Botticelli - October 2015

… and we’re back to the sweep. DQx3.

DQ, though I suspect I’ll wince when I learn who it is.
Henry Ford?
Harvey Pekar

  1. Hesiod. 2. Herodotus. 3. Humbert H. Humbert.

DQs:

  1. Died before 1900?
  2. European?
  3. Known for the Arts?

I am H:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with H
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Died before 1900
  7. Not European
  8. Not known for the Arts

IQs:

  1. Did you say “No one ever steps in the same river twice.”?
  2. Did you write Go Set A Watchman?
  3. Do you write a series of mysteries featuring Gregor Demarkian?

Correct.
Correct.
Homer Price.
DQ: Asian?
IQ1: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family?
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?
IQ3: Were you famous for defending a bridge?

Harvey Milk, Harvey Firestone, correct for Harvey x3!

DQ: Known for politics/military?
Died before 1700?

holding 1 DQ

Yes, I’m [COLOR=“Navy”]Hannibal Barca[/COLOR], of Carthage, arguably the greatest general of all time.

I was surprised how many questions were about the ancient world well before the DQs pointed there.

Good job, SCAdian!

I didn’t even know Hannibal had a “last name.” Well done, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - George Henry Thomas.
Were you derided as “a glorified clerk”? - Henry Halleck.
Were you Lincoln’s first VP? - Hannibal Hamlin (hey, another Hannibal!).

I am C.

IQs:

  1. Did you have a “lean and hungry look”?
  2. Did you routinely say “delenda est Carthago”?
  3. Did you write (in Latin) “Big book, big evil”?

IQs:

Were you the Tory villain of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?
Was the biggest ship you ever commanded a minesweeper?
Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of yourself?

IQ1: Were you elected Dictator, twice?
IQ2: Was your second-in-command known only as Number One?
IQ3: Did you lead the majority in the Senate to refuse to ratify a peace treaty, in spite of concentrated efforts by the President to get you to pass it?

IQ1: Are you a Romantic Era German composer who traveled to England in 1826 to write the opera Oberon, then died two months after it premiered?
IQ2: Are you known for composing the concert hall versions of Polish mazurkas (dances )?
IQ3: Did you compose Ave Maria and the opera Faust?

Not Cassius.
Not Cato the Elder.
DQ.

DQ.
Not Prince Charles.
DQ (even though you’ve asked this many tmes before :D).

Not … Cincinnatus?
Not Christopher Pike.
DQ.

DQ.
Not Frederic Chopin.
DQ.

Correct, Correct, Callimachus.

DQ: Real?

Correct on Cincinnatus and Pike, and Henry Cabot Lodge thwarted Wilson by refusing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.

DQ: Male?

Previous IQs:

Were you the Tory villain of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour.
Was the biggest ship you ever commanded a minesweeper? - Yes, Prince Charles (HMS Bronington).
Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of yourself? - Aw, you know the guy: http://cdn8.openculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/kane-borges.jpg.

Charles x3!

DQs:

American?
Last name start with C?

IQs:

Were you a noted USR&MMC robopsychologist?
In a Robot Chicken short, did your toy tell you to kill your family?
Were you a prominent early Protestant leader?

IQs:

  1. Were you one of Jimmy Durante’s early vaudeville partners?
  2. Was Galathil your brother?
  3. Are you Gonzo the Great’s longtime love interest?