#1 sounds like the Monty Python sketch, but I don’t recall a name, so…
Take 3 DQs.
Strasberg did The Blue Angel. Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Take a DQ for #3.
Franz Waxman, correct, Robert Ward (who I remember from high school band)
holding 4 DQs and thinking…
**Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Did you own a cheese shop with absolutely no cheese in it?
IQ2) Were you the last British female to win a singles title at Wimbledon?
IQ3) Did you win the National League MVP award for breaking Ty Cobb’s stolen bases record?**
The cheese shop proprietor was Mr. Wensleydale, the British tennis star was Virginia Wade, and Maury Wills was the base stealer.
Last DQ: associated with jazz?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Known for the Arts
- American
- Last name starts with W
- Died since 1950
- Known for the performing arts
- Not an actor
- Won many honors, though not exactly a top award
- Not known for being handsome, but not bad looking either
- Musician
- Not a singer
- Not remembered primarily as an instrumentalist
- Not remembered for classical music.
- Most famous before 1963
- Composer, but not best known for that
- Conductor
- Born west of the Mississippi River
- Associated with Jazz
And that’s 20. So, I don’t expect this one to last long, but it’s “Are you Firstname Lastname?” time.
Pass.
Previous IQs:
Are you a noted German film director with a thing for angels? - Wim Wenders, director of Wings of Desire.
Did your dad write The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table? - Yes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Did you rush troops to the summit of Little Round Top? - Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, at Gettysburg.
I don’t know any jazz conductors with a last name starting with W. Pass.
I didn’t even know there were any jazz conductors.
Jazz is not my strong suit, but… are you Paul Whiteman, the first conductor of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue?
/smacks forehead
And a-one and a-two
Are you Lawrence Welk?
Yes, I am the King of Jazz, America’s Bandleader, Paul Whiteman, who commissioned and conducted Rhapsody In Blue.
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