Actress Susan Weaver thought her real name was boring… so she took the new first name Sigourney from The Great Gatsby.
DQ: Are you European?
Steve Nash, currently playing with the Phoenix Suns and twice named MVP in the NBA. He grew up in Victoria, BC, and while not particularly tall, not a prodigy and not growing up in a hotbed of basketball, he loved the game and was unbelievable determined, spending hours a day in the gym running the ball and shooting baskets from every conceivable position on the court. A role model if ever there was one.
DQ: Are you famous for your accomplishments in the Arts, as broadly defined?
IQ: Are you more renowned for the allegations that you killed a rival than for your music?
Did you make 576 plate appearances in one major league season, and strike out only 3 times?
Were you the only guy at the Boston University broadcasting school who was taller than classmate Bill O’Reilly?
Did you write the Searchers’ smash hit “Needles and Pins” before becoming part of a successful singing duo yourself?
Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Glory), whose statue with the 54th Mass. Volunteers stands on Boston Common across the street from the Statehouse: http://i.gettysburgdaily.com/imgs/Boston54thMass080410/Boston54thMass080410_01.jpg
DQ: Alive by 1850?
IQ: Did you defend a subordinate when he was brought up on charges before an administrative board that, incredibly, was considering the death penalty?
You are not Jerry Springer.
DQ: Are you involved in politics?
Are you famous for your long tongue and tendency to breathe fire?
By birth, yes.
No
No, I am not Antonio Salieri
I suck at sports. DQ for you.
No, I am not Howard Stern.
No, I am not Sonny Bono.
Please clarify. Do you mean alive in 1850, or do you mean born prior to 1850?
No, and I don’t know who you mean. DQ
No
No, I am not Gene Simmons of KISS.
Summary:
- Male
- Real Person
- Last name starts with ‘S’
- Not born in the 20th century
- Born in Europe
- Not famous for any artistic accomplishments
- <holding spot for 1850 question>
- Not involved in politics.
IQ: Were you famous for your recordings with Antonio Carlos Jobim, where you made a tenor sax sound like an alto?
Apart from sports, MAN you are very good!
The guy who almost NEVER struck out was Yankees third baseman Joe Sewell. Over the last seven years of his career, he never struck out even 10 times in a season.
DQ: Were you known for work in science or technology?
Did you create the characters who appeared the the musical that won the 1964 Tony Award?
Were you the first man to win both a Nobel Prize AND an Oscar?
Did you write the biggest hit the Cyrkle ever recorded?
Yes, that DQ means, born before 1850.
The answer to the IQ is from The X-Files: it was Deputy Director Walter Skinner, who defended Fox Mulder before an FBI disciplinary board that (hard to wrap your head around this, I know) could sentence him to death.
DQ: Famous for military role?
IQ: When he was in trouble, did your boss call for your help in an uncharacteristic tone of voice?
After 4 years of playing alto sax in high school jazz band, I should be able to take a guess. Sax player with an “S” name… hmmm… I am not Sonny Rollins? DQ if I’m wrong.
No
No, I am not George Bernard Shaw, author of Pygmalion, which was adapted into My Fair Lady.
Hmm… no “S” in Al Gore… Steinbeck won a Nobel and a Pulitzer for The Grapes of Wrath..Don’t know if the movie got an Oscar for screenplay…oh well… No, I am not John Steinbeck?? DQ if I’m wrong
No, I am not Paul Simon. Thank you for inserting “Red Rubber Ball” in my earworm tape loop.
Yes
Was the X-Files bit from the infamous “clip-show” series finale? I haven’t seen it since it originally aired. I thought it was a military tribunal, seeing as he had “killed” the supersoldier on a military base. Oh well.
DQ: No, not famous for military role.
IQ: No, and I don’t know who you mean. Take a DQ.
Summary:
- Male
- Real Person
- Last name starts with ‘S’
- Not born in the 20th century
- Born in Europe
- Not famous for any artistic accomplishments
- Born before 1850
- Not involved in politics.
- Not known for work in science or technology
- Not famous for military role
No, I’m sorry - while I can’t definitively state that Sonny Rollins never met Antonio Carlos Jobim, I can’t think of a single recording they did together. Whereas Stan Getz, along with Astrid Gilberto and Joao Gilberto, is a major part of the distinctive sound on such recordings as ‘Corcovado’, ‘Desafinado’, ‘Wave’ and ‘Garota de Ipanema’. (Sorry if that just gave you an earworm…)
DQ: Were you born after 1700?
IQ: Did you score the winning goal in overtime in last year’s men’s olympic hockey final?
Actually, you had the right answer to the wrong question!
George Bernard Shaw was the man who won both an Oscar (Best Screenplay for the movie version of his own “Pygmalion”) and a Nobel Prize.
The 1964 Tony-winning musical was “Fiddler on the Roof,” based on characters created by Sholom Aleichem.
I’ll take ONE DQ for that…
DQ: Were you born in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales?
Did you once refer to Victoria as “our queer old dean”?