Not Ed McMahon, Amelia Earhart or Ethelred
Not Esther Williams or Eudora Welty
Can’t think of a band with the same name as a pizza chain (if you’d said movie, I’d have thought of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar).
One DQ for you.
**Was your nickname the name of a state?
Was Randy your not-too-bright brother?
Were you a common symbolic character among the Moties?
**
I guess you get 3 DQs- I’m stumped.
Summary:
- Real.
- First name starts with “E”
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- Known for the arts
Eric the Red.
You’re right. I meant to ask “Were you the father of…” (That’s what I get for trying to think of questions late at night.)
Elizabeth II - Linley is Princess Margaret’s son.
DQ1: European?
DQ2: Known for the performing arts?
IQ1: Are you famous for paintings of dancers?
IQ2: Did you paint The Luncheon on the Grass?
IQ3: Did you compose the “Pomp and Circumstance” marches?
Correct again on all three.
IQs:
- Were you the title character in a Sinclair Lewis novel?
- Did you have a vision of a wheel?
- Were you one of Edgar Bergen’s puppets?
Eric Clapton was with Derek and the Dominos. 
DQ: Died before 1900?
DQ in reserve
Does anybody know what the maximum size for an SDMB post is? I’ve been thinking about making such a list, but I think it wouldn’t take long for it to become a very big file…
IQ1: Did you compose the Peer Gynt Suite?
IQ2: Are you an Italian operatic tenor who was accused of pinching a married woman’s bottom at the Central Park Zoo, and blamed a monkey for it?
IQ3: Did your group have a hit with “Free Ride”?
Previous IQs:
Was your nickname the name of a state? - “Tennessee” Ernie Ford.
Was Randy your not-too-bright brother? - The title character of My Name is Earl.
Were you a common symbolic character among the Moties? - Crazy Eddie, in the Niven and Pournelle first-contact novel The Mote in God’s Eye.
DQs:
European?
Died since 1950?
Best known for performing arts?
IQs:
Were you supposed to have said, “I do not seek windows to peer into men’s souls”?
Did your husband slyly comment on your wonderful skin?
Were you Napoleon III’s wife?
Pssst - look at post 305…
Not Edward Elgar or Edgar Degas.
But… YESSSSSSS! I am Edouard Manet, father of Impressionism and famed painter of the Olympia, Dejeuner sur l"Herbe,, Bar at the Folies-Bergere, and many other masterpieces.
Bravo, SCadian.
WTG, SCAdian!
Hmmm… Really not all that familiar with Manet, so I just had a look at Wikipedia to see what those paintings were. I really like the Bar, and also The Railway, Boating, and House in Rueil.
Anyway, on to P!
(Manet’s big deal was his use of black as a color rather than just to shade or highlight.)
IQs:
- Are you me?
- Are you the guy who played me on TV?
- Are you possibly encrusted with the dirt of ancient Babylon?
IQ: Are you the Senator who created a mechanism allowing many working and middle classc kids the opportunity to go to college?
IQ2: Are you #1’s grandson, married to my celebrity crush, and currently a candidate for governor of the state your family hails from?
Not Professor Pepperwinkle.
DQ.
DQ.
Two DQs.
I really need to put more effort into remembering the answers to commonly asked questions such as the Prof’s second one and both of etv’s (not to mention the A-Rod question)…
Sca: Those were: Claiborne and Clay Pell, respectively.
DQ: Real?
DQ2: Male?
Reading your fine print, I was nodding and smiling.
Correct, you are not me. #2 was Phil Tead. #3 is Pig-Pen from the Peanuts comic strip.
I’ll wait on my DQs until etv’s are answered.
P
- Fictional
- Male