IQ1: Were you the first premier of the Soviet Union?
IQ2: Did you write “God Bless America”?
IQ3: Did you play a prisoner at Stalag 13?
I am not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin or Irving Berlin. Take a DQ for last question
- Real
2 Not American - Dead
- Male
- Last name doesn’t start with I
- European
- Not British
- Died after 1900.
- Known for creative arts but not only for that
- Not French
Correct on Lenin and Berlin.
Ivan Dixon played Kinchloe on Hogan’s Heroes.
DQ: Russian?
IQ1: Did Disney combine your music with dinosaurs?
IQ2: Did you write the music for Richard Roundtree’s first big role?
IQ3: Are you a naturalist interested in cryptozoology?
He was not Russian but he was born in what was then Russia.
I’m not Ivan Sanderson, Isaac Hayes and… Igor Stravinsky??
- Real
2 Not American - Dead
- Male
- Last name doesn’t start with I
- European
- Not British
- Died after 1900.
- Known for creative arts but not only for that
- Not French
- Not Russian but was born in what was Russia at the time
IQ: Were you a pianist who became involved in your homeland’s independence movement?
I’ll rephrase the first.
Yes, Jill Ireland.
The Texan was Ima Hogg.
DQ:
Best known as an author?
IQs:
Are you a French actress, other than Isabelle Adjani, known for your willingness to get naked on screen?
Did you write the story that the movie Yentl was based on?
Were you a clever Motie?
You are right because I am indeed…
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer and 2nd PM of the Republic of Poland!
Really good!
Continuing our tour of the alphabet, your letter is J
IQ1: Are you a singer buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery?
IQ2: Did you found analytical psychology?
IQ3: Were you becoming increasingly blind and had to have an eye surgery a few months before your death?
I’m not Jim Morrison
I’m not Carl Jung
DQ
(any a DQ in event 1st 2 are wrong)
Correct on all three.
New game:
IQ1: Are the robot pilot on a spaceship with a bunch of Martian chess fanatics?
IQ2: Are you a redhead who is trying to take another woman’s man?
IQ3: Did you rescue a wounded shipmate by towing him with a lifejacket strap between your teeth?
SC-
I’m not JFK
2 DQs
Jay Score, from Men, Martians and Machines, by Eric Frank Russell. (I very highly recommend it.)
Jolene, from the song by Dolly Parton.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: American?
IQ1: Were you obnoxious and disliked?
IQ2: Did you go boating with a dog and two other men?
IQ3: Were you married to the Father of Lions?
Well done, etv78!
Just to clear up, the film director I was after was Ivan Reitman, best known for Stripes, Meatballs and Ghostbusters.
J.
IQ1: Do the Mudders build a statue in honour of you in the town square?
IQ2: Are you a master of Renaissance polyphony?
IQ3: Are you a Canadian Prime Minister?
Way to go, etv!
From the previous round:
Isabelle Huppert
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ivan, in the classic Niven and Pournelle sf novel, The Mote in God’s Eye
On to J…
IQs:
Did your good friend never understand a single word you said?
Were you mocked by Bryant Gumbel?
Were you an ardent abolitionist, unlike your fellow Marylander Roger Taney?
Correct on the first two. The last one is Johann Sebastian Bach who had a really bad eyesight and died recovering from the eye surgery.
DQ: Male?
IQ1: Are you known for your 42-line Bible?
IQ2: Are you the only confirmed human that lived past 120?
IQ3: Did you write a novel that included the characters of Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land?
Nice job, etv!
This was Ivan Lendl (currently coaching Andy Murray).
On to J:
IQ1: Did you play with Hot Tuna as a sideline to your better-known gig?
IQ2: Shortly after you were paroled, did you join your brother on a mission from God?
IQ3: Were you a labor activist turned governor who was (unfairly?) portrayed in an Eric von Schmidt song?
OK, here we go:
I’m a real non-Yank
SCA-3 DQs
Ministre-3 DQs
Guy-3 DQs
Nerd-3 DQs
Elendil-I’m not Jane Pauley or John Brown, DQ for other one.
- Jorma Kaukonen
- Jake Blues
- Ebenezer Joshua
DQ: Are you male?
DQ: Are you alive?
DQ: Does your first name start with J?
I’m living, my 1st name starts “J”, but I have, as Sheldon Cooper calls them, “lady parts”.