IQ1: Are you an NFL running back for whom the Minnesota Vikings traded 5 players and 8 draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys in 1989?
IQ2: Did you start playing for Florida State as a quarterback at the age of 26 and eventually win the Heisman Trophy in 2000?
IQ3: Are you another FSU QB who won the Heisman in 2014, the youngest player ever to do so?
- Ventriloquist Paul Winchell
- Sarah Weddington
- Tuesday Weld
DQ1) Created after 1960?
DQ2) Appear in a series of books or stories?
DQ3) European?
- Nero Wolfe (I’m actually reading one atm.)
2 DQs
3 DQs, but I think I should know the Cowboy
W
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with W
- Originally from a novel or short story
- Human
- Has appeared on TV and movies, but is not known for that.
- Created since 1900
- Not American
- Not Sci-fi/fantasy genre
- Created before 1960
- Appeared in a series of books or stories
- European
#1 was Wonder Warthog. #2 was Bill Watterson. #3 was Jean-Antoine Watteau.
DQ: Action-adventure stories?
2 DQs reserved.
IQ1) Are you a detective in a long series of novels by Ruth Rendell?
IQ2) Are you a voracious reader and eater from Montenegro?
IQ3) Did Boston fans say it was you “and Sain, then pray for rain”?
Herschel Walker, Chris Weinke, Jameis Winston
DQ: From the UK?
holding 2 DQs
Correct. (Been a few years since I last read one.)
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Sir William Wallace. (My grandmother was a Wallace; Ellerslie is a traditional family name for girls.)
Two DQs reserved.
IQ: Were you an army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan, who went back to England and took diggings with an unusual roommate?
IQ2: Were you the son of the Duke of Denver?
IQ3: Were you the best-known member of the Drones Club?
Not Inspector Wexford
Still not Nero Wolfe
DQ
Not Dr. Watson. Was Doyle’s Watson in Afganistan, or was it only Martin Freeman?
W
- Fictional
- Male
- First name does not start with W
- Originally from a novel or short story
- Human
- Has appeared on TV and movies, but is not known for that.
- Created since 1900
- Not American
- Not Sci-fi/fantasy genre
- Created before 1960
- Appeared in a series of books or stories
- European
- Not from action/adventure series
- From the UK
What’s a Martin Freeman?
I just checked A Study in Scarlet on Gutenberg. The first two paragraphs:
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy’s country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties.
The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
Maiwand is near Kandahar, in south-central Afghanistan.
And now I want to know what “the course prescribed for surgeons in the army” covered… 
Boston Braves fans said it was (Warren) Spahn and Sain then pray for rain."
Are you from a country that speaks a Germanic language?
Martin Freeman is the actor who plays Dr. Watson in the Cumberbatch modern-times Sherlock. I remembered that he was injured in Afghanistan, but it’s been a while since I’ve read Doyle, and might have guessed (incorrectly, I see) his Watson was injured in India or maybe Africa.
And I missed these 2 IQ’s, somehow.
I am not Bertie Wooster, but I am
Lord Peter Wimsey
phew…
Good job, SCA!
“Fatal battle,” indeed. According to Wiki, the Berkshires suffered 62% casualties at Maiwand, and another regiment 64%. Total British casualties were around 39%.
Well done, SCAdian!
Well done, yet again, SCAdian!
Previous IQs:
Did you have prominent Indian chiefs appear in your Wild West show? - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
In a cartoon, did Uncle Sam observe a fight between you and your former political mentor? - William Howard Taft, tussling with T.R. during the bitter GOP nomination battle of 1912: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/For_Auld_Lang_Syne_-_Leonard_Raven-Hill.jpg
Did the FBI note that you were acting oddly while hospitalized? - Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Another William x3!
I am N.
IQs:
- Were you Harry Seacombe’s character on The Goon Show?
- Were you aka The Tin Woodman?
- Have you been portrayed by Emma Roberts and Tracy Ryan?
Grats SCAdian!
IQ1: Are you the seven-eyed patron wizard of Fafhrd the northerner?
IQ2: Are you a character from Marvel comics, a Japanese-American sorceress and leader of the Runaways?
IQ3: Are you a sorceress from the *Slayers *anime series, rival of Lina Inverse?
Three DQs.
Not Ningauble of the Seven Eyes.
DQ.
DQ.