Previous IQs:
Are you a country singer who had a hit with "Innocence"? - Not Shania Twain, but Sarah Buxton:
Were you Lincoln's first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron.
Were you his second? - Edwin Stanton (reversal noted).
DQs:
First appeared before 1980?
Actor best known for another role?
IQs:
Did a blacksmith initially refuse to call you by your first name?
Are you the current US ambassador to the UN?
Were you that person's predecessor in 1962?
DQ
DQ
Not Adlai Stevenson
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Previous IQs:
Did a blacksmith initially refuse to call you by your first name? - Elizabeth Swann and her future husband, Will Turner.
Are you the current US ambassador to the UN? - Samantha Power.
Were you that person's predecessor in 1962? - Yes, Adlai Stevenson.
DQs:
Live-action movie?
G-rated movie?
IQs:
Is your middle name Kooi?
Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare's Richard III?
Is your restaurant on the Strand in London quite famous?
3 DQs
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note change to 5, which I learned searching for 16
Upon reading thoroughly, The book came WELL after the fact.
Previous IQs:
Is your middle name Kooi? - Former Sen. Alan Simpson.
Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare's Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow.
Is your restaurant on the Strand in London quite famous? - Simpson's (try the beef on the trolley).
DQs:
Caucasian?
Associated with NYC?
Clumsy?
IQs:
Did you call a truce so that a foe could enjoy his wedding night?
Were you a fictional British Fascist leader in a graphic novel?
Ditto, but in a movie?
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16
IMDB.com has the U.S. movie rating just below the title of the film on that film's webpage, BTW.
Are you saying I get three more DQs?
Correct, 3DQs to you.
Totally forgot IMDB, only checked Wikipedia.
FTR, as I suspected, it's rated PG.
Just saw I missed a DQ answer! Will post it next list.
No worries. I'm already going over 20.
Previous IQs:
Did you call a truce so that a foe could enjoy his wedding night? - Saladin, during the Crusades.
Were you a fictional British Fascist leader in a graphic novel? - Mr. Susan, in V for Vendetta.
Ditto, but in a movie? - Mr. Sutler, in the movie based upon the same.
DQs:
Younger than 20 in first appearance?
Considered "cool"?
Sidekick to main character?
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.Last name begins "S"
4.1st appeared after 1964
5.Had lesser known appearances in print after initial appearance
6.Considered "Good Guy"
7.Not the lead
8.American
9.From movie
10.Comedy
11.From before 2000
12.Appeared in multiple films
13.From after 1980
14.Was his actor's best known role
15.Live action movie
16.Not rated "G" ("PG")
17.Movies set in NYC
18.Not known to be clumsy
19.Caucasian
20.Over age 20
21.DEFINITELY considered "cool"
22.One of the lead's sidekicks
Hmmm. Thinking....
Want me to set a deadline?
No, I give up. Who is it?
Egon Spengler from "Ghostbusters". You NEVER asked "Living?" Would it have helped if you asked and I responded,"Dead, in that his actor is dead"?
:: headsmack ::
Good one. Should've gotten it. "Don't cross the beams... it would be bad."
Picture a Twinkie 35 feet long, weighing approximately 600 pounds.
That's a big Twinkie.
Okay, your letter is
T
(PM CIAS so we have more players)
I did last time, and no luck, alas. But I'll try again.
IQs:
Were you "the Rock of Chickamauga"?
Were you "the Wizard of Menlo Park"?
Did George Carlin and Ringo Starr narrate your adventures?
DQ
Not Thomas A. Edison
Not Thomas the Tank Engine (nephew a fan).
Thomas x3!
Correct as to those two; the first was Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, a Civil War hero of mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Were you a longtime Southern senator?
Were you the "Dixiecrat" nominee for President in 1948?
Were you a great Eagle in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien?
Not Trent Lott (?)
Not Strom Thurmond
DQ
1.Fictional
BTW: the latter "conductor" shares his birthday with the lovely lady you shared a picture of with me.
Previous IQs:
Were you a longtime Southern senator? - I'll rephrase.
Were you the "Dixiecrat" nominee for President in 1948? - Yes, Strom Thurmond.
Were you a great Eagle in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien? - Thorondor.
DQs:
Male?
IQs:
You are not Trent Lott. Were you a longtime Southern senator?
Are you a real person mentioned in a song in Grease?
Did JFK have his picture taken with you while first running for Congress?
3 DQS
Previous IQs:
You are not Trent Lott. Were you a longtime Southern senator? - Thad Cochran.
Are you a real person mentioned in a song in Grease? - "As for you, Troy Donahue...."
Did JFK have his picture taken with you while first running for Congress? - Baseball great Ted Williams: http://www.jfklibrary.org/~/media/as...PX%2082-12.jpg
DQs:
Last name start with T?
Would be alive today, if real?
First appeared since 1964?
IQs:
Did your wife refuse to allow your Jewish business partner in the house?
Were you that wife?
Were you captain of the Protector?
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Neither Bess nor Harry Truman
DQ
Correct as to the Trumans. The captain was Peter Quincy Taggart in Galaxy Quest.
DQ:
Has appeared in movies?
IQs:
Did Hadrian and Diocletian once hold your job?
Were you the ingénue in The Best Years of Our Life?
Were you the hero of Notorious?
Not Tiberius
DQ
Not Tupac Shakur
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First initial "T"
4.Would be living, if real
5.First appearance after 1964
6.Not from film
Previous IQs:
Did Hadrian and Diocletian once hold your job? - Yes, Tiberius.
Were you the ingénue in The Best Years of Our Life? - Teresa Wright.
Were you the hero of Notorious? - That was Biggie, not Tupac. I was thinking of T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant), in the 1946 Hitchcock film of that name.
DQs:
American?
First appearance after 2000?
IQs:
Did Brad Pitt play a charming thief in a movie partly named after you?
Have you played a serial killer, a businesswoman and a post-apocalyptic runaway?
Were you the star of The Limey?
3 DQs
Previous IQs:
Did Brad Pitt play a charming thief in a movie partly named after you? - One of the heroines in Thelma & Louise.
Have you played a serial killer, a businesswoman and a post-apocalyptic runaway? - Charlize Theron, in Monster, Prometheus and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Were you the star of The Limey? - Terence Stamp.
DQs:
First appearance in writing?
Appeared in a sequel?
Considered a beauty?
IQs:
Were you a gap-toothed British comic actor?
Were you a noted Indian warrior-king?
Were you a journalist-turned-diplomat?
DQ
Not Tecumseh
Not Tony Snow (?)
Previous IQs:
Were you a gap-toothed British comic actor? - Terry-Thomas, perhaps best known for his appearance in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World:
Were you a noted Indian warrior-king? - Yes, Tecumseh.
Were you a journalist-turned-diplomat? - Not Tony Snow, but Strobe Talbott, a Time magazine correspondent who became a top State Department official under Clinton.
DQs:
From comics?
In superhero genre?
IQs:
Are you a famous American dancer?
Did you play Rocky's shy wife?
Are you a fashion designer whose last name has three syllables?
Not Gene Tierney (perhaps she danced)
Not Talia Shire ("Adrian")
DQ
WRT to #9: I assume it is standard Botticelli practice to ignore fan fiction? (As I have)
I don't think the question has come up before, but yes, I would ignore fan fiction.
Previous IQs:
Are you a famous American dancer? - Gene Tierney was an actress, not a dancer. This is Tommy Tune.
Did you play Rocky's shy wife? - Yes, Talia Shire.
Are you a fashion designer whose last name has three syllables? - Tommy Hilfiger.
Tommy x2!
Two DQs reserved.
Does #6 mean she's never been in a movie, or do I need to ask a DQ to establish that?
Shoulda got Tommy!!
I asked the fanfic thing because I'm SURE she's been in some.
Yes, never in movie.
DQs:
From a song?
Featured on merchandise or toys?
IQs:
Were two and only two movies named after you?
Were you an arrogant prick and speechwriter?
Was your appearance compared unfavorably to a female singer's in one of your movies?
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