IQ: Were you a heavyweight champ with uncreative names for you kids?
Dunno any of these, although I should know the last, in particular. Three DQs.
Not George Foreman.
G.
- Real
IQ1: Are you a Texas singer-songwriter who builds his own guitars?
IQ2: As mayor, did you direct city personnel to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law?
IQ3: Were you the chief engineer on NCC-1701-D?
IQ: Did you lose a recall election and were replaced by the “Governator”?
Correct on all three.
IQ1: Did you, your brother and his son all receive the Victoria Cross?
IQ2: Are you that brother?
IQ3: Are you that son?
Dunno the first, not Gavin Newsome of San Francisco, and not Geordi LaForge. One DQ.
Not the hapless Gray Davis.
Dunno any of these three. Does anyone else here?
#1. is Glenn Gould, who was at least as famous for his strange personal habits as for his playing. He has just won a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys.
#2. is Garuda, who rescues Sita from the demon Ravana in the Hindu epic ‘The Ramayana’. Garuda Airlines is the official airline of Indonesia.
#3. is Gaston Leroux. Though best known for ‘Phantom’, ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’ is a classic of the ‘locked room’ genre of mysteries.
DQ1: Are you male?
DQ2: Are you living?
DQ3: Are you American?
Guy Clark.
DQ: Are you associated with the arts, by our customary definition?
IQ: Were you a former child-star who ran in the Davis recall election?
Hugh Gough VC.
Charles Gough VC.
John Gough VC.
DQs reserved pending answers to Le Ministre’s and Enginerd’s questions.
IQ1: Do they call you Possum?
IQ2: Did you paint a farmer and his daughter standing in front of their house?
IQ3: Were you a hot Italian film star in the '60s?
Not Gary Coleman from Diff’rent Strokes.
Not to detract in any way from their heroism, but has anyone else heard of these guys?
Dunno the first; not Grant Wood (supposed to the farmer and his wife in American Gothic, wasn’t it?) or Gina Lollabrigida (sp?).
G.
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not involved in the creative arts
#5 per our usual definition.
Country singer George Jones.
Correct on Grant Wood (I’ve always heard it as being his daughter).
Correct on Gina Lollobrigida.
DQ: Died after 1950?
If I’m remembering right, one of them was with the British forces during the Napoleonic War, and then went to India/Afghanistan. Seems to me the other two fought for the British in India. Wasn’t there a mention of Gough in either the Hornblower series or the Aubery/Maturin series?
Gough Ave. in Toronto is named for one of them. I couldn’t tell you which one is which without SCAdian’s help, though.
IQ1: Are you a multi-instrumentalist with The Band? (I know, they’re all multi-instrumentalists…)
IQ2: Are you a Canadian author who writes an interesting blend of fantasy and historical fiction?
IQ3: Was ‘Falstaff’ your final masterpiece?
IQ1: Did you write the History of the Kings of Britain?
IQ2: Do you work for Spacely Sprockets?
IQ3: Did you write of that Aprille with his shoures soote?
Good enough for me. Thanks.
Dunno any of these. Three DQs.
Not Geoffrey of Monmouth, George Jetson (thinking of Elroy, were you?) or Geoffrey Chaucer.
G.
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not involved in the creative arts
- Died after 1950
Correct on all, though I must admit that I was thinking of Elroy. 
IQ: Did your “Plan” rebuild post-WWII Europe?
IQ1: Are you the lead singer of Rush?
IQ2: Did you wonder how an elephant got into your pyjamas?
IQ3: Did you invent Dungeons and Dragons?
Not George C. Marshall. (True story: One of my history professors in college was in the crowd as a graduating student for the Harvard commencement ceremony at which the Secretary of State announced the Marshall Plan. Talk about being part of history!)
Not Getty Lee, Groucho Marx or Gary Gygax.