From my days as a library assistant I can assure you, everyone who’s ever worked with Dewey has noticed the apparent connection between computer information and otherworldly information. It was caused by the fact that Dewey invented his system before computers and, as a new subject, it had to go somewhere. A number of waggish librarians have suggested it’s location was suggested by one of the earliest computers: the Magic 8-Ball.
IQ: Were you a union organiser who at one point represented workers making rolling stock?
Had to look that one up - it seems there was a Billy Durant making cars in the 1920s and '30s, but no mention of a brother. I was looking for Charles and Frank Duryea, builders of the first successful gas-powered car in America.
Bobby Drake, known as Iceman, was one of the five original X-Men.
DQ: Businessman?
Other DQs reserved.
IQ1: Did you go for a late-night ride in April of 1775?
IQ2: Are you Lily’s sister and Vernon’s wife?
IQ3: Did the Colour-Sergeant and Files-on-Parade discuss your imminent death?
Not Virginia Dare, dunno, and dunno.
Ooo, I should know this, but I’m blanking. Take a DQ.
Dunno this either.
Not Dawes or Mrs. Dursley; dunno the third.
D.
- dead
- male
- real
- American
- not a political or military figure
- last name started with D
- died before 1970
- not in the Arts as we know them here
- born east of the Mississippi River
- died before 1900
- not a scientist
- not a businessman
Jack Dempsey
DQ: Born North of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Eugene Debs, about whom I learned through Railroad Tycoon II.
DQ: Were you born after 1800?
#2 is Doris Day, #3 is Deadman.
Saving the DQs for the moment.
D.
- dead
- male
- real
- American
- not a political or military figure
- last name started with D
- died before 1970
- not in the Arts as we know them here
- born east of the Mississippi River
- died before 1900
- not a scientist
- not a businessman
- born south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- born before 1800
IQ: Were you a Secretary of War who later became your nation’s only President?
Correct on William Dawes (I was really hoping he was the answer) and Petunia Dursley.
Danny Deever, from the Kipling poem.
Not Jefferson Davis, although the Lincoln Administration has asked me to make it clear that my answer in no way implies that I recognize the legal status of the Confederacy as a “nation.”
DQ: Criminal?
I’ll save the other for now.
IQ1: Were you advised, in a song, to hang down your head and cry?
IQ2: Were you the basis for that song?
IQ3: Were you husband and first cousin of your queen?
IQ: Did your treatmeant of the sick in Hawaii earn you cannonization?
Ooo, I should know the first two, but can’t come up with 'em. Take three DQs.
Not Father Damien (who would probably prefer canonization to cannonization).
D.
- dead
- male
- real
- American
- not a political or military figure
- last name started with D
- died before 1970
- not in the Arts as we know them here
- born east of the Mississippi River
- died before 1900
- not a scientist
- not a businessman
- born south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- born before 1800
- not a criminal
DQ: Explorer/Frontiersman/Tracker?
D.
- dead
- male
- real
- American
- not a political or military figure
- last name started with D
- died before 1970
- not in the Arts as we know them here
- born east of the Mississippi River
- died before 1900
- not a scientist
- not a businessman
- born south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- born before 1800
- not a criminal
- explorer/frontiersman/tracker, kind of
But not Davy Crockett or Dan’l Boone. Hmmm…
IQ: Was a major Texas city named in your honor?
Not Whatsisname Dallas.