Correct on Tony. Alessandro began Domenico.
1 DQ reserved.
Huh. Romance language, northwest of Berlin. That’ll take some thought.
DQ: Composer?
holding 1 DQ
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Not American
- Involved in the arts
- Dead
- European
- Last name starts with “S”
- Best known for contributions in music
- Not British
- Died before 1900
- Spoke a Romance language
- Born West of Berlin
- Born a LITTLE South of Berlin
- Died after 1800
- Did a little composing, but no one listens to anything I wrote today.
First, note a correction to #13. I misjudged exactly where Berlin lies, and it turns out my birthplace is South of Berlin (but not MUCH).
Second, remember what I said about #8. There are ways of contributing to music beyond the obvious.
DQ: French?
IQ1: Are you a Polish science fiction writer who wrote the novel that the movie Solaris was based on?
IQ2: Did you write the The Dracula Tape series, in which Dracula and other vampires actually have a moral code?
IQ3: Did you start writing the Lensman space opera stories after losing your job as a food technologist?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Not American
- Involved in the arts
- Dead
- European
- Last name starts with “S”
- Best known for contributions in music
- Not British
- Died before 1900
- Spoke a Romance language
- Born West of Berlin
- Born a LITTLE South of Berlin
- Died after 1800
- Did a little composing, but no one listens to anything I wrote today.
- Not French by birth, but French was my native tongue and I spent most of my life in France.
Sigh… stumped yet again by sci-fi and fantasy.
Take 3 DQs.
Previous IQs:
Did FDR appoint you Chief Justice? - Yes, Harlan F. Stone.
Did you look through binoculars so intently that you broke them? - Ahnuld, in True Lies.*
Were you Andrew Lloyd Webber’s longtime muse? - Yes, Sarah Brightman.
- I always particularly liked that gag, because you couldn’t be sure if he squeezed the binoculars so hard he broke them, or if his glare (while watching his wife possibly cheat on him) was so intense that that alone shattered the glass.
DQ:
Best known for having inspired a piece of music?
IQs:
Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night?
Were you a non-European monarch called “the Magnificent”?
Were you once law director of Cleveland, Ohio?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Not American
- Involved in the arts
- Dead
- European
- Last name starts with “S”
- Best known for contributions in music
- Not British
- Died before 1900
- Spoke a Romance language
- Born West of Berlin
- Born a LITTLE South of Berlin
- Died after 1800
- Did a little composing, but no one listens to anything I wrote today.
- Not French by birth, but French was my native tongue and I spent most of my life in France.
- Not known for inspiring a piece of music
Not Suleiman the Magnificent
Take DQs for 1 and 3
Antonio Stradivari.
Correct.
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Do a popular woodwind and three less popular brass instruments bear your name?
IQ2: Did you write books about an insidious Oriental?
IQ3: Did you write “Old Folks at Home”?
Bingo!
YESSSSS, I am ADOLPHE SAX, Belgian-born musician and instrument maker.
As I am the inventor of the saxophone (as well as a few less popular instruments) you can thank me for Sonny Rollins and Junior Walker, or curse me for Kenny G.
Congrats SCAdian!
Well done, SCAdian!
wtg SCAnadian!
That’s what did it for me.
I am M.
All right, SCAdian!
Previous IQs:
Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night? - Saladin, during the Crusades.
Were you a non-European monarch called “the Magnificent”? - Yes, Suleiman.
Were you once law director of Cleveland, Ohio? - Subodh Chandra.
On the road soon - I’ll forego IQs for now.
IQ1: Are you a Celtic war deity who can appear as a crow, wolf, cow, and three sisters?
IQ2: Did your nephew Odin use your head for advice after it was chopped off in battle?
IQ3: Did you marry Jason after helping him find the Golden Fleece?
IQs:
- Were you aka Norma Jean Baker?
- Did you come up with the table of the elements?
- Did you drop ping pong balls on Captain Kangaroo?
Not the Morrigan.
DQ.
Not Medea.
Not Marilyn Monroe.
DQ (though I really ought to know this one).
Not … Mr Moose?
Correct on Marilyn and Mr. Moose. #2 was Dmitri Mendeleyev.
DQ: Real?
R
- Real