Correct on Jack London. The Call of the Wild is about a tame dog that goes wild, and White Fang is about a wild dog that is tamed.
Jim Kjelgaard (Fire Hunter, Trailing Trouble and A Nose for Trouble, and Ulysses and his Woodland Zoo). An excellent children’s author - it’s a real shame so few of his books are still in print.
Never mind - I’m confused… :smack:
DQ: Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Did you write about Tschai?
IQ2: Did you write about Sector General?
IQ3: Is an ice-cream flavour named after you?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
I’m not Jack Vance.
I’m not James Blish? (Not sure about this one. Take a DQ if I’m wrong.)
I’m not Jerry Garcia.
Correct on Jack Vance and Jerry Garcia.
Right genre, wrong author. James White wrote a dozen books about Sector General Hospital.
DQ: Military/political figure?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a military/political figure
I don’t remember that happening to Archie, but I’ll rephrase.
King Joffrey from Game of Thrones: The Real Iron Throne - Not A Blog — LiveJournal
Yes, Capt. Kirk.
DQ:
European?
IQs:
You are a TV sitcom lead character. Did a gym teacher insult your best friend?
Were you recorded at length by a Library of Congress researcher in the Thirties?
Were you pulled into a group hug at the end of your movie?
IQ1: Were you born in Poland under a name that does not begin with J?
IQ2: Did you famously do keepy-uppy in an international football match?
IQ3: Did you collaborate in discovering the structure of DNA?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a military/political figure
- European
Unless the first one is Jerry Seinfeld, take 3 DQs. (If it is, take 2.)
I’m not James Watson. Take 2 DQs for the others.
Some research I did afterwards indicates this question was potentially misleading so I withdraw it
Jim Baxter, the great Scottish footballer who did keepy-uppy in the 1967 Scotland-England game.
As you said, James Watson, whom I discovered couldn’t be you on two counts after I posed the question - one that he is American, and two that he’s still with us at the age of 85.
DQ: Known for athletic achievements, including physical achievements not part of athletic competion - eg mountaineering, long distance sailing etc.
IQ1: Did you die in office, like your predecessor but unlike your successor?
IQ2: Are you known for popularising oceanography?
IQ3: Did you claim that “Hell is other people”?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a military/political figure
- European
- Not known for sports/athletics
Don’t know #1. #2 may be Jacques Cousteau (who I am not). I am not Jean-Paul Sartre. Take DQ’s accordingly.
#1 was my previous number 1 - John Paul II, whose successor Benedict was the first pope to stop being pope while still alive for a long time. (I judged the previous question as misleading, as when I posted it I didn’t realise that he originally had Josef as a middle name)
#2 was Jacques Costeau
#3 was Jean-Paul Sartre.
DQ: When you first did whatever it was that made you famous, were you a citizen of an English-speaking country?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a military/political figure
- European
- Not known for sports/athletics
- Not from an English-speaking country
IQ1) Did you found an institution in Switzerland?
Welcome back, Zakalwe, and take a DQ.
IQ1) Jean Piaget - a famous Swiss psychologist.
DQ) Known for science/mathematics?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with J
- Died since 1900
- Not known for the Arts
- Not a military/political figure
- European
- Not known for sports/athletics
- Not from an English-speaking country
- Known for science/mathematics