Ok, here we go, the letter is W
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
IQs:
Did a book of yours recently return home after visiting seven libraries?
Did you like to play with toy dinosaurs?
Were you fooled by the Red-Headed League?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Previous IQs:
Did a book of yours recently return home after visiting seven libraries? - George Washington, whose annotated bound copy of the U.S. Constitution made the rounds of other Presidential libraries.
Did you like to play with toy dinosaurs? - Wash on Serenity.
Were you fooled by the Red-Headed League? - Jabez Wilson.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with W?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy?
Was your middle name recently said to be "Hamish"?
Did you play the near-manic commander of the USS Constellation?
I want the answer to EH's second question to be "Jesus," as in "Jesus H. Christ."
IQs:
1. Was a certain kind of foot-covering named after you?
2. Did David Mitchell once take a bunch of fellow comedians to task for insulting your looks, rather than the fact that you're just a horrible, repellant person?
3. Are you a detective who rarely leaves his New York townhouse even to solve a murder, but will make exceptions for flower shows?
Nope, not him!: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...jesus-h-christ
DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name start with W
I'll just pass on all three of those, although I should probably know the third one, any name currently escapes me. 3 DQs coming your way.
1. The Duke of Wellington
2. That's probably his partner being insulted - somebody Webb
3. Nope - don't know any New York detectives into flower shows - STUMPED
Take a DQ or two
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1. Yes, although I was going for Arthur Wellesley so as not to be a hypocrite (see: Essex, Earl of)
2. Good heavens, no, Robert Webb isn't a horrible repulsive person! Ann Widdecombe. On "Would I Lie to You," Angus Deayton and the other panelists were going for the easy laughs at Widdecombe for appearance when Mitchell said, "I would sort of like to say, in defense of Ann Widdecombe, is that the thing that's bad about her is all of her horrible views, not the fact that she's ugly. Is that the best you can do, with this woman who's voted against gay rights, and horribly wanted to get into power and make us do horrible things, this evil person, and the only thing we can say about her is that she doesn't look great?" One of his typically on-point comments. (Big fan of his, in case you couldn't tell.)
3. Nero Wolfe, the co-star of my favorite mystery novel series written by Rex Stout. Lovely books, you should read them.
DQs:
4. Living?
5. European?
IQs:
1. In about a year or so, will you beat a particularly noteworthy record currently held by your great-great-grandmother?
2. Are you the reason why the person in #1 is even in the running to beat that record?
3. Did you build the remarkable last resting place of one of the people in my last set of questions?
Yeah, totally destined star-crossed pair indeed.
1. Yes, I am Elizabeth Windsor - aka Queen Elizabeth II
2. That could be her mother also Elizabeth Windsor aka The Queen Mother, although I'm betting your thinking of Wallis Simpson
3. The answer is probably Christopher Wren, when it comes to the Duke of Wellington.
I was hoping that would be a difficult one as her surname is so rarely used.
Congrats choie.
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Well done, choie. I assume you were referring to breaking Queen Victoria's record for longest reign, CIAS?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ength_of_reign
Previous IQs:
Were you Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy? - Gideon Welles.
Was your middle name recently said to be "Hamish"? - Dr. John H. Watson, in the most recent season of Sherlock.
Did you play the near-manic commander of the USS Constellation? - William Windom, playing Commodore Matt Decker in ST:TOS "The Doomsday Machine."
Oh man, sorry CIAS, but that cracks me up! Lucky strike after 3 DQs! Actually I immediately thought of Lizzie W. because she was my first pick in the first (and only) Botticelli game I ran on my own forum. (Yes, EH, I was thinking of Victoria's impressive reign. Seems like the women on this side of her family live nice long lives, so I'm hoping QEII will surpass her ancestor.)
I was indeed thinking of Wallis Simpson rather than the Queen Mum, although she would've been a perfectly legit choice too; Christopher Wren also for the win.
EH would you take over for me in the answer-giver duties? I find it more taxing to answer than to question, plus it seems like it's been a while since we had one of your amazingly esoteric choices.
Ow, ow, quit twisting my arm!
Oh... OK. If you insist.
Our letter is (and I don't think we've done it before)
Z.
IQs:
1. Were you president of the galaxy before stealing the Heart of Gold
2. Were you the first human to invent a warp capable ship?
3. Are you a footballer famous for headbutting someone in a world cup final?
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Not Zaphod Beeblebrox (he's one hoopy frood!), Zefram Cochrane or... someone I don't know.
Wow, Z. This will either be super-easy or super-hard. I'm suddenly reminded of an old gag in I Love Lucy where Ricky was, I think, looking up something in the phone book and Lucy asked him what the name began with, and Ricky said "Z! Z! As in Xavier Cugat!" Okay, yes, my pop culture references are sixty years old. Ahem. Anyway... the game is afoot!
1. Speaking of feet, is your name often considered synonymous with a device your company produces that's used by many seniors to help them keep their balance?
2. Can some of your ancient theoretical puzzles (supposedly) be solved by mathemeticians but (apparently) not by philosophers?
3. Are you one of Babar's best friends?
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I don't know any of your respective three. Three DQs apiece.
Z.
1. Fictional
Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 14 Mar 2014 at 05:01 PM.
Not to rub it in, but I'm genuinely surprised you didn't get each of our second questions. I think you'll kick yourself over CIAS's (since that was the only one of his I know!).
1. Robert Zimmer, from whom we get the now-generic (but used to be only a brand) Zimmer frame, aka walker. More commonly a UK term, I think, but hey, I know it.
2. The mathematician Zeno, famous for "Zeno's Paradoxes," including the old Achilles vs. the Tortoise paradox regarding infinitely smaller distances (similar to the idea that if were to take a point in the distance and then journey halfway there, and then travelled halfway the distance again, and on and on and on, you'll never reach the end).
3. Zephir, from the awesome Babar books, including Babar and Zephir
DQs:
2. Female?
3. Last name begins with Z?
4. If real, would s/he be alive today?
Last edited by choie; 14 Mar 2014 at 07:39 PM.
I remembered the monkey, but not his name.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
1. Benjamin Zephaniah
2. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook
3. Ziggy Stardust - one of David Bowie's alt personas
Aah, the joys of Xeno vs Zeno
DQ:
1. Human?
2. American?
3. Appears in mainly in print?
IQ:
1. Was your catchphrase. "Time for bed everybody."?
2. Were you the guiding wizard of the Seeker?
3. Did you live with your friends, George and Bungle?
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Dunno any of those three.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
A chain of IQs:
1. Like #3, are you an egotistical and greedy (yet oddly, much-lauded) person in command who is particularly fond of velour as well as walking around nearly bare-assed?
2. Like #1, do you walk around almost completely bare-assed, but are short, bald, big-nosed, and quite staggeringly pathetic?
3. Like #2, are you short, bald, and big-nosed, and like #1 are an egotistical and greedy person in command--and also get sexual pleasure in a way that most of us wouldn't consider quite as... stimulating?
1. Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout
2. Zeddicus from legend of the seeker.
3. Zippy from kid's show Rainbow.
DQ:
1. First seen in film?
2. Appeared in contemporary works?
1DQ reserved.
IQ.
1. Were you a herald of Gozer?
2. Did you play the psycho to Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill's married couple?
3. Were you Lost in Space?
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choie, dunno any of yours. Take three DQs.
CIAS, I have never heard of any of the people in your IQ answers. choie, have you?
As to your three new IQs, I'm not Zuul from Ghostbusters; dunno the other two. Two DQs.
It pains me to admit I've heard of the Legend of the Seeker dude (Zeddicus), and I am saddened yet again that so much of our crap TV is being exported.
My answers are:
Zapp Brannigan (Futurama -- he's based on Shatner/Kirk!)
Ziggy from, well, Ziggy
Grand freakin' Nagus Zek from... oh, I won't insult you.
You didn't answer CIAS's DQs from earlier, though. Will reserve them until we're caught up.
Zebedee is from both TV and film.
Zippy is a very well known character in the UK, maybe Rainbow didn't get as far as the USA.
2. Billy Zane from the film Dead Calm
3. Dr Zachary Smith from both the TV series and the film.
I will also point out that Legend of the Seeker is one of the better series that the USA has produced UP UNTIL THE POINT IT WAS CANCELLED
The Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind OTOH, first couple good, rest bad.
DQs held until the last set answered.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
8. first seen in film
9. appeared in contemporary works
All righty! Thanks, EH.
Gotta earn some more of those sweet, sweet DQs.
1. Are you a talented but kinda jerkish scientist who made significant contributions to medical technology nearly 400 years from now?
2. Moving back nearly 100 years, are you the once-vibrant spouse of a well-known author, both becoming famous in your own ways and, after your marriage dissolved, both flaming out (shall we say) in different, tragic ends?
3. Are you and your identically-named ancestors/descendants linked by getting kidnapped by the same annoying villain, and being saved by different interations of the same hero?
DQs:
10. Ever adapted to a TV version?
11. Would most consider you a "good guy"?
Edited to remove my second question, which had to do with when the film premiered. CIAS -- I'm not sure if by "contemporary works" EH means the films are set in contemporary times, or if they were made in contemporary times. What do you think? Should I ask for this clarification by asking if the film premiered post-(some date)?
Last edited by choie; 18 Mar 2014 at 04:21 PM.
Dunno any of those IQs. Three DQs.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
8. first seen in film
9. appeared in contemporary works, both as set and when made
1. Lewis Zimmerman, aka the creator and model for the Emergency Medical Hologram (aka The Doctor, played by Robert Picardo) on ST:VOY, although the character first appeared on the far superior DS9 when he wanted to use Bashir as the model for a Longterm Medical Hologram -- the episode where we found out dear Julian is(spoilered just in case some poor souls haven't seen DS9 in full yet).Spoiler (mouseover to read):
genetically enhanced
(Now you're scaring me, EH. That's two gimme Trek questions you've missed! Are you not a DS9 fan?)
2. Zelda Fitzgerald, a notorious party gal and the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was, I believe, bipolar (or would be considered so now) and ended up institutionalized. He died an alcoholic; she died in the hospital when it caught fire. Hence my incredibly bad-taste in using "flamed out." I know, I know, terrible. Sorry.
3. Princess Zelda, from the Legend of Zelda videogames. Her hero is "Link." Hence my use of "linked."
Ooh and thanks for the clarification on the contemporary issue! The freebie is appreciated. Didja see my DQs, though? I'll re-ask 'em.
10. Ever adapted into a TV version?
11. Would most consider you a "good guy"?
Reserved 3 DQs to let CIAS have his shot, and also to wait on the answers to the above.
Last edited by choie; 18 Mar 2014 at 11:58 PM. Reason: damn smilie won't let me do STDS9 correctly
DQs
12. Appeared in multiple films?
13. First film appeared after 2000?
1 DQ reserved.
and a couple more IQs:
1. Are you the physician for the Planet Express crew?
2. Do you carve your initial across the front of those you have defeated?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I do indeed like DS9. Sometimes my TTBF (Trekker trivia brain function) just doesn't work well.
CIAS, not Dr. Zoidberg or Zorro.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
8. first seen in film
9. appeared in contemporary works, both as set and when made
10. has appeared on TV in new material
11. would be considered a good guy by most people
12. has not appeared in multiple films
13. film first appeared after 2000
Wow. Okay, the film first appearing after 2000 puts me a big disadvantage. I don't go to the movies much anymore. Plus that lets out so many! Teen Wolf, Parenthood, Buffy, Stargate, uh, Sarah Connor (is that even still on? And wait, even without #13 a few of those two are disqualified by #12, what with the sequels and everything). Dang! This is a good one, EH! It's gotta be something way more obvious than I'm thinking but... yeesh.
Well I'll tentatively use two of my DQs.
DQs:
14. Was appearing on TV as of 2013?
15. Is he a live-action character?
(Not sure if "human" indicates this, but oh well.)
Build up some more of these so I have a buffer:
IQs:
1. Were your famous but kinda trashy western novels the favorites of Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H?
2. Were you commemorated in a Richard Strauss tone poem that would be used as the background of one of the most famous sci-fi--actually, no genre qualification even necessary--film openings ever?
3. Not very picky about your sex partners--or mindful of whether the act was consensual or not--did you once boink someone while pretending to be a waterfowl?
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Not Zane Grey (Eisenhower liked 'em, too), Zarathustra (love that Strauss piece - a lot of good stuff to it other than the famous opening) or Zeus.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
8. first seen in film
9. appeared in contemporary works, both as set and when made
10. has appeared on TV in new material
11. would be considered a good guy by most people
12. has not appeared in multiple films
13. film first appeared after 2000
14. not on TV as of 2013
15. live-action character
IQs:
1. Did you name your children Moon Unit and Dweezil?
2. Did your popstar father make your first name rhyme with your own surname which you promptly changed later on in life.
3. Were you the computer of the Liberator
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Not Frank Zappa, dunno the second, and not... Zero?
Still no freakin' clue. I have a feeling I'm gonna be really annoyed w/myself at the end of this.
IQs:
1. Are you a traitor to your own homeworld who's basically indestructible now that you've arrived on Earth--something that was only thought to be the province of a far more famous emigrant?
2. Was the film based on one of your most famous novels considered an early--and in the minds of most Jewish film studio heads, potentially too disruptive--attempt to address post-WWII anti-semitism (so much so that it was only one of the few non-Jewish-owned film studios was willing to produce it)?
3. Moving from films to theater, were you an impressario who produced not only fluffy story-free shows, but also what's generally considered the first truly ambitious, thought-provoking musical on Broadway?
I'm not Zod or Zanuck; dunno the second.
Bzzt! I mean, yes to Zod, but the second question said "one of your novels," not "one of your films." Although funnily enough I didn't even think of the fact that I referred to Gentlemen's Agreement being produced by Darryl F. Zanuck!
#2 is author Laura Z. Hobson. And she always uses the "Z" so I'm sticking to that.
#3 is Florenz Ziegfeld, as in producer of the Ziegfeld Follies, and most notably, Show Boat by Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein, which included serious subjects like the devastation of gambling on a family, and a couple trying to hide the fact that the wife is part African American (the show, which premiered in the late 1920s, was set in a time/place where miscegenation was still illegal). Previously the Broadway musical world was occupied by revues and light operettas.
Will wait for CIAS. I didn't do a good job on the DQs so I wanna see what he comes up with first!
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2. Zowie Bowie, son of David Bowie
3. Zen
I'm still totally stumped on the character as well. Been in a single film, which then went on to have a TV series, possibly appeared in some print.
Is contemporary with today.
DQs:
16. Works are considered to be in the crime genre.
17. Was the lead protagonist in the film.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I never said the bolded portion above. As for the print question, I answered it exactly as it was asked of me.
Z.
1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with Z
4. if real, would be alive today
5. human
6. American
7. does not appear mainly in print
8. first seen in film
9. appeared in contemporary works, both as set and when made
10. has appeared on TV in new material
11. would be considered a good guy by most people
12. has not appeared in multiple films
13. film first appeared after 2000
14. not on TV as of 2013
15. live-action character
16. works not considered to be in the crime genre
17. was the lead protagonist in the film
Hmm, isn't that dumb, I didn't notice the difference between the question I asked ("Ever been adapted to a TV version?") and your answer! Sloppy of me. So this sounds like maybe a film that may have had a one-off sequel/tie-in (or two) that appeared on television in some way. What. The. Heck?
I also can't see a difference between what CIAS stated--"possibly appeared in some print" and his question/your answer "did not mainly appear in print." We don't know if he ever was in print, we only know if he did appear in print, it wasn't the bulk of how he got his fame. Isn't that accurate?
Though I'll be damned if I can imagine someone as famous as Botticelli who didn't get a film sequel. Is that even legal in Hollywood these days? Unless.... mmmmmmmaybe...
IQs:
1. Is your film perhaps the most iconic and wildely seen in history, despite being less than five minutes long?
2. Are you widely considered one of the most important and critically acclaimed African-American authors in the 20th century?
3. Are you a goofy, egotistical fashion model who something something something had some wacky international adventures? (Yeah I never saw the movie so don't know the specific plot.)
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Dunno the first, and I'm not Zora Neal Hurston, but yes, I am
Derek Zoolander!
Aw dang, I thought of him ages ago but dismissed it because I was obsessing on the TV series idea! And I also kinda thought he had a sequel, but I guess it's only been talked about. Surprising and rather refreshing that someone actually chose not to milk a comedy for all it's worth, aka Ace Ventura or Dumb & Dumber, etc. Although I still have no idea if it was even a good movie or not. But anyway, this was a good choice, EH!
As for the first question, shame shame shame! Does a guy named Abraham Zapruder ring a bell?
All right, ugh, I guess I go next.
The letter is.... R
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I was wondering when someone would get around to Zapruder.
Zoolander is mostly dumb but has some laughs. If you liked the trailer, you'll probably like the movie; if the trailer didn't tickle your funnybone, the movie won't either.
IQs:
Are you the most famous person from Dixon, Illinois?
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
Are you a Federal officeholder with the middle name "Glover"?
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I'll have to check out the trailer again. It's very vague except for seeing him on, maybe, the Daily Show? Some talk show, anyway.
1. Wow, not a clue. Don't even know that... town? City? Stumped!
2. Ronald Reagan! HA Just kidding. Ummm.... probably a Nazi, lots of R names there and I know they used false attempts at murder as excuses to take power. Or maybe I'm thinking of the Reichstag fire. Blerg. Stumped!
3. Yay, one I know. No, I am not Chief Justice John G. Roberts.
Two DQs right off the bat!
Previous IQs:
Are you the most famous person from Dixon, Illinois? - So close. THIS was Ronald Reagan!
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself? - The title character in the political satire Bob Roberts.
Are you a Federal officeholder with the middle name "Glover"? - Yes, Chief Justice Roberts.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Did you and the White House Chief of Staff swap jobs?
Did Denzel Washington play you in a noir drama?
Are you a jazz musician who played Oberlin College in the Eighties?
Nice one choie, I've heard of the film, but also never seen it and well done to EH for actually coming up with him in the first place.
IQs:
1. Were you the only one capable of leading a once a year party due to the inclement weather?
2. Did you mimic a companion to fool the Doctor after a regeneration to gain access to his intellect?
3. Are you a puppet pianist?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.