IQ1: Did you write about the Seaton/DuQuesne rivalry?
IQ2: Did you write about wild animals you had known?
IQ3: Were you a Roman emperor born in Libya?
Dunno any of these. Three DQs each.
Seaton and “Blackie” DuQuesne are characters in the Skylark series, by E E “Doc” Smith.
Ernest Thompson Seton wrote Wild Animals I Have Known.
Septimius Severus.
DQ1: Let’s split the difference - died after 1550?
DQ2: Born west of the Rhine ?
IQ1: Ae you a European who wrote a famous study on the art of war?
IQ2: Do you keep your tobacco in a Persian slipper?
IQ3: Were you Maud’s opponent for a top job?
The monstrous bird the Skeezik frightened poor old Uncle Wiggily in more than one children’s tale.
Alfred Sisley’s the painter, and G. E. Stinson is the guitarist for Shadowfax.
I’ll wait on my DQs for the moment.
D’oh! Should’ve remembered Ernest Thompson Seton because of his Boy Scout connection.
Not Karl Student, Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade.
Never heard of these folks. Has any other player?
S.
- Real
- Male
- Last name begins with S
- Dead
- Died before 1900
- Not American
- Died before 1700
- European
- Political/military figure
- Died after 1400
- Died after 1550
- Born east of the Rhine
As the phrase is usually understood. Please note, however, that the Rhine goes in all kinds of different directions along its length.
Correction for the typo: that shoulda been Skeezix, not Skeezik. There was a character in the old Gasoline Alley comic strip named after it.
DQ: Head of state?
Student wrote a book? I’ll have to look for it… In the meantime, I’ll rephrase the question.
Yes, Sherlock Holmes.
Sam Spade???
IQ1: Were you an 18th-century European who wrote a famous study on the art of war?
IQ2: Are you an American journalist famous for exploring central Africa?
IQ3: Did you compare Texas unfavourably with Hell?
Sisley sounds vaguely familiar, but it’s been fifty years since I read Uncle Wiggily and Shadowfax is the wrong type of music for me to know anything about…
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As the phrase is usually understood. Please note, however, that the Rhine goes in all kinds of different directions along its length.
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For some reason I thought it was rather straighter than it actually is…
Student and Spade were guesses.
Dunno the first - the only two I can think of are Sun Tzu and Clausewitz.
Not Stanley or… Sheridan?
The European I was looking for was Marshal de Saxe. (Jomini is another one to read if you’re interested in the subject.)
Empress Mathilda (aka Maude or Maud) was supposed to become Queen of England on the death of her father, Henry I. Her cousin Stephen objected.
Correct on Henry Morton Stanley, and on Phil Sheridan, who said “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."
Thinking…
O-kay, so were my questions disallowed, or what?
No one else said they knew those people, other than SCAdian’s “sounds vaguely familiar” as to one. I think they might fail the as-well-known-as-Botticelli rule.
The Skeezix, I’ll grant you, is way obscure. Shadowfax is/was a fairly unknown band, even though they’ve been around since the 1970’s. Two of Sisley’s paintings sold at Sotheby’s this year for amounts in the millions, though, and his work is in the Musee d’Orsay.
So: new IQs:
- Were you prone to “Exit, stage left”?
- Were you a movie cartoon character voiced by Billy Gilbert?
- Are you the artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg?
IQ1: Did Elroy and Judy’s father work for you?
IQ2: Were you a Luftwaffe sergeant working at Stalag 13?
IQ3: Are you a pianist pursued by Miss Van Pelt?
Stephen Harper, indeed. LaSalle wasn’t who I had in mind, but he’ll do nicely.
#2 was Isaac Stern, an accomplished concert violinist with a recording career that spans 50 years.
DQ - Did you die in battle?
Not Shakespeare, dunno the second, and if “Snoop” is an insufficient answer, dunno the third.
Not Mr. Spacely, Sgt. Schultz (“I see notheeeeeng!”), or Schroeder.
S.
- Real
- Male
- Last name begins with S
- Dead
- Died before 1900
- Not American
- Died before 1700
- European
- Political/military figure
- Died after 1400
- Died after 1550
- Born east of the Rhine
- Did not die in battle
Snagglepuss (the other pink panther, and thorn-in-the-side to Quickdraw McGraw), not Shakespeare.
Billy Gilbert was a character actor known for his prolonged comic sneezes, and Disney Studios created the character of Sneezy in Snow White around him. Snoop Doggy Dogg is now Snoop Lion.
:smack:…and that’s why I shouldn’t go to SDMB before I wake up. Of course, Shakespeare’s a perfectly good reply.
DQ: Head of state?
Correct on all three.
IQ1: Were you lost in time, as part of a government project?
IQ2: Did you play the older daughter in a musical family?
IQ3: Did you have to abort your trans-Antarctic expedition when your ship was trapped in the ice and sank?