Don’t know, but we’re at 20.
Are you Major Henry Rathbone, who was sitting with President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination?
Yes, I am Major (later Colonel) Henry Rathbone, who was in the President’s box with his fiancee and the Lincolns on the night of the assassination. Very good, astorian!
D’oh! I was thinking of him and his date, Clara Harris, just the other day. Good job, astorian!
Let’s try… the letter G
IQ1: Do you have an inordinate fondness for beetles?
IQ2: Were you J S S P Vereker VC?
IQ3: Did you sing “It’s My Party”?
IQs:
- Were you supposed to be sitting in the theater box with Abe & Mary instead of Henry Rathbone and his fiancee?
- Did Drew Carey star as you in a disastrous eponymous TV musical?
- Did you team up with Bill Buchanan for a series of successful novelty records in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s?
IQ1: Was one of your most famous plays named after a mythic Cypriot figure?
IQ2: Did the French and the Brits try to stop you from nationalizing the Suez Canal?
IQ3: Did you play an Alabaman lawyer who tried to support those who were victims of discrimination and prejudices?
Hey, Welcome back, guylevesque!
IQ1: Were you the father of Henry Curtmantle?
IQ2: Did you lose the Battle of Pharsalus?
IQ3: Do you and your wife both have varieties of tea named after you?
What he said.
IQ1: Did Tom Bombadil capture and marry you?
IQ2: Are you the Drúedain chief who led Théoden and his troops to Minas Tirith?
IQ3: Did Legolas take your place in the animated version of Lord of the Rings, and Arwen take your place in the live-action version?
Not God or Leslie GOre
Take a DQ for 2
Not Dickie Goodman.
Take a DQ for 1 and 2
Take a DQ for 1
Not Gamal Abdel Nasser or Gregory Peck
Not Earl Grey.
Take DQs for 1 and 2
Not GOldberry
Take DQs for 2 and 3
Correct.
Field Marshal the Viscount Gort (normally referred to simply as Field Marshal Lord Gort).
Correct.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Was a fellow with green teeth accused of having voted for you for president?
IQ2: Were you the most famous man to come from Gath?
IQ3: Were you the crewman aboard Jonas Grumby’s boat?
IQs:
Were you buried in your wife’s hometown of Troy, N.Y.?
Were you a Marine aviator, now noted for something else, whose wife’s name is Annie?
Were you a Swiss-born early American financier?
- Geoffrey Plantagenet, who gave his name to the English royal house.
- Gnaeus Pompeius, or Pompey the Great, whose loss to Caesar at Pharsalus forced him to flee to Egypt (and to his death).
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey is correct.
DQ: Male?
DQ: American?