Botticelli - October 2013

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New month, new round!

Your letter is H

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IQ1: Are you one of Iceland’s best known authors? :wink:
IQ2: Are you a jazz singer and film actor?
IQ3: Are you an experienced guitarist?

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I’m definitely not Harry Connick, Jr. or Jimi Hendrix. For the first one, I’m not Halldor Laxness?? :confused:

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IQ1: Did you write the 1st code of law?
IQ2: Were you FDR’s aide at Yalta?
IQ3: Did you start out as Midwest DJ, later becoming a substitute history teacher in NYC?

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IQ1: Were you an artillery officer who later rose to a top job?
IQ2: Are you also known as Showa?
IQ3: Have you gotten married to the widow next door?

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IQ1: Is your name used to mean once per second?
IQ2: Did you die shortly after trying to demonstrate how well you could take a punch?
IQ3: Did you voice the love interest of Moe Syzlak?

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Correct on all three. I’d only just heard of Halldor Laxness yesterday… :slight_smile:

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IQs:

  1. Did your face launch a thousand ships?
  2. Did an angry red-headed mama kill a recent character of yours?
  3. Did Chicago sing about how much America needs you?
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IQ1: Were you a two-faced district attorney?
IQ2: Did your famous country singer dad nickname you ‘Bocephus’?
IQ3: Come to that, are you the famous country singer dad mentioned above?

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I’m not Hammurabi or William Averell Harriman. Take a DQ for IQ3.

I’m not Rudolf Hess, Emperor Hirohito or Henry VIII.

I’m not Hank Azaria. Have 2 DQs.

I’m not Helen of Troy or Harry S. Truman. DQ for IQ2.

I’m not Harvey Dent. Have 2 DQs for the last two questions.

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I’m not Helen of Troy or Harry S. Truman. DQ for IQ2.
Helena Bonham Carter’s character Bellatrix Lastrange found out she shouldn’t threaten Molly Weasley’s daughter in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.

Oh, wow, first DQ.

DQ: Real?

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My 2nd was Hopkins, my 3rd was Howard Hessman.

DQ: American?
DQ: Yank?

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H.

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Not a Yank
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Harvey Dent is correct. #2 and #3 are Hank Williams, Jr. and Sr., respectively. ‘Bocephus’ was Hank Sr.'s mangled pronunciation of Alexander the Great’s horse.

DQ1: Are you alive?
DQ2: European?

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:smack: 2 and 3 are redundant!

IQ: Were you the last prisoner at Spandau Prison?

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I would say Rudolf Hess but it has already been said in SCAdian’s question…

H.

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Not a Yank
  4. Dead
  5. European
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IQ: Are you a major German 19th C. philosopher?

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IQ1: Were you going to travel to India to meet Colonel Pickering, when you met him at Covent Garden?
IQ2: Are you sometimes called ‘The Father of History’, and sometimes called ‘The Father of Lies’?
IQ3: Did you slay Patroclus?

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I was actually thinking of Harry Truman, but Hess works and Prof P also used Truman.
Correct on Hirohito and Henry VIII.
IQ1: Did your dog get his name because he was so scrawny when you found him?
IQ2: Are you a bald kid in an old newspaper strip?
IQ3: Did you want people to join the British army during WW I?

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I’m not Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

I’m not Herodotus or Henry Higgins. Have a DQ for question 3.

I am not Lord Herbert Kitchener or Henry. Have a DQ for IQ1

H.

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Not a Yank
  4. Dead
  5. European