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The letter is “M.” Have at it!
Did you produce Mitch Ryder’s comeback album using the alias “Little Bastard”?
Did you ever produce a comedic record using the alias “Apollo C. Vermouth”?
IQ: Do you use your superior jumping skills (among other things) to save a princess?
IQ: Was your husband parodied in the British periodical Private Eye with its long-running “Dear Bill” column?
No, I’m not… Mick Fleetwood?
No, I’m not Paul McCartney.
The first, I don’t know. Ask a DQ.
The second, no, I’m not Margaret Thatcher.
Paul McCartney was correct (he used “Apollo C. Vermouth” while working with the Bonzo Dog Band).
However, the guy who uses the alias “Little Bastard” is John Cougar Mellencamp.
So, I’ll help myself to a DQ:
Are you male?
Yes, I am.
- Male
Are you a utility infielder who hit a home run in your one and only World Series at-bat?
Did you score the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
No, I’m not Don Mattingly.
You got me. Ask a DQ.
IQ: Did you compose an opera about a vampire that pre-dates Bram Stoker’s novel?
Don Mattingly never played in the World Series.
The infielder who homered the one and only time he came to bat in the Fall Class ic was Jim Mason, who homered in his one appearance for the yankees against the Reds in 1976. Other than that, the Yankees were steamrollered.
The guy who scored the first Super Bowl touchdown was Max McGee, playing with a major hangover.
DQ1: Are you fictional?
DQ2: Are you American?
No, I’m not W.A. Mozart.
- Male
- Fictional
- Not American
A very good assumption but I regret to say that neither Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nor his father Leopold ever wrote an opera with a vampire. Too bad; a vampire or two would have livened up Mitradite, Re di Ponte immeasurably.
No, it was Heinrich Marschner who wrote ‘Der Vampyr’ (sp?) in the 1820s - it’s being performed right now as part of the Festival de Lanaudiere in Québec.
DQ: Is ‘M’ the initial of your last name?
Did you knock out German boxer Max Schmeling while wearing a Star of David on your trunks?
IQ: Did you brick up your friend in your basement over an insult?