1. I am not Xavier Cugat.
2. I am not Xuxa.
3. Take a DQ.
IQ1: I’m betting this is another Xavier, but take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Xaviera Hollander.
DQs:
- real
- male
- dead
St Francis Xavier.
Correct.
.
DQ: European?
Correct, Correct and the rapper Xzibit.
DQ: Died after 1899?
DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not European
5. died after 1899
I thought he was Alvin Joiner.
IQ: Are you an unidentified person?
Well, that’s the problem sometimes with only working from memory. It turns out, you’re right, so I owe you one DQ - take away one of future DQs, please.
IQs:
- Were you a 20th Century Greek classical composer who taught at Indiana University for a number of years?
- Are you a Marvel character who escaped from a prison planet on a supply ship?
- Did you play Red John on The Mentalist?
1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Xemnu the Titan (most recently seen rewriting the memories of the entire world to believe that he’s always been beloved hero the Incredible Hulk).
3. Take a DQ.
DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not European
5. died after 1899
6. not an unidentified person
That wasn’t a DQ.
…I am not X, from the movie JFK?
DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not European
5. died after 1899
I was thinking the generic (Mr) X, not a specific one, but that’ll do.
I can’t think of any more candidates – wake me up when the next game starts…
#1 was Iannis Xenakis.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Xander Berkeley.
DQs:
- American?
- Died after 1969?
IQs:
- Did you hang around with Buffy and Willow?
- Did Ray Milland play you as the title character in a 1960’s B-Movie directed by Roger Corman?
- Were you an ancient Greek philosopher best known for disagreeing with Aristotle?
Previous IQs:
Was the Federal Building in Boston named after you? - Francis X. Morrissey
Have you been played in the last twenty years by two British actors, one of whom played a soldier who died at Dunkirk in an unrelated movie? - Yes, Prof. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, the latter of whom costarred as a doomed soldier in Atonement)
Were you played by the same actor who also played a U.S. Army Ranger in Saving Private Ryan? - Xxx, played by Vin Diesel
DQs:
Political/military?
Best known for a single incident?
IQs:
Were you the Chinese Communist tyrant responsible for perhaps more mass murder than any other human being ever?
Were you blamed by many for the brutal suppression of protestors on Tiananmen Square?
Are you a more recent Chinese Communist leader?
I am not Xander, X–the Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Xenocrates, or Xi Jinping, but I am indeed Deng Xiaoping! Next game goes back to Elendil’s Heir.
Thanks, DLR! Having run out of alternatives, it suddenly occurred to me that there were quite a few Chinese folks with names starting with X.
Our next letter is
K
Great job, EH! I don’t remember Deng at all.
DLR, correct on Xander and X-the Man, but the 3rd one was Xenarchus.
IQs:
- Were you also known as Cheops?
- Does the Epistle of Jude speak of your rebellion?
- Is June 11th a holiday named for you in just one of the 50 states?
Deng Xiaoping is the only post-Mao leader I do remember.
IQ1: Werre you John and Caroline’s brother?
IQ2: Were you a politician’s sister who underwent a lobotomy?
IQ3: Were you a Navy officer killed by the premature explosion of a flying bomb?
Not Kitap, Kagol or Martin Luther King Jr. (all guesses)
Not Patrick Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy or Joseph Kennedy Jr.
IQs:
1. Were you animated by Willis O’Brien?
2. Were your last words “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough”?
3. Have you appeared in Misery, Titanic, and the TV show Feud?
Correct on all three.
.
IQ1: Were you Detroit’s star right fielder in the '60s?
IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer, the father of twins, and a diver?
IQ3: Were you (usually) really Mildred Wirt or her daughter?