Correct as to Sam[wise Gamgee].
IQ: Did your dad threaten to kill you unless you “voluntarily” left home forever?
IQ: Was your father an ambassador and your mother a teacher?
IQ: Did you win a major election in one edition of a political novel, but lose it in another?
No, I am not Ringo Starr?
No, yes, and yes, I think it less misleading to say I work in “the arts” than to say that I don’t.
Correct on Dave Stieb.
IQ: Are you the inventor of musical instruments who produced the first ‘Wagner Tuba’?
No, I am not Tom Sawyer?
No, I am not Adlai Stevenson III?
No, I am not Willie Stark?
No, I am not JP Sousa?
Did you write Top Ten hits for Johnny Cash, The Irish Rovers, and Dr. Hook?
Did the Minnesota Vikings of the Seventies get their nickname from one of your songs?
Did you write the story that ended up gaining Frederic March his first Oscar as Best Actor?
No, I am not Robert Louis Stevenson.
I don’t remember (if I ever knew) who wrote Purple People Eater, but I will try…
No, I am not Jim Steinman.
No, I am not Jim Steinman.
Since we are on a new page:
Incorrect as to all three.
The first is Samwell Tarly in George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, who had to join the Night’s Watch or face his father’s murderous threats.
The second is Cmdr. Spock of the USS Enterprise.
The third is Simon Kerslake of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals.
A Tory, Kerslake is elected Prime Minister in the American edition of the book, but loses to the Labour candidate in the British edition of the book. Archer made the change because he found his American and British friends rooting for different candidates.
IQ1: Born in the 19th century?
IQ2: European?
IQ3: A writer?
Yes, yes, and no.
Correct on Ringo Starr. That was a line from A Hard Day’s Night.
IQ: Were you Eddie Van Halen’s first choice to replace David Lee Roth as vocalist for Van Halen? (I’ll tell you now: Despite the ‘S’, the answer is **not **Sammy Hagar)
IQ: Were you David Lee Roth’s choice to replace Eddie Van Halen as guitarist?
While John Phillip Sousa did design the Sousaphone (and I’ve no idea who he got to build them for him), the Wagner Tuba is a different instrument altogether. It is like a cross between a french horn and a euphonium, combining the disadvantages of each. No, the intrepid inventor/innovator/manufacturer of 19th century musical instruments was Adolphe Sax, who is most famous for the Saxophone, but who also designed and improved on countless instruments, including the bass clarinet and the flugelhorn. Wagner got him to build these unwieldy beasts in time for the composition of the Ring of the Niebelung cycle.
DQ: Were you involved in publishing? (I’m trying to solve this ‘Broadly speaking, I work in the arts’ conundrum…)
No, I’m not Bob Seger?
No, I’m not Bob Seger?
No, I am not Carlos Santana?