Botticelli June 2016

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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
  14. Science fiction/fantasy genre writer
  15. Stories have been adapted into movies
  16. Comfortably off by the end of his life, if not wealthy
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Take 3 DQs.

163

IQ1: Did you write about the Stainless Steel Rat?
IQ2: Did you produce the basic version of Dungeons & Dragons?
IQ3: Did you write Dianetics, which became the basis of the Church of Scientology?

164

Yes, I am Harry Harrison.
Good job, KO!

Uh, who was #2? All I come up with is Dean Arneson and E. Gary Gygax?

165

Kudos. :slight_smile:

You’re probably thinking of Original D&D, the three-booklet set. Basic would have been the boxed set, I think, where the rulebook was in a larger format and had a blue-colored cover. (Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. created it, and the first version (1977) was credited to J. Eric Holmes.)

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set

166

Yup, Holmes wrote up the Basic version of D&D so they could expand the market to younger players.

New letter is I!

167

Well done, Knowed Out!

Previous IQs:

Did Jason Robards play you, a noted writer? - Robards played Dashiell Hammett in Julia.
Was Clyde Tolson your BFF? - J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI.
Was your wife nicknamed “Lou”? - Herbert Hoover.

On to I…

IQs:

Is a major American university named after you?
Were you a tall, thin, hungry schoolmaster, in one film?
Did you write the story on which that film was based?

168

not Saint Ignacius, DQ DQ

169

IQs:

  1. Did you write/compose White Christmas?
  2. Did you write Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
  3. Did you have a hit with Society’s Child?
170

not Irving Berlin, DQ DQ

171

Correct on Irving. #2 was Ian Fleming. Yes, really. #3 was Janis Ian.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
172

IQs:

  1. Were you Agamemnon’s tragic daughter?
  2. Were you Daedalus’s tragic student?
  3. Were you Othello’s standard bearer?
173

Previous IQs:

Is a major American university named after you? - Almost, yes - St. Ignatius Loyola.
Were you a tall, thin, hungry schoolmaster, in one film? - Ichabod Crane.
Did you write the story on which that film was based? - Washington Irving.

DQs:

First name start with I?
American?

IQs:

Did you write a novel about the first black POTUS?
Were you one of Sid Caesar’s costars?
Are you an author from a distinguished South American family?

174

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First names starts with I
  4. Not American
175

DQ, not Icarus, not Iago

176

DQ, not Imogene Coca, DQ

177

#1 was Iphigenia. Correct on the others.

DQ: Alive?

178

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Prince Amentep?
  2. Though a villainess, did you have a thing for Dynamo of the Agents of T.H.U.N.D.E.R.?
  3. Are you one of the Mystery Men?
179

Previous IQs:

Did you write a novel about the first black POTUS? - Irving Wallace, The Man.
Were you one of Sid Caesar’s costars? - Yes, Imogene Coca.
Are you an author from a distinguished South American family? - Isabel Allende.

DQs:

Living?
European?

IQs:

Were you a costar of Beverly Hills 90210?
Were you a choleric clergyman of Ulster?
Did you write about the Culture?

180

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First names starts with I
  4. Not American
  5. Not alive
  6. Not European

ask another DQ EH