Did you take the heavyweight title from Muhammad Ali, and then lose it back to him in the rematch?
Did you create Saul Panzer, Tecumseh Fox and Dol Bonner?
Yes, it was the series-ending X-Files clip show, but it was definitely an FBI tribunal. Even a military tribunal couldn’t sentence a U.S. citizen to death these days, though.
Capt. Hook’s flunky, Smee, in Peter Pan. The Captain’s voice always jumped an octave or two when he called for Smee.
DQ: Religious figure?
IQ: Did you, before 1940, serve in both the U.S. Justice Department and on the Supreme Court?
Did you and your son work on an early version of the Rocket?
Yes
Another sports-related DQ for you
No
No, and I don’t know who did
Woo-hoo!!! A sports question I can answer!!! No, I am not Leon Spinks!!!
No, and I don’t know who did. DQ time
Yes
I am not former Chief Justice and former Attorney General Harlan Stone?? FDR appointed him, but was it before 1940?? I know he’s the answer to the trivia question “who was the first Chief Justice to never hold elected office”.
No, and I don’t know who did. DQ for you.
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
- Born after 1700
- Not born in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
- Religious figure
Saul Panzer, Tecumseh Fox and Dol Bonner are all detectives created by Rex (Nero Wolfe) Stout.
And “our queer old dean” (for “our dear old Queen”) is an example of a Spoonerism, named after Rev. William Archibald Spooner, who had a habit of misspeaking publicly to comical effect. Legend has it that students at Oxford were constantly calling, “Speech, speech,” hoping he’d trip over his tongue and say something memorably funny. His famous reply was, “You don’t want to hear me speak! You just want me to say one of those… THINGS!”
DQ1: Were you Catholic?
DQ2: Did you do your religious work far from your homeland?
Were you replaced in 1966 by Jimmy Page?
Did you go by the code name Koba for many years?
Did you establish California missions like San Juan Capistrano?
Yes
Yes
No, I am not original Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith
No, but don’t bother with a DQ because…
Yes, I am Fr. Junipero Serra, founder of the missions of Alta California in New Spain. I was born in Spain and moved to New Spain in my late 20s. Anyone who ever attended elementary school in California has studied me, or at least the missions I founded.
Good job, astorian.
Congratulation, astorian!
Just to clean up, the player who scored the winning goal in overtime in last year’s men’s olympic hockey final was Sidney Crosby for Team Canada. (There were an astonishing number of kids born in Canada in early December 2010 who were named ‘Sidney’, for some reason.) He is also well known as a poster child for the consequences of concussions - at present, despite much of last season and the summer off and in care, there is still no fixed date for his return to the NHL.
And the guy who used the alias “Koba” was Joseph Stalin.
Okay, new game, and the new letter is… “L”
Are you the director who can’t help fiddling with your most beloved movies?
No, I’m not George Lucas
Congrats, astorian. You rule!
Yes, the answer to my earlier IQ was Harlan F. Stone.
IQ: Did you sometimes annoy your wife by hanging around the house barefoot because, you said, your feet needed to “breathe”?
IQ: Are you a mermaid who used to date Superman?
Not Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know this one- ask a DQ.
IQ: Are you known for your ability to play complex music on the bass and/or keyboards while singing?
IQ: Did you give the Winklevi a less than sympathetic hearing?