1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "L"
4.American
5.Dead
6.NOT Political/Military
7.Best known for the Arts
8.Died AFTER 1950
9.From a VISUAL art.
10.Won an Honorary top award
11.Actor
12.Greatest fame BEFORE 1950
13.Best known for movies
14.Not notably handsome
15.NOT known for drama
16.Best known for single role (in fact arguably a single SCENE)
17.Leading man, as in main character
18.His Honorary award was an Oscar
Were you a beloved Cleveland Indians player of the 1990s? - Yes, Kenny Lofton
Did you play the new sheriff in Blazing Saddles? - Cleavon Little
Did you direct Lawrence of Arabia? - David Lean
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "L"
4.American
5.Dead
6.NOT Political/Military
7.Best known for the Arts
8.Died AFTER 1950
9.From a VISUAL art.
10.Won an Honorary top award
11.Actor
12.Greatest fame BEFORE 1950
13.Best known for movies
14.Not notably handsome
15.NOT known for drama
16.Best known for single role (in fact arguably a single SCENE)
17.Leading man, as in main character
18.His Honorary award was an Oscar
19.Earned his Honorary Oscar BEFORE 1990
20.Died BEFORE 2000
Did you insist you were a "Red Sea pedestrian"? - Not Bathsheba, but Brian who was called Brian:
Did a man named Denny preside at your trial? - Harry "Breaker" Morant
Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Yes, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside
DQs:
Male?
Real?
IQs:
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.?
Did Gore Vidal play your political foe?
Were you born in London but grew up in Cleveland?
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.? - Yes, Bob Dole
Did Gore Vidal play your political foe? - The title character in the campaign satire Bob Roberts
Were you born in London but grew up in Cleveland? - Yes, Bob Hope
Bob x3!
DQ:
Living?
IQs:
Did a little old lady want to send you money in The Ladykillers remake?
Have you played a gangster, a private eye and a Soviet official?
Were you cast in an Eighties sf movie as a character who had a different ethnicity in the source material?
Did a little old lady want to send you money in The Ladykillers remake? - Bob Jones
Have you played a gangster, a private eye and a Soviet official? - Bob Hoskins, in The Long Good Friday, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Enemy at the Gates
Were you cast in an Eighties sf movie as a character who had a different ethnicity in the source material? - Bob Balaban, playing Dr. Chandra in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (in the novel, he was from India)
Bob x3!
DQs:
American?
Died since 1950?
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
Did you sing about a geometric form in a granular medium?
Did you play a bombastic duke in an Eighties movie version of Shakespeare's Henry V?
Did you play the valiant but troubled king?
Did you sing about a geometric form in a granular medium? - Ex-Go-Go Belinda Carlisle:
Did you play a bombastic duke in an Eighties movie version of Shakespeare's Henry V? - Brian Blessed
Did you play the valiant but troubled king? - This was Kenneth Branagh, but I'll give you credit
DQs:
Political/military?
Last name starts with B?
IQs:
Did you suffer from holodiction?
Did you forget your name when you met your future wife in a library?
Were you Archer's ODIN nemesis?
Did you suffer from holodiction? - Barclay, on ST:TNG
Did you forget your name when you met your future wife in a library? - Yes, Bill Clinton, at Yale Law School
Were you Archer's ODIN nemesis? - Barry, on Archer
DQs:
More political than military?
Greatest fame before 1941?
IQs:
Did you paint Venus arising from the waves?
Did you come out of the TREADSTONE program?
Were you Clinton's Secretary of the Interior?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
Did you paint Venus arising from the waves? - Yes, Sandro Botticelli himself
Did you come out of the TREADSTONE program? - Jason Bourne
Were you Clinton's Secretary of the Interior? - Yes, Bruce Babbitt
DQ:
Held Federal office?
IQs:
Were you Mike Dukakis's running mate in 1988?
Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire?
Did you write Enemy Mine?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
Were you Mike Dukakis's running mate in 1988? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen
Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire? - He went by Robert, not Bob, and I wouldn't call him plump, but I'll rephrase
Did you write Enemy Mine? - American sf writer Barry Longyear
DQ:
Held elective office in the Federal government?
IQs:
You are not Robert (or Bob) Urich. Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire?
Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Missouri?
Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Oregon?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
14.His position was NOT an elected office
You are not Robert (or Bob) Urich. Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire? - Det. Frank Belson
Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Missouri? - Kit Bond
Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Oregon? - Yes, Bob Packwood
DQs:
US Cabinet secretary?
Democrat?
IQs:
Were you a pugnacious Congresswoman with two five-letter names?
Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration?
Did you go from White House chief of staff to SECTREAS and later SECSTATE, then back to White House chief of staff?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
12.His position was NOT an elected office
13.NOT head of executive department
14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
Were you a pugnacious Congresswoman with two five-letter names? - Bella Abzug
Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration? - Griffin Bell
Did you go from White House chief of staff to SECTREAS and later SECSTATE, then back to White House chief of staff? - Yes, James Baker
DQs:
Served in Democratic administration after 1960?
Held Cabinet rank (UN ambassador, EPA, OMB, etc.)?
IQs:
Were you Jimmy Carter's ill-fated OMB Director?
Did you say that every true Christian "ought to kick Jerry Falwell's ass"?
Are your first and middle names very similar, and your last name is Rodriguez?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
12.His position was NOT an elected office
13.NOT head of executive department
14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
15.Served a post-1960 Dem
16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet
Were you Jimmy Carter's ill-fated OMB Director? - Burt Lance, fired when he came under investigation IIRC for banking issues in Georgia
Did you say that every true Christian "ought to kick Jerry Falwell's ass"? - Barry Goldwater
Are your first and middle names very similar, and your last name is Rodriguez? - Bender Bending Rodriguez, the robot on Futurama
DQs:
Served in a post-1976 Dem admin?
Left on his own terms or was fired?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you defiantly stand on a tank in Moscow in 1991?
Were you Jimmy Carter's guest and negotiating foil at Camp David?
Did you play Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
12.His position was NOT an elected office
13.NOT head of executive department
14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
15.Served a post-1960 Dem
16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet
17.Served under pre-1976 Dem
18.Left post voluntarily
Yes, I noticed that. Choie says she's got a website archival problem worked out now, fortunately.
Previous IQs:
Did you defiantly stand on a tank in Moscow in 1991? - Boris Yeltsin
Were you Jimmy Carter's guest and negotiating foil at Camp David? - Menachem Begin
Did you play Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law? - Burt Young, in the Rocky movies
Three DQs reserved.
Hmm. Not sure I know who this person is. It would have to be a Kennedy or Johnson appointee. I can't think of any Cabinet-rank but non-department secretaries whose last names started with B at the moment. Thinkthinkthink....
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Died AFTER 1950
6.NOT in Arts in any way
7.Political/Military figure
8.LAST name begins "B"
9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
11.Held job in Federal government
12.His position was NOT an elected office
13.NOT head of executive department
14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
15.Served a post-1960 Dem
16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet
17.Served under pre-1976 Dem
18.Left post voluntarily
19.JFK appointee
20.Still in position on 11/22/63