Botticelli - June 2021

Thread Games
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YES!! I am Mr. Yuk!!

For #14 I was thinking of the televised PSAs, which, while on TV, were not part of what one usually thinks of by “on TV”
#7 - Hey, he was poisoned. Did anybody call the number on time?

Great job, Prof!

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Thank you! I got a chuckle out of #7 once I thought of him.

Next up:

I am

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Mr. Yuk! I remember him. Good job, Prof. P.

Previous IQs:

Were you a rebel Soviet poet who met with Nixon? - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Did you angrily quit the CPSU despite being allied with Gorbachev? - Boris Yeltsin
Were you Andrei Sakharov’s steadfast wife? - Yelena Bonner

On to H!

IQs:

Did Peter O’Toole play you in two movies, the second of which was not a sequel?
Were you FDR’s second VP?
Was JFK’s favorite Shakespearean passage spoken by your character?

144
  1. I am not Henry II.
  2. Take a DQ. It’s the guy before Truman.
  3. I am not Hamlet (??)
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Congrats, Prof.! I suspected it was Mr. Yuk, but was thrown off by the answer to #14-- has he “appeared” in prose?

1 was indeed a teenage Yamaguchi; correct on 2; 3 (“Father and I went down to camp…”) was Yankee Doodle.

IQs:
1. Were you a campaign rival of Barrack Obama’s who became his Secretary of State?
2. Did you refer to actors as cattle?
3. Did you compose crosswords for Games magazine?

146

Never heard of him.


IQ1: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family?
IQ2: Were you Quintus Horatius Flaccus?
IQ3: Did Virgil write what was more or less a sequel to one of your poems??

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Previous IQs:

Did Peter O’Toole play you in two movies, the second of which was not a sequel? - Yes, Henry II, in both Becket and The Lion in Winter
Were you FDR’s second VP? - Henry A. Wallace
Was JFK’s favorite Shakespearean passage spoken by your character? - The St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V; he once asked Basil Rathbone to recite it during a White House visit, and the actor was happy to oblige him

Henry x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Did you handwrite an angry letter to a music critic who didn’t care for your daughter’s singing?
Did your wife have you wear a hat that was just a little different from the hats everyone else at your birthday party was wearing?
Was a fictional oceanographic research ship named after you?

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  1. I am not Hilary Clinton.
  2. I am not Alfred Hitchcock.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Horace (??).
  3. I am not Hesiod (??).
  1. I am not Harry Truman (??).
  2. I am not Harry Houdini (??).
  3. I am not Horatio Hornblower (??).

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
149

3 was Henry Hook.

DQ: first name starts with H?

150

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
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I remember some brochures that were distributed with the stickers in elementary school - does that count as prose? I think I was focused on the TV aspect of the question and glossed over the “and”.

H:

IQ1: Are you the recently deceased singer and namesake of Digital Underground’s biggest hit?
IQ2: When you use a word, does it mean just what you choose it to mean—neither more nor less?
IQ3: Do you use your tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore?

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Congrats!

  1. Were you played for three seasons by Mads Mikkelson?
  2. Are you an actress who played Beverly Katz in the above series?
  3. Did you play Will.Graham in the above series?
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Eh, sure.

IQs:
1. Were you Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff–and did your husband have an unfortunate name for someone involved in a sex scandal?
2. Are you an SF writer known for your unique spins on history and 20th century pop culture, in stories like “The Ugly Chickens” and “The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)”?
3. Did you create a series of ads for Wilkins Coffee that humorously emphasized the “hard sell”?

154
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Humpty Dumpty.
  3. I am not Hedley Lamar.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Harlan Ellison (??)
  3. Take a DQ.
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Hannibal Lecter, Hettienne Park, Hugh Dancy.

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Living?

One DQ reserved.

156

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
157

1 was Huma Abedin (married to Anthony Weiner); 2 was Howard Waldrop; 3 was Jim Henson.

DQs:
1. died after 1900?
2. known for connection with film and/or TV?
3. American?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Not known for film or TV
  8. Not American
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Previous IQs:

Did you handwrite an angry letter to a music critic who didn’t care for your daughter’s singing? - Yes, President Harry Truman
Did your wife have you wear a hat that was just a little different from the hats everyone else at your birthday party was wearing? - Leona Helmsley, the New York hotelier, once had “I’m Just Wild About Harry” hats made for everyone except her husband, whose hat read, “I’m Harry”
Was a fictional oceanographic research ship named after you? - The Belafonte, in Steve Zissou and The Life Aquatic, named after Harry Belafonte in reference to his Calypso music career (since Jacques Cousteau’s ship was named the Calypso)

Harry x3!

DQs:

European?
Best known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Were you a small, somewhat disabled French painter who liked dancing girls?
You were a real person. Was your last name said contemptuously in The Music Man?
Were you known for your scabrous illustrations of Georgian London society?

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Hannibal.
:white_check_mark:
Homer.


DQ: Died after 1950?
One DQ reserved.


IQ1-2: Are you a conjoined twin from Minnesota?
IQ3: Were you the eponymous main character of a book, the sequel to which was The Long Secret?