Let's play Botticelli!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

A) Hugh Dancy
B) It's spelled 'Havisham', for future reference.
C) Helen of Sparta/Troy (daughter of Leda and the Zeus-swan)

DQs:
1) American?
2) Actor?

Heh, the egg one was ringing a bell from mythology, but couldn't get it.


1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

4. American

5. Not an actor

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you regret having but one life to lose for your country?
IQ: Did you found the oldest surviving institute of higher learning in the United States?
IQ: Did you, between playing tunes on your violin, popularize one-liner comedy with zingers like "Take my wife - please!"

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you regret having but one life to lose for your country?
IQ: Did you found the oldest surviving institute of higher learning in the United States?
IQ: Did you, between playing tunes on your violin, popularize one-liner comedy with zingers like "Take my wife - please!"

(a) Not Nathan Hale.
(b) Not ...Mr. Harvard?
(c) Not Henny Youngman.

[OneCentStamp]

Yes, John Harvard.

IQ: Did you complete a trio of fictional Korean War-era Army docs with your friends Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John?
IQ: Did Hercules have to fetch your girdle as one of his Twelve Labors?
IQ: Did you teach Eliza Doolittle to pronounce her aitches?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Yes, John Harvard.

IQ: Did you complete a trio of fictional Korean War-era Army docs with your friends Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John?
IQ: Did Hercules have to fetch your girdle as one of his Twelve Labors?
IQ: Did you teach Eliza Doolittle to pronounce her aitches?

(a) You're probably not talking about Henry Blake, so take a DQ.

(b) I'm not ....ugh...Hestia?

(c) Neither Enry Iggins nor Henry Higgins.

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you Annie Sullivan's pupil, the ardent socialist?
Did you dwell by the shores of Gitchi-Gummi?

[OneCentStamp]

BJ Hunnicutt. Hippolyta. And yes, Henry Higgins.

Best known as a politician?
Died after January 1, 1950?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQs:

Are you Annie Sullivan's pupil, the ardent socialist?
Did you dwell by the shores of Gitchi-Gummi?

Not Helen Keller.
Not Hiawatha.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

BJ Hunnicutt. Hippolyta. And yes, Henry Higgins.

Best known as a politician?
Died after January 1, 1950?

Should have got both the ones I missed, dang.

Anyway:

1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

4. American

5. Not an actor

6. Not a politician

7. Died before 1950

[Orual]

IQ:
Is yours the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
Are you the astronomer known as the "pioneer of the distant stars"?

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you write arguably the quintessential American novel, introducing us to Queequeg, Ahab, and Ishmael?
IQ: Did you lose your status as kids' entertainment icon after getting caught diddling yourself in a theater?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ:
Is yours the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
Are you the astronomer known as the "pioneer of the distant stars"?

Not John Hancock.

Not William Herschell.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you write arguably the quintessential American novel, introducing us to Queequeg, Ahab, and Ishmael?
IQ: Did you lose your status as kids' entertainment icon after getting caught diddling yourself in a theater?

Not Herman Melville.

Not Peewee Herman.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Were you the first Whig candidate for US President?
IQ: Are you the third of your name, country music royalty, who has largely eschewed your legacy in favor of a career in underground hardcore punk and heavy metal?
IQ: Did you shoot Robert Redford in The Natural?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Were you the first Whig candidate for US President?
IQ: Are you the third of your name, country music royalty, who has largely eschewed your legacy in favor of a career in underground hardcore punk and heavy metal?
IQ: Did you shoot Robert Redford in The Natural?

Not William Henry Harrison.

Not Hank Williams III

Somehow never saw more than a few minutes of that movie. Take a DQ.

[OneCentStamp]

Barbara Hershey.

DQ: First name starts with H?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Barbara Hershey.

DQ: First name starts with H?

Heh, if you'd done "Did you appear naked in Boxcar Bertha?", I would have been all over it.

1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

4. American

5. Not an actor

6. Not a politician

7. Died before 1950

8. First name doesn't start with H.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Have you achieved a more senior elected position in the United States government than any other Mormon in history?
IQ: Are you a golfer who improved his short game by switching to a putter made from a converted hockey stick?

[Orual]

Are you the astronomer known as the "pioneer of the distant stars"?

Not William Herschell.

Edwin Hubble

DQ: Are you a writer?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Have you achieved a more senior elected position in the United States government than any other Mormon in history?
IQ: Are you a golfer who improved his short game by switching to a putter made from a converted hockey stick?

Literally every American Mormon politician I know of is named Romney. Take a DQ.

All I know about contemporary pro golf boils down to "Tiger and the white guys". Take a DQ.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Are you the astronomer known as the "pioneer of the distant stars"?

Not William Herschell.

Edwin Hubble

DQ: Are you a writer?

Should have got that.

1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

4. American

5. Not an actor

6. Not a politician

7. Died before 1950

8. First name doesn't start with H.

9. Writer

[OneCentStamp]

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. Happy Gilmore.

I'll hold my DQs until I see the answer to Orual's.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you probably roll over in your grave when Demi Moore appeared on the silver screen with a scarlet A sewn to her frock?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you probably roll over in your grave when Demi Moore appeared on the silver screen with a scarlet A sewn to her frock?

I'm not Nathaniel Hawthorne, but if I were, I'm pretty sure that it's not what Demi Moore did in that movie with her frock on that would make me roll in my grave.

[Orual]

IQ: Did you use way to many words to say: "a guy went fishing and then sharks ate his fish"?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

I am not Ernest Hemingway. If I were, I would have stopped part way through that sentence, when it was going well, and come back tomorrow and re-wrote it.

[OneCentStamp]

DQ: Were you born before January 1, 1900?
DQ: Are you best known as a novelist?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

DQ: Were you born before January 1, 1900?
DQ: Are you best known as a novelist?

1. Male

2. Real person

3. Dead

4. American

5. Not an actor

6. Not a politician

7. Died before 1950

8. First name doesn't start with H.

9. Writer

10. Born after January 1, 1900.

11. Not best known as a novelist.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you arguably the most important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, writer of such controversial works as Fine Clothes to the Jew?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you arguably the most important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, writer of such controversial works as Fine Clothes to the Jew?

Not Langston Hughes.

[Orual]

IQ: Are you known for your pulpy sword-and-sorcery stories, that inspired ridiculous movies with awesome soundtracks?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you known for your pulpy sword-and-sorcery stories, that inspired ridiculous movies with awesome soundtracks?

Yes, I'm Robert E. Howard.

All Hail Orual!

[OneCentStamp]

[Elendil's Heir]

Congrats, Orual! Answers from the previous round's IQs:

Did the men of the 101st Airborne take your words to heart during WWII?
Did you supposedly text your boss and his #2 guy to get "back to work, boys"?
Were you McKinley's kingmaker?

King Henry V, per Shakespeare: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...."
Hillary Clinton: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/files/201...ry-texting.jpg
Yes, but spelling nitpick: Marcus "Mark" Hanna.

[Orual]

OK, the letter is B, have at it!

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you a teenage Texan whose dad frequently observes, "I tell you, that boy ain't right?"
IQ: Are you the only person with both a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize on the mantel shelf?
IQ: Did you once pull up in a limousine to pick up your food stamps while MTV cameras rolled, in spite of being a millionaire at the time?

[Orual]

I am not Bobby Hill.

I am not ... Barack Obama? (Do they have a Grammy category for audiobooks?)

I am not Bobby Brown?

[OneCentStamp]

Yes to Bobby Hill, yes to Barack Obama (he actually has two Grammys for his audiobooks), and the third is .

DQ: Fictional?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs

Are you the only Governor of Ohio to plead no contest to a criminal charge while in office?
Have you played a horndog President, a Little League coach and a farmer who wanted to be an astronaut?
Did you get a beer named after you because of who your brother was?

[Orual]

the third is .

DQ: Fictional?

Awww, ODB.

DQ:

1) Real person.

[Orual]

IQs

Are you the only Governor of Ohio to plead no contest to a criminal charge while in office?
Have you played a horndog President, a Little League coach and a farmer who wanted to be an astronaut?
Did you get a beer named after you because of who your brother was?

a) I don't know anything about Ohio governors - take a DQ!
b) I am not Billy Bob Thornton
c) I am not Billy Carter

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you ask if the same God made the lamb, who made the tyger?
IQ: Did Patti Smith, The Pointer Sisters, and Manfred Mann all score Top 40 hits with covers of your songs?
IQ: Were you the first woman to receive a medical degree (MD) in the United States?

[Orual]

a) I am not William Blake.
b) I am not Bob Dylan.
c) I am not Elizabeth B ... something. I don't remember her last name! 1 DQ for you.

[OneCentStamp]

Blake is right; the others are Bruce Springsteen ("Because The Night," "Fire," "Blinded By The Light") and Elizabeth Blackwell.

Female?
Alive?

[Orual]

Female?
Alive?

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs

Are you the only Governor of Ohio to plead no contest to a criminal charge while in office?
Have you played a horndog President, a Little League coach and a farmer who wanted to be an astronaut?
Did you get a beer named after you because of who your brother was?

a) I don't know anything about Ohio governors - take a DQ!
b) I am not Billy Bob Thornton
c) I am not Billy Carter

Correct on the last two. The first is Bob Taft.

DQ:

Last name start with "B"?

IQs:

Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
Have you played an unscrupulous prosecutor, a lovesick network exec, and a computer wiz?
Did you smooch Margaret as you left for home?

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Were you stopped in the act of suicide by Clarence Odbody?
IQ: Were you famous for performing with a 40 piece orchestra completely composed of women in red high heels?
IQ: Did you rise to fame by broadcasting the beginning of the first Gulf War live from a rooftop in Kuwait, as bombs and rockets exploded in the background?

[Orual]

DQ:

Last name start with "B"?

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".

IQs:

Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
Have you played an unscrupulous prosecutor, a lovesick network exec, and a computer wiz?
Did you smooch Margaret as you left for home?

Here are three stabs-in-the-dark:

a) Baby Doc Duvalier
b) Matthew Broderick
c) Bob Newhart

IQ: Were you stopped in the act of suicide by Clarence Odbody?
IQ: Were you famous for performing with a 40 piece orchestra completely composed of women in red high heels?
IQ: Did you rise to fame by broadcasting the beginning of the first Gulf War live from a rooftop in Kuwait, as bombs and rockets exploded in the background?

a) George Bailey
b) RoBert Palmer!
c) Wolf Blitzer

[OneCentStamp]

b) RoBert Palmer!

Barry White, he of the "Love Unlimited Orchestra."

DQ: Born after January 1, 1900?

[Orual]

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.