H may be a middle initial, though.
Which doesn’t necessarily mean it is the initial letter of his last name…
But I’m still stumped.
We have established that I’m not Heinrich Hertz, but I have a better claim to call h my letter than he does.
IQ: Was your name in the new both the year Mark Twain was born, and again the year he died?
Unlikely, as I was born 23 years later than Mark Twain, but I’d love to know who you’re thinking of.
I was thinking Edmund Halley. (Halley’s comet appeared 1835 and 1910)
DQ: Physicist?
Close but no cigar on the first one. Anthony Hopkins has played Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Richard Nixon and Odin.
Hal Holbrook has played Mark Twain, Deep Throat and Francis Blair.
Alexander Hamilton, defending the Tory president of King’s College (later Columbia University). As Ron Chernow tells the story in his bio of Hamilton, the clergyman, who was hard of hearing, saw Hamilton speaking a mob on the steps of his home, threw open a window and shouted, “Pay no attention to that rascal Hamilton!”
DQs:
Did you, even involuntarily, support the Nazi regime?
Did you have a company named after you?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you a chicken farmer before you went on to much greater notoriety?
Were you a skilled violinist with very wide hips who was better known for something else?
Did your planes fight in the Battle of Britain?
My letter is h and …
DQ1: I am not currently alive.
DQ2: I am male.
DQ3: I am not American.
DQ4: I am a real person, and not a fictitious character.
DQ5: I am not known primarily for the arts, by the definition provided by SCAdian.
DQ6: I am not a politician
DQ7: I am European
DQ8: H is NOT the initial letter of my first name.
DQ9: I am not known for sporting achievements.
DQ10: I was born before 1900.
DQ11 & DQ14: I died between 1900 and 1950.
DQ12: I am a scientist.
DQ13: My native language was NOT English.
DQ15: I am German.
DQ16: I am a physicist
DQ17: I lived under the Nazi regime, and did not directly oppose it initially. The closest I came to support was when I encouraged people to remain in Germany after the Nazis came to power.
DQ18: I have many things named after me, but to my knowledge, not a company - unless a non-profit academic institute counts.
I don’t know to whom you are referring
I don’t know to whom you are referring
I am not Heinkel
Remember, there is a twist. I’m not pretending that “Herr” is a name, if you’re starting to think in that direction.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer-SS.
Reinhard Heydrich, his deputy.
Yes, Heinkel., whose first name I don’t even know.
Two DQs reserved - anyone is welcome to ask them.
I can’t think of who fanganga has in mind… but suspect the twist will make all the difference. We might have to call shenanigans when the answer is revealed.
The twist is critical, and I’m afraid to hint it too strongly for fear of giving the game away - once you know the twist, it will be obvious. The clue I gave to the twist was in the case I used every time I referred to my letter.
fanganga always uses a lower-case “h”. I don’t know how that can be relevant, though.
DQ: Were you a Nuremberg defendant?
My letter is h and …
DQ1: I am not currently alive.
DQ2: I am male.
DQ3: I am not American.
DQ4: I am a real person, and not a fictitious character.
DQ5: I am not known primarily for the arts, by the definition provided by SCAdian.
DQ6: I am not a politician
DQ7: I am European
DQ8: H is NOT the initial letter of my first name.
DQ9: I am not known for sporting achievements.
DQ10: I was born before 1900.
DQ11 & DQ14: I died between 1900 and 1950.
DQ12: I am a scientist.
DQ13: My native language was NOT English.
DQ15: I am German.
DQ16: I am a physicist
DQ17: I lived under the Nazi regime, and did not directly oppose it initially. The closest I came to support was when I encouraged people to remain in Germany after the Nazis came to power.
DQ18: I have many things named after me, but to my knowledge, not a company - unless a non-profit academic institute counts.
DQ19: I was not a Nuremberg defendant.
not currently alive… possibly that means he’s actually a philosophical ideal, like the ubermensch, or aryan… which might explain the small h… but he’s a scientist, and male… aaaargh! What’s German for shenanigans?
I had thought that the person I had chosen was sufficiently well known and his connection to the letter sufficiently strong that I could get away with choosing a letter that was not an initial. Evidently I was wrong.
I will say that although it doesn’t appear in any of my five names, the letter h and specifically a lower case h is more my letter than any other, and more my letter than anyone else’s.
I don’t think you understand the rules then. If H isn’t part of his name, you shouldn’t have told us that H was part of his name.
I didn’t. I said that my letter was h, always using it in the case that it appeared and that it wasn’t my first initial. I realise that it’s a departure from the way the game is usually played, and I thought that calling it my letter as opposed to my initial, always using lower case, and indicating that there was a twist would be enough to allow people to get it
I may have misjudged the appropriateness of the twist, but the game is still open, and you now have enough information to get to a specific individual - an early 20th century male German physicist who is strongly associated with h, although it does not occur in his name, and who does not to my knowledge have a company named after him.