[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

Correct.
Correct.
Herbert Hoover.
DQ: Died after 1960?
IQ1: Did you write an SF war story about a Filipino soldier?
IQ2: Did you write the Deathworld series?
IQ3: Did you write a story in which “Sheba’s Breasts” were used as a landmark?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Died before 1960

I am not Robert A. Heinlein. I am not Harry Harrison. I am not H. Rider Haggard.
If #3 is wrong, take a DQ.

IQ1: Were you the inspiration for the musical A Shoggoth on the Roof?
IQ2: Did you write The Crapetbaggers?
IQ3: In 1970, did you run unsuccessfully for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket?

DQ: Author?

1 DQ reserved

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Died before 1960
  13. Author

I am not H. P. Lovecraft.
I am not Harold Robbins (assuming you meant Carpetbaggers).
Take a DQ for 3.

Hunter S. Thompson

DQ: Scifi/Fantasy genre?

DQ reserved

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Died before 1960
  13. Author
  14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre

Although I do know of one short story he wrote that would fit the Fantasy category, this is not how he is best remembered.

IQ: Despite what the record books say, do many credit you with holding the most revered record in sports?

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Are you really Harry Stubbs?
IQ2: Do you live in Centerburg?
IQ3: Are you Henry James? (I know he was a writer, but can’t think of anything he wrote…)

Unless it’s Hank Aaron, who I am not, take a DQ.

Take 2 DQs for the first two. I did not write The Turn of the Screw.

Hal Clement was the pen name used by SF author Stubbs.
Homer Price, in the kids’ stories by Robert McCloskey.
:slight_smile:
DQ1: Known for fiction?
One DQ reserved.

Yes, I was looking for “The Hammer”.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Died before 1960
  13. Author
  14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre
  15. Best known for nonfiction.

Previous IQs:

Did you marry a Jewish woman despite being a demonstrably anti-Semitic person? - This was also H.P. Lovecraft
Are you an unpleasant being about whom that person wrote? - Hastur the Unspeakable
Were you named after a Cleveland department store? - American actress Halle Berry

DQs:

Best known as a journalist?
Involved in politics?
Won a major award in his field?

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first Vice President?
Did a cartoonist show you with a hat that was 'way too big for you?
Did you first win military glory at Yorktown in 1781?

IQ: Did you write The American Language?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name starts with H
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Died before 1960
  13. Author
  14. Not known for SciFi/Fantasy genre
  15. Best known for nonfiction.
  16. Best known as a journalist.
  17. Involved in politics, mainly through writing about social evils.
  18. Did not win a major award, but an award was named after him.

I am not Hannibal Hamlin.
I am not “Little Ben” Harrison.
Take a DQ for #3.