IQ: Are you a clarinetist whose name suggests that ideas may flow from him?
IQ: Are you God’s maitre’d?
This was Anthony Trollope, BTW.
Congrats, Le Ministre!
IQ: Did you play a guy in the Sixties who never got to finish his sentences?
Gah! Stumped off the bat, and on a musician as well. DQ for you!
No, I’m not Saint Peter.
I suspect you mean the guy with the stutter from ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, and the name is stuck like a broken cork. DQ for you!
Are you the only remaining original member of the band that recorded “Machine Head”?
No, I’m not Ian Paice.
The punning reference was to Pete Fountain.
DQ: Are you famous for musical accomplishments (composing, performing, instrument manufacture, etc.)?
IQ: Did you ironically (considering your later career) have your greatest difficulty in shooting while competing in the pentathlon?
Michael Palin, the “It’s…” man from Monty Python.
DQ: Fictional?
IQ: Were you a great slugger of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
- Not famous for any type of musical accomplishment.
- Not Fictional.
Stumped! DQ for you!
Buffaloed! DQ for you!
Did you drive a racecar called the Compact Pussycat?
IQ: Did a member of the British Secret Service call you a woman of many parts?
IQ: Did you kiss a girl and like it?
Dave Parker.
DQ: Male?
IQ: In a book, did you impress the people of another culture by knowing their ways without being told?
Yes.
To recap:
- Not famous for any type of musical accomplishment.
- Not Fictional.
- Male.
No, I’m not Penelope from “The Perils of Penelope Pitstop”.
No, I’m not Miss Money Penny. (I could very well be wrong here; I always thought it was Moneypenny. If I am wrong, give yourself a DQ.)
No, I’m stuck on Georgie Porgie, and I don’t think he qualifies… Ask a DQ.
Gah! Take a DQ!
For the first, I was thinking of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. For the second, I was going for T. S. Eliot (the musical, of course, being Cats. I’m not convinced that Thornton Wilder fits but having “turned the page” of the thread I see it’s academic now anyway.
Anyway, IQ for the next game:
Did your son succeed you in office with a logical variant on your nickname?
No, I’m not William Pitt the younger.
Pussy Galore, actually, the “Bond Girl” from Goldfinger. You are correct, Moneypenny is one word.
DQ: Born in the 20th century?
Paul Atreides and the Fremen in Dune.
DQ: American?
IQ: Did you and your colleagues, forbidden by your employer to talk about your salaries, have a party with your salaries written on signs and hanging around your necks?