IQ: Are you a character in Verdi’s last opera?
Not Falstaff
IQ: Do you sing the first line in Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’?
Not Fiorello
I have to admit that I still don’t know the name of the person we are supposed to be guessing, but I am going to take a stab in the dark at someone who may fit the criteria - I haven’t read the relevant works, though, so not sure if they could be described as “comedic”.
IQ: Are you Biggles’s arch-enemy?
IQ: Was your dead mom from a seacoast town and your dad a little nutty?
Don’t know who this is- ask a DQ.
Not sure who this is- ask a DQ.
IQ: Were you known as Crazy Guggenheim?
Not Frank Fontaine (“Hiya, Joe! Hello, Mr. Dunnahy… hee hee hee!”)
Heh - in point of fact, nor do I, I was just hoping to make a correct guess from the information that we knew (Biggle’s creator, I believe, was called W.E. Johns)! So I’m not entitled to a DQ as it was just a shot in the dark.
Sternvogel, if you have someone in mind for the creator, surely you have an idea of who astorian is actually thinking of?! I don’t feel I can help further at this point as I don’t think I am going to be able to guess the person in question.
I’m pretty sure I know who the author is, but I wasn’t sufficiently familiar with his work (before googling him) to guess the specific character.
In LOTR, Faramir’s late mother was from Dol Amroth and his father Denethor was… well, you know.
DQ: P.G. Wodehouse creation?
IQ: Did you hamper a notable filmmaker by sometimes inconveniently taking back what you’d lent him?
Yes!
- Fictional
- Male
- Last name starts with “F”
- Nobody’s idea of a hero
- Not a movie character
- My creator was British
- I have appeared in both novels and short stories
- I first appeared after 1900, but before 1950.
- I did not appear in mysteries
- I am British
- The works I appear in are comedic in nature
- My creator was P.G. Wodehouse
You’re entitled to a DQ, but somebody now either knows the answer or can Google it very easily.
P.G. Wodehouse only had one running character whose last name started with “F,” as far as I know.
I actually found 2 when I googled around on him, once I deduced this was a PG Wodehouse character.
Yeah, I was thinking of Wodehouse, but I don’t know the character Astorian has in mind. However, since at least one player has already Googled the name, maybe we should declare this game akin to a mistrial. Unless, of course, someone who hasn’t checked in recently wants to venture a guess…
Personally, I think it would be cheating for ME to use Google to answer your indirect questions, but it doesn’t offend me in the least if you use Google to find the answer.
If you think you know who my mystery guest is, solve it and we’ll move on to your person!
Personally, I think it is more in the spirit of the game that if the setter is not allowed to Google answers to IQs, the guessers are not allowed to use Google to help find the answer (or indeed research their own IQs). That, at least, is the rule that I (and I think almost everyone else) has been playing to in the current thread and the last one. I think that if no-one knows the answer without Google, astorian has stumped us and gets to set us another person for the next round. Alternatively, if astorian would rather not go again, I guess someone else could start a new thread.
While we’re on the subject, I think I enjoyed the game more last time we played it a year or two ago, where the rules were that you employed two initials, and both questioners and setter were allowed to research their questions and answers as they wished. Not only does this provide more scope (after about 20 games of the “single initial” variant, you’re going to start having a lot of repeat IQs), I think it also encourages more ingenuity on the part of the questioners, in that they have to word questions in such a way that Googling is tricky. It also levels the playing field a bit in terms of different countries - I have tried to avoid firing out too many IQs based on English footballers/entertainers, for example, as I don’t feel that is really fair to American setters. What does everyone else think?
ETA: just thought of another IQ which could be the answer, even though I don’t know the name: are you Bertie Wooster’s favourite pig?
I don’t think it should be declared a mistrial, since I haven’t contributed a question since I googled. Surely here of all places there’s another Wodehouse fan?