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Danny Devito
Danny Glover (you knew this last time!)
Danny Pintauro
DannyX3
DQ:Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: Living?
IQ: Were you the First Lady who became the focus of the DC social scene for years?
IQ2: Are you the college hoops analyst who played at OK ST?
IQ3: Did you go from army nurse to prime time soap SAHM?
Ah, I didn't make the Danny Glover connection. Neuron misfire.
Not Dolley Madison, dunno and not Dana Delaney.
D.
1. real
2. female
3. dead
Doug Gottlieb
DQ: American?
IQ: Did you hit a key HR for the 1986 Red Sox during the ALCS?
IQ2: Were you a teammate of #1 who played in 3 straight WS at the end of your career?
IQ3: Did you give up a famous WS HR to Kirk Gibson?
Dunno x3
D.
1. real
2. female
3. dead
4. American
Dave Henderson
Don Baylor (86-88)
Dennis Eckersley
They were all on the 88 A's
DQ: Born After 1900?
DQ2: Born East of the Mississippi?
DQ3: Born South of the Mason-Dixon Line?
IQ: Are you beloved British royal who died in a car wreck evading paparazzi?
IQ2: Are you a famous primatologist?
IQ3: Were you the horny "Night Court" DA?
Not Princess Diana, dunno, and not Dan Whatsisname (John LaRouquette).
D.
1. real
2. female
3. dead
4. American
5. born after 1900
6. born west of the Miss.
7. born south of the Mason-Dixon Line, if it were extended
Correct
Dian Fossey (so?)
Yup, Dan Fielding
DQ: Died before 2000?
IQ: Did you die on the final lap of the Daytona 500?
IQ2: Are you #1's son?
IQ3: Are you a "Top Chef" cheftestant whose "TV wife" was reduced to tears shortly before being told to "pack her knives and go"?
Ding ding ding. You got it! I am indeed
Dian Fossey
The great primatologist and conservationist, villainously slain before her time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey
Well done, eric!
BTW, the next batch were:
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Dale Levitski
DaleX3! Later coming up soon
I am
B
IQs:
Did someone scratch something on your green front door?
Was your traveling companion's father called "the Gaffer"?
Did your father tell your younger brother, not in so many words, that he loved you more?
3 DQs
Previous IQs:
Did someone scratch something on your green front door? - Gandalf scratched his initial on Bilbo Baggins's door to let Thorin & Co. know that was to be their meeting place
Was your traveling companion's father called "the Gaffer"? - Frodo Baggins's friend Samwise's father had that nickname
Did your father tell your younger brother, not in so many words, that he loved you more? - Boromir's father told Faramir that, after Boromir's death
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with B?
IQs:
Did you fake an assassination attempt against yourself to win an election?
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas?
Were you born in London but spent some time as a child in Cleveland?
DQ
Not Bob Dole
DQ, but this is gonna ROYALLY piss me off!
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
Previous IQs:
Did you fake an assassination attempt against yourself to win an election? - The title character in the Tim Robbins political satire Bob Roberts
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas? - Yes, Bob Dole
Were you born in London but spent some time as a child in Cleveland? - Bob Hope
Bob x3!
DQs:
American?
Living?
IQs:
Have you played a prosecutor, a music impresario and a computer expert?
Have you played a gangster, a party boss and a detective?
Did you say, "Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything"?
3 DQs! I KNEW I should have known the Cleveland guy!
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
Previous IQs:
Have you played a prosecutor, a music impresario and a computer expert? - Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, A Mighty Wind and 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Have you played a gangster, a party boss and a detective? - Bob Hoskins, in The Long Good Friday, Enemy at the Gates and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Did you say, "Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything"? - Bob Dylan
Bob x3 redux!
DQs:
Died since 1964?
Best known for politics/military?
Best known for a single incident?
IQs:
Did you have to be asked not to make "pew pew" noises for your laser gun while filming Flash Gordon?
Were you born just down the street from Jesus?
Were you a legendary Irish king?
DQ
DQ
Not Beowulf (?)
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
IQs:
Did you have to be asked not to make "pew pew" noises for your laser gun while filming Flash Gordon? - Brian Blessed
Were you born just down the street from Jesus? - Brian called Brian in The Life of Brian
Were you a legendary Irish king? - Beowulf was Scandinavian; Brian Boru was the Irish king
Brian x3!
DQs:
Best known for the Arts?
Greatest fame before 1964?
Born east of the Miss. River?
IQs:
Did your daughter scandalously marry Mr. Wickham?
Did you marry Mr. Darcy?
Were you said to be the most beautiful of your siblings?
3 more DQs
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
9.Best known from the Arts
10.Greatest fame BEFORE 1964
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi (got interesting surprise when I looked this up)
Previous IQs:
Did your daughter scandalously marry Mr. Wickham? - Mr. Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (no first name ever given)
Did you marry Mr. Darcy? - Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bennet, in the same book and many movies since
Were you said to be the most beautiful of your siblings? - Jane Bennet, ditto
Bennet x3!
DQs:
Best known for the visual arts (acting, painting, photography, sculpture, etc.)?
Won a top award in his field?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
A fictional character, did you share a Nobel Prize in Economics with a person of Japanese extraction?
Were you the spouse of that fictional character?
Were you their youngest daughter?
3 DQS
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
9.Best known from the Arts
10.Greatest fame BEFORE 1964
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi (got interesting surprise when I looked this up)
12.Actor
3.No top award
Previous IQs:
A fictional character, did you share a Nobel Prize in Economics with a person of Japanese extraction? - President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing
Were you the spouse of that fictional character? - Dr. Abigail Bartlet
Were you their youngest daughter? - Zoe Bartlet
DQs:
Best known for TV?
Considered handsome?
Best known for a single role?
IQs:
Did your lover's dog bite you when you jumped on the bed too aggressively?
Were you a key character on Desperate Housewives?
Were you a key character in Inherit the Wind?
DQ
DQ
Not William Jennngs Bryan
]1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
9.Best known from the Arts
10.Greatest fame BEFORE 1964
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi (got interesting surprise when I looked this up)
12.Actor
13.No top award
14.NOT from TV
15.NOT noted as handsome (or ugly For that matter)
16.DID have signature role
Previous IQs:
Did your lover's dog bite you when you jumped on the bed too aggressively? - Napoleon Bonaparte
Were you a key character on Desperate Housewives? - Bree
Were you a key character in Inherit the Wind? - Bryan appears nowhere in the play, but a character based on him, Matthew Harrison Brady, does
DQs:
Best known for genre films (Westerns, sf, mysteries, etc.)?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did you make a career playing grizzled, often funny, Western sidekicks?
Did you play a motorcycle tough, a New Orleans bully, a Royal Navy officer and a gangster?
Are you the current British Foreign Secretary?
Not Walter Brennan
Not Marlon Brando
DQ
And I'm more confident in Brando than Brennan
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
9.Best known from the Arts
10.Greatest fame BEFORE 1964
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi (got interesting surprise when I looked this up)
12.Actor
13.No top award
14.NOT from TV
15.NOT noted as handsome (or ugly for that matter)
16.DID have signature role
17.Signature role in genre film
Previous IQs:
Did you make a career playing grizzled, often funny, Western sidekicks? - I was thinking of Wallace Beery, but yeah, Brennan fits, too
Did you play a motorcycle tough, a New Orleans bully, a Royal Navy officer and a gangster? - Yes, Marlon Brando (thought I had you there!) in The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Godfather, naturally
Are you the current British Foreign Secretary? - Boris Johnson
DQs:
Signature role in a Western?
Lead actor in the movie he's best known for?
Greatest fame before 1944?
1.Real
2.Male
3.Last name begins "B"
4.American
5.Dead
6.Died AFTER 1964
7.NOT associated with Politics/Military
8.NOT associated with a singular event
9.Best known from the Arts
10.Greatest fame BEFORE 1964
11.Born EAST of the Mississippi (got interesting surprise when I looked this up)
12.Actor
13.No top award
14.NOT from TV
15.NOT noted as handsome (or ugly for that matter)
16.DID have signature role
17.Signature role in genre film
18.Signature role NOT a Western
19.NOT the main character in his signature role
20.Greatest fame BEFORE 1944
How about 11:30 PM Monday night (it's 1:30 AM as I type)
Give you a hint related to 11: he's buried in Dorchester MA. (I'm from Randolph MA)
No, you got me. I give up.
Okay, our mystery man is:
RAY BOLGER, best known as the Scarecrow in the "Wizard of Oz". New letter as soon as I think of one
Ah, good one! Not even remotely on my mind by the end.
Your letter is:
E
IQs:
Did you marry the former Wallis Simpson?
Were you cheered in Breaker Morant at lights out?
Did you marry Bella Swan?
Not Edward VIII
DQ
Not Edward Cullen (ANY fantasy relationship I've been in is STILL a better love story than "Twilight"!)
Previous IQs:
Did you marry the former Wallis Simpson? - Yes, Edward VIII
Were you cheered in Breaker Morant at lights out? - Edward VII, when the British troops give three cheers for their king
Did you marry Bella Swan? - Yes, Edward Cullen
Edward x3!
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Did you say, "I do not seek windows into men's souls"?
Born in 1926, did you and your mother both have the same first name?
Were you the monarch of Manticore in the Honor Harrington novels?
3 DQS
1)Real
Previous IQs:
Did you say, "I do not seek windows into men's souls"? - Elizabeth I
Born in 1926, did you and your mother both have the same first name? - Elizabeth II
Were you the monarch of Manticore in the Honor Harrington novels? - Elizabeth III
Elizabeth x3!
DQs:
Male?
Living?
Last name start with E?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln's first Attorney General?
Were you his second Secretary of War?
Did a villain tempt you with Turkish Delight?
Not Edwin Stanton
Still Not Edwin Stanton (IOW DQ)
DQ
1)Real
2)Female
3)Living
4)1st name begins "E"
Previous IQs:
Were you Lincoln's first Attorney General? - Edward Bates
Were you his second Secretary of War? - THIS was Edwin Stanton
Did a villain tempt you with Turkish Delight? - Edmund, in C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
DQs:
American?
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
Although not at all best known for it, did you also do several Civil War-themed works?
Did you write Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Have you played a European police officer, a Scout leader, a tattooed criminal and a scientist?
3 more DQS