Correct, Utgard-Loki and Usher.
DQs:
- Animal?
- From a work of science fiction?
DQ Roundup
- Fictional
- Female
- Only name starts with U
- Not created by an American author or authors
- Created after 1900
- Created by a European author or authors
- Originally from a work of prose fiction
- Created after 1950
- Not a protagonist
- Created by a UK author or authors
- Not human
- Not a mere animal
- Not from science fiction
Previous IQs:
Were you the heroine of Kate Atkinson’s novel Life After Life? - Ursula Todd
Were you the villain of Disney’s The Little Mermaid? - Yes, Ursula
Did your white bikini in a movie make a, er, big splash? - Yes, Ursula Andress
Ursula x3!
DQs:
Has appeared in a movie?
IQs:
Were you a terrible giant spider who ate light?
Did Frodo use this as a traveling name to avoid attracting attention?
Was Elizabeth your wife and Stamper your right-hand man?
Yes, I am Ungoliant from Tolkien’s The Simarillion!
Of course somebody who names himself after a Tolkien character would get it. Grats EH!
Uncle Shelby (whose book of ABZ’s I remember fondly from childhood, and I understand Silverstein went on to publish actual children’s books bearing his name), Uma Thurman, and of course you are correct about Uriel.
I strongly suspected Tolkien after the UK and non-human non-SF, but lacked the Silmarillion knowledge - Congrats EH!
Great job, EH!
Thanks, all, and good one, KO! Not your average cute little house spider, to say the least. Her name just popped into my head, and she fit all the clues, so I thought I’d take a guess. For more: Ungoliant | The One Wiki to Rule Them All | Fandom
My other IQs:
Did Frodo use this as a traveling name to avoid attracting attention? - Mr. Underhill
Was Elizabeth your wife and Stamper your right-hand man? - Francis Urquhart, in the original British House of Cards
Our next letter is naturally
V
IQ1: Are you one of Archie Andrews’s girlfriends?
IQ2: Did you have a hit with “Moondance”?
IQ3: Were you a pitch man for milk who talked to Vern?
IQs:
- Are you currently being portrayed by Jenna Coleman in a TV series?
- Did you unite the Gauls against the Romans in Julius Caesar’s time?
- Did you play Napoleon Solo in TV’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.?
Not Veronica Lodge, Van Morrison or… dunno.
Dunno, not Vercingetorix (sp?) or Robert Vaughn.
Jim “Know what I mean Vern?” Varney
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Are you one of the parents of the current bass guitarist that plays in a band with David Lee Roth?
IQ2: Are you the other parent?
IQ3: Are you the hockey mask-wearing psycho from the *Halloween *movies?
#1 is Queen Victoria in Victoria.
Correct on the others.
DQ: Male?
IQs:
- Are you an android created by a robot in order to attack the robot’s maker, but who decides to become the robot maker’s teammate instead?
- Is encountering your generator often a hair-raising experience?
- Did Brian Blessed play you in the 1980’s version of Flash Gordon?
Not Valerie Bertinelli or Eddie Van Halen; not Jason Vorhees.
Not Vincent, Van de Graaff or… dunno.
V.
- fictional
- male
#1. I will re-ask. (I’m not coming up with a Vincent android, though.)
#2 is correct.
#3 is Prince Vultan.
DQ: Created by an American author or authors?
IQs:
- In the Marvel Universe, are you an android created by a robot in order to attack the robot’s maker, but who decides to become the robot maker’s teammate instead?
- Did Paul Henreid play you in Casablanca?
- Were you the French author who wrote A Philosophical Dictionary?
Swept…
IQ1: Did Ryan Reynolds play you in a 2002 film?
IQ2: Are you a blacksmithing god in the Roman pantheon?
IQ3: Are Rama and Krishna incarnations of you?
IQ: Are you a world-famous Russian concert pianist?
IQ: Are you the current president of Hungary?
IQ: Were you the first president of Czechoslovakia?
“Vincent” was just a guess; go ahead and take a DQ. Not Victor Laszlo, and not Voltaire.
Dunno, not Vulcan, and not Vishnu.
Not Vladimir Ashkenazy, dunno, and not Vaclav Havel.
V.
- fictional
- male
- not created by an American author or authors