**Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Did your defensive heroics at 3rd base save game 3 of the 1978 World Series for the Yankees?
IQ2) Were you Garth Brooks’ unpopular, unsuccessful pop music alter ego?
IQ3) Did you play the effeminate, hippie Jesus in the movie version of Godspell? **
Graig Nettles was the stellar 3rd baseman and Victor Garber was the hippie Jesus.
DQ1) Best known as a writer of any kind?
DQ2) European?
DQs:
IQ1: Are you an 18th century German writer who authored the plays Faust, Part One and* Faust, Part Two*?
IQ2: Did you write about the priest-detective Father Brown?
IQ3: Are you a 14th-century Italian author who wrote The Decameron?
IQ1) Did you write The Forsyte Saga?
IQ2) Did you write The Sorrows of Young Werther
IQ3) Was your best known character a con artist who purchased ownership rights to deceased peasants?
I am not Goethe, not G. K. Chesterton, and not Giovannie Boccaccio.
I am not John Galsworthy, not Goethe, and not Gogol.
Previous IQs:
Did you say you knew two and only two songs? - U.S. Grant, who was tone-deaf, said, “I know two songs. One of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.”
Were you played by the same actor who played your brother, but you had whiter hair? - George Kirk: George Samuel Kirk | Memory Alpha | Fandom.
Did you famously play a baseball player and a lawman? - Withdrawn; was thinking of someone else.
DQs:
British?
Born before 1800?
IQ1) Did Wally Pipp live to regret taking a day off, because of you?
IQ2) Did you like to tell people about the differences between a cola nut and an Uncola nut?
IQ3) Did you write the best seller Dad Is Fat?
DQs:
Take 3 DQs. #3 is Jim something, but I don’t recall what.
Get out of my head Professor!
IQ1: Did you play defensive back for the Washington Redskins from 1983-2002, and come to be nicknamed “The Ageless Wonder?”
IQ2: Were you the left offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders and first player to play in 3 Superbowls in 3 separate decades?
IQ3: Were you nicknamed “The Galloping Ghost” and vaunted by ESPN in 2008 as the greatest college football player of all time?
I am not Red Grange. Take 2 DQs.
Darrell Green, Gene Upshaw
DQ: Writer of fiction?
holding a DQ
**Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Did Wally Pipp live to regret taking a day off, because of you?
IQ2) Did you like to tell people about the differences between a cola nut and an Uncola nut?
IQ3) Did you write the best seller Dad Is Fat?**
Wally Pipp lost his job to Lou Gehrig, who started the next 2,130 games at 1st base for the Yankees.
Jamaican actor Geoffrey Holder did all those 7-Up Uncola ads.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan wrote Dad Is Fat (from eating all those Hot Pockets, no doubt)
DQ1) Born after 1900?
Saving two others
Correct.
George II.
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
IQ1) Does your best known work involve schoolboys acting like savages on a remote island?
IQ2) Did you create the great movie villain Harry Lime?
IQ3) Did you manage the Miracle Mets to a World Series win in 1969?
DQs:
I am not William Golding. Take 2 DQs.
IQs:
Did you command one side at the Battle of Guilford Court House?
Were you one of King Lear’s daughters?
Did you write the screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men?
Harry Lime was the villain played by Orson Welles in The Third Man, written by Grahame Greene.
Gil Hodges managed the Miracle Mets
DQ1) DO you write primarily on history or politics?
DQ2) Are you closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine?