Correct for O and O. Henry. No. 2 was Dara Ó Briain.
D.Q.: From a literary work?
I.Q.s:
Were you a Church Father, a hugely influential theologian of early Christianity, author of more than 2,000 treatises?
Did you co-star in a film with an actor who had stayed up for 72 hours to replicate his character doing that, and suggest to him, “My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?”
Were you the second son of the Earl of Airlie, famous for marrying Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent?
Was a college named after you, an Alsatian pastor and peacemaker? - Yes, Johann Friedrich Oberlin
Were you a nude organist? - Onan, played by, yes, Terry Jones, on Monty Python
Were you the brave little hero of The Point ? - Oblio/Obie
DQs:
American?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony?
Does Maurice LaMarche often do your voice?
Have you become a SDMB meme, especially in the Made-Up Band Name thread?
was the second century C.E. theologian Origen of Alexandria. 2. was indeed Lawrence Olivier, speaking to Dustin Hoffman (who apparently later said that his method acting in that instance was a result of an epic partying binge). 3. was Sir Angus Ogilvy, banker and businessman.
D.Q.s
Protagonist of his work?
From genre fiction?
I.Q.s:
Are you the eponymous hero of an iconic novel of Russian literature by Alexsandr Pushkin?
Were you the villain of the first vampire movie, and the first vampire to die from exposure to the sun, rather than simply be weakened by it?
Correct on Count Orlok and Oliver Twist. No. 1 was Eugene Onegin.
Thanks. I got ninja’d by the Prof.
DQs reserved until the answer to Buck’s last DQs.
IQs:
Are you the most famous motherfucker in literature?
Were you a Nobel Prize-winning playwright who was one of the first to use vernacular American speech in your works?
Were you a Medal of Honor-winning Union general, who headed the Freedman’s Bureau during Reconstruction, and founder of one of the oldest and most prestigious HBCUs?