Were you a Civil War general who had a college named after him? - Yes, Oliver O. Howard
Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends in Cleveland? - Yes, Oswald
Were you the villain in an early piece of ST:TOS fan fiction? - Omne
DQ:
American character?
IQs:
Did you and your brother flip a coin before an important undertaking to see who would go first?
Were you a British officer who became an important figure in early Israeli history?
Did William Shatner play you only once, and not say a word in doing so?
Did you and your brother flip a coin before an important undertaking to see who would go first? - Yes, Orville Wright
Were you a British officer who became an important figure in early Israeli history? - Orde Wingate
Did William Shatner play you only once, and not say a word in doing so? - Yes, Lt. Col. Oliver North, in the song “The Mute Marine”
DQ:
First appeared since 1900?
IQs:
Are you the bad guy in the works of Lemony Snicket?
Were you a cop about whom Arlo Guthrie sang?
Were you an Alsatian priest who was the Gandhi of his day?
Are you the bad guy in the works of Lemony Snicket? - Yes, Count Olaf
Were you a cop about whom Arlo Guthrie sang? - Yes, Officer Obie
Were you an Alsatian priest who was the Gandhi of his day? - Close enough; 'twas John Frederick Oberlin
IQs:
Are you featured in a large painting in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse?
Did you once joke, “Ah, to be seventy again”?
Did your poem help save the frigate USS Constitution?
Are you featured in a large painting in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, victor of the Battle of Lake Erie
Did you once joke, “Ah, to be seventy again”? - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., while in his nineties, when he saw a pretty girl go by
Did your poem help save the frigate USS Constitution? - His father, the poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: Old Ironsides (poem) - Wikipedia
Oliver x3!
DQs:
European?
First appeared before 1800?
Protagonist?
IQs:
Were you also known as Tharkun?
Did you ask a painter to portray you “warts and all”?
Were you the naked organist on Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Respectively:
I am not Olorin.
I am not Otto von Bismarck.
I am not Onan.
1. I am not Othello.
2. I am not Olaf.
3. I am not Odin.
DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. not originally from a work of prose fiction
4. not American
5. first appeared before 1900
6. only name starts with O
7. European
8. first appeared before 1800
9. protagonist
10. not originally from a play (but has appeared in one)
Were you also known as Tharkun? - Yes, Olorin AKA Gandalf
Did you ask a painter to portray you “warts and all”? - Not Bismarck, but Oliver Cromwell
Were you the naked organist on Monty Python’s Flying Circus? - Yes, Onan
DQ:
From antiquity?
IQs:
Was your son Telemachus?
Did Hamlet berate you?
Did you propose the construction of massive L5 space colonies?
Respectively:
I am not Odysseus.
I am not Ophelia.
I am not Arthur O. Clarke.
1. I am not Oberon.
2. I am not Omar Khayam.
3. Take a DQ.
DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. not originally from a work of prose fiction
4. not American
5. first appeared before 1900
6. only name starts with O
7. European
8. first appeared before 1800
9. protagonist
10. not originally from a play (but has appeared in one)
11. from antiquity
Was your son Telemachus? - Yes, Odysseus
Did Hamlet berate you? - Yes, Ophelia
Did you propose the construction of massive L5 space colonies? - Not Clarke (“O.” indeed!), but physicist Gerard K. O’Neill: The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space - Wikipedia
DQ:
From Greek or Roman myth?
IQs:
Did you briefly appear on the street in the political comedy Dave?
Did you disbelieve yourself into oblivion?
Did you supposedly become the South African minister of justice?