Take a DQ
Take a DQ
I am not… Demosthenes?
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I am not… Heidi Gardner?
Take a DQ
IQs
- Are you Johann Spyri’s best known character?
- Are you the Discworld equivalent of Father Christmas?
- Is your school color yelow?
Take 3 DQs
Horatius
Hannibal
Hypatia
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
One DQ reserved.
1 was J. Edgar Hoover; 2 was indeed the one and only Heidi Gardner; 3 was Sam Hell.
DQ: first name begins with H?
1 DQ reserved.
Great round last time - good pick and good guess!
On to H.
IQs:
- Were you a Roman poet famous for odes?
- Were you the title character of sixty-six western films?
- Did you draw your own adventures using a purple crayon?
IQs:
1. Were you a First Lady-turned-senator-turned-cabinet member-turned-presidential candidate?
2. Were you the above person’s chief of staff?
3. Did Triana Orpheus say you dressed like Fred from Scooby-Doo?
Good job, knoodler! I’d heard of Bessie Coleman awhile back.
Previous IQs:
Did Harry Harrison write about you, a Galactic Hero? - Bill
Did you excitedly tell your wife that your very young daughter understood gravity? - Bill Clinton, when little Chelsea rolled away from the edge of a bed (before eventually falling off, unharmed)
Did you write of a little girl who lived in a house in Paris all covered in vines (the house, not her)? - Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books
On to H!
IQs:
Were you “the Happy Warrior”?
Did the same actor who played a noted lawyer in black and white play you, a naval officer, in color?
Were you a top crime scene investigator?
1 is Heidi (the Shirley Temple role)
2 is Hogfather.
3 is Helga Hufflepuff, from Harry Potter.
3 DQs reserved.
IQs
- Did you star opposite Valerie Perrine in Lenny?
- Did you star opposite Valerie Perrine in Superman?
- Did you star opposite Valerie Perrine in Mr. Billion?
Well, that went quickly. I wasn’t aware he had another name, I just knew him as Hannibal, the military commander who led an army across the Mediterranean Sea, and over the Alps, to attack Rome. @SCAdian wins!
Good job, SCAdian!
Huh. Certainly wasn’t expecting that!
I am C.
Back from H:
Horace, Hopalong Cassidy, and Harold, respectively.
On to C!
IQs:
- Did you issue a set of end-of-the-word prophecies between 1994 and 2011?
- Was your rough-tough-and-rude persona of prose given a clean-cut hero’s makeover when adapted for movies?
- Were you a former major league second baseman for the Yankees and Padres?
IQs:
- Did you play the mother of a boy with a peculiar ability?
- Are you the boy?
- Are you the doctor who tries to help the boy?
IQs:
1. Were you the “Georgia Peach”?
2. Did you direct Titanic?
3. Are you an Asian-American comedienne?
IQs
- Was your catchphase “Delenda est Carthago.”?
- Did you write the longest running British play?
- Were you the creator of the mobile?
Well done, SunUp!
Previous IQs:
Were you “the Happy Warrior”? - Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
Did the same actor who played a noted lawyer in black and white play you, a naval officer, in color? - The title character of Captain Horatio Hornblower, by Gregory Peck, who also played Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird
Were you a top crime scene investigator? - Horatio Caine (David Caruso) on CSI: Miami
Horatio x3!
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his first SECTREAS?
Did you command the 20th Maine at Gettysburg?
DQ
Not Hopalong Cassidy
DQ
DQ x3
Not … Ty Cobb?
Not Mr Cameron
DQ
Not Cato
Not Agatha Christie
DQ
DQ x3
1 was indeed Ty Cobb; correct on James Cameron; 3 was Margaret Cho.
DQ: real?