Correct on all 3.
IQs:
- Were you the title character of a live action Disney movie with nine lives?
- Did you hang out with Ralph Waldo Emerson?
- Do you possess and wield Mjolnir?
Correct on Ted Logan and Tonya Harding.
You’re correct that Boris Karloff did the narration for the Grinch TV special, but he didn’t sing. That job went to Thurl Ravenscroft.
DQ reserved pending answers to SCAdian’s DQs.
IQ1: Were you, a cartoon character often seen on TV, voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft?
IQ2: Did you once tell us that all the best cowboys have Chinese eyes?
IQ3: Do you always get a replay? Do you never tilt at all?
1: Telemachus, as you said
2: Titania, as you said
3: Was also Tecumseh - every president elected in a year divisible by 20, from Harrison to Kennedy has died in office, and this became known as Tecumseh’s Curse - probably less of a big deal now that two presidents (Reagan and Bush) have bucked the trend. In any case, I believe the precedent for posing an IQ for a duplicate person is to relinquish the DQ.
IQ 1: Is your column a noted landmark?
IQ 2: Did you say that all happy families are alike?
IQ 3: Did you lead the Peasant’s Revolt?
D’oh! :smack:
…and three fresh DQs for you.
No, there’s no British President named Taft that I know of. You get two DQs for the President and for the Satyr.
I am not Bob Taylor of Taylor guitars.
No, I’m not Henry David Thoreau nor am I Thor. A DQ to you for the Disney cat.
Yes.
Yes.
Summary -
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name begins with T
- American
- Known for The Arts
Outstanding DQs -
Elendil’s Heir - 1
SCAdian - 3
Fanganga - 1
ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness - 3
Spoons - 1
Professor Pepperwinkle - 1
I have to cook supper and get going - I’ll get to Spoons, Fanganga and any other new questions when I’m back from rehearsal.
The Disney cat was the title star of The Nine Lives of Thomasina.
DQ: Best known for your music?
IQ: Are you a musician who formerly cohosted, Entertainment Tonight?
Mother Teresa.
Maarten Tromp.
Touche Turtle. (The first word of the question, obviously, was meant to be “Were.”)
DQ1: Born east of the Mississippi?
DQ2: Died after 1920?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you an actor who served on a sub tender during WW II?
IQ2: Are you the only US President to have received the Medal of Honor?
IQ3: Were you the first US president not elected to that office?
IQs:
- Were you a gap-toothed British comic actor often featured in a supporting role in romantic comedies?
- Are you one of Gibbs’s agents on NCIS?
- Were you That Girl?
Previous IQs:
Was your evil, manipulative fictional mom named Livia? - Tony Soprano.
Were you an emperor who provided a middle name for a future interstellar explorer? - Yes, Tiberius, James T. Kirk’s middle name.
Are you a noted American dancer/choreographer? - I’ll rephrase.
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Are you a noted male American dancer/choreographer?
Was your statue near the White House made from captured, melted enemy cannon?
Was it whispered that you committed incest with your controversial American dad?
No, I’m not Trajan nor Leo Tolstoy. DQ for the Peasant’s Revolt.
I sense I should know this, but DQ for you.
No, I’m not Harry Truman nor Theodore Roosevelt. (WAGs) At least one DQ for you.
No, I’m not Marlo Thomas.2 DQs.
DQ for Thurl’s character.
No, I’m not Pete Townsend nor Tommy Walker.
No, I’m not Tommy Tune. 2 DQs.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
Summary -
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name begins with T
- American
- Known for The Arts
- Not known for music
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Died after 1920
Outstanding DQs -
Elendil’s Heir - 3
SCAdian - 2
Fanganga - 2
ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness - 3
Spoons - 2
Professor Pepperwinkle - 2
etv78 - 1
I was going for John Tesh.
DQ: Born South of the Mason-Dixon line?
IQ: Were your most famous work inspired by a serial killer?
Correct on Pete Townshend and Tommy Walker. Thurl’s cartoon character is Tony the Tiger of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes–up until his death, that was Thurl you heard saying “They’rrrre great!” in commercials.
DQ: Known for writing?
One DQ reserved.
Correct on Trajan and Tolstoy
IQ1: Are you an American writer born with a name that does not contain a T?
IQ2: Did you write Bonfire of the Vanities?
IQ3: Did you hold authority in an institution no-one expected?
DQ reserved until I see the answers to the others
No, I’m not Truman Capote.
No, I’m not Barbara Tuchman, Tom Wolfe nor Torquemada.
No.
Yes.
Summary -
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name begins with T
- American
- Known for The Arts
- Not known for music
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Died after 1920
- Born north of the Macon-Dixon line
- Known for writing
Outstanding DQs -
Elendil’s Heir - 3
SCAdian - 2
Fanganga - 2
ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness - 3
Spoons - 1
Professor Pepperwinkle - 2
Back sometime later in the day.
#1 was Terry-Thomas. #2 is Tim McGee.
DQs:
- Died after 1960?
- Novelist?
1: Not whom I was thinking of, but she fits
2: As you said, Tom Wolfe
3: As you said, Torquemada
DQ: Won a national or international literary award?
IQ: Are you a male American writer with a pen name that contains the letter T, and a birth name that doesn’t?
Forgot to add, the Peasant’s Revolt was Wat Tyler.
IQs:
- Did you write The Magnificent Ambersons?
- Did you write The Wonderful O?
- Did you write Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
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No, I’m not Harry Truman nor Theodore Roosevelt. (WAGs) At least one DQ for you./QUOTE]
Tony Curtis served aboard USS Proteus (AS 19). (My brother was on the same ship, 22 years later.)
Theodore Roosevelt was recently awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor for actions in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
John Tyler was the first VP to inherit the presidency on the death of the elected president.
Four DQs reserved.