It was indeed Radio Raheem, played by Bill Nunn. As director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson pushed against referring to Pluto as the ninth planet.
DQs:
If you don’t mind, I’ll reserve the second until after Wargamer’s questions are answered.
Way to go, ChockFull. Never heard of that Thompson guy myself.
IQs:
Were you a Southerner with a bad combover who was often discussed as a possible Presidential candidate in the Eighties?
In a Doonesbury cartoon, did you insist your husband’s top aide do his best to get your husband a major award?
Did a recent proposal to honor you with commemorative license plates lead to controversy?
IQ1: Are you a lazy shaver?
IQ2: Phil? Phil Connors? Do you remember me?? Bing! Because I sure as heckfire remember you!
IQ3: Were you a perfect ‘10’ in Montreal?
Good job, ChockFull!
So we’re on N? Okay some IQs:
IQ1: Hens love roosters and geese love ganders, but who does everyone else love?
IQ2: Do you light the fire while your ladyfriend places flowers in the vase that she bought today?
IQ3: Are you a sportscaster known for covering the Masters?
That Thompson guy - just in case you were curious.
When I think about it, Noah didn’t stop the flood, he just rode it out. Take another DQ.
DQs:
Yes
3 DQs for you.
IQ2: Not Ned the Head from Groundhog Day
IQ3: Not Nadia Comaneci
Take a DQ for IQ1
IQ1: I am not Ned Flanders
IQ2: I am not Graham Nash (“Our House”)
Take a DQ for IQ3
Summary:
N
Correct on Flanders and Nash. As for the sportscaster, it is Jim Nantz of CBS Sports. He covers the Masters golf tournament every year.
DQ: Are you American?
IQ1: Did you dream last night that you were on a boat to heaven, and by some chance, you had brought your dice along?
IQ2: Are you the character creation of a Nobel prize-winning author who drove ambulances in WWI?
IQ3: Did you tell Mrs. Brown that she had a lovely daughter?
The lazy shaver was Richard Nixon. The famous ‘lazy shave’ occurred in his televised debated with John Kennedy when his bad five o’clock shadow made him look very bad compared to the much more telegenic JFK.
DQ: Did you first appear in a television show or movie?
No
IQ1: Not Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls
IQ2: DQ for you. The only Hemingway I’ve read is The Old Man and the Sea, which didn’t have any ‘N’ character that I can remember.
IQ3: Not Peter Noon from Herman’s Hermits
Yes
Summary:
N
Outstanding DQs :
Enginerd - 1
Le Ministre - 2
Wargamer - 1
Elendil’s Heir - 3
Spoons - 1
DQ: Was the original work in which you were created written in English?
IQ1: Did you once apparently hire a potted palm for counsel?
IQ2: Were you noted for telling folks to say ‘No.’
IQ3: Did you really, really, REALLY come to hate rock and roll music?
Yes
IQ2: Not Nancy Reagan. Take DQs for the other two.
Summary:
N
Outstanding DQs :
Enginerd - 1
Le Ministre - 2
Wargamer - 2
Elendil’s Heir - 3
Spoons - 1
IQ1: Oliver North, who’s attorney once whined to the Congressional Committee investigating the Iran-Contra scandal that he was not a potted palm.
IQ3: Manuel Noriega, who was famously induced to surrender himself out of the Vatican City (I think it was Vatican, maybe it was the Swiss) Embassy in Panama by having the US Army surround the place with giant speakers and blast heavy metal/rock at loud volumes.
DQ: Did you first appear in a television show?
DQ: Did you first appear in European media?
Absolutely right about Noah. The son of Achilles is Neoptolemus - in the Illiad, he laments to Patroclus that he (Achilles) is unlikely to kiss his son again. The ‘Gerenian charioteer’, also from the Illiad, is Nestor. No one really knows what exactly ‘Gerenian’ is supposed to mean, but it is the epithet repeatedly applied to him. It could be derived from the Greek ‘Gere’, which means ‘old’ (Nestor is constantly referred to as an older man) but no one has conclusively proved it…
At any rate…
DQ1: Is the work in which you appear ‘live action’? (As opposed to cel animation, claymation, stop action, computer animation, etc…)
DQ2: Did you first appear after the year 1990?
No. Well, if I wanted to interpret the question hyper-literally, my first appearance was in a failed TV pilot. But to anyone other than a super-obsessed fan, my first appearance that most people are aware of was in a medium other than a television show.
No.
Yes
No
Summary:
N
Outstanding DQs :
Enginerd - 1
Elendil’s Heir - 3
Spoons - 1
Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia.
Nancy Reagan, hectoring White House Chief of Staff Don Regan to get Ronnie a Nobel Peace Prize.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, ace Confederate cavalryman but a founder of the KKK, who will probably not have commemorative plates in Mississippi after all.
DQs:
Did you first appear in a work of science fiction?
British?
First appeared after 1960?
IQs:
Were two famous actors nearby at the time of your death?
Does your statue stand outside CIA HQ in Langley, Va.?
Did JFK call to wish you happy birthday just days before he died?
No
Yes
Yes
IQ1: DQ for you
IQ2: Not Nathan “regret I have but one life to give for my country” Hale
IQ3: I know I’ve heard this story before and I remember this was an IQ to me about a year or so ago, although I can’t remember the initial in that game. I’m pretty sure I haven’t done ‘N’ before. And yet, I’ve forgotten the answer again. Take a DQ.
Summary:
N
Outstanding DQs :
Enginerd - 1
Elendil’s Heir - 2
Spoons - 1
IQ1: Are you the title character of a Bellini opera?
IQ2: Are you the title character of a Verdi opera?
IQ3: Are you the producer of “All in the Family” and its many spinoffs?
Correct on Peter Noone, but incorrect on Nathan Detroit. The show was indeed Guys and Dolls, but the character I was looking for was Nicely-Nicely Johnson, who sings “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” at Nathan’s urging.
The Hemingway character is Nick Adams, who featured in a number of Hemingway stories.
I’ll take one DQ now, and wait for your go-ahead on the Nicely-Nicely Johnson question.
DQ: First appeared before 1975?
IQ1: Do you terrorize ROTC cadets while riding a white horse?
IQ2: Do you live in Toyland, where your friends include Big Ears and Tessie Bear?
IQ3: Did you earn your medical degree from the Hollywood Upstairs Medical College?