#1 was Charles Dickens.
#2 was Captain Custard in a song from Road to Singapore.
#3 was the Composite Superman.
3 DQs reserved.
Charlie Chan.
Imogene Coca (on It’s About Time).
Correct.
DQ1: Originally appeared on TV, rather than in a movie?
DQ2: Leading character?
DQ3: Mainly a comedy?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you a Pole who is considered one of the greatest English-language novelists?
IQ2: Was your brother the first murder victim?
IQ3: Were you a lawyer in a TV series set in Boston?
Previous IQs:
Were you the leader (character name, not actor or actress) of your nonhuman comrades in a recent movie? - Caesar, in the most recent Planet of the Apes movie.
Did you take an axe to saloons and taverns? - Close enough - Carrie Nation.
Was your daughter Kate the toast of 1860s Washington, D.C. society? - Salmon P. Chase.
DQs:
Associated with NYC?
Cop or private eye?
IQs:
Was your recommendation that slaves be armed and then freed hushed up by the Confederate government?
Were you mentioned in a song as being “lost and gone forever”?
Are you commonly credited with inventing the geosynchronous communications satellite?
DQ Roundup
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name starts with C
- Of American origin
- First appeared after 1950
- Did not first appear in a book
- Good guy
- First appeared in TV or film
- First appeared after 1980
- Originally appeared on TV
- Leading character
- Show was not mainly a comedy
- Not associated with NYC
- Not a cop or PI, but very closely related
ask another DQ SCAdian, since Tim asked the TV question first
Not Wesley Crusher (hehehe), Not Lando Calrissian, sounds familiar but dunno
dunno, not Cain, not Denny Crane
dunno, not My Darling Clementine, dunno
Previous IQs:
Was your recommendation that slaves be armed and then freed hushed up by the Confederate government? - Gen. Patrick Cleburne.
Were you mentioned in a song as being “lost and gone forever”? - Yes, Clementine.
Are you commonly credited with inventing the geosynchronous communications satellite? - Arthur C. Clarke.
DQs:
First appeared after 2000?
Often carried a gun?
IQs:
Did you publicly impersonate Bono of U2 in the last three years?
Were you housekeeper for the Finch family?
Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Correct on Crusher and Calrissian, John Connor from T2 was the one fostered.
DQ: Was the show’s setting contemporary and without overt fantasy/SF elements?
Holding one DQ.
IQ1: Was there a TV show about Hangin’ with you?
IQ2: Did you and your allies go on the run from Scorpius?
IQ3: Did you kill yourself in order to resurrect your unrequited love?
Oh, on IQ3, on further consideration I don’t think the unrequited love was technically dead yet…
Please retroactively change that to:
IQ3: Did you kill yourself by life force transfer in order to save your unrequited love from imminent death?
Matt Damon and Robin Williams re-enacted **Carlton Fisk’s **big homer from the 1975 World Series. Robin’s character was supposed to be at that game, but blew it off to go on a date with the girl he eventually married.
Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin stories inspired Cabaret.
DQ1) Was the TV show you’re best known for on one of the three major networks (ABC, CBS or NBC)?
DQ2) Is your job related to the criminal justice system (that could mean DA, judge, criminal lawyer, coroner, crime scene investigator, whatever)?
IQ1) Did you write The Man Who Was Thursday?
IQ2) Did you share a Cy Young award with Denny McLain one year?
IQ3) Were you both the first Hispanic National League MVP and the first man to win the NL MVP award by a unanimous vote?
DQ: Is your show currently running?
2 DQs reserved.
DQ Roundup
- Male
- Fictional
- Last name starts with C
- Of American origin
- First appeared after 1950
- Did not first appear in a book
- Good guy
- First appeared in TV or film
- First appeared after 1980
- Originally appeared on TV
- Leading character
- Show was not mainly a comedy
- Not associated with NYC
- Not a cop or PI, but very closely related
- First appeared before 2000
- Presumably carried a gun, as per his occupation
- Show’s setting was contemporary for its time, and had fantasy/sci-fi elements, but not in the “classic” definition
- Show aired on one of the three major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC)
- Job is related to the criminal justice system on a Federal level
- Show is not currently running
As regards DQ 17, I think programming guides would have a hard time choosing which genres to list.
I’ll skip on the remaining IQs, since I only know 1 or 2 of them, and we’ve reached the limit anyway. I’m sure everybody has at least one DQ for The Guess.
Aw, shoot.
Previous IQs:
Did you publicly impersonate Bono of U2 in the last three years? - Bill Clinton: See Bill Clinton's 'Bono' impersonation - YouTube
Were you housekeeper for the Finch family? - Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow.
Not sure who our mystery person is, based on the clues provided. #19 is particularly puzzling. Hmm.
Do you enjoy a damn fine cup of coffee (maybe with a slice of cherry pie)?
A leading character from a TV series of the 80s or 90s, involved with Federal agents. Hmmm, if it wasn’t for the fact that none of the leads in The Greatest America Hero have a last name starting with C, it’d be a match. We haven’t eliminated cartoons, though…
Ponder. Ponder.
I would have been tempted to ask if you are FBI Agent Dale Cooper, but I think astorian beat me to it (though not in the post-20 DQ-already-have-been-answered format.)
IQs were Mr. Cooper, John Creighton (Farscape) and Marcus Cole (Babylon 5)
Yes, I am Agent Dale [SIZE=“7”]Cooper[/SIZE] of Twin Peaks!
Congrats astorian!
I decided “FBI agent” wasn’t the same as cop or PI, and thought DQ 19 would help steer you in the right direction.
Good job, astorian. I never watched the show myself.