IQ: Is an (in)famous photo of you fumbling a football often cited as a reason you lost the election?
I’ve read that anecdote about fumbling the football, but I can’t think of the photo’s subject. Take a DQ.
Going to sleep now – back tomorrow afternoon or evening.
IQ: As Archbishop of Canterbury, did you take a particularly strong interest in Middle East peace?
IQ: Is most of the cool stuff on Gallifrey named after you?
Robert Stanfield was the leader of the Progressive Conservative party in Canada. He had actually been quite an athlete in his day, but this photo doesn’t show him at his best. It also didn’t help that he was up against the witty and charismatic Pierre Eliot Trudeau..
DQ: Are you fictional?
IQ: Do you play guitar better with two fingers than most people can play with four?
Were you the last Archbishop of Canterbury who was loyal to the Roman Catholic Church?
Are you a baseball Hall of Famer that the Mets refused to draft because you were married to a white woman?
If you mean Robert Runcie, I’m not him.
Never even heard of Gallifrey, but I’ll take a stab and say I’m not Robert Heinlein.
No.
I assume you’re referring to someone who actually has less than a full complement of digits, as I’m sure there are many musicians who can play well even with all but two fingers “tied behind their back”, so to speak. If so, I’ll give you a DQ, as I can’t think of anyone who qualifies.
Wasn’t his name Renfrew? If not, take a DQ.
Man, I know a lot of baseball trivia, but I’ve never heard this story. I can’t resist guessing, so I’ll say I’m not Tim Raines. I’m guessing you get a DQ, though.
Summary:
- Not fictional
1 ) The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury was Reginald Pole
- The black superstar that the Mets passed on because he was married to a white woman was Arizona State slugger Reginald Martinez Jackson. (Think Reggie enjoyed beating the MEts in the 1973 World Series?)
My two DQs:
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Are you female?
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Are you still alive?
Yes, it was Runcie, who had his own personal envoy to the Middle East… who got kidnapped by terrorists.
IQ: Did an out-of-town gentleman find you, despite your mental illness, a useful assistant?
Neither.
And Elendil’s Heir gets a DQ for his question, which I suspect I’d know if were worded less cryptically.
Summary:
- Not fictional
- Not female
- Not still alive
I will leave it to you to decide - the reference was to Django Reinhardt, whose left hand was severely burned in a fire. His LH ring and pinky fingers were all-but useless to him. Never the less, his technical abilities were such that even though his playing was almost entirely restricted to his LH index and middle fingers, he continues to influence guitar players long after his death.
If you feel that I went too far and implied that he was missing two fingers rather than missing the use of two fingers, then I will accept if you refuse me a DQ.
Possible DQ: Were you born in the twentieth century?
IQ: Along with your brother (who had no ‘R’ in his monogram), were you one of the busiest studio musicians in the 1970s?
Did you coach the last all-white team to win the NCAA Division 1 football championship?
Did you create a trio of singing rodents, and name them after executives at your record label?
You are not Rassilon. (from Doctor Who)
DQ: is the R in your first or last name?
IQ: Do you want me to be your neighbor?
That’s part of the fun of Botticelli!
Renfield, the bug-eating madman, became Dracula’s helper.
I think the DQ answers are easier to understand if they’re not phrased in the negative, so if I may:
- A real person
- Male
- Dead
DQ: American?
IQ: Have you played a marksman, a crook and a bomb-disposal expert?
IQ: Does your impossibly hot wife like you because you make her laugh?
Are you famous for, allegedly, saving the life of a captain your Dad was about to execute?