Botticelli - January 2015

IQ1) Are you a world-famous musician whose daughter is a Grammy winning singer/pianist?

IQ2) Are you a Brooklyn-born Irish-American country singer who first came to prominence after writing a hit for Elvis in the Seventies?

IQ3) Did you wear stripes on your judicial robes, as a joking tribute to Gilbert and SUllivan?

IQs:

  1. Were you the “King of the Cowboys”?
  2. Are you an archangel who appears in the Apocrypha but not the rest of the Bible?
  3. Are you the King of the Nomes in the Oz books?

Randy Quaid, Randy Newman, Randy Johnson
Randy x3!

DQ: Military genre?
holding 2 DQs

Three DQs, though I probably should know #2

Not Roy Rogers.
Not … Rapheal?
DQ.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Possibly best known from a movie
  5. Protagonist
  6. Military genre

Originally Posted by astorian
IQ1)** Were you the only “member” of Pink Floyd to make a profit on the 1982 The Wall tour?**

Keyboard player Richard Wright. He was kicked out of the band by Roger Waters, but was allowed to come on the tour as a paid accompanist. As it turned out, the tour was a disaster- Wright got paid for his performances. and didn’t take a financial bath as he would have if he were still officially part of the group.
IQ2) Is there an 8 foot bronze statue of you at New York City’s Port Authority bus terminal?

The world’s most famous fictional bus driver, Ralph Kramden (played by Jackie Gleason on The Honeymooners), has a statue at Port Authority bus terminal
IQ3) Are you a former opthalmologist played by Vanessa Redgrave in a made-for TV movie?

Vanessa Redgrave played former opthalmologist Dr. Richard Raskind, who had a sex change operation and became tennis player Renee Richards

Three DQs reserved for now

Originally Posted by astorian
IQ1) Are you a world-famous musician whose daughter is a Grammy winning singer/pianist?

Sitar player Ravi Shankar is the father of pianist-singer Norah Jones.
IQ2) Are you a Brooklyn-born Irish-American country singer who first came to prominence after writing a hit for Elvis in the Seventies?

Eddie Rabbit (his real name) wrote Elvis’ hit “Kentucky Rain.”
IQ3) Did you wear stripes on your judicial robes, as a joking tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan?

Chief Justice WIlliam Rehnquist
DQ1) American?

DQ2) Created after 1900?

DQ3) Did you first appear in a novel?

IQ1: Did Sylvester Stallone portray you in First Blood?
IQ2: Did Sterling Hayden portray you in Dr. Strangelove?
IQ3: Did Brad Pitt portray you in Inglourious Basterds?

Correct on Roy and Raphael.
The Nome King’s name was Ruggedo (or sometimes Ruggero).

1 DQ reserved.

From all I’ve read, Rehnquist wasn’t joking - he just liked the look of the stripes.

I suspect Knowed Out has our man.

Previous IQs:

Did you pretend to call your famous dad in a TV commercial? - Ron Reagan, Jr., in a credit-card ad (“Hello, Dad…?”)
Were you that dad? - Ronald Reagan
Were you that dad’s wife? - Nancy Reagan

DQs:

Considered a “good guy”?
Served on or after December 7, 1941?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you hang out at Rhosgobel?
Did an author speculate that your middle name was Thelonious, although it was later revealed to be Thomas?
Did Beau Bridges play your exasperated dad several times?

IQ1: Were you Filipino in the book in which you initially appeared, though amongst many other errors the movie ‘adaptation’ (whose director openly expressed scorn for his source material) incorrectly claimed you were Argentinian?

Not John Rambo.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Radagast the Brown.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Juan Rico.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Possibly best known from a movie
  5. Protagonist
  6. Military genre
  7. American
  8. Created after 1900
  9. First appeared in a novel
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Served on or after December 7, 1941

Preivous IQs:

Did you hang out at Rhosgobel? - Yes, Radagast the Brown.
Did an author speculate that your middle name was Thelonious, although it was later revealed to be Thomas? - Cmdr. William T. Riker.
Did Beau Bridges play your exasperated dad several times? - Randy Hickey, on My Name Is Earl.

DQs:

Serve on or after Jan. 1, 1965?
Often carried a rifle?

IQs:

Were you one of “The Untouchables”?
Are you the best-known person to come from Whittier, Calif.?
Did you boast of having been “severely conservative” in your public service?

Three DQs.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Possibly best known from a movie
  5. Protagonist
  6. Military genre
  7. American
  8. Created after 1900
  9. First appeared in a novel
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Served on or after December 7, 1941
  12. May have served on or after Jan. 1, 1965
  13. Not known to have often carried a rifle

correct, General Jack D. Ripper, Lt. Aldo Raine

4 DQs in reserve

DQ: Movie created after 1980?

Previous IQs:

Were you one of “The Untouchables”? - Elliot Ness was always barking out orders to “Rico! Youngblood!”
Are you the best-known person to come from Whittier, Calif.? - Richard M. Nixon
Did you boast of having been “severely conservative” in your public service? - Mitt Romney, describing his term as Governor of Massachusetts.

Hmmm.

DQs:

Officer?
U.S. Army?
Appeared in more than one movie?

IQs:

Were you the title character of your movie about the U.S. Navy in WWII?
Did you write bios of both William Gladstone and Winston Churchill?
Did you remain on the board of the company your brother started for many years after he died?

Not Mr Roberts.
DQ.
DQ.

R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Possibly best known from a movie
  5. Protagonist
  6. Military genre
  7. American
  8. Created after 1900
  9. First appeared in a novel
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Served on or after December 7, 1941
  12. May have served on or after Jan. 1, 1965
  13. Not known to have often carried a rifle
  14. Movie not created after 1980
  15. Officer
  16. US Army (technically)
  17. Appeared in only one movie
    By my count astorian has three DQs, KO has four, and EH has one.

Correction: EH has three DQs.

IQs:

  1. Are you the Hero of the H.M.S. Pinafore?
  2. Did you accompany Prospero in The Face in the Frost?
  3. Did you invent Droodles?

Hmm. Down to our last three DQs. What would be good to ask?

IQ:

Did you serve aboard “the wackiest ship in the Army”?