Are you
ISOLDE?
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Are you
ISOLDE?
Created after 1800, so no. Rather, I am
Irene Adler
One of the few women known to have bested Sherlock Holmes, and long admired by him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Adler
Rachel McAdams played her in the two recent Holmes movies.
Very nice! You used another Holmes character recently. I’m off to bed, I’ll think of a letter or IQs, depending on whose turn you deem it.
We're overdue for W, so I'll think about that if you'd like.
Sure, go ahead.
So, like I said, your letter is:
W
IQs:
Was Thurlow Weed your longtime political ally?
Did you joke about having worn Fat Boy jeans as a kid?
Is your home now open for tours in Cincinnati?
3 DQS
Previous IQs:
Was Thurlow Weed your longtime political ally? - William H. Seward, Lincoln's SECSTATE
Did you joke about having worn Fat Boy jeans as a kid? - William J. Clinton
Is your home now open for tours in Cincinnati? - William Howard Taft
William x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with W?
IQs:
Was Garth your best friend?
Did you win the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Did you costar with Kim Darby in a film late in your career?
Not Wayne Campbell (Party on Elendil!)
DQ
DQ
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins “W”
Previous IQs:
Was Garth your best friend? - Yes, Wayne from Wayne's World (Party on, Eric!)
Did you win the Battle of Fallen Timbers? - Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne
Did you costar with Kim Darby in a film late in your career? - John Wayne, in True Grit
Wayne x3!
DQs:
American?
Living?
Political/military?
IQs:
Did you and your siblings found a major business in the American West?
Are you the senior U.S. senator from Virginia?
Are you his former colleague?
DQ
Not John Warner
Not Jim Webb
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
Previous IQs:
Did you and your siblings found a major business in the American West? - Any of the Warner Brothers of Hollywood
Are you the senior U.S. senator from Virginia? - Not John but Mark Warner
Are you his former colleague? - That was John Warner (no relation)
Warner x3!
DQs:
Best known for the Arts?
Died since 1950?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Does the same actor usually play both your father and your nemesis?
Before your middle name was established as being "Thomas," did one writer speculate that it was "Thelonious"?
Were you a notable Confederate cavalry commander?
Totally should have known the Warner Bros.!
DQ
DQ
DQ (though I should know)
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
Previous IQs:
Does the same actor usually play both your father and your nemesis? - Wendy Darling in stage productions of Peter Pan
Before your middle name was established as being "Thomas," did one writer speculate that it was "Thelonious"? - Cmdr. William T. Riker of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Were you a notable Confederate cavalry commander? - Wade Hampton
DQs:
Died before 1861?
Best known for a single incident?
Businessman/entrepreneur?
One DQ reserved.
IQs to follow.
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman p/entrepreneur
DQ:
Athlete?
IQs:
Did a comedian say he hoped to be reincarnated as your fingertips?
Are you that comedian?
Were you a disgraced top judge in New York?
3 DQS
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
1.NOT an athlete
Previous IQs:
Did a comedian say he hoped to be reincarnated as your fingertips? - Warren Beatty
Are you that comedian? - Woody Allen
Were you a disgraced top judge in New York? - Sol Wachtler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Wachtler
DQs:
Associated with NYC?
Best known for role in the legal system?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you a mayor of Chicago who died in office?
Is your letter to Touro Synagogue famous?
Were you one of the first elected mayors of your city?
DQ
Not George Washington
DQ
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
12.NOT an athlete
13.NOT associated with NYC
14.No link to the legal system in any way
Previous IQs:
Were you a mayor of Chicago who died in office? - Harold Washington
Is your letter to Touro Synagogue famous? - Yes, George Washington: http://tourosynagogue.org/history-learning/gw-letter
Were you one of the first elected mayors of your city? - Walter Washington, of Washington, D.C.
Washington x3!
DQs:
Died after 1900?
Married to a famous person?
IQs:
Were you a musician who changed genders?
Were you a commentator on NPR who had the same last name as that person?
Were you a rock singer who also did?
3 DQS
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
12.NOT an athlete
13.NOT associated with NYC
14.No link to the legal system in any way
15.Died AFTER 1900
16.No famous SO
Previous IQs:
Were you a musician who changed genders? - Music synthesizer expert Wayne Williams became Wendy Carlos
Were you a commentator on NPR who had the same last name as that person? - Juan Williams
Were you a rock singer who also did? - Wendy Williams
Williams x3!
DQs:
Scientist?
Won a top award in his field?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Was your football nickname "Whizzer"?
Were you the heroine of a Joe Haldeman sf short story set on an environmentally-ruined Earth?
Were you the antihero of Breaking Bad?
Not future SCOTUS Justice Byron White (1st man to lead college football in Total Offense)
DQ
Not Walter White
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
12.NOT an athlete
13.NOT associated with NYC
14.No link to the legal system in any way
15.Died AFTER 1900
16.No famous SO
17.NOT a scientist
18.Holds top distinction in life (worded for accuracy/help solve)
Previous IQs:
Was your football nickname "Whizzer"? - Yes, Byron "Whizzer" White
Were you the heroine of a Joe Haldeman sf short story set on an environmentally-ruined Earth? - The title character of "For White Hill"
Were you the antihero of Breaking Bad? - Yes, Walter White
White x3!
DQ:
Journalist?
Greatest fame before 1900?
One DQ reserved.
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
12.NOT an athlete
13.NOT associated with NYC
14.No link to the legal system in any way
15.Died AFTER 1900
16.No famous SO
17.NOT a scientist
18.Holds top distinction in life (worded for accuracy/help solve)
19.NOT a journalist
20.Greatest fame AFTER 1900
Take that last DQ (will set deadline after I answer)
DQ:
Died before 1925?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins W
4.American
5.Dead
6.Not Political/Military
7.Not in Arts
8.Died BEFORE 1950
9.Died AFTER 1861
10.NOT best known for a single incident
11.NOT a businessman/entrepreneur
12.NOT an athlete
13.NOT associated with NYC
14.No link to the legal system in any way
15.Died AFTER 1900
16.No famous SO
17.NOT a scientist
18.Holds top distinction in life (worded for accuracy/help solve)
19.NOT a journalist
20.Greatest fame AFTER 1900
21.Died AFTER 1925
Please submit your guess by 3PM ET tomorrow. (About 24 hours)
You got an extra few hours, so our mystery man is:
ROBERT WADLOW, the tallest man in history
Never heard of him. Should I do the next round?
WOW! Genuinely thought you'd know who he is. I'll think of a letter.
Stumbled on site called findadeath.com, and the forum had an early thread on him.
I vaguely remember some of the world's tallest, fattest, shortest etc. people from The Guinness Book of World Records, but not him.
Sorry to leave you hanging! Inspired by my Instagram feed
Your letter is
C
IQs:
Did you marry your first cousin, a devout Christian who worried about your soul due to your work?
Did you serve on SCOTUS twice, and run for President in-between?
Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer's political thriller First Among Equals?
DQ
Not Charles Evans Hughes
DQ
IQs:
Did you marry your first cousin, a devout Christian who worried about your soul due to your work? - Charles Darwin; she wasn't crazy about his theory of evolution
Did you serve on SCOTUS twice, and run for President in-between? - Yes, Charles Evans Hughes
Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer's political thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour
Charles x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Were you Nelson's #2 at Trafalgar?
Were you recently U.S. ambassador to Japan?
Did you write a book about preparing for the role of Shakespeare's Richard III?
Remember the question, but not the answer
DQ
DQ
1.Real
2.Male
Colibri should have made a Plan to say John Marshall. ;)
This is going to be tricky, having a Botticelli "C" round going in two places at once.
Previous IQs:
Were you Nelson's #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood
Were you recently U.S. ambassador to Japan? - Caroline Kennedy
Did you write a book about preparing for the role of Shakespeare's Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow
DQs:
Living?
American?
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
Did you dictate letters to your spinster sister in Boston from far away?
Were you a longtime TV journalist with the same first name as that person?
Were you the last person of your rank to enter a particular room in England?
DQ
DQ
Not Neville Chamberlain
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.No connection to the Arts