IQ: Are you a poker player with the ironic nickname 'Action Dan"?
FDR’s aide Harry Hopkins was very gaunt but the President greatly relied upon him; here they are at Yalta: File:Harry Hopkins meets President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.jpg - Wikipedia
Not Hans Gruber from Die Hard; dunno the other two.
Dunno this one either.
George “Papa Bear” Halas and Hunter Thompson, who used the tagline “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
DQ: American?
DQ: Did you die before 1950?
H.
- Real
- Male
- Deceased
- Alive at some time in the 20th century
- American
- Died before 1950
Saw something where it mentioned that Stalin was the healthies Yalta participitant.
My IQ was Dan Harrington (a notoriously tight player who uses that image to his advantage)
DQ: Were you a Nazi?
IQ1: Do you refer to your wife as ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’?
IQ2: Come to that, are you ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’?
IQ3: Are you the writer of the Dalziel and Pascoe series of mysteries?
IQ1: Were you obliquely referenced in the Police hit Don’t Stand So Close To Me?
IQ2: Are you known for your deep thoughts?
IQ3: Did you regret having only one life to give for your country?
Not Horace Rumpole, his wife Hilda, or… dunno the last.
Not Homer, Jack Handey or Nathan Hale.
H.
- Real
- Male
- Deceased
- Alive at some time in the 20th century
- American
- Died before 1950
- Not a Nazi
Not too many prominent American Nazis. I can’t even think of one.
Weren’t they prominent in Illinois? I seem to recall a guy named Elwood Blues saying that he hated Illinois Nazis. 
Some IQs:
IQ1: Were you an escape artist?
IQ2: Did you ride a raft down the Mississippi with your friend Jim?
IQ3: Were you the Music Man to River City, Iowa?
IQ: Did you die on Halloween while performing a magic trcik gone wrong?
Quite right on Hilda and Horace Rumpole. Reginald Hill is the author of many great mysteries, the Dalziel and Pascoe series being the best known.
DQ: Are you renowned for your contributions to The Arts, in the all-encompassing definition we often use here?
Yes, congrats! I am
Harry Houdini!
I’m not Huck Finn or Prof. Harold Hill.
Houdini did die on Oct. 31, 1926, but of a ruptured appendix (he’d been suffering from appendicitis even before he was sucker-punched, apparently).
Spoons gets to start our next round.
Our letters so far (scroll down): Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board
Hooray for Spoons!!!
Woo-hoo!
I’ll have another letter in a day or two.
If you just want to wait until Saturday, you could start a December Botticelli thread then.
I jumped the gun, as we’ll likely go into December anyway. See here: