Did you say many ‘Good Nights’?
Was exposing spiritualists a hobby of yours?
IQ: Are you famous for playing a man who came in with, and went out with, the same astronomical phenomenon?
Fair enough. Dunno the answer under that heading, either.
- Born after 100 BCE
- Male
- Not the leader/monarch of a nation or empire
- American
- Dead
- Not celebrated for accomplishments in the arts (visual arts, music, literature, etc.)
- Not born in the 20th century
- Not famous in the fields of science or technology
- Did not die between Jan. 1, 1800 and Jan. 1, 1900
- Invented something, but not best known for that
- Nonfictional
- Born in the 19th century
- Not known for wartime accomplishments
- Not famous for sporting accomplishments
- Not known for holding a government/political office
Please, folks, label questions as either IQ (indirect questions) or DQ (direct questions).
No, I’m not Herge, the Belgian cartoonist behind Tintin.
No, I’m not Herb Albert.
No, I’m not that guy from The Waltons… Henry Thomas?
No, I’m not Harry Houdini.
No, I’m not Hal Holbrook, famous for often playing Mark Twain, who was born and died in years in which Halley’s Comet appeared.
Just to give a name for a unit, I was thinking of Joseph Henry (Henry is the unit of inductance).
IQ: Did you ever serve on the Supreme Court of the United States?
IQ: Were you known for having files on everyone and possibly being a transvestite?
IQ: Did you help debunk the Santa Claus myth in 1909?
Did you mean this to be a DQ?
Otherwise, no, I’m not Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No, I’m not J. Edgar Hoover.
The Master speaks: Was J. Edgar Hoover a cross-dresser? - The Straight Dope
No, I’m not H.L. Mencken.
IQ: Did you work with Billy, Ira, and Carl in the 1920s?
No, that was an IQ. I just realized I’d never named a specific person for the unit question.
IQ: Did you write stories about going from rags to riches?
IQ: Did you lose your best friend in the Seine?
Actually, Herb Alpert is not the correct answer. It was session drummer Hal Blaine who played on six consecutive Grammy Records of the Year. Oddly enough, ONE of those records WAS made by Herb alpert!
1965- Hal played drums of Herb Alpert’s “Taste of Honey”
1966- Hal played drums on Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night”
1967- Hal played drums on the Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away”
1968- Hal played drums on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson”
1969- Hal played on the Fifth Dimentsion’s “Aquarius”
1970- Hal played on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
I’ll be presumptuous and give myself a DQ:
DQ: Are you generally regarded as a villain/bad guy?
IQ: Did Roger Moore try to seduce you on a cruise ship?