Botticelli April 2015

Pretty sure I never heard the guy’s name. For that matter, I had to stop and think a bit to remember who Zimmerman was…
IQ1: Were you an Austrian Jew whose family died in the concentration camps, and who is best known for playing a Luftwaffe sergeant?
IQ2: Did you write a book about a boat trip you and two friends took on the Thames?
IQ3: The day after your boss and his wife committed suicide, did you and your wife poison your children and then kill yourselves?

3 DQs for you

dunno, not Jane Seymour, not Jon Snow

  1. Johns Hopkins, benefactor whose endowment founded the university.

DQ: Are you real?

I remember how up in arms the SDMB was at the time, but not everybody wants to brandish pitchforks I guess.

dunno (I’m thinking this person might be a Hogan’s Heroes character), dunno, not Joseph Goebbels

DQ roundup

  1. Real

John Banner, who played Sgt Schultz.
Jerome K Jerome (Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)).
Correct.
DQ1: Living?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Did you write Thunderbolt!?
IQ2: Were you famous for fighting oil-well fires?
IQ3: Were you famous for being beaten by police officers?

I’ve heard of Zimmerman, but never O’Mara.

On we go.

IQs:

Do the people of Riverside, Iowa claim you will be born there?
Are you Will Smith’s wife?
Did you suffer from alopecia and are buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland?

Ignore those two - I was obviously much more tired than I thought… :o

IQ2: Did you have to protect your girlfriend’s daughter from rakoshi?
IQ3: Were you Manasseh’s father?

IQ1. Did you create the catch phrase “snootchie bootchies”?
IQ2. Are you the walrus?
IQ3. Did you sail to Colchis?

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living

dunno, dunno, not Judah?

not Jesus Christ(?), not Jada Pinkett-Smith, dunno

not Jason Mewes, not John Lennon, not Jason and the Argonauts(?)

P-47 pilot Robert Johnson.
Repairman Jack (The Tomb, by F Paul Wilson).
Close - it was Judah’s little brother, Joseph.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
DQ3: First name begins with J?

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. First name starts with J

***Originally Posted by astorian IQ1) Before becoming famous, were you a chemistry professor with a reputation as a boring old fuddy-duddy?

IQ2) Did Tiger Woods marry your kids’ nanny?

IQ3) Did Vic Morrow’s daughter adopt her stage name in your honor?***
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was a much-mocked chemistry professor at VMI before the Civil War.

Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik introduced Tiger to Elin, his kids’ au pair.

Vic Morrow’s daughter Jennifer took the stage name Jennifer Jason Leigh in honor of actor Jason Robards.

DQ1) American?

DQ2) Last name starts with J?

DQ3) Involved in the arts?

SCAdian already asked those DQs, astorian. Ask 3 new ones.

IQ1: Did you cheat your brother out of his birthright and their father’s blessing?
IQ2: Does an Engllish word meaning a long complaint, especially a sad or mournful one, derive from your name?
IQ3: Are you one of only two actors who have been nominated for an acting Oscar in every decade from the 1960s through the 2000s?

Previous IQs:

Do the people of Riverside, Iowa claim you will be born there? - Not Jesus, but close: James T. Kirk.
Are you Will Smith’s wife? - Yes, Jada Pinkett Smith (no hyphen).
Did you suffer from alopecia and are buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland? - John D. Rockefeller.

DQs:

Born since 1975?
Known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Did you love to sail in the Victura?
Did you chair the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1980s?
Are you that person’s current spouse?

It’s not quite right to call him a chemistry professor, but he was not a skilled teacher, to be sure: http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=4925