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    IQ: Were you a not very subtle expy for Jesus?
    IQ2: Are you the famous author whose natural death was overshadowed by a notorious assasination?
    IQ3: Did your firing ruin your weekend?

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    Not Aslan, not Aldous Huxley (C.S. Lewis died that day, too) and dunno.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950

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    Correct
    Correct (on all counts)
    Archibald Cox

    DQ: Asian?

    IQ: Are you the famously incompetent terrorist?
    IQ2: Are you the TV character who's a walking tvtropes.net?
    IQ3: Did you win a Nobel Prize for a lesser achievement because you refused to share it with your rival?

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    Archibald Cox - funny.

    Dunno x3.

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    Achmed
    Abed from "Community"
    Albert Einstein

    3 DQs reserved

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    Hmm. What's the story on Einstein and his Nobel?

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    1. fictional
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    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian

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    I may be misremembering, but the committee wanted him to share it with Tesla, but their relationship was fraught, so they went with someone less worthy.

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    DQ: African?
    DQ2: From literature?
    DQ3: Male?

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    Never heard that before. Thanks.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male

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    IQ: Are you a character in a Lady Gaga song?
    IQ2: Were you the Clinton advisor whose name sounds like a ski resort city?
    IQ3: Were you the GOP political operative known for sleazy attack ads?

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    Not Alejandro, dunno and not the late unlamented Lee Atwater.

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    Correct
    Les Aspin (forgot if he was SECDEF OR SECSTATE)
    Correct (on all counts!)

    DQ: From Latin America?

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    IQ: Were you the ABC executive during the 70s and 80s?
    IQ2: Are you the antagonist in the most famous biographic Broadway musical?
    IQ3: Ar you the doctor turned humanitarian?

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    Checked Wikipedia, Aspin was at the Pentagon

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    Correct. Left after the unfortunate events of Black Hawk Down.

    Quote Originally posted by Erictelevision View post
    IQ: Were you the ABC executive during the 70s and 80s?
    IQ2: Are you the antagonist in the most famous biographic Broadway musical?
    IQ3: Ar you the doctor turned humanitarian?
    Not Roger Ailes, Auntie Mame or Dr. Albert Schweitzer.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth

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    Roone Arledge
    Aaron Burr
    Correct

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    DQ: Created after 2000?
    DQ2: Humanoid?

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    Thoroughly read his page. He fell on his sword (wondered if it was that or got thrown under the bus)

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    IQ: Are you the industrialist who went on to become a partial namesake of a Pittsburgh college?
    IQ2: Are you the program director at Bravo?
    IQ3: Are you the most famous woman from Weymouth MA?
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 03 Jul 2020 at 03:54 PM. Reason: True hometown

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    Thought they had same 1st name, nope.

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    Not Andrew Carnegie, dunno and not Abigail Adams.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid

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    Correct (thought it might be Andrew Mellon)
    Andy Cohen
    Correct (nice job!)

    DQ: From film?

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    IQ: Were you played by a combination of David Prowse and James Earl Jones?
    IQ2: Were you killed at an event that marked it 250th anniversary shortly before we went into quarantine?
    IQ3: Are you a British royal known for your anatomical quirky?

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    Not Anakin Skywalker, not Crispus Attucks and not... Prince Andrew?

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
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    Correct
    Correct
    Anne Boleyn (extra breast and fingers)

    DQ: From TV?

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    IQ: Are you the 1970s most politically incorrect TV character?
    IQ2: Are you the comic who ran into #metoo controversy?
    IQ3: Were you the 1st woman Secretary of State?

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    Ah. I'd read of Anne's extra finger, I remember now, but not an extra breast (!). The Wiki bio says she had a good figure, but no mention of that. Any reputable cite for it?

    Not Archie Bunker, not Adam Sandler and not Madeline Albright.

    A.

    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
    14. from TV

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    I only meant her extra finger and breast

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    Aziz Ansari
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    DQ: Show currently airing?

    IQ: Were you AKA Gordon Shumway?
    IQ2: Were you a controversial CA Senator?
    IQ3: Did you go from DL to judge?

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    Dunno x3.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
    14. from TV
    15. show not currently airing

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    ALF
    Alan Cranston
    Alan Page

    DQ: Protagonist?
    DQ2: Created after 1980?
    DQ3: Played by actor (as opposed to puppet)?

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    I don't remember Cranston being particularly controversial. What did you mean?

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    I remember a "Home Alone" parody mentioned Cranston. I thought he also had harassment issues.

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    If you want to ignore DQ2, that's fine.

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    I don't remember either of those things, so thanks.

    A.

    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
    14. from TV
    15. show not currently airing
    16. one of but not the sole protagonist
    17. played by an actor

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    IQ: Did you formerly cohost a debate show with Sean Hannity before he became the sole host?
    IQ2: Are you the Western Senator with a very unusual middle name?
    IQ3: Were you the famous African-American author late in the 20th and early 21st century?

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    Dunno, not Alan Kooi Simpson and not Alex Haley.

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    Alan Colmes
    Correct
    Maya Angelou (Haley didn't live into this century)

    DQ: Created after 1975?

    DQ reserved

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    IQ: Are you the famously conservative son of hippie parents from a Midwest college town?
    IQ2: Are you a notorious conspiracy theorist with a right wing radio audience?
    IQ3: Are you the football player turned actor who played the adoptive father of your best friend's son, alongside your RL wife?

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    Dunno x3.

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    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
    14. from TV
    15. show not currently airing
    16. one of but not the sole protagonist
    17. played by an actor
    18. created after 1975

    No more IQs, please.

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    Alex Keaton ("Family Ties" was set in Columbus OH)
    Alex Jones
    Alex Karras ("Webster")

    AlexX3

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    DQ: Show won awards?
    DQ2: Actor won awards?
    DQ3: Show aired on network TV?
    DQ4: Kid-friendly character?

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    Good job. I shoulda known all those Alexes!

    A.

    1. fictional
    2. not American
    3. created after 1900
    4. not European
    5. created after 1950
    6. not Asian
    7. not African
    8. not from literature
    9. male
    10. not from Latin America
    10a. not from Earth
    11. created before 2000
    12. humanoid
    13. not from film
    14. from TV
    15. show not currently airing
    16. one of but not the sole protagonist
    17. played by an actor
    18. created after 1975
    19. won no awards that I could find
    20. neither did the actor for this role
    21. show aired on network TV
    22. not particularly a kid-friendly character, although by no means an unfriendly one, either

    Please ask your "Are you Firstname Lastname?" question by 6pm EST tomorrow.

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    I have NO IDEA!

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    I am

    Commander Adama

    of the original Battlestar Galactica:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comman...tar_Galactica)
    https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Adama_(TOS)

    Want to go next, or shall I go again?

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    I watched the reboot intermittently (For Grace Park, of course)

    You rightly earned continued control (plus I've monopolized the game lately)

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    OK, thanks!

    Our next letter is

    T

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    IQ: Were you a key Manhattan Project scientist?
    IQ2: Did America, with the help of FDR, have a very fitting way to celebrate the bicentennial of your birth?
    IQ3: Did you the play the detective whose vice was sweets, not cigarettes?

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    Not Dr. Teller, dunno and not David Tennant.

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    Correct
    Thomas Jefferson (the Memorial was dedicated on his bicentennial)
    Telly Savalas

    DQ: Real?
    DQ2: Male?

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    T.

    1. fictional
    2. male

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