The legend was that Dr. Charles Drew, a black man who helped develop the blood-bank system, had been in a car accident and died (that much was true) after being denied a blood transfusion at a segregated hospital. Actually, he had been treated at Alamance General in North Carolina without regard to his race – his injuries were just too massive to be survivable.
DQ: Were you known before 1970 for being a member of a more celebrated person’s family (heir to a fortune, actress’s husband, etc.)?
IQ: Were you a vice-president credited with co-writing a popular song that was a hit decades after you composed it?
Okay, some side talk among the guessers. ‘Sort of involved’ in science, military hero but that’s not what he’s famous for, and not involved in Art, business, politics nor athletics. What’s left? Religion?
I’m also quite stumped by the peak of fame before 1970, but didn’t do anything newsworthy until after 1970. Not famous because of family. How did one become famous for nothing before 1970?
I think I’d like to narrow down birth and death dates before I give up, but I’m stumped so far… Any thoughts?
I promise you, I’m not trying to be tricky. Every answer I’ve given is as accurate as I can make it.
The person I have in mind WAS a longtime military officer and a war hero… but that’s NOT what most people would think of, when they hear his name.
This person’s educational background was in science and technology, and he worked in a science related field… but nobody thinks of him as a scientist.
And, hard to understand as it may be, this person was world-famous long before he did anything to justify that fame… and by the time he DID something to justify his fame, he was no longer a major celebrity.
When you hear or figure out the answer, you’ll say “AHHHH… NOW I see what he meant.” But in the meantime, I can see why this seems confusing.
Gaetano Donizetti, who, along with Rossini and Bellini was a driving force in Italian ‘Bel Canto’ opera, wrote a total of four operas that treat a subject in Tudor history - Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux, and Il Castello di Kenilworth. He fits neatly, historically and aesthetically, between the flourishings of Rossini and Verdi. Don Pasquale, L’Elisir d’amore and Lucia di Lammermoor are his best known works.
DQ: Were you born before 1950?
One of the things I have always loved about this game is that the questions posed can lead the questioner astray. I shall continue to gnaw at this one like a cheerful dog with a hambone.
Churchill referred to Eisenhower’s notoriously dogmatic Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as “Dull, Duller, Dulles.”
etv78 has several times, in this round and previously, been instructed on the intricacies of Botticelli, but still doesn’t quite seem to have caught on. I suggest you treat his (or her?) questions as easily-answered IQs.
We’re on the home stretch here for DQs, folks. Any suggestions for my next one?
IQ: Did your best-known character always carry a symbol of his self-restraint with him?
I don’t know the guy with a symbol of self-restraint. Ask another DQ. You have 2 coming.
I promise this isn’t somebody obscure. My oddly phrased answers may have people thinking more obscurely than they should- this was someone who was very prominent and world-famous in the Sixties.
I will give few clues (they should be helpful without giving this away too easily):
He was a secondary character in two movies that were nominated as Best Picture.
He was from Wisconsin
His real first name AND the nickname he was more widely known by both start with “D.”
An irregular heartbeat wreaked havoc on his career.