#1 was Effie Klinker. #2 was Egon Spengler.
DQ: Known for science?
1 DQ reserved.
E.
- Real
- Male
- First name starts with E
- Dead
- Not known for the Arts
- Not American
- Not born since 1950
- Born after 1900
- Not known for politics/military (though I did serve in the military)
- Not European
- Died after 2000
- Not Asian
- Not known for science
IQ: Were you the definitive swashbuckling actor of Hollywood’s early days?
IQ:.Were you part of the wave of soccer’s popularity in the US a generation ago?
Not Errol Flynn.
DQ.
That was Edson Arantes de Nascimento AKA Pele
DQ: From Latin America?
correct, Edward Hyde, correct
DQ1: African?
DQ2: Athlete?
1 DQ reserved
DQ: 1st name start with Ed (as in Ed, Edward, Edgar, Edmund, Edison, etc.?
IQs:
- Were you one of Freakazoid’s short-lived sidekicks?
- Are you short, red, furry and possessed of an annoying laugh?
- Is your book usually paired with Nehemiah’s?
In that case, all of our questions should be related to Bill Murray. 
IQ1: Are you a former Black Panther who came back to the US after exile to become a conservative republican figure?
IQ2: Did you join the cast on The Office in its sixth season as the receptionist?
IQ3: Are you a Puerto Rican MLB baseball pitcher who played for the Milwaukee Brewers from 1973-1978?
DQ.
Not Elmo.
Not Ezra.
IMDb lists 74 acting credits for Murray. I figured I was leaving myself open for 73 more questions about him… 
Not Eldridge Cleaver.
DQ.
DQ.
E.
- Real
- Male
- First name starts with E
- Dead
- Not known for the Arts
- Not American
- Not born since 1950
- Born after 1900
- Not known for politics/military (though I did serve in the military)
- Not European
- Died after 2000
- Not Asian
- Not known for science
- Not from Latin America
- Not African
- An athlete (according to some definitions, anyway)
- 1st name starts with Ed
I expect the next post to end the game…
Freakazoid’s one-time sidekick was Expendable Boy.
So we have an Australian (in all probability) athlete named Ed.
Time to ponder…
1 DQ reserved.
IQ: Were you the 1st atop Everest? (He’s already been a Botticelli target, BTW)
correct, Ellie Kemper, Eduardo Rodriguez
4 DQs in reserve in case etv78 is wrong
Yes, I am mountaineer and explorer Sir Edmund Hillary KG ONZ KBE.
Maybe we need a list of names used, to go with EH’s list of letters…
Never heard of him.
Now that I have, should I be impressed?
Good one, etv!
Way to go, etv!
Previous IQs:
Does a statue of you stand outside the county courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War; it’s his hometown.
Are you the best-known lawyer to be born in East Cleveland, Ohio? - Erwin Griswold, dean of the Harvard law School and also LBJ’s and then Nixon’s Solicitor General.
Was Scott Simon once gaga for the actress who played you? - Emma Peel of The Avengers was played by Diana Rigg. Simon had the chance to interview Rigg early in his career and much later admitted that his first, “hard-hitting question” was something along the lines of, “Just what is it, Miss Rigg, that makes you so wonderful?”
Probably not, but I was running out of names.
etv78 snuck off and started an August thread without telling anyone: