Did you make your home at Taliesin? - Frank Lloyd Wright
Were you Clinton’s first SECTREAS? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen
Have you played a scientist, a cabbie and a judge? - Christopher Lloyd, in Back to the Future, Taxi and Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Lloyd x3!
As to “Would be alive today, if real?,” the answer could be “no” either due to age or to events in the work of fiction, as you suggest. It’s also perfectly valid to say it’s impossible to determine. Not all characters’ fates are cut-and-dried.
DQs:
Character’s name appears in the title?
Has appeared in more than one movie?
IQs:
Did you receive the surrender of British forces at Yorktown?
Did you work for Gary Seven?
Were you a prominent muckraking journalist?
IQ1: I am not Laffayette.
IQ2: I know this is from the Star Trek episode and it was Teri Garr (she was so cute back then!), but I don’t recall the character’s name. I am not…Lee (?)
IQ3: Not sure he fits the definition of “muckraking,” but…I am not H.L. Mencken.
L.
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
DQ4: Originally from literature
DQ5: Not an American character
DQ6: Character not created by an American
DQ7: Originally from a work of prose fiction
DQ8: Not created after 1950
DQ9: Created by a European author
DQ10: Protagonist
DQ11: Created after 1900
DQ12: Could be alive today if real
DQ13: Considered a “good guy” (“good gal,” actually)
DQ14: Has appeared in a movie with some level of American backing/production
DQ15: Character’s name does not appear in the title
DQ16: Character has appeared in more than one movie
DQ17: Genre is not crime or mystery
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
DQ4: Originally from literature
DQ5: Not an American character
DQ6: Character not created by an American
DQ7: Originally from a work of prose fiction
DQ8: Not created after 1950
DQ9: Created by a European author
DQ10: Protagonist
DQ11: Created after 1900
DQ12: Could be alive today if real
DQ13: Considered a “good guy” (“good gal,” actually)
DQ14: Has appeared in a movie with some level of American backing/production
DQ15: Character’s name does not appear in the title
DQ16: Character has appeared in more than one movie
DQ17: Genre is not crime or mystery
DQ18: By a British author
Did you receive the surrender of British forces at Yorktown? - Not Lafayette, but Gen. Benjamin Lincoln.
Did you work for Gary Seven? - Yes, Teri Garr’s role was Roberta Lincoln.
Were you a prominent muckraking journalist? - Mencken was a satirist, not a muckraker. This was Lincoln Steffens.
Lincoln x3 yet again!
Can’t figure out who this is. I yield my earned DQs, one per person, to anyone who’d like to use 'em.
IQ1: Did your cousin take over a top job that was meant for you?
IQ2: Did your husband continue in your top job after your death, though it should have gone to your sister?
IQ3: Were you a fictional child, created by a Norwegian writer, with the same name as #1?
Grats, Prof! You know all the classic fantasy stories. You remind me of a co-worker who read all those stories to his grandchildren. He especially liked the Lemony Snicket books.
IQ1: Are you BFFs with Hopita Glass in the Love and Rockets comics?
IQ2: Have you tried to destroy the Earth with your “Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator”?
IQ3: Did you portray Hannibal Lector in the TV series Hannibal?
Actually, I read Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series (and following series) to my grandson until he was well into his teens. I did read the Narnia books to my daughter, now some 25-30 years ago.
IQ1: Did you win an Oscar for True Grit and are much better known for your adopted acting name?
IQ2: Are you a multiple Grammy winning country and western singer/songwriter who had a hit twice with Carolina in the Pines?
IQ3: Did you appear as a baddie in Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Sin City, and The Hateful Eight?
IQ1: Are you a professional wrestler & best-selling author whose identities have included Mankind, Cactus Jack, and Dude Love?
IQ2: Are you drummer and co-founder of a band that included Stevie Knicks and Lindsey Buckingham?
IQ3: Are you a British guitarist/vocalist who used to be in The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite?