Botticelli June 2023

Thread Games
61

Thank you! I am certain in the miserable annals of the earth I will be duly enshrined.

Next up:

H!

62

Ah, good one! Just remember: wherever you go… there you are.

On to H.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first VP?
A rascal and not a Starfleet officer, did you appear in two different ST:TOS episodes?
Were you the top Nazi in the dock at the Nuremberg trials?

63

I am not Hannibal Hamlin.
I am not Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
I am not Himmler.

64

Yes, yes, and Hermann Goering (Himmler committed suicide in British Army custody earlier).

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Were you “the butcher of Prague”?
Did Judi Dench play you in All Is True?
Were FDR’s cadaverous longtime aide?

65

DQ:

  1. Female
66

#3 I am not Harry Hopkins.

Take 2 DQs.

67

Previous IQs:

Were you “the butcher of Prague”? - Top SS official Reinhard Heydrich
Did Judi Dench play you in All Is True? - Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway (very good movie BTW)
Were FDR’s cadaverous longtime aide? - Yes, Harry Hopkins

DQs:

Real?
American?

IQs:

Were you the best-known artillery captain of WWI?
Were you the one person at your very expensive Manhattan birthday party who had a different hat from everyone else?
Did you see a rough cut and comment publicly on Jerry Lewis’s never-released Holocaust “comedy”?

68

DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. American
69

#2. I am not Hedda Hopper (?)
Take at least 2 DQs.

70

Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known artillery captain of WWI? - Harry Truman
Were you the one person at your very expensive Manhattan birthday party who had a different hat from everyone else? - Not Hedda Hopper, but Harry Helmsley, husband of Leona; everyone else’s hat read “I’m just wild about Harry,” while his read, “I’m Harry”
Did you see a rough cut and comment publicly on Jerry Lewis’s never-released Holocaust "comedy”? - Harry Shearer re: The Day the Clown Cried

Harry x3!

DQs:

Living?
Last name start with H?

IQs:

Did Norbert set your beard afire?
Was your research for The Dark Side of Camelot questioned?
Did you play a doomed gangster in The Long Good Friday?

71

DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Living
  5. Last name starts with H
72
  1. I am not Hagrid.
    Take 2 DQs.
73

Taking advantage of the lull in your conversation:

IQ1: Were you a 19th-century California newspaperman and writer?
IQ2: Were you and your cartoon pals the biggest show around?
IQ3: Were you a fictional surgeon who died in a plane crash?

74
  1. I am not Hearst.
  2. I am not Huckleberry Hound.
  3. Take a DQ.
75

Congratulations, Prof! I would never have gotten that.

IQs:

  1. Were you suspected, but ultimately aquitted, of murdering your royal wife’s previous husband?

  2. Are you the first actress to win an Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe for the same performance?

  3. Were you an actress known for your clipped mid-Atlantic accent, red hair, and imperious manner?

76

acceptable
correct
Henry Blake (M*A*S*H)


DQ: Born after 1975?


IQ1: You are not a member of the Hearst family. Were you a 19th-century California newspaperman and writer?
IQ2: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family?
IQ3: Were you the best-known member of the SLA?

77

Congratz Professor.

DQ

  1. Did your ability to hear a microscopic voice no one else could, lead to your story being co-opted by the right to life movement.
  2. are you a dog who’s quicker than a human eye?
  3. Do you sell bands?
78

Previous IQs:

Did Norbert set your beard afire? - Yes, Hagrid, in the Harry Potter tales
Was your research for The Dark Side of Camelot questioned? - Seymour Hersh
Did you play a doomed gangster in The Long Good Friday? - Bob Hoskins

DQs:

Political/military?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

A young woman, are you a former Trump White House aide?
Did you costar on The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Did you costar on the TV series of Logan’s Run?

79

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Helen Hayes (??)
#3. I am not Katherine Hepburn.

#1. I am not Horace Greeley.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Patty Hearst.

  1. I am not Horton the Elephant.
  2. I am not Hong Kong Fooey (??)
  3. I am not Prof. Harold Hill.
  1. I am not Hope Hicks.
  2. I am not Valerie Harper.
  3. Take a DQ.
80

DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Living
  5. Last name starts with H
  6. Born before 1975.
  7. Political/military
  8. Not considered a beauty, but not bad looking either.