Yup, from Portney’s Complaint.
correct
Alden Pyle
holding a DQ
IQ1: Did you save Hogwarts from Voldemort?
IQ2: Are you the protagonist of Slaughterhouse Five?
IQ3: Are you a Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie?
IQs:
(Hey, SCA, what time is it?)
- Were you the mayor on the Howdy Doody Show?
- Did you create Howdy Doody?
- Are you one of Jeff Dunham’s popular puppets?
DQ.
DQ.
Not Porkins.
Not Harry Potter.
DQ.
Not Hercule Poirot.
Three DQs. (We didn’t have a TV when that show was still on the air.)
P
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with P
- From literature
- By an American author
- Created after 1950
- Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy
- Creator not still alive
- American character
- Could be alive today, if real
Previous IQs:
Did the same man who wrote bios of Mao and Mitterrand also write one about you? - Philip Short also wrote about Pol Pot.
Did you know the ways of a foreign people as if born to them? - Paul Atreides, according to the Fremen prophecy in Dune.
Were you a large, doomed X-Wing pilot? - Yes, Porkins.
DQs:
Considered a “good guy”?
Associated with NYC?
IQs:
Were you a detective about whom Raymond Chandler wrote?
Has it been suggested that your youngest son someday get your current title?
Were you entitled to be slain by the sword, and were?
#1 was Phineas T. Bluster. #2 was Frank Paris. #3 is Peanuts.
3 DQs reserved.
Billy Pilgrim
DQ: Crime genre?
DQ in reserve
IQ1: Was your nickname Pip in Great Expectations?
IQ2: Did Humphrey Bogart play you in The Big Sleep?
IQ3: Are you the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s first novel?
Not Philip Marlowe.
Not Prince Philip.
DQ.
Philip Something, I think, but I can’t remember the last name so take a DQ.
Still not Philip Marlowe.
Still not Pickwick.
P
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with P
- From literature
- By an American author
- Created after 1950
- Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy
- Creator not still alive
- American character
- Could be alive today, if real
- Considered a “good guy”
- Not associated with NYC
- Not crime genre
DQ: Protagonist?
2 DQs reserved.
Pirrip
DQ: Adapted to visual medium such as film or TV?
IQ1: Did you fulfill an ancient prophecy in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and become King Edmund the Just?
IQ2: Are you a Douglas Adams character named after a British vehicle?
IQ3: Are you Don Quixote’s squire?
Neither Edmund Pevensie, Ford Prefect, nor Sancho Panza.
P
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with P
- From literature
- By an American author
- Created after 1950
- Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy
- Creator not still alive
- American character
- Could be alive today, if real
- Considered a “good guy”
- Not associated with NYC
- Not crime genre
- Protagonist
- Adapted to visual medium such as film or TV
IQ: Did you have a Complaint?
IQ: Are you arguably the greatest Hold 'em player of all time?
Still not Portnoy.
DQ.
That’s Phil Hellmuth.
DQ: TV show still on the air?
IQ1: Did you drive the Convert-a-Car #3 in Wacky Races?
IQ2: Did Jack Nicholson play you in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?
IQ3: Are you a preacher who has the words “LOVE” tattooed on the knuckles of one hand and “HATE” tattooed on the other?
DQ: in a film created after 1990?
Not … Penelope Pitstop? (I don’t really think that’s right, but she’s the only ‘P’ I can think of from that show.)
DQ.
DQ.
P
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with P
- From literature
- By an American author
- Created after 1950
- Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy
- Creator not still alive
- American character
- Could be alive today, if real
- Considered a “good guy”
- Not associated with NYC
- Not crime genre
- Protagonist
- Adapted to visual medium such as film or TV
- TV show not still on the air
- Not in a film created after 1990