IQ1: Did you paint At the Moulin Rouge?
IQ2: Was Nadezhda von Meck your patroness, even though the two of you never met?
IQ3: Did Ramsay Snow call you “Reek”?
IQs:
Were you Penelope’s only son?
Did a noted American general take your name as his middle name?
Were you mentioned in a Grease song?
DQ: British?
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with T
- European by birth
- Died after 1900
- Not British
I’ve wracked my brain for number 1 but it’s just not there. Can’t guess the others either - take 3 DQs.
Is #1 Theseus? Otherwise I am again drawing blanks - take 2 or 3 DQs.
IQs:
- Did you write Idylls of the King?
- Were you POTUS after FDR?
- Were you known as “the Iron Lady”?
- I did not, and I don’t know who did - take a DQ.
- I am not Harry S. Truman.
- I am not Margaret Thatcher.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Tchaikovsky (she would support him, but her condition was that the two would never meet face-to-face, so they corresponded via mail), Theon Greyjoy (from Games of Thrones)
DQ: Known for the Arts?
DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?
holding a DQ
I knew I should have got Toulouse-Lautrec. Interesting about Tchaikovsky. Never watched/read GoT, I have heard of a few of the characters but not those two (“Snow” was the clue but I didn’t pick up on it and wouldn’t have got it if I had). Well played.
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with T
- European by birth
- Died after 1900
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a native speaker of a Romance language
Previous IQs:
Were you Penelope’s only son? - Telemachus; Odysseus was her husband and his father
Did a noted American general take your name as his middle name? - William Tecumseh Sherman
Were you mentioned in a Grease song? - “As for you, Troy Donahue / I know what you want to do…”
DQs:
Political/military?
Died after 1950?
Best known for thing(s) he did after leaving Europe?
IQs:
Did a fictional leader have your name as his middle name?
Did you play a boxer’s girlfriend and a gangster’s daughter?
Did you get your name when the actor playing you forgot his lines?
#1 was Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Correct on the others.
1 DQ reserved.
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with T
- European by birth
- Died after 1900
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a native speaker of a Romance language
- Not political/military
- Died before 1950
- Best known for accomplishments after leaving Europe
- I am not emperor Tiberius.
- I am not an actress who was in Rocky and The Godfather and whose name I have no idea about.
- No idea.
Take 2 more DQs.
IQ1: Are you a comic strip cop who uses a 2-way wrist radio?
IQ2: Did you star in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and die 17 days after filming was completed?
IQ3: Did you have a hit in 1988 with “Fast Car”?
Unless #3 is Tom Petty (which I think I might be saying because his namesake Richard drove fast cars), take 3 DQs.
DQ: Known for sports?
Previous IQs:
Did a fictional leader have your name as his middle name? - Yes, Tiberius, as in James Tiberius Kirk
Did you play a boxer’s girlfriend and a gangster’s daughter? - Talia Shire, in (as you guessed) Rocky and The Godfather
Did you get your name when the actor playing you forgot his lines? - Tim the Enchanter, played by John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (in the script, or so the story goes, he had a much more impressive name): Tim The Enchanter - YouTube
DQs:
Born in or north of Vienna?
Born in or east of Vienna?
IQs:
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Were you an admiral who came aboard the USS Enterprise but had not a single line of dialogue?
Did your frenemy refer to you as a “turbulent priest”?
IQs:
- Were you a boyishly thin 1960’s fashion model off of Carnaby Street?
- Are you the present U.S. Secretary of State?
- Are you the son of Odin?
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with T
- European by birth
- Died after 1900
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a native speaker of a Romance language
- Not political/military
- Died before 1950
- Best known for accomplishments after leaving Europe
- Not known for sports
- Born south of Vienna
- Born west of Vienna
The third sounds like Father Ted, but I’m guessing you get three DQs again :).
These are more my level - I’m not Twiggy, Tillerson, or Thor.
You swept me.
Dick Tracy, Spencer Tracy, Tracy Chapman
Tracy x 3!
DQ: Known for a product or service?
holding 3 DQs
Nicely done. Update:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with T
- European by birth
- Died after 1900
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a native speaker of a Romance language
- Not political/military
- Died before 1950
- Best known for accomplishments after leaving Europe
- Not known for sports
- Born south of Vienna
- Born west of Vienna
- Known for developing a product or service
I assume Prof. P is keeping his counsel as there are now enough DQs outstanding to take us over 20, he is of course welcome to take a guess at any time (which I assume will be once some more DQs have been asked and answered).