Okay, let’s go with… B
IQ1: Are you a recording artist whose first hit was *Loser *in 1994?
IQ2: Are you a rock guitarist who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once solo, and the other time with The Yardbirds?
IQ3: Are you a conservative radio show host whose network is TheBlaze?
Not Beck (Hanson), Jeff Beck, or Glenn Beck!
IQs:
- In The Bells Are Ringing, are you Belmont Park?
- Are you the author of Jesus, Interrupted?
- Did you play a Bible salesman, a pair of notable Hobbits, and Santa Claus?
Curses, swept again.
IQ1: Are you an astrophysicist who also plays guitar for Queen?
IQ2: Are you an NFL linebacker who played your entire 13-year career with the Chicago Bears?
IQ3: Are you a news broadcaster who was suspended for embellishing the details of a helicopter ride?
No idea on #1
Not Bart Ehrman
For #3… the dwarf actor Billy Barty? I know he was in Foul Play, where he gets into Goldie Hawn’s apartment, and we THINK he’s an assassin. But he turns out to be a Bible salesman.
IQs:
Did you direct Molin Rouge?
Were you a saintly sailor condemned to die?
Have you played two different U.S. soldiers during WWII, the second time in armor?
#1 was Beethoven.
#2 is Bart Ehrman, correct.
#3 is Billy Barty, correct. He was Bilbo and Sam’s voices in Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings and Santa in an episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Were you the eponymous heroine of a Hanoi Jane movie?
IQ2: Were you the eponymous hero of a novel written by a governor of the New Mexico territory?
IQ3: Did you write the story of Avatar and Blackwolf?
Look a bit further upstream, ast…
Not Brian May, Brian Urlacher or Brian Williams
Not Baz Luhrman or Billy Budd
Take a DQ for #3
SUMMARY
- Fictional
Not Barbarella or Judah Ben-Hur
Take a DQ for #3
IQs:
- Did you marry Ringo?
- Did you write the hymn A Few More Years Shall Roll?
- Were you part of the Les Nabis group of artists?
Previous IQs:
Did you direct Molin Rouge? - Correct, Baz Luhrman.
Were you a saintly sailor condemned to die? - Correct, Billy Budd.
Have you played two different U.S. soldiers during WWII, the second time in armor? - Brad Pitt, in Inglourious Basterds and Fury.
DQ:
Male?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s first Attorney General?
Was your heraldic symbol the bee?
Did you play a crime boss with a young Helen Mirren as your moll?
Not Barbara Bach
Take a DQ for #2
For #3… I should know this… but I can’t think of any “B” French painters (way too early for Braque). SO take two DQs.
Correct on Barbara. #2 was Horatius Bonar. #3 was Pierre Bonnard.
DQs:
- Protagonist?
- Best known from film or TV?
SUMMARY
- Fictional
- Female
- Not known from TV or movies
- Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine
IQ1: Are you a Greek hero who slew the Chimera by suffocating it with lead?
IQ2: Are you the Roman version of Dionysus?
IQ3: Did Loki trick Hohr into killing you with a spear of mistletoe?