Botticelli - March 2017

Thread Games
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#3) I saw that episode of Timeless. I am not H. H. Holmes.

Take 1 DQ for #2, since SCA already asked your #1.

222

Prof didn’t answer it in #241, so I thought it hadn’t been asked yet.

223

Harold Shipman, Fritz Haarman, correct

I haven’t seen Timeless. I remember Homes from Bloodletters and Badmen by Jay Nash.

SCAdian had already asked my DQ, not my IQ, so I actually have 2 DQs.

DQ: European?
DQ: Politics/Royalty?

224

Okay, I see.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with H
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not known for politics/royalty
225

IQ1: On December 8, 1980, did you announce to a football audience that John Lennon had just been shot and killed?
IQ2: Are you an NBA center for the Atlanta Hawks, your home town?
IQ3: Were you the lead excavator of the tomb of King Tutankhamun?

226

#1. I am not Howard Cosell.
#2. Take a Howard DQ.
#3. I am not Howard Carter.

227

IQ1: Did you write Noninterference?
IQ2: Did you write Final Blackout?
IQ3: Did you write “The God in the Bowl”?

228

Take 3 DQs.

229

Previous IQs:

Were you FDR’s cadaverous but invaluable aide? - Yes, Harry Hopkins
Did you personally pick up trash left by tourists on your front yard? - Harry Truman, at his home in Independence, Mo.
Did you play Parker’s colleague on the Nostromo? - Harry Dean Stanton played Brett in Alien

Harry x3!

DQs:

British?
Scientist/inventor?

IQs:

Were you inspired by a Dr. Joseph Bell?
Did you allegedly say to a national leader, “Get down, you damned fool”?
Did you frequent the Diogenes Club?

230

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with H
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not known for politics/royalty
  10. British, but not from birth
  11. Scientist/inventor
231
  1. I am not Sherlock Holmes.
  2. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (That’s a guess. Take a DQ if wrong.)
  3. I am not Mycroft Holmes.
232

Harry Turtledove.
L Ron Hubbard.
Robert E Howard.
DQ1: Born in or north of Munich?
DQ2: Born in or west of Munich?
One DQ reserved.

233

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with H
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not known for politics/royalty
  10. British, but not from birth
  11. Scientist/inventor
  12. Born north of Munich
  13. Born west of Munich
234

Dwight Howard

DQ: Medical field?

235

IQ1: Are you an immensely strong oversized duckling?
IQ2: Did you co-found the militant Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale in 1966?
IQ3: Are you a Depression-era Louisiana politician who was shot and killed in 1935?

236

DQ: Native speaker of a Germanic language?

237

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with H
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not known for politics/royalty
  10. British, but not from birth
  11. Scientist/inventor
  12. Born north of Munich
  13. Born west of Munich
  14. Not from a medical field
  15. Native speaker of a Germanic language
238
  1. I am not Baby Huey.
  2. I am not Huey Newton.
  3. I am not Huey Long.

(Once I remember Baby Huey, the other two fell into place.)

239

Oll korrect. O.W. Holmes, a young infantry officer, supposedly said that to Lincoln when the President came under Confederate fire at Ft. Stevens in 1864.

IQs:

Was “Leo Walsh” a fake name you once used?
Were you a supersmart computer about which David Gerrold wrote?
Was Trooper, a World War I veteran down on his luck, cut from a script you wrote?

240

Curse my obsession with themes.

IQ1: Were you and G. Gordon Liddy the chief operatives behind the Watergate break-in?
IQ2: Were you the White House Chief of Staff during Watergate?
IQ3: Were you the Senate investigation committee member who asked “What did the President know and when did he know it?”