Botticelli March 2016

Thread Games
201

IQ1: Were you Frank and Joe’s dad?
IQ2: Are you the star of a military SF series by David Drake?
IQ3: Are you the star of a detective series by Mickey Spillane?

202

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Author is deceased
203

I am not Highfather.
I am not Hourman.
I am not the Human Target.

204

#3. I am not Mike Hammer. Take 2 DQs for the others.

205

Fenton Hardy.
Col Alois Hammer (Hammer’s Slammers).
Correct.
DQ1: American author?
DQ2: Appeared in more than one book?

206

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Author is deceased
  6. American author
  7. Appeared in only one book, though mentioned in the sequel
207

Previous IQs:

Have you been played by three different men in advertisements in the past few years? - Col. Harland Sanders: http://www.eater.com/2016/2/8/10936914/jim-gaffigan-kfc-colonel-sanders-norm-macdonald
Have you played a doctor, a writer, a bookshop manager and a butler? - Anthony Hopkins, in The Elephant Man, Shadowlands, 84 Charing Cross Road and The Remains of the Day.
Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer? - Jedediah Hotchkiss.

DQs:

Would be alive today, if real?
Book appeared since 1980?
Lead character of the book?

IQs:

Were you T.R.'s first SECSTATE?
Is your house called Spiegel Grove?
Were you McKinley’s kingmaker?

208

IQ1: Are you a knight of Oz who rides a steed called the Comfortable Camel?
IQ2: Did you reveal to Aravis that you could actually talk and she should ride you to Narnia?
IQ3: Are you the half-giant Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts?

209

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Author is deceased
  6. American author
  7. Appeared in only one book, though mentioned in the sequel
  8. Dies in the book, so would not be alive today
  9. Book appeared since 1980
  10. Not the lead character of the book
210

Take 3 more DQs.

211

#1. That must be one of the Ruth Plumbly Thompson’s I never read. Take a DQ.
#2. I read Narnia in college, and this bit I don’t recall. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Hagrid.

212

Previous IQs:

Were you T.R.'s first SECSTATE? - John Hay
Is your house called Spiegel Grove? - Rutherford B. Hayes - beautifully restored, and worth a visit: Spiegel Grove - Wikipedia
Were you McKinley’s kingmaker? - Marcus Hanna

DQs:

Character is American?
Is a “good guy”?
Was killed or murdered?

IQs:

Did H.P. Lovecraft say you were “unspeakable”?
Were you the popular longtime coach of the Cleveland Indians?
Did your Army instructor encourage you to attack him with fruit?

213

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Author is deceased
  6. American author
  7. Appeared in only one book, though mentioned in the sequel
  8. Dies in the book, so would not be alive today
  9. Book appeared since 1980
  10. Not the lead character of the book
  11. American
  12. Not a “good guy” in the book
  13. Was killed in the book
214

I am not Hastur.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Eric Hidle. I don’t remember the character name, though. Take a DQ.

215

Sir Hokus of Pokes, Hwin, correct

DQ: Crime/mystery genre?

holding a DQ

216

IQs:

Did H.P. Lovecraft say you were “unspeakable”? - Yes, Hastur.
Were you the popular longtime coach of the Cleveland Indians? - Mike Hargroves.
Did your Army instructor encourage you to attack him with fruit? - Mr. Apricot, er, Harrison: Monty Python - And Now For Something Completely Different - Fruit Sketch - YouTube

DQs:

Book set in a big city?
Character was a criminal?

IQs:

Did you have very short hair and sing in one movie, although you’re known for neither?
Were you mentioned but never seen in a movie set in England before 1700?
Did your wife refuse to let your Jewish business partner enter your house?

217

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with H
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Author is deceased
  6. American author
  7. Appeared in only one book, though mentioned in the sequel
  8. Dies in the book, so would not be alive today
  9. Book appeared since 1980
  10. Not the lead character of the book
  11. American
  12. Not a “good guy” in the book, though not actually criminal
  13. Was killed in the book
  14. Not a crime/mystery book
  15. Not set in a big city

N.B. the change to #12, which may have been misleading.

218

…take 3 DQs.

219

IQ1: Were you President Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff and indicted in the Watergate scandal?
IQ2: Did you and G. Gordon Liddy engineer the Watergate burglaries and undercover operations?
IQ3: Were you President Clinton’s associate attorney general and indicted for overbilling during the Whitewater controversy?

220

I am not H. R. Haldeman.
I am not E. Howard Hunt.
Take a DQ for #3.