I am not Franz Joseph
I am not Franz Ferdinand
I am not Florence Henderson
DQ: Did you die before 1900?
DQ: Were you a novelist?
The letter is F
- I am female
- I am real
- I am an artist as defined above
- My last name begins with F
- I am Americam
- I am deceased
- I am not an actress
- I am a writer of some kind
- I died before 1980
- I was born before 1900
- I am not a poet
- I died after 1900
- I am not a novelist
IQ1: Was the musical Showboat based on your work?
IQ2: Did you base the fictional Yoknapatawpha County on your home in Mississippi?
IQ3: Did you implore a classical composer to rock you?
I am not Edna Ferber
DQ
I am not Falco
IQ1: Are you part of a company of dwarves setting out to free Erebor?
IQ2: Was your brother part of the Fellowship of the Ring?
IQ3: Are you the Ent who rescues Merry and Pippen? (He’s better known by another name, but he has many…)
I should probably not admit this… I do not like Tolkien. I know all three of your IQ’s are from his books, but I have no idea. I’ll throw out Frodo as an answer to one of them, as Frodo is one of the names I know off the top of my head.
IOW, three DQs for you
Fanny Farmer? Cookbooks?
Make that Fannie Farmer
Sorry If I broke Protocol on asking questions - I had not read earlier in this thread
1Q1. Did you write cookbooks until around 1913?
Doesn’t matter, Labtrash, as you are correct!
I am Fannie Farmer, author of the Boston Cooking - School Cook Book!
Wow ! It was just a shot in the dark, too (I’ve lurked in this thread, but haven’t participated until just now)! Figures, I’m traveling the next couple of days, but I will do my best to keep this going!
We’re up to G, correct?
Well done, Labtrash! Take it away! G would be fun, but it’s your call…
Oh, dear, you mustn’t admit that! Not that Tolkien is so dear to me, but now I shall be forced to use this information against you in a future round. 
These are Fili from The Hobbit, Faramir from The Lord of the Rings and Fangorn, better known as Treebeard, also from The Lord of the Rings.
Welcome to thread, Labtrash - nice entrance!
This was William Faulkner.
Yes, Jimmy Fallon.
Edward FitzGerald.
Fred Rogers, everybody’s favorite kindly neighbor, in GQ.
Way to go, LabTrash!
OK, I think I have one
I’m going off the alphabetical and I am jumping to the letter R
This will probably be a very short game !
One thing - this DQ thing - basically, if I don’t know what you’re asking, you are DQ’d?
So, let’s have at it:
R
DQ in these threads doesn’t mean disqualified - it’s shorthand for “direct question.” The game works in two parts: indirect questions (IQs) and direct questions (DQs).
Initially, everybody has to ask indirect questions. You think of somebody whose name begins with the appropriate letter and ask it. If you (the answerer) know the answer, you’d say “I’m not [fill in the blank].” If you don’t, then the questioner gets a DQ, which is a yes-or-no question. Questioners earn one DQ for every IQ that stumps the answerer. Convention is that we ask no more than three IQs at a time, and we often reserve DQs for later. Here are a couple of examples for the letter J.
Example 1: The answerer knows the person referred to in the IQ:
Questioner: Are you the lord and savior of one of the world’s major religions?
Answerer: I’m not Jesus Christ.
Example 2: the answerer does not know the person referred to in the IQ:
Questioner: Did you and your brother lead a gang of outlaws in the old west?
Answerer: You get a DQ.
Questioner: That was Jesse James. ok, DQ: Are you male?
Answerer: Yes, I’m male.
A couple of conventions we’ve generally been using:
We don’t ask more than 3 IQs at a time.
DQs can be reserved if necessary (this happens most often when there are DQs pending, but it happens other times as well).
DQs can be transferred (this generally happens late in a game when we’re close to stumped)
The answerer posts a list of answered DQs.
Have I missed anything? Everyone should feel free to add anything I’ve overlooked.
I’ll get us started on R.
IQ: Did you have a costly fumble the weekend before last?
IQ: Were you the sole survivor from the Nostromo?
IQ: Did you build it, so that he would come?
Not Ridley (although, being a NE fan, I was NOT happy about it
Not Ripley
Not Ray Cansella
QUESTION: No looking up answers, correct? I admit I looked up Ray Cansella’s last name, but knew it was a Field of Dreams reference
IQ1: Were you killed whilst in pursuit of “Wop” May?
IQ2: Did you order “asparagus” planted in Normandy?
IQ3: If you weren’t called by your name, would you retain that dear perfection which you owe without that title?