Botticelli - October 2021

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Was your alter ego short, ugly and completely ill-mannered?
2. Did Rip van Winkle say that thunder was you and your men playing at ninepins?
3. Did you hear a Who?

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@kitap

Congrats!

1. Were you a cryptid taken in by the Henderson family?
2. Did Michael Ironside play you on V?
3. Do you write, among others, a series of books called The Case Files of Henri Davenforth?

Correct, Ham Tyler, Honor Raconteur

DQs:

1. Appears in more than one book?
2. Adapted to TV or film?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

H

1. Fictional
2. Not originally from film or TV
3. Horror or Halloween related
4. Protagonist
5. From prose
6. Male
7. First name begins with H
8. Created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Does not appear in more than one book by the original author, although quasi-sequels and pastiches exist.
11. Adapted to TV or film

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@MissTake

1. In the original novel, did you wear a pink motorcycle jacket?
2. Were you obsessed with Dolores Haze?
3. Were you created by an author using the pseudonym Ellis Bell?

Take a DQ
Not Humbert Humbert
Not Heathcliff

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Was your alter ego short, ugly and completely ill-mannered?
2. Did Rip van Winkle say that thunder was you and your men playing at ninepins?
3. Did you hear a Who?

Not Henry Jekyll
Take a DQ
Not Horton

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:

1. Did you star in Ecstasy (not a spoof western) and have a patent for frequency hopping with George Antheil?
2. Did you have a comedic double act with an emu puppet?
3. According to the promo copy for a revamped 2018 comics series, “HORROR HAS A NAME. You’d never notice the man. He doesn’t like to be noticed. He’s quiet. Calm. Never complains. If someone were to walk up and shoot him in the head… all he’d do is die. Until night falls. And someone else gets up again. The man’s name is [redacted]. The horror is” you?

[MissTake]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

Take a DQ
Not Humbert Humbert
Not Heathcliff

Henry Bowers from It

DQ
Created after 1900?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

H

1. Fictional
2. Not originally from film or TV
3. Horror or Halloween related
4. Protagonist
5. From prose
6. Male
7. First name begins with H
8. Created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Does not appear in more than one book by the original author, although quasi-sequels and pastiches exist.
11. Adapted to TV or film
12. Created after 1900

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@De_La_Rue

1. Did you star in Ecstasy ( not a spoof western) and have a patent for frequency hopping with George Antheil?
2. Did you have a comedic double act with an emu puppet?
3. According to the promo copy for a revamped 2018 comics series, “HORROR HAS A NAME. You’d never notice the man. He doesn’t like to be noticed. He’s quiet. Calm. Never complains. If someone were to walk up and shoot him in the head… all he’d do is die. Until night falls. And someone else gets up again. The man’s name is [redacted]. The horror is” you?

Not Hedy Lamarr
Take 2 DQs

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Was your alter ego short, ugly and completely ill-mannered?

2. Did Rip van Winkle say that thunder was you and your men playing at ninepins?
3. Did you hear a Who?

Not Henry Jekyll
Take a DQ
Not Horton

Correct, Henry Hudson, Correct.

DQ: Common first name?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Christopher Lee play you opposite Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes?
2. Did you costar with Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies?
3. Did you write Theogony?

[De_La_Rue]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

Not Hedy Lamarr
Take 2 DQs

2 was Rod Hull; 3 was the Immortal Hulk.

DQs:
1. created after 1930?
2. adapted to film?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

H

1. Fictional
2. Not originally from film or TV
3. Horror or Halloween related
4. Protagonist
5. From prose
6. Male
7. First name begins with H
8. Created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Does not appear in more than one book by the original author, although quasi-sequels and pastiches exist.
11. Adapted to TV or film
12. Created after 1900
13. Common first name
14. Created before 1930
15. Adapted to film

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did Christopher Lee play you opposite Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes?
• Did you costar with Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies ?
• Did you write Theogony ?

Take a DQ
Not Tom Hanks
Take a DQ

[MissTake]

IQs

1. Did “Jumping the shark” begin with your character?
2. Did you collaborate with Blake Edwards on many films?
3. Were you the head librarian at Miskatonic University?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did Christopher Lee play you opposite Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes?

• Did you costar with Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies ?
• Did you write Theogony ?

Take a DQ
Not Tom Hanks
Take a DQ

#1 was Henry Baskerville.
Correct on Tom.
#3 was Hesiod.

2 DQs reserved.

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@MissTake

1. Did “Jumping the shark” begin with your character?
2. Did you collaborate with Blake Edwards on many films?
3. Were you the head librarian at Miskatonic University?

Not Henry Winkler
Not Henry Mancini
Not Henry Armitage

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Right, then! H it is.

IQs:

Did U.S. Grant succeed you as top general of U.S. forces?
Did you love your dog Ribsy?
Did Rex Harrison famously play you?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:

1. Did you dress as The Bat every year for Halloween, regardless of the themed group costume your father, twin brother, and family bodyguard went with?
2. Speaking of holidays involving costumes, during Purim is your name traditionally drowned out with groggers in the telling of the spiel?
3. Did the airing of a movie about you make a lot of Jets and especially Raiders fans very angry in 1968?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did U.S. Grant succeed you as top general of U.S. forces?
Did you love your dog Ribsy?
Did Rex Harrison famously play you?

Take a DQ
Not Henry Huggins
Not Henry Higgins

@De_La_Rue

1. Did you dress as The Bat every year for Halloween, regardless of the themed group costume your father, twin brother, and family bodyguard went with?
2. Speaking of holidays involving costumes, during Purim is your name traditionally drowned out with groggers in the telling of the spiel ?
3. Did the airing of a movie about you make a lot of Jets and especially Raiders fans very angry in 1968?

Take a DQ
Not Haman
Not Heidi

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did U.S. Grant succeed you as top general of U.S. forces? - Henry Halleck
Did you love your dog Ribsy? - Yes, Henry Huggins
Did Rex Harrison famously play you? - Yes, Prof. Henry Higgins

Henry x3!

DQ:

American character?

IQs:

Did you give the longest-ever speech for that particular recurring occasion?
Did an editorial cartoon show you trying to wear the much-too-big hat of your grandfather?
Did you learn how to defend yourself against a man attacking you with a banana?