IQ1: Did you play Ron Swanson in the sitcom Parks and Recreation?
IQ2: Did you write “Orpheus in the Underworld” which used the can-can dance, considered scandalous at the time?
IQ3: Are you head coach of the Houston Texans?
Correct on Oglethorpe. #1, the singer-songwriter, is Beth Orton. #2 was Jan Oort, after whom the Oort Cloud - origin point of many periodic comets - is named.
DQ1: Known for science?
DQ2: Known for military?
IQ1: Were you the character in Catch-22 who beat the war by rowing to Sweden?
IQ2: Did you write Metamorphoses and The Art of Love?
IQ3: Were you a linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams, who, after his football career ended, played a farmer in Walnut Grove, Minnesota?
I’m very curious about EH’s nude organist…
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
#1. I know this guy. I just can’t bring his name around. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Offenbach.
#3. Take a DQ.
I think he was played by Terry Jones. Maybe it’s Nude Organist…
Correct on Ovid. #1 was Yossarian’s tentmate Orr, who got shot down every mission he flew. #3 was Merlin Olsen.
DQ1: Physicist?
DQ2: Known for a particular discovery/invention?
IQ1: Are you to blame for the ballads “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” and “Knock Three Times”?
IQ2: Are you the hero of an medieval Italian epic by Ariosto?
IQ3: Are you an actor known for his androgynous looks, whose most famous role was as an elf?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
- Physicist
- Known for a particular discovery/invention
I am not Tony - Orlando - Bloom (though some might think Will Turner was his most famous role).
Oooh, nicely phrased! Takes the sting out of being swept.
IQ1: Were you Western civilization’s first recorded case of a musician being harassed by fangirls?
IQ2: Were you the subject of a famous painting by Millais?
IQ3: Were you a physicist who famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita on a particularly significant occasion?
Previous IQs:
Were you an Old Testament figure known for spilling his seed? - Yes, Onan
Were you the nude MPFC organist? - Also Onan, played by Terry Jones
Were you Ike’s sole female Cabinet appointee? - Ovetta Culp Hobby
DQs:
Known for work on nuclear weapons?
First name start with O?
IQs:
Were you played by Tilda Swinton?
Did you recently write a tattletale book after leaving the White House?
Were you once named by Time magazine as one of America’s top five mayors?
Nick Offerman, correct, Bill O’Brien
holding 2 DQs
IQ: Did you say “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
- Physicist
- Known for a particular discovery/invention
- Not known for work on nuclear weapons
- Last name starts with O
#3. I am not Oppenheimer. Take 2 DQs.
#1. I am not Orlando.
Take 2 DQs.
Nope, I am not Oppenheimer.
DQ: Discovery made before WWII?
holding a DQ
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
- Physicist
- Known for a particular discovery/invention
- Not known for work on nuclear weapons
- Last name starts with O
- Discovery made long before WWII
Correct on J. Robert. #1, the musician who was ripped apart by maenads consumed with his playing, was Orpheus. #2 was Ophelia, who was painted floating in a river by Sir John Everett Millais, of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
DQ1: Born before 1400?
Holding one DQ.
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
- Physicist
- Known for a particular discovery/invention
- Not known for work on nuclear weapons
- Last name starts with O
- Discovery made long before WWII
- Born after 1400
[I remembered the Ophelia painting about 5 minutes after I’d posted. Oh, well.]
Previous IQs:
Were you played by Tilda Swinton? - Yes, Orlando
Did you recently write a tattletale book after leaving the White House? - Omarosa
Were you once named by Time magazine as one of America’s top five mayors? - Martin O’Malley, when he was Mayor of Baltimore
DQs:
German?
Born after 1750?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
- Not known for military
- Known for Science
- Physicist
- Known for a particular discovery/invention
- Not known for work on nuclear weapons
- Last name starts with O
- Discovery made long before WWII
- Born after 1400
- Not German
- Born after 1750
That’s 20. Please have all unasked DQ’s in by 9 pm EST tonight.
DQ: Does the discovery have something to do with electricity/magnetism?