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DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American.
- Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
- Not from print
- Did not appear in a movie
- Surname begins with H
- Appeared first after 1960
- Protagonist
#3. I am not Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Take 2 DQs.
IQs:
1. Did you create The Storyteller (hey, that’s the show I watched just a few hours ago!)?
2. Did you play the titular Storyteller?
3. Are you the title character of the fairy tale adapted into the episode I saw, “[you] My Hedgehog”?
Previous IQs:
Did Peter O’Toole play you twice? - Henry II, in Becket and The Lion in Winter
Were you shown in bed, nude, with your new bride in a movie starring Ian McKellen? - The soon-to-be Henry VII, in Sir Ian’s clever Thirties British Fascist interpretation of Richard III
Did you flee ever-deeper into space from your harpy of a wife, Stella? - Yes, Harry Mudd, on Star Trek
DQs:
From a song?
A “good guy”?
IQs:
Were you perhaps a post-Civil War prison laborer?
Were you the top-ranked Nazi leader prosecuted at Nuremberg?
Were you “the Butcher of Prague”?
IQs:
- Were you a steel-drivin’ man?
- Did you play Barney Miller?
- Are you either of a pair of brothers who coached opposing teams in the Super Bowl?
#1. I am not Jim Henson.
#2. I am not John Hurt.
#3. I am not Hans.
My daughter’s childhood dream was to work for Jim Henson at the London Creature Shop. Then he died, and they shut down the London shop.
I know the last two, but they aren’t coming to the surface this morning.
Take 3 DQs.
#1. I am not John Henry.
#2. I am not Hal Linden.
#3. Take a DQ.
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American.
- Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
- Not from print
- Did not appear in a movie
- Surname begins with H
- Appeared first after 1960
- Protagonist
- Not from a song; except sort, but only because the song is part-and-parcel of the stories about the character
- Definitely a good guy.
A clean sweep!
IQs:
1. Were you very close to Clyde Tolson?
2. Did you co-star in Videodrome?
3. Did you play the Storyteller’s dog?
#3. I am not Brian Henson (?)
Take 2 DQs.
1 was J. Edgar Hoover; 2 was Debbie Harry.
DQs:
1. from TV?
2. appeared first after 1990?
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American.
- Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
- Not from print
- Did not appear in a movie
- Surname begins with H
- Appeared first after 1960
- Protagonist
- Not from a song; except sort of, but only because the song is part-and-parcel of the stories about the character
- Definitely a good guy.
- From TV
- First appeared before 1990
Correct on the first two. The NFL brothers were John and Jim Harbaugh, who respectively coached the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII.
DQs:
First name begins A - M?
IQs:
- Were you a British chemist who was the subject of the clerihew “[You] abominated gravy./He lived in the odium/of having discovered sodium.”?
- Are you the gold-giver to men, white-haired warrior, master of Heorot?
- Were you an Anglo-Saxon king with something in your eye?
Previous IQs:
Were you perhaps a post-Civil War prison laborer? - This was also John Henry. I asked before SMV; do I get the DQ?
Were you the top-ranked Nazi leader prosecuted at Nuremberg? - Hermann Goering
Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? - Reinhard Heydrich
DQs:
White?
Would almost certainly be dead from old age?
One DQ (maybe) reserved.
IQs:
Did you fly to the UK on a cockamamie peace mission?
Were you Churchill’s first Foreign Secretary?
Did you mistakenly let your fleet get bashed by not one but two typhoons?
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American.
- Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
- Not from print
- Did not appear in a movie
- Surname begins with H
- Appeared first after 1960
- Protagonist
- Not from a song; except sort of, but only because the song is part-and-parcel of the stories about the character
- Definitely a good guy.
- From TV
- First appeared before 1990
- First name begins with A-M
- White, but not in the usual sense of the term
- Would either be dead from old age, or would have been eaten
#1. I am not Humphry Davy.
Take 2 DQs. I know I’m gonna smack myself in the head on #3.
- I am not Harry S. Truman (?)
Take 2 DQs.
Previous IQs:
Did you fly to the UK on a cockamamie peace mission? - Not Truman (I don’t think he did a cockamamie thing in his life!), but Rudolf Hess
Were you Churchill’s first Foreign Secretary? - Lord Halifax
Did you mistakenly let your fleet get bashed by not one but two typhoons? - Adm. William Halsey
Three (maybe four) DQs reserved.
Checking it out, EH, you do get the extra DQ.
Correct on 1. 2 was Hrothgar, the Half-Danish king whose bitchin’ new pad had a slight rampaging-murderous-troll problem. 3 was King Harold Godwinson, who was popularly believed to been slain by a Norman arrow in the eye at the Battle of Hastings.
Fair, of course, but I don’t think it would cost me a DQ, since my John Henry IQ didn’t earn me one.
DQs:
- Human?
- From live-action TV?
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DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American.
- Would almost certainly be dead today, if real.
- Not from print
- Did not appear in a movie
- Surname begins with H
- Appeared first after 1960
- Protagonist
- Not from a song; except sort of, but only because the song is part-and-parcel of the stories about the character - the song doesn’t mention his name as used in this game
- Definitely a good guy.
- From TV
- First appeared before 1990
- First name begins with A-M
- White, but not in the usual sense of the term
- Would either be dead from old age, or would have been eaten
- Not human
- Not from live-action TV
IQs:
1. Did you sell propane in Arlen, Texas?
2. Are you a cartoonist whose work has included “Dateline: @!!?#” in the Buyer’s Guide for Comic Fandom, comic strips for the DC Daily Planet promotional page and Marvel Age magazine, and Fantastic Four Roast, and whose characters always have swirls on their knees?
3. Did you work with Jim Henson on the Wilkins Coffee ads, puppeteering Wilkins?