It’s Summertime, fellow Dopers, and, having checked Elendil’s Heir’s chart,
I am D!
Were you erroneously declared our 34th President?
Were you our ACTUAL 34th President?
I am not Dewey, nor am I Ike.
IQs:
Did you write Deliverence?
Did you found an American company originally known for manufacturing gunpowder and dynamite?
I’m not James Dickey. Take a DQ for the other.
IQ1: Did you have adventures with a homework machine and a smallifying machine?
IQ2: Did you become a hero for killing a man from Gath?
IQ3: Do you do a strip about an obese cat?
I’m not Danny Dunn or Jim Davis. Unless Dick Whittington killed the man from Gath, take a DQ for #2.
Correct on Danny Dunn and Jim Davis.
Goliath of Gath was killed by a shepherd named David.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Did you read the writing on the wall?
IQ2: Were you a space traveller in the 24 1/2th century?
IQ3: Were you one of four brothers who played for Essendon in the '80s and '90s?
Did you replace Inigo Montoya at the BAU?
IQ1: Were you the impresario who commissioned Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, among many other works?
IQ2: Were you a lutenist who may have spied on the court of Denmark for Sir Robert Cecil?
IQ3: Are the pipes a-calling you?
IQ1: Did you read the writing on the wall?
IQ2: Were you a space traveller in the 24 1/2th century?
IQ3: Were you one of four brothers who played for Essendon in the '80s and '90s?
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I am not Daniel. I am not Duck Dodgers. Take a DQ for #3
Unless that’s the Dread Pirate Roberts, take a DQ.
I’m not Danny Boy. Take 2 DQs and welcome!.
DQ: Real?
DQ1: Fictional.
Correct on James Dickey. E. I. DuPont for the 2nd.
DQ: Male?
#1 is Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the ‘Ballets Russes’, and the man responsible for commissioning the music of Ravel, Satie, Stravinsky (among others), for such ballets as ‘Daphnis et Chloé’, ‘Parade’, ‘Petroushka’, ‘The Firebird’ and ‘The Rite of Spring’.
#2 is John Dowland, an Englishman who never got the position of court lutenist to Queen Elizabeth I of England. He may have served as a spy while he traveled to France and to Denmark performing and composing.
Let’s see…
DQ1: Are you a literary character?
DQ2: If you were real, would you be alive today?
That’s David Rossi.
DQ: Military figure?
Correct on Daniel and Duck Dodgers.
Terry, Neale, Anthony and Chris Daniher all played Australian rules football for Essendon.
DQ: American?
DQ1) Fictional
DQ2) Male
DQ3) Literary character
DQ4) Would not be alive today if real
DQ5) Not a military character
DQ6) Not American