IQs:
- Did you draw theoriginal illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
- Are you Thomas Hughes’s best known character?
- Were you a gap-toothed British comic actor best known for playing cads and leches?
Not Tenniel.
DQ.
Not Terry-Thomas.
If Ann-Margret married Terry-Thomas – she still wouldn’t have a last name!
– Laugh-In
#1 was Correct.
#2 is Tom Brown, of Tom Brown’s Schooldays
#3 is Correct.
DQ: Last name starts with T?
IQs:
- Did you write The Night The Bed Fell?
- Did you write Anna Karenina?
- Was your wife named Goldberry?
DQ.
Not Tolstoi.
Not Tom Bombadil.
T
1 Real
2. Male
3. Not known for the sciences
4. Last name starts with T
#1 was James Thurber. Correct on the others.
DQ: Living?
IQs:
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Did Jesus invite you to touch his wounds?
Are you the best-known person from Pinpoint, Ga.?
IQs:
- Did you play the lead on That Girl?
- Were you a Monkee?
- Did you paint “Hide and Seek” and “The Shop Girl”?
Not Gen George(?) Thomas.
Not Doubting Thomas.
DQ for This Probable Thomas.
Not Marlo Thomas.
Not Peter Tork.
Not … Thomas Gainsborough?
T
1 Real
2. Male
3. Not known for the sciences
4. Last name starts with T
5. Dead
Correct on 1 & 2. #3 was James Tissot.
DQ: Known from the Arts?
T
1 Real
2. Male
3. Not known for the sciences
4. Last name starts with T
5. Dead
6. Known from the Arts
Dammit, Discourse, if I want to quote I will say “Quote”, not “copy” and “paste”!
IQs:
- Did you have a hit with Tiptoe Thro’ The Tulips in the 1960’s?
- Are you possibly the inventor of the Lazy Susan?
- Did you paint “The Origin of the Milky Way”?
Previous IQs:
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - Yes, Gen. George H. Thomas
Did Jesus invite you to touch his wounds? - Yes, Doubting Thomas, the apostle
Are you the best-known person from Pinpoint, Ga.? - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Thomas x3!
DQ:
American?
IQs:
Were you a great warrior from whom a later great warrior took his middle name?
Were you Aaron Burr’s beloved (some said incestuously) daughter?
Were you the satyr-like butler in a truly terrible movie?
Not Tiny Tim.
DQ.
DQ.
Not Tecumseh. (Though I would argue Sherman was a soldier, not a warrior.)
Not Theodosia Burr.
DQ.
T
1 Real
2. Male
3. Not known for the sciences
4. Last name starts with T
5. Dead
6. Known from the Arts
7. American
Previous IQs:
Were you a great warrior from whom a later great warrior took his middle name? - Yes, Tecumseh / William Tecumseh Sherman
Were you Aaron Burr’s beloved (some said incestuously) daughter? - Yes, Theodosia
Were you the satyr-like butler in a truly terrible movie? - Torgo, in Manos: Hands of Fate
DQ:
Best known from the visual arts (acting, photography, sculpture, painting, etc.)?
IQs:
Did your wife and your mom both die on the same day?
Although not Jewish, did you play a rabbi in a recent miniseries?
Are you name-checked in a Grease song sung by a woman?
- Are you the main character of Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows of the Queen trilogy?
- Did you voice Tony the Tiger for years?
- Are you a fictional teen female detective whose best friend is Honey Wheeler?
Correct on Tiny Tim.
#2 was Thomas Jefferson.
#3 was Tintoretto.
DQ: Died after 1899?
1 DQ reserved.
Three DQs.
Not … Talia?
DQ.
Not Trixie Belden. (Much more interesting and realistic than Nancy Drew!)
T
1 Real
2. Male
3. Not known for the sciences
4. Last name starts with T
5. Dead
6. Known from the Arts
7. American
8. Known (but not best known) from the visual arts (acting, photography, sculpture, painting, etc.)
9. Died after 1899
I agree with Wiki that the visual arts and the performing arts are separate categories.
Previous IQs:
Did your wife and your mom both die on the same day? - Theodore Roosevelt
Although not Jewish, did you play a rabbi in a recent miniseries? - John Turturro, in HBO’s The Plot Against America
Are you name-checked in a Grease song sung by a woman? - “As for you, Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do…”
DQs:
Best known for the visual arts?
Died after 1950?
Won a top award in his field?
IQs:
Are you a syrup-chugging Vermont State Trooper?
Were you a world-weary theatre critic about whom David Sedaris wrote?
Were you a barmaid at Cheers?
Clarification: You are separating this from the performing arts?