Botticelli - March 2017

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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  1. I am not E. Howard Hunt.
  2. I am not H. R. Haldeman.
  3. I am not Sen. Howard Baker.
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IQ1: Are you a German physicist who developed the implosion method used in the Fat Man bombs?
IQ2: Did you write children’s stories like The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Ducking?
IQ3: Did you compose the film scores for the Pirate of the Caribbean movies?

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#2. I am not Hans Christian Andersen.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Hans Bethel, correct, Hans Zimmer

Hans x 3!

DQ: Died before 1950?

holding 1 DQ

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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
  16. Died before 1950
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IQ1: Is American Splendor your autobiographical comic?
IQ2: Did you play Mr. Wolf in Pulp Fiction?
IQ3: Was your killer noted for using the “Twinkie Defense” during his trial?

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  1. I am not Harvey Pekar.
  2. I am not Harvey Keitel.
  3. I am not Harvey Korman. Okay, kidding. Take a DQ.
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IQ: Does a joke have you and a colleague getting lost whilst driving around New Mexico?

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Previous IQs:

Was “Leo Walsh” a fake name you once used? - Harcourt Fenton Mudd, in ST:TOS
Were you a supersmart computer about which David Gerrold wrote? - HARLIE
Was Trooper, a World War I veteran down on his luck, cut from a script you wrote? - Harlan Ellison, in the first draft of his ST:TOS “City on the Edge of Forever” script

DQs:

Born in Germany?
Won a Nobel Prize?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a meth-lab tycoon use your name as a pseudonym?
Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer?
Were you the boy hero of The Iron Giant?

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I am not Heisenberg.

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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
  16. Died before 1950
  17. Born in what would later be Germany
  18. Didn’t win a Nobel Prize
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#3. I am not Hogarth Hughes.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Harvey Milk

Harvey x you know…

holding 2 DQs

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Correct.

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Previous IQs:

Did a meth-lab tycoon use your name as a pseudonym? - Also Heisenberg
Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer? - Jebediah Hotchkiss, famous in Civil War circles for his maps
Were you the boy hero of The Iron Giant? - Yes, Hogarth Hughes

DQ:

Greatest fame before 1900?

IQs:

Were you a noted 18th C. German astronomer?
Did one of your best-known works premiere on Fishamble Lane in Dublin?
Did you star in Corvette Summer?

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Ja, ich bin William Herschel, discover of infrared radiation and George’s Planet, aka Herschel, aka Uranus.

Well done, EH!

That took longer than I thought, but that’s 'cause everyone was fixated on the 20th Century.

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Woohoo - thanks! Good one, Prof. P. Don’t know why I started thinking about astronomy.

Hmm. Why don’t we make our next letter

C

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IQs:

  1. Are you a “sea-sick sea serpent”?
  2. Were you also known as Khufu?
  3. Did you write The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody?
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IQ1: Did your character attempt to seduce Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie?
IQ2: Did you officially initiate France’s Fifth Republic in 1959?
IQ3: Is a scheme involving the distribution of international postage stamps named after you?