IQ1: Are you credited by some historians with writing a famous letter for your boss that was immortalized in a major motion picture?
IQ2: According to Monty Python, did you once drink too much and get “particularly ill”?
IQ3: Were you a comedy-show castmember noted for his great Christopher Walken impersonation?
Yes.
No.
No.
No, I don’t even have a wild guess for this one - take a DQ.
No, I’m not John Keats - I’m assuming you’re referring to the parody of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, with the immortal line ‘as if of Watney’s I had drunk’.
No, I’m not John Lovitz.
And, of course, if I’m wrong on any of those, take a DQ.
Summary
Did Hercule Poirot regularly tell you who to arrest?
Did you replace Ulrich Jon Roth in the Scorpions?
Did you and friend Ted (Dr. Seuss) Geisel produce the popular “Gerald McBongBoing” cartoon series?
No, I am not Inspector Japp.
No idea - help yourself to a DQ.
No, I am not Chuck Jones.
Just to tie up a loose end, this reference was to Spiro Agnew, who apparently didn’t have to draw too much on imagination – the subject of the tome was a Vice President of the United States “destroyed by his own ambition”.
For the current game:
IQ – Were you a baseball player more known for such “craziness” as running the bases backward on a home run than for actual accomplishments?
No idea - take a DQ.
IQ1: This was John Hay, one of Lincoln’s two main aides, who is thought by some to have written the famous letter to Mrs. Bixby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poc9-L_9DxE
IQ2: This was John Stuart Mill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WRFJwGsbY
IQ3: This was SNL’s Jay Mohr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37KzlUEPA
Yes, folks, it’s a YouTube extravaganza!
DQs:
Were you born after 1700?
European?
Political/military?
This was Jimmy Piersall, played by Tony Perkins in the film Fear Strikes Out.
DQ: Were you noted for artistic accomplishments?
IQ: Although you were born in Alabama, was your middle name of “Cleveland” prophetic, as it was eventually the city in which you attended high school before attaining worldwide fame?
Matthias Jabs took over lead guitar duties from Uli Jon Roth, in the Scorpions. But you nailed Inspector Japp and Chuck Jones.
I’ll ask my DQ after Elendil gets his 3 answers.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Summary
No, I’m not LeBron James (?)
DQ: Does your last name start with “J”?
Did you first come to musical prominence as the boyfriend and guitarist for former Velvet Underground singer Nico?
Did your eating habits inspire Fat Bastard to lose hundreds of pounds, in Austin Powers 3: Goldmember?
J, J, J. Hmmm.
IQ1: Did Richard Nixon once say, “We are all [your followers] now”?
IQ2: Did you give the commencement address when a later-prominent U.S. senator graduated from law school?
IQ3: Were the only surviving records of your music made by a staffer of the Library of Congress?
IQ: Are you a French military theorist much studied and admired by Robert E. Lee?
I just got in. IQs up to post # 436 -
No, I’m not John Cale.
No, I’m not ‘Jared’ from the Subway ads.
DQs
No.
Summary -
I’ll get to the most recent of IQs after I have a bit of supper. I did a seven-hour poetry workshop today and my head is spinning. In a good way, mind…
IQ: Were you Clifford Odets’s “Golden Boy”?