DQ1) Did you found a company or corporation that still exists today?
DQ2) Were you an inventor?
DQ3) Did you sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase?
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Male.
- Last name does not start with C.
- Dead.
- American.
- Not known for politics/military.
- Died since 1950.
- Not known for the arts.
- Known for business.
- Died since 2000.
- Founded a company or corporation that still exists today.
- Inventor (using a broad, modern definition of the term).
- Did not sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase.
IQs:
- Did your wife write Gift from the Sea and other poems?
- Were you the longest lasting manger in Major League Baseball?
- Were you one of Top Cat’s gang?
IQ1: Is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City named after you?
IQ2: Are you an American hotelier and founder of a hotel chain who was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor?
IQ3: From 2010 to 2013, were you considered the richest man in the world?
I saw a genetic study as to Charlemagne; never saw one as to your Mongol guy.
Previous IQs:
Did Woodrow Wilson narrowly beat you in 1916? - Charles Evans Hughes.
Does one of your most famous recordings end with you saying offhandedly, “That’s it.” - Ray Charles, performing “What’d I Say.”
Were you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour.
DQs:
Product can be held with one hand?
Product involves electronics/computers?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Were you Gage’s #2 guy at Germantown?
Did a wit say it looked like you had been weaned on a pickle?
Huh. Never heard of him, either.
IQ1: Were you a Pole who is considered to be one of the greatest novelists in English?
IQ2: Were you called “the African Mahler”?
IQ3: Are you a currently reigning member of European royalty?
I am not Connie Mack. No idea on the other two.
I am not … Andrew? Carnegie. First name’s escaping me!
I can’t think of a hotelier with a C in his name.
I am not Carlos Slim.
Ah, well, here you go.
Note that’s only Y-chromosome. Any family tree including at least one woman won’t pass the marker. At that temporal distance, a solid statistical argument could be made for ancestry to a “majority” of Europeans. Besides, you said “related to,” not “descended from,” and, well, we’re all related, man.
But you’ll have to take three DQs for this set of questions.
I am not Joseph Conrad.
I don’t even know who the regular Mahler is.
I am not Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Male.
- Last name does not start with C.
- Dead.
- American.
- Not known for politics/military.
- Died since 1950.
- Not known for the arts.
- Known for business.
- Died since 2000.
- Founded a company or corporation that still exists today.
- Inventor (using a broad, modern definition of the term).
- Did not sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase.
- Product cannot be held with one hand.
- No involvement of electronics or computers in most well-known product.
Correct on Connie Mack. #1 was Charles Lindbergh (whose wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was the poet.) #3 was Choo Choo.
2 DQs reserved.
Correct.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Correct.
DQ: Best-known product related to transportation?
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Male.
- Last name does not start with C.
- Dead.
- American.
- Not known for politics/military.
- Died since 1950.
- Not known for the arts.
- Known for business.
- Died since 2000.
- Founded a company or corporation that still exists today.
- Inventor (using a broad, modern definition of the term).
- Did not sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase.
- Product cannot be held with one hand.
- No involvement of electronics or computers in most well-known product.
- Best-known product related to transportation.
DQ: Common first name?
1 DQ reserved.
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Male.
- Last name does not start with C.
- Dead.
- American.
- Not known for politics/military.
- Died since 1950.
- Not known for the arts.
- Known for business.
- Died since 2000.
- Founded a company or corporation that still exists today.
- Inventor (using a broad, modern definition of the term).
- Did not sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase.
- Product cannot be held with one hand.
- No involvement of electronics or computers in most well-known product.
- Best-known product related to transportation.
- Uncommon first name.
correct, Conrad Hilton, correct
holding 2 DQs
Thanks for the Khan study. Hadn’t seen that before.
Previous IQs:
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Collingwood.
Were you Gage’s #2 guy at Germantown? - Lord Cornwallis (later to come to grief at Yorktown).
Did a wit say it looked like you had been weaned on a pickle? - Calvin Coolidge.
Hmmm. Three DQs remaining. What would be useful to know at this point? No name is occurring to me, based on what we know so far.
DQ: Product related to ground transportation?
holding a DQ
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Male.
- Last name does not start with C.
- Dead.
- American.
- Not known for politics/military.
- Died since 1950.
- Not known for the arts.
- Known for business.
- Died since 2000.
- Founded a company or corporation that still exists today.
- Inventor (using a broad, modern definition of the term).
- Did not sell a product that most “ordinary” Americans use or purchase.
- Product cannot be held with one hand.
- No involvement of electronics or computers in most well-known product.
- Best-known product related to transportation.
- Uncommon first name.
- Product related to ground transportation.
IQ1: Are you a Titan who overthrew your father, only to be overthrown by your son later?
IQ2: Are you a sea monster who often contends with Scylla and causes whirlpools and sea disasters?
IQ3: Did you turn Odysseus’s crew into swine?
IQ: Are you the founder of the Greyhound Bus Lines?
I am not Cronus. (Though I always spelled it Kronus.)
I am not sure. DQ.
I am not Circe. (I am pretty sure that’s right…)
DQ.
correct (C & K are both the same, but Chronos is actually the god of time), Charybdis, correct
holding 2 DQs