“Buffalo Bill” Cody, Ned Buntline and Bat Masterson.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: American?
IQ1: Were you a soap-opera vampire?
IQ2: Did a child allegedly say “Cram it, clown,” to you?
IQ3: Are you best known for playing a Luftwaffe sergeant in a TV show set during WW II?
Congrats, etv, yet again!
From the previous round:
:: blushing ::
The infant Virginia Dare, in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony, performed every summer on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Valerie Plame, the outed CIA spy.
Queen Victoria, in this excellent Sherlock Holmes pastiche: http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf
B it is.
IQs:
Did your creator name you after a noted ornithologist?
Were you mocked with the song “You’re In the Army Now”?
Were you mocked by your boss’s speechwriters when your new job was announced?
SCA-not Buffy
EH-Not Bond, James Bond
2 DQs same for SCA
Sorry to keep you waiting
IQs:
- Were you the source of fraternal embarrassment for a living ex-president?
- Who shouldn’t have messed around with Slim?
- Were you a biographer whose name has come to mean a constant companion or friend>
Prof-Not “W”
(at least) 2 DQs
Okay, Billy Carter is technically William Carter, though I’ve never heard him called that.
Bad Bad Leroy Brown from the song of the same name by Jim Croce shouldn’t have crossed Slim. James Boswell was Samuel Johnson’s biographer/friend, and numerous others have been called a Boswell, most notably Dr. Watson.
DQ1) Alive?
DQ2) In the creative arts as we usually refer to them?
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IQs
- Is your analysis of fairy tales considered must reading in your field?
- Did you aid an undead Russian?
- Did you invent the peryton?
Prof-3 DQs
Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment is key in child psychology.
Bartok the bad was the animal sidekick of a magically motivated Rasputin in Anastasia.
Jorge Luis Borges’s A Dictionary of Imaginary Beings contains numerous creatures from mythology and folklore, but stuck one of his own creation into the mix.
DQs:
Is the B for your first name?
Are you an entertainer (singer, dancer, actor, comedian)?
I’ll reserve one for now.
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Yes, James Bond.
Bill Clinton, when he argued that he was too busy serving as commander-in-chief to respond to the Paula Jones lawsuit . A conservative group promptly created an ad that showed him playing golf, going out for ice cream, hobnobbing with celebrities, etc., with that song playing in the background.
“Bingo Bob” Russell, the kinda-dim-bulb second VP in The West Wing.
DQs:
Over age 40?
Has won a major prize in his field of the arts?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Have you played a network executive, a computer expert and a ruthless prosecutor?
Did Gilda Radner mispronounce your name on purpose?
Were you one of Pete Rose’s most stalwart teammates?
Upon reviewing my music collection, I find that I erred in my Jim Croce song, and that Jim was the one who shouldn’t have messed with Slim. I, of course, forfeit my reserved DQ.
IQs:
- Are you the superhero name of Chuck Taine?
- Are you the most venerable of English historians?
- Are you the puppet god of the Bard-who-gets-left-out-of-battles?
Buffy???
Barnabas Collins, Bozo and John Banner.
DQ: Visual artist (painter, sculptor, &c)?
IQ1: Was a painting of yours recently sold at auction for a ridiculous price?
IQ2: Does a famous photo show you leaning on your car, cigar in mouth and revolver in hand?
IQ3: Were you called “Doctor Mirabilis”?
(Seriously - Buffy???)
SCA-Misread that, only saw word “vampire”. :o
BTW, 3 DQs
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And these?