Names are used in their most common form.
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The first names of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Steven Grover Cleveland, and others are usually used only in biographies and encyclopaedias. Thus Wilson can be used only as a W, Cleveland as a G/C, Coolidge as a C, &c.
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If a middle name or initial is commonly used, it can be used for IQs: B J Hunnicutt as a J, Harry S Truman as an S, John Quincy Adams as a Q, J Pierpont Morgan as a P, &c. Middle names or initials should not, however, be used for targets.
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When asking/answering DQs, the “last name” is the last word in the name as commonly used, and the “first name” is the first word. For the purpose of the game, Red Cloud’s first name is “Red” and his last name is “Cloud”, and David Lloyd George’s last name is “George” (even though his actual surname is “Lloyd George”).
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If the target is generally known by a single-word name – eg, Liberace – or only has a single-word name – eg, Pocahontas – a DQ of “First/Last name starts with…?” should be answered “Only name starts with…”
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The target or the IQ reference does not have to be human. Aliens (Mr Gazoo), real (Fala) or fictional (Jad-Bal-Ja) animals, robots (Bender), &c, can be used.