Annette Funicello didn’t write any fantasy, did she….? 
Final DQ: wrote under a masculine-sounding name?
DQs:
1. Real
2. First name begins with A.
3. Female
4. Not alive.
5. Known for the Arts.
6. Not known for the performing arts.
7. Died since 1950.
8. American
9. Died since 2000.
10. Best known for novels.
11. Won a top award in her field.
12. Known for writing.
13. Known for writing novels in a specific genre.
14. Best known for SF/fantasy
15. Did not win a Pulitzer
16. Greatest popularity before 2000.
17. Best known for fantasy.
- Did not win a Hugo.
I need to clarify #11 as it hit me that the major award was as much a bestowed honor as award.
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Not a common first name here in the US.
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Two syllable first name.
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Wrote under a mascukine sounding first name.
Ah, a pseudonym! 
Why didn’t I think of that earlier?
Can’t recall any such women fantasy writers, though….
Okay. Please ask all final Are yous by noon on Monday Arizona time.
Which is 2pm EST.
Are you Andre Norton?
Yep, good call.
Ah, good one, DLR! Didn’t know that was a female writer’s pen name, actually.
Yes! I am Andre Norton!! Well done, De_La_Rue!
She was born Alice Mary Norton, toomk Andre as a pen name then legally changed it.
A new letter will be coming shortly.
OK:
I am B.
- Did you portray a fearful feline?
- Were you a Wonderful cop?
- Were you named after #2 (above)?
IQs:
Were you the best-known guy from Russell, Kansas?
Did you run against an elderly liberal US senator from Pennsylvania?
Did you live in Chicago and counted a dentist and an airline pilot among your friends?
IQs:
- Are you the detective in Glass Onion?
- Did you play Cinnamon Carter on Mission: Impossible?
- Did you throw Excalibur into the Lake after King Arthur died?
I. Were you one third of a singing group along with your brothers Maurice and Robin?
2. Were you Robert Guillaume’s most famous role?
3. Did you voice The Beast in the Disney animated movie Beauty and the Beast?
1. I am not Mel Blanc.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.
Respectively:
I am not Bob Russell.
I am not Bob Westwing.
I am not Bob Hartley.
1. Ah am nawt Benoit Blanc.
2. I am not Barbara Bain.
3. I am not Bors? If not Bors, take a DQ.
1. I am not Barry Gibb.
2. I am not Benson.
3. I am not Robby Benson.
Previous IQs:
Were you the best-known guy from Russell, Kansas? - Bob Dole
Did you run against an elderly liberal US senator from Pennsylvania? - the title character in Bob Roberts
Did you live in Chicago and counted a dentist and an airline pilot among your friends? - yes, Bob Newhart/Hartley
Bob x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Did you sing “Circle in the Sand”?
Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a computer wiz and a concierge?
Are you an alliterative Olympic diver?
Correct on 1 and 2.
#3 is Sir Belvedere.
DQ: Last name starts with B?
‘Twas Sir Bedivere or Bedevere, I believe.