IQs:
- Did The Shadow borrow your identity?
- Are you captain of the Swinetrek?
- Were you an actor who was also a student under Sigmund Freud?
IQs:
1. Hey, you know that guy on the penny–the one with the beard–are you him?
2. Have you had hits with “Poker Face”, “Bad Romance”, and “Born This Way”?
3. Did you host Jeopardy last year after gathering much public support (and a petition)–though we don’t have to take your word for it? I mean, it was in newspaper articles and stuff.
- Not Lamont Cranston
- Not Link Hogthrob
- DQ
- Not Abraham Lincoln
- DQ
- DQ
L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)
14. Not from SF/fantasy
15. Adult character
16. Created before 1970
Correct, Correct, and Peter Lorre.
DQ: From a mystery/detective story?
IQs:
- Did you write World of Ptavvs?
- Are you a bitch who hangs around with a tramp?
- Are you a master craftsman among the Tuatha De Denaan?
2 was Lady Gaga; 3 was LeVar Burton.
DQs: adapted into film?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
1. Did you resume your most famous role for a 2009 movie reboot of a TV show (alongside Zachary Quinto playing the same role, which he’d do in the 2013 and 2016 sequels)?
2. Are you the lead writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan on the show 30 Rock, played by Tina Fey?
3. L’etat, c’est you?
- Not Larry Niven.
- Not Lady.
- Not Lugh.
- Not … Leonard Nimoy?
- DQ.
- Not Louis XIV.
L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)
14. Not from SF/fantasy
15. Adult character
16. Created before 1970
17. Not from a mystery/detective story
18. Adapted into film
The DQs I just awarded bring us up to well over 20, so no more IQs. Please ask all outstanding DQs by 1500 tomorrow (2 Aug).
Swept me!
…
1 was indeed Leonard Nimoy; 2 was Liz Lemon; 3 was correct.
One DQ reserved.
Previous IQs:
Did you have an owl louse named after you? - Yes, Gary Larson: Strigiphilus garylarsoni - Wikipedia
Did you create the original Battlestar Galactica? - Glen Larson
Was your first tattoo “client” a trussed-up bad guy? - Lisbeth Salander, in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
DQs:
Appeared in only one film?
Was a contemporary character when he first appeared?
L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)
14. Not from SF/fantasy
15. Adult character
16. Created before 1970
17. Not from a mystery/detective story
18. Adapted into film
19. Appeared in only one film
20. Was a contemporary character when I first appeared
DLR has two remaining DQs.
DQ: created after 1960?
1 DQ reserved.
L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)
14. Not from SF/fantasy
15. Adult character
16. Created before 1970
17. Not from a mystery/detective story
18. Adapted into film
19. Appeared in only one film
20. Was a contemporary character when I first appeared
21. Created after 1960
DLR has one DQ and a little over four hours left.
Final DQ: from a prison novel/movie?
L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)
14. Not from SF/fantasy
15. Adult character
16. Created before 1970
17. Not from a mystery/detective story
18. Adapted into film
19. Appeared in only one film
20. Was a contemporary character when I first appeared
21. Created after 1960
22. Not from a prison novel/movie
Please ask your final “Are you X?” DQs no later than 1500 Eastern tomorrow, 3 Aug.
Hmm, can’t figure this out. Think think think…
I was thinking Cool Hand Luke, but obviously the last DQ answer rules that out.
Genre, but not fantasy/sf/mystery/detective/historical. Maybe horror?
Or a modern Western.
Or since it appeared in the 1960s, cold war espionage thriller