Did you give up kicking field goals to replace Pat Sajak?
Did Ringo Starr leave your band to join the BEatles?
Did you famously tell Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor to “Lighten up, Sandy Baby!”
I am not Rolf Benirschke, Rory Storm or…William Rehnquist?
Very good on Rolf and Rory…
But the guy who got drunk and told a Supreme Court Justice to “Lighten up, Sandy baby” was Washington Redskins star John Riggins.
DQ: Did you first appear on the movie screen after 1980?
I don’t know how copy/paste works on the computer I am using today, so I am not quoting Astorian’s post but my own.
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name begins with “R”
- American
- Best known as a movie character
- Homo Sapiens from Earth
- First appeared on movie screen before 1981
Roy Orbison, prominently featured in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
Roy Disney, who served on the Disney board of directors for many years and became “keeper of the flame.”
Alvah Roebuck, junior partner of Richard Sears.
DQ: Appeared in more than one movie?
DQ: Movie came out after 1950?
DQ: Action hero?
And then…
IQ: The father of an even more famous person, are you now thought to have died from syphillis complications?
IQ: Did you write “Christmas in Capetown”?
IQ: Were you married to a famous movie star, helped that person through a near-fatal illness, but eventually got divorced?
Again, can’t copy and paste right now, so…I have appeared in only one movie, which was after 1950, and I am not an action hero. And I want to think about the IQ’s a bit.
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name begins with “R”
- American
- Best known as a movie character
- Homo Sapiens from Earth
- First appeared on movie screen before 1981
- Appeared in but one movie
- Movie was after 1950
- Not an action hero
Just for the record, you were right.
As for the game now in progress:
IQ – Did you appear for a number of years on the Wheaties box?
IQ – Although originally a good defensive outfielder, had those skills so eroded toward the end of your career that when forced to play the outfield in one marathon game, you switched between left and right field, depending on to which side the batter was LESS likely to hit the ball?
IQ: Were you known as the “Beeg Mon”?
Is one of Bruce Willis’ kids named after you?
Did your father name you after the New York City Catholic high school that he (and, for that matter, I myself!) attended?
Did a vengeful Ted Danson come back from the dead in a movie you directed?
IQ: Are you the self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics?
IQ: Are you a John Waters alumnus who had your own television show?
IQ: Are you a former Prime Minister who appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
I am not Robert Kardashian, Will Rogers, or Richard Burton?
I am not Mary Lou Retton, Pete Rose, or…Robert Marley?
I am not the eminent Mr. Rumer, Regis Philbin (but Regis himself went to Cardinal Hayes, I believe…didn’t get in to Regis, I guess? At least he wasn’t named “Stuyvesant”), or…George Romero?
I am not Robert Christgau, Ricki Lake or Robert Peel?
IQ: Are you a power company worker with an unusual fascination with mashed potato sculpting?
IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a rodent in a tight spot?
IQ: Are you the subject of an urban legend involving a stomach pump?
Are those just wildass guesses, or do you know that any of them actually fit the IQs ('cause I don’t think they do)?
Just to clean up - Alexander Glazunov was the head of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and was a hugely influential teacher to many Russian composers, of who Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the best known.
My apologies - I’ll rejoin you folks in a couple of weeks when I have more time at the computer. My current show is completely eating my life…
All wildass guesses. I suppose to be clear I should not combine them that way, so that the ? clearly indicates a guess.
But damn, I had high hopes for my Kardashian answer.
I am not Richard Gere or Rod Stewart (I heard the latter from Michelle R during the 78/79 school year). The first sounds like a TV character, but I don’t know Homer Simpson’s workmates’ names. I guess I don’t have a guess, so ask a DQ.
Correct on Regis Philbin (his Dad went to my high school, Regis himself didn’t) and George Romero (Ted Danson came back from a watery fgrave to kill Leslie Nielsen in Romero’s “Creepshow”).
But I have to be picky about “Mr. Rumer.” The answer to the question is Rumer Godden, who was a woman (Willis has only daughters).
So, I’ll ask a DQ and let you decide if I deserve one:
DQ: Was your movie made in the Seventies?
Did you and several classmates at the Charterhouse School form a “Songwriters’ Collective” that evolved into one of the world’s most popular rock groups?
Were you the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury?
Did you play the evil Bookworm on Adam West’s Batman TV series?