Nope, I got nothin’. Take a DQ
I’m going to take a wild stab and say I’m not Lyndon B. Johnson.
No, I’m not Jelly Roll Morton.
I have a feeling this is Jean de somebody or other I should be able to name. Take a DQ.
The shame - it burns us. Take yet another DQ.
Full tally - at least one DQ to Elendil’s Heir and two to AppallingGael.
The military theorist was the Baron Jomini. The Lee vs. Grant campaign has been portrayed (with how much accuracy, I don’t know) as Jomini vs Clausewitz by proxy.
The “Golden Boy” was boxer Joe Bonaparte, played by William Holden in the 1939 movie.
DQ#1: are you from a place where either French, German, Russian or Italian is the #1 language today?
No.
Summary -
The first is British economist John Maynard Keynes. Nixon once said, “We are all Keynesians now.”
The second is John F. Kennedy, who gave the commencement address at American University when U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) received his night-school law degree in June 1963.
The third is indeed Jelly Roll Morton.
DQ1: British?
DQ2: Best known for service in the Napoleonic Wars?
IQ1: As a child, did you help keep a relative’s house from blowing away in a storm?
IQ2: Were two of your brothers naval officers, and the third a clergyman?
IQ3: Were you recently in Cleveland directing a movie?
Did you work closely with Ben Alexander and Bill Gannon?
Did you, your Dad and your kid all win Oscars at one time or another?
Did Peter Sellers get his final Oscar nomination for a movie based on one of your novels?
Not Le Bron, but a sports figure of the 1930’s – James Cleveland Owens, called by his initials “JC”, which got transposed to “Jesse”.
DQ: Were you an elected or appointed official, as opposed to hereditary ruler?
IQ: Were you a Czech analogue to Martin Luther and John Calvin?
DQs up to post #448 -
Yes.
No.
No.
Now, without giving anything away for free, I must caution all of you - the answer to question #7 is accurate, in that, without saying which, I am a political/military figure. However, I would say that it would be misleading to think of that (correct) answer as the reason I am famous. I’ll say no more for now…
Summary -
You didn’t answer my three earlier IQs (post 444):
IQ1: As a child, did you help keep a relative’s house from blowing away in a storm?
IQ2: Were two of your brothers naval officers, and the third a clergyman?
IQ3: Were you recently in Cleveland directing a movie?
I will withdraw the third for now, and instead ask:
IQ3: Were you wet when you were killed?
Alright, I’m back - sorry, this has been a pretty busy day.
IQs up to post #449 -
No idea what this is a reference to - take a DQ
Again, I dunno - take another DQ
I’m sure I’ll regret this, but I just don’t know - take a third DQ.
No, I’m not Joe Friday.
Gah! No idea - take a DQ.
No, I’m not Jerry Kozinsky (sp.?)
No, I’m not Jan Huss (sp.?)
So that’s 3 DQs to Elendil’s Heir and 1 to astorian. Oh, AppallingGael had earned 2 DQs with Baron Jomini and Joe Bonaparte - I still owe him one more. I think I’m now caught up.
IQ: Although you invented a farming implement, is your name best known as that of a musical group?
John Lewis, civil rights hero and Congressman from Georgia, whose biography recalls the incident and is called Walking with the Wind.
Jane Austen, British author.
James Cook, British explorer, killed in the Hawaiian surf by the natives.
DQ1: Royalty or aristocracy?
DQ2: An explorer?
I’ll reserve my third DQ for now.
IQ1: Did your wife write a cookbook for which she was sued?
IQ2: Although one of the greatest men of your country’s history, is the city named after you now regarded as one of the worst?
IQ3: In a flashback on your hit show, was it revealed that your character had had a nosejob?
Ah. James Cook was indeed who I was - I’m now doubly annoyed that I could not come up with a murdered/drowned person from either real life or fiction whose name connected with the letter ‘J’. Congrats to Elendil’s Heir.
You see my dilemma over the military question - while Cook was a Captain in the Royal Navy and could not have accomplished his explorations without his military involvement, ‘military’ would tend to mislead people in the direction of 'officer who had a noteworthy victory or defeat, rather than ‘first person to have seen all seven continents’.
Woohoo! I thought it might be Capt. Cook, since he fit all the clues otherwise. Thanks, Ministre. I’ll start the next round tomorrow.
The other IQs I’d asked:
IQ1: Did your wife write a cookbook for which she was sued? - Jerry Seinfeld
IQ2: Although one of the greatest men of your country’s history, is the city named after you now regarded as one of the worst? - Benito Juarez, namesake of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s murder capital
IQ3: In a flashback on your hit show, was it revealed that your character had had a nosejob? - Jennifer Aniston on Friends
Ahhh… well anyway, in case somebody wondered…
John Huston won Best Director, while his Dad Walter Huston was Best Supporting Actor in Treasure of the Sierra Madre and his daughter Anjelica was Best Supporting Actress in ***Prizzi’s Honor.
OK, our next letter is S.
Did you stomp your wooden leg furiously at having to surrender New Amsterdam (aka New York City) to the British Navy?
Did you sing “The Bedrock Twitch” in the movie The Flintstones?
Are you credited with creating a prayer that goes, “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f–k up?”