IQs:
1. Were you the mastermind behind the world’s first topless string quartet, and other hoaxes?
2. Did you explain your most famous concept by saying that when one sits with a pretty girl, an hour feels like a minute–but when one sits on a hot stove, a minute feels like an hour?
3. Have you appeared in Groundhog Day, Multiplicity, and Leap Dave Williams?
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American
- Last name starts with A
- Not the protagonist
- Not originally from a filmed dramatic work, but has been in numerous ones.
- Would be alive today, if real
- First appeared since 1950
#3. I am not Capt. Archer (??).
Take 2 DQs.
#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Albert Einstein.
#3. I am not Andie MacDowell.
Previous IQs:
Are you the London detective protagonist of Len Deighton’s SS-GB? - Detective Douglas Archer
Are you a hard-drinking, relentlessly-womanizing spy with the codename “Duchess”? - Sterling Archer, on the FX adult cartoon Archer
Did you command the USS Enterprise, NX-01? - Yes, Capt. Jonathan Archer
Archer x3!
DQs:
From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)?
Bad guy?
IQs:
Were you actually an AI who was the brains of a lunar rebellion?
Were you a rock star who looked nothing like what his last name might lead you to believe?
Were you shown to be Mayor of Quahog, R.I.?
1 (hoaxer) was Alan Abel.
DQ: originally from prose?
IQs:
1. Did you fight crime with math and the Difference Engine in The Thrilling Adventures of you and Babbage?
2. Were you played by fellow oddball David Bowie in Basquiat?
3. In a 1985 comic strip of yours, do two women discuss going to a movie?
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American
- Last name starts with A
- Not the protagonist
- Not originally from a filmed dramatic work, but has been in numerous ones.
- Would be alive today, if real
- First appeared since 1950
- Not originally from prose
- Given it’s medium, it’s not genre fiction
- Not a bad guy
#1. Wasn’t that Mike? Take a DQ.
Take 2 other DQs.
#1. I am not Ada Lovelace.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Al Capp (??)
2 was Andy Warhol; 3 was Allison Bechdel.
DQs:
1. first appeared after 1970?
2. from comic books, comic strips, bandes dessinées, etc.?
ZUI post 199.
Oops!! Welcome back, SCA!!
Take 3 DQs.
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- American
- Last name starts with A
- Not the protagonist
- Not originally from a filmed dramatic work, but has been in numerous ones.
- Would be alive today, if real
- First appeared since 1950
- Not originally from prose
- Given it’s medium, it’s not genre fiction
- Not a bad guy
- First appeared after 1970
- From comic books, comic strips, etc.
- Alistair MacLean
- Poul Anderson
- Isaac Asimov
3 DQs reserved.
IQ1: Do you live with a lasagna-loving cat?
Congrats, and welcome back, SCA!
Previous IQs:
Were you actually an AI who was the brains of a lunar rebellion? - Yes, Mike posed as Adam Selene in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Were you a rock star who looked nothing like what his last name might lead you to believe? - Adam Ant
Were you shown to be Mayor of Quahog, R.I.? - Adam West, on Family Guy
Adam x3!
Thank you, gentlemen (or whatever you claim to be).
Hope this letter hasn’t been used too recently:
I am L.
For your future consultations: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #94 by Elendil_s_Heir
L it is.
IQs:
Was your hand cut off but you kept on being a warrior?
Did you get killed while you were in the privy?
Did you kill him?
IQs:
- Are you “the Beloved Physician”?
- Are you a sweet cookie of a title character in a work by Richard Blackmore?
- Did you originally host Kids Say The Darnedest Things?
Congrats, SCAdian!
IQs:
1. Have you sung about poisoning pigeons in the park, National Brotherhood Week, and the periodic table?
2. “National Brotherhood Week/National Brotherhood Week”/you “and Sheriff Clark are/Dancing cheek to cheek”?
3. Did you co-found Google?
- Not Luke Skywalker.
- DQ.
- DQ.
- Not the apostle Luke.
- DQ.
- Not Art Linkletter.
- Not Tom Lehrer.
- Not Lena Horne.
- DQ.
3 was Larry Page.
DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with L?