Take 3 DQs.
Howard Stern, Howard Dean, Terrence Howard
Howard x 3!
DQ: Known for the Arts?
DQ: From the UK?
holding 2 DQs
DQs:
- Dead
- Male
- Last name begins with H
- Real
- Died after 1900
- Not involved in politics
- Born in the Eastern Hemisphere, at least colloquially
- European
- Known for the Arts
- From the U.K.
Looking at the article on “Eastern Hemisphere” at Google, it shows that the U.K. is actually part of the Western Hemisphere. But the term is generally used to include all of Europe, hence may above note “at least colloquially”.
Previous IQs:
Were you the best-known person ever to serve in the Maine militia after 1800? - Hannibal Hamlin, the only Vice President of the U.S. (1861-65) to serve in the military during his term in office
Were you the plucky young hero of The Iron Giant? - Hogarth
Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? - Reinhard Heydrich
DQ:
Died after 1950?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Were you McKinley’s and TR’s SECSTATE?
Were you Rumpole’s overbearing wife?
Were you unable to attend the segregated Atlanta premiere of your best-known movie?
DQs:
- Dead
- Male
- Last name begins with H
- Real
- Died after 1900
- Not involved in politics
- Born in the Eastern Hemisphere, at least colloquially
- European
- Known for the Arts
- From the U.K.
- Died before 1950
- I am not John Milton Hay.
- I don’t recall the name of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, so take a DQ.
- Take another DQ.
Correct on Leonard, the others were Sir Humphry Davy, whose Davy lamp reduced the risk of explosions for miners, and Bill Haley (and the Comets).
DQ1: A writer?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you write a piece of music that became incomplete in your lifetime, but is now complete once again?
IQ2: Did you write Brave New World?
Previous IQs:
Were you McKinley’s and TR’s SECSTATE? - Yes, John M. Hay; years earlier, he had also been one of Lincoln’s two personal aides
Were you Rumpole’s overbearing wife? - Hilda, from Rumpole of the Bailey, as you surmised
Were you unable to attend the segregated Atlanta premiere of your best-known movie? - Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in Gone With The Wind
DQs:
Won a top award in his field?
English?
Greatest fame before 1939?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you command an interstellar mercenary armored regiment?
Were you an American businessman with strong business ties to the USSR?
Did you play twins in a post-1995 movie?
I am not Aldous Huxley. However,
Yes, I am Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets. Well done, DC!
Wow, amazed I finally got one! I guess it’s time to start a new thread, which I shall do directly.
Way to go, Dead Cat!
Previous IQs:
Did you command an interstellar mercenary armored regiment? - The title character of the sf military series Hammer’s Slammers
Were you an American businessman with strong business ties to the USSR? - Armand Hammer
Did you play twins in a post-1995 movie? - Armie Hammer, in The Social Network
Hammer x3!
December thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843551