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The next letter is “J.”
Have at it!
Whenever you go out, do people always shout your name followed by some nonsense?
IQ: Did you win an Emmy award for a role in a television miniseries of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play?
No, I’m not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
Ooo, I should know this. Ask a DQ.
Despite being snubbed by the Emmies for many years, did you win the Tony as Best Actor in a Musical for “Take Me Away”?
Did you win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor Oscars in the Seventies?
Are you an Oscar-winning actor who played an oblivious driving instructor in The Naked Gun?
Dunno. Ask a DQ.
No, I’m not Jane Alexander.
Hmmm. Dunno. Ask another DQ.
astorian, if it’s all the same to you, please ask up to three IQs in the same post. Thanks.
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Jackie Gleason never won an Emmy for The Honeymooners, but he did get a Tony for that forgotten musical.
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Jason Robards won back-to-back Supporting Actor Oscars (***Julia ***and All the President’s Men).
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The Oscar winning driving instructor was John (The Paper Chase) Houseman
DQ1: Are you male?
DQ2: Are you a fictional character?
DQ3: Does your last name start with “J”?
You are not Jeffrey Wright (Emmy for “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner).
Not very original, but…
DQ: Are you male?
IQ: Did you die of a drug overdose in 1970?
Simul-post! Can I change my DQ, please?
DQ: Were you born in the 20th century?
IQ: Did the KKK take your baby away?
IQ: Did you guest star as yourself on The Simpsons in a running gag that portrayed you as a kleptomaniac?
IQ: Were you the first musician to be immortalized by Cynthia Plaster Caster?
IQ: Although your first and middle names are Christian Adolph, are you more familiarly known by a nickname?
Oof. Dunno about any of these. Ask three DQs.
No, I’m not Jimi Hendrix.
Dunno. Ask a DQ.
J.
- Male
- Real person
- First name starts with “J”
- Born in 20th century
Did Marcia Gay Harden win an Oscar playing your wife?
No, I’m not Ed Harris, er, Jackson Pollack.
IQ: Are you a famous golfer?
You are not Joey Ramone, who wrote “The KKK Took My Baby Away” in reference to politically conservative bandmate Johnny Ramone stealing Joey’s girlfriend.
You are not Jasper Johns, who appeared in the Season 10 episode “Mom and Pop Art” as himself.
And you are still not Jimi Hendrix.
We’re still in the “figure out why your famous” stage of the game, so I’ll dole out my DQs one at a time.
DQ1: Are you known for your achievements in the broadly defined “arts”?
Did you write a Tony-winning play about a Catholic high school basketball team?
Did you become a Presbyterian minister, after testifying against your Watergate co-conspirators?
Were you a classic sitcom character played by the son of a heavyweight boxing champ?
No, I’m not Jack Nicklaus.
Dunno about the playwright. Ask a DQ.
Chuck Colson became a preacher, I remember, but no, I’m not… John Dean?
No, I’m not John Amos of Good Times?
J.
- Male
- Real person
- First name starts with “J”
- Born in 20th century
- Not known for achievements in the broadly defined “arts”
ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness, I’d already answered a question with Jimi Hendrix as an answer, so at this point you have one unasked DQ.