Let's play Botticelli!

[choie]

DQ: Are you Jewish?

IQ:

1. Have you ever lived under the name of Sanders?
2. Were you ever an insanely wealthy ambassador to the UK?
3. Did you ever direct a film about some Cuban musicians?

[anyrose]

see? I told you I'm no good at this

[Elendil's Heir]

DQ: Are you Jewish?

IQ:

1. Have you ever lived under the name of Sanders?
2. Were you ever an insanely wealthy ambassador to the UK?
3. Did you ever direct a film about some Cuban musicians?

Not Winnie the Pooh, Walter Annenberg or Wim Wenders.

see? I told you I'm no good at this

Keep at it! You're doing fine.

W.

1. Male
2. Dead
3. Not American
4. Died after 1960
5. Not British
6. Not known for working military/politics
7. Not known for working in the media
8. European
9. Not a scientist
10. Not a businessman
11. Eastern European
12. Died after 1990
13. Not a sports person
14. Not in the arts
15. Not from Poland
16. a real person
17. Jewish

[choie]

Bloody hell, I thought Walter Annenberg would stump you. Working in nonprofits I thought I might have overestimated how well known he was to regular folks. However...

IQ: Are you a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter?

[Elendil's Heir]

...IQ: Are you a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter?

Yes! I am

Simon Wiesenthal!

Good job, choie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal

Please pick a person, tell us a letter and start our next round.

[choie]

Yay!!! It was basically eliminating so many professions from the list that made me think "what the heck else would someone be famous for?" Sadly, Eastern Europe and Jewish clinched it for me.

Y'all are gonna get a record number of DQs, because I am notoriously bad at guessing IQs. Anyway, here we go! The letter is....

Okay no, changing my option after reading the whole thread (to make sure I wasn't duplicating anyone), because someone here clearly knows way too much about this person's, um, era. I'll explain once this is over so as not to give away whom this is not.

The letter is R.

[Elendil's Heir]

R it is.

IQs:

Did you call your wife "Mommy"?
Have you won a major award in almost every field of the performing arts?
In your first screen appearance, did you have bird poop in your hair?

[choie]

IQs:
No, I am not Ronald Reagan
Nor am I Rita Moreno
Stumped! (And curious.)

Here, have a DQ.

[Elendil's Heir]

Right on both. The third is Radagast, the wizard (and friend to all birds and small furry things) in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: http://buriedplanet.com/userfiles/radagast.jpg

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did you pretend to be calling your dad in a TV commercial?
Were you a Cabinet officer who died in an airplane crash?
Did you once see a young man eating pie with his hands?

[choie]

Oh man, haven't seen the Hobbit film. And I just realized you can basically get all your DQs by stumping me with every "R" name in Simarillion!

- Stumped!
- No I am not Ron Brown (ugh that day is very vivid to me)
- The only pie-eating contexts I can remember are a vague memory of a Stephen King story and a Kids in the Hall sketch. Stumped!

Take your two DQs. (See, this is gonna be over in record time.)

DQ answer:

1. No, I am not real.

[Elendil's Heir]

Heh. I'll try not to overdo it on Tolkien questions.

Answers:

Ron Reagan Jr. in a credit-card ad.
Yes, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (may I ask why that day remains so vivid for you?).
Reginald Barclay in ST:TNG creates a Holodeck version of Wesley Crusher, dressed as a foppish youth, eating pie in the episode "Hollow Pursuits": http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s...1at92717PM.png

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with R?

IQs:

Did a character you famously played, and his best friend, go on a game show together?
Do some people still prefer you to Jeremy Brett in a great role?
Were you a military man who gave his name to an article of clothing?

[choie]

Oh for pete's sake, how did I not get the Reg Barclay / Wes-as-Little-Lord-Fauntleroy pie reference?! Bad TNG-fan! As for Brown's death... Clinton was the first president I'd ever voted for who'd won, so I was a close follower of his administration, and when I first heard the news reports about the crash I was just sickened but couldn't stop watching them. First reports just said that he was missing, but obviously there wasn't much hope for his survival (or anyone else's on board).

IQs:

1. Hee! No, I am not Tony Randall. OSCAR (growling): Aristophanes...

2. Nor am I Basil Rathbone. And thank you for the gimme.

3. Erm... No I am not... Teddy Roosevelt? Is he the one they named the "Teddy" after? No, that was the bear, wasn't it? And why would they name lingerie after him anyway? Argh. Take yet another DQ!

DQs

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with R

(DAMN you're good!)

[CatInASuit]

Seriously don't worry about not getting the IQs. I struggle with all the American ones, there have been several people I have never heard of before, and I'm pretty sure I could do a load of British ones that you would never get.

Don't forget, you don't have to give the answer the person is expecting as long as the answer fits the criteria of the question. (at which point EH will go and refine the question further until the gets the answer he was looking for in the first place. )

IQs:

1. Did you recently play Deadpool and Green Lantern?
2. Did you play Mystique in several X-Men movies
3. Did you friends include Errol the Hamster and Kevin the Gerbil?

[CatInASuit]

Has anyone else heard of Ben Weiss? I haven't. The usual rule is that at least one other player must have heard of the IQ person for it to count (to keep it from being too obscure).

So no really obscure Brits then

PS: Name does ring a bell from somewhere.

[Elendil's Heir]

Answers:

Yes, Tony Randall on The Odd Couple:
Yes, Basil Rathbone, who IMHO wasn't as good a Sherlock Holmes as Jeremy Brett.
The third is Lord Raglan, from the Crimean War, who gave his name to a kind of sweater.

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Did your lover kick and scream while dying?
Were you the younger brother of a much more famous man, who continued his work after he died?
Did the President joke about how he would announce your Cabinet appointment?

[choie]

Seriously don't worry about not getting the IQs. I struggle with all the American ones, there have been several people I have never heard of before, and I'm pretty sure I could do a load of British ones that you would never get.

I'd probably know more British historic folks than I would American historic folks. Which is a result of rampant Anlgophilia and a pathetic number of points in my Knowledge [American History] score (or whatever D&D calls it).

Don't forget, you don't have to give the answer the person is expecting as long as the answer fits the criteria of the question. (at which point EH will go and refine the question further until the gets the answer he was looking for in the first place. )

If I'd been right about Teddy Roosevelt inspiring the teddy (lingerie item) then this would've worked! I suppose I could've B.S.'ed my way into it, but I couldn't see how on earth there would've been a believable connection. OTOH I was gonna tempted to guess Robert Jockeyshorts, so there you go.

CatInASuit's IQs:

1. (Green Latner dude) No, I am not Seth Rogan
2. (Mystique gal) No I am not the former Mrs. John Stamos. Her first name's Rebecca but the spelling of her last name gives me hives... is it Romijin?
3. (Errol Hamster pal) Aha! See, this is an example of my Anglophilia (and illicit viewing of BBC through various... methods). No, I am not Roland the Rat. Or I suppose it's just Roland Rat?

BTW now that I've revealed the person isn't real, I will say that it was your knowledge of Tudor history as evidenced in past rounds that made me change my original choice from Katherine Howard.

The third is Lord Raglan, from the Crimean War, who gave his name to a kind of sweater.

Oooookay, I might wanna ask for a judges' call on this one. Is he truly of equal standing to Botticelli? I guess the sweaters are popular enough, but... Oh well, take your bloody DQ and, to quote Eliza Doolittle, may you never have a day's luck with it!

Elendil's Heir's IQs:

1. Did your lover kick and scream while dying? Robert Browning? Only because I like the idea of Elizabeth being a fighter. No, I'm sure that's wrong. STUMPED.

2. Were you the younger brother of a much more famous man, who continued his work after he died? Holy crap, if this famous guy continued to work after he died, he deserves to be more famous than his brother! Ohh, I see. Sorry, ambiguous clause there. Well, I'm betting this isn't whom you were thinking of, but I'll say No, I'm not Robert F. Kennedy. Who continued to work for the Civil Rights Act that began under JFK and was made into law under LBJ. (C'mon, that's gotta count!)

3. Did the President joke about how he would announce your Cabinet appointment? Damnit, I said I wasn't RFK! Sheesh.

DQs:

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American

[Elendil's Heir]

Answers:

Roy Batty's girlfriend Tris did not go gently into that good night in Blade Runner.
Roy Disney (you're right, I could've worded that better).
Yes, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. JFK, knowing it would be a controversial appointment, joked that he would open the door at 2am, look both ways down the street, and then whisper "It's Bobby."

DQs:

European?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did a cartoonist show you helping a bruised and battered Bill Clinton across the street?
Were you a jurist who acted as a prosecutor at Nuremberg?
Did the Beatles sing about you on The White Album?

[choie]

Oh! Disney, yes, duh.

IQs:

1. Okay this must be someone who helped Clinton, or perhaps took pressure off him, during the Lewinsky mess. Um. I am not... Janet Reno? (Crap this might be entirely unrelated... I'm going to hit myself after this, aren't I?)

2. STUMPED. I was gonna say Robert Earl Warren and then I realized, no, idiot, you're conflating "Robert Earl Hughes*" with "Earl Warren." Plus Earl Warren wasn't at Nuremberg. Though the conflation amuses me. Imagine the size of the courtroom chair necessary for him!

3. No, I did not creep into my room only to find Gideon's Bible. (Rocky Raccoon.)

Probably earned yourself 2 DQs unless I actually hit the googly with Reno.

DQs:

Mmmmm okay, you've handed me an ethical quandary. I don't know if I'm supposed to guide your questions toward more specificity or not. That said I vow I am being technically accurate with all these responses according to a perfectly legitimate definition of one of your terms:

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European
6. Would not be alive today if real


* Throughout my childhood he was always referenced in The Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fattest man in history. He may have been supplanted by now.

[Elendil's Heir]

If a DQ isn't capable of being answered Y/N, you can ask for it to be rephrased, or answer it as best you can, acknowledging any ambiguity, perhaps saying, in effect, "This is the least misleading answer."

Answers:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I couldn't find it through Google Images, but at the time Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court, he was going through a particularly rough patch in the White House. She was such a popular pick, the cartoon showed a tiny, frail-looking Ginsburg helping a much bigger but battered-looking Clinton across the street, reversing the usual roles of a little old lady and a big strong Boy Scout.
Robert Jackson, then an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Yes, Rocky Raccoon.

DQs:

Human?
First appeared in print?

IQs:

Did your future father-in-law tell an unpleasant group, "I've got $10 in my pocket but I'd flush it down the toilet before I gave it to you"?
Did your brother Stannis think he should be in charge after you died?
After you died (allegedly while with your mistress), was your body secretly moved?

[choie]

If a DQ isn't capable of being answered Y/N, you can ask for it to be rephrased, or answer it as best you can, acknowledging any ambiguity, perhaps saying, in effect, "This is the least misleading answer."

Okaaaay, well, I think I revealed that there is ambiguity in one of your questions, but bearing in mind the above, I should specify that the question in particular was the one about Europe. Which I answered accurately depending on how one resolves the ambiguity. So, if you wanna rephrase for your next inevitable slew of DQs, go for it.

Robert Jackson, huh? And to think you carped at poor anyrose for Ben Weiss!

IQs:

1. Not a clue, but curious. What unpleasant group? Okay they're asking for money, and I don't think Nazis went door-to-door, so that lets them out. Scientologists? No I'm not L. Ron Hubbard? Oh man, that would be hilarious if true. But yeah, call me STUMPED.

2. Oh good lord, this is a Game of Thrones question isn't it? I don't even have HBO. Through cultural osmosis I vaguely know the Stannis name but God only knows who he's related to. I want to invoke what I will now call the Ben Weiss clause, but since GoT is so freakin' ubiquitous I guess I'll have to say I'm STUMPED.

3. No, I am not Nelson Rockefeller! IN YO FACE!

Two DQs. Oy.

DQs:

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European*
6. Would not be alive today if he were real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print

* An asterisk to note the ambiguity. "But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No, there isn't room, the ambiguity has put on weight."

[Elendil's Heir]

Answers:

Rosalyn Carter's husband Jimmy's dad James Sr. was asked by the KKK for a contribution.
King Robert Baratheon, from, yes, Game of Thrones.
Yes, Nelson Rockefeller.

Justice Jackson is pretty well-known, I'd say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...on%20nuremberg

If no other player has heard of him, I'll withdraw the question.

Two (maybe one) DQ reserved for now.

[CatInASuit]

CatInASuit's IQs:

1. (Green Latner dude) No, I am not Seth Rogan
2. (Mystique gal) No I am not the former Mrs. John Stamos. Her first name's Rebecca but the spelling of her last name gives me hives... is it Romijin?
3. (Errol Hamster pal) Aha! See, this is an example of my Anglophilia (and illicit viewing of BBC through various... methods). No, I am not Roland the Rat. Or I suppose it's just Roland Rat?

Congrats: I thought the last might stump you.
The first one is Ryan Reynolds - Seth Rogan played Green Hornet instead.

DQ:

1. Appeared in a novel first.

Justice Jackson is pretty well-known, I'd say:
If no other player has heard of him, I'll withdraw the question.

Umm. Who?

[Elendil's Heir]

OK, I'll withdraw the Justice Jackson question, then.

DQ:

First appeared in print since 1900?

IQs:

Was the Knight of Flowers your lover?
Were you a famous Pittsburgh Pirate killed in plane crash?
Did you sing about Christmas in Capetown?

[choie]

CatInASuit -- No IQs? I'll add your DQ to the list...

Elendil's Heir IQs:

1. Was the Knight of Flowers your lover?

Hmm. Is this is some Arthurian reference? Ooh, or maybe Ivanhoe? Just in case it's the latter, I'll say No, I'm not Rebecca. (Talk about a stab in the dark.)

2. Ah, well, I know two baseball players who died in plane crashes, and one of 'em starts with an "R" so I'll go with: No, I am not Roberto Clemente? (The other is Thurmon Munson. Yes, I grew up in the 1970s!) Unfortunately I only know Munson was a Yankee, I don't know if Clemente was a Pirate.

3. Erm, I suppose this isn't a "Do They Know It's Christmas?" thing, right? Ugh, Capetown isn't in Ethiopia so probably not. But just in case I'll say No, I am not Robert (Bob) Geldof.

Probably 0 for 3 here.

DQs:

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European*
6. Would not be alive today if I were real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900

* Warning: ambiguous! controversy! Danger Will Robinson!

[Elendil's Heir]

Renly Baratheon was the Knight of Flowers's lover in Game of Thrones.
Yes, Roberto Clemente, who is still revered in Pittsburgh.
Randy Newman - no fan of Apartheid, he: .

DQs:

First appeared in print after 1800?
Generally considered a "good guy"?

IQs:

Did the Beatles once drag you offstage when you opened for them?
Did modern adaptations of your story cast you as a U.S. Navy pilot and an astronaut?
Were you "the only law west of the Pecos"?

[CatInASuit]

IQs.

1. Did you give your name to a rhyme about the colours of a rainbow?
2. Did you have a hit song for a film about three parapsychologists?
3. Were you responsible for tales of the unexpected?

[choie]

[QUOTE=Elendil's Heir;230874]Renly Baratheon was the Knight of Flowers's lover in Game of Thrones.[quote]

Oh bloody hell with the GoT reference again! You are evil, you know that? Go ahead, ask me a Breaking Bad question next, since yes I am the sole person who's out of the zeitgeist and could not be more ignorant about either one of these two shows!

Elendil's "sadist" Heir IQs:

1. Heh. Okay, The Beatles, now we're talking my language again. No, I am not Roy Orbison.
2. I'm going to guess this one considering the context : No, I am not Robinson Crusoe? Seems like it'd make sense to have him stranded on, like, the moon, or some little island somewhere.
3. Ah! And I only know this one 'cause I'm a fan of Lillie Langtry biographies (especially the awesome BBC version w/Francesca Annis): No, I'm not Judge Roy Bean!

I suspect #2 is where you'll get your DQ...


CatInASuit's IQs:

1. (Rainbow guy): Um... no, I am not Roy G. Biv? That can't be right...
2. (Parapsychologists): Damn it. Ghostbusters by Roy... Ray or Roy something Jr. Damnit. Right outta my head. STUMPED.
3. (Tales of the Unexpected): No I am not... Rod Serling? Maybe?

At least 1 DQ here, probably 3. Ugh.

As for your DQs, EH.... I'm really not sure how to answer the "good guy" question. It's kind of a controversial thing... I'll just say that not everyone, including me, would agree with my answer, but I think it's what the general populace would consider the "correct" answer.

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European *
6. Would not be alive if real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900
11. First appeared in print after 1800
12. Is generally considered a "good guy." **

* Warning: ambiguous!
** But YMMV

[CatInASuit]

IQs.

1. Did you give your name to a rhyme about the colours of a rainbow?
2. Did you have a hit song for a film about three parapsychologists?
3. Were you responsible for tales of the unexpected?

1. So close. Richard III aka Richard of York gave battle in vain.
2. Ray Parker Jr. - Close enough
3. Roald Dahl. Rod Serling was the Twilight zone.

2 DQs for me to ponder.

[Elendil's Heir]

As it happens, I've never seen Breaking Bad and know very little about it, either.

You're correct as to all three answers: Roy Orbison (the crowd went wild for him and, as the story goes, the Beatles were concerned that he'd overshadow them); Robinson Crusoe (in two not-very-good movies: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060640/?ref_=nv_sr_1 and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/?ref_=nv_sr_2); and Judge Roy Bean. Well done!

IQs:

Did you and another top government official switch jobs with each other in 1985?
Are you a baseball player who shares a name with a later musician?
Did you capture Vincennes and Kaskaskia?

[choie]

Yay! Well, that will soothe me as I ignore Kylah's upcoming broken heart at having upset Rangin...

1. (top gov. official role swap) Well, we're into 2nd term Reagan era, that leaves me with... uh oh. I'm pretty sure Rice was only involved in Bush I, so she's out. Richard Thornburgh or Donald Regan. I know Regan better, so let's go with him. No, thank God, I am not Donald Regan.

2. (baseball & singer) Tsk tsk tsk. You should have been way more specific on this. No matter who you're thinking of I can think of multiple different pairings who meet this one! Could go with Babe Ruth (Ruth Brown) or Pee Wee Reese (Della Reese)... heck, you didn't even specify *which* name he shares, so it could be Phil Rizzuto and Phil Collins! But I'll go with a classic: No, I am not Jackie Robinson (Smokey Robinson).

3. (capture Vincennes...) Now you find my weakness again. Military stuff. Honestly when I see the name "Vincennes" my brain immediately turns to Jack Vincennes from L.A. Confidential, which shows you my ignorance. This sounds really unlikely but: No I am not Rommel? (Oh God, I probably don't even have the right war... Kaskaskia sounds Alaskan to me... )

[Elendil's Heir]

Correct, Donald Regan and Jim Baker swapped jobs - Regan became White House chief of staff and Baker became Secretary of the Treasury (it worked out a lot better for Baker). I'll rephrase the baseball/singer question. Heheheh. As to Vincennes and Kaskaskia, that was Gen. George Rogers Clark, during the American Revolution (both towns are in present-day Indiana).

DQ:

Has ever appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Are you a baseball player who shares a last name with a later musician, although it's only the baseball player's first name that starts with R, and the musician's name almost invariably appears in a five-word band name?
Did you write of Uncle Einar?
Did you play, in the same movie, two kinds of "farm workers"?

[choie]

Oops I didn't even spot CatInASuit's answers. Richard III is featured in a poem about rainbows? The mind boggles. And I think you're overly generous with my "Roy or Ray something Jr." I'd take a third DQ if I were you. ROALD DAHL. I should be ashamed of myself. Rod fuckin' Serling indeed.

More emabarrassment at the hands of Elendil's Heir. OMG, mixing up WWII and the American Revolution. That's disgraceful. Almost as bad as my thinking an Indiana town was in Alaska. (Okay, we've got my three weaknesses: Geography, Military History, and American History.)

Elendil's Heir IQs:

1. (Crazy specific baseball dude.) Holy crap. Well, I walked into this one. No, I am not... oy, this is reaching... Bobby Mercer? (I can only think of Bob Marley and the Wailers as a five-word band name that contains someone that concievably fits. Trouble is I don't know if either Marley or Mercer's real first name was Robert.) Probably STUMPED unless I managed to pull this one out of my, um, hindquarters?

2. Did you write of Uncle Einar? STUMPED.

3. Did you play, in the same movie, two kinds of "farm workers"? I can't even begin to guess at the scare quotes' meaning. Is it gonna be an ant farm or something? STUMPED.

Take your two, and probably three, well-earned DQs. If y'all can't guess this guy in six DQs... well, I dunno, but I'll be very very surprised.

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European *
6. Would not be alive if real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900
11. First appeared in print after 1800
12. Is generally considered a "good guy." **
13. Has appeared in a movie.

* Warning: ambiguous!
** But YMMV

[Elendil's Heir]

Answers:

Rogers Hornsby and Bruce Hornsby (and the Range).
Ray Bradbury.
Ray Bolger played both the Scarecrow, and the Kansas farm hand who was Dorothy's favorite, in The Wizard of Oz.

DQs:

Science fiction or fantasy character?
Appeared in more than one novel?
A lead character of that (or those) novel?

IQs:

Did Sasha and Sam work for you?
Did an Irish actor play you, a Scotsman?
Were you the second known commander of the battlecruiser MacArthur?

[CatInASuit]

DQs:

1. Action/Adventure novel set on Earth

IQ:
1. Were you part of a shipwrecked family from Switzerland?

[choie]

Man, if I could find any reference that Bobby Murcer (correct spelling apparently) was actually born "Robert" I would claim that as properly answered, since Bob Marley was indeed a Robert. But though Murcer's dad was Robert, I can only find "Bobby Ray Murcer" as the baseball player's name. Rats.

Elendil's Heir IQs:

1. (Sasha/Sam) No, I am not Rick Blaine.
2. (Scot played by Irish) No, I am not Rob Roy. (Liam Neeson, right?)
3. Were you the second known commander of the battlecruiser MacArthur? -- I have no idea, and unless it was someone like Robert F. Kennedy I bet this is gonna be a Ben Weiss Clause candidate. STUMPED

CatInASuit IQ:

1. (Swiss family...) No, I am not one of the Robinsons.


DQs:

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European *
6. Would not be alive if real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900
11. First appeared in print after 1800
12. Is generally considered a "good guy." **
13. Has appeared in a movie.
14. Not a science fiction or fantasy character
15. Has appeared in more than one novel
16. Was a lead in both novels
17. Was not in an action/adventure novel set on Earth

* Warning: ambiguous!
** But YMMV

[Elendil's Heir]

Correct as to Rick Blaine of Casablanca, and Rob Roy, who was indeed played by Liam Neeson. Well done. The MacArthur's commander was Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle's classic sf adventure The Mote in God's Eye.

DQ:

Were the novels romances?

IQs:

Was a priest the only person to attend your funeral?
Did your mother-in-law give you a house... with her own right next door?
Did one of your biographers think your childhood asthma was psychosomatic?

[choie]

IQs:

1. No, I am not... Eleanor Rigby
2, STUMPED
3. No, I am not Teddy Roosevelt. Awesome! My sister's forcing me to watch American Exprerience: The Presidents pays off!

Hmmm. I'm afraid I can't think of a way to answer that DQ in a way that is both accurate and doesn't give away more than you're asking. Kindly rephrase.

[Elendil's Heir]

Correct as to Eleanor Rigby and T.R. The second is Eleanor Roosevelt. FDR's mom gave them a NYC townhouse as a wedding present - but her own was adjoining, and she had keys to all the doors, so she came and went as she wished. Not an ideal situation for poor Eleanor.

Rephrased DQ:

Is the first novel in which this character appears considered primarily a romance?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a men's magazine once mention you, rather surprisingly, swimming in the nude?
In filming one of your movies, did you ask someone about a shirt ad that didn't exist?
Did you get a smile from a famous person on a bet?

[choie]

IQs:

1. Did a men's magazine once mention you, rather surprisingly, swimming in the nude? -- Dude, didn't you just use Eleanor Roosevelt already? No, I have no clue, just wanted to put that image in your mind. STUMPED.

Stumped on the other two as well.

DQs

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European *
6. Would not be alive if real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900
11. First appeared in print after 1800
12. Is generally considered a "good guy." **
13. Has appeared in a movie.
14. Not a science fiction or fantasy character
15. Has appeared in more than one novel
16. Was a lead in both novels
17. Was not in an action/adventure novel set on Earth
18. The first novel is generally considered a romance

* Warning: ambiguous!
** But YMMV

[Elendil's Heir]

Did a men's magazine once mention you, rather surprisingly, swimming in the nude? - Fred Rogers, in a GQ interview.
In filming one of your movies, did you ask someone about a shirt ad that didn't exist? - Roman Polanski, asking the author of Rosemary's Baby about a New Yorker shirt ad referred to in the book.
Did you get a smile from a famous person on a bet? - Will Rogers was warned that President Calvin Coolidge was not much on jokes, but bet a friend he could get the President to smile. When they were introduced, Rogers cupped his hand around his ear and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name...?" Coolidge smiled.

DQs:

First novel was written by a woman?
First appeared in print after 1850?

One DQ waived, as we just get 20 questions.

[choie]

Ooh I didn't realize there was a limit on DQs!

DQs

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with "R"
4. Not American
5. Not European *
6. Would not be alive if real
7. Human
8. First appeared in print
9. First appeared in a novel
10. Did not first appear in print since 1900
11. First appeared in print after 1800
12. Is generally considered a "good guy." **
13. Has appeared in a movie.
14. Not a science fiction or fantasy character
15. Has appeared in more than one novel
16. Was a lead in both novels
17. Was not in an action/adventure novel set on Earth
18. The first novel is generally considered a romance
19. The first novel was written by a woman
20. Did not first appear in print after 1850

* Warning: ambiguous!
** But YMMV

[Elendil's Heir]

CIAS and anyrose (if she returns), any thoughts?

We have a fictional non-American male, last name starting with R, who first appeared in a romance novel written by a woman, published between 1800-1850. To me that suggests Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters or perhaps Mary Shelley. Hmmm.

[CatInASuit]

Hmm, only person I can think of is...

Are you Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre?

[Elendil's Heir]

Great guess. I'll bet that's it.

[choie]

Yes indeed, I am Edward Rochester! Well done, CatInASuit.

Just to explain some of the asterisked answers FWIW:

- England is not on the European Continent, and at the time of the novel wasn't part of the EU.
- His "good guy" cred is low with me, what with being a philandering would-be bigamist and asshat most of the time.
- The second novel is Wide Sargasso Sea, which is definitely not a romance

Your turn, CIAS!

[CatInASuit]

I will admit to that being a lucky guess on my part - I thought afterwards that there wasn't a sequel to Jane Eyre so it was a dud guess.

Your new letter is P

[Elendil's Heir]

The sequel was written many years later by a different author, I think, so it wasn't much of a dud guess.

P, eh?

IQs:

Were you Brett's buddy belowdecks?
Did you flirt with a character played by Elizabeth Banks?
Were you First Speaker in an Asimov book?

[choie]

IQs:

1. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?
2. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?
3. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?

[CatInASuit]

The sequel was written many years later by a different author, I think, so it wasn't much of a dud guess.

P, eh?

IQs:

Were you Brett's buddy belowdecks?
Did you flirt with a character played by Elizabeth Banks?
Were you First Speaker in an Asimov book?

IQs:

1. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?
2. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?
3. Did you circumnavigate the globe in fewer than three months?

Ah, a set of easy questions up front:

EH
1. Pass
2. Pass
3. Pass

choie
1. Pass
2. Pass
3. Pass

That was easy, I have no clue about any of them

[choie]

Okay, turn in your UK card.

1. Phileas Fogg, the main character in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

2. Passepartout, Fogg's servant who travels with him, in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

3. Michael Palin, the Monty Python comedian-turned-travel writer, who replicated Fogg's journey in the TV documentary Around the World in Eighty Days

DQs:

1. Are you real?
2. Are you female?

3rd DQ reserved

IQs:

1. While you lay dying of gangrene, did you compose your own death sonnet?
2. Prior to one of your most famous roles, did you play someone who often had his arm inserted into a cow's uterus?
3. After playing one of your most famous roles (coincidentally, the same as above), did you play someone who was highly flammable?