Comic strip character Barney Google was the owner of Sparkplug. Tom Baker was the 4th Doctor, not the 5th.
DQ: Male?
Yes
Summary:
D
- Male
Bruce Banner (that’s how he was originally turned into the Hulk).
Gregory “Pappy” Boyington.
Correct on Dr Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins.
You got the one I expected you to miss, and missed the two I expected you to get…
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: American?
IQ1: Did you write a children’s guide to the orchestra?
IQ2: Did you keep your bullet in your shirt pocket?
IQ3: Did your little sister take over a series of books that were originally about a boy and his dog?
IQ1) Are you famous for saying: “I would prefer not to.”?
IQ2) Are you remembered partly for saying you didn’t inhale?
IQ3) Were you the warrior queen of the Iceni?
Quite right on Brünnhilde.
#1. is Brangäne, Isolde’s maid in Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’.
#3 is Bors the Elder, King of Gaul, brother of Ban and therefore, Lancelot’s uncle.
DQ1: Is ‘B’ the initial letter of your last name?
If I may, I’ll hold on my second DQ until I find out if you’re real or not…
Yes
Yes
Not Beezus Quimby, older sister to Ramona, who first appeared in the Henry Huggins and Ribsy books. Take DQs for the other 2.
IQ1: Not Melville’s Bartleby the Schrivener
IQ2: Not Bill Clinton
Take a DQ for #3.
Yes
Summary:
B
- Male
- Real
- American
- ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name
#3 is Boadicea, she of the many vowels.
DQ: Alive?
Benjamin Britten composed The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
Barney Fife, from The Andy Griffith Show.
Correct on Beezus.
DQ: Known for the arts (according to our usual definition)?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you a British airbourne general during WW II?
IQ2: Were you a British intel officer who played that general in a movie thirty-odd years later?
IQ3: Are you Tuppence’s husband?
No
No
3 DQs for you. (The only Tuppence I remember was from a BBC Agatha Christie adaptation on PBS in the 80s, but I thought the husband’s name was Tommie, which isn’t a ‘B’ word)
Summary:
B
- Male
- Real
- American
- ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name
- Not alive
- Not known for the arts
Frederick “Boy” Browning was played by Dirk Bogarde (who had actually known Browning during the war) in A Bridge Too Far.
You have the right Tuppence; her husband was Tommy Beresford.
DQ1: Born before 1900?
DQ2: Military/political figure?
Two DQs reserved.
No
No
Summary:
B
- Male
- Real
- American
- ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name
- Not alive
- Not known for the arts
- Born after 1900
- Not a military/political figure
IQ: Were you the last surviving chartermember of the Football HoF
IQ1) Are you the cover mascot of a monstrous breakfast cereal?
IQ2) Are you a superpet?
IQ3) Were you a comic famous for an extremely big mouth?
Cashing in my DQ left over from post #65 -
DQ: Are you known for your athletic endeavours?
IQ1: Are you a female astronaut?
IQ2: Are you a choreographer?
IQ3: Are you a Scottish comedian?
DQ for you
1: Neither Boo Berry nor Franken Berry (nor Fruit Brute for that matter)
Take 2 DQs for the others
No
IQ2: A lot to choose from…I’ll go with not Bob Fosse.
Take 2 more DQs
Summary:
B
- Male
- Real
- American
- ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name
- Not alive
- Not known for the arts
- Born after 1900
- Not a military/political figure
- Not known for athletic endeavours
That was Sammy Baugh.
DQ: Known as a scientist/inventor?
#1 is Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
#3 is The Big Yin himself, Billy Connolly.
Bob Fosse wasn’t who I was thinking of, but he’ll do nicely.
Hmph.
DQ1: Did you die before 2000?
DQ2: Were you born east of the Mississippi?
Superpets include Beppo the Supermonkey, Byron the Superhorse or Ace the Bathound.
Joey Brown had the big mouth. Oh, and Colin Baker was the Fifth Doctor.
I’ll hold on to the DQs until answers arrive.