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    3.Living
    4.American
    5.Part of her last name begins "C"

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    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?

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    DQ
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    Not Clearance (*bells ring*)

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    C

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    2.Female
    3.Living
    4.American
    5.Part of her last name begins "C"
    6.No association with the Arts

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    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?

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    3 DQs

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    5.Part of her last name begins "C"
    6.No association with the Arts
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.Born AFTER 1950

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    Haven't thought about Cal Thomas in YEARS!

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    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?

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    Not Coretta Scott King
    DQ
    Not Grover Cleveland

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    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

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you MLK's widow? - Yes, Coretta Scott King
    Were you a fictional bucktoothed Vice President? - Cletus Spuckler, on The Simpsons:
    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?

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    YES!! I am:

    ALEXANDRA OCASIO-CORTEZ!

    BTW: I'm obviously neither of the Castro brothers

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    Great - thanks! I'll start the next round later today, I hope.

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    Sorry for the delay. Our next letter is

    E

    Have at you!

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    IQ: Are you me?
    IQ2: Were the nuclear scientist who invented the H-bomb?
    IQ3: Were you AG in the 80s?
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 11 Jan 2019 at 02:33 PM.

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    I'm not the great and entirely wonderful Erictelevision, nor am I Edward Teller or Edwin Meese.

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    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?

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    I endeavor to be great and wonderful.

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    And you do so damn well at it.

    Not Elmor, Edward Snowden or... Ed Manckiewicz?

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    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?

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    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

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    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?

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    Not Sir Edmund Hillary, dunno, and dunno.

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    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?

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    Not Eric Somebody, not Eric Holder, and not Eric Stoltz.

    E

    1. real
    2. male
    3. dead

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    Bieniemeny
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    Correct

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    IQ: Did you cofound Monty Python?
    IQ2: Were you a Norse explorer at the turn of the 1st millennium?
    IQ3: Are you his son?

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    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.

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    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?

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    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.

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    Ok, thanks.

    DQ: Born after 1900?

    Eddie Debartolo Jr.
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    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?

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    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

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    2. male
    3. dead
    4. not in the Arts

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    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?

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    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

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    Thanks, I knew I was in the ballpark time wise.

    Correct
    Eli Manning
    Emmy Fossum

    DQ: Political/Military figure?
    DQ2: Born after 1800?

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    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 ?

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    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

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    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?

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    Dunno, not Edgar Bergen and not Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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    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

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    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?
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 17 Jan 2019 at 12:58 AM.

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    Dunno, not Ernest Hemingway (I'm a fan), and dunno.

    E

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    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

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    Jaime Escalante
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    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...."

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    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

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    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?

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    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

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    Correct
    Brian Epstein
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    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"?
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    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

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    Ed Helms
    Ed Schultz
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    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?

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    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!

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    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

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