Botticelli - January 2019

Ah, good one! I was wracking my brains for Westerns actors. Well done, KO.

I was actually about to post that I was drawing a blank, then Michael Landon popped into my brain.

Let’s move on to N!

IQs:

  1. Are you one of the central characters in the 1950’s highly esteemed BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Were you a deadpan comic featured as a staple character actor in numerous films of the 1920’s and 1930’s?
  3. Are you Homer Simpson’s next door neighbor?

DQ, DQ, not Ned Flanders

IQs:

Were you Sluggo’s pal?
Did you costar in Hellcats of the Navy?
Did someone very much like you, a TV personality, appear in Gone Girl?

not Nancy, not Nancy Reagan?, not Nancy Sinatra?

#1 was Neddie Seagoon (I do not wish to know that!).
#2 was Ned Sparks.
Ned x3!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

Previous IQs:

Were you Sluggo’s pal? - Yes, Nancy
Did you costar in Hellcats of the Navy? - Yes, the future Nancy Reagan
Did someone very much like you, a TV personality, appear in Gone Girl? - Cable TV law-talkin’ gal Nancy Grace

Nancy x3!

DQ:

First name start with N?

IQs:

Were you married to the never-seen Maris?
Did Jean-Luc Picard play a duet with you?
Were you FDR’s first VP?

DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with N

not Norm from Cheers?, DQ, DQ

Previous IQs:

Were you married to the never-seen Maris? - Dr. Niles Crane, on Frasier
Did Jean-Luc Picard play a duet with you? - Dr. Nella Darren, on ST:TNG
Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner (always used his middle name)

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you one of George Washington’s top generals?
Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.?
Was a very large bearded man sorry you had to go away?

DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with N
  4. Not American
  5. Would be alive today if real
  6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles

take 3 DQs

IQs:

  1. Did you invent dynamite?
  2. Are you aka The Tin Woodman of Oz?
  3. Does Archie Goodwin work for you?

Previous IQs:

Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? - Nathaniel Greene
Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? - Nathan Hale, America’s first martyred spy, on the campus of CIA HQ
Was a very large bearded man sorry you had to go away? - Hagrid got a little weepy when his pet dragon Norbert left

DQs:

European?
First appeared in print?
First appeared since 1975?

IQs:

Was your first wife from Leetonia, Ohio, from whom you asked for a divorce while she was receiving cancer treatment?
Were you a historic person who played poker on the Holodeck with Lt. Cmdr. Data?
Were you the actor who played that person?

DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with N
  4. Not American
  5. Would be alive today if real
  6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles
  7. European
  8. Did not first appear in print
  9. First appeared since 1975

not Alfred Nobel, DQ, DQ (The Archie Goodwin I know was a writer/editor for Marvel comics)

not Newt Gengrich, not Isaac Newton?, DQ

Previous IQs:

Was your first wife from Leetonia, Ohio, from whom you asked for a divorce while she was receiving cancer treatment? - Newt Gingrich, yes
Were you a historic person who played poker on the Holodeck with Lt. Cmdr. Data? - Yes, Sir Isaac Newton
Were you the actor who played that person? - British actor John Neville: Greatest minds in physics playing poker - YouTube

DQ:

British?

IQs:

Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”?
Did you play a wizard in a movie opposite your ex-girlfriend, whom you hated?
Did MLK encourage you to remain in a TV role?

DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with N
  4. Not American
  5. Would be alive today if real
  6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles
  7. European
  8. Did not first appear in print
  9. First appeared since 1975
  10. British