No, I'm not John Adams, Michael Jackson, or Julia Child.
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No, I'm not John Adams, Michael Jackson, or Julia Child.
Did your success as a lexicographer help you earn both a pension and the title "Great Cham"?
Drawing a blank on the lexicographer. Have a DQ!
Samuel Johnson
DQ: Are you alive?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
IQs:
Are you a Persian poet whose followers became whirling dervishes?
Are you the most famous native of Domrémy?
Are you an American author who wrote "fiction as if it were a painful duty", according to Oscar Wilde?
I'm lost on the Persian poet and the Domrémy-ite. So have two DQs - three, if the third one isn't Henry James.
IQ: Were you a performer who often delighted your audiences by your creative use of bananas as costume?
IQ: Were you an American writer who was roundly abused by Mark Twain for your literary offenses?
IQ: Were you a rock guitarist who died young, but only after rather incongruously spending a time as the opening act for the Monkees?
I'm lost on Banana Guy/Girl, so have a DQ. I am not James Fenimore Cooper, though I agree with Twain's assessment of him, nor am I James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi & Joan of Arc
DQs:
Male?
European?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
IQs:
Did FDR joke that you didn't have the legs to be U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's?
Is your favorite booth at the Union seafood restaurant in Boston marked with a small plaque?
Did a notorious case of yours involve a little girl nearly disemboweled by a poorly-designed swimming pool drain?
Whoo, WAG time...
No, I'm not Joe Kennedy.
No, I'm not John F. Kennedy.
No, I'm not William Jennings Bryan.
Josepine Baker. Google "Josepine Baker Bananda Dance with Safesearch off, and you'll find why it was notable.
DQ: Are you primarily known as a musician?
IQ: Are you the tall Monty Python?
IQ: Are you the nine day queen?
IQ: Are you the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
No, I'm not John Cleese.
No idea on the queen. Have a DQ! :)
No, I'm not Jack Napier AKA the Joker.
IQs:
Are you a Baroque composer who had more than a dozen children?
Are you known for decapitating Holofernes?
No, I'm not...Johann Sebastian Bach?
No idea on the decapitator - have a DQ! :sci:
IQ: Did you die at the hands of someone who took Holden Caulfield way too seriously?
No, I'm not...John Lennon?
Judith.
DQ: Are you British?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
Yes, I was asking about John Lennon.
IQ: Are you in spirit (and countless stage productions), if not in fact, alive and well and living in Paris?
No, I'm not...Jerry Lewis? :fail:
Jacques Brel
DQ: Were you born before 1900?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.
Correct, Joe Sr. and Jack Kennedy.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
The third is disgraced former VP candidate John Edwards.
DQ:
Best known as a composer?
IQs:
Did you lose a lot of weight by eating food from a particular place?
Did a young blonde find out something shocking about you?
Did your hair color land you a peculiar job?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Not best known as a composer.
No, I'm not "Subway" Jared Fogle.
Drawing a blank of the second and third ones - have a couple of DQs!
Nine Day Queen - Lady Jane Grey
I was thinking of Joe Chill instead of Jack Napier but hey.
DQ: Were you born before 1900?
IQ: Did you become King after Elizabeth I
CIAS, Rube E. actually already asked upthread (posts #225-226) if my person was born before 1900, but I somehow neglected to copy the answer into the list. Here it is, and please feel free to reuse your DQ:
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.
8. Not best known as a composer.
No, I'm not...James III?
Great minds think alike :D
King after Elizabeth I = James I
DQ: Are you a Singer?
DQ: Does your First name begin with J?
1. Real person.
2. Deceased.
3. Male.
4. Born in Europe.
5. Musician, primarily.
6. Not British.
7. Born before 1900.
8. Not best known as a composer.
9. Singer.
10. Last name begins with J.
IQ: Were you well known for performances that would probably be politically incorrect today, and for your early association with the talkies?
Yes, I am Al Jolson. :bravo: :bravo: :bravo:
Nicely done! Our pattern here seems to be earning DQs, then using them to whittle down the potential choices until someone can nail it with an IQ. I don't know if that's how it normally is supposed to go, but I'm having fun!
Orual's "European?" DQ stymied me because Jolson spent most of his life in America, but was born in Russia. I hoped that answering "Born in Europe" would cover things without either giving away too much, or trying to be sneaky.
Anyway, ol' Blackface Al says, "You're up!"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lson_black.jpg
Heh. I knew very little about Jolson, but it seemed plausible that he'd been born in Europe.
OK: Hmmm...."H"
IQ: Did you debut on the Tracey Ullman show in 1987 and go on to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000?
IQ: Were you the first monarch of England's Tudor Dynasty?
IQ: Are you a pop singer who holds the record for most consecutive Billboard #1 Singles, with seven?
I'm not.. Homer Simpson?
I'm not Henry VII.
For the pop singer, I have guesses, but they kind of cancel each other out. Take a DQ.
Right on Homer and Henry, and the third is Whitney Houston.
DQ: Are you male?
1. Male
IQs:
Are you married to Claire Danes?
Are you a batty old Dickensian lady with bizarre taste in clothes?
Did you hatch out of an egg with one (or both) of your brothers?
A. Not As lucky as whoever that may be. Take a DQ.
B. Not Miss Haversham. (sp?)
C. Not...Huey?
IQ: Are you the first rapper from the West Coast to have a platinum album?
IQ: Were you the first major league player to achieve 3000 hits and 500 home runs?
IQ: Were you the first known human to join the Green Lantern Corps?
Not...l dunno...is Heavy D a real person?
Not.. Hank Aaron? (I don't think Rogers Hornsby got that many homers)
No habla comics. Take a DQ.
Heavy D is a real person, but the answer is MC Hammer. Hank Aaron is right, and the first Green Lantern was Hal Jordan.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ: Are you a fictional character?
DQ: Are you alive?
Somehow Hammer seems too harmless to register in my mind as a West Coast rapper. :)
1. Male
2. Real person
3. Dead
Congrats, Rube! Answers from the previous round:
Yes, Jared from the Subway ads (I didn't even know his last name).Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Lisa Simpson learned that Jedediah Springfield was not quite the hero that everyone always thought him to be.
Jabez Wilson was at the center of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Red-Headed League.
Yes, that's how it usually goes. You guys are doing great.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
So... H, hmmm?
IQs:
Did the men of the 101st Airborne take your words to heart during WWII?
Did you supposedly text your boss and his #2 guy to get "back to work, boys"?
Were you McKinley's kingmaker?
Ugg! I read that story for the first time within the last year! Hooray for retention! Boo for mine! :fail:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
No worries. I know only one Jabez, my cousin.
A) Hugh DancyQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
B) It's spelled 'Havisham', for future reference.
C) Helen of Sparta/Troy (daughter of Leda and the Zeus-swan)
DQs:
1) American?
2) Actor?
(a) Should know this, but not coming. Take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
(b) No idea. Take a DQ.
(c) Not Mark Hannah.
Heh, the egg one was ringing a bell from mythology, but couldn't get it.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
1. Male
2. Real person
3. Dead
4. American
5. Not an actor
IQ: Did you regret having but one life to lose for your country?
IQ: Did you found the oldest surviving institute of higher learning in the United States?
IQ: Did you, between playing tunes on your violin, popularize one-liner comedy with zingers like "Take my wife - please!"
(a) Not Nathan Hale.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b) Not ...Mr. Harvard?
(c) Not Henny Youngman.
Yes, John Harvard. :sci:
IQ: Did you complete a trio of fictional Korean War-era Army docs with your friends Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John?
IQ: Did Hercules have to fetch your girdle as one of his Twelve Labors?
IQ: Did you teach Eliza Doolittle to pronounce her aitches?
(a) You're probably not talking about Henry Blake, so take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b) I'm not ....ugh...Hestia?
(c) Neither Enry Iggins nor Henry Higgins.
IQs:
Are you Annie Sullivan's pupil, the ardent socialist?
Did you dwell by the shores of Gitchi-Gummi?
BJ Hunnicutt. Hippolyta. And yes, Henry Higgins. :)
Best known as a politician?
Died after January 1, 1950?
Not Helen Keller.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Not Hiawatha.
Should have got both the ones I missed, dang.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Anyway:
1. Male
2. Real person
3. Dead
4. American
5. Not an actor
6. Not a politician
7. Died before 1950
IQ:
Is yours the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
Are you the astronomer known as the "pioneer of the distant stars"?
IQ: Did you write arguably the quintessential American novel, introducing us to Queequeg, Ahab, and Ishmael?
IQ: Did you lose your status as kids' entertainment icon after getting caught diddling yourself in a theater?
Not John Hancock.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Not William Herschell.
Not Herman Melville.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Not Peewee Herman.
IQ: Were you the first Whig candidate for US President?
IQ: Are you the third of your name, country music royalty, who has largely eschewed your legacy in favor of a career in underground hardcore punk and heavy metal?
IQ: Did you shoot Robert Redford in The Natural?
Not William Henry Harrison.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Not Hank Williams III
Somehow never saw more than a few minutes of that movie. Take a DQ.
Barbara Hershey.
DQ: First name starts with H?
Heh, if you'd done "Did you appear naked in Boxcar Bertha?", I would have been all over it.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
1. Male
2. Real person
3. Dead
4. American
5. Not an actor
6. Not a politician
7. Died before 1950
8. First name doesn't start with H.
IQ: Have you achieved a more senior elected position in the United States government than any other Mormon in history?
IQ: Are you a golfer who improved his short game by switching to a putter made from a converted hockey stick?
Edwin HubbleQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. TewesdayNot William Herschell.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ: Are you a writer?
Literally every American Mormon politician I know of is named Romney. Take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
All I know about contemporary pro golf boils down to "Tiger and the white guys". Take a DQ.
Should have got that.Quote:
Originally posted by OrualEdwin HubbleQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. TewesdayNot William Herschell.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ: Are you a writer?
1. Male
2. Real person
3. Dead
4. American
5. Not an actor
6. Not a politician
7. Died before 1950
8. First name doesn't start with H.
9. Writer
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid. Happy Gilmore. :D
I'll hold my DQs until I see the answer to Orual's.
IQ: Did you probably roll over in your grave when Demi Moore appeared on the silver screen with a scarlet A sewn to her frock?
I'm not Nathaniel Hawthorne, but if I were, I'm pretty sure that it's not what Demi Moore did in that movie with her frock on that would make me roll in my grave.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
IQ: Did you use way to many words to say: "a guy went fishing and then sharks ate his fish"?
I am not Ernest Hemingway. If I were, I would have stopped part way through that sentence, when it was going well, and come back tomorrow and re-wrote it.
DQ: Were you born before January 1, 1900?
DQ: Are you best known as a novelist?
1. MaleQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
2. Real person
3. Dead
4. American
5. Not an actor
6. Not a politician
7. Died before 1950
8. First name doesn't start with H.
9. Writer
10. Born after January 1, 1900.
11. Not best known as a novelist.
IQ: Are you arguably the most important poet of the Harlem Renaissance, writer of such controversial works as Fine Clothes to the Jew?
Not Langston Hughes.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
IQ: Are you known for your pulpy sword-and-sorcery stories, that inspired ridiculous movies with awesome soundtracks?
Yes, I'm Robert E. Howard.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
All Hail Orual!
:sci: :sci: :sci:
:bravo: :bravo: :bravo:
:dumbo: :dumbo: :dumbo:
:hist: :hist: :hist:
Congrats, Orual! Answers from the previous round's IQs:
King Henry V, per Shakespeare: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...."Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Hillary Clinton: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/files/201...ry-texting.jpg
Yes, but spelling nitpick: Marcus "Mark" Hanna.
:sci:
OK, the letter is B, have at it!
IQ: Are you a teenage Texan whose dad frequently observes, "I tell you, that boy ain't right?"
IQ: Are you the only person with both a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize on the mantel shelf?
IQ: Did you once pull up in a limousine to pick up your food stamps while MTV cameras rolled, in spite of being a millionaire at the time?
I am not Bobby Hill.
I am not ... Barack Obama? (Do they have a Grammy category for audiobooks?)
I am not Bobby Brown?
Yes to Bobby Hill, yes to Barack Obama (he actually has two Grammys for his audiobooks), and the third is Ol' Dirty Bastard.
DQ: Fictional?
IQs
Are you the only Governor of Ohio to plead no contest to a criminal charge while in office?
Have you played a horndog President, a Little League coach and a farmer who wanted to be an astronaut?
Did you get a beer named after you because of who your brother was?
Awww, ODB.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
DQ:
1) Real person.
a) I don't know anything about Ohio governors - take a DQ!Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
b) I am not Billy Bob Thornton
c) I am not Billy Carter
IQ: Did you ask if the same God made the lamb, who made the tyger?
IQ: Did Patti Smith, The Pointer Sisters, and Manfred Mann all score Top 40 hits with covers of your songs?
IQ: Were you the first woman to receive a medical degree (MD) in the United States?
a) I am not William Blake.
b) I am not Bob Dylan.
c) I am not Elizabeth B ... something. I don't remember her last name! :fail: 1 DQ for you.
Blake is right; the others are Bruce Springsteen ("Because The Night," "Fire," "Blinded By The Light") and Elizabeth Blackwell.
Female?
Alive?
DQs:Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
Correct on the last two. The first is Bob Taft.Quote:
Originally posted by Oruala) I don't know anything about Ohio governors - take a DQ!Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
b) I am not Billy Bob Thornton
c) I am not Billy Carter
DQ:
Last name start with "B"?
IQs:
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
Have you played an unscrupulous prosecutor, a lovesick network exec, and a computer wiz?
Did you smooch Margaret as you left for home?
IQ: Were you stopped in the act of suicide by Clarence Odbody?
IQ: Were you famous for performing with a 40 piece orchestra completely composed of women in red high heels?
IQ: Did you rise to fame by broadcasting the beginning of the first Gulf War live from a rooftop in Kuwait, as bombs and rockets exploded in the background?
DQs:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".
Here are three stabs-in-the-dark:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
a) Baby Doc Duvalier
b) Matthew Broderick
c) Bob Newhart
a) George BaileyQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
b) RoBert Palmer! :sci:
c) Wolf Blitzer
Barry White, he of the "Love Unlimited Orchestra."Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ: Born after January 1, 1900?
DQs:
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
IQ: Although a man of many accomplishments, are you best known for your biography of a somewhat sharp-tongued but strangely loveable lexicographer?
I am not James Boswell.
IQ: Were you by far the most seriously injured victim of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?
IQ: Did you go berserk at Yankee Stadium in the infamous Pine Tar Incident of 1983?
IQ: In spite of a long and distinguished acting career, including Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy nominations, are you best known for having a real purty mouth and squealing like a pig?
a) I am not James Brady.
b) I am not A. Baseballplayer.
c) I am not Ned Beatty.
A. Baseballplayer = George Brett. :D
DQ: Primarily known as a politician?
IQ: Are you a mad, bad and dangerous to know aristocrat/poet/freedom fighter?
DQs:Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
I am not Lord Byron.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
IQ: Are you a 19th century French writer whose terrific literary output was fuelled by an equally terrific coffee consumption?
I am not Honore de Balzac?
I feel bad that I'm 38 years old and I still can't say his name without snerking. :smack: :DQuote:
Originally posted by Orual
Sorry, your guesses were all wrong.
Bob Roberts, in the movie of the same name.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, Seinfeld, and 2010.
The beloved but doomed Lt. Col. Henry Blake, on M*A*S*H.
DQs:
Born after 1700?
American?
Famous for the creative arts (writer, actor, singer, painter, etc.)?
IQs:
Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland?
Was a Kansas basement apartment your official residence?
Did your dad favor you over your kid brother?
DQs:
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
:fail:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
a) Lionel BarrymoreQuote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
b) Kevin Bacon.
c) John Wilkes Booth
IQ: Are you the favourite composer of a musical prodigy "Peanuts" character?
I am not Ludwig von Beethoven.
IQ: Are you the subject of a documentary biopic titled [Your] Magic Soapbox?
IQ: Are you the televangelist who built Heritage USA, at the time the third-largest theme park in America?
IQ: Did fashion designer Marc Ecko buy your record-breaking home run ball at auction, put an asterisk on it, and send it to Cooperstown?
a) Dr. Bronner?
b) Billy Graham?
c) Barry Bonds (If this is a true story, that is BAD. ASS.)
IQ: Did you write a novel whose title character was a young lady responsible for a rash of suicides at Oxford?
"Dr." Emanuel Bronner, Jim Bakker, Barry Bonds. :sci:
DQ: Writer?
I am not Samuel Beckett?Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQs:Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.
Good ol' Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.Quote:
Originally posted by OrualI am not Samuel Beckett?Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ: Are you primarily famous as a novelist?
You and your Max Beerbohm. :p
DQs:
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.
11) Not primarily famous as a novelist.
IQ: In addition to gaining notoriety for your translation of Middle-Eastern folktales, were you also famous as an African explorer and for being one of the few non-Muslims to gain entry to Mecca?
I am not Sir Richard Burton.
Alas, your guesses were again mistaken.
Bob Hope.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Bob Dole, during the 1996 campaign.
Denethor favored Boromir over Faramir in LOTR.
DQs:
Born after 1800?
British?
Best known as a short story writer?
IQs:
Did you create a famous arrangement of The Nutcracker?
Were you a noteworthy dancer who defected?
Did you muse that you were maybe a god, but not THE God?
Oh, I am deeply shamed.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
DQs:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.
11) Not primarily famous as a novelist.
12) Born after 1800.
13) Not British.
14) Known for short stories.
a) I am not Balanchine?Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
b) I am not Mikhail Baryshnikov.
c) I am not George Burns! :sci:
Correct as to the first two, but Burns specifically said he was the monotheistic God in those I, God! movies. It was Bill Murray, in the coffeeshop in Groundhog Day, who mused on his own possible divinity.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ:
European?
IQs:
Were you played by a man who also played a Nazi and a turncoat scientist?
Did you refer to the actual street on which you grew up in several of your books?
Did you argue that your kidnapper was nothing like George Washington?
IQ: Did you both work in a library and write a famous story about a practically infinite library?
EH, I don't know the answer to any of your IQs, however -
Yes, I am Jorge Luis Borges. (AKA: My Very Favorite, AKA: The Best Ever.)Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
Congratulations, Rube!
:dumbo::whistle::bravo: :bravo: :bravo::whistle::dumbo:
:bravo: :bravo: :bravo:
So, I guess I'm up again.
Hmm...."H"
Way to go, Rube!
Blofeld, James Bond's nemesis, was played in You Only Live Twice by Donald Pleasence, who also played Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed and the bad guy in Fantastic Voyage.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Beverly Cleary often referred to Klickitat Street.
Dr. Beverly Crusher said that in one episode to a terrorist who likened himself to the first President.
So... H, eh?
IQs:
Did a friend of yours suggest the band leader speed up the song a bit?
Were you FDR's cadaverous but invaluable aide?
Although more famous later, were you an artillery captain in WWI?
Victimized by your own brilliance!
IQ: Are you an industrialist who is a godlike figure in Brave New World, to the point that calendar years are counted from your birth?
IQ: Are you a famous writer who, deemed too short to join the U.S. Army in WWI, joined the British Army?
IQ: Are you the famously inept deputy sheriff of Mayberry, NC?
Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
(a) Dunno, take a DQ.
(b) Not Harry Hopkins.
(c) Not Harry S Truman
(a) Not Henry FordQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b) Drawing a blank, although I really feel I should know it. Take a DQ.
(c) Can't think of how an H. comes in for Barney Fife, so take a DQ.
:fail: :smack :fail: :smack :fail: :smackQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
So, let me tell you a story. I did the Henry Ford one, and then thought to myself, "Well, who else would be fun to throw in?" Only I'd forgotten that Henry Ford was there for his H, not his F, and I went off mentally, in search of more F guys. Which I found - William Faulkner and Barney Fife - only that doesn't really help us here, does it?
This game just keeps on giving. :lol:Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp:fail: :smack :fail: :smack :fail: :smackQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
So, let me tell you a story. I did the Henry Ford one, and then thought to myself, "Well, who else would be fun to throw in?" Only I'd forgotten that Henry Ford was there for his H, not his F, and I went off mentally, in search of more F guys. Which I found - William Faulkner and Barney Fife - only that doesn't really help us here, does it?
And I was hoping to find out that Barney's real first name was Hiram or something.
IQs:
Are you the Father of History?
Did you live in the hall of Heorot?
Are you going to be playing Jean Valjean in the upcoming Les Mis movie?
(a) Not Herodotus.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
(b) Not coming to me. Take a DQ.
(c) Not...Hugh Jackman?
IQ: Were you the last democratically elected president of the Weimar Republic?
IQ: Are you the paper-shredding secretary who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal?
IQ: Did you (actually, not just onscreen) play bass for Spinal Tap?
Bob Hope (yes, him again) and Sammy Davis Jr. were pretending to be political running mates in a Seventies TV special. They did a song and dance routine, and Davis suggested to the conductor that the band play faster, presumably to provoke poor ol' Bob to have a heart attack.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Yes, Hopkins and Truman.
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Did your husband think your newborn child understood gravity when she really didn't?
Did you hide a fugitive while doing the dishes?
Are you a licensed American pilot but much more famous for something else?
(a). Not Hindenburg.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b). Not Fawn Hall.
(c). Not....Harry Shearer?
Hrothgar.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday(b) Not coming to me. Take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ: Male?
IQs:
a) Are you a well-known conductor on the Underground Railroad?
b) Are you known for writing depressing stories about waifs, ex-cons, gypsies, and hunchbacks?
None of these are coming to me, so take DQs.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's HeirBob Hope (yes, him again) and Sammy Davis Jr. were pretending to be political running mates in a Seventies TV special. They did a song and dance routine, and Davis suggested to the conductor that the band play faster, presumably to provoke poor ol' Bob to have a heart attack.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Yes, Hopkins and Truman.
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Did your husband think your newborn child understood gravity when she really didn't?
Did you hide a fugitive while doing the dishes?
Are you a licensed American pilot but much more famous for something else?
Orual, I'm neither Harriet Tubman nor Victor Hugo.
DQs:
1. Real
2. Male
IQ: Did you found the only rival league ever to break the NFL's choke hold on pro football, allowing you to merge with them as equals?
IQ: Did you win your first Grammy for providing the soundtrack to a film starring a character with your same first name?
IQ: Did you originally publish under your initials because you worried that tough-subject-matter novels such as The Outsiders wouldn't sell if the public knew you were a woman?
(a) I have no idea who founded the AFL, so take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b) Lots of "H" musicians and songwriters in my mind, no movie characters to match them, so take a DQ.
(c) I am not S. Hinton. (Never knew that story about her, or had forgotten. Not surprising, though. Ursual Leguin has often written about being asked to go by her initials when writing for "Playboy".)
Lamar Hunt, Harry Connick Jr. (for the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack), Susan Eloise "S. E." Hinton. And hey, I'm just proud that I managed to do the right letter this time. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ: Alive?
I'll hold the other DQ until I see the answer to that one.
1. RealQuote:
Originally posted by OneCentStampLamar Hunt, Harry Connick Jr. (for the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack), Susan Eloise "S. E." Hinton. And hey, I'm just proud that I managed to do the right letter this time. :DQuote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ: Alive?
I'll hold the other DQ until I see the answer to that one.
2. Male
3. Dead
DQ: Died before 1/1/1900?
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
IQ: Did you take it upon yourself to fix your outsized upper incisors, despite being the child of two dentists?
IQ: Did you take it upon yourself to amputate your supernumerary right middle finger, despite being a psychiatrist, not a surgeon?
IQs:
Do you live in the Montparnasse railway station?
Were you formerly a psychiatrist at an institution for the criminally insane, who got to close to one of your patients?
No idea who these people are, though they sound intriguing indeed. Take DQs.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
Not Hugo.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Not ...Hannibal Lector?
Dr. Harleen Quinzel, AKA Harley Quinn.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. TewesdayNot ...Hannibal Lector?Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
DQ: Are you an actor?
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
Hermione Granger. Hannibal Lecter.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ. First name starts with H?
DQ: Best known as a politician?
Damn, almost guessed Hannibal Lector.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStampHermione Granger. Hannibal Lecter.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday
DQ. First name starts with H?
DQ: Best known as a politician?
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
IQ: Is your reputation as the greatest lead-off hitter of all time bolstered by the fact that a record 81 times, you led off a major league game with a solo home run?
IQ: Did you propose a post-WWII strategy for Europe that, converse to the Marshall Plan, would have involved completely de-industrializing Germany and turning them back into an 18th-century style agrarian economy?
(a) Not Ricky Henderson.
(b) Hmm..not...Averill Harriman?
Rickey Henderson, yes. And former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, he of the rather vengeful Morgenthau Plan.
DQ: Musician?
Damn, I knew about the Morgenthau Plan, too. Getting old and forgetting stuff sucks.
Anyway
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
8. Not a musician.
IQs:
Are you a singer who shares a name with a famous Chris Sarandon character?
Did you play Lady Jane Gray in a 1980s biopic?
Are you Gotham's district attorney?
(a) I was not aware there was such a thing as a famous Chris Sarandon character. Take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
(b) I am not Helena Bonham Carter.
(c) My nerd-fu is failing me. Take a DQ.
Englebert (singer) and Prince (Chris Sarandon character) Humperdinck, respectively.Quote:
Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday(a) I was not aware there was such a thing as a famous Chris Sarandon character. Take a DQ.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
(c) My nerd-fu is failing me. Take a DQ.
Harvey Dent.
DQs:
Writer?
European?
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
8. Not a musician.
9. Writer
10. Not European
IQ: Did you survive two plane crashes in Africa, only to off yourself with a shotgun to the face in Idaho?
IQ: Has your son, based on your notes, more than doubled your sci-fi magnum opus, stretching it to over a dozen volumes with prequels and sequels?
(a) I am not Ernest Hemingway.Quote:
Originally posted by OneCentStamp
(b) I am not Frank Herbert.
Hillary Clinton, when Bill noticed that little Chelsea would roll up to the edge of the bed but not over.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Harrison Ford.
DQs:
American?
Novelist?
Died after 1/1/1950?
IQs:
Did you write about a guy who was content to let his other brother get fooled into joining the military?
Did a cartoonist draw you wearing an ancestor's oversized hat?
Was one of your best-known characters offered a gun but silently declined?
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
8. Not a musician.
9. Writer
10. Not European
11. American
12. Not primarily known as a novelist.
13. Died before 1950
IQs:
Did you write about a guy who was content to let his other brother get fooled into joining the military?
Did a cartoonist draw you wearing an ancestor's oversized hat?
Was one of your best-known characters offered a gun but silently declined?
Dunno, take DQs.
Harry Harrison, in Bill, The Galactic Hero.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Benjamin Harrison, wearing his grandfather William Henry Harrison's topper, to show he was unworthy of the Presidency.
Lance Henriksen, as Bishop in Aliens, is offered a gun before he goes through the pipe to remotely bring down another landing craft, but hands it right back again.
DQs
Fiction writer?
Won any major award?
One DQ reserved.
IQs
Did you play a hunky character who shared a nickname with a cartoon character?
Were you Lincoln's first Vice President?
Were you McKinley's first Vice President?
Bill, the Galactic Hero?????Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's HeirQuote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Harry Harrison, in Bill, The Galactic Hero.
Benjamin Harrison, wearing his grandfather William Henry Harrison's topper, to show he was unworthy of the Presidency.
Lance Henriksen, as Bishop in Aliens, is offered a gun before he goes through the pipe to remotely bring down another landing craft, but hands it right back again.
DQs
Fiction writer?
Won any major award?
One DQ reserved.
IQs
Did you play a hunky character who shared a nickname with a cartoon character?
Were you Lincoln's first Vice President?
Were you McKinley's first Vice President?
IQs:
(a) Not...Harrison Ford?
(b) Not Hannibal Hamlin
(c) Nothing coming to mind, take a DQ.
DQs:
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
8. Not a musician.
9. Writer
10. Not European
11. American
12. Not primarily known as a novelist.
13. Died before 1950
14. Fiction writer
15. No major awards
IQs:
Did you play a creepy New Zealand frontiersman with an entirely unnecessary nude scene?
Did you start out as a dentist in Atlanta?
(a) Not Harvey Keitel.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
(b) Not Doc Holliday.
Since you asked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill,_the_Galactic_Hero
This was Michael "Mickey" Kuzak, on L.A. Law, played by Harry Hamlin.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Yes, Hannibal Hamlin.
Garrett Hobart, Republican of New Jersey.
DQs
Short story writer?
Science fiction or fantasy?
One DQ still reserved.
IQs
Were you the top RAF bombing general in WWII?
Were you a Monty Python namesake of this officer?
Was Ole Golly your best friend?
IQs:Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's HeirSince you asked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill,_the_Galactic_Hero
This was Michael "Mickey" Kuzak, on L.A. Law, played by Harry Hamlin.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Yes, Hannibal Hamlin.
Garrett Hobart, Republican of New Jersey.
DQs
Short story writer?
Science fiction or fantasy?
One DQ still reserved.
IQs
Were you the top RAF bombing general in WWII?
Were you a Monty Python namesake of this officer?
Was Ole Golly your best friend?
(a) Not "Bomber" Harris.
(b) Not "Bowler" Harris?
(c) No idea, take a DQ.
DQs:
1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1/1/1900.
5. Not an actor.
6. First name starts with H.
7. Not a politician.
8. Not a musician.
9. Writer
10. Not European
11. American
12. Not primarily known as a novelist.
13. Died before 1950
14. Fiction writer
15. No major awards
16. Short story writer.
17. Wrote science fiction or fantasy
IQs:
Are you the founder of Scientology?
Did you write the Star Trek episode, "City on the Edge of Forever"?
Not L. Ron Hubbard or Harlan Ellison.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Are some of your favorite words "gibbous" and "eldritch"?
Damn straight, I'm H.P. Lovecraft.Quote:
Originally posted by Orual
Good work again, Orual.
http://www.dorktower.com/files/2011/06/MLCbasic.jpg
Heee! (Apparently the H stands for Howard. I did not know that.)
OK, I'm going with 'C'.
F'THAGN!!! :hist:
Yes, Arthur "Bomber" Harris.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
This was Colin "Bomber" Harris.
Harriet the Spy, from the kids' book.
Way to go, Orual!
C, then.
IQs:
Were you a noted ratcatcher on Monty Python's Flying Circus?
An abolitionist, was a famous athlete later named after you?
Were you not a welcome visitor at bars and taverns in your day?
a) I am not Colin Mozart.
b) I am not ... Carriet Ceecher Ctowe (take a DQ).
c) I am not Cliff Clavin.
Correct, Colin Mozart.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Cassius Clay.
I'll rephrase the third below.
DQs
Male?
IQs
An actual person who is now dead, were you not a welcome visitor at bars and taverns in your day?
Were you Lord Nelson's #2 guy at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you carry on a long correspondence with the French philosopher Voltaire?
DQ:
1) Female
IQs:
a) I am not John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman?
b) Well, it can't be Sir Thomas "kiss me" Hardy, so take a DQ.
c) No idea, have another DQ.
IQ: Did you once say, "Murderer who turn victim into human baked potato have real appetite for crime!"?
IQ: Did you impress the Fratelli brothers by regaling them with the story of when you made up a batch of fake vomit and threw it on movie theater patrons, thus touching off a barfing epidemic?
IQ: Did you have a decades-long, slightly adversarial friendship with Muhammad Ali, the depth and strength of which was demonstrated by the fact that he let you get away with calling him "Cassius" for your whole life?
I am not Charlie Chan (awwwwwwkward movies to watch).
I am not Chunk from the Goonies.
I have no idea, take a DQ.
Charlie, Chunk, Howard Cosell.
DQ: Real?
DQs:
1) Female
2) Real
No, not Johnny Appleseed. Temperance activist Carrie Nation, she of the hatchet and bad attitude.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.
Catherine the Great, the Russian empress.
DQs
American?
Living?
In the creative arts (actress, writer, singer, painter, sculptor, etc.)?
IQs
Were you the most famous person to hail from Plymouth Notch, Vt.?
Are you the most famous person to hail from Pin Point, Ga.?
Was your dad once, and only once, photographed eating an ice cream cone?
DQs:
1) Female
2) Real
3) American citizen
4) Alive
5) Not in the creative arts
I've got no clue for your three IQs, sorry!
Calvin Coolidge.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Clarence Thomas.
Caroline Kennedy: http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/im...am-0110-s2.jpg
DQs:
Last name start with "C"?
Political/military?
Over age 50 now?
IQs:
Did your future husband forget his name when you first met?
Did you once at a party, rather embarrassingly, refer to your boss as your husband?
Did your dad tell an awful group that he'd flush his money down the toilet before he contributed to them?
DQs:
1) Female
2) Real
3) American citizen
4) Alive
5) Not in the creative arts
6) Last name starts with a 'C'.
7) Not political/military.
8) Not over the age of 50.
And these?Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
The 2nd one is Condoleeza Rice, take two more DQs.
Bill Clinton went blank when Hillary asked him his name when they met at the Yale Law Library.Quote:
Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
Yes, Condi Rice.
Jimmy Carter's dad, Jimmy Sr., when the KKK came to ask for a donation.
DQs:
Involved in business?
Over the age of 40?
IQs:
Did your nemesis mock you for your accent and shoes?
Did your dad send you to a harsh school that you really didn't want to go to?
Did your work lead your wife to fear for your soul?