Hooray for Vogel, Stern
A man from whom we have a lot to learn
Because he figured out my myst’ry person
Is A. McPherson, and what for this does he earn?
He gets to pick a name.
If it’s got Sandro’s fame,
Then he may take his turn.
I don’t know the charioteer, or the beauty. Was Alfred E. Smith the man with the pushcart?
I should note that Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), famous radio evangelist of the 1920s and known about as well for her celebrated (temporary) disappearance, was actually born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy. Mr. Semple and Mr. McPherson were her first and second of three husbands in all, the last being a certain David Hutton. I figured I was safe in being literal and treating McPherson as her “last” name but I used the phrasing “very last name” in my original answer, trying to be not too unfair without giving the game away.
Maude Adams; the later actress (who spelled it “Maud”) appeared in both The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy, the latter as the title character.
Way to go, Sternvogel!
Hooray for Sternvogel!!
To clean up, it was Arjuna, in the Hindu epic ‘The Mahabharata’, who requested that Krishna be his charioteer. Arjuna grants all of Krishna’s armies to his arch-nemesis, Duryodhana, if only Krishna will be at his side. At the outset of the Kurukshetra War, Arjuna’s purpose fails him at the thought of so much death and so, Krishna sings the ‘Song of God’, the Bhagavad-Gita to strip away Arjuna’s illusion and show him his duty.
No, you have to go to the “Second City” to find Anton Cermak, who was asked the question as part of a taunting rhyme uttered by incumbent mayor Big Bill Thompson during the 1931 race. Outside Chicago, Cermak is best known as the actual victim of an assassination attempt that (apparently) targeted Franklin Roosevelt about a month before that New Yorker was first inaugurated as President of the United States.
I should have remembered Semple wasn’t truly her “maiden” name, but I felt honor-bound not to check Wikipedia before posting during competition.
I don’t recall K being the target initial recently, so let’s see what besides every “kiss” begins with that letter.
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IQ: Are you a composer of contemporary (‘classical’) music who is pictured on the cover of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’?
Well, I’m not Aram Khachaturian. If he’s not on that cover, take a DQ.
Were you the voice of Shaggy in the cartoon series “Scooby Doo”?
Were you widely blamed for allegedly lax security at Pearl Harbor?
Were you given a prominent role on a classic TV series because you bore a passing resemblance to Davy Jones of the Monkees?
IQ: Were you blamed by some historians for railroading three officers in their court-martial?
No, I’m not Casey Kasem.
I’m also not Husband Kimmel.
And I’m not Walter Koenig, whose hairdo change during Star Trek was discussed in a recent SDMB thread I happened to read.
Is this a Breaker Morant reference? Regardless of whether it is, I’m not coming up with a “K” name that answers this question. Take a DQ.
Yes, from Breaker Morant re: Horatio, Lord Kitchener. He comes across quite slimy in the movie, which is perhaps unfair.
DQ: Male?
IQ: Did you become a crazy old lady in the attic in a horror movie?
IQ: Did you battle a carpenter named Jumpman?
IQ: Are you a one-armed general who was killed at Chantilly, VA?
Did you play lead guitar on BOTH “Incense and Peppermints” AND “Sweet Home Alabama”?
No, I’m sorry - I did google to double-check and Khachaturian is not on the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ cover. Karlheinz Stockhausen, arguably most famous for his ‘Helicopter String Quartet’, is there in the upper row. He was a huge influence on John Lennon, as witnessed by ‘Revolution 9’ from the album ‘The Beatles’.
DQ: Are you a fictional character?
Was a promising NBA team broken up after you got into a love triangle with singer Toni Braxton?
Did you and your former boss appear as yourselves on an episode of “Dynasty” and flirt awkwardly with Joan Collins?