Botticelli - Feb. 2016

Condo Arlik

I completely failed to read DQ 9

DQ: Known for service in WWII?

Previous IQs:

Was your catchphrase “Keep the faith, baby”? - Yes, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Did a Doonesbury cartoon refer to your knowledge of boost-phase battle management? - Al Gore
Did you escape aboard the Vulture? - Benedict Arnold: What was the deal with Benedict Arnold? - The Straight Dope

DQ:

Best known for U.S. Army service?

One DQ reserved.

IQ:

Did you serve in Vietnam and have an American tank named after you?
Were you Scout and Jem’s dad?
As a young lawyer, did you fight to desegregate NYC streetcars?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Last name starts with A
  6. Died after 1946
  7. Political/military
  8. Never held Federal office
  9. Did hold rank of admiral or general
  10. Not famous for a single incident
  11. Known for service in WWII.

Yeah, I won’t count that last DQ against you.

Take a DQ.

IQ1: Were you a woman mentioned in the title of a '60s movie?
IQ2: Were you called “Hap”?
IQ3: Did you and your sisters sing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”?

Yes! I am Henry “Hap” Arnold, General of the Army and General of the Air Force, and credited with basically creating the Air Force! Good job, SCAdian!

That was a pain to figure out… :slight_smile: I’m really amazed at your response in #104, though.

Shall we run through the alphabet again? I am B.

As far as tanks go, I’m only familiar with the Sherman tank being named after someone.

IQs:

  1. Are you a long-time stand-up comedian with a button-down mind?
  2. Are you half of a radio & TV comedy duo who passed away this year?
  3. Were you half of a comedy duo with Avery Schreiber?

Remind me to ask questions about Stuart, Lee, Grant, Patton, Pershing, and Stalin… :smiley:

Not Bob Newhart.
Not Bob, of Bob and Ray.
Not Mr Burns, of Burns and Schreiber.

Good job, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Did you serve in Vietnam and have an American tank named after you? - Creighton Abrams (thought for sure this was the guy!)
Were you Scout and Jem’s dad? - Atticus Finch
As a young lawyer, did you fight to desegregate NYC streetcars? - Chester Arthur

IQs for the new round:

Have you played a hardball prosecutor, a network executive and a concierge?
Did you name your airplane after your girlfriend?
Did your future wife accidentally kill a classmate in a car accident?

Correct on all three. (They were Bob Elliott and Jack Burns, BTW.)

And Chaffee, Sheridan, Walker, Cromwell, Churchill, and Voroshilov…

So did I - that’s why I was so surprised by his answer.

Three DQs.

IQs:

  1. Did you portray a groundskeeper, a Ghostbuster and a psychiatric patient?
  2. Are you Rowan Atkinson’s most famous character creation?
  3. In some of The Dead Sea Scrolls, are you the leader of the Sons of Darkness?

Not Bill Murray.
<flips coin>
Not Blackadder.
Not … Belial?

Correct. Correct. Correct.

IQs:

  1. Were you an actor known as “the Great Profile”?
  2. Did you get your start as a touring vaudeville performer whose act immediately followed the Marx Brothers?
  3. Were you a jazz cornetist, known as the “young man with a horn”?

Not John Barrymore.
DQ.
DQ.

Previous IQs:

Have you played a hardball prosecutor, a network executive and a concierge? - Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, Seinfeld and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Did you name your airplane after your girlfriend? - George H.W. Bush.
Did your future wife accidentally kill a classmate in a car accident? - George W. Bush.

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with B?

IQs:

Did you become King of Westeros after the Mad King was killed?
Were you his humorless next-younger brother?
Were you his maybe-gay youngest brother?

Correct on Barrymore. #2 was Jack Benny. After the Brothers cavorted and galloped offstage, Benny would come on, put his hand on his cheek and say “Well.” It brought down the house.
#3 was Bix Beiderbecke.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

Three DQs.
B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B

Try again, Prof… :smiley:

Oops.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?