3 makes sense, given 7. .
That was Lamar Hunt
DQ: Created after 1750?
IQ: Did you believe in a "Great Society"?
IQ2: Were you the subject of a Kinks song?
IQ3: Were you a fictional late night talk show host?
3 makes sense, given 7. .
That was Lamar Hunt
DQ: Created after 1750?
IQ: Did you believe in a "Great Society"?
IQ2: Were you the subject of a Kinks song?
IQ3: Were you a fictional late night talk show host?
Larry Sanders
DQ: European?
IQ: Are you the Steeler WR with 2 famously acrobatic SB catches?
IQ2: Did you appear in a music video with a wrestler you "managed"?
IQ3: Were you that wrestler?
I
Cyndi Lauper
Captain Lou Albano
DQ: Adapted for big screen?
DQ2: Originally written in English?
Pleasantly surprised you knew Swann.
IQ: Are you a baseball player who lost records to Cal Ripken and Alex Rodriguez?
IQ2: Are you the disgraced cyclist?
IQ3: Are you the main character on "NCIS"?
I grew up not far from Pittsburgh when Swann was a big deal for the Steelers (along with Mean Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, etc.)
Not Lou Gehrig, Lance Armstrong or... dunno.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
Leroy Gibbs
DQ: Movie released after 1975?
IQ: Were you the 2B for the 80s Detroit Tigers?
IQ2: Were you the 1st POTUS born outside an original colony?
IQ3: Did you beat my celebrity crush in their sport's marquee competition?
Dunno, not Abraham Lincoln, and dunno.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
Lou Whitaker
Tara Lipinski
DQ: Movie had sequels (as opposed to remakes)?
DQ2: Movie win marquee Oscars (acting/director/film)?
IQ: Were you accused of taking a dive in your famous fight with Ali?
IQ2: Are you the "Impossible Dream" pitcher who became a dentist?
IQ3: Did the Great Depression begin on your husband's watch?
Dunno, dunno and not Lou Hoover.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
Sonny Liston was accused of throwing the Ali fight
Jim Lonborg became a dentist
DQ: Remake a financial success?
DQ2: Remake more highly regarded?
IQ: Did you refuse to play in Quebec, and subsequently get traded to Philadelphia?
IQ2: Did you have a "Series of Unfortunate Events"?
IQ3: Were you a gentle giant who accidentally killed someone in a classic novel?
Dunno, not Lemony Snicket, and not Lenny in Of Mice and Men.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
16. some remakes were big financial successes
17. remakes were often more highly regarded than the movie in which this character first appeared
WRT 16 & 17: multiple remakes and NO version won big Oscars? Hmm
The other one from the last round was Eric Lindros
DQ: Book commonly assigned in HS?
IQ: Were you a famously eccentric Red Sox pitcher in the 70s?
IQ2: Were you a WS winning pitcher for the '68 Tigers?
IQ3: Did you have a famous 80s TV vehicle named after you?
That isn't the question you asked.
Dunno x3.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
16. some remakes were big financial successes
17. remakes were often more highly regarded than the movie in which this character first appeared
18. as far as I know, book not commonly assigned in high school
That isn't the question you asked.
Dunno x3.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
16. some remakes were big financial successes
17. remakes were often more highly regarded than the movie in which this character first appeared
18. as far as I know, book not commonly assigned in high school
Bill "Spaceman" Lee
Mickey Lolich
Robert E. Lee ("Dukes of Hazzard")
DQ: Original movie won major Oscars?
DQ2: Best regarded remake won major Oscars?
DQ3: Most recent remake released after 2000?
Duplicate post because this thing is a POS!
#15 already answers your first DQ above, so ask another, if you wish.
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
16. some remakes were big financial successes
17. remakes were often more highly regarded than the movie in which this character first appeared
18. as far as I know, book not commonly assigned in high school
19. Tastes differ, but the "best-regarded remake" won no Oscars
20. most recent remake released after 2000
Duh! Yeah I missed that!
DQ: Did any movie version linger in "development hell"? (IOW: take extended time to get made)
L.
1. fictional
2. male
3. would be dead now if real
4. not originally from TV/film
5. not American
6. not created by an American
7. created before 1900
8. from literature
9. created after 1750
10. European
11. adapted for the big screen
12. originally written in English
13. the first movie in which this character appeared was released before 1975
14. movie had sequels AND remakes
15. movie did not win any Oscars
16. some remakes were big financial successes
17. remakes were often more highly regarded than the movie in which this character first appeared
18. as far as I know, book not commonly assigned in high school
19. Tastes differ, but the "best-regarded remake" won no Oscars
20. most recent remake released after 2000
21. as far as I know, no movie version lingered in "development hell"
Please ask your "Are you Firstname Lastname?" question by noon EST Thurs.
I see my deadline passed 24 hours ago. My phone is temperamental, but I'm stumped anyway.
OK, then, I am
Inspector Lestrade
of the Sherlock Holmes tales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Lestrade. According to IMDb.com, he made his first screen appearance in 1921: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0035...ef_=fn_ch_ch_1.
Two notable recent portrayals:
Eddie Marsan on the big screen: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130617185342
And Rupert Graves on the small: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2yMJ498FEH0/maxresdefault.jpg
Not a Holmes guy! Good stumper.
Want me to go next?
Your letter is
C
IQs:
Does your love affair end tragically in Atonement?
Did Ian Fleming say that he imagined that James Bond looked a lot like you?
Were you a key figure in the movie Auto Focus?
DQ
Not Hoagy Carmichael
Not Bob Crane
Correct on the latter two; the first is Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) in the movie.
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Were you a hero of Little Round Top?
Did you share a car with FDR, but you died and he didn't?
Did you sing "My Heart Will Go On"?
Not General Chamberlain
Not Anton Cermak
Not Celine Dion (pounds chest).
1.Real
Correct on all three (although Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was just a colonel at the time). Well done.
IQs:
Were you and Abraham Lincoln born on the same February day in 1809?
Did you and Aldous Huxley die on the same day as JFK in 1963?
Were you a shipwright and lord of the Grey Havens?
NOT Charles Darwin (brain frantically searching for that)
Not CS Lewis
DQ
I got Chamberlain because you use that question frequently.
Correct on both; the third was Cirdan, in Tolkien's works (also famous as the only bearded Elf we know of).
Clearly I gotta rephrase my Chamberlain question!
DQ:
Male?
IQs:
Did you have the risible alternative name "Teleporno"?
Were you the youngest Brady girl?
Did you get a crappy assignment because a superior owed you a lot of money?
DQ
NOT Cindy Brady (please read that with a lisp).
DQ
1.Real
2.Male
Previous IQs:
Did you have the risible alternative name "Teleporno"? - Celeborn, Galadriel's husband
Were you the youngest Brady girl? - Yes, Cindy Brady
Did you get a crappy assignment because a superior owed you a lot of money? - Charles Emerson Winchester on M*A*S*H
DQs:
American?
Living?
IQs:
Do you play Varys in Game of Thrones?
Were you the Human inventor of the warp drive?
Are you the actor who played him in a movie?
3 DQs
1.Real
2.Male
3.American
4.Dead
Previous IQs:
Do you play Varys in Game of Thrones? - Irish actor Conleth Hill
Were you the Human inventor of the warp drive? - Zephram Cochrane
Are you the actor who played him in a movie? - James Cromwell, in Star Trek: First Contact
DQs:
Died since 1900?
Political/military?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Was your dad a retired, disabled police officer?
Was yours, too?
Were you married to the person in the previous question?
I'm none of the Cranes:
Niles
Frasier
Lilith
I know you weren't thinking Lilith, but I forget Niles' wife's name.
1.Real
2.Male
3.American
4.Dead
5.Died before 1900
6.Political figure
Correct on all.
IQs:
What was Niles Crane's wife's name? (heheheh)
Did your recurring role on The Donna Reed Show lead to an even more high-profile gig?
Did you found a Mass. paper company that provides high-grade cotton bond for printing U.S. currency?
Not Maris Crane (KNEW it sounded like Mavis)
NOT Carol Burnett
DQ
Previous IQs:
What was Niles Crane's wife's name? (heheheh) - Yes, Maris Crane
Did your recurring role on The Donna Reed Show lead to an even more high-profile gig? - I don't believe Carol Burnett had a recurring role on that show. Are you guessing, or is that true? I was thinking of Bob Crane, who later went on to Hogan's Heroes.
Did you found a Mass. paper company that provides high-grade cotton bond for printing U.S. currency? - Mr. Crane (of Crane's).
Crane x3!
DQ:
Last name start with C?
One DQ reserved (maybe).
IQs:
Were you, more than any other person, politically responsible for the Erie Canal?
Was it said that, "like a mackerel in moonlight, [you] shined and stank"?
Were you TR's VP?
I didn't really think it was Carol. You earned a DQ fair and square.
1.Real
2.Male
3.American
4.Dead
5.Died before 1900
6.Political figure
7.Last name begins "C"