Sorry, you ninja’d me by seconds. Dunno x2; not… Irving Wallace?
Dunno, not Ivan Denisovich, and not Isaac Hayes.
Dunno, not Ian McDiarmid (sp?), and not the always-impressive Ian Holm.
Not Isoroku Yamamoto, Ivan Pavlov or I.M. Pei.
I.
IQ1: Did you invent and pilot the first functioning helicopter in America?
IQ2: Did you believe that practical reason can be a source of morality, by opposition to Hume’s passion theory?
IQ3: Were you a Rhodesian statesman who established racial policies against the Black majority?
Ian Anderson
Ian x 3!
DQ: European?
DQ: Known for the sciences?
Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Correct.
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
#1 was Irving Thalberg.
#2 was Washington Irving.
#3 was Clifford Irving.
DQ: Died before 1900?
2 DQs reserved.
IQ1: During your stand-up routines, did you portray yourself as an absent-minded professor who frequently used double talk and malapropisms?
IQ2: Are you an Israeli-American violinist who usually performs sitting because of polio?
IQ3: Are you a short-tempered mouse who frequently smashes Krazy Kat’s head with bricks?
Not Igor Sikorsky, dunno, and not Ian Smith.
Now Prof. Irwin, I should know the second but I’m blanking, and not Ignatz.
I.
DQs:
IQs:
DQ: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
IQ1: Were you the author of a 17th-century work on fishing?
IQ2: Were you a Spaniard who invented a submarine?
IQ3: Were you the founder of the Society of Jesus?
Correct x2, second one was Immanuel Kant.
DQ reserved
IQ1: Were you a prolific engineer during the British Industrial Revolution who is responsible for engineering the Great Western Railway?
IQ2: Are you believed to be the first permanent settler in Iceland?
IQ3: Were you Djoser’s vizier?
Itzhak Perlman
holding a DQ
Damn, you’re good! Yes, I am
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Quite a guy; he came in second in a 2002 BBC poll of Greatest Britons: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Wikipedia
Want to start a new thread for May, guy?
I never heard of him, but that’s the most awesome name ever.
Wow! Great job, guy! I don’t know Brunel.
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