Alzado is not obscure at all. Well done, Wargamer!
Thanks all! Hmmmm…
(In the spirit of Oscar the Grouch)
This round is brought to you by the letter “M”.
IQ1: Are you The Man?
IQ2: Are you a seminal figure in the DC punk/hardcore scene?
IQ3: Are you the Electric Company’s Easy Reader?
IQ1: Did you silence a boisterous audience at a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s music, saying ‘I want to hear this piece!’ ?
IQ2: Are you one of two famous classical composers who transcribed the Allegri ‘Miserere’ from memory after one hearing, much to the Pope’s dismay and astonishment?
IQ3: (You knew this had to be coming!) Are you the other famous classical composer who transcribed the Allegri ‘Miserere’ from memory after one hearing?
- Maybe. But I’m not sure who you mean, so a DQ.
- No, I’m not, but I’m not sure so another DQ.
- No, I’m not Morgan Freeman.
IQ1: I’m not Montovani? Not sure, so you probably get a DQ.
IQ2: I’m not Mozart? (Maybe another DQ?)
IQ3: I’m still not Mozart? (Definitely a DQ.)
These are Stan “The Man” Musial and Ian MacKaye.
DQs:
- Are you real?
- Are you male?
SUMMARY:
- I am a real person.
- I am a man.
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Gustav Mahler was a staunch supporter of the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and at a performance of Schoenberg’s 1st String Quartet, Mahler had to be restrained when the piece was heckled. He insisted that the quartet start again, and imposed a respectful silence on the audience. Later, he confessed to his wife, Alma, that he had no idea what to make of Schoenberg’s music, but felt it deserved to be heard, and heard properly.
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Mozart is indeed correct. The Allegri ‘Miserere’ existed in three other copies, but none of them were as beautiful as the one performed once every year in the Sistine Chapel. A fourteen-year-old Mozart heard it and wrote it out from memory, then gave it to a London based publisher. This same feat of transcription was also done by
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Felix Mendelssohn.
So…
DQ1: Are you American?
DQ2: Were you born aften 1900?
IQs:
Did you live in a house in Paris covered with vines?
Did you tell an interviewer that your dad could cook only two things?
Did you once play a Reagan White House aide?
SUMMARY:
- I am a real person.
- I am a man.
- I am not an American.
- I was born after 1900.
My guess fu is weak tonight. 3(Edit: 2?) DQs for those questions.
(Still can’t believe I missed Stan the Man.)
IQ1: Are you Lochdubh’s village policemen, so wonderfully played by Robbie Carlyle?
IQ2: Are you a loquacious companion of Romeo’s?
IQ3: Were you killed on the Plains of Abraham?
Ahem - policeMAN, not men. :smack:
IQ1: Will you eat anything - even cereal that’s supposed to be good for you?
IQ2: Does “nanu nanu” mean anything to you?
IQ3: Were you and two companions thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar?
IQ1: No idea, take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Mercutio.
IQ3: I am not Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran, commander of the French Forces in Canada during the French and Indian Wars. (Ok, I cheated a bit, I knew Montcalm, I goggled the rest of his name.)
IQ1: I am not Mikey.
IQ2: Shazzbot! I am not Mork from Ork.
IQ3: I am not Meschach.
IQ1: Did you sing about Lola, who was a showgirl, with yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there?
IQ2: Did you hear it in a love song, so it can’t be wrong?
IQ3: In the early days of the WWW, did you create a page featuring the Worst of the Web?
IQ1: I am not Barry Manilow.
IQ2: Nice, but I am not Marshall Tucker.
IQ3: Take a DQ.
Madeline, the little French schoolgirl in the books by Ludwig Bemmelmans (sp?).
The young Malia Obama, who told 60 Minutes’s Steve Kroft during a visit to the candidate’s Chicago home that her dad’s skills in the kitchen were somewhat limited.
Dennis Miller, in the famous SNL sketch where Reagan (Phil Hartman) was revealed to be a behind-the-scenes political mastermind and geopolitical schemer.
DQs:
Are you now alive?
Does your first name begin with “M”?
Best known for politics or the military?
IQs:
Did you pick your name from a street sign?
Did you do something that only two other men have done?
Were you a poet as well as a horseman?
IQ1: Are you the original bluegrass bandleader?
IQ2: Did you defeat Rommel’s forces in North Africa?
IQ3: Are you a pugnacious baseball manager known for short stints with his teams?
SUMMARY:
- I am a real person.
- I am a man.
- I am not an American.
- I was born after 1900.
- I am currently alive.
- My first name does not begin with ‘M’.
- I am not best known for achievements in political or military spheres.
IQ1: I am not Madison the Mermaid from Splash.
IQ2: I am not Michael Collins, one of only three men to fly on Apollo 11. (That’s probably not who you are thinking of, but maybe the question is too broad? I will leave it to your discretion whether to rephrase or take a DQ - I am fine with either option.)
IQ3: OK, you got me, take a DQ.
IQ1: I think I know who you’re referring to, but his name escapes me. DQ.
IQ2: No, I am not Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount of El Alamein.
IQ3: Are you referring to Danny Murtaugh? If not, then take a DQ.
Quite right as to Mercutio and Montcalm. An early role for Robbie Carlyle was Hamish Macbeth, a policeman in the village of Lochdubh in a series of books by M. C. Beaton which BBC turned into a fun, surreal series for three years.
DQ: Are you best known for your accomplishments in The Arts, being here defined so as to include all visual arts, theatre, dance, music, literature or other creative endeavours, whether done for the entertainment of others or for the sake of the creative act itself?