What’s the full definition we use for “the arts” and “artist”?
IQ1. Not the Red Baron
IQ2. Not Rommel
IQ3. DQ for you!
Correct on Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen
Correct on Erwin Rommel
Romeo Montague. (Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2. JULIET: That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title.)
DQ: Are you a real person?
IQ1: Were you drugged by your brother, Prince Michael, on the eve of your coronation?
IQ2: Were you the distant cousin who impersonated #1 above?
IQ3: Did you kill #1 above, only to be killed by #2?
You, as the gamemaster this round, can ONLY look stuff up to ensure a correct answer to an IQ (indirect question) asked of you, if you don’t otherwise know. Otherwise, none of us can look anything up - it’s a game of knowledge, not research skills.
IQs:
Did aides marvel that you and a bitter rival were good chums after working hours?
Were you one of five in books, but one of three shown in a movie?
Did Gregory Hines bear your name as three different movie characters?
Surely you men a DQ?
Letter is R
- I am real.
Not Ronald Reagan ?
Probably a Tolkien reference, but no idea here
In Running Scared his name was Ray - not him
So one, possibly two, DQs
Not Rudolf
Not the other Rudolf
Crap, forgot the bad guy’s name. DQ
Seriously though, am I doing this right so far?
Correct on King Rudolf V of Ruritania.
Correct on Rudolf Rassendyll.
Rupert of Hentzau.
DQ: Are you male?
IQ1: Are you a 17th century French playwright noted for your mastery of the 12 syllable Alexandrine rhyme scheme?
IQ2: Are you a late 19th century French playwright who was consciously imitating the above writer?
IQ3: Are you a scandalous French poet who smuggled guns and slaves in Somalia?
I’ve been using variations on the following - a definition of ‘artist’ that includes visual artists, actors, dancers, musicians, singers, writers, poets, directors, playwrights, performance artists - anything that involves human creativity. If it turns out to be a ‘yes’, we can narrow it down from there; if it’s a ‘no’, it saves an awful lot of DQs.
D’oh! Yes. Thanks.
Yes, Reagan, who go along famously with Speaker Tip O’Neill after hours.
Radagast the Brown, a wizard from The Lord of the Rings. We see him, Gandalf and Saruman in The Hobbit. The two Blue Wizards are mentioned but not seen.
Yes, Ray - Hines played a Ray three times in three different movies. He was on Letterman once and couldn’t explain why screenwriters kept making him Rays.
Definitely.
DQ:
Alive?
IQs:
Did the butler offer to hold your trident?
Were you succeeded on your fictional throne by someone who wasn’t entitled to do so?
Did your brother joke about how he would tell the world something about you?
IQ1: Was God your co-pilot?
IQ2: Were you known for fighting oil-well fires?
IQ3: Did one of your companions say that he was just going outside and might be some time?
Hey - where’d everybody go?
Patience, my precioussss… 
(If Bilbo and Gollum had played Botticelli, it would have been a much longer book…)
Not Jean Racine
DQ for you
Not Rimbaud
Letter is R
- I am real.
- I am male.
DQ for the trident
DQ for throne
Not Mitt Romney
Letter is R
- I am real.
- I am male.
- I am dead
Not Robert Scott
Not Red Adair
DQ for you