As discovered in the most recent Botticelli thread, Jimmy Hoffa is not dead. Well, not to me, at least.
After reviewing this thread by Elendil’s Heir, I decided there haven’t been nearly enough K’s…
K
Go!
Are you in an inter-species marriage with a pig?
IQ1: Did you crash your motorcycle at Caesar’s Palace?
IQ2: Were you a professor in the Kollege of Musical Knowledge?
IQ3: Is your best-known record album called “By Request Only”?
I am not Kermit
IQ1: I am not Eval Kenieval (sp?)
IQ2: I am not Kay Kayser
IQ3: No idea
Did you climb up the Empire State Building?
Korrect on Knievel and Kyser.
In IQ3, I was looking for Ken Snyder, whose album “By Request Only” has become an Internet meme of sorts–it is always included on the “Worst Album Covers of All Time” lists. You can see the album cover, and read a little about Ken himself, at this link.
DQ: Are you alive today?
I am not King Kong
DQ: No, I am not alive today
k
1: I am not alive
IQ1: Did you turn your cornfield into a baseball diamond, because a voice told you to?
IQ2: Did you play a character named “Teddy Weizak” in the TV adaptation of your own novel?
IQ3: Did you play a character who dumped all of Humphrey Bogart’s gin overboard?
IQ1: I am not Kevin Kostner
IQ2: No idea
IQ3: I am not the great Katherine Hepburn
Are you credited with having the largest empire in history?
IQ1: Does Arjuna choose you to be his charioteer?
IQ2: After being scornfully rebuked for your lack of status by the Pandava brothers, do you offer your services to Duryodhana?
IQ3: Are you the ancestor of both the Pandavas and their enemies, the Kauravas?
It’s a Mahabharata three-fer!
No idea, take a DQ
I was thinking Genghis Khan
DQ: Were you a head of state?
Correct on Katherine Hepburn.
As regards IQ1, I was not looking for Kevin Costner, who (to the best of my knowledge) has never owned a cornfield nor heard voices telling him to destroy it. He did, however, play a character that did both: Ray Kinsella, the protagonist in the movie Field of Dreams, as well as in its source novel Shoeless Joe. Watch my wordings carefully; had I been looking for Kevin Costner, I might have said something like, “Did you play a character who _____,” just as I did with the Katherine Hepburn question. I’ll keep this DQ in reserve until I get your go-ahead to use it.
With IQ2, I was looking for Stephen King. The character Teddy Weizak is a minor character in King’s novel The Stand, as well as in the 1994 TV miniseries made from it; but in the miniseries, Weizak was played by Stephen King himself, which made the Weizak character a little better known than it might otherwise have been.
DQ: Were you born before 1900?
IQ:
You can talk of lines an’ meter,
And whether iambic is much sweeter,
And memorize your favourites just to quote 'em;
But when it comes to rhymes,
He constructed thousands in his times,
And I 'ope you know the name of 'im what wrote 'em!
DQ: No, I was not a head of state
You can use your other DQ whenever you want, but for this DQ-
DQ: Yes, I was born before 1900
As I said aloud - A Mahabharata whoota whatta?
Take 3 DQs
IQ: I am not John Keats
K
1: I am not alive
2. I was not a head of state
3. I was born before 1900
Incorrect on Keats. I was actually looking for Rudyard Kipling, and constructed my question following the rhythm and meter of his poem, “Gunga Din.” Many of Kipling’s poems are in the first person, and follow colloquial speech patterns. Review the above lines I posted, and compare them to the actual first stanza of Kipling’s “Gunga Din”:
So one DQ for Ray Kinsella, and another for Rudyard Kipling. Let’s see…
DQ: Are you best known for your achievements in the arts?
DQ: Are you American?
DQ1: No, I am not known for my contribution to the arts
DQ2: No, I am not American
IQ: Did you make headlines in 1985 by throwing a chair onto a basketball court?
IQ: Were you the frontman for the band The Texas Jewboys
IQ: Were you the most vocal Toledo Mud Hens fan in Korea?