Sorry for my oversight- answer the “real person” question, please.
- Originally Posted by astorian
IQ1) Were you written out of TV’s most popular Western because the actor who played you got too big for his britches, and wanted to do work that was more politically and socially progressive?
IQ2) Was your husband based on “The Bayonne Bleeder,” aka Chuck Wepner?
IQ3) Did you name your *immensely successful electronics corporation after the Latin word for “sound”?
Adam Cartwright was written off Bonanza because actor Pernell Roberts couldn’t stop griping about how little social relevance the show had.
Club fighter Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner’s fight with Muhammad Ali inspired the movie Rocky… so I was looking for Adrian Balboa.
The Latin word for sound is “sonus,” which is why young Japanese entrepreneur Akio Morita named his new radio-making company “Sony.”
DQ1) Male?
DQ2) Last name start with “A”?
DQ3) American?
Amy Fischer, Amy Winehouse, correct. Amy x3!
Holding 5 DQs until next page.
Not Archibald LNU the boss on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., dunno, and not Ant-Man.
A.
- real person
- female
- last name starts with A
- American
DQ: Alive?
DQ: Known from the arts?
holding 3 DQs
IQs:
- Were you a 16th century painter who made portraits out of vegetables, fruits and books?
- Were you a New York hard-edge abstract painter who died in the 1960’s?
- Did you often say: “No, after you, Gaston.”?
I know that painter’s work, but not his name. Dunno the second at all. I’m not Alphonse.
A.
- real person
- female
- last name starts with A
- American
- dead
- not known from the arts
DQ: Died before 1900?
DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?
one DQ left
1 was Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 2 was Ad Reinhardt. Correct on Alphonse.
DQ: Known for politics?
3 DQs reserved.
IQ1) Are you remembered for telling your husband, “Don’t forget the ladies”?
IQ2) Did you just write a book saying President Obama lied about his stance on gay marriage?
IQ3) Were yoou the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon?
IQ1: Are you the founder of Hull House and the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
IQ2: Are you the first woman to become US Secretary of State?
IQ3: Did you write “Remember the ladies!” to your husband as he and other founding fathers were forming the new government?
Alexander Waverly, actually (who with Bell and Solzhenitsyn made Alexander x3), but you’ve correctly guessed that I meant the head of UNCLE.
The Atom, from DC comics.
Correct.
DQ
IQ1: Did you write Mansfield Park?
IQ2: Did you write Rose in Bloom?
IQ3: Did you write in all lower-case because you couldn’t hold the shift key down?
I just noticed I duped astorian.
Replace my IQ3 with "Are you nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans”?
Not Abigail Adams, David Axelrod or Arthur Ashe.
Not Jane Addams, Madeleine Albright or Jeanne d’Arc.
Not Jane Austen, dunno and dunno.
A.
- real person
- female
- last name starts with A
- American
- dead
- not known from the arts
- died after 1900
- born east of the Miss. River
- not known for politics
IQ1: Were you Helen Keller’s teacher and lifelong companion?
IQ2: Are you an evangelist who went missing for over a month and claimed to have been kidnapped?
IQ3: Are you an operatic contralto and the first black person to ever perform at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC?
last DQ: Are you primarily known for a single historic event?
DQ: Died after 2000?
2 DQs remain.
Axelrod and Abigail Adams were correct, but the first African American to win a WImbledon singles title was not Arthur Ashe- it was a woman, Althea Gibson, who did it 15 years earlier.
DQ) Best known for one specific incident?
IQ1) Did you once say, “If you can’t say anything nice, come sit by me?”
IQ2) Were you Gus Hall’s runnuinbg mate for President on the Communist Party ticket?
IQ3) Did you establish the Foursquare Church?
IQs:
- Are you Nightcrawler’s father?
- Are you the Unabridged King of Dictionopolis in The Phantom Tollbooth?
- Are you Al Capp’s best known creation?
Correct.
Louisa May Alcott.
Mehitabel’s friend, archy.
DQs reserved.
IQ1: Were you an American who claimed to be a surviving Romanoff?
IQ2: Were you that Romanoff?
IQ3: Are you a doctor portrayed on screen by someone who also played a DJ and an alien?