Let's play Botticelli!

Previous IQs:

Were you an astronaut who became an airline executive? - Not Fred Haise, but Frank Borman, who became CEO of Eastern Airlines
Were you the ominous black bunny in Donnie Darko? - Frank
Were you the danger-loving field reporter for FYI? - Yes, Frank Fontana (nah, I don't think he and Murphy Brown were ever doing it - just pals)

Frank x3!

DQs:

Living?
Last name start with F?

IQs:

Did your dad execute your best friend before your eyes?
Were you the protagonist of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms?
Were both your parents and also your uncle psychologists?

Not Falstaff
DQ
Not Anna Freud

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"

Previous IQs:

Did your dad execute your best friend before your eyes? - Not Falstaff, but Frederick the Great (he'd tried to run away from home with his friend, and his dad the king had the friend executed)
Were you the protagonist of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms? - Henry Frederick
Were both your parents and also your uncle psychologists? - Not Anna Freud, but Frederick Crane on Frasier

Frederick x3!

DQs:

American?
Born since 1964?
Best known for the arts?

IQs:

Are you a current late-night TV talk show host?
Were you a longtime CBS News exec?
Long before Elvis, would music-loving young women do almost anything to get one of your handkerchiefs?

DQ (though a more specific question could be him)
Not Fred Friendly
Not Fredric Chopin

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts

Previous IQs:

Are you a current late-night TV talk show host? - Jimmy Fallon
Were you a longtime CBS News exec? - Yes, Fred Friendly
Long before Elvis, would music-loving young women do almost anything to get one of your handkerchiefs? - I'll rephrase

DQs:

Best known for the visual arts (writing, acting, painting, photography, sculpture, etc.)?

IQs:

You are not Chopin. Long before Elvis, would music-loving young women do almost anything to get one of your handkerchiefs?
Did Nellie Bly beat your record?
Were you J. Edgar Hoover's longtime aide and possibly lover?

DQ
Not Phineas Fogg
Not Frank Tolson

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts
8. Secondarily known as actor, better known in another TV genre

Previous IQs:

You are not Chopin. Long before Elvis, would music-loving young women do almost anything to get one of your handkerchiefs? - Franz "Lisztomania" Liszt
Did Nellie Bly beat your record? - Phileas (not Phineas) Fogg, yes
Were you J. Edgar Hoover's longtime aide and possibly lover? - Yes, Frank Tolson

DQ:

Currently appearing or having his work featured on a TV show that is having new episodes made?

IQs:

Did you play the top crook in the movie SkyHeist?
Did your future wife first see you in the street, eating a loaf of bread?
Were you a noted Irish nationalist of the 1790s?

3 DQS

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts
8. Secondarily known as actor, better known in another TV genre
9. Not currently appearing on a show in current production

Ooops, I see Tolson's first name was Clyde and not Frank. Doesn't matter - you got it anyway.

Previous IQs:

Did you play the top crook in the movie SkyHeist? - Frank Gorshin
Did your future wife first see you in the street, eating a loaf of bread? - Benjamin Franklin, just after he arrived in Philadelphia
Were you a noted Irish nationalist of the 1790s? - Edward FitzGerald

DQs:

Greatest fame before 2000?
Best-known TV show appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX?
Won an Emmy?

IQs:

Did you play "the Nanny"?
Were you Oscar Madison's apartment mate?
Are you a noted conservative Federal judge now serving in Chicago?

Not Fran Drescher
Not Felix Unger
DQ

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts
8. Secondarily known as actor, better known in another TV genre
9. Not currently appearing on a show in current production
10. Greatest fame after 2000 (though it's debatable)
11. Never won Emmy
12. Best known show appeared on a broadcast network

Previous IQs:

Did you play "the Nanny"? - Yes, Fran Drescher
Were you Oscar Madison's apartment mate? - Yes, Felix Unger
Are you a noted conservative Federal judge now serving in Chicago? - Frank Easterbrook

DQ:

Born in the UK?

IQs:

Did you sculpt the 16th President of the U.S.?
Did you build a Boston department-store empire?
Were you president of Oberlin College beginning in 1983?

Not August French
Not Marshall Fields
DQ

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts
8. Secondarily known as actor, better known in another TV genre
9. Not currently appearing on a show in current production
10. Greatest fame after 2000 (though it's debatable)
11. Never won Emmy
12. Best known show appeared on a broadcast network
13. Born in UK

Previous IQs:

Did you sculpt the 16th President of the U.S.? - His name was actually Daniel Chester French, but you got the last one right
Did you build a Boston department-store empire? - Marshall Fields was in Chicago; this was Filene's
Were you president of Oberlin College beginning in 1983? - Frederick Starr, now of the Aspen Institute

DQs:

Talk show host in the US?
Considered handsome?

IQs:

Did you command the CSS Virginia in April 1862?
Did your mom buy a large apartment right next to yours so she could come and go as she pleased, much to your wife's chagrin?
Were you a friendly young turtle appearing on PBS?

3 DQs

PISSED at myself for missing Filenes!

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. Last initial "F"
5. Born BEFORE 1964
6. Naturalized American
7. In Arts
8. Secondarily known as actor, better known in another TV genre
9. Not currently appearing on a show in current production
10. Greatest fame after 2000 (though it's debatable)
11. Never won Emmy
12. Best known show appeared on a broadcast network
13. Born in UK
14. Best known for his US based talk show
15. Not especially good looking, YMMV

Previous IQs:

Did you command the CSS Virginia in April 1862? - Franklin Buchanan
Did your mom buy a large apartment right next to yours so she could come and go as she pleased, much to your wife's chagrin? - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Were you a friendly young turtle appearing on PBS? - Frankin

Franklin x3!

DQ:

Late-night talk show host?
Best known as a comic?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Are you a Scotsman who was a voice actor in How to Train Your Dragon?
Were you either of a pair of Italian tailors bossed around by Oscar?
Did Dean Martin joke that he had Scotch older than you?

Why yes, I am indeed:

TV's. Craig Ferguson! :)

Woohoo! Thanks.

My other previous IQs:

Were you either of a pair of Italian tailors bossed around by Oscar? - The Fannuccis, in the Stallone Mafia-comedy Oscar
Did Dean Martin joke that he had Scotch older than you? - Mia Farrow, the much younger wife of his friend Frank Sinatra

OK, our next letter is

S

IQ: Did you lose 2 Presidential elections to the same person?
IQ2: Are you a 19th c. politician, and #1's grandfather?
IQ3: Are a Greek writer noted for tragedies?

Not Adlai Stevenson (to Ike both times, 1952 and 1956), the original Adlai Stevenson, or Sophocles.

3 for 3 of course

IQ: Do you cohost a Miami based sports radio talk show?
IQ2: Did you meet your wife at the gym shortly after she returned from her honeymoon?
IQ3: Do you have a "Blacklist"?

Dunno x3.

"Stugotz" cohosts "The Dan Lebatard Show"
Jerry Seinfeld met his wife that way
James Spader

DQ: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: First initial "S"

IQ: Are you the fictional "Man of Steel"?
IQ2: Were you the real "Man of Steel"?
IQ3: Are you the famously well aging Italian actress?

Not Superman, Stalin (ptui!) or Sophia Loren.

S.

1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with S

3 for 3 of course

IQ: Are you the Western Senator who co-chaired a deficit reduction committee?
IQ2: Are you the PA Senator who flipped parties controversially?
IQ3: Did you miss the most infamous FG attempt in SB history?

Not Alan Kooi Simpson, "Snarlin'" Arlen Specter or... dunno.

Scott Norwood

DQ: Living?

IQ: Are you the most famous beagle?
IQ2: Are you the greatest jockey of all time?
IQ3: Are you a BAU member currently serving a prison sentence?

Not Snoopy, dunno and dunno.

S.

1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with S
4. dead

Willie Shoemaker
Spencer Reid

DQ: American?
DQ2: Died after 1900?

IQ: Were you the IL Senator famous for debates with Lincoln?
IQ2: Are you the Latina SC justice?
IQ3: Were you the Sportscenter anchor who frequently used street slang in your reports?

Not Stephen Douglas or Sonia Sotomayor; dunno.

S.

1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with S
4. dead
5. naturalized American
6. died before 1900

Stuart Scott

DQ: Died after 1850?

IQ: Were you the AZ lawmaker turned milestone Justice?
IQ2: Are you unfairly considered Mozart's enemy?
IQ3: Did you play a radio station owner who previously was very attached to your red stapler?

Not Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonio Salieri or Stephen Root.

S.

1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with S
4. dead
5. naturalized American
6. died before 1900
7. died after 1850

3 for 3

IQ: Are you famous for your marches, who has a musical instrument named after you?
IQ2: Are you the Texas founding father with a college named after you?
IQ3: Are you the American traditional songwriter without a namesake instrument?

If you could award me 3 DQs that would be GREAT. ;)

Not J.P. Sousa, Sam Houston or Stephen Foster.

see below

Will rephrase #2

IQ: Is a state capital and college named in your honor?
IQ2: Are you a Trump supporter previously best known for being a live-in babysitter and the future brother-in-law of a beloved 70s TV character?
IQ3: Are you a governor who survived a recall election, only to crash and burn running for POTUS?

Not Steve Austin, Scott Baio or Scott Walker.

He spelled it Stephen Austin, but 3 for 3. :)

IQ: Are you the MLB pitcher who led the "Miracle Mets" to the '69 WS?
IQ2: Are you the all-time great pitcher who held on too long chasing a strikeout milestone?
IQ3. Are you the young pitcher who's gone from phenom to injury plagued underachiever?

Dunno x3.

Tom Seaver
Steve Carlton (held on to get 4000 strikeouts)
Stephen Strasberg

DQ: European?
DQ: In Arts?

DQ reserved

IQ: Are you an all-time great NHL coach?
IQ2: Are you a MLB manager who twice famously got fired just before teams won championships?
IQ3: Did your runner-up finish in the WSOP MAIN EVENT launch the poker boom?

Dunno x3.

S.

1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with S
4. dead
5. naturalized American
6. died before 1900
7. died after 1850
8. European
9. in Arts

Scotty Bowman is the hockey coach
Buck Showalter managed the Yankees before Torre and Arizona before Brenly
Sam Farha was the 2003 runner-up

DQ: Writer?
DQ: From traditional NATO nation?
DQ: Spoke Romance language?

DQ reserved

IQ: Did you create the Simpsons?
IQ2: Were you a lothario bartender?
IQ3: Are you the Red Wings great who went on the Lightning GM job?