Did you only ever get to say one word on Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Were you and your brother noted American musicians?
Were you a gangly schoolteacher who ran afoul of the Headless Horseman?
IQs:
1. Did you reportedly get upset at a screening of 2001, after the scene in which HAL turns off the astronauts’ life support, saying “HAL’s breaking First Law! He’s breaking First Law”?
2. Were you a Texan philanthropist–human, not porcine?
3. Were you a superhero, until you were forced to quit for fifteen years following a public ban on superheroic activities?
IQ1: Are you an extremely hirsute member of the Addams Family?
IQ2: Are you an NBA Al Star nicknamed “The Answer”?
IQ3: Were you disinherited by your father for your support of Richard the Lionheart?
IQs:
1. Did you have a hit with “Fancy”?
2. Were you president of Ford and CEO of Chrysler?
3. According to the second sentence of a certain novel, some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in your purse, and nothing particular to interest you on shore, did you think you would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world?
IQ1: Are you a psychotic cartoon mouse who inflicts extreme harm on your feline costar?
IQ2: Are you a comic mouse who throws bricks at the head of the feline who loves you?
IQ3: Are you a former guitarist for Guns n Roses?
1 Fictional
2 Male
3 Last name starts with I
4 Not American
5 Presumably Caucasian
6 Created after 1950
7 First appeared in prose fiction
8 Created after 1980
9 Certainly an important character, but not really one of the main cast
Did you only ever get to say one word on Monty Python’s Flying Circus? - The “It’s…” Man
Were you and your brother noted American musicians? - Yes, Ira (and George) Gershwin
Were you a gangly schoolteacher who ran afoul of the Headless Horseman? - Yes, Ichabod Crane
DQ:
European?
IQs:
Were you Sid Caesar’s female lead?
Are you a Latinx author of a noted South American family?
Did you try to possess Lt. Cmdr. Data?
1 was not Bobbie Gentry (whose song “Fancy” was covered by McEntire) but Iggy Azalea, who had an entirely different song named “Fancy”. Correct on Ishmael.
DQ: created after 2000?
IQs:
1. Are you the Barefoot Contessa–or, rather, is that the name of your former store and current cooking show?
2. Were you a philosopher with a categorical imperative?
3. Did you write about a gangly schoolteacher who ran afoul of the Headless Horseman?
IQ1: Did you co-create Mickey Mouse?
IQ2: Did you compose music for Monty Python and The Rutles?
IQ3: Were you the Rolling Stones’ original keyboardist, who was kicked out the band by their manager for being “too normal looking”?
1 Fictional
2 Male
3 Last name starts with I
4 Not American
5 Presumably Caucasian
6 Created after 1950
7 First appeared in prose fiction
8 Created after 1980
9 Certainly an important character, but not really one of the main cast
10 Created by an American author or authors
11 Of European descent
12 Not created after 2000