V.
1.Real
V.
1.Real
DQ
Not Rudolph Valentino
DQ
Previous IQs:
Did you befriend a scientist with the nickname "Stinky"? - Valentine Michael Smith, in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
Did hordes of lovesick women mourn melodramatically at your funeral? - Yes, Rudolph Valentino
Was a naval starship named after you in Niven and Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye? - Vladimir Lenin
DQs:
Male?
First name start with V?
IQs:
Are you a contemporary leader with a Labrador Retriever for a pet?
Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina?
Did your father tell you, "If you see it in the Sun, it's so"?
DQ
Not Virginia Dare
Not Virginia who was reassured there's a Santa Claus
V.
1.Real
2.Female
3.First name begins "V"
Previous IQs:
Are you a contemporary leader with a Labrador Retriever for a pet? - Vladimir Putin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konni_(dog)
Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? - Yes, Virginia Dare
Did your father tell you, "If you see it in the Sun, it's so"? - Yes, Virginia O'Hanlon
DQ:
Living?
IQs:
Were you a Wallachian leader notorious for his bloodthirstiness?
Did Peter Clemenza work for you?
Do you have a website dedicated solely to answering the question of whether or not you're dead?
Not Vlad the Impaler
DQ
Not Abe Vigoda, who died when Dopers weren't looking
V.
1.Real
2.Female
3.First name begins "V"
4,Dead
Previous IQs:
Were you a Wallachian leader notorious for his bloodthirstiness? - Yes, Vlad the Impaler
Did Peter Clemenza work for you? - Vito Corleone in The Godfather
Do you have a website dedicated solely to answering the question of whether or not you're dead? - Yes, the late Abe Vigoda
DQ:
American?
IQs:
Did you costar with your husband in That Hamilton Woman?
Did Julie Andrews play you, and someone else, kinda, in the same movie?
Are you Bob and Helen Parr's shy daughter?
Gotta watch the 1st 2 "Godfather" flicks!
Not Viola Davis
Not Victor/Victoria
DQ
V.
1.Real
2.Female
3.First name begins "V"
4,Dead
5.NOT American
Previous IQs:
Did you costar with your husband in That Hamilton Woman? - Not Viola Davis, but Vivien Leigh, with Laurence Olivier
Did Julie Andrews play you, and someone else, kinda, in the same movie? - Yes, the title roles in Victor/Victoria
Are you Bob and Helen Parr's shy daughter? - Violet, in The Incredibles
DQs:
European?
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
Did you marry your first cousin and confide to your diary that you were madly in love with him?
Did you clash with Det. Spooner in Chicago?
Were you a noted barbarian foe of Imperial Rome?
YES!! I am indeed
QUEEN VICTORIA! Nice job!!
Woohoo - thanks!
Other previous IQs:
Did you clash with Det. Spooner in Chicago? - The supercomputer VIKI in the movie I, Robot (Will Smith played Spooner - not a bad sf action movie, but it had very little to do with the original Isaac Asimov short-story collection)
Were you a noted barbarian foe of Imperial Rome? - Vercingetorix, a leader of the Gauls
Lemme think of our next letter....
I looked at her Wikipedia page, because I was curious about her last name, and when during the calendar year she died.
Last name: Gotha
Died in January. I thought she lived to see 3 POTUS assasinated. Nope, missed McKinley by 8 months.
She's actually usually considered a Hanoverian, even though as a woman she could not hold the crown of that German kingdom, but it's debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_...d,_and_Hanover
Right! Our next letter is
F
And I've updated the letters-we've-used-before list.
IQ: Are you the greatest Swiss tennis player ever?
IQ2: Are you the tennis player who once dated my favorite supermodel?
IQ3: Are you the quietly HOF RB who shares his last name with a former VPOTUS?
Not Roger Federer, dunno, and not Ford.
Correct
Fernando Verdasco
Frank Gore
DQ: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ: Are you the early POTUS related to a recent FLOTUS?
IQ2: Were you thought to have Guilllame-Barre Syndrome, rather than Infantile Paralysis?
IQ3: Are you the 50 year old golfer who could roll out of bed and contend at the Masters?
Franklin Pierce (Barbara Bush)
Correct
Fred Couples
2 DQs reserved, pending the answers to existing DQ
Ah, right. Sorry.
F.
1. fictional
2. male
No problem
DQ: If he were real, could he be living?
DQ2: American?
IQ: Did you write "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"?
IQ2: Were you the original host of "Jeopardy"?
IQ3: Were you the Down East based author who moonlit as a detective?
IQ: Did you write "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"?
IQ2: Were you the original host of "Jeopardy"?
IQ3: Did you direct "Gone with the Wind"?
Ignore the above post
Not Ian Fleming, Art Fleming or... David Fleming?
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
The director was Victor, but 3 for 3
Fleming X3
3 isn't an answer.
IQ: Are you the opera character who had a famous wedding?
IQ2: Are you the obese Shakespeare character?
IQ3: Are you the character whose actions became a metaphor for a TV show going off the rails?
Not Figaro, Falstaff or Fonzie (jumping the shark).
Go ahead and take a DQ for Victor Fleming.
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, he would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
Is #3 clearer now?
3 is clear now.
3 for 3 on that list batch!
DQ: Created after 1900?
IQ: Are you the male model who had a bad experience on a roller coaster?
IQ2: Are you the track star who famously painted your extra long nails?
IQ3: Were you surprised to learn having sex with the cleaning lady in your cubicle was frowned upon?
IQ: Are you the male model who had a bad experience on a roller coaster?
IQ2: Are you the track star who famously painted your extra long nails?
IQ3: Was your son surprised to learn having sex with the cleaning lady in your cubicle was frowned upon?
Can't believe I messed that up.
Not Fabio, dunno and not Frank "You wanna piece of me?" Costanza.
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, he would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
5. created after 1900
Correct
Florence Griffith Joyner
Correct ("I could drop you like bag a dirt!")
IQ: Did your character pretend to be a cross dresser in an attempt to get kicked out of the military?
IQ2: Are you the greatest Italian tennis player?
IQ3: Did you go from the Mickey Mouse Club to beach movies?
DQ: From Literature?
Not Toledo's own Jamie Farr, Roger Federer or Annette Funnicello.
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, he would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
5. created after 1900
6. not from literature
Correct
Francesca Schiavone
Correct
DQ: From film?
On the Dope, someone mentioned "Don't call me Shirley", linking to the scene, saying,"If I need to explain it to you, you're in the wrong forum." I instinctively thought,"It's a place on the internet where people write messages to each other, but that's not important right now."
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LOL. Nice! I just wanted to say good luck; we're all counting on you.
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, he would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
5. created after 1900
6. not from literature
7. from film
IQ: Did you attempt to keep a black man from being railroaded in a rape trial?
IQ2: Did you narrate his story?
IQ3: Are you #1's and #2's brother, nicknamed retroactively for an animated singer with pink hair?
IQ: Did you attempt to keep a black man from being railroaded in a rape trial?
IQ2: Did you narrate his story?
IQ3: Are you #1's son and #2's brother, nicknamed retroactively for an animated singer with pink hair?
Not Atticus, Jean Louise/Scout or Jem Finch.
3 for 3 of course
IQ: Are you the NFL QB who played consecutive playoff games in wildly divergent conditions: a sauna one week, an ice box the next?
IQ2: Are you the iconic NFL QB whose last game was the worst modern playoff whooping?
IQ3: Did you famously play a "mimbo" who suffered major facial fractures in a rock climbing accident?
Dan Fouts (Miami and Cincinnati in '82)
Dan Marino (62-7 against Jacksonville)
Dan Cortese
DanX3
DQ: Film released before 1950?
DQ2: Considered "Good guy"?
DQ3: Main protagonist?
F.
1. fictional
2. male
3. if he were real, he would be dead by now
4. nationality unclear, but probably not American
5. created after 1900
6. not from literature
7. from film
8. film released before 1950
9. not considered a good guy
10. not the main protagonist