Slow_Moving_Vehicle:
IQ1: Are you the first American novelist of international reputation?
IQ2: Are you the writer of whom Hemingway said “All modern American literature comes from one book by [you] called…"?
IQ3: Are you a Spanish woman whose divorce from her Anglo-Welsh husband led to far-reaching changes in English law and culture?
1 - Not Samuel Clemens, James Fenimore Cooper. 2 - Not Willa Cather, this one was Samuel Clemens. The novel that Hemingway considered the source of all American literature was Huckleberry Finn. 3 - Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII.
DQ1: Sidekick to the story’s protagonist?
DQ2: From an Ian Fleming Novel?
One DQ reserved.
3 (the paleontologist) was Edward Drinker Cope.
IQs:
Were you a lawyer who claimed “I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose”?
Did you create Dick Tracy?
Were you a real-life criminal portrayed by someone who also played Dick Tracy?
One DQ reserved.
Prof.Pepperwinkle:
IQs:
Are you the family patriarch in Mario Puzo’s bestseller?
Are you a psychologist named in the title of an Irving Wallace novel?
Did Mary Tyler Moore laugh at your funeral?
Not Don Vito Corleone, dunno, and not Chuckles the Clown.
De_La_Rue:
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IQs:
Were you a lawyer who claimed “I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose”?
Did you create Dick Tracy?
Were you a real-life criminal portrayed by someone who also played Dick Tracy?..
Not the great Clarence Darrow, not Chester Gould, and dunno.
C.
fictional
male
last name starts with C
not originally from film
created by an American author or authors
originally from literature
created after 1899
not protagonist/good guy
arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
not created after 1969
not created before 1960
not what would usually be called countercultural
adapted into film or TV
not from fantasy/sci-fi
did not die in the original story
not considered a bad guy/villain in the story
not from a mystery
a sidekick to the story’s protagonist
not from an Ian Fleming novel
IQs:
Are you the family patriarch in Mario Puzo’s bestseller?
Are you a psychologist named in the title of an Irving Wallace novel?
Did Mary Tyler Moore laugh at your funeral?
Correct, Dr. Chapman of The Chapman Report , Correct.
1 DQ reserved.
IQ1: Are you the butler/sparring partner of an inept inspector in the French gendarmerie?
IQ2: Are you a Panamanian-based ornithologist and moderator of our own beloved SDMB?
IQ3: Are you a Calabrian-born mafioso with an Irish pseudonym, famous for your influence-peddling for the Mob, who refused to allow your face to be filmed while testifying at the Kefaver hearings, resulting in the cameras focussing solely on your hands?
Last DQ: Asian?
Slow_Moving_Vehicle:
IQ1: Are you the butler/sparring partner of an inept inspector in the French gendarmerie?
IQ2: Are you a Panamanian-based ornithologist and moderator of our own beloved SDMB?
IQ3: Are you a Calabrian-born mafioso with an Irish pseudonym, famous for your influence-peddling for the Mob, who refused to allow your face to be filmed while testifying at the Kefaver hearings, resulting in the cameras focussing solely on your hands?..
Not Cato, Colibri and dunno.
C.
fictional
male
last name starts with C
not originally from film
created by an American author or authors
originally from literature
created after 1899
not protagonist/good guy
arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
not created after 1969
not created before 1960
not what would usually be called countercultural
adapted into film or TV
not from fantasy/sci-fi
did not die in the original story
not considered a bad guy/villain in the story
not from a mystery
a sidekick to the story’s protagonist
not from an Ian Fleming novel
not Asian
No more IQs, but you may ask any earned DQs by noon EST Sun.
DQ: From historical fiction?
DQ: Set in the 19th century?
last DQ: Are you Clevinger from Catch-22 ?
That’s an “Are you Firstname Lastname” question, but no, I am not.
That’s what I meant by my last DQ.
3 (the criminal played by someone who also played Dick Tracy) is Clyde Barrow.
DQ: setting of book is more than thirty years before publication?
One DQ reserved.
Final DQ: book is set during a war?
C.
fictional
male
last name starts with C
not originally from film
created by an American author or authors
originally from literature
created after 1899
not protagonist/good guy
arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
not created after 1969
not created before 1960
not what would usually be called countercultural
adapted into film or TV
not from fantasy/sci-fi
did not die in the original story
not considered a bad guy/villain in the story
not from a mystery
a sidekick, sort of, to the story’s protagonist
not from an Ian Fleming novel
not Asian
from historical fiction
not set in the 19th century
setting of book is less than thirty years before publication
part of the book takes place during a war
Please ask your earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST Tuesday.
My best guess is Sargent Carter from Gomer Pyle.