.

417

DQ: Musician or singer?

IQs:

  1. Did Martin & Lewis find you chained to a wall with a friend at the end of Ghost Breakers?
  2. Did you compose Star Dust?
  3. Is your residence in Indianapolis on the National Register of Historic Places?
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H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not European
  5. ‘H’ is initial of last name
  6. Known for contributions to the broadly defined Arts
  7. Born after AD 1900
  8. American
  9. Died since 1950
  10. Not an actor
  11. Not a musician or singer
    No idea on 1 and 2. For 3 I’m going to take a wild guess and say that I’m not Benjamin Harrison. Take two or three DQs, as appropriate.

Why would anyone want to live in Indianapolis?

419

IQ: Did Billy Joel mention you in the song Big Shot?

420

DQ.