IQ1: Did a singing group wonder whatever had happened to you?
IQ2: Did you speak for Wilbur’s horse?
IQ3: Did you play Tim O’Hara’s “uncle”?
Randolph Churchill, whose son Winston wore his robes as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Yes, Syngman Rhee - sorry, I overlooked that that had already been asked.
Yes, Rudolf Hess.
Sorry, I meant to write “singer”! I’ll waive my Churchill-earned DQ above.
IQs:
Were you a bigshot U.S. television exec?
Did you serve as a pilot, diplomat and writer, and marry a famous actress?
Are you a film director partial to Joseph Conrad?
IQ1: Are you a slide guitar virtuoso and producer?
IQ2: Were you the highest paid woman in rock in the late 1970s?
IQ3: Did you choose to have the tip of a finger amputated so you could get back to work earlier?
Right on Rocket Richard and Peter Paul Rubens; Rama is the avatar of Vishnu who is the title character in the Hindu epic poem The Ramayana.
I’ll reserve my DQ for now, if I may…
All but the third withdrawn. So:
IQs:
Were your bones recently discovered under a parking lot?
Did you appear at the end of Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves?
Are you a film director partial to Joseph Conrad?
Letter is R
- I am real.
- I am male.
- I am dead
- I am not American.
- I did not contribute to the “arts”.
- My first Name starts with R
- I am a political figure.
- I am British.
- I died before 1950
- I would be considered a “good guy”
- I did not die after 1800
1 DQ owed to SCAdian
1 DQ owed to Le Ministre
Not Randolph Scott
Not Rocky Lane
DQ for Tim O’Hara
Not Rupert Murdoch (??)
DQ for the pilot
DQ for director
Not Roy Rogers (different from earlier - love his work with JLH)
See #2 on the DQs - I’m not answering questions that should not have been asked 
DQ for amputee
Second try for EH’s questions
Not Richard III
Not King Richard The Lionheart
still a DQ for this one
The DQs narrow down your guy, but anybody’s fair game for IQs, so I’m gonna ask #2 again :p. Nice answer on the guitarist - I was thinking of somebody else, but that Roy Rogers definitely fits the bill. The amputee was former NFL defensive back Ronnie Lott.
DQ: Were you a member of a royal family?
IQ1: Were you the highest paid woman in rock in the late 1970s?
IQ2: Were you instrumental (haha!) in putting together the Buena Vista Social Club?
IQ3: Were you arrested for lewd behavior in a Florida movie theater?
Letter is R
- I am real.
- I am male.
- I am dead
- I am not American.
- I did not contribute to the “arts”.
- My first Name starts with R
- I am a political figure.
- I am British.
- I died before 1950
- I would be considered a “good guy”
- I did not die after 1800
- I am not a member of a Royal Family.
1 DQ owed to SCAdian
1 DQ owed to Le Ministre
My apologies, I thought the IQs had to at least* lean* towards the final answer.
Not Linda Ronstadt
Not Ry Cooder (awesome documentary, that was)
Not Paul “Pee Wee” Reubens
Correct on Randolph Scott and Allan “Rocky” Lane.
Ray Walston played Tim’s “Uncle” Martin on My Favorite Martian.
Two DQs reserved (while I try to think of something useful to ask).
IQ1: Were you an English admiral whose brother was an English general?
IQ2: Are you a malfunctioning robot in a steampunk band?
IQ3: Were you Richie and Potsie’s buddy?
DQ - Did you die a natural death? (As opposed to a violent death, I mean.)
Rupert Murdoch is Australian, not American. I was thinking of Roone Arledge.
Roald Dahl.
Ridley Scott, who named the ship and the lifeboat in Alien after Conrad’s Nostromo and Narcissus.
Correct as to Richards I and III. Thought I might’ve had you there!
DQs:
Did you serve as a member of the House of Commons?
Did you serve as Prime Minister?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you call an author about a magazine advertisement that didn’t exist?
Are you a musician whose wife was a Bond Girl?
Did you and another top official switch jobs in the Eighties?
Letter is R
- I am real.
- I am male.
- I am dead
- I am not American.
- I did not contribute to the “arts”.
- My first Name starts with R
- I am a political figure.
- I am British.
- I died before 1950
- I would be considered a “good guy”
- I did not die after 1800
- I am not a member of a Royal Family.
- I died a “natural” death.
- I served as a member of the House of Commons
- I did not serve as Prime Minister
2 DQ owed to SCAdian
1 DQ owed to Elendil’s Heir
Not Richard Howe
Not Rabbit
Not Ralph Malph
DQ for author
Not Ringo Starr
DQ for jobs
ouch!
Roman Polansky, filming Rosemary’s Baby, called author Ira Levin about a reference to a men’s shirt ad in the particular issue of The New Yorker mentioned in the story; Levin admitted he’d just made it up.
Yes, Ringo Starr, whose wife Barbara Bach (mwrowr!) was in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff Jim Baker switched jobs in President Reagan’s second term.
I can’t think of any pre-1800 British MPs with a first name beginning with R who didn’t serve as Prime Minister. I yield my three earned DQs to whoever would like to ask them - one per customer.