IQs:
1. Are you Shrek’s love interest?
2. Did the CIA plot to kill you with poisoned cigars?
3. Has your name been familiar to theater students for decades, since it’s on the plain yellow covers of the plays your company publishes?
Pink Floyd - Roger Waters named the lead character of The Wall after the band in which he was a member (reworded from “his band” before David Gilmour and the ghost of Syd Barrett kick my ass), which was named after two separate blues musicians.
Fezzik, from The Princess Bride
Professor Farnsworth, from Futurama
IQ1: Did you direct It’s a Wonderful Life?
IQ2: Did you write The Metamorphosis?
IQ3: Did you have a hit with your daughter that featured Southern California slang circa 1981?
IQs:
1. Were you a unibrowed Mexican painter?
2. Did you write “Fart Proudly”, AKA “A Letter to a Royal Academy about Farting”, among your other accomplishments?
3. Do you host The Tonight Show?
Did Ray Bradbury include your name in a book title? - Yes, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Were you one of the Pink Ladies? - Frenchie, in Grease
Were you the in-the-field, Action Guy reporter for FYI? - Frank Fontana, on Murphy Brown
DQs:
Won a top award in his field?
White?
IQs:
Were you RNC chair in the Eighties?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you the first crewmember of USS Discovery to die?
1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White
Was that Frank Capra? (Note that I’ve already awarded a DQ for this.)
F
1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White
12. Not European
13. Known for writing
14. Did not die before 1990
1, Real
2. Dead
3. First name begins with F
4. Died after 1900
5. Male
6. Known for the Arts
7. Not American
8. Died after 1960
9. Not known for the performing arts
10. Have won several awards in my field, at least one of which can be considered a top award
11. White
12. Not European
13. Known for writing
14. Did not die before 1990
15. Best known for writing in English