IQ1: Are you a former Hellcat pilot and anti-pornographer whose savings and loan business losses amounted to $3.4 billion that the federal government had to cover?
IQ2: Are you one of five senators IQ1 made contributions to and called for help in resisting regulators?
IQ3: Are you a household product that IQ1 was nicknamed after?
Previous IQs:
Were you LBJ’s last SECDEF? - Yes, Clark Clifford.
A hero of the Battle of Franklin, were you later elected Governor of Ohio? - Jacob D. Cox.
Did you lead the team which discovered the lost Confederate submarine Hunley? - Author and ocean explorer Clive Cussler.
DQs:
Male?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?
IQs:
Were you the supposed inspiration for The Last Hurrah?
Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed?
Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech?
Correct on Chester.
#2 was Choo-Choo. #3 was Canaletto.
DQ: Known for the Arts?
1 DQ reserved.
IQs:
- Were you a Neo-Classicist French painter who anticipated the Impressionists?
- Did you assassinate Jean-Paul Marat?
- Were you a noted crooner contemporary with Crosby and Vallee?
Oops - that was supposed to be “millionaire’s son,” but you’re correct.
Correct.
Clementine. (“Oh, my darlin’…”)
DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?
IQ1: Were you a black man a US submarine was named for?
IQ2: Were you one of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”?
IQ3: Were you another of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”?
Not Charles Keating.
Not Alan Cranston (I remember he, John McCain and John Glenn were among the “Keating 5”).
Take a DQ for #3
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Dead
- American
- Died before 1950
- Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
- Last name starts with C
- Died after 1900.
- Not a military figure
- Male
- Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
- Not involved in the arts
- Born East of the Mississippi
Not Boston mayor James Michael Curley
Not Shakespeare’s Corliolanus
Take a DQ for #3
Take a DQ for #1
Not Henry Clay or John C. Calhoun
Not… Gustave Courbet? (Nah, he’s a Realist… take a DQ if that’s wrong.)
Not Charlotte Corday
Take a DQ for #3
#1 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Correct on Charlotte Corday.
#3 was Russ Columbo.
DQ: Known for Science?
2 DQs reserved.
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Dead
- American
- Died before 1950
- Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
- Last name starts with C
- Died after 1900.
- Not a military figure
- Male
- Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
- Not involved in the arts
- Born East of the Mississippi
- No involvement with science
Pay attention to #5, friends.
Mr. Clean
DQ: Known for a historical event?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Dead
- American
- Died before 1950
- Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
- Last name starts with C
- Died after 1900.
- Not a military figure
- Male
- Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
- Not involved in the arts
- Born East of the Mississippi
- No involvement with science
- Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event”
IQ1: Are you a leader of the Black Panthers who wrote Soul On Ice?
IQ2: Is there a hit recording of you and your daughter singing a duet, but in different time periods?
IQ3: Are you a Trinidadian-American activist who was chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
Not Eldredge Cleaver
Not Nat “King” Cole
Not… Stokeley Carmichael?
DQ: Last name starts with CA-CI?
Previous IQs:
Were you the supposed inspiration for The Last Hurrah? - Yes, Boston Mayor Curley
Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed? - Yes, Coriolanus
Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech? - French philosopher Albert Camus
DQ:
Committed a notable crime?
IQs:
Did Robert De Niro play in you in a movie, wielding a baseball bat?
Did you play Eddie Morra?
Were you Morra’s mentor and later rival?
George Washington Carver.
Correct on Clay and Calhoun (you even listed them in the order I was thinking of :)).
DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you special counsel to President Nixon?
IQ2: Were you a Civil War soldier recently awarded the Medal of Honor?
IQ3: Were you a British merchant skipper who became an Australian SF author?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Dead
- American
- Died before 1950
- Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for
- Last name starts with C
- Died after 1900.
- Not a military figure
- Male
- Born North of Mason-Dixon Line
- Not involved in the arts
- Born East of the Mississippi
- No involvement with science
- Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event”
- Last name starts with CM-CZ