IQ1. Were you found on the streets of Moscow and launched into space?
Yes, I am Liaka
Congrats, Baffle!
Our house rule of clarifying that the target has a single name when asked about either the first or last name makes choosing a singularly-named target troublesome, as so much extra information is granted from what would otherwise be a yes-no question.
At least it wasn’t immediate, once question 4 was answered I was worried it could be over at any time.
Good job, Baffle! I wasn’t even headed that way. And Cujos, uh, Kudos to Tim for that choice.
Woohoo! It’s true… that plus the date is what gave it to me; there aren’t many single-named people these days.
I’ve got the next target…
I am A.
IQs:
- Are you a one-armed alligator hunter?
- Are you Eldarion’s grandfather?
- Are your sisters Rhyme and Reason?
Grats, Baffle.
Lucrezia Borgia
On to A
IQ1: Are you a black dragon created from the pits of Angbad by Morgoth?
IQ2: Are you an Orc chieftain who captured King Thror and beheaded him?
IQ3: Are you a ranger known in Bree as Strider?
- I am not Arathorn.
Take 2 DQs.
- I am not Ancalagon the Black.
- I am not Azog.
- I am not Aragorn.
(I knew reading the Silmarillion would be useful one day!)
#1 was Amos Moses (from the song of the same name).
Correct on #2.
#3 is King Azaz the Unabridged (from the book The Phantom Tollbooth).
DQs:
- Real?
- Male?
My ass got swept. You’re not **astorian **in disguise are you?
IQ1: Are you the guitarist for Rush?
IQ2: Are you a MLB shortstop with the most home runs of any player of hispanic descent?
IQ3: Are you an NFL quarterback who was traded from the SF 49ers to the KC Chiefs in 2013?
IQ1: Are you known for your televised house parties?
IQ2: Were you a child when he was a child, in a kingdom by the sea?
IQ3: Did sunshine come along with thee, and swallows in the air?
- Real.
- Not male.
- Not Alex Lifeson.
- Not… Alex Rodriguez?
- Not a clue. DQ.
That whooshing sound is the sound of all of those going over my head.
3 DQs for you.
Art Linkletter.
Annabel Lee, from the poem by Poe.
Aura Lea, from the old ballad.
DQ1: Living?
DQ2: American?
DQ3: Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Did you often perform while dressed as a schoolboy?
IQ2: Did you finally complete your contractual obligations with your recent album, your fourteenth?
IQ3: Are you and your son’s boss the last two members of your World War 2 unit to survive to this day?
Good job, Baffle.
The Soviet space dog was Laika, not Liaka, wasn’t it…?
Previous IQs:
Was your last major public appearance in 1922? - Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.
Did the actress who played you in a recent movie have to put on a lot of weight to do so? - Mary Todd Lincoln, played by Sally Field in the Spielberg movie Lincoln. Field said in an NPR interview that she had to drink a lot of disgusting high-fat milkshakes.
Were you a long-lived Heinlein-created character? - Yes, Lazarus Long.
On to A.
IQs:
Are you inaccurately credited by some with inventing baseball?
Did you mention baseball just once in all of your written works?
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer?
- Not Angus Young of AC/DC.
- DQ.
- Not Abraham Simpson.
Laika, yes. I think it was a typo.
- Not Abner Doubleday.
- DQ.
- DQ!
DQ Summary:
- Real.
- Not male.
- Not living.
- Not American.
- Not known for the Arts.
IQ1: Did you name your horse “Oxhead”?
IQ2: Did you and your wife change your names at a very advanced age?
IQ3: Were you Lew Alcindor?
Alex Smith, for Alex x3!
IQ2 is an homage to a former player who always referred to Alex Rodriguez as “The A-Rod nobody likes.”
DQ: European?
IQ1: Are you the A-Rod that everybody likes who’s married to Sports Illustrated swimwear model Brooklyn Decker?
IQ2: Did fellow NewsRadio regular Jon Lovitz despise you because you gave cocaine to Phil Hartman’s wife Brynn 6 months before she shot and killed Phil and herself?
IQ3: Are you the starting QB for the Cincinnati Bengals?
IQs:
- Are you best remembered for your Sabre Dance?
- Did you play Endora on Bewitched?
- Were you a WWII aviator in the comic books who served as the inspiration for Alan Moore’s Jetlad?