- I am not Bob Knight.
- I am not Gladys Knight.
Take a DQ for #3.
- I am not Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
- I am not Kevin Kline.
- Take a DQ.
Take 3 DQs.
IQ3 is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his role as co-pilot “Roger Murdock” in Airplane!
DQ: Are you ethnically Slavic?
Suge Knight.
Knight x 3!
DQ: Visual artist?
IQ1: Are you the coach of Duke Men’s Basketball? (bonus points if you spell it right)
IQ2: Were you Secretary General of the United Nations from 2009 to 2016?
IQ3: Were you President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) until your death in 1976?
IQ1: Are you the title character of a world-renowned novel, first published serially in a Russian magazine?
IQ2: Did your character (played by Donald Sutherland), enlist a prostitute to assist you in solving a murder mystery?
IQ3: Are you a former NBA All-Star, head coach, and general manager; and currently the NBA’s vice-president of basketball operations?
Heh. Murdock was my mystery person in a Botticelli round a few years back.
Previous IQs:
Were you, until recently, the U.S. ambassador to Japan? - Caroline Kennedy
Were you, in Robert Harris’s Fatherland, POTUS in 1964? - Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Were you that person’s youngest son? - Edward “Ted” Kennedy
Kennedy x3 again! I just noticed SCAdian already asked about Joe Sr., so I’ll withdraw that question.
DQ:
Received a top award in his field?
Died before 1850?
IQs:
Did Jonathan Pryce play your dad in several big-budget movies?
Was Emma slow to see that you were really her true love?
After 1950, was your coffin hauled in a mule-pulled wagon?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Known for the Arts
- Last name starts with K
- Known for the Performing Arts
- Not American
- Not an Actor
- Died before 1950
- Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
- A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
- Did not receive a top award in his field
- Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him
#3. I am not Chiang Kai-shek.
Take 2 DQs.
- I am not Anna Karenina.
- I am not Klute.
Take a DQ for #3, and any other I may have gotten wrong.
- I am not Keira Knightley.
- I am not Nikita Khrushchev. (??)
Take 1 or 2 DQs.
I’m of the firm opinion that one can quote or usefully reference Airplane! at least once a day.
Damn! Well at least I don’t have to research the history of Russian ballet dancers…
Right on both counts!
IQ3 is Kiki Vandeweghe
DQ: Are you a dancer?
IQ1: Did you play a cop in a comedy, and a chain-gang member in a drama?
IQ2: Did David Drake expand one of your novels by adding several chapters about the trials and vicissitudes of several minor characters?
IQ3: Were you commonly known as “Kick”?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Known for the Arts
- Last name starts with K
- Known for the Performing Arts
- Not American
- Not an Actor
- Died before 1950
- Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
- A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
- Did not receive a top award in his field
- Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him
- Not a dancer
#1) I am not Buster Keaton (??)
Take 2 DQs, or three if I’m wrong about Buster.
Mike Krzyzewski, Ban Ki-moon, correct
I had a brain fart in asking DQ 11. Maybe it won’t matter.
DQ: European?
holding a DQ
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Known for the Arts
- Last name starts with K
- Known for the Performing Arts
- Not American
- Not an Actor
- Died before 1950
- Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
- A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
- Did not receive a top award in his field
- Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him
- Not a dancer
- European
George Kennedy (The Naked Gun and Cool Hand Luke).
Jim Kjelgaard (Fire Hunter > The Hunter Returns).
JFK’s sister Kathleen.
DQ1: Native Speaker of a Germanic language?
DQ2: Normally performed in a circus or similar venue?
One DQ reserved.