IQ: Are you the former NBA player once married to Vanessa Williams?
IQ2: Are you the former NBA player who signed with the Lakers due to medical care your child needed?
IQ3: Were you called "The Voice of God"?
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. American
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. partly an inventor, but not his usual professional descriptor
8. not an author
9. not an explorer
10. born after 1850
11. businessman/entrepreneur, among other things
12. namesake of his company
13. main company not still around in 2021
14. product used by average American
15. product costs more than a month's pay
16. unable to determine how company ended
Morgan Freeman has been referred to as "the voice of God" and even played Him twice in movies, so I think my answer was valid.
F.
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. American
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. partly an inventor, but not his usual professional descriptor
8. not an author
9. not an explorer
10. born after 1850
11. businessman/entrepreneur, among other things
12. namesake of his company
13. main company not still around in 2021
14. product used by average American
15. product costs more than a month's pay
16. unable to determine how company ended
17. product not portable
18. most "consumers" expected to pay for its use all at once
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. American
5. born before 1900
6. not a political/military figure
7. partly an inventor, but not his usual professional descriptor
8. not an author
9. not an explorer
10. born after 1850
11. businessman/entrepreneur, among other things
12. namesake of his company
13. main company not still around in 2021
14. product used by average American
15. buying entire product costs more than a month's pay
16. unable to determine how company ended
17. product not portable
18. most "consumers" expected to pay for its use all at once
19. product typically designed to last 10+ years
20. product cannot be exhausted, as such
21. original company demise before 1950, I believe
Answer #15 clarified.
No more IQs; please ask your "Are you Firstname Lastname?" question by noon EDST Monday.
Is an important test of expert and scientific testimony named after you? - Not Mr. Darwin, but Mr. Daubert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauber...ceuticals,_Inc.
Do you work for the PHB? - Dilbert works for the Pointy-Haired Boss
Did James Arness play you for many years? - Yes, Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Did you want to get a spacecraft in order for your world to join the Empire of Humanity on more favorable terms?
Were you Bathsheba's second husband?
Did you joke, "Winston Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises"?
Did you want to get a spacecraft in order for your world to join the Empire of Humanity on more favorable terms? - The title character from Niven and Pournelle's sf novel King David's Spaceship
Were you Bathsheba's second husband? - The Biblical King David
Did you joke, "Winston Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises"? - Not Charles De Gaulle, but David Lloyd George, the British PM during WWI
David x3!
DQs:
Living?
Last name start with D?
American?
IQs:
Were you a lonely hero from Heinlein's Future History?
Did Roy Marsden play you for many years on British TV?
Were you Dagwood's boss in Blondie?
Were you a lonely hero from Heinlein's Future History? - Lt. Ezra Dahlquist, who single-handedly foiled a military coup on the Moon but died doing so
Did Roy Marsden play you for many years on British TV? - DCI Adam Dalglish
Were you Dagwood's boss in Blondie? - The short-tempered Mr. Dithers
DQs:
Best known for the Arts?
Born since 1950?
White?
IQs:
Did Jerry guess your name was Mulva?
Did Stephen King say you were one of his favorite British literary villains?
Were you Harry Rehnquist's wife's codename?
Thanks. You misspelled "Arts," for future rounds, BTW.
Previous IQs:
Did Jerry guess your name was Mulva? - Yes, Dolores, on Seinfeld
Did Stephen King say you were one of his favorite British literary villains? - Dolores Umbridge, from the Harry Potter tales
Were you Harry Rehnquist's wife's codename? - He was Boris, and she ended up as Doris (not Natasha), in True Lies
DQs:
Political/military?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you pursued by DCI Harry "Snapper" Organs?
Were you, too?
Did Jerry Ford try to get you impeached?
1) Real
2) Male
3) Living
4) FIRST name begins "D"
5) American
6) No connection to Arts
7) Born AFTER 1950
8) White
9) Associated with a Political/Military figure
Were you pursued by DCI Harry "Snapper" Organs? - Doug Piranha, on Monty Python:
Were you, too? - His brother Dinsdale
Did Jerry Ford try to get you impeached? - Yes, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
DQs:
Associated with a political/military figure now in Federal office?
Democrat?
IQs:
Were you President Reagan's last White House chief of staff?
Did you play King Tommen's wife?
Were you one of the leaders of the Mad Scientists' Club?
1) Real
2) Male
3) Living
4) FIRST name begins "D"
5) American
6) No connection to Arts
7) Born AFTER 1950
8) White
9) Associated with a Political/Military figure
10) Associated with a currently serving Political/Military figure
11) Democrat
Were you President Reagan's last White House chief of staff? - Mike Deaver was never chief of staff; this was Kenneth Duberstein
Did you play King Tommen's wife? - Natalie Dormer, on Game of Thrones
Were you one of the leaders of the Mad Scientists' Club? - Mortimer Dalrymple, in the kids' books of the same name
DQs:
Best known for who he's married to?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Are you the Second Gentleman of the United States?
Later a US senator, were you known for your controversial Nixon Administration report on the breakdown of black families?
Are you one of Illinois's current US senators?
Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 30 Mar 2021 at 10:31 AM.
Thanks! Good one. Seems like a nice guy, from all I've read.
My other previous IQs:
Later a US senator, were you known for your controversial Nixon Administration report on the breakdown of black families? - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Are you one of Illinois's current US senators? - Dick Durbin
Lemme check the list and think of our next letter.
Last edited by Elendil's Heir; 31 Mar 2021 at 11:40 AM.
IQ: Did you set early Cold War policy?
IQ2: Were you a political ally of Jefferson who later became infamous?
IQ3: Were you the 1st person to have the previous mystery person's title?
IQ: Are you the Midwestern governor who lost running for POTUS against a war hero, and thought it would be a good idea to challenge him again?
IQ2: Are you the general best known for your facial hair?
IQ3: Are you the famous CBS news curmudgeon whose daughter hosted a local PBS public affairs program?
Mystery person #2 above, you agreed, was Aaron Burr, who served as VPOTUS. John Adams was "the 1st person to have the previous mystery person's title." I don't think you get a DQ.
IQ: Are you the late night writer who pretends to be offended by your boss's racist jokes?
IQ2: Are you the baseball legend they had hoped to pay tribute to at the All-Star game?
IQ3: Did you play an amateur detective in a small Maine town with a HILARIOUSLY high murder rate?