My letter is H and:
1: I am** real**
2: My last name starts with H
3: I am female.
Harvey Keitel (U-571).
William Harvey. (Huygens was an astronomer.)
Henry Huggins, in the books by Beverly Cleary.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Born after 1970?
DQ3: Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Did you hold off Lars Porsena’s army singlehandedly?
IQ2: Did you claim not to see an order to retreat?
IQ3: Are you the hero of a series of spy novels written by a former governor-general of Canada?
1 was Reginald Heber. 2 was Horatius Bonar. 3. was Hero.
3 DQs reserved.
Previous IQs:
Did you publish a pamphlet admitting to being an adulterer, but denying that you were a crook? - Alexander Hamilton, after having an affair with a blackmailer’s wife
Was your wife Stella, whom you fled to go deeper into space? - Harcourt Fenton Mudd: Harcourt Fenton Mudd - YouTube
Did Lovecraft say you were “unspeakable”? - Yes, Hastur
DQs:
Living?
Born east of the Miss. River?
IQs:
Were you Secretary of State of Florida in 2000?
Are you the Attorney General of California?
Were you the sole black female member of the Congressional committee on Watergate?
correct x2, Herman Wouk
3 Hermans!
Nitpick: Hastur is not actually a Lovecraft character. Lovecraft was inspired to use the entity’s name from a Robert Chambers story, who had actually borrowed it from Ambrose Pierce. August Derleth wrote more about Hastur in detail, coining the “unspeakable” moniker.
holding a DQ
IQ1: Were you the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine from 1965-1997?
IQ2: Are you an actress who co-founded the National Wildflower Research Center with Lady Bird Johnson?
IQ3: Are you strong, are you invincible, are you woman?
1: I am not Horatius Cocles
2: I am not Horatio Nelson
3: pass
I am not good at this
I am not good at this
Correct.
Correct.
Richard Hannay, from The Thirty-Nine Steps and its sequels, by John Buchan.
One DQ reserved.
hehe, I feel your pain. My usual tactic is to hope everybody loses track of the massive amounts of DQs that quickly pile up when I’m the quizmaster and then go over the limit before they realize they haven’t asked the right questions. Hasn’t worked yet. 
Just chill and have fun.
Helen Gurley Brown, Helen Hayes, Helen Reddy <– Helen x3!
holding 3 DQs
My letter is H and:
1: I am real
2: My last name starts with H
3: I am female.
4: I am not from the Americas (Note, how do we normally interpret “are you American?” - does it refer to the Americas or the USA?)
5: I was born before 1970
6: I am not known for the arts
7: I am not alive
8: I was born east of the Mississipi River
We normally interpret American as USA. I’ve asked this question myself.
DQs:
- Known for science?
- European?
- Born after 1900?
I never said Lovecraft either created the character, or was the first to call him (it?) that. I simply asked, “Did Lovecraft say you were ‘unspeakable’?” Which he did. (And I think you mean Ambrose Bierce).
Previous IQs:
Were you Secretary of State of Florida in 2000? - Katherine Harris, prominent during the Bush-Gore controversy.
Are you the Attorney General of California? - Kamala Harris
Were you the sole black female member of the Congressional committee on Watergate? - Withdrawn; this was Barbara Jordan.
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did your name come up several times in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
Did you help negotiate the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty for the U.S.?
Did Frank Sinatra snap at you at a party?
IQ1) Do you hold the record for longest hitting streak in World Series history?
IQ2) Did Howard Stern get you elected as People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Person of the year?
IQ3) Are you the member of the Magnificent Seven nobody ever remembers (and who later appeared as a Nazi in Life Is Beautiful)?
IQ1: Did you write about the people who place pots on the heads of strangers?
IQ2: Did you marry Katherine Parr?
IQ3: Are you an SAS captain transported into the past with a multinational fleet?
1: pass
2: I am not … Henry Kissinger?
3: Pass
1: Pass
2: Pass
3: I don’t remember this one.
pass
pass
pass
My letter is H and:
1: I am real
2: My** last name** starts with H
3: I am female.
4: I am** not from the Americas **
5: I was** born before 1970**
6: I am** not known for the arts**
7: I am** not alive**
8: I was born east of the Mississipi River
9: I am not European
10: I was born before 1900
11: I am known for the sciences
IQs:
- Were you an ancient Babylonian healer?
- Were you a female pharaoh of Egypt?
- Did your works include The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido?
1:I am not … Hecatae?
2: I am not Hatsephut
3: Pass.
1 was Hammurabi. Correct on 2. 3 was Hiroshige.
2 DQs reserved.
DQ: Asian?
DQ: Born before 1800?
1 DQ left