Go ahead DC. I’m drawing a blank.
DQ #4 pertains to his last name. Do you mean DQ #5?
Ah. No comment on the name until after the reveal.
I don’t feel it’s right to guess right away since you guys have done all the hard work, but if I wake in eight hours or so from now and EH says it’s ok, I’ll take a shot.
Sure, go ahead, DC. I can’t figure out who this is.
Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?
They seek him here; they seek him there;
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is he from heaven, or from hell,
That demmed elusive Pimpernel?
C’est moi, the Scarlet Pimpernel (aka Sir Percy)!
Another good job, Dead Cat!
And just in time, too! Sorry I couldn’t participate more in the questioning this round, was a busy work week. It was the swordsman question that made me think of it, I think, combined with remembering the French Revolution was just before 1800. So good job all round.
I think you were probably right to answer the last name question as a yes - I didn’t know the character’s real name until I looked him up (after making my guess, of course).
Would I be right in assuming that it makes sense to skip Q and go on to R?
Hmm. The word “the” suggests that it was a title, and not a name, though (I wouldn’t consider either D or W a proper clue for the Duke of Windsor, for instance). Not sure about this. What do others think?
He’s a lot better known by the “title” than by his actual name. Ditto the Lone Ranger, the Shadow, the Green Hornet, etc.
I think using titles is OK as long as the answer isn’t a title term or descriptor, like king, queen, etc.
“Lord Dunsany” wouldn’t be kosher for L, but it would be for D. Thus, “Scarlet Pimpernell” answer wouldn’t be OK for S. I otherwise have no objections to this answer.
We’ve always done Q, to show we’re hard core. 
I don’t have any objections if you want to skip to R, but I might make a snide comment or two. Don’t be embarrassed if we guess it right away. I hold the record for shortest game ever with T. We were doing a Christmas theme, and the only answer I could think of was Tiny Tim. Prof guessed it with his very first IQ.
We never quail or quiver at Q. But if you’ve got a good R, go for it.
No objection either way, but I guess I’d prefer a Q, to maintain uninterrupted our march through the alphabet.
Q it is then - form an orderly, well, you know…
IQs:
- Are you the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
- Did you explore King Solomon’s Mine?
- Are you the protagonist of 20,000 Years To Earth aka Q… and the Pit?
IQ1: Are you a cereal alien with a spinner for a hairpiece?
IQ2: Did you portray Jerry Lee Lewis in *Great Balls of Fire! *?
IQ3: Did you direct Pulp Fiction?
IQs:
Did you customarily have a dental exam on a particular day each year?
Did you help James Bond in Jamaica?
Did you tell someone, “This goo is you”?
I am not Quasimodo, Quentin Tarantino, or Quarrel, so you each get 2 DQs.
Correct on Quasimodo.
#2 was Alan Quatermain.
#3 was Bernard Quatermass.
DQs:
- Real?
- Last name starts with Q?
IQs:
- Were you a POTUS and son of a POTUS?
- Were you Vice POTUS under George H. W. Bush?
- Are you best remembered for The Oxford Book Of English Verse?