#1 was General Ulysses S. Grant (and wife).
#2 was Gepetto.
Waiting on answers with 2 DQs in reserve.
#3 is correct.
#1 was General Ulysses S. Grant (and wife).
#2 was Gepetto.
Waiting on answers with 2 DQs in reserve.
#3 is correct.
IQs:
correct, Ghân-buri-Ghân, Glorfindel
holding 2 DQs
IQ1: Did you portray the title character in the television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?
IQ2: Were you the ringleader of the players involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal?
IQ3: Are you an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, known for the classic hits New Orleans and Quarter to Three?
Not George McGovern (had the .45 of “Uneasy Rider” back in 1974), Goliath or Gilligan.
DQ: Known from literature?
holding a DQ
DQ: Last name starts with G?
1 DQ reserved.
Curses - foiled again!
IQ1: Did you play a chain-gang convict, a bank robber, and a mountain climber?
IQ2: Did you wake up one morning to find that you had changed into a giant bug?
IQ3: Did you write about an old recluse who adopts a young girl he finds in his house one day?
Ahem.
IQs:
Ahem. Ahem.
DQ for 1
Not John Glenn or Albert Gallatin
Not… Gideon, Goldie Hawn or Guy of Gisborne?
Take 2
Correct on Goldie and Guy. Milton wrote about the angel Gabriel’s trumpet.
Another DQ reserved.
My turn!
Ahem…
Not Gil Gerard or Gary US Bonds.
Take a DQ for #2, which I SHOULD know.
*Originally Posted by SCAdian
IQ1: Did you play a chain-gang convict, a bank robber, and a mountain climber?
IQ2: Did you wake up one morning to find that you had changed into a giant bug?
IQ3: Did you write about an old recluse who adopts a young girl he finds in his house one day?
Ahem… *
Well, crud… this is the fastest anyone’s ever gotten one of mine.
Yes, I am GREGOR SAMSA, from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. I awoke one morning and found that I was a giant insect.
Congrats, SCAdian.
All right, SCAdian!
Previous IQs:
Were you buried in your wife’s hometown of Troy, N.Y.? - The aforementioned Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas.
Were you a Marine aviator, now noted for something else, whose wife’s name is Annie? - Yes, astronaut, statesman and all-American great guy John Glenn.
Were you a Swiss-born early American financier? - Yes, Albert Gallatin.