Were you a noted Irish freedom-fighter of the 1790s? - Edward FitzGerald
A former FBI agent, were you the first elected County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio? - A later American also named Edward FitzGerald
Were you the first in your high office to use a rubber stamp for signing the piles of documents which came your way? - Not Eisenhower, but King Edward VII
Edward x3!
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name begin with E?
IQs:
Did you eventually marry Mr. Knightley?
Did you eventually marry Mr. Darcy?
Were you a badly-misunderstood green woman with sharp teeth?
IQ1: Did you paint Nighthawks?
IQ2: Did your creator die before completing you, leaving you with metal blades in place of digits?
IQ3: Did you form an eponymous band with your drummer brother, and eventually add your bassist son?
DLR, Elihu Yale donated to what became Yale University; Elihu Root, who lived many years later, was a lawyer and statesman who was close to T.R.
Previous IQs:
Did you eventually marry Mr. Knightley? - The title character of Jane Austen’s Emma
Did you eventually marry Mr. Darcy? - Yes, Elizabeth Bennet, in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Were you a badly-misunderstood green woman with sharp teeth? - Elphaba, in Wicked
DQs:
Was himself American?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Were you the U.S. chess champion in the Sixties in an alternate universe?
Has a particular actress played you in movies twice already, and hopes to again?
Was your husband born on Corfu?
IQs:
1. Were you a forger profiled by another forger?
2. Was your sitcom notable for “The Puppy Episode”?
3. Were you a quarterback for the Denver Broncos?
…my note here lists Root as founder of Yale, which I never thought about checking (I never thought about why a guy named Root would found a college named Yale, either.). Duly noted and corrected.
DQ.
Not Queen Elizabeth I.
Not Queen Elizabeth II.
3 DQs.
E
1, Not real
2. Male
3. Last name does not begin with E
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. Was himself American
6. Could be alive today, if real
7. First name begins with E
Were you the U.S. chess champion in the Sixties in an alternate universe? - Elizabeth Harmon, in the novel and miniseries The Queen’s Gambit
Has a particular actress played you in movies twice already, and hopes to again? - Yes, Queen Elizabeth I (the actress being Cate Blanchett, of course)
Was your husband born on Corfu? - Yes, Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth x3!
DQ:
Human?
IQs:
Did you play Miss Honey in Matilda?
Were you an early King of Rohan?
Was Isildur your son?
E
1, Not real
2. Male
3. Last name does not begin with E
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. Was himself American
6. Could be alive today, if real
7. First name begins with E
8. Created after 1900
9. Not a protagonist
10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
11. Human
12. Caucasian
1 was Elmyr de Hory; 2 was Ellen DeGeneres (it’s the episode in which DeGeneres’s character comes out as gay–an executive suggested that since she “showed no inclination toward dating, she should get a puppy”); 3 was John Elway.
E
1, Not real
2. Male
3. Last name does not begin with E
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. Was himself American
6. Could be alive today, if real
7. First name begins with E
8. Created after 1900
9. Not a protagonist
10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
11. Human
12. Caucasian
13. Possibly created after 1960
14. Not originally from movies or television
15. Not an antagonist