C
1.Real
2.Female
3.Living
4.American
5.Part of her last name begins "C"
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C
1.Real
2.Female
3.Living
4.American
5.Part of her last name begins "C"
Previous IQs:
You are not Martha Crowley. Are you a conservative newspaper columnist? - I'll rephrase again
Were you a Tennessee Republican critic of President Trump? - Yes, Sen. Bob Corker
Did you perform with Patrick Stewart both on TV and on stage? - Ron Canada, who was in an episode of ST:TNG and then appeared with Stewart in a race-reversed production of Shakespeare's Othello
DQ:
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
You are not Martha Crowley or Charles Krauthammer. Are you an elderly, conservative newspaper columnist?
Did you find yourself alone in a cage with an amorous gorilla in a movie comedy?
Did you earn your wings helping George Bailey?
DQ
DQ
Not Clearance (*bells ring*)
C
1.Real
2.Female
3.Living
4.American
5.Part of her last name begins "C"
6.No association with the Arts
Previous IQs:
You are not Martha Crowley or Charles Krauthammer. Are you an elderly, conservative newspaper columnist? - Cal Thomas
Did you find yourself alone in a cage with an amorous gorilla in a movie comedy? - Clarence Biggs, in Trading Places
Did you earn your wings helping George Bailey? - Almost; it was Clarence (for extra credit, his last name was Odbody)
DQs:
Political/military?
Born since 1950?
IQs:
Are you the best-known person from Pin Point, Ga.?
Is your father a patent lawyer?
Did you fight to desegregate New York City's streetcars?
3 DQs
C
1.Real
2.Female
3.Living
4.American
5.Part of her last name begins "C"
6.No association with the Arts
7.Political/Military figure
8.Born AFTER 1950
Haven't thought about Cal Thomas in YEARS!
You're not the only one. Looks like he's still at work, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Thomas
Previous IQs:
Are you the best-known person from Pin Point, Ga.? - Clarence Thomas
Is your father a patent lawyer? - Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes
Did you fight to desegregate New York City's streetcars? - Chester Arthur, as a young lawyer there
DQs:
Best known for politics?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Born east of the Mississippi River?
IQs:
Were you MLK's widow?
Were you a fictional bucktoothed Vice President?
Did you give the dedicatory address for the Statue of Liberty?
Not Coretta Scott King
DQ
Not Grover Cleveland
C
1.Real
2.Female
3.Living
4.American
5.Part of her last name begins "C"
6.No association with the Arts
7.Political/Military figure
8.Born AFTER 1950
9.Best known for Politics
10.Born NORTH of the Mason-Dixon Line
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi River
Previous IQs:
Were you MLK's widow? - Yes, Coretta Scott King
Were you a fictional bucktoothed Vice President? - Cletus Spuckler, on The Simpsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZH7euRPLZs
Did you give the dedicatory address for the Statue of Liberty? - Yes, Grover Cleveland
DQ:
Now holds elective office?
IQs:
Did a video of you dancing while in college recently go viral?
Are you a Texas Democrat who may run for President?
Are you his brother?
YES!! I am:
ALEXANDRA OCASIO-CORTEZ! :)
BTW: I'm obviously neither of the Castro brothers
Great - thanks! I'll start the next round later today, I hope.
Sorry for the delay. Our next letter is
E
Have at you!
IQ: Are you me?
IQ2: Were the nuclear scientist who invented the H-bomb?
IQ3: Were you AG in the 80s?
I'm not the great and entirely wonderful Erictelevision, nor am I Edward Teller or Edwin Meese.
3 for 3
IQ: Are you the Sesame Street character who had THE Christmas toy one year?
IQ2: Did you leak embarrassing government secrets?
IQ3: Are you the late screenwriter who's my cousin-in-law's aunt?
I endeavor to be great and wonderful. :D
And you do so damn well at it.
Not Elmor, Edward Snowden or... Ed Manckiewicz?
Correct (Elmo I assume you mean)
Correct
Nora Ephron
DQ: Real?
IQ: Are you the longest reigning British monarch?
IQ2: Are you #1's uncle, who reigned during WWI?
IQ3: Were you the namesake of the subject of Gordon Lightfoot's biggest hit?
Yes, Elmo, thanks. Thought I deleted that final "r."
Not Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, long may she reign - oh, wait, she already has, and is! Not Edward VIII (he reigned in 1936; his father, George V, reigned during WWI), and not Edmund Fitzgerald.
E
1. real
3 or 3 (I forgot the mid-century succession). :)
IQ: Were you the first man atop the highest peak?
IQ2: Were you the top player on the winning side in college basketball's "Game of the Century"?
IQ3: Were you the top scoring threat on the 80's Nuggets?
Not Sir Edmund Hillary, dunno, and dunno.
Yup
Elvin Hayes (they beat UCLA)
Alex English
DQ: Male?
DQ2: Living?
IQ: Are you the Chiefs assistant seen as a hot coaching candidate?
IQ2: Were you AG under Obama?
IQ3: Did you originally play Marty McFly before Michael J Fox became available?
Not Eric Somebody, not Eric Holder, and not Eric Stoltz.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
Bieniemeny
Correct
Correct
EricX3
IQ: Did you cofound Monty Python?
IQ2: Were you a Norse explorer at the turn of the 1st millennium?
IQ3: Are you his son?
Not Eric Idle (I read that as "confound" at first), Eric the Red or Leif Ericsson.
And you still get a DQ for Eric Bieniemeny. I was just guessing.
You got the important part correct. :)
3 for 3 on the recent batch
IQ: Were you the 49ers owner during their glory years?
IQ2: Is your most famous work Associated with Liberty Enlightening the World?
IQ3: Are you the 20the century writer accused of communist sympathies?
No, really, I was just taking a chance on it being another Eric. I don't know that particular person at all. Please take another DQ.
Dunno, not Emma Lazarus, and not Emma Goldman.
Ok, thanks.
DQ: Born after 1900?
Eddie Debartolo Jr.
Correct
Ezra Pound
DQ: In Arts?
DQ2: American?
IQ: Was the most famous college in CT named after you?
IQ2: Was the youngest Ivy League college named after you?
IQ3: Were you a late 19th century Secretary of State?
Not Eli Yale, dunno, and dunno.
I see that Emma Goldman was more an anarchist than a communist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Anarchism. But Ezra Pound was a fascist, not a communist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_P...,_World_War_II. So I don't think you get a DQ for that one.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
I knew Goldman was an anarchist, didn't realize Pound was more Moussilini than Stalin.
Correct
Ezra Cornell
Elihu Root
DQ: Born after 1900?
DQ2: Political/Military figure?
IQ: Did your invention make American slavery profitable?
IQ2: Did you twice beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl?
IQ3: Are you the opera singer turned actress who earned a hot dog from Conan O'Brien after singing an aria?
Not Eli Whitney, dunno, and dunno.
Elihu Root wasn't SecState until early in the 20th C.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Root
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
Thanks, I knew I was in the ballpark time wise.
Correct
Eli Manning
Emmy Fossum
DQ: Political/Military figure?
DQ2: Born after 1800?
Thanks, I knew I was in the ballpark time wise.
Correct
Eli Manning
Emmy Rossum
DQ: Political/Military figure?
DQ2: Born after 1800?
IQ: Did Keith Olbermann oppropriate your sign-off?
IQ2: Did your character hate spunk?
IQ3: Are you the famously long-lived actor known for action movies during the Golden Age of Hollywood ?
Not Edward R. Murrow, Ed Asner or... dunno.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
Correct
Correct
Eli Wallach
DQ: Scientist/Inventor?
IQ: Are you the great DH poise to FINALLY reach the HOF?
IQ2: Are you the noted ventriloquist whose daughter's show was recently rebooted?
IQ3: Did you create Tarzan?
Dunno, not Edgar Bergen and not Edgar Rice Burroughs.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
8. not a scientist/inventor
Edgar Martinez
Correct
Correct
EdgarX3
DQ: Explorer/Adventurer?
IQ: Were you the teacher in "Stand & Deliver"?
IQ2: Are you the 20th literary giant with descendants in acting?
IQ3: Are you the Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for NBC?
Dunno, not Ernest Hemingway (I'm a fan), and dunno.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
8. not a scientist/inventor
9. not an explorer/adventurer
Jaime Escalante
Correct
Richard Engel
DQ: Businessman?
DQ2: Died before 1950?
IQ: Did you co-write the "Communist Manifesto"?
IQ2: Were you the Beav's troublemaker best friend?
IQ3: Did your character begin every story with,"Picture it, Sicily...."
Not Friedrich Engels, dunno and dunno.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
8. not a scientist/inventor
9. not an explorer/adventurer
10. businessman
11. died before 1950
Correct
Eddie Haskell
Estelle Getty (Sophia from "Golden Girls")
DQ: American?
DQ reserved
IQ: Were you forceably repatriated to Cuba?
IQ2: Were you considered the 5th Beatle?
IQ3: Were you the last POTUS born in the 19th century?
Not Elian Gonzales, dunno (not Pete Best or Stuart Sutcliffe... it's on the tip of my tongue, dammit!), and not Dwight D. Eisenhower.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
8. not a scientist/inventor
9. not an explorer/adventurer
10. businessman
11. died before 1950
12. American
Correct
Brian Epstein
Correct
DQ: Born East of the Mississippi?
DQ2: Born South of the Mason-Dixon Line?
IQ: Did you recently play an adult Rusty Griswald in a new "Vacation" movie?
IQ2: Are you the late MSNBC pundit whose catchphrase was,"Let's get to work"?
IQ3: Did you play the Mission Control director in "Apollo 13"?
Dunno, dunno, and not Ed Harris.
E
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not in the Arts
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. born after 1800
8. not a scientist/inventor
9. not an explorer/adventurer
10. businessman
11. died before 1950
12. American
13. born east of the Miss. River
14. born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
Ed Helms
Ed Schultz
Correct
EdX3
DQ: Namesake of company/product?
DQ2: Born after 1875?
IQ: Are you the namesake of a notorious consumer flop?
IQ2: Were you the Sweathog with a fro?
IQ3: Were you the famous Channel swimmer?
Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed
Edsel Ford
I'd always thought he had a big ego and named the car after himself, but he was in fact dead by that time and it was named in his honor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel_Ford
Good job, Erictelevision!
Go me! I knew he didn't name the car, but didn't realize he was dead.
The others:
Juan Epstein
Gertrude Ederle
Latter soon