Way to go, choie! But it was Ilsa, not Isla, Lund in Casablanca. Ah, Ingrid... le sigh.
Previous IQs:
Was Corazon Aquino no fan of yours? - Yes, Imelda Marcos
Were you a priest after whom a prominent university was named? - Ignatius Loyola
Were you a top healthcare advisor to Hillary Clinton in her husband's first term? - Ira Magaziner
Oops, just a moment of dyslexia. I certainly know Ilsa! And yay for Isaac Newton!
CIAS, the song is , the late Hawaiian singer. (I would have accepted any mutilated spelling attempt, or even just "Israel something.") For a while there you couldn't watch a film trailer, heart-tugging commercial, or TV montage (e.g. E.R. and the death of Mark Greene) without eventually hearing that familiar ukulele strum.
Okay, lemme think. All right...
The letter is D
Here's a nice commercial use of that song:
D it is.
IQs:
Were you "the Welsh Wizard"?
Did you want a spacecraft so that your world could join an empire on more advantageous terms?
Is your character usually played by an actor who plays another role in the same play?
IQs
1. As a world champion, did you have the nickname "Interesting" coined by a puppet of you?
2. Are you a well known British TV cook?
3. Have you played a robot and an amateur astronomer?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Oh dear, I probably should know #2, as it sounds like a Trek reference. But the only answer I have is for #3: Mr. Darling, from the Peter Pan musical, who usually doubles as Captain Hook.Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
2 DQs for you.
No clue on #1 (someone with a puppet?! Is this a Splitting Images reference?)
#2: Hmm, could be Delia... I don't know her last name. Actually I only know that she has a line of ready-made food, she might be a fake icon like Aunt Jemima for all I know. Well, I can't think of any other UK chefs besides Ramsay, Lawson, Oliver and Ainsley whatsisname, so I'll just give it a try. No, I'm not Delia ___?
#3: No, I am not Daryl Hannah? I know she was in Bladerunner, and wasn't she an astronomer in Roxanne?
At least one DQ.
Previous IQs:
Were you "the Welsh Wizard"? - David Lloyd George, British prime minister during the latter part of World War I, and for awhile a parliamentary ally of Churchill's.
Did you want a spacecraft so that your world could join an empire on more advantageous terms? - King David, in the Niven and Pournelle novel King David's Spaceship.
Is your character usually played by an actor who plays another role in the same play? - Yes, Mr. Darling in Peter Pan.
DQs:
real?
male?
IQs:
Were you an alien whose name was featured in a ST:TNG episode title?
Is Swiper your foe?
Are you the most famous graduate of my prep school alma mater, Shady Side Academy?
Oh blimey, I'll never be able to answer any science fiction novel questions! But that still sounds like a DS9 episode. Wasn't the Defiant always at risk for getting stolen one way or another?
1. "choie, her eyes wide open!" No, I am not Darmok!
2. Oy, sounds like a Transformer or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles foe. "Shaka, when the walls fell."
3. "Zinda, his face black, his eyes red."
DQs:
Not real
Not male
1. Steve "Interesting" Davis - World Snooker champion from his Spitting Image puppet
Delia Smith and Darryl Hannah the other two answers
DQ:
Last name beings with 'D'
IQs:
1. Did you kill a giant who had faced down an army?
2. No matter how far Mr Wolf runs, are you always there waiting for him?
3. Are you known for your dancing skills as well as your atrocious Cockney accent?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Previous IQs:
Were you an alien whose name was featured in a ST:TNG episode title? - Yes, Darmok.
Is Swiper your foe? - Dora the Explorer.
Are you the most famous graduate of my prep school alma mater, Shady Side Academy? - historian David McCullough.
choie, it's easier to understand DQ answers if you put them in the affirmative. Thus...?
D.
1. fictional
2. female
Correct?
DQs:
American?
would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Was 1945 the first year specifically mentioned as being significant to or about you, a fictional character?
Did you flatter a VIP by saying, "We authors, ma'am"?
Did your brother Roy carry on your work after you died?
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OMG, a snooker player? Now I wish I were Canadian so I could ask you about curling champions.All I know about snooker is the series of sketches from the That Mitchell and Webb Sound / Look radio and TV series.
1. No, I am not David, the little Jewish guy with the slingshot and future King?
2. Very much stumped.
3. Heh. Poor guy will always be known for that; fortunately he's got a good rep otherwise. No, I am not Dick Van Dyke. He's so talented, too--if only they could've made Bert American!
1. Je totally ne sais pas
2. Ooh I remember this one. No, I am not Benjamin Disraeli
3. No, I am not Walt Disney
Agreed. Of course, hypothetically, if I were answering DQ #2 and were defining some fantasy creature or science fiction character with either no or a fictional third gender (say, one of those neuter characters on the ST:TNG episode), neither an affirmative "female" nor "male" would be accurate.
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
2. Droopy
DQ:
1. Did your first appearance in a TV series include a reference to your previous TV series?
2. Was your greatest foe "The Mekon"
3. Did you have a style of shorts named after you?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Previous IQs:
Was 1945 the first year specifically mentioned as being significant to or about you, a fictional character? - Albus Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald that year, as mentioned on a chocolate frog card in the first Harry Potter book.
Did you flatter a VIP by saying, "We authors, ma'am"? - Yes, Disraeli thus flattered Queen Victoria.
Did your brother Roy carry on your work after you died? - Yes, Walt Disney.
DQ:
European?
IQs:
Did you and a colleague ask that you be referred to in a particular way to avoid an inadvertent homonym?
Do you work for the PHB?
Did Satchmo famously sing to you?
Droopy, as in the cartoon dog, CIAS? Your cartoon lore is definitely better than mine. I'm pretty bad with anything outside Disney and Warner Brothers. (Droopy seems like Hanna Barbara, is that right?)
Don't forget you get a DQ!
Stumped on 1 and 2, though I have a feeling I'll be annoyed at myself with that first question. #3, No I am not Daisy Duke? (It's either that or the famous Dennis Bermuda.)
1. Hm. No, I'm not Captain Darling, from Blackadder IV? Did he insist that the "captain" be added to his name?
2. No, I didn't, because I have no clue what the PHB is.
3. No, I am not Dolly Levi, from Hello, Dolly (song and musical)!
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
1. Dirk Benedict - His first appearence in the A-Team had a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica walking in front of him.
2. Dan Dare
DQs:
1. West European?
2. First appeared in print?
3. Has been seen in a film?
IQs:
1. Have you won more Best Actor awards than anyone else?
2. Did you play "Grasshopper"?
3. Are you Dexter's annoying sister? (Not that Dexter, the other Dexter)
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Okay, I have to ask--what possible context did The A-Team have for showing a Cylon from BG?! Was it a sci-fi convention or something?
1. No, I am not Daniel Day-Lewis
2. No, I am not Bruce Dern
3. No, I have no idea.
One DQ to the man over the pond.
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
7. West European (ostensibly, although it's possible that the answer to #5 applies here too)
8. First appeared in print
9. Has been seen in a film
Previous IQs:
Did you and a colleague ask that you be referred to in a particular way to avoid an inadvertent homonym? - The rock group [Darryl] Hall and [John] Oates asked a few years back that their first names be used in referring to them, to avoid sounding like "Holland Oates."
Do you work for the PHB? - Dilbert works for the Pointy-Haired Boss.
Did Satchmo famously sing to you? - Yes, Dolly.
DQs:
British?
Created after 1950?
IQs:
Did you like your boss's first wife much better than his second?
Were you that second wife?
Were you the author of the book about these people?
2. When did bruce dern play "GrassHopper"?
3. Dexter's annoying sister is DeeDee from Dexter's Lab
I'll wait until EH's questions are answered.
IQs:
1. Did you play the boss of the Deadly Vipers?
2. Were you killed by your husband who had been tricked into thinking you had cheated on him?
3. Are you one of DC Comics Trinity?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
1. No, I am not Mrs. Danvers, from one of my favorite books (and films), Rebecca
2. No, I am not the otherwise nameless second Mrs. de Winter
3. No, I am not Daphne du Maurier, although I can dream! (T'was she who made me want to write gothic romances)
CIAS -- omg, Bruce Dern??? I don't know why I wrote that. I was thinking Hollywood families and latched onto Dern instead of Carradine. Idiot. All righty, two DQs for you!
1. I know not of the Deadly Vipers. Stumped.
2. Nay, I am not Desdemona.
3. Um... is this the big three superheroes? Wonder Woman, I guess, and her name was... Diana something. OMG I can't believe that's escaping me. DC comics were the only superhero comic books I read as a kid (I generally preferred the Archie gang, but I did loves me some Legion of Super Heroes!). Hopefully Diana is good enough?
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
7. West European (ostensibly, although it's possible that the answer to #5 applies here too)
8. First appeared in print
9. Has been seen in a film
10. Ostensibly British (see #7; implication is everything!)
11. Created after 1950
Correct as to all of my Rebecca IQs. Well done.
IQs:
Did you sing "See the USA in your brand new Chevrolet"?
Did your husband politely go away while you had a tryst with your marriage counselor?
Did you play a young Royal Navy officer, a valet and a college official?
1. Heh, heh, heh. It's David Carradine again, this time from Kill Bill.
Yes, to Desdemona and to Diana aka Wonder Woman.
DQs:
Has appeared in more than one book?
Has appeared in film in the last twn years?
IQs:
Are you an anthropomorphic creature who 24th and a half century equivalent has the same initials?
Are you an anthropomorphic creature best known for solving spooky crimes?
Are you the companion of the second creature who is decidedly human?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Thank you! Honestly, I was stumped until the third question mentioned it was from a book! That's when it hit me.
EH IQs:
1. Er... No, I am Vic Damone? (Total WAG)
2. HEE! No, I am not Deirdre, wife of poor Arthur Putey (sp. varies). OMG, great question!!
3. I know I'm going to guess wrong--I'm torn between two actors, but I can only think of two out of the three roles for each of them. No, I am not... Denholm Elliott? (My secondary choice is David Niven, FWIW.)
1. Okaaaay, this could be a ST:TNG-era reference, but I can't think of any anthropomorphic creature, much less one that actually had a name or initials. (Oy, if this is Trek I'm gonna be really irked.) Hmm. Wasn't there a film, Buck Rogers and the 24 1/2 Century? No... wait!!! Wasn't it Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 Century?? That's gotta be it, you cartoon-lovin' guy. So no, I am not Daffy Duck! HA.
2. Speaking of cartoons, no, I am not Scooby Doo?
3. No, I am not Daphne?
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
7. West European (ostensibly, although it's possible that the answer to #5 applies here too)
8. First appeared in print
9. Has been seen in a film
10. Ostensibly British (see #7; implication is everything!)
11. Created after 1950
12. Has appeared in more than one book
For your second DQ, CIAS, would you care to clarify that typo of "twn," which could be "two" or "ten"? (Edited to add: I suppose it could be a really bad typo of "twenty" or an even worse typo of "twelve.") Not that it necessarily matters, but...
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Previous IQs:
Did you sing "See the USA in your brand new Chevrolet"? - Dinah Shore:
Did your husband politely go away while you had a tryst with your marriage counselor? - Correct as to the lusty Dierdre (I always loved the setup before her name is revealed):
Did you play a young Royal Navy officer, a valet and a college official? - Yes, Denholm Elliott, in The Cruel Sea, Trading Places and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
DQ:
Considered a heroine?
IQs:
Were you the commanding officer of a good-natured young soldier from Alabama?
Was your memoir's title a phrase that you insisted you'd never actually said?
Did a President of the United States mockingly praise your decision-making skills in a very public place?
Dinah Shore! That's a blast from the past. And I should've at least guessed it was a woman--I remember the tune and that sort of jingle would've been more likely sung by a female singer.
Also I cannot believe I got the Denholm Elliott question right. I remembered the Raiders and Trading Places roles (although I thought he was a butler in the latter, so even then I thought I was pushing it), but never saw The Cruel Sea. Truth is I thought he only started in films later in life. OTOH I couldn't picture David Niven playing a valet unless very late in life in some kind of comedy (he was too dashing in his youth), and I knew I was mixing him up with Ronald Coleman for the school role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, so that was a wrong 'un altogether!
1. Shoot, I suspect this is a Forrest Gump reference, and I've never seen it.
2. It doesn't make sense but I'll guess No, I'm not James Doohan? (Because why would Scotty have said "Beam me up, Scotty" to himself?) Actually, the first joking thought I had was "Yes, I did It" by O.J. Simpson--even less sensical considering there's no "D" in his name, but there you are.
3. Might be stretching it since it's a nickname, but no, I'm not Richard "Dick" Nixon, when he was Eisenhower's VP? (I know that when asked to name some important policies/ideas Nixon had as Vice President, Eisenhower quipped something like, "Give me a week and I might think of one." And that was during the Nixon/Kennedy election, wasn't it? That had to hurt!)
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
7. West European (ostensibly, although it's possible that the answer to #5 applies here too)
8. First appeared in print
9. Has been seen in a film
10. Ostensibly British (see #7; implication is everything!)
11. Created after 1950
12. Has appeared in more than one book
13. Not considered a heroine (although you never know, these days, with revisionism being all the rage...)
Previous IQs:
Were you the commanding officer of a good-natured young soldier from Alabama? Yes, Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) in Forrest Gump.
Was your memoir's title a phrase that you insisted you'd never actually said? - White House correspondent Sam Donaldson: http://www.amazon.com/Hold-Mr-Presid...+mr.+president.
Did a President of the United States mockingly praise your decision-making skills in a very public place? - President Obama mocked Donald Trump for firing Gary Busey on Celebrity Apprentice during the 2011 White House Correspondents Assn. dinner: .
DQs:
Created after 1980?
Has been known to use a weapon?
In science fiction?
IQs:
Did Spielberg option a book of yours before you'd even finished it?
Did your creator weep when he wrote of your death?
Were you that creator?
Damn, I thought Dick Nixon was a good answer!
1. Oh I know this one! No, I am not Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. I was totally gonna say Dumbledore until I read the author was male. No clue on this character but I think I'll be annoyed when I know. (Okay, added after writing the below answer: Mr. Dorrit, Little Dorrit's dad? Sorry for the spoiler...)
3. WAG, No, I am not Charles Dickens. I know he cried when someone died, and considering he has 2102376492303 characters, I bet one of 'em starts with D. Ooh, is it one of the two Dorrits who die? Let's go with that.
DQs:
1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name beings with 'D'
4. Not American
5. Whether alive or dead today cannot be known given what we know about this fictional female
6. European
7. West European (ostensibly, although it's possible that the answer to #5 applies here too)
8. First appeared in print
9. Has been seen in a film
10. Ostensibly British (see #7; implication is everything!)
11. Created after 1950
12. Has appeared in more than one book
13. Not considered a heroine (although you never know, these days, with revisionism being all the rage...)
14. Created before 1980
15. Not known to carry a weapon
16. Not known for science fiction, but (people will be surprised to learn this) yes, once
Correct on all mine. The Goodwin book was Team of Rivals, a tiny little piece of which became the core of Lincoln; and yes, Little Dorrit was the fictional kid who snuffed it.
IQs:
Did you star on Will and Grace?
Did you star in Terms of Endearment?
Did you hang out with the Pushme-Pullyou?
Booyah! Well actually in Little Dorrit it'sSpoiler (mouseover to read):
Little Dorrit's father and her uncle who die--her dad dies because he can't survive outside prison after living in the Marshalsea for half his life (and all of his daughter's--she was born there), and his kind brother dies pretty much out of grief as a result. Little Dorrit herself has a happy ending.
Without the plagiarism, presumably.
1. No, I am not Debra Messing
2. Nor yet Debra Winger...
3. ...Nor still yet Doctor Doolittle, a book I'm certain was written on LSD
It was last ten years.
IQ:
1. Do you like fur and wanted a coat made of lots of little puppies
2. Did you leave Van Halen after a fall out with the lead guitarist
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Well, I'm not David Lee Roth, but...
Yes, I am Cruella de Vil! Well done, sir.
Re: the contentious answers--there's a strong implication (not in the cartoon but the book) that Cruella is an actual demon; when bitten by one of the pups, she actually tastes like pepper, and of course the crazy heat she can tolerate is inhuman. So I'm not convinced she's really British, or alive or dead. As far as the sci-fi, the rather unknown sequel to the novel, The Starlight Barking, is a completely bizarre genre-change from the semi-realistic original (well, except for the whole "dogs talking to each other and being able to make plans and rescue their puppies" element in The One Hundred and One Dalmatians). Cruella is given some weird brain hypnotic suggestion where she hates fur and starts to love all animals, all humans are sent to sleep by a canine from outer space ("Sirius," the literal dog star--I kid you not), and all the dogs apparently have their own Parliament and Prime Minister equivalents; Sirius gives them the opportunity to be sent into space for a new life where humans won't subjugate them. Meanwhile, Cruella loses her hypnotic suggestion by... some method I don't remember... and she turns evil again, finally sent back to prison for the rest of her life. Dogs save the day and decide to stay at home.
So, yeah. I choose to ignore that book. The One Hundred and One Dalmatians was one of my favorite books as a kid. Probably because I had a pet Dalmatian and I loved that there was a book all about them.
Anyhoo, congrats to CIAS, who apparently has Kylah's empathic ability to read my mind and get all my bleedin' answers correctly!
Gotta love that out of nowhere inspiration. I'd best think of someone new.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Correct as to my three IQs, thanks for the correction as to Little Dorrit, choie - and well done, CIAS.
Sorry for the delay.
The next letter is C
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
IQs:
Did a young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and play you?
Were you an aristocratic Tory politico in Jeffrey Archer's thriller First Among Equals?
Were you Admiral Lord Nelson's #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Ooh I actually know the First Among Equals answer! I went through a Jeffrey Archer phase in my college years.
1. Did your marriage to two brothers have permanent repercussions for the history of world religion?
2. Were you a ruthless bastard in business but a prominent philanthropist whose name is borne upon numerous charitable entities, but perhaps most famously a Victorian-era music hall?
3. One of the most suave, debonair and successful actors in history, did you have a Dickensian childhood that included your father institutionalizing your mother when you were a little boy, and claiming that she died--only telling you the truth when you were in your thirties?
1. Bruce Campbell
2. The only name beginning with C from an Archer book I can think of is Cain?
3. This one I am stumped on.
At least 1 DQ, probably 2.
1. I have no idea, but I will admit to begin curious as to who the lady in question is.
2. WAG of Andrew Carnegie
3. Is this Cary Grant?
1 DQ, possibly more.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Previous IQs:
Did a young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and play you? - I don't know how Bruce Campbell fits this question, but I'll rephrase.
Were you an aristocratic Tory politico in Jeffrey Archer's thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour.
Were you Admiral Lord Nelson's #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
You are a fictional character. Did the same young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and also play you?
Did Sherlock Holmes have your portrait hanging at 221B Baker Street?
Did you star in Temperature's Rising?
Well done, CIAS! Last two are correct. The woman whose marriages to a pair of brothers caused the major religious repercussions was Catherine of Aragon, Prince Arthur's widow and the first wife of his younger brother Henry VIII. Despite the fact that Henry had needed a Papal dispensation to get married to his brother's widow in the first place, he later demanded that the Pope annul the marriage so he could marry Anne Boleyn. And we all know what happened as a result of that.
IQs:
1. Were you the pope who denied the above annulment?
2. As an old man, when you (and your wife and several of your neighbors) were accused of witchery, did your last words consist of a repeated two-word phrase that has to be one of the most badass responses to torture ever?
3. Do your roles include a foul-mouthed, vicious, Machiavellian bastard as well as a beloved children's show character?
DQ:
Living (if real) or would be alive today (if fictional)?
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DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
I guess you have never seen "My name is Bruce" directed by Bruce Campbell, starring Bruce Campbell as a fictional Bruce Campbell so....
1. Bruce Campbell
2 & 3 Stumped on those two though.
Take 2 DQs.
I hadn't realised Catherine married Arthur, I only thought they got as far as engaged before he died.
1. Pope Clemence??
2. It's from the Salem Witch Trials, the phrase is "more weight", but I cannot remember the person undergoing peine forte et dure
3. Unfortunately, everyone pales next to Ian Richardson, so stumped.
At least 2 DQs, if not three.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Yep, they were married for about a year or so before Arthur died. How strange things would be if Arthur had lived. No schism w/Rome (at least I don't know if anyone else would've been ballsy enough to cut the Pope off at the knees as Henry did), no Bloody Mary, no Elizabethan age... It's barely possible the Stewarts would still have reigned (depending on what issue resulted from King Arthur(!) and Catherine), but I suppose their branch might've started earlier with Mary Q. of S. rather than waiting until James. Also depends on if Henry (who would've been... what, Duke of Cornwall?) were alive to take over when Arthur died.
Anyway, it's interesting to contemplate just how tremendously Arthur's death affected history.
#1 is sooo close that I have to give it to you. Pope Clement.1. Pope Clemence??
2. It's from the Salem Witch Trials, the phrase is "more weight", but I cannot remember the person undergoing peine forte et dure
3. Unfortunately, everyone pales next to Ian Richardson, so stumped.
#2 is Giles Corey, and I'm so impressed that you knew this that I'll give that to you too. (I would probably be a very bad teacher.)
#3 is the one I'm shocked you didn't know. Peter Capaldi, aka Malcolm "Don't you ever call me a bully! I'm so much worse than that" Tucker, and now the 13th Doctor. Although I understand focusing on Ian Richardson's House of Cards role might've thrown you.
(You may have to bonk yourself over the head when EH tells you the proper answer to that 'young director' question.)
More IQs:
1. Did you have a mom who wrote racy novels that embarrassed you, a dad who was an MTF transsexual, and friends who never understood what you did for a living?
2. In a Shakespeare version of history, was someone warned of your potential for danger due to your metaphorically possessing a slim build and ravenous appetite?
3. Were you Thomas Jefferson's favorite horse, named (somewhat ironically, for a man involved in the Revolution against England) after a defiant Briton?
DQ:
- European?
Previous IQs:
You are a fictional character. Did the same young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and also play you? - OK, I'll rephrase again. Sheesh. (Although... was Campbell a "young man" when he directed/starred in the movie you're thinking of?)
Did Sherlock Holmes have your portrait hanging at 221B Baker Street? - Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon, a martyr of British imperialism.
Did you star in Temperature's Rising? - Cleavon Little
DQs:
Last name start with C?
Involved in the creative arts, as broadly defined?
Born since 1964?
IQs:
You are a fictional character who is not named Bruce Campbell. Did the same young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and also play you?
Were you Marcus Aurelius's no-goodnik son?
Did you give your horse a top government post?
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DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not European
5. Last name starts with C
6. Is Involved in the creative arts, as broadly defined.
I think our differing opinions on Doctor Who may have accounted for it. Current Moffatised Doctor Who is more like Eastenders in Space and bears no resemblance to the show I used to watch... aka don't get me started on DW.
1.Stumped
2. Umm, nope, still no idea. Stumped again
3. Caractacus???
Yeah, didn't do so well on that one.
Two DQs, not three
1. Go on, who is the fictional person then
2. Drat - I cannot remember.
3. Caligula
Take another 2 DQs
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Hmm, we might not have such differing views on DW. I've only seen maybe two DW episodes since the reboot, and my favorite doctors are 5, 3 and 2--all old-school. But I still think of the show as a children's show even if during the Eccleston/Tennant/Smith years there was apparently a lot of romantic stuff. Is that what you meant about Eastenders? Personally I do like continuity and arcs--one of my favorite through-lines was the Turlough stuff back during Davison's reign, and I greatly enjoyed everything to do with Pertwee being stuck on earth working with UNIT.
(Did you see the trailer for the Capaldi season yet? He looks awesome. Back to the Doctor being mysterious and dangerous--should be good for fans of Tom Baker, but without the stupid manic clowning humor I so disliked in the Baker years. And I know I'm vastly in the minority there!)
#1 was Chandler Bing on Friends (his mom was played by Morgan Fairchild, his dad by Kathleen Turner). #2 was Cassius, whom Julius Caesar described as having "a lean and hungry look" -- suspicious and untrustworthy. And yep, #3 was indeed Caractacus!1.
2. Umm, nope, still no idea. Stumped again
3. Caractacus???
New IQs:
1. Are you a female Oscar winner married to an Oscar winner who himself is the son of an Oscar recipient?
2. Did a noted 18th century journalist make a fatal error by taking a bath (which was, ironically, intended to help his health) when you were in the vicinity?
3. Did you become a criminal just because your gift was intended for vegetarians but the recipient apparently preferred meat?
DQs:
7. Are you primarily known as an author?
8. American?
Previous IQs:
You are a fictional character who is not named Bruce Campbell. Did the same young man both direct the movie in which you appeared, and also play you? - Charles Foster Kane and Orson Welles.
Were you Marcus Aurelius's no-goodnik son? - Commodus (as seen in the fun but rather ahistorical Gladiator).
Did you give your horse a top government post? - Yes, Caligula named his horse a consul of Rome.
DQs:
Born since 1964?
Caucasian?
IQs:
Did you fall in love with Truly Scrumptious?
Did you star in Children of Men?
Are you a noted contemporary author of naval history?
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DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not European
5. Last name starts with C
6. Is Involved in the creative arts, as broadly defined.
7. Not Primarily known as an author
8. American
9. Born since 1964
10. Partly Caucasian
1. Catherine Zeta Jones
2 & 3 - Stumped I'm afraid
2 more DQs.
1. Caractacus Potts
2. Not seen the film - so Stumped.
3. Umm. C.S. Forester. He does count doesn't he?
1, probably 2 DQs to you.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Right, of course, on Catherine Zeta Jones. #2 was Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Jean-Paul Marat while he was in the bath. #3 was Cain, who offered God a gift of his produce while Abel gave him some livestock; God snubbed Cain's gift (for some reason) while totally favoring Abel, and you know the rest.
IQs:
1. Did your training as a doctor help bring vérité when you had to play a surgeon attempting to remove a man's brain with a mallet?
2. Did you somewhat famously disagree with the idea that when one becomes an adult, one must put away childish things--and as a result, your book series ends with one of your lead characters suffering a rather cruel fate just because she wanted to grow up and her siblings didn't?
3. Since I already mentioned one badass torture victim, here's another: despite having done what was asked of you and recanted your beliefs, did your monarch have you burned at the stake anyway--but before you died, you cried out that you were first thrusting into the flames the "unworthy hand" that had signed the false confession?
DQs:
- Primarily a musician?
- Born after 1980?
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Previous IQs:
Did you fall in love with Truly Scrumptious? - Yes, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Did you star in Children of Men? - Clive Owen (and a pretty good, if bleak, movie).
Are you a noted contemporary author of naval history? - C.S. Forester isn't a present-tense "contemporary author." I was thinking of Craig Symonds, formerly of the U.S. Naval Academy faculty.
DQs:
Has won a major award in her field?
Partly black?
IQs:
Did a pal pretend to be "from Brazil, where the nuts come from"?
Did you serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and once run for President?
Did you record "letters" for your sister back in Boston?
DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not European
5. Last name starts with C
6. Is Involved in the creative arts, as broadly defined.
7. Not Primarily known as an author
8. American
9. Born since 1964
10. Partly Caucasian
11. Is not primarily a musician
12. Not born after 1980?
13. Has won a major award in one of her fields
14. Is not partly black.
1 & 2 I am stumped on, but I believe the last is Bishop Cramner.
2 DQs.
Don't know about the first two, but is the last Alaistair Cooke?
Have at least 2 DQs.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Indeed it is Cranmer, CIAS! You're up on your martyrs, I see.
#1 is Graham Chapman
#2 is C.S. Lewis, who said, "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." The unfortunate character is Susan Pevensie, who, in The Last Battle,Ugh. That book is my equivalent to the way many think of the second Star Wars trilogy--I prefer to believe it doesn't exist.Spoiler (mouseover to read):
...is not among all the humans allowed into the 'heaven' that is new Narnia, and we learn that all her siblings and parents are there because they were killed in a train crash. The reason Susan's not there is, apparently, that as a teenager she's committed the heresy of liking make-up and boys and trying to forget her time in Narnia during her childhood. So author Lewis lets her survive the crash that killed her entire family and presumably leaves her to mourn alone for years.
IQs:
1. Are you a doctor of education who's one of the most popular comedians of all time?
2. Are you the character the abovementioned comedian played for 10 years?
3. Were you one of the first sex symbols of the film era, to the degree that your nickname is still used to indicate someone having an indefinable but very obvious star quality?
DQ:
- Actress?
Will save my 2nd DQ.
Previous IQs:
Did a pal pretend to be "from Brazil, where the nuts come from"? - One of two lovestruck fellows in the farce Charley's Aunt.
Did you serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and once run for President? - Charles Evans Hughes (he lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916).
Did you record "letters" for your sister back in Boston? - Cooke's letters weren't for his sister, and she wasn't in Boston. This was Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester from M*A*S*H.
Does your DQ answer #12 mean you don't know for sure?
DQs:
Has appeared in movies?
Best known for rock and roll?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you travel a lot but were murdered on a beach in Hawaii?
Were you a famous passenger on a ship named after a kind of dog?
Are you the current SECDEF?
DQs:
1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not European
5. Last name starts with C
6. Is Involved in the creative arts, as broadly defined.
7. Not Primarily known as an author
8. American
9. Born since 1964
10. Partly Caucasian
11. Is not primarily a musician
12. Not born after 1980
13. Has won a major award in one of her fields
14. Is not partly black.
15. Actress
16. Has appeared in movies
17 Is not best known for rock and roll?
Stumped on all three - although I get the feeling that the comic and character are going to be ones I know.
1. Nope - Stumped
2. Charles Darwin - on the HMS Beagle
3. SECDEF - Umm, secretary of defence? Umm, complete WAG of General Colin Powell.
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