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Take another DQ Dead Cat, I didn’t answer with a B name.
James Bond as a naval commander? No, my foot is staying in place. Also, “The Five” could refer to anything. Google returns a Fox news show and several TV series but composers are a long way down the list. It’d be nice if you could put in a specifier or two next time, but I usually hand out DQs like candy anyway.
So far, Bond, Boromir and Madeline’s author were the only ones that wouldn’t have gotten DQs from me.
IQ1: Were you a former Special Forces medic who wrote books about a Roman soldier?
IQ2: Were you Judge Stone’s bailiff?
IQ3: Were you the best-known character played by an actress who had earlier appeared on a Newsweek cover as an illustration for an article about teenagers?
#1 was John Bellairs.
#2 was James Blaylock.
#3 was Ludwig Bemelmans.
DQs:
1 DQ reserved.
DQ, not Bull, not Buffy?
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DQ: Known as an actor?
IQs:
Barry Sadler.
Correct.
Bailey Quarters (WKRP).
The picture.
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not George Burns, not Barbarella?, DQ
Thanks, but I’ll leave the DQ given the difficulty of my questions. Like SCAdian, I think I’d have given out more DQs on the questions so far than you have.
My view on IQs is that if the person you’re cluing is really famous, you need to make the IQ a bit obscure otherwise it’s pointless. For example: “Are you a British secret agent?”. Conversely, if the person you’re cluing is obscure, I think you need to give a reasonable amount of information so that the guesser at least has a chance.
On Borodin, I realise it was a minimal clue, but my view was that anyone who could call Borodin to mind would get it from that clue, and for anyone not familiar with Borodin, I could have said “Are you the Russian composer who wrote ‘Prince Igor’?” and it still wouldn’t have been answered correctly, so the extra detail was redundant. I could be wrong, though - I’ll try to keep in line with how everyone else wants to play so do let me know if I’m spoiling things.
Sorry for the sidetrack - back to the game.
IQ1: Did you originally find fame as a musician with Tenacious D before moving into acting?
IQ2: Were you a record-breaking athlete who also held a doctorate in biology?
IQ3: Are you a former chairman of the IMF?
not Jack Black, DQ, DQ
The Borodin question seemed proper to me. If there was another “B” who was a member of another group commonly referred to as “The Five,” the gamemaster could’ve guessed that person. He didn’t, and Dead Cat supplied an answer that fit the IQ. DQ earned, fair and square, IMHO.
Previous IQs:
A fictional character, did you fall in love with a man with the first name FitzWilliam? - Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice
Were you that person’s elder sister? - Jane Bennet
Did Donald Sutherland play you in a 2005 movie? - Mr. Bennet, in that year’s remake of the Austen novel
Bennet x3!
DQs:
Musician?
Has won a top award in his field?
Greatest fame before 1975?
IQs:
Are you the best-known person to hail from Tarth?
Were you a longtime member of the Kingsguard who was insulted by a new young king?
Was the Great Sept in King’s Landing named after you?
Correct on Jack Black, for the other two I was thinking of Sir Roger Bannister and Win Bischoff, but I have to disallow both because the former was actually a medical doctor rather than a doctor in biology, and the latter was chairman of Lloyds Banking Group not the IMF. My error, sorry.
Let’s try again.
IQ1: Are you the singer of “Johnny B Goode”?
IQ2: Did you sing about experiencing a positive mental condition, and furthermore were aware in advance that this would be the case?
IQ3: Did you fight in the Spanish Civil War and later write about your experiences (among other things)?
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not Brienne, DQ, not Baelor
Not Chuck Berry, DQ DQ
Correct with Chuck Berry, the other two were James Brown (“I feel good, and I knew that I would”) and Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell.
DQ: known for popular music?
DQ: white?
IQ: were you a child prodigy who went on to make several recordings with your wife (and others) before she tragically died young?
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dunno
Previous IQs:
Are you the best-known person to hail from Tarth? - Yes, the redoubtable Brienne, from Game of Thrones
Were you a longtime member of the Kingsguard who was insulted by a new young king? - Ser Barristan Selmy, ditto
Was the Great Sept in King’s Landing named after you? - Yes, Baelor the Blessed, also ditto
DQ:
Singer?
IQs:
Did Rachel Green sing the opening lines of one of your best-known songs on an episode of Friends?
Were you an in-show supporter of Matt Santos’s Presidential candidacy on The West Wing?
Are you a New Age crooner who had some fame in the Nineties?
