#1 is Howard Shore, flute and reedman for Lighthouse and composer of the soundtracks of ‘The Fly’, ‘Naked Lunch’ and ‘Cosmopolis’. He is most famous for the soundtracks to ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and the forthcoming ‘The Hobbit’.
DQ: Were you involved in aeronautics?
IQ: Did you invent the helicopter?
Are you a nuclear physicist who had an element named in your honor?
Yes, I am Igor Sikorsky!
Nice going, le Ministre! Take us away with another round when you’re ready.
Not that it matters, but I was going for Glenn Seaborg.
All right, because I am a pedant with a ‘completeist’ mentality…
X.
I predict this won’t last too long.
Are you a basketball player who lead the nation in scoring and rebounding.
IQ: Are you a quadraplegic who runs a rather unique school?
IQ: Did you have a hit in 1940 with “Perfidia”?
I don’t know; a DQ for you!
No, I’m not Professor Charles Xavier from ‘The X-Men’. (Is he a quadriplegic? I thought he had the use of his arms…)
No, I’m not Xavier Cugat.
Thought of a couple more…
IQ2: Did you write a book about your adventures as a prostitute?
IQ3: Is a university in Nova Scotia named for you?
DQ: are you living? (BTW my IQ refered to Xaiver McDaniel)
IQ: Did an iconic 1989 protest force you to make some concessions you really didn’t want to?
No, I’m neither Xaviera Hollander nor Saint Francis Xavier.
No, I’m not Deng Xiao-Peng. (sp.?)
No.
Summary -
IQ1: Were you a movie star in the silent film era?
IQ2: Were you a warrior princess?
IQ3: Were you a great king of Persia?
No, I’m not Xena, Princess Warrior (nor her Newfoundland cousin Marg.) nor Xerxes. I’m stumped on the first one, though. Take a DQ.
Correct on Xena and Xerxes. The movie star was Francis X. Bushman.
DQ: Are you fictional?
No.
Summary -
In one episode of ST: DS9, Benjamin Sisko imagined life as a science fiction writer in the 1950s named Benny.
Correct as to S. Snape and H. Simpson.
As to Spoons’s question, if middle initials are fair game…
IQs
Did your ex-wife once find herself in the potential line of fire where you worked?
Were a Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps?
Did you dig hole after hole after hole?
In the case of ‘x’, I think middle initials will prove necessary if the game isn’t to bog down into ‘Who the Hell else begins with an ‘x’?’
Once again, Dúnedain, it is not only that I cannot name the people you hint at, I cannot place a single one of these references. Strider? Nay, Wingthought I name you. Take three DQs.