IQ: Were you an eccentric composer years ahead of your time who also sold insurance?
Did you bequeath the royalties from your best known work to the Boy Scouts?
Did you found the most notorious order of Roman Catholic priests?
Were you mocked in a comical short film called De Duva?
Did you lose your job for insulting a college basketball team?
No, I am not Igor Stravinsky
I should know this but I don’t. Have a DQ
No, I am not Ignatius Loyola
Have another DQ
No, I am not Don Imus.
Irving Berlin bequeathed all royalties from “God Bless America” to the Boy Scouts.
And*** De Duva ***was a comedy film spoken in fake-Swedish that satirized The Seventh Seal and other movies by Ingmar Bergman.
But you got St. Ignatius Loyola and Don Imus right.
DQ1: Are you male?
DQ2: Are You European?
Did you get your picture taken with Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block and Mike Strank?
Did you play bass on “Money for Nothing” and “Sultans of Swing”?
Did you divorce an NBA basketball star to marry a glam rock star?
Did you regard Brom Bones as a rival for the girl of your dreams?
I Am:
- Real Person
- Male
3.European
I’ll probably feel stupid later, but ask a DQ.
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astorian** Did you play bass on “Money for Nothing” and “Sultans of Swing”?
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I am not John Ilsey(sp?) of Dire Straits.
Once again my pop culture fu fails me. Another DQ.
I am not Ichabod Crane.
Cancel that. I am not Iman.
Only One DQ this round.
If Igor Stravinsky ever sold insurance, I will eat a pound of live cockroaches. (I also wouldn’t have called him particularly eccentric.)
No, I was after Charles Ives, who was notorious in the late 19th/early 20th century for deliberately playing two different pieces of music at the same time, inspired by his love of the sound of marching bands in parades. Polyrhythms, polytonality, tone clusters, aleatoric devices, microtonality - he explored it all with great enthusiasm about 20 years ahead of many European modernist composers. He was also involved in insurance and estate planning, starting his own insurance company sometime in the first decade of the 20th century.
In addition to his music, Ives was eccentric. He had a second door in his office, where he could escape from unwanted visitors. He famously berated a fellow attendee at a concert of the music of Carl Ruggles - when the other gentleman booed, Ives screamed at him “You God-damned sissy! Use your ears like a man, for Christ’s sakes!” His biography makes for some amusing reading - he was a true American original..
DQ: Were you born in the 20th century?
You got John Illsley, Iman and Ichabod Crane.
The one you didn’t get was Pima Indian/U.S. Marine hero Ira Hayes, who appeared in the famous photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima with Sousley, Block, Strank, Doc Bradley and Rene Gagnon.
DQ: Were you born after 1900?
IQ: Did Laurence Fishburne receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing you?
IQ: Did Natalie Woods run naked down the hall in a movie based on one of your plays?
IQ: Are you the CEO of the corporation that markets Quaker Oats, Lipton Tea, Tropican orange juice and Lay’s potato chips?
Do you wish with all your heart that you HADN’T worn such a long neckerchief, your last day on Earth?
I Am:
- Real Person
- Male
3.European - Born in the 20th Century, ergo after 1900
I am not Isidora Duncan
No clue. ask a DQ
I am not William Inge.
I am not Ike Turner