[QUOTE=astorian]
Oksana Baiul was the gold medalist in figure skating the year everyone was paying attention to Tonya HArding and Nancy Kerrigan
Oscar Berger was president of Guatemala
Bismarck, North Dakota was named after Otto von Bismarck
Otis Blackwell wrote “Don’t Be Cruel” and “All Shook up”
Orkut Buyukkokten created Google’s Orkut social system
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And why did they name it after him? off to google once I’m done here
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DQ1: Are you an athlete?**
Best known for things done as an atlete, yes
DQ2: Are you a politician?
No
DQ3: Are you a scientist or inventor?
No
DQ4: Are you a citizen of the UK?
No
DQ5: Are you involved in the entertainment business?
Isn’t sports entertainment? It it is, yes.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Octavia Butler wrote her brilliantly creepy short story “Bloodchild” to get over her fear of bot flies.
DQ: Are you an entertainer?
[/QUOTE]
Answered above. In a way, yes.
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
Is your name highly recognized by British sculptors and students of South African history?
[/QUOTE]
Considering I as a real person am neither, then no.
One DQ for you Guvvnor
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
The Sentors featured Ossie Bluege (whose name was on my mind because of the SDMB Baseball Hall of Fame balloting currently underway) at the “hot corner” for most of the 1920’s and '30’s.
DQ: Are you from Norway?
IQ: (related to the above): Are you known for winning national championships in cross-country skiing?
[/QUOTE]
Not from Norway.
And I do know some norwegian skiers, none with the initials OB though.
Have another DQ
To summarise:
Real
Male
Alive
European
Not from a Warsawa Pact nation
Athlete (so not a politician, inventor, scientist…)
Not from the UK
Not from Norway
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
Not from Norway.
And I do know some norwegian skiers, none with the initials OB though.
Have another DQ
[/QUOTE]
I was thinking of Oddvar Brå.
DQ: Are you from a nation that has Mediterranean coastline?
IQ: Were you once Governor of Indiana?
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
I was thinking of Oddvar Brå.
DQ: Are you from a nation that has Mediterranean coastline?
[/QUOTE]
Nope - no coastline to the med
Nope - I can barely place it on a map 
Have you ruled your African nation for over 40 years?
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
One DQ for you Guvvnor
[/QUOTE]
The people in question, for those interested, were Oliver Baldwin (son of Stanley) and Otto Beit (brother of Alfred).
DQs:
Are you Swiss?
Are you known as a performer in a team sport?
An IQ:
Were you the longtime Prussian Prime Minister of the Weimar period?
[QUOTE=astorian]
Have you ruled your African nation for over 40 years?
[/QUOTE]
I´m not a politician. So have another DQ.
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn]
The people in question, for those interested, were Oliver Baldwin (son of Stanley) and Otto Beit (brother of Alfred).
DQs:
Are you Swiss?
[/quote]
Not Swiss
used to play a team sport, yes
Isn’t that an oxymoron? Who sat for more than a year in the Weimar period? (by which I mean, have another dq)
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
I´m not a politician. So have another DQ.
[/QUOTE]
Omar Bongo has ruled Gabon since 1967.
Were you a soccer player?
Are you a former footballer who is currently manager of the German national team?
[QUOTE=Dead Cat]
Are you a former footballer who is currently manager of the German national team?
[/QUOTE]
I’m not head coach, but yes I am Oliver Bierhoff
[QUOTE=astorian]
Omar Bongo has ruled Gabon since 1967.
Were you a soccer player?
[/QUOTE]
And that is a very cool guy - so until I know more about him I’m going to picture him sitting drumming on his drums 
and now I’m off to learn the horrifying truth about him
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
I’m not head coach, but yes I am Oliver Bierhoff
[/QUOTE]
That’s why I said manager, not head coach :). I can’t believe it took me this long to think of his name, I’ve been watching this thread since it started unable to come up with a single OB for an IQ. It was only when the DQs appeared to indicate a German footballer that it suddenly popped into my head.
Good game, I’ve already thought of a new one so game #40 will be up immediately.
Great - I’m looking forward to being on the asking end of the next one (it’s damn hard answering)
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
IQ: Were you once Governor of Indiana?
[/QUOTE]
For the record, thie answer I sought was Otis Bowen, who served from 1973-81 and is currently ninety years old.
Never heard of Oliver Bierhoff, but obviously Dead Cat is quite familiar with his exploits!
As the Gabonian delegation marched by during the Olympic opening ceremony coverage in the USA, Bob Costas mentioned – as he has ever since he began hosting NBC’s coverage of the Games – that Omar Bongo is still in power. Bongo was born in 1935, so he could easily be occupying the Presidential Palace in Libreville for another decade or two.
Good job, Dead Cat! Never heard of the guy.
[QUOTE=WormTheRed]
Isn’t that an oxymoron? Who sat for more than a year in the Weimar period? (by which I mean, have another dq)
[/QUOTE]
Otto Braun spent 11 of the 12 years between early 1920 and mid-1932 in that position. In that era, holding that post didn’t (unlike in the Imperial period) tend to equate power on a national level.