Well, that was about the quickest game I’ve seen…
Good heavens, what have I done?
All right, I’m going to try to do this, but… I’m in the middle of rehearsals right now, so I might have to respond to questions in odd little bursts at the beginning and end of my day.
I am… B.
My answers from the last round:
This was Adam Selene from Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Athena, Cmdr. Adama’s daughter on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Neil Armstrong, God rest his soul, late last year.
Way to go, Ministre!
IQs for this round:
Did you write Enemy Mine?
Were you noted for your elaborate choreography?
Did you have to determine your boyfriends’ spongeworthiness?
No, I’m not Barry Longyear.
No, I’m not George Ballanchine.
Umm, what?!? I have no idea what you’re referring to; take a DQ.
IQ: Is an internet game named after you?
Nicely done, Le Ministre!
For the record, the answers to my most recent IQs were:
IQ1: Abraham Lincoln
IQ2: Art Linkletter
IQ3: Anthony, from the Billy Joel song, “Anthony’s Song (Movin’ Out).”
IQ: Did you supposedly kill a bar on a tree?
Yes, Barry Longyear.
I’ll rephrase.
Elaine Benes from Seinfeld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfQBKB4s1ks
DQ:
Male?
IQs:
Were you noted for your elaborate movie choreography?
Were you Lincoln’s first Attorney General?
Were you a Confederate general with an elaborate French name?
No, I’m not Sandro Botticelli. (You almost got me on that one; we played Botticelli in the back of the car on long trips when I was a kid. I don’t really think of it as an ‘internet’ game.)
No, I’m not Daniel Boone.
No, I’m not Busby Berkeley. (sp.?)
I don’t know.
No, I’m not Jeneconnaispas Beauregard. Yeah, alright, you should get a DQ for that. (Wasn’t there some Confederate whose name was Beauregard, though?)
Yes.
Summary:
- Male
2 DQs outstanding to Elendil’s Heir
Yes, Busby Berkeley.
Edward Bates.
The delightfully-overnamed Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.
DQs:
Real?
American?
IQs:
Were your nicknames “Spoons” and “Beast”?
Did a young Helen Mirren once play your girlfriend?
Did you tell a customer how to overcome your employer’s defenses?
IQs:
Were Caspar and Melchior your traveling companions?
Was your body double in your last film the director’s wife’s chiropractor?
Were you a multi-instrumentalist that died shortly after being kicked out of the band you founded?
Hmm. I dunno - DQ.
I think that’s a reference to ‘The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover’, but I can’t remember the name of Michael Gambon’s character, nor the name of the lover nor the actor who played him. - DQ
No, I’m not Bob Parr, Mr. Incredible from ‘The Incredibles’.
No, I’m not Balthazar.
No, I’m not Bela Lugosi.
I know I’m going to kick myself thoroughly, but I have nothing. DQ.
No, and No.
Summary
- Male
- Fictional
- Not American
Outstanding DQs -
2 to Elendil’s Heir
1 to ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness
IQs:
Did you and your sons have a large ranch near Virginia City NV?
Did you jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge?
Did you and your best friend share a house in Frostbite Falls MN?
Brian Jones, founder and namer of The Rolling Stones.
DQ: Did you first appear in a prose work, i.e. a novel or short story?
The first is Gen. Benjamin Butler, military governor of New Orleans during the Civil War. He got the first nickname for allegedly taking silverware from the fancy homes which he’d choose as his headquarters; he got the second for ordering the women of the city to either stop bothering his soldiers or be treated as prostitutes.
Mirren wasn’t that young at the time of The Cook, The Thief… I was thinking of Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday, about a decade earlier.
Yes, Bob Parr from The Incredibles.
DQs:
Would your character, if real, be alive today?
British?
IQs:
Were you named by your creator after a noted ornithologist?
Did you once play a cutthroat character who liked to play with rubber bands?
Did you, while invisible, brush your mother’s hair?
Stumped, stumped and stumped - that’s 3 DQs for you.
No, I’m not Ben Cartwright of the ‘Ponderosa’ ranch.
Stumped
Stumped - that’s 2 DQs for you.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Summary
- Male
- Fictional
- Not American
- First appeared in a work of prose.
- If this character were real, he would not be alive today.
- British
Outstanding DQs -
3 to Elendil’s Heir
2 to SCAdian
Do you have electric boots and a mohair suit?
Are your son and ex-husband in a band together?
Were you the first major classical composer to record yourself playing one of your own compositions?
James Bond
Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice
David Bowman, in 2010: Odyssey Two
DQs:
First appeared in a novel?
First appeared before 1900?
Last name starts with B?
IQs:
Did a castmember of an SNL-type show object to your appearance on it?
Did you run a rustic Vermont inn?
Are you the wife and occasional costar of a prominent comic actor?
IQ: Are you a character from an old British legend?
No, I’m not Bennie of Bennie and the Jets.
Stumped.
Hmm, I’d always thought that was Sergei Rachmanninoff. Earlier than that, and with a ‘B’? Could it be Anton Bruckner?
That’s at least one DQ for you.
Stumped.
No, I’m not Bob Newhart
Stumped. 2 DQs for you.
No.
No.
No.
Summary
- Male
- Fictional
- Not American
- First appeared in a work of prose.
- If this character were real, he would not be alive today.
- British
- Did not first appear in a novel.
- Did not appear before 1900
- Last name does not start with a ‘B’
Outstanding DQs -
1 (at least) to ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness
2 to Elendil’s Heir