Correct on all three of mine, too.
IQs:
Did Sam Kinnison joke that you were obsessed with fellatio?
Were you the top drillmaster of George Washington’s troops?
Are you arguably the second-best-known person to come from the town named after him?
correct, Leon Shermer, Sonny Wortzik
DQ: European?
DQ: Known for the arts?
IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play Pygmalion?
IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White?
IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area?
Not Solomon Kane or Stepin Fetchit
Take a DQ for #3
Not Sophocles, Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Adam Smith
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- Last name starts with S
- European
- Not involved in the arts
Not Camille Saint-Saens.
Take DQs for 1 and 3
Antonio Stradivari.
Correct.
S M Stirling.
DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
DQ2: Died after 1700?
IQ1: Were you a Nazi Party member who was financially supported by Jews after WW II?
IQ2: Were you the Young Pretender?
IQ3: Did you write about the Houyhnhnms?
Correct on Solomon and Stepin. #3 was Spooky (or, sometimes, “the Spook”).
DQ: Known for politics?
IQs:
- Were you a cartoon character voiced by Billy Gilbert?
- Did you refuse to take… the garbage out?
- Did you write “A Boy Named Sue”?
No idea on #1- take a DQ
Not Frederick von Steuben
Only person I know from Steubenville Ohio is Dean Martin, so take a DQ for #3
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- Last name starts with S
- European
- Not involved in the arts
- Not involved in politics
Not Shel Silverstein
Take DQs for #1 and #2
yoo hoo
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- Last name starts with S
- European
- Not involved in the arts
- Not involved in politics
- Died well after 1700
- Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
Originally Posted by Knowed Out
IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play Pygmalion?
IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White?
IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area?
Not George Bernard Shaw or Stuart Little
Take a DQ for #3
IQ1: Was a biographical movie made about you that was in black and white except for a single item?
IQ2: Were you IQ1’s accountant?
IQ3: Are you the currently the prime minister of a constitutional monarchy?
Not Oskar Schindler or Stephen Harper
Take a DQ for #2
M. Night Shamalyan
DQ: Known for scientific achievement?
IQ1: Are you a German immigrant to America who designed heavy-duty work clothes that continue to use your name as its brand?
IQ2: Are you a German-Polish philosopher who wrote The World as Will and Representation?
IQ3: Are you a German actor who portrayed a vampire in the 1922 film Nosferatu?