This is a long shot.
Are you Paul Harvey?
Hmm, I think that just might be the guy.
I yield my remaining DQ to anyone who’d like to ask it.
YES!!
I am Paul Harvey, conservative radio pundit of the 70s and 80s. Also the author of collected anecdotes from his The Rest of the Story episodes.
Good call on Paul Harvey!
On to S.
- Were you an 1852 presidential candidate and hero of the Mexican-American War?
- Were you named after #1?
- Are you a soccer and volleyball player for Yale who often gets hit in the face with a ball?
Take 3 DQs.
IQ1: Were you an Olympic swimmer better known for co-starring in spaghetti westerns?
IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer’s valet?
IQ3: Were you a TV newsperson who was on board a plane that crashed in headhunter country during WW II?
Take 3 DQs.
Carlo Pedersoli, better known in this country as Bud Spencer
Sebastian Cabot, on Family Affair
Eric Sevareid
#1 was Winfield Scott.
#2 was Winfield Scott Hancock.
#3 is Scott Sterling, a character who went viral back in 2016, created by comic actor Matthew Meece.
DQs:
- Real?
- Male?
- First name begins with S?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Last name starts with S
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: American?
One DQW reserved.
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Last name starts with S
- Known for the Arts
- American
Good job, Prof. P. And now you know… the rest of the Botticelli story.
On to S!
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his only SECSTATE?
IQs:
Are you known for creating paintings with double images?
Were you the only president of your country to be assassinated in office?
Did you share the cover of TIME Magazine with Patricia Hearst?
I am not Simon Cameron.
I am not Edwin Stanton.
I am not William Seward.
- I am not Anwar Sadat.
Take 2 DQs.
Salvador Dali
Correct
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; however, the magazine in question was Newsweek, not TIME.
DQ: Known for painting or literature?
Congrats, Prof.!
IQs:
1. Were you a bandleader who never slept, came from Saturn, and starred in Space is the Place?
2. Were you the Man, and a Cardinal?
3. Have you played a worm, Count Orlok, and the “wife” of Flaco the owl on SNL?
IQs:
- Did you, when you retired, hold the record for most home runs hit by an Angel?
- Have you held senior positions in all three branches of the U.S. government, including Chief Justice?
- Did you make oral arguments before the Supreme Court in U.S. vs. Skrmetti?
IQ1: Did you sing “Johnny Come Lately”?
IQ2: Did you sing “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma”?
IQ3: Did you sing “War Is Hell (on the Home Front Too)”?