Are you a character in a movie whose wife leaves him, and who then learns how to take care of their son on his own, only to have her return and fight him for custody?
Did Marlon Brando play you in Apocalypse Now?
Were you a Catholic priest who wrote detective stories as well as translating the Vulgate into English?
Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral?
Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house?
Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform?
Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral? - Yes, Rudolph Valentino
Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house? - Ronald Reagan
Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform? - Sen. Roscoe Conkling
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project?
Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death?
Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge?
Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project? - John A. Roebling
Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death? - Washington Roebling
Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge? - Emily Roebling
DQs:
First name start with R?
Living?
Best known for the Arts?
IQs:
Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?”
Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds?
Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?
Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?” - Not Roseanne, but Rhoda Morganstern, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds? - Yes, Radagast the Brown
Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye
DQs:
American?
Political/military?
IQs:
Did Pontius Pilate say he would free you?
Did he say he would free you, too?
Did you own the Cafe Americain?
Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official? - British actor Rory Kinnear, in the RSC’s Othello and in three recent James Bond films
Did you write the Dred Scott decision? - Yes, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch? - Yes, the title character (John Goodman) in King Ralph
DQ:
Best known as an athlete?
IQs:
Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for?
Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes?
Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor?
Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for? - Yes, they and Basil Rathbone all played Sherlock Holmes
Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes? - Not Ratatouille, but Roger Rabbit
Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor? - Robert Reich
DQs:
Best known for a single incident?
Naturalized as a child?
IQs:
Does Sterling Archer once use this name when undercover?
Was Stannis your brother?
Was Stannis your brother, too?