Are you Nicola Tesla?
See post 525, and ask again.
Waiting for astorian and etv, as well as whoever wants to use EH’s question…
Figured he was a guess. Cede my guess.
Okay. I’ll give astorian until I get home from work tonight, then reveal. If anyone has any bright ideas in the meantime and wants to use etv’s and EH’s final questions, feel free.
Okay… did you invent or design a weapon that bears your name?
20 DQs have been answered. You get one DQ, to be phrased as “Are you Firstname Lastname?”
Okay, Are you General John Thompson, inventor of the THompson submachine gun?
I am indeed Brigadier General John Taliaferro Thompson.
Talk about last-minute saves… 
Well done, astorian! While I know of Thompson guns, I didn’t know the man himself. Good job.
Astorian: S or U?
I had actually considered Thompson, but dismissed him because of the “Not a combat veteran” DQ. After reading his bio more closely, I guess he technically didn’t see combat, even though he ran ordnance supply operations during the Spanish-American War.
It looked to me like he was pretty much a desk man his entire time in the Army. Wiki says he worked out of Tampa during that war, and during WW I he was in charge of small-arms production.
Okay, if I’m next, let’s try…
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IQs:
- Are you Fred Flintstone’s next door neighbor?
- Are you a talking hen in the Oz stories?
- Were you the prophet Jeremiah’s amanuensis?
IQ: Are you the namesake of this game?
IQ2: Were the more recent of the 2 sitting VPs elected President?
IQ3: Did you defeat a 3rd man attempting this?
IQ1: Are you the youngest Super Bowl-winning quarterback in NFL history, leading your team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks at age 23?
IQ2: Did you play Levar Burton’s grandson in Roots and his father in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
IQ3: Were you the guest artist for the comic strip Pearls Before Swine for three strips in June 2014?
Not Barney Rubble and not Baruch.
Take a DQ for the hen.
Not Sandro Botticelli, not George HW Bush, and not George Dubya Bush (who “beat” sitting VP Al Gore)
Not Ben Roethlisberger, not Ben Vereen… take a DQ for the comic strip artist.
Way to go, astorian! I, too, knew of the gun but not the man.
IQs:
Did your creator say you looked like a famous singer/songwriter?
Did you have an unusual way of eating Jell-O?
Did you play the annoying ex-wife of a police captain?