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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Were you the only high pick from the '86 NBA draft not derailed by drug abuse?
    IQ2: Was your resurrection the most notorious retconning in TV history?
    IQ3: Were you a 19th c. politician after whom JFK's least favorite city was named?
    Dunno and dunno; not George Dallas.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure

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    Brad Daugherty
    Patrick Duffy ("Dallas")

    DQ: Born after 1900?
    DQ2: In Arts?

    IQ: Did you go from "My So Called Life" to "Homeland"?
    IQ2: Did you go from a Cabinet post to an ill fated term as a national President?
    IQ3: Is your son the current "it guy" in the NBA?

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    IQs:

    1. Were you swapped at birth to become an ambassador's son?
    2. Are you a TV Chef known for her Canaries
    3. Are you a Grand Prix winner and son of another Grand Prix winner.
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
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    IQ: Did you go from "My So Called Life" to "Homeland"?
    IQ2: Did you go from a Cabinet post to an ill fated term as a national President?
    IQ3: Is your son the current "it guy" in the NBA?
    Not Claire Danes, Jefferson Davis and dunno.

    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    IQs:

    1. Were you swapped at birth to become an ambassador's son?
    2. Are you a TV Chef known for her Canaries
    3. Are you a Grand Prix winner and son of another Grand Prix winner.
    Not Damien Thorne (The Omen), dunno and dunno.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts

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    Dell Curry, father of Stephan Curry

    DQ: Scientist?

    IQ: Were you Lincoln's political AND romantic rival?
    IQ2: Were you the Senate Majority Leader who quit your Senate seat when you ran for POTUS?
    IQ3: Are you a public servant who: Served in the Cabinet, ran a major social service agency, Served in the Senate?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
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    IQ: Were you Lincoln's political AND romantic rival?
    IQ2: Were you the Senate Majority Leader who quit your Senate seat when you ran for POTUS?
    IQ3: Are you a public servant who: Served in the Cabinet, ran a major social service agency, Served in the Senate?
    Not Stephen Douglas or Bob Dole; dunno the third, but I should.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist

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    Elizabeth Dole.

    DQ: Athlete?

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    IQ: Did you make back-to-back WSOP Main Event final tables at the beginning of the poker boom?
    IQ2: Did you QB a team in consecutive playoff games in divergent conditions, going from a sauna to an icebox?
    IQ3: Were you the losing QB the last time the Super Bowl visited the area this year's game is?

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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    IQs:
    2. Are you a TV Chef known for her Canaries
    3. Are you a Grand Prix winner and son of another Grand Prix winner.
    2. Delia Smith (The Canaries being Norwich football team)
    3. Damon Hill (Son of Graham Hill)

    DQs:
    Businessman
    Surname begins with D

    IQs:
    1. Did being hit make you inform the other team that "You'se guys is history."?
    2. Did your comment about an armband to a fast bowler horribly backfire?
    3. In Street Fighter terms, are you known as "The Beast"
    In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.

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    Don't think I'd call the Department of Transportation a "social service agency." That suggests HEW, HHS or NIH to me.

    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Did you make back-to-back WSOP Main Event final tables at the beginning of the poker boom?
    IQ2: Did you QB a team in consecutive playoff games in divergent conditions, going from a sauna to an icebox?
    IQ3: Were you the losing QB the last time the Super Bowl visited the area this year's game is?
    Take three DQs.

    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
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    IQs:
    1. Did being hit make you inform the other team that "You'se guys is history."?
    2. Did your comment about an armband to a fast bowler horribly backfire?
    3. In Street Fighter terms, are you known as "The Beast"
    You, too.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist
    8. not an athlete
    9. businessman
    10. first name begins with D

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    Between being in Reagan's Cabinet and her Senate term, she ran the Red Cross.

    The most recent guys were:

    Dan Harrington ('03 and '04)
    Dan Fouts (1982, Miami and Cincinnati)
    Dan Marino (SB XIX)

    DQ: Died after 1900?
    DQ2: Born East of the Mississippi?
    DQ3: Born South of the Mason-Dixon Line?

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    IQ: Did you beat the Miami Hurricanes with a Thanksgiving Hail Mary, clinching your Heisman?
    IQ2:Are you a horn dog DA on the graveyard shift?
    IQ3: Did you hit a key HR for the Red Sox in the '86 ALCS?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Did you beat the Miami Hurricanes with a Thanksgiving Hail Mary, clinching your Heisman?
    IQ2:Are you a horn dog DA on the graveyard shift?
    IQ3: Did you hit a key HR for the Red Sox in the '86 ALCS?
    Dunno x3.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist
    8. not an athlete
    9. businessman
    10. first name begins with D
    11. died after 1900
    12. indeterminate, but probably born west of the Miss. River
    13. indeterminate, but probably born north of the Mason-Dixon Line

    I cannot find this person's birthplace anywhere online. Judging by later career, I believe these are the likeliest answers.

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    Doug Flutie
    Dan Fielding
    Dave Henderson

    DQ: Business produce a tangible product?
    DQ2: Died before 1950?
    DQ3: Business named after him?

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    IQ: Were you a star DT for the '85 Bears? (Watching the 30 for 30 now)
    IQ2: Were you derisively nicknamed "Mr. May"?
    IQ3: Did you name your burger franchise after your daughter?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Were you a star DT for the '85 Bears? (Watching the 30 for 30 now)
    IQ2: Were you derisively nicknamed "Mr. May"?
    IQ3: Did you name your burger franchise after your daughter?
    Dunno x3 again!

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist
    8. not an athlete
    9. businessman
    10. first name begins with D
    11. died after 1900
    12. indeterminate, but probably born west of the Miss. River
    13. indeterminate, but probably born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
    14. business produce a tangible product
    15. died in 1950
    16. business partly named after him

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    Dan Hampton
    Dave Winfield (Steinbrenner gave him the name)
    Dave Thomas (Wendy's)

    DQ: Product edible?
    DQ2: Product advertised on TV?
    DQ reserved

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    IQ: Is your product nicknamed "Hog"?
    IQ2: Are you a former Oklahoma State hoops star turned broadcaster?
    IQ3: Are you an actor best known for helping poor children battle serious illness?
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 06 Feb 2016 at 08:13 PM.

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    Clarification of 12 & 13: can we say that he's most identified with those geographical parameters?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Is your product nicknamed "Hog"?
    IQ2: Are you a former Oklahoma State hoops star turned broadcaster?
    IQ3: Are you an actor best known for helping poor children battle serious illness?
    Yeesh. Dunno any of these, either.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist
    8. not an athlete
    9. businessman
    10. first name begins with D
    11. died after 1900
    12. indeterminate, but probably born west of the Miss. River
    13. indeterminate, but probably born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
    14. business produce a tangible product
    15. died in 1950
    16. business partly named after him
    17. product edible
    18. product not (and never has been, as far as I know) advertised on TV
    18a. probably not really most identified with geographical parameters of 12 and 13

    That last one is the best I can do, as I see it, and not held against you as to the 20 DQ max.

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    Those were:

    Mr. Davidson (as in Harley-Davidson)
    Doug Gottlieb
    Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude hospitals)

    DQ: Fast food?
    DQ2: Usually a main dish?
    DQ3: Dish food, as opposed to a beverage?

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    I thought of Marlo Thomas, but not her father Danny. The "Are you...?" phrasing made me think the person you were asking about was still alive.

    D.

    1. real
    2. dead
    3. American
    4. not a political/military figure
    5. born before 1900
    6. not in Arts
    7. not a scientist
    8. not an athlete
    9. businessman
    10. first name begins with D
    11. died after 1900
    12. indeterminate, but probably born west of the Miss. River
    13. indeterminate, but probably born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
    14. business produce a tangible product
    15. died in 1950
    16. business partly named after him
    17. product edible
    18. product not (and never has been, as far as I know) advertised on TV
    18a. probably not really most identified with geographical parameters of 12 and 13
    19. not a fast food
    20. usually not a main dish
    21. dish food, as opposed to a beverage

    OK, that's it for DQs. Discuss amongst yourselves, then ask your earned "Are you Firstname Lastname?" questions, one apiece, by noon Tues. EST, please.

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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    IQs:
    1. Did being hit make you inform the other team that "You'se guys is history."?
    2. Did your comment about an armband to a fast bowler horribly backfire?
    3. In Street Fighter terms, are you known as "The Beast"
    1. Devon Malcolm
    2. Dean Jones
    3. Daigo Umehara

    As for who this is - not a clue. Good luck EricTV - it's all on you.
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    The deadline has already passed, but I'll extend it to noon EST Weds. for Eric.

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    Sorry, my iPad is temperamental. You stumped me anyway.

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    I am

    David Rosenberg

    of Harry & David and Fruit of the Month Club fame:

    http://www.harryanddavid.com/
    http://www.harryanddavid.com/h/view/about01
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_%26_David

    Best-known for his business in Oregon, but I could never find out where he was born.

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    Wow!! NEVER would have gotten that!! Never heard of him, TBH.

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    Ditto - never heard of him or even the Fruit of the Month Club before?

    Interesting choice.
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    I'm surprised - I thought Harry & David is pretty well-known.

    If one of you would like to start the next round, help yourself.

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    Okay

    I'm C

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    IQs:

    Were you Nelson's #2 dude at Trafalgar?
    Are you buried in Plymouth Notch, Vermont?
    Does your creator live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio?

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    Don't know Nelson's right hand man
    Not Calvin Coolidge
    DQ

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    IQs:

    1. Are you the current British PM?
    2. Did you have a funny walk and a bowler hat?
    3. Did you avoid death by Basilisk due to your camera?
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    Not Dave Cameron

    2 DQs

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you Nelson's #2 dude at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood.
    Are you buried in Plymouth Notch, Vermont? - Yes, Calvin Coolidge.
    Does your creator live in Chagrin Falls, Ohio? - Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes.

    DQs:

    Real?
    Male?

    IQs:

    Did you have a raccoon as a pet?
    Did you forget your name when you first met your future wife?
    Did you once head the Legal Services Corporation?

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    Not Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier
    2 DQs, though I should known the guy who got tongue tied.

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    1.Real
    2.Male

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you have a raccoon as a pet? - I'll rephrase.
    Did you forget your name when you first met your future wife? - Bill Clinton.
    Did you once head the Legal Services Corporation? - Hillary Clinton.

    DQs:

    American?
    Living?

    IQs:

    A woman, did you have a raccoon as a pet?
    Did a fictional young woman misidentify a young man as you based on his apparel?
    Are you a U.S. senator from New Jersey?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    1.Real
    2.Male
    3. American
    4.Living

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    DQ
    DQ
    Not Christie Todd Whitman (?)

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    Previous IQs:

    A woman, did you have a raccoon as a pet? - Grace Coolidge, Calvin's wife.
    Did a fictional young woman misidentify a young man as you based on his apparel? - Marty McFly's mom in Back to the Future kept referring to him as "Calvin," since he was wearing Calvin Klein underwear.
    Are you a U.S. senator from New Jersey? - Cory Booker.

    DQs:

    Born since 1964?
    Last name start with C?
    Political/military?

    IQs:

    Are you a U.S. senator from Texas?
    Did you allegedly name your horse a consul of Rome?
    Were you Marcus Aurelius's son?

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    Not Caligula
    Marc's son WOULD have earned you a DQ, BUT...

    I am indeed Ted Cruz!

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    Woohoo! Thanks, Eric. That was quick. Marcus Aurelius's son was Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator.

    I'll start the next round tomorrow.

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    Excellent goodnight.

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    Congrats EH

    Answers to mine were.

    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    IQs:

    2. Did you have a funny walk and a bowler hat?
    3. Did you avoid death by Basilisk due to your camera?
    2. Charlie Chaplin
    3. Colin Creevey
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    OK, our next letter is

    P

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    IQ: Are you a Greek-American tennis champ?
    IQ2: Did you write legislation helping working and middle-class kids afford college?
    IQ3: Are you #2's grandson, married to my celebrity crush?

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    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Are you a Greek-American tennis champ?
    IQ2: Did you write legislation helping working and middle-class kids afford college?
    IQ3: Are you #2's grandson, married to my celebrity crush?
    Dunno, not Sen. Claiborne Pell, and dunno.

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    Pete Sampras
    Clay Pell (married to Michelle Kwan)

    DQ: Real?
    DQ2: Male?

    IQ: Are you regarded as the greatest hold 'Em player of all time?
    IQ2: Did you "bubble" the 2003.WSOP MAIN EVENT final table?
    IQ3: Are you a classical musician who committed suicide because you were about to be "outed"?

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    IQs:

    1. Are you a party loving cartoon pony?
    2. Were you a coach used to cross Australia?
    3. Were you constantly being rescued by the Ant Hill Mob?
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