Correct on the first two; the third is Hagrid, from the Harry Potter series (Norbert was the baby dragon whom he eventually had to send away when the wee nipper got too big and too dangerous).
DQ:
Best known for orchestral music?
IQs:
Did you write The Planets?
Did you make a robot double of your far-distant, unlamented wife Stella?
Were you a Civil War general wounded at Gettysburg and called “the Superb,” who narrowly lost the presidential election of 1880?
Congratulations @Elendil_s_Heir !
Thanks! Good one, Prof. P. I was reading about Holst (a Brit born and raised, despite his name) and listening to that suite just a few days back.
My other previous IQs:
Did you make a robot double of your far-distant, unlamented wife Stella? - Harcourt Fenton Mudd, on ST:TOS
Were you a Civil War general wounded at Gettysburg and called “the Superb,” who narrowly lost the presidential election of 1880? - Winfield Scott Hancock
Lemme see about our next letter…
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Congrats!
IQs:
1. Did you play a high schooler romantically pursued by another high schooler, though your character was only interested in money and guys with it?
2. Did you write the story on which Field of Dreams was based?
3. Did you (allegedly) say that ending a sentence with a preposition was something up with which you would not put?
Dunno, not Oprah Winfrey and dunno.
Dunno, dunno and not the redoubtable Winston Churchill (although as I’ve heard it, he rejected the rule that you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition).
1 was Tuesday Weld, as Thalia on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; 2 was W.P. Kinsella.
DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with W?
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That sounds familiar, but dunno x3.
W.
#1 was Mason Williams.
#3 was Carol Wayne.
Correct on Oprah.
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Ignore the 3rd IQ - it was a wrong query
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IQs:
1. Were you assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?
2. Did you write The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia?
3. Did you have a pet black widow spider named Homer?
Not William McKinley, dunno and dunno.
W.
2 was Fred Worth; 3 was Wednesday Addams (because yesterday was Wednesday).
DQs:
1. first appeared after 1970?
2. from film?
W.
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IQs:
1. Did you have a recipe for a very large cake that began “Take 40 eggs…”
2. Were you a news anchorman who told us that was the way it was?
3. At the end of your first appearance, does your commissioner friend recount to you how a masked, mysterious figure solved the Case of the Criminal Syndicate–but is it revealed afterwards that, unbeknownst to him, you are the secret identity of that mysterious figure?