Botticelli, Oct. 2022

Here’s hoping all goes well with you, kitap!

Most definitely.

C’mon, someone, take a guess…!

Oh, DLR has already guessed.

This has dragged on for too long, so let’s make it explicit: are you the one and only Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers?

Took ya long enough!

At last! Yes, I am indeed the one, the only

Scatman Crothers

Known for lots of stuff, but around here probably mostly for The Shining. For more: Scatman Crothers - Wikipedia

Good job, DLR! Please start our next round.

Good choice, EH! I remember him mostly from Hong Kong Phooey myself.

Good play, DLR!

OK:

I am H.

IQs:

  1. Were you born Erik Weisz?
  2. Does Doper Exapno Mapcase base his name on yours?
  3. Did a crowd of “witches and wizards” gather outside Hogwarts this month at sunset and raised their wands in tribute to you?

1. I am not Harry Houdini.
2. I am not Harpo Marx.
3. I am not Hagrid? If not Hagrid, take a DQ.

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Is your print The Wave considered one of the best-known examples of ukiyo-e?
  2. Did you write The Height of the Ridiculous?
  3. Were you a 20th Century playwright known for your pauses?

IQ1: Do you and your family live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane?
IQ2: Did you describe the Dunwich Horror?
IQ3: Did you write the future history Shape of Things to Come?

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Harold Pinter?

IQ1: I am not Herman Munster.
IQ2: I am not H.P. Lovecraft.
IQ3: I am not H.G. Wells.

#1 is Hokusai.
#2 was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Correct on Pinter.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you make life hard for Katnip?
  2. Are you a golden age comic book character who was the inspiration for Marvel’s Man-Thing?
  3. Are you the title character of a play by Ibsen?

1. I am not Herman.
2. I am not the Heap.
3. I am not Hedda Gabler.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male

Swept me again!

IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty?
  2. Did you play Inspector Clouseau’s boss in the Pink Panther movies?
  3. Are you the Duke of Sussex?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Herbert Lom.
3. I am not Prince Harry.

#1 was Reginald Heber.

DQ: Last name starts with H?

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with H