Did you like to sail in the Victura? - JFK: https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Vie...h8OnhAOrg.aspx
Have Katie Holmes and Natalie Portman both played you? - Yes, Jackie O. (and I want to see the new movie, too)
Were you POTUS in Robert Harris's Fatherland? - Joe Kennedy Sr., in an alternative history set in early 1964 as Hitler is about to meet with that President Kennedy.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Were you killed when your plane blew up in midair?
Are you the best-known person to hail from Braintree, Mass.?
Are you his also well-known son?
Were you a child of Caractacus Potts? - Jeremy Potts, in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Were you another? - Jemima Potts, ditto.
Did you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the Battle of Cedar Creek? - Confederate Gen. Jubal Early. His army initially surprised the U.S. troops, drove them from the field and seemed to have won the battle, but then Gen. Phil Sheridan (who was at a conference in a nearby town) dramatically rode back, rallied his forces and defeated Early's men.
DQs:
Last name start with J?
Considered a "good guy"?
IQs:
Were you an early sex-change celebrity?
Was Leo McGarry your direct supervisor?
Were you the first VP in the Bartlet Administration?
Were you an early sex-change celebrity? - Close enough; it was Christine Jorgensen.
Was Leo McGarry your direct supervisor? - This was Josh Lyman; McGarry's supervisor was President Bartlet.
Were you the first VP in the Bartlet Administration? - John Hoynes.
DQs:
American?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Does your wife have a large estate in Fox Chapel, Pa.?
Did Game Change suggest your wife was a nicer person to the public than to her staff?
Were you once married to Tatum O'Neal?
Does your wife have a large estate in Fox Chapel, Pa.? - Yes, John Kerry
Did Game Change suggest your wife was a nicer person to the public than to her staff? - John Edwards's wife Elizabeth
Were you once married to Tatum O'Neal? - Yes, John McEnroe
John x3!
DQ:
First appeared since 1964?
IQs:
Did you direct Cloverfield?
Did you command Space Cruiser C-57D?
Have you recently been playing a tweed-wearing insurance flack?
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
Did you direct Cloverfield? - J.J. Abrams
Did you command Space Cruiser C-57D? - J.J. Adams, in Forbidden Planet
Have you recently been playing a tweed-wearing insurance flack? - J.K. Simmons
J. x3!
DQs:
First appeared in print?
American author?
In sf or fantasy?
IQs:
Are you a wheelchair-bound man for whom Brandt works?
Are your best friends Walter and Donny?
Did you play Walter?
]1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
Are you a wheelchair-using male (sorry) for whom Brandt works? - Jeffrey Lebowski, in The Big Lebowski
Are your best friends Walter and Donny? - Jeffrey "the Dude" Lebowski
Did you play Walter? - John Goodman
DQs:
First appeared on TV?
Often used a gun?
IQs:
Did you direct a movie set in your own house?
Were you Atticus Finch's son?
Were you the patriarch of The Beverly Hillbillies?
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
11.Used gun in past, not in the events depicted
12.Did not originally appear on TV
Did you direct a movie set in your own house? - Joss Whedon
Were you Atticus Finch's son? - Jem Finch
Were you the patriarch of The Beverly Hillbillies? - Yes, Jed Clampett
DQs:
First appeared in movie(s)?
From crime drama?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you Peter Parker's boss?
Were you a noted Utilitarian philosopher and political theorist?
Were you a hero of Little Round Top?
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
11.Used gun in past, not in the events depicted
12.Did not originally appear on TV
13.Not ORIGINALLY from a movie
14.A crime was involved, but not thought of as a "crime drama"
Were you Peter Parker's boss? - J. Jonah Jameson
Were you a noted Utilitarian philosopher and political theorist? - Jeremy Bentham
Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
DQs:
Originally in comics?
Appeared in more than one movie?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Were you a noted economics and political theorist?
Did you play Sherlock Holmes on Granada TV?
Did the Red-Headed League take advantage of you?
]1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
11.Used gun in past, not in the events depicted
12.Did not originally appear on TV
13.Not ORIGINALLY from a movie
14.A crime was involved, but not thought of as a "crime drama"
15.Not from a comic
16.Only in 1 movie
Were you a noted economics and political theorist? - John Stuart Mill
Did you play Sherlock Holmes on Granada TV? - Jeremy Brett
Did the Red-Headed League take advantage of you? - Jabez Wilson, in the Conan Doyle story
DQs:
Movie set in the present day at the time it was released?
Movie came out since 2000?
Was the main villain of the movie?
Two DQs reserved.
I'll stop asking IQs, since this will otherwise take me over 20 DQs.
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
11.Used gun in past, not in the events depicted
12.Did not originally appear on TV
13.Not ORIGINALLY from a movie
14.A crime was involved, but not thought of as a "crime drama"
15.Not from a comic
16.Only in 1 movie
17.Movie was contemporary when released
18.Released BEFORE 2000
19.Was movie's only real villian
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last initial "J"
4.NOT considered "good guy"
5.Never made explicit, but most likely American
6.Would be alive if real
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Not originally from print (novel or short story)
9.Not from sci-fi or fantasy genre
10.American creator
11.Used gun in past, not in the events depicted
12.Did not originally appear on TV
13.Not ORIGINALLY from a movie
14.A crime was involved, but not thought of as a "crime drama"
15.Not from a comic
16.Only in 1 movie
17.Movie was contemporary when released
18.Released BEFORE 2000
19.Was movie's only real villain
20.Played by American actor
How about 3PM ET tomorrow as a deadline?
I guarantee it's a movie you're familiar with/can quote the movie st famous exchange