1 is correct (turns out his first name was Thomas); 2 (Annie Hall’s brother) was Christopher Walken; 3 (black artist known for silhouettes) is Kara Walker.
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
1. Did you write Tono-Bungay?
2. Did your lover abdicate for you?
3. Have you been played by Peg Dixon, Katherine Moffat, Jennifer Darling, Stavroula Logothettis, Tara Strong, Susan Roman, Kelly Sheridan, Kate Higgins, Jennifer Hale, and an unknown actress in a 1999 milk ad—and is there a name deliberately missing from this list, who beginning in 2014 has played you in a series of live action movies and a recently-concluded popular 8-episode streaming TV show? (Either name is fine.)
1 (wrote Tono-Bungay) was H.G. Wells. Correct on 2 and 3.
DQ: participates in a team sport?
IQs:
1. Are you “the best there is at what [you] do–but what [you] do best isn’t very nice”?
2. Did you take your uncommon first name from a minor character in The Great Gatsby?
3. Were you a four-term segregationist governor of Alabama and third-party presidential candidate?
IQ1: Have you won 6 Wimbleton women’s doubles titles with your older sister?
IQ2: Have you won 6 Wimbleton women’s doubles titles with your younger sister?
IQs:
1. Is your final resting place the subject of an infamously-easy trivia question?
2. Should we have no fear, because you are here?
3. Did you play Latrine in a Robin Hood movie?
Were you one of the most prominent British abolitionists? - Not Winston Churchill, but William Wilberforce
Do you take artsy pictures of your dogs dressed in outlandish costumes? - William Wegman
Did Anthony Lake teach you how to salute? - William J. Clinton, taught by his national security advisor, an Army vet, so he could make a snappier salute to military personnel during his Presidency
William x3!
On to U:
Did you come up with the ansible?
Were you Ariel’s nemesis?
Were you the heroine of Life After Life?
Did you come up with the ansible? - Yes, Ursula K. LeGuin
Were you Ariel’s nemesis? - Yes, the sea-witch Ursula, in The Little Mermaid
Were you the heroine of Life After Life? - Yes, another Ursula, in the Kate Atkinson novel
Ursula x3!
DQ:
Real?
IQs:
Were you a UNSG?
Were you an Architect of the Capitol?
Were you a particularly smart Italian novelist?
Were you a UNSG? - U Thant of Burma served as UN Secretary-General in the Sixties
Were you an Architect of the Capitol? - Thomas U. Walter (he always used his middle initial)
Were you a particularly smart Italian novelist? - Yes, Umberto Eco
DQs:
Living?
Male?
IQs:
Were you Ygraine’s illicit lover?
Are you a widely-loathed action movie director?
Did the Grice Patersons have a singular adventure in your island, according to Conan Doyle?
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