DQ) Asian?
IQ1) Are you the longest serving conductor of the New York Philharmonic?
IQ2) Did you inspire the name of the country rock group New Riders of the Purple Sage?
IQ3) Are you the son of a music legend and the drummer of the Who?
Z.
- Real
- Male
- Alive
- Best known for my artistic work
- Last name does not start with Z
- Not American
- Not European
- Not best known as an actor
- Not an author
- Not born since 1964
- From the Northern Hemisphere
- Have won major awards, not all restricted to my field
- Artistic work I’m best known for is not primarily auditory
- Asian.
Not Moon Unit Zappa.
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I’m not Zane Grey, and I’ve no idea who the drummer’s son might be, but yes, I am Parsi conductor Zubin Mehta.
Go ahead, astorian - pick a letter, any letter…
Mine were
Zeke Mowatt
Billy Zane
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Ahmed Zewail
Congrats Astorian!
Ah, finally, I’m back. I didn’t know I’d won.
Okay, I have an A character. Ask away!
IQ1: Was your name changed by inserting two letters when you were 99?
IQ2: Were you a former Italian 97-pound weakling?
IQ3: Are you a generic British soldier?
IQ1: Does your ministry operate a Boeing 747SP, named “Star Triple Seven”?
IQ2: Did you found the publishing company Arkham House?
IQ3: Are you the name given to Sleeping Beauty in the Disney film version of the story?
Congrats, astorian!
Previous IQs:
Were you a sad-sack visitor to Babylon 5? - Zathras, who was quite the gloomy, put-upon alien
Did you discover a notable mountain in North America? - Yes, Zebulon Pike of Pike’s Peak fame
Were you in the running for the role of Scarlett O’Hara? - Yes, ZaSu Pitts
Back to the beginning of the alphabet… Og, I love this game!
IQs:
Did you have a brother named Aberforth?
Did Colin Farrell play you in a widely-panned biopic?
Is one of your works displayed in the Pittsburgh Intl. Airport?
Not Charles (Stop Getting Sand Kicked In Your Face) Atlas or Tommy (“For it’s Tommy This and Tommy That…”) Atkins.
Take a DQ for #1
No idea on #1 or #2- take two DQs
Not Princess Aurora
Not Alexander the Great or Pittsburgh’s own Andy Warhol.
Take a DQ for #1
Ernest, Angley, August Derleth, correct
DQ: Fictional?
DQ: Female?
IQ1: Are you Lorenzo Lamas’s actress mother?
IQ2: Are you a socialite and frequent game show panelist, having appeared on What’s My Line from 1950-1975?
IQ3: Are you the wife of a TV doctor and author of numerous children’s books, including Sheep, Sheep Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep?
SUMMARY
- Real
- Male
Not Arlene Dahl or Arlene Francis
Take. DQ for 3
Arlene Alda, wife of Alan. Arlene x3!
DQ: Alive?
IQ1: Are you considered the founder of science fiction fandom, credited with originating the term “Sci-fi”?
IQ2: Are you a Canadian sci-fi writer who wrote three books about Null-A, aka non-Aristotelian logic?
IQ3: Did you win the first Hugo Award in 1953 for The Demolished Man?
SUMMARY
- Real
- Male
- Dead