TOTALLY should have known Paquin!
TOTALLY should have known Paquin!
IQs:
Were you Capt. Aubrey's ill-tempered steward? - Preserved Killick, in the Napoleonic sea-adventure novels of Patrick O'Brian
Did you command mortar boats during the Civil War? - David Dixon Porter
Did you command the USS Essex during the War of 1812? - His father, David Porter
DQs:
British?
Considered a beauty?
Protagonist?
IQs:
Were you a Bond girl with a particularly wince-worthy name?
Were you chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo?
Does a statue of you stand in Huntington Park?
YES! I am every teenage boy's favorite Bond Girl:
PUSSY GALORE!
Heheh. Good one.
Previous IQs:
Were you chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo? - Parker, in Alien
Does a statue of you stand in Huntington Park? - This was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio
Lemme think of our next person....
Right. Let's go with
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IQ: Are you Danica Mckellar's best loved role?
IQ2: Were you leader at Ft. Necessity?
IQ3: Are you the only POTUS with a Ph.d?
Not Winnie, George Washington or Woodrow Wilson.
3 for 3
IQ: Were you the longtime owner, and son of the founder, of the NY Giants?
IQ2: Were you the 70s ChiSox knuckleballer who pitched ridiculous numbers of innings?
IQ3: Were you the 80s Cardinals speedster?
Dunno x3.
Wellington Mara (son of Tim)
Wilbur Wood
Willie McGee
DQ: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: Living?
IQ: Are you the legendary pool player?
IQ2: Were you the legendary jockey?
IQ3: Are you the openly lesbian African American comedienne?
Never heard of any of 'em (all four)!
Dunno, not Willie Shoemaker, and not Wanda Sykes.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
Willie Muscone
Correct
Correct
DQ: American?
IQ: Are you one of 2 living Democratic VPOTUS?
IQ2: Could they take your life but not your freedom?
IQ3: Were you our commander in Vietnam?
Not Walter Mondale, William Wallace or Gen. Westmoreland (whose first name escapes me).
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
Correct
Correct
Correct (William I believe)
IQ: Are you 1 of 3 living Democratic POTUS?
IQ2: Are you Gal Godot's breakout role?
IQ3: Did you play Scott Bain's best friend on "Charles in Charles"?
Last edited by Erictelevision; 28 Aug 2019 at 04:05 PM.
Uh, I messed up the VPOTUS question! We have 3 living Democratic VPs! Forgot Uncle Joe!
No worries. And I see Dick Cheney is only six years older than Al Gore - I would've guessed much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_P...ice_presidency
I'm not William Clinton, Wonder Woman (hubba hubba!) and dunno.
WOW! That IS a shock!
Correct
Correct
Willie Ames
DQ: European?
IQ: Are you President Clinton's original Secretary of State?
IQ2: Are you the British PM who shared the last name of Dave Coulier's most famous role?
IQ3: Are you the famous Nebraska billionaire?
Not Warren Christopher, William Gladstone (?) or Warren Buffett.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
3 for 3
IQ: Are you one of the reasons the University of Dayton is called the Flyers?
IQ2: Did you die the same day as Gandhi?
IQ3: Are you the diminutive sex therapist?
I'm not Wilbur or Orville Wright, dunno, and not Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
The 1st was Wilbur, the 2nd Orville
Correct on Dr. Ruth
IQ: Are you the MLB pitcher affectionately called Fozzy?
IQ2: Were you the Dodger manager when they moved to LA?
IQ3: Are you the ESPN personality named after your dad and grandfather?
Dunno x3.
You get a DQ as to that second Wright question.
DQ: Asian
Michael Wacha ("Wacha, Wacha")
Walter Alston
Trey Wingo
DQ: Born before 1950?
DQ2: Military/Political figure?
DQ reserved
IQ: When you were in a job interview, did you tell them,"If there's a steady paycheck involved, ill believe anything you say."?
IQ2: Are you the NBA icon nicknamed "The Logo"?
IQ3: Are you the star female golfer who just became #2's daughter-in-law?
Dunno x3.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
6. born after 1950
7. not a military/political figure
Winston Zedmore from "Ghostbusters"
Jerry West
Michelle Wie
DQ: In Arts, broadly defined?
DQ2: Born after 1975?
DQ3: Asian?
DQ reserved
IQ: Are you the only British PM to win a Nobel Prize?
IQ2: Are you the golfer who had a shot at winning a major as a 59-year old?
IQ3: Were you the first great African American female Olympic champion?
Not Winston Churchill, dunno, and not Willa Jones.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
6. born after 1950
7. not a military/political figure
8. in the Arts, broadly defined
9. born after 1975
10. not Asian
Correct
Tom Watson
Wilma Rudolph
DQ: African?
DQ2: Actor?
IQ: Are you the great lefty Aussie golfer?
IQ2: Are you the character most recently played by Lucy Liu?
IQ3: Are you the pig who befriended a spider?
Read your list of things lawyers know, but Hollywood screws up. Another one I'd add, from the Legal Eagle YouTube channel:
Hollywood ALMOST ALWAYS skips discovery.
Just saw I have reserved DQ
Dunno, not Dr. Watson ("Joan" and not "John" on Elementary, IIRC) and not Wilbur (his owner, Homer Zuckerman, was the subject of a recent Doper round of Botticelli) from Charlotte's Web.
Wilma Rudolph, right! Couldn't quite come up with her.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
6. born after 1950
7. not a military/political figure
8. in the Arts, broadly defined
9. born after 1975
10. not Asian
11. not African
12. an actor
Mike Weir
Correct
Correct
DQ: From Latin America?
Last edited by Erictelevision; 02 Sep 2019 at 01:49 PM. Reason: I used the reserved DQ already
IQ: Did you famously do a parody ad for robot insurance?
IQ2: Did you play an FBI agent investigating the murder of civil rights workers?
IQ3: Was your husband the governor of the Bahamas?
Not Sam Waterston (one of my all-time favorite SNL fake ads), Willem Dafoe (whom I've met!: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...d.php?t=725540) or Wallis Simpson AKA the Duchess of Windsor.
3 for 3
Too bad they didn't screen "Mississippi Burning"
Last edited by Erictelevision; 03 Sep 2019 at 11:34 AM.
IQ: Did you play 1B for the Yankees until an injury on May 1 1925, only to permanently lose your job?
IQ2: Were you the UCLA great whose NBA career was ruined by foot injuries?
IQ3: Is your most famous album titled "Songs in the Key of Life"?
Can't think of an IQ but I'm thinking the Dope mystery person is Zora Thurston.
Dunno, dunno and not Stevie Wonder.Originally posted by Erictelevision
Please don't tell me your guess(es) until a Botticelli round over there is complete. If I had the same thought, it would seem like cheating if I then posted it over there.
Ooh, yeah my bad. Further answers eliminated her.
Wally Pipp (replaced by Lou Gehrig)
Bill Walton
Correct
Reserving my DQs pending the answer to the outstanding one (post #7737)
Slow Moving Vehicle guessed her
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
6. born after 1950
7. not a military/political figure
8. in the Arts, broadly defined
9. born after 1975
10. not Asian
11. not African
12. an actor
13. not from Latin America
DQ: Aussie/Kiwi?
DQ2: Known for drama?
IQ: Are you the Vietnam vet who became a welder and later a TERRIBLE Walmart greeter?
IQ2: Are you the actress whose breakout role was opposite Cher?
IQ3: Are you the British actress who famously had an online "countdown clock"? (This came up on Facebook)
Dunno, not Winona Ryder and dunno.
W.
1. real
2. male
3. living
4. not American
5. not European
6. born after 1950
7. not a military/political figure
8. in the Arts, broadly defined
9. born after 1975
10. not Asian
11. not African
12. an actor
13. not from Latin America
14. Aussie/Kiwi
15. arguably known for drama
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