Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
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Good choice, EH! And clever of you to figure it out, Prof!

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Thanks!

I am…

That’s H.

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IQs:

In the works of a certain author, were you “the Unspeakable”?
Were you that author?
Did you once, in a famous photograph, play the piano for Lauren Bacall?

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IQs:

  1. Did you get married to the widow next door?
  2. Did you grow accustomed to her face?
  3. Were you the mirror of Christian kings?
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IQ1: Did an element of your attire indicate you were an adulteress?
IQ2: Did you shoot first?
IQ3: Did you write and perform Smokestack Lightning?

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#1. I am not Hastur.
#2. I am not H. P. Lovecraft.
#3. I am not Humphrey Bogart (?)

  1. I am not Henery VIII, I’m not.
  2. I am not 'Enry "Iggins.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Hester “the sadder but wiser girl” Prynne.
  2. I am not Han Solo.
  3. Take a DQ.
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Yes, Yes, blues legend Howlin’ Wolf

DQ: Real?

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DQ:

  1. Fictional
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Previous IQs:

In the works of a certain author, were you “the Unspeakable”? - Yes, Hastur
Were you that author? - Yes, H.P. Lovecraft
Did you once, in a famous photograph, play the piano for Lauren Bacall? - Harry Truman

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Were you FDR’s cadaverous aide?
Was a US postage stamp about you purposefully printed with an error?
Was another US postage stamp about you printed with a non-purposeful error?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
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#1. I am not Louis Howe.
Take 2 DQs.

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IQs:

Were you FDR’s cadaverous aide? - Hmm, not who I was thinking of, and not all that cadaverous IMHO, but I’ll rephrase.
Was a US postage stamp about you purposefully printed with an error? - The late UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (sp?). After an initial print run with reversed colors was discovered, the Postmaster General ordered more of them printed with the same mistake, to destroy their value as rarities.
Was another US postage stamp about you printed with a non-purposeful error? - Hubert Humphrey; the stamps had the wrong years for his service as Vice President.

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

You are not Louis Howe. Were you a cadaverous aide of FDR’s?
Did you command the British forces at Agincourt?
Was Ol’ Golly your friend and confidante?

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Correct on 1 and 2. 3: “Now all the youth of England are on fire, and silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies. Now thrive the armorers, and honor’s thought reigns solely in the breast of every man. They sell the pasture now to buy the horse, following the mirror of all Christian kings with wingèd heels, as English Mercurys.” Henry Vth, Act II, Scene 1.

DQ: From print?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. American.
  4. Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
  5. Not from print
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#1. (Well, I’m reading David Petrusza’s Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide Victory, and Mr. Howe dies early in the book, and looked pretty cadaverous at the end. However,) I am not Harry Hopkins.
#2. The Battle of Agincourt was on my birthday. SMV has already asked about Henry V, who I am not.
#3. Take a DQ.

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You look fantastic for your age.

IQ1: Did you hear a Who?
IQ2: Did you famously say you were in control after an attempting assassination, despite their being 4 people ahead of you in the line of succession?
IQ3: Did you perpetrate the assassination attempt in the above question?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a self-taught amateur geologist, whose 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth”, and subsequent book An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy were notable both for demonstrating that the geology of the earth is the product of slow, small processes that are still ongoing, establishing the notion of geological “deep time”, and the sheer impenetrabilty of the prose?

  2. Were you a French novelist and playwright whose name inevitably elicits snickers from high-school students exposed to your work?

  3. Did you write a series of mysteries set on the Navajo Reservation, whose protagonists were two Navajo Tribal Police officers?

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#1. I am not Horton.
#2. I am not Alexander Haig.
Take a DQ.

#2. I am not Victor Hugo.
Take 2 DQs.

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Right, then.

Previous IQs:

You are not Louis Howe. Were you a cadaverous aide of FDR’s? - Yes, Harry Hopkins
Did you command the British forces at Agincourt? - Yes, Henry V
Was Ol’ Golly your friend and confidante? - The title character of the YA novel Harriet the Spy

DQs:

First appeared on film?

IQs:

Did Peter O’Toole play you twice?
Were you shown in bed, nude, with your new bride in a movie starring Ian McKellen?
Did you flee ever-deeper into space from your harpy of a wife, Stella?

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3 DQs, I’m afraid.

1 was James Hutton, whose seminal contributions to the science of geology weren’t recognized until his student and friend James Playfair rewrote Hutton’s Theory in accessible language. 2 was Honoré de Balzac. 3 was Tony Hillerman, creator of Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police.

DQs:

  1. Surname begins with “H”?
  2. Appeared before 1960?
  3. Protagonist of his work?