IQs:
1. Did your mom recently win a lawsuit regarding her colliding into someone (or someone colliding into her) while skiing?
2. Were you a wacky animator from Taylor, near Austin, in the Lone Star State?
3. “Who’s that girl?
What’s her name?
Is she cool?
Is she lame?” You, you–do you grab a sack lunch with a nickname on it from your mom as you rush off to school in the opening credits?
Previous IQs:
Have you been played by a pair of actors who formerly played a cowboy and a cop, respectively? - Cmdr. Adama on Battlestar Galactica, played by Lorne Greene and later Edward James Olmos
Did you have a pop hit with “Goody Two Shoes”? - Yes, Adam Ant
Were you a US senator from Pennsylvania noted for your unpleasant disposition behind the scenes? - Yes, “Snarlin’ Arlen” Specter
DQ:
Considered a beauty?
IQs:
Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you serve as a militia captain in the Black Hawk War?
Did you attack with your walking stick a man who tried to shoot you?
DQ: known for music?
Remaining reserve DQs=1
IQs;
- Are you famous as an example of romantic love despite the fact that you were castrated and you paramour was a nun?
- Did one of your sons murder the other in a fit of jealousy?
- Is your best friend a Possum?
A
- Real
- Male
- First name begins with A
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Claim to fame overlaps 20th century
- European by birth
- Dead
- Best known as a performing artist
- Born in the British Isles
- Did some acting, but not best known for acting
- Died before 1990
- Singer/musician
- Died after 1960
- Considered a heartthrob, which I guess could be the male equivalent of a beauty
I’ll consider this to have been covered in #13. Go ahead and ask another DQ.
Not whatever Gwynth Paltrow’s child with an A name’s name is - Take a DQ
Not Tex Avery
Not Pepper Ann
Take 3 DQs
Taking another of kitap’s DQs: Known for pop music?
IQs:
- Were you married to Claudine Longet?
- Did you fire your most popular singer on your daytime TV show on the air?
- Were you a Big Band bandleader who had numerous wives?
1 was Apple Martin.
DQ: born in the British Isles, but best known as an American?
IQs:
1. Were you played by Paige Turco and Judith Hoag, in the live action movies?
2. Have you voiced Peg on Goof Troop and Clarabelle Cow, and are the daughter of another voice actor?
3. Were you the captain of the Yorktown in Gene Roddenberry’s original 1964 Star Trek pitch?
Previous IQs:
Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Did you serve as a militia captain in the Black Hawk War? - Abraham Lincoln; he later said being elected captain gave him more satisfaction than any other election win
Did you attack with your walking stick a man who tried to shoot you? - Andrew Jackson, a quintessential presidential badass
DQs:
Won a Grammy?
Best known as a solo artist?
Best known for rock/pop?
IQs:
Did your wife teach you to read and write?
Did Nixon’s firing of you kick off the “Saturday Night Massacre”?
Were you Calpurnia’s boss?
A
- Real
- Male
- First name begins with A
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Claim to fame overlaps 20th century
- European by birth
- Dead
- Best known as a performing artist
- Born in the British Isles
- Did some acting, but not best known for acting
- Died before 1990
- Singer/musician
- Died after 1960
- Considered a heartthrob, which I guess could be the male equivalent of a beauty
- Known for pop music
- Born in the British Isles, but not best known as an American - although did live in America for a while.
- Nominated for but never won a Grammy
- Best known as a solo artist.
Answered in #16. Have another.
The next batch of DQs will put us over 20, so no more IQs please.
2 DQs
Not Louis Armstrong
Not April O’Neal
Take 2 DQs
DQ
Not Archibal Cox
Not Atticus Finch
2 was April Winchell; 3 was Robert April.
2 DQs reserved.
DQ 1: Nominated for a Grammy after 1979?
DQ2: Played an instrument
#1 was Andy Williams.
#2 was Arthur Godfrey.
#3 was Artie Shaw, but Satch had four, so that’s good.
DQ: Unusual first name?
1 DQ reserved.
Previous IQs:
Did your wife teach you to read and write? - Andrew Johnson
Did Nixon’s firing of you kick off the “Saturday Night Massacre”? - Yes, Archibald Cox
Were you Calpurnia’s boss? - Yes, Atticus Finch
Two DQs reserved.
A
- Real
- Male
- First name begins with A
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Claim to fame overlaps 20th century
- European by birth
- Dead
- Best known as a performing artist
- Born in the British Isles
- Did some acting, but not best known for acting
- Died before 1990
- Singer/musician
- Died after 1960
- Considered a heartthrob, which I guess could be the male equivalent of a beauty
- Known for pop music
- Born in the British Isles, but not best known as an American - although did live in America for a while.
- Nominated for but never won a Grammy
- Best known as a solo artist.
- Nominated for a Grammy before 1979
- Did not play an instrument
- Common first name
My last DQ: First name starts with Aa -to- Ai?
By the way, did you miss these DQs?
I think I got them in before the wire
You’re right, I missed those. Weird, because I replied to the DQ that was in the same post.
DQ
Not Adam
Not Albert
A
- Real
- Male
- First name begins with A
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Claim to fame overlaps 20th century
- European by birth
- Dead
- Best known as a performing artist
- Born in the British Isles
- Did some acting, but not best known for acting
- Died before 1990
- Singer/musician
- Died after 1960
- Considered a heartthrob, which I guess could be the male equivalent of a beauty
- Known for pop music
- Born in the British Isles, but not best known as an American - although did live in America for a while.
- Nominated for but never won a Grammy
- Best known as a solo artist.
- Nominated for a Grammy before 1979
- Did not play an instrument
- Common first name
- First name does not start with Aa -to- Ai
DQ: born in the British Isles, but best known as an Australian?
1 DQ reserved.