- Male
- Real person
- Not American
- No longer living
- Not European
- Alive after 1900
- Not known for military or political accomplishments
IQ: Were you thrown a gold coin as a generous payment in your youth?
IQ: Were you a freedom fighter with a handsome face but no pulse?
IQ: Did Ben Stein write admiringly of you when almost no one else did?
I don’t know the first two.
Since Ben Stein was a speechwriter in the Nixon administration… not Spiro Agnew?
If that’s right, you get two DQ’s. If wrong, you get three.
IQ: Did you win marathon races both with and without shoes?
IQ: Are you a Broadway composer less well remembered as “Hyman Arluck”, your birth name?
IQ: Are you a 1930’s-era spy novelist whose works include “A Coffin for Dimitrios” and “Background to Danger”?
For the record, I would happily have accepted “Cymbeline” in the previous game along with Cunobelinus or other variants.
Well, that didn’t take long.
YES! I am Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian policeman and the first of many great East African long distance runners. I won the Olympic marathon in 1960 and 1964, once with shoes and once without.
Congratulations, Gael. I was getting used to loooong games!
Thanks.
The spy novelist was Eric Ambler and the composer was Harold Arlen. I thought Bikila was least likely of the three to be a stumper, but I suspected he might well be the mystery person.
Moving on…
R.
Are you a heavy metal god who ditched rock and roll entirely to play Renaissance music?
Did you bury your own sister alive?
Did you spend your childhood at a Catholic industrial school, where you were trained to be a tailor?
Abraham Lincoln, as a teenager, was thus paid for rowing two rich men out to a steamboat.
Adam Selene, a computer program with a simulated face in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Anna Nicole Smith, about whom Stein wrote a few years before she died.
Congrats to AppallingGael! Now it’s R, huh? Thought we’d done that pretty recently. Hmm.
IQ: Were you the first Attorney General of the United States?
IQ: Did the FBI note your odd reactions to medication late in your career?
IQ: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role?
Giving it the college try…
I am not Robert Plant.
I am not James Earl Ray.
I am not Ralph Lauren.
And likewise…
I am not Rutledge.
I am not Rush Limbaugh (it is late in his career, isn’t it?).
I am not Edward G. Robinson.
The AG was Edmund Randolph.
I never heard that the FBI was watching Limbaugh; I was thinking of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
As to the third question, I’ll rephrase: Did you play a bad guy in your last Hollywood role, but lived another 30-some years afterwards?
- Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple abandoned rock music years ago, and plays Renaissance music with his wife.
2. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher,” Roderick USher buried his sister alive.
3. Babe Ruth was abandoned by his parents and grew up in a Catholic industrial school where he was trained to be a tailor.
DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Real Person?
DQ3: Last name starts with R?
Yes, no and yes.
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name begins with “R”
I haven’t actually heard it either regarding Limbaugh; I just guessed that the feds probably keep an eye on high-profile drug users for the safety of the citizenry.
Of course Edward G. Robinson was often a bad guy, but his last role evidently was as an investigator in “Soylent Green”. Just for fun, I will answer “Ronald Reagan” to the revised version.
Correct, Ronald Reagan in The Killers (1964): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dkg_j2d0CMg/SPD_z4klkLI/AAAAAAAAA5o/72kH4jX_vWw/s400/reagan-dickinson-700b.jpg
DQ: American?
DQ: Best known as a movie character?
IQ: Did a surreal movie give your musical career a boost?
IQ: Did you outlive your older brother and play a major role in protecting his company’s interests?
IQ: Did you outlive your business partner by many years and write a history of the company you both started?
Thinking about the IQ’s but meantime:
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name begins with “R”
- American
- Best known as a movie character
Did you star in a popular sitcom, playing a character that you named after your brother?
Were you both the goat of the 1960 World Series and the MVP of the 1962 World Series?
Did your best friend win a football scholarship to Wossamotta U.?
I am not Keanu Reeves?
I am not R. Walton?
I am not Mr. Royce?
I am not Ray Romano?
I am not Ralph Terry.
I am not Rocky J. Squirrel.
Ralph Terry and Rocket J. Squirrel are absoluely right.
Redd Foxx’s real name was John Sanford; Fred Sanford was the name of his his real-life brother, and of the junkman he played on Sanford & Son.
DQ: Were you a human being from the Planet Earth?
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name begins with “R”
- American
- Best known as a movie character
- Homo Sapiens from Earth