IQ: Did you have a “feud” with Jack Benny?
IQ: Do you repeat yourself when you’re distressed?
Sternvogel and Le Ministre, you got me. Ask one DQ each.
OK. You’re probably right.
- Last name starts with A
IQ: Are you a musician who played jazz, and who has a ‘painful’ last name that is not a form of ‘pain’ (e.g., ‘Payne’, ‘Pain’, ‘Pane’)?
Then you’re not Adrian Belew, guitarist, singer and lyricist for King Crimson. In the song ‘Indiscipline’ from the album ‘Discipline’, he had a great moment where he frantically repeated the line “I repeat myself when I’m distressed!”. I hope that isn’t too obscure an allusion for the rules of the game. (I’m not used to playing this version where the reference to the person for an IQ is made as obscure as possible - we simply used to bombard the chooser with the sheer weight of our knowledge of trivia. “OK, you knew that poet, but how about this poet? and this poet? and this poet? How about jazz musicians?” This version is much more fun!)
I digress.
DQ: Are you a fictional character?
IQ: Are you a heterosexual who has a programming language named after you?
No, I’m not Al Hirt.
- Last name starts with A
- Fictional character
No, I’m not Alan Turing.
Did Charles Schulz satirize your detractors in a 1973 Peanuts comic strip in which Snoopy attempts to break a sporting record?
Alan Turing was not a heterosexual.
Dunno as to this, or as to Tom Scud’s re: the computer language (I misread it). Ask your DQs.
That was panamajack’s question (and thus DQ), not mine.
IQ: Did you search for some holes in the ground?
Charles Schulz took jabs at the critics of Hank Aaron, in his Peanuts strip of 11 August 1973.
DQ: You are a fictional character. Are you human?
Fred Allen and Jack Benny carried on a fake feud during their respective shows in the golden days of radio.
DQ: Are you a character in a comic strip?
IQ: Do you hang around Pop’s Chok’lit Shoppe?
Indeed.
Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron) more or less invented computer programming (she didn’t write the language Ada though, it’s just in her honor). (As for the heterosexual part, she was married - happily, as far as I know).
DQ:Are you female?
No, I’m not Alan Quartermain.
- Last name starts with A
- Fictional character
- Human
No, I’m not Archie.
- Last name starts with A
- Fictional character
- Human
- Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that