Oui, bien sur, je suis
A director of the railway, Poirot’s old friend and his near-constant companion in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. I don’t think his first name is ever revealed.
Well done, Prof. P.! Sorry for the delay; crazy busy here.
It happens to all of us.
I am…
IQs:
Did it come out, after your death, that you had committed plagiarism and that you had overstated your ties to the late Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Did you disappear in Mexico as an old man?
Were you defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Congrats, Prof.!
IQs:
1. Does the Doctor Who episode “The Unicorn and the Wasp” involve your real-life disappearance and return?
2. Did you invent dynamite, not the doorknocker?
3. Did you write/draw Dykes to Watch Out For and a “fun” memoir?
#2. I am not Algernon Swinburne (?)
Take 2 or 3 DQs.
#1. I am not Agatha Christie.
#2. I am not Alfred Nobel.
Take a DQ for #3.
Previous IQs:
Did it come out, after your death, that you had committed plagiarism and that you had overstated your ties to the late Dwight D. Eisenhower? - Stephen Ambrose
Did you disappear in Mexico as an old man? - Not Algernon Swinburne, but Ambrose Bierce
Were you defeated at the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Ambrose x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
American?
IQs:
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO?
Is something you said an episode title of The West Wing?
Do you have a small and, I thought, disappointing museum in San Francisco?
DQs:
#2. I am not Aristotle. (wild guess)
#3. I am not John James Audubon. (also a wild guess).
Take 1 to 3 DQs.
Previous IQs:
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO? - Col. Adelbert Ames of the 20th Maine, later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi
Is something you said an episode title of The West Wing? - On his deathbed, John Adams supposedly said: Jefferson Lives | West Wing Wiki | Fandom
Do you have a small and, I thought, disappointing museum in San Francisco? - Ansel Adams
DQs:
Would be alive today, if real?
Originally from a book or short story?
First appeared since 1950?
IQs:
Is the U.S. Army’s main battle tank named after you?
Are you a once and future gubernatorial candidate in your state?
Were you a Reagan State Department official who got into legal trouble?
3 (artist of Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home) was Alison Bechdel.
DQ: first name begins with A?
IQs:
1. Are you in Bridgerton as Lady Whistledown? …well, the voice that narrates her gossipy publications?
2. Are you a deserter from the Landfall military, is your husband Marko a deserter from the army of its enemy Wreath, and along with your daughter Hazel are all of you on the run from both of them in the Image sci-fi/fantasy series Saga?
3. Referring to your style of film making, did you say “Everyone and everything is interesting”?
DQs:
#3. I am not Alexander Haig.
Take 2 DQs.
#3. I am not Alfred Hitchcock (??)
Take 2 or 3 DQs.
1 was Julie Andrews; 2 was Alana; 3 was Andy Warhol.
DQs:
1. from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)?
2. main character?
3. created by American(s)?
DQs:
Previous IQs:
Is the U.S. Army’s main battle tank named after you? - Gen. Creighton Abrams (the M-1 tank)
Are you a once and future gubernatorial candidate in your state? - Stacey Abrams, Democrat of Georgia
Were you a Reagan State Department official who got into legal trouble? - Not Al Haig (don’t remember any legal trouble he had from his time as SECSTATE), but Elliott Abrams, caught up in the Iran-Contra Scandal
Abrams x3!
DQs:
First appeared before 1900?
An admirable character, all in all?
From a poem or song?
IQs:
Did you carry the world on your shoulders?
Did you kill your very large, evil grandfather when he tried to grab you?
The last we saw you, were you headed out to sea, a young but deadly woman on a sailing ship?
IQs:
1. Are you credited as the world’s first computer programmer, though you lived in the 19th century?
2. Was your husband “Carlos Danger”, and given his real name one can understand why he would choose an alias like that?
3. Were you that husband?
DQs:
#1. I am not Atlas.
Take 2 DQs.
#1. I am not Ava Lovelace.
Take 2 DQs.
2 was Huma Abedin; 3 was Anthony Weiner.
DQs:
1. first appeared after 1850?
2. from a poem?
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