To be clear, I’m not raising this issue to get the chance to be gamemaster again. Someone else is welcome to do that. I’m raising it because it goes to the “as famous as Botticelli” acid test of who is the proper subject of one of these rounds.
I never thought that was your motive. Games need to have clear rules: this situation hasn’t come up before since I’ve been here. I guess I misjudged how famous Gericault was.
I say ‘By all means, continue. My crappy memory is not your fault.’
IQ1: Does your uncle fiddle about?
IQ2: Did you and Philip accuse each other of inappropriate activities with your uncles?
IQ3: Did you advocate tiptoeing through the tulips?
IQ1: Did you play in Miles Davis’ second quintet while you were still a teenager?
IQ2: Did you play The Doctor?
IQ3: Are you a different actor who has played The Doctor?
…still waiting for one more Yes vote before I continue…
Go for it. I didn’t remember his name, but I did remember the painting enough that I was able to form a mental image of it without having to look it up.
Correct on Tom Dooley and Tam o’Shanter.
#3 was Tuppence Beresford, from Agatha Christie’s books.
DQ: European?
IQ1: Did your adventures involve a motor cycle, an airship and a submarine boat?
IQ2: Did you have a flying lab and a triphibian atomicar?
IQ3: Did you sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”?
Okay, then, thanks to all who voted.
#1: Take a DQ.
#2: love Trace Ullman, not her.
#3. It’s been to long since I’ve seen The Sixth Sense. Take a DQ.
I’m not Tommy. I’m not Terence. I’m not Tiny Tim.
Take a DQ for #1. I’m neither Tom Baker nor David Tennant.
I’m not Tin-Tin, and I’m not Tom Swift Jr.
Take a DQ for #3.
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Not a political/military figure
- Alive
- European
It’s been close to fifty years since I last read Tintin, so I’ll take your word for it that he fits the description. I’ll rephrase…
Correct on Tom Swift Jr.
That was one of Tammy Wynette’s early hits.
DQ: Known for music (singer/instrumentalist/conductor/songwriter/dancer)?
IQ1: Are you an American whose adventures involved a motor cycle, an airship and a submarine boat?
IQ2: Were you knighted a few years ago for services to literature?
IQ3: Were you born in a cabin on the coast of Angola?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Not American
- Known for the arts
- Not a political/military figure
- Alive
- European
- Not known for music
I’m not Tom Swift.
Unless #2 is Terence “Spike” Milligan, take a DQ.
I’m not Tarzan.
Correct on Tom Swift and Tarzan.
#2 is Sir Terry Pratchett.
DQ: First name starts with ‘T’?
IQ1: Were you one of two girls who were such close friends that their names were merged into one?
IQ2: Did you play the happiest millionaire’s butler?
IQ3: Did you sing about a man questioning green-eyed girls in Memphis?
IQ1: Are you depicted in Gutzon Borglum’s most famous work?
IQ2: Did many people mistakenly believe the Kinks’ hit “Waterloo Sunset” was about you and your co-star in a 1967 literary adaptation?
IQ3: Are you the author of the novel referenced in IQ2?
OK, then.
IQs:
Did your much more famous son fail to go to your funeral, when he relatively easily might have?
Was your previous marijuana use an issue after your death?
Are you the most famous son of Lancaster, Ohio?
I’m not Tommy Steele for #2. Take 2 DQs.
Take 3 DQs.