I’m not Karsh.
I’m not Grace Kelly.
Unless the last is Madeline Kahn, take a DQ.
Take a replacement DQ for the Photographer question.
It appears I have been more of an absent-minded professor than usual. My apologies, and here are the amended DQs:
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- American
- Not a politician
- Born east of the Mississippi
- In the Arts
- From south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- Died after 1975
- Not a musician
- Last name starts with K
- Not in the visual arts.
- Not a winner of a top award
- Actor
- Has been on the cover of a magazine
IQ: Did you play a ranchhand on a popular 80s primetime soap?
Take a DQ.
That was Ken Kercheval from Dallas.
DQ: TV actor?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- American
- Not a politician
- Born east of the Mississippi
- In the Arts
- From south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- Died after 1975
- Not a musician
- Last name starts with K
- Not in the visual arts.
- Not a winner of a top award
- Actor
- Has been on the cover of a magazine
- TV actor, but also did some movies
IQ: Did he serve a season long suspension for gambling on NFL games?
Take a DQ.
IQ1: Was a photo taken of you carrying a bucket of water to help put out a big fire?
IQ2: Did you sing in the rain?
IQ3: Were you killed in the premature explosion of a radio-controlled bomber?
DQ: Died after 2000?
2 DQs reserved.
I’m not Gene Kelly. Take 2 more DQs.
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- American
- Not a politician
- Born east of the Mississippi
- In the Arts
- From south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- Died after 1975
- Not a musician
- Last name starts with K
- Not in the visual arts
- Not a winner of a top award
- Actor
- Has been on the cover of a magazine
- TV actor, but also did some movies
- Died before 2000
Emmett Kelly, the clown, during the Hartford circus fire in 1944.
Correct on Gene Kelly.
Joe Kennedy Jr and a co-pilot took off in the bomber, which was to be guided by another aircraft to a target in France. They armed the bomb, but it exploded before they could bail out.
DQ: Best known for comedy roles?
3 DQs reserved.
Previous IQs:
Did you take an iconic photograph of Churchill? - Yes, Yousuf Karsh: http://patricknicholas.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/karsh-churchill-photo-i4.jpg
Have you played a governor’s daughter, a princess’s aide, a nurse and a farmgirl? - Not Grace Kelly, but Keira Knightley, in Pirates of the Caribbean, The Phantom Menace, Atonement and Pride & Prejudice. Le sigh.
Did you play two roles in a Nineties political comedy? - Not Madeline Kahn, but Kevin Kline in Dave (he played both the President and a reluctant stand-in).
We’re down to our last few DQs. Let’s discuss. What else would be useful to know before we each ask our “Are you [firstname][lastname]?” questions?
One more IQ:
Were you known for saying, in character, what you were, and then what you were not?
Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a Bricklayer!
Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a Miracle Worker!
Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a Moon-Shuttle Conductor!
Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not an Escalator!
Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a Torpedo Technician!
I am, indeed, DeForest Kelley!
and well done, Elendil’s Heir!
FTR mine was Alex Karras.
Heheh. Thanks, Prof. P. It just popped into my head - I’d mentioned Dr. McCoy to a friend a few days before, and I realized the actor fit all of the DQ answers.
Next round to start soon.
OK, here goes. The letter is
D.
IQ1: Did you write about a shipwrecked mariner?
IQ2: Did you frequently appear alongside the disembodied head of Patrick Moore?
IQ3: Are you a fictional character for whom a garment is named?
Hey, welcome back fanganga! We missed you.
IQ1) Did you gain success through your cat’s ratting abilities?
IQ2) Were you a romanticized English highwayman?
IQ3) Are you a tortured, disfigured genius forced to wear a mask in public?