Botticelli June 2016

Thread Games
141

I am still not Hubert Humphrey.
I am not Hugh Hefner.
I am not Holly Hunter.

142

Previous IQs:

With your last words, did you ask your platonic friend to kiss you? - Correct - Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.
Were you that friend? - Yes, Hardy.
Were you that dying person’s mistress? - Lady Emma Hamilton, famous for her beauty: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/George_Romney_-_Lady_Hamilton_as_Circe.jpg

DQ:

In the arts, broadly speaking?

IQs:

Were you a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Was Ol’ Golly your best friend?
Did your SCOTUS nomination badly flop?

143

IQ1: Did you captain the golden submarine Leif Ericson in the Illuminatus Trilogy?
IQ2: Are you a hardboiled detective from Mickey Spillane’s I, The Jury?
IQ3: Are you the father of psychohistory in Asimov’s Foundation series?

144

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Last Name starts with H
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died since 1990
  9. In the Arts
145

Take 3 DQs. I should be able to come up with one for #3, but it’s not there.

146

It has been way too long since I read #1, take a DQ.
I am not Mike Hammer.
I am not Hari Seldon.

147

Hagbard Celine

DQ: Actor?

148

IQ1: Are you a pizza chain CEO who sought the Republican nomination for President in 2011?
IQ2: Did you found the Gestapo?
IQ3: Did you write The Caine Mutiny?

149

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Last Name starts with H
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died since 1990
  9. In the Arts
  10. Not an actor
150

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Hermann Goering
I am not Herman Wouk.

151

Herman Cain

DQ: Writer?

152

IQ1: Were you lead vocalist of Black Flag and afterward big for spoken word performances worldwide?
IQ2: Even though unsuccessful in finding the Northwest Passage to Asia, did you have a river and bay named after you?
IQ3: Did you confess to hundreds of murders, but only proved to have murdered three, including your mother?

153

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Last Name starts with H
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died since 1990
  9. In the Arts
  10. Not an actor
  11. Writer
154
  1. I am not Henry Hudson.
    Take 2 DQs.
155

Previous IQs:

Were you a conductor on the Underground Railroad? - Harriet Tubman.
Was Ol’ Golly your best friend? - The title character in Harriet the Spy.
Did your SCOTUS nomination badly flop? - Harriet Miers.

Harriet x3!

DQs:

Fiction writer?
Won the Pulitzer?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Does one of your best-known novels discuss 19th C. political patronage at some length?
Did you write Heart-Shaped Box?
Did you coin the phrase “banana republic”?

156

Henry Rollins, correct, Henry Lee Lucas

Henry x3!

holding 2 DQs

157

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Last Name starts with H
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died since 1990
  9. In the Arts
  10. Not an actor
  11. Writer
  12. Fiction writer
  13. Did not win a Pulitzer
158
  1. I am not Joe Hill.
    Take 2 DQs.
159

DQ: SciFi/Fantasy genre?

holding 1 DQ

160

Previous IQs:

Does one of your best-known novels discuss 19th C. political patronage at some length? - Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Did you write Heart-Shaped Box? - Yes, Joe Hill.
Did you coin the phrase “banana republic”? - O. Henry.

DQs:

Any story of his adapted into a movie?
Wealthy by the end of his life?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Jason Robards play you, a noted writer?
Was Clyde Tolson your BFF?
Was your wife nicknamed “Lou”?