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Previous IQs:
Did your daughter marry a Congresswoman's son? - William J. Clinton
Was Thurlow Weed your closest political ally? - William H. Seward
Did you often take more food than was fair for others helping themselves from the same platter? - William Howard Taft
William x3!
DQs:
Political/military?
Died since 1950?
Best known for a single incident?
IQs:
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker?
Did you seldom use your actual first name in a popular British series?
Does Ed Harris play you on Westworld?
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
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Gotta look up Chelsea's mother-in-law.
Just looked, didn't recognize either of them.
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Previous IQs:
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker? - William Windom, on ST:TOS "The Doomsday Machine"
Did you seldom use your actual first name in a popular British series? - Not Wooster, but this guy: https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/...k_Scott_Holmes
Does Ed Harris play you on Westworld? - William LNU
William x3!
DQs:
Last name start with W?
Republican?
Best known for Federal office?
IQs:
Were you a longtime friend and songwriting partner of Dolly Parton's?
Did you order the destruction of Alderaan?
Have you been played by Robert Hardy, Michael Gambon and John Lithgow, among others?
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
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The only paleontologist I know is Ross Gellar.
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Oh, yeah, I guess him.
You told me more than you needed to for #9.
Previous IQs:
Were you a longtime friend and songwriting partner of Dolly Parton's? - Not Lyle but Porter Waggoner; different guy, and unrelated, I think (Lyle was the actor and Porter was the musician)
Did you order the destruction of Alderaan? - Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, in Star Wars
Have you been played by Robert Hardy, Michael Gambon and John Lithgow, among others? - Winston Churchill, in The Wilderness Years, Churchill's Secret and The Crown, respectively
DQs:
Died before 1866?
Ever ran for President?
Served in Congress?
IQs:
Did you have a horse named Nelson and a dog named Sweetlips?
Were your journals as a Confederate soldier among the best-known of the Civil War?
Were you one of the two male leads of The Last Samurai?
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Not the Duke of Wellington
DQ
Not Ken Wantanabe
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
11.Died BEFORE 1866
12.Ran for POTUS (at least once)
13.Served in Congress
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Previous IQs:
Did you have a horse named Nelson and a dog named Sweetlips? - Not the Duke of Wellington, but George Washington
Were your journals as a Confederate soldier among the best-known of the Civil War? - Sam Watkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Watkins
Were you one of the two male leads of The Last Samurai? - Yes, Ken Watanabe
DQs:
Represented a state that ended up in the Confederacy?
Ever served in the U.S. Senate?
IQs:
Were you just one vote away from succeeding Andrew Johnson to the Presidency?
Did you freeze out a diplomat for telling a risque joke at your expense?
Did you favor a pipe in public but cigars in private?
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
11.Died BEFORE 1866
12.Ran for POTUS (at least once)
13.Served in Congress
14.Home state joined the Union
15.Served in U.S. Senate
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3 DQs, though 2 or 3 could be our guy
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Previous IQs:
Were you just one vote away from succeeding Andrew Johnson to the Presidency? - Benjamin "Bluff Ben" Wade, Republican of Ohio, president pro tem of the Senate during the 1868 impeachment trial
Did you freeze out a diplomat for telling a risque joke at your expense? - Woodrow Wilson (the British ambassador supposedly joked with friends at a dinner party that, when the President proposed to the woman who would become the second Mrs. Wilson, "she was so surprised she fell out of bed." Wilson later heard about it and made his displeasure known to His Majesty's Government, which recalled the ambassador)
Did you favor a pipe in public but cigars in private? - British PM Harold Wilson
DQs:
Whig?
Ever served in the Cabinet?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you command the USS Monitor and later lead the US Naval Academy?
Did you command the USS Kearsarge in the 1864 Battle of Cherbourg?
Did you command the USS Carondelet when she made her famous run past Island No. 10?
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
11.Died BEFORE 1866
12.Ran for POTUS (at least once)
13.Served in Congress
14.Home state joined the Union
15.Served in U.S. Senate
16.Became a Whig
17.Served in the Cabinet
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Previous IQs:
Did you command the USS Monitor and later lead the US Naval Academy? - Capt. John Worden
Did you command the USS Kearsarge in the 1864 Battle of Cherbourg? - Capt. John Winslow
Did you command the USS Carondelet when she made her famous run past Island No. 10? - Capt. Henry Walke
Four DQs reserved. Lemme think....
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Happy Mother's Day to your wife and mom, and mother-in-law. :)
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Likewise!
DQs:
Rose to political prominence in the state of his birth?
Best known for Senate service?
Two DQs reserved.
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
11.Died BEFORE 1866
12.Ran for POTUS (at least once)
13.Served in Congress
14.Home state joined the Union
15.Served in U.S. Senate
16.Became a Whig
17.Served in the Cabinet
18.Rose to prominence OUTSIDE his birth state
19.Best known for his time as a U.S. Senator
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DQs:
Ran for President as a Whig?
Pro-abolitionism by 1860?
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W
1.Real
2.Male
3.Dead
4.American
5.Politics/Military figure
6.Died BEFORE 1950
7.NOT known for single incident
8.LAST name begins "W"
9.NOT a Republican, because the party hadn't been founded yet
10.Best known for Federal office
11.Died BEFORE 1866
12.Ran for POTUS (at least once)
13.Served in Congress
14.Home state joined the Union
15.Served in U.S. Senate
16.Became a Whig
17.Served in the Cabinet
18.Rose to prominence OUTSIDE his birth state
19.Best known for his time as a U.S. Senator
20.Ran for POTUS as a Whig
21.DEFINITELY pro-abolition
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How about 5 PM ET on Tuesday for your guess. (About 24 hours)
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I've wracked my brains and come up empty, although I bet I'll recognize his name when I see it. You got me.
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Giving up 3 hours early? :(
You're right, you WILL recognize the name, because our mystery man is:
DANIEL WEBSTER!
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:: Headsmack ::
Of course. Good one.
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Sure you want to do G again so soon? We just finished a G round on March 31.
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D was from last year, so yeah your letter is
D
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IQs:
Did a magazine article mention that you owned five tuxedos?
Were you a plump judge whom Lincoln appointed to SCOTUS?
Were you, a future British king, known among your family by this name?
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Previous IQs:
Did a magazine article mention that you owned five tuxedos? - Yes, David Dinkins, at that time NYC mayor
Were you a plump judge whom Lincoln appointed to SCOTUS? - David Davis
Were you, a future British king, known among your family by this name? - David (Prince of Wales and then, briefly, Edward VIII in his day job)
David x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with D?
IQs:
Were you a presidential candidate in the first season of 24?
Did your future wife play an anonymous baseball player early in her career?
Did Lincoln, in praising you to a White House aide, say you had "a big head full of brains"?
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I knew Dinkins, so I'll answer the 1st 2.
Not David Palmer
Not David Duchovny
DQ
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Oops, right you are. Thanks.
Previous IQs:
Were you a presidential candidate in the first season of 24? - Yes, David Palmer
Did your future wife play an anonymous baseball player early in her career? - Yes, David Duchovny (and Tea Leoni, in A League of Their Own, of course) - good job!
Did Lincoln, in praising you to a White House aide, say you had "a big head full of brains"? - David Tod, Governor of Ohio
David x3 redux!
DQ:
Last name start with D?
IQs:
Were you succeeded by Faramir as Steward of Gondor?
Were you a fictional U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's?
Did Brian Cox play your hard-drinking dad on TV?
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D
1) Fictional
2) Male
2) FIRST name begins "D"
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Previous IQs:
Were you succeeded by Faramir as Steward of Gondor? - Denethor, in LOTR
Were you a fictional U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's? - Damien Thorne, in The Omen 2
Did Brian Cox play your hard-drinking dad on TV? - Daphne Moon, on Frasier
DQs:
American?
Would be alive today, if real?
First appeared in print?
IQs:
Were you always present, at least in spirit, at Space Patrol roll calls?
Did another fictional character stand in for you, a real person, in a famous play and movie?
Are you that character?
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D
1) Fictional
2) Male
3) FIRST name begins "D"
4) American
5) Would be living, if he were real
6) NOT from print
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Previous IQs:
Were you always present, at least in spirit, at Space Patrol roll calls? - Lt. Dahlquist, in the books of Robert A. Heinlein
Did another fictional character stand in for you, a real person, in a famous play and movie? - Clarence Darrow, in Inherit the Wind
Are you that character? - Henry Drummond
DQs:
First appeared in a movie?
Good guy?
First appeared since 1975?
IQs:
Did a sword always hang above your throne?
Did your creator cry when he killed you off?
Are you that creator?
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D
1) Fictional
2) Male
3) FIRST name begins "D"
4) American
5) Would be living, if he were real
6) NOT from print
7) NOT from a movie
8) Good guy
9) Appeared AFTER 1975
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Previous IQs:
Did a sword always hang above your throne? - Yes, Damocles
Did your creator cry when he killed you off? - The title character in Little Dorrit
Are you that creator? - Charles Dickens
DQs:
From a song?
Typically carries a gun?
IQs:
Are you the main character from the Irish novel Ulysses?
Are you the short, irascible, glasses-wearing boss of a comics character?
Are you the subordinate of that boss?
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D
1) Fictional
2) Male
3) FIRST name begins "D"
4) American
5) Would be living, if he were real
6) NOT from print
7) NOT from a movie
8) Good guy
9) Appeared AFTER 1975
10) NOT from a song
11).NEVER carries gun
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Previous IQs:
Are you the main character from the Irish novel Ulysses? - Stephen Daedalus
Are you the short, irascible, glasses-wearing boss of a comics character? - Mr. Dithers, in Blondie
Are you the subordinate of that boss? - Dagwood Bumstead
DQs:
From comics (if that isn't included in "print")?
Has appeared in movie(s)?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you a tough British detective with a canine-related nickname?
Were you often played by Roy Marsden?
Did Halle Berry play you in a biopic?
