Botticelli - October 2015

Thread Games
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Whee, the practice of throwing out IQs that match the midgame clues and hoping for a lucky hit actually works once in a while!

Oh, and IQ3 was Poul Anderson, who didn’t match the clues at the time but I thought I needed a DQ :slight_smile:

I am H.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say?
  2. Did you paint The Garden of Earthly Delights?
  3. Were you a radio and newspaper gossip columnist known for your hats?
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IQ1: Were you the first son of Priam and Hecuba?
IQ2: Did you tell the world about #1?
IQ3: Are you a boy who lives in Centerburg?

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All right, Tim! Well done.

Previous IQs:

Did you donate a big New Mexico ranch to the Boy Scouts of America? - Waite Phillips, of Phillips Petroleum - it became Philmont.
Did Tom Hanks play you in a recent movie? - The title character of Captain Phillips.
Are you the best-known living person born on Corfu? - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Phillip(s) x3!

On to H…

IQs:

Is a big Roman fortification named after you?
Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works?
Were you McKinley’s kingmaker?

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That’s a sweep, take 3 DQs. I feel like I should know 2, but the name is not coming to me.

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I’m not Hector or Homer, take a DQ.

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I’m not Hadrian or Hastur, and take a DQ.

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IQ1: Did you compose Symphonie fantastique?
IQ2: Did you compose The Planets suite?
IQ3: Did you compose Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, the melody of which later became that of Das Lied der Deutschen, Germany’s national anthem?

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take a DQ, Holst, and Haydn?

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#1 was Honorius Bonar.
#2 was Hieronymus Bosch.
#3 was Hedda Hopper.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with H?
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IQs:

  1. Were you Jim Nabors’s character in Cannonball Run 2?
  2. Did you attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan?
  3. Were you the French magician known as The Father of Modern Magic?
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Previous IQs:

Is a big Roman fortification named after you? - Yes, Hadrian.
Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works? - Yes, Hastur.
Were you McKinley’s kingmaker? - Mark Hanna, later a U.S. senator himself.

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Were you derided as “a glorified clerk”?
Were you Lincoln’s first VP?

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I am H:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
  4. Not American
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DQ, John Hinckley Jr, and Houdin (If that’s enough to count, I don’t remember the rest of his name)

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And that’s a sweep. 3 DQ.

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Correct on Hinckley and Robert Houdin.

#1 was Homer Pyle.

DQ: Alive?

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DQs:

  1. Did you write Theogony?
  2. Were you a historian from Halicarnassus?
  3. Did you have a thing for Lolita?
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Hector Berlioz

holding a DQ

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IQ1: Did your killer claim the infamous “Twinkie Defense” during his murder trial?
IQ2: Was your first business selling rubber tires for carriages?
IQ3: Were you a recurring guest of David Letterman who wrote autobiographical comics called American Splendor?

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I am H:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
  4. Not American
  5. Dead