January 2014, Botticelli

Correct on Hooper. I was thinking of Stephen Harper of Canada as the piano-playing prime minister, but Havel fits, so you’re correct there too.

The author of the book on card games was Edmond Hoyle, of “according to Hoyle” fame.

DQ: European?

IQ: Were you executed as a war criminal even though you didn’t possess WMDs

DQ: Alive?

Not European

Not Saddam Hussein

Not alive.

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with H
  5. Not European
  6. Dead

IQs:

  1. Were you a Vietnamese revolutionary leader?
  2. Were you emperor of Japan during WWII?
  3. Were you a 20th Century Emperor of Ethiopia?

IQ1: Did you found a restaurant chain for travelling railroad passengers?
IQ2: Is one of your best-known roles that of Hedy Lamarr? Sorry, that’s Hedley!
IQ3: Did you play Jennifer’s childhood sweetheart on an episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati”?

Correct on Howard Cosell.
Hildegarde Hamhocker, from the Tumbleweeds strip.
Hannie Caulder.
DQ1: Asian?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Did Nero Wolfe leave you standing on his doorstep ringing the doorbell?
IQ2: Are you a fictional Army nurse?
IQ3: Are you an orange-coloured cartoon cat?

IQ1: Are you a preacher with a hook for a hand?
IQ2: Did you cross the Alps with elephants?
IQ3: Were you the leader of the first team to climb Everest?

Not Ho Chi Minh, Hirohito or Haile Selassie.

No idea.

Not Chubby Huggs?

Not Hannibal. Don’t know the first one but it doesn’t matter, because I am indeed Sir Edmund Hillary, first climber to reach the summit of the Everest along with Tenzing Norgay.

Way to go, fanganga!

Hooray! Thank you.

1 was Abu Hamza
2 as you said was Hannibal Barca
And 3 was your man, who I initially wasn’t going to post but then thought “Wait a minute, wasn’t he from New Zealand?”

My initial is G.

Nicely done, fanganga!

Answers to my most recent questions:

Number 1 was Fred Harvey. Number 2 was Harvey Korman, and the role is from Blazing Saddles. Number 3 was Hoyt Axton.

IQs:

  1. Were you the lead singer of the Grateful Dead?
  2. Did you create Dick Tracy?
  3. Do you frequently stomp your way through Tokyo?

IQ1: Were you Jan Brady’s imaginary boyfriend?
IQ2: Were you the nemesis of Sergeant Carter?
IQ3: Did you take a ferry across the Mersey?

1: I am not Jerry Garcia
2: I don’t know to whom you refer
3: I am not Godzilla

1: I don’t know to whom you refer.
2: I don’t know to whom you refer.
3: I am not … Gerry of the Pacemakers?

Correct on Gerry Marsden, of Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Number 1 was George Glass, and number 2 was Gomer Pyle.

DQ: Are you real?
DQ: Are you male?

Chester Gould created the comic strip detective Dick Tracy.

DQ: Is G the first letter of your last name?

That lot were J Edgar Hoover (in The Doorbell Rang), Margaret Houlihan and Heathcliff.
IQ1: Are you known for crashing into trees?
IQ2: Can I call you Meyer?
IQ3: Did you write of the first and the last?

IQ: Did your future wife have the hots for your future son?

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Quiet American?
  2. Were you one of Italy’s fathers of the fatherland?
  3. Were you often misquoted as saying “I vant to be alone?”