Botticelli - March 2013

Thread Games
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Henry the Eighth.
Correct on Harriet.
Horatius Cocles, but close enough.
DQ reserved pending the answers to Enginerd’s.
IQ1: Are you a Belgian with an egg-shaped head?
IQ2: Are you a slapstick comedian with a “bowl” haircut?
IQ3: Are you a robot with a bushy orange moustache?

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Correct on Harry Belafonte. But Veronica’s father was actually Hiram Lodge. As for the robot, it was Hymie (played by Dick Gautier) who worked for CONTROL, alongside Maxwell Smart and Agent 99.

Two DQs reserved for now–I’d like to see the answers to Enginerd’s first.

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Not Hercule Poirot, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges or… dunno the third.

H.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. Dead
  6. Not a military or political figure
  7. Died before 1900
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Halston was mentioned in Big Shot, BTW.

!Q: Do you appear in commericals for a popular bank?

25

I’ll bring these forward.

DQ: Are you involved in the arts, as we usually define them in this game?
DQ: Died before 1850?

26

Correct on Hercule Poirot and Moe Howard.
Hatchworth, from the steampunk band Steam Powered Giraffe.
Two DQs reserved because Spoons just asked the questions I was going to ask…
IQ1: Did you lead US forces at Tippecanoe?
IQ2: Do you have a dog named Ribsy?
IQ3: Did you write a poem about a man a-talking to the sunshine in the air?

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Dunno this one. Take a DQ.

Not William Henry Harrison, or Henry Huggins (love those books!), but dunno the third.

H.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. Dead
  6. Not a military or political figure
  7. Died before 1900
  8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined
  9. Died after 1850
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DQ: Inventor?

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Correct on Harrison and Huggins (I was really disappointed that Ramona Quimby took over as the main character in that series).
Henry Herbert Knibbs, whose poem “Out There Somewhere” was quoted liberally in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The Return of the Mucker.
Three DQs now reserved…
IQ1: Did you invent a sewing machine?
IQ2: Were you married to the Flanders mare?
IQ2: Were you head of the Schutzstaffel?
IQ3:

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DQ: Born before 1800?

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IQ: Did you write about a girl who had to wear a red letter on her bodice?

32

Not _____ Hoover, King Henry VIII, or the odious former chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler.

Not Nathaniel Hawthorne.

H.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. Dead
  6. Not a military or political figure
  7. Died before 1900
  8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined
  9. Died after 1850
  10. Not an inventor
  11. Born before 1800
33

Don’t know of any Hoover associated with sewing machines, and Wikipedia doesn’t mention any. I was thinking of Elias Howe.
Correct on Henry and Himmler.

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DQ: Were you a businessman?

35

IQ1: Were you a pioneer of “yellow journalism”?
IQ2: Did you offer your flagship product in any color the customer wanted, provided it was black?
IQ3: Did you create a world in which the answer to IQ2 was a god-like figure?

36

Not William Randolph Hearst, Henry Ford or Aldous Huxley.

SCAdian, I thought the Hoover Co. offered a sewing machine at some point. Oh, well - take a DQ.

H.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. Dead
  6. Not a military or political figure
  7. Died before 1900
  8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined
  9. Died after 1850
  10. Not an inventor
  11. Born before 1800
  12. A businessman, among other things
37

IQ: Did Leonardo DiCaprio play you in a movie?

38

Not J. Edgar Hoover.

39

I actually meant Howard Hughes (Aviator)

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IQ: Were you a philanthropist that gave its name to many famous institutions in Maryland?