DQs:
- Real
- Male
#2. I am not Oliver Hardy.
Take 2 DQs.
#1. I am not Orson Bean.
#2. I am not Orson.
#3. I am not Orson Welles. Oh, wait… Gideon Welles? That’s not an O…
Swept me! Orson Welles, a nonlinear descendant of Gideon Welles, is indeed the third Orson there.
IQs:
Do you live in a garbage can on Sesame Street?
Was your request for more gruel cruelly denied?
Did Jon Snow see you hanged for killing him?
- I am not Oscar the Grouch.
- I am not Oliver the Twist.
Take a DQ for 3.
IQ1: Did you direct Natural Born Killers?
IQ2: Did you play Vulcan in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen?
IQ3: Was your nickname “Old Ironsides”?
Correct on #2. The paleontologist was Othniel Charles Marsh, and the current Earl of Airlie is David Ogilvy. (Son of, incidentally, David Ogilvy, grandson of David Ogilvy, and great-grandson of David Ogilvy. Apparently, when they find a name they like, the Ogilvys stick with it.)
IQ1: Were you a Civil War veteran who served as a justice on the Supreme Court, son of a noted poet of the same name?
IQ2: Did you hack into *Pravda * to change a headline to “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!”, causing Casper Weinberger to look “noticeably shaken”?
IQ3: Did you write a series of novels – in truth, one long novel, broken up into many – about a English sea captain and his closest friend, an Irish-Catalan physician and spy?
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Born after 1925?
Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Oliver Reed.
#3. I’m aware of the USS Constitution being called that. Take a DQ.
#1. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
#2. I am not Opus.
Take a DQ for #3.
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
Two DQs, I’m afraid; you were correct on Oliver Wendell Holmes, but #2 was a different Bloom County character - Oliver Wendell Jones. #3 was Patrick O’Brian, whose Aubrey-Maturin novels I can recommend unhesitatingly.
IQ1: Did you claim that God told you you’d die if you couldn’t raise $8,000,000.00 by the end of the month?
IQ2: Were you a Cy Young-, NLCS-, and World Series MVP-winning pitcher with the Dodgers, who joked that if you were a wrestler, your persona would be “The Mad Librarian”?
IQ3: Were you a sober bicycle manufacturer from Dayton, Ohio, who achieved fame in the Outer Banks of North Carolina?
DQ1: British?
DQ2: Known for the arts?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
Good choice on the O.W. Jones question. I confess I stopped thinking when I got to Opus.
- I am not Oral Roberts.
- Take a DQ.
- I am not Orville Wright.
Previous IQs:
Do you live in a garbage can on Sesame Street? - Yes, Oscar the Grouch
Was your request for more gruel cruelly denied? - Yes, Oliver Twist
Did Jon Snow see you hanged for killing him? - Ollivar, who had also killed Snow’s true love Ygritte with arrows
DQ:
European?
IQs:
Were you an Old Testament figure known for spilling his seed?
Were you the nude MPFC organist?
Were you Ike’s sole female Cabinet appointee?
Oliver Stone, correct, Oliver Cromwell, scourge of Ireland
Oliver x 3!
DQ: Alive?
DQ: Known for a business or product?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- I am not Onan.
Take 2 DQs.
I :smack:-ed myself when I read your response; Opus didn’t even occur to me. Sheesh. But, correct on Oral Roberts and Orville Wright. The Dodgers pitcher was Orel Hershisher.
DQ1: Known for politics?
IQ1: Are you the English singer-songwriter of “She Cries Your Name” and “Stolen Car”, known for mixing elements of folk and electronica?
IQ2: Were you a Dutch astronomer, who lent his name to the source of astronomical phenomena that are of periodic (heh) interest?
IQ3: Were you the founder of a debtor’s colony whose original bylaws prohibited Roman Catholics, slavery, liquor, and lawyers?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Not American
- Born before 1925
- Not British
- Not known for the Arts
- European
- Dead
- Not known for a business or product
- Not known for politics
#3. I am not James Oglethorpe.
Take 2 DQs.