IQ1: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history?
Lynch Maydon
DQ: American?
IQ1: Did you marry Daniel Parke Custis at age 18, become widowed at 25, then marry your much more famous husband two years later?
IQ2: Did you die in 1962 from an alleged overdose of barbiturates?
IQ3: Are you IQ2’s third husband?
SUMMARY
- Real Person
- Female
- Dead
- Last name starts with “M”
- Not American
Not Martha Washington, Marilyn Monroe or Arthur Miller
IQs:
- Did your friends include Heebie & Jeebie, Prof. Weirdo and Count Kook?
- Were you a registered Animagus at Hogwarts?
- Did you write “they also serve who only stand and wait”?
All right, astorian!
Previous round IQs:
Did the same man who played you also play a cancer patient, a police officer and an alien? - Robert Todd Lincoln, in Lincoln
Are you that actor? - Joseph Gordon-Levitt; the roles from the first question were in 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises and Third Rock From the Sun
Were you Clinton’s first Secretary of the Treasury? - Lloyd Bentsen
So we’re on to M now…
Were you writings on naval power very influential in their day?
Did you play Krusty’s dad?
Did Kevin Spacey recently say he’s been working on an impersonation of you?
IQ: Are your notebooks STILL radioactive, 100 years after your death?
IQ1: Were Razzies and Koo-Koos made by a company that bore your name?
IQ2: Was “There’s No Business Like Show Business” your theme song?
IQ3: Were you a woman who played a flying boy?
IQ1: Did you pioneer an educational method based on what you referred to as “scientific pedagogy?”
IQ2: Are you anthropologist whose writings about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures shaped the 1960s sexual revolution?
IQ3: Are you the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west?
Not Milton the Monster
Not Professor McGonagall (a cat)
I know the quote well but can’t think of who said it. Take a DQ for #3
Not Alfred Thayer Mahan or Jackie Mason.
I’ve heard Kevin Spacey do a lot of imitations, but nobody I can think of who starts with an M
Take a DQ
No idea- take a DQ
Not Dolley Madison, Ethel Merman or Mary Martin.
Well, crud! That was a short game!
YESS!!! I am Maria Montessori, educational innovator and founder of schools following my methods all over the world.
Congratulations, Knowed Out, and you may select an N candidate now.
The person with the radioactive notebooks was Marie Curie.
Well done, KO!
The “they also serve” quote was from John Milton’s “On His Blindness”.
Previous IQs:
Were you writings on naval power very influential in their day? - Yes, Alfred Thayer Mahan
Did you play Krusty’s dad? - Yes, Jackie Mason
Did Kevin Spacey recently say he’s been working on an impersonation of you? - Morgan Freeman
Way to go, KO! I suggest you start an October Botticelli thread next.