IQs:
1. Did you (allegedly) say “Entities should not be multiplied without necessity”, which is usually simply rephrased?
2. (allegedly) Asked why you rob banks, did you reply “That’s where the money is”?
3. Are you (definitely) She-Hulk?
[cough.]
Previous IQs:
Did Queen Victoria complain that you “always addressed [her] as if [she] was a public meeting”? - Yes, Prime Minister William Gladstone
Did you play Commodore Decker? - Yes, actor William Windom, on Star Trek
Did you like to take pictures of your dogs dressed in human clothes? - 'Tis this guy: Photos: Four decades of William Wegman’s Weimaraners | PBS News Weekend
William x3 redux!
DQ:
Best known for politics/military?
IQs:
Was Jack Ryan writing about you, and discussed his research with Capt. Ramius?
Were you AKA Hopalong Cassidy?
Were you a prominent British abolitionist with a last name eleven letters long?
Whoops, sorry!
Take a DQ.
I am not Woolworth.
I am not… Wilma Flintstone?
I am not William of Ockham.
I am not Willie Sutton.
Take a DQ.
I am not William Halsey.
I am not William Cassidy.
I am not William Wilberforce.
( William x 3 ) x 3 ! (latter symbol not meaing factorial)
W.
- Real.
- First name does not begin with W.
- Male.
- Dead.
- Died before 1924.
- American.
- Well known, but perhaps not best known, for politics/military.
1 was Jennifer Walters.
DQ: died after 1850?
W.
- Real.
- First name does not begin with W.
- Male.
- Dead.
- Died before 1924.
- American.
- Well known, but perhaps not best known, for politics/military.
- Died after 1850.
#1 was William S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Wally Gator.
DQs:
- Known as a writer?
- Died before 1880?
W.
- Real.
- First name does not begin with W.
- Male.
- Dead.
- Died before 1924.
- American.
- Well known, but perhaps not best known, for politics/military.
- Died after 1850.
- Also well known as a writer.
- Died after 1880.
Previous IQs:
Was Jack Ryan writing about you, and discussed his research with Capt. Ramius? - Yes, Adm. William Halsey, in The Hunt for Red October
Were you AKA Hopalong Cassidy? - Cassidy was played by William Boyd, not William Cassidy
Were you a prominent British abolitionist with a last name eleven letters long? - Yes, William Wilberforce
William x3 redux redux!
DQ:
Known for an American Civil War role?
IQs:
Did you marry Mary Morstan?
Did you write a famous letter to the elders of Touro Synagogue?
Were you a pilot who liked playing with toy dinosaurs?
IQs:
- Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
- Are you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Sorcerer?
- Are you the police chief of Springfield on The Simpsons?
I am not… John Watson?
Take a DQ.
I am not… Wiley Post?
I am not Wimpy. (Well, actually, I am a little wimpy, but…)
Take 2 DQs.
W.
- Real.
- First name does not begin with W.
- Male.
- Dead.
- Died before 1924.
- American.
- Well known, but perhaps not best known, for politics/military.
- Died after 1850.
- Also well known as a writer.
- Died after 1880.
- Known for an American Civil War role.
Previous IQs:
Did you marry Mary Morstan? - Yes, Dr. John H. Watson, in the tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Did you write a famous letter to the elders of Touro Synagogue? - The first President: From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport …
Were you a pilot who liked playing with toy dinosaurs? - Wash, on Firefly
DQ:
Confederate?
Held general’s rank?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s SECNAV?
Later a well-known writer, did you serve at the Battle of New Hope Church?
A Tennessean, did you write about your adventures with “Company Aytch”?
IQs:
1. Does your recipe for what must be an enormous cake begin “Take fifty eggs…”?
2. Did you found Apple with Steve Jobs?
3. Were you shomer Shabbos?
I am not Gideon Welles.
Dangit. Must be someone in the Army of Tennessee. Take a DQ.
I am not Sam Watkins.
Take a DQ.
I am not Steve Wozniak.
Take another DQ.
W.
- Real.
- First name does not begin with W.
- Male.
- Dead.
- Died before 1924.
- American.
- Well known, but perhaps not best known, for politics/military.
- Died after 1850.
- Also well known as a writer.
- Died after 1880.
- Known for an American Civil War role.
- Union.
- Held general’s rank.
IQ: Did you write Ben Hur?
We have a winner!
Yes, I am
Lew Wallace
lawyer, politician, general, and author of Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ, considered the most influential Christian book of the 19th Century, adapted in many forms including the 1959 epic film with Charlton Heston in the title role.
Great guess @Prof.Pepperwinkle , and you are now up!