IQ: Did you contract HIV during heart surgery, and was this fact concealed until your death?
DQ: Known as an inventor?
Welcome back, etv78! We missed you.
IQs:
- Is the book Good Omens about, at least in part, your prophecies?
- Did you have a chain of fish & chips shops?
- Are you a noted living Israeli sculptor?
Yay! Moderator issues got to me. Wanted to wait for June, just couldn’t! 
BTW, has my IQ guy been covered?
Welcome back, and take a DQ
No
Take 3 DQs. For #2 I came up with H. Salt and Long John Silver, neither of which is a A.
Summary:
A
- Real
- Male
- Last name starts with A
- Alive
- Author, but not what I’m best known for
- American
- Not born since 1940
- Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
- Born since 1920
- Born east of the Mississippi River
- Known for a scientific achievement
- Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
- Not known for biology or medicine
- Not known for physics specifically, but a related field
- Not a Nobel Prize winner
- Not now in academia
- –see post 220 for answer to “popularizer of science”
- Not known as an inventor
#1 is Agnes Nutter. #2 was British actor Arthur Treacher. #3 is Yaakov Agam.
3 DQs reserved for now.
That was Asimov.
DQ: Astrophysicist?
No, but getting closer
Summary:
A
- Real
- Male
- Last name starts with A
- Alive
- Author, but not what I’m best known for
- American
- Not born since 1940
- Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
- Born since 1920
- Born east of the Mississippi River
- Known for a scientific achievement
- Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
- Not known for biology or medicine
- Not known for physics specifically, but a related field
- Not a Nobel Prize winner
- Not now in academia
- –see post 220 for answer to “popularizer of science”
- Not known as an inventor
- Not an astrophysicist
- Are you the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open?
- Are you a mystery writer who disappeared for 11 days shortly after your spouse left you?
- Were you an Egyptian pharaoh married to Nefertiti?
Welcome back, etv.
Previous IQs:
Did you succeed Westmoreland? - Gen. Creighton Abrams took over after Westmoreland as the top U.S. general in Vietnam. The M-1 Abrams tank is named after him.
Were you a creepy lady from a Lovecraft story? - Asenath Waite, from “The Thing on the Doorstep.”
Did you die violently before you could see your son become a very important guy? - Arathorn, Aragorn’s dad, was killed by orcs while his son was still but a lad.
Only one DQ left. What should I ask? From the clues we have now, I’m drawing a blank as to who this guy is.
Hmm. On a hunch:
IQs:
Are you the first man to walk on the Moon?
Are you the second?
I was going to ask if he was an astronaut for my DQ, El. 
Yeah. Those are really good guesses, EH.
Not Arthur Ashe
Not Agatha Christie
Dunno
Not Neil Armstrong, but…
Yes, I am Buzz Aldrin. My (real, not honorary) doctorate from MIT is in astronautics, which involves physics, but is specific to space travel. My acting included voice acting on The Simpsons and a cameo in the last *Transformers *movie.
Well done, EH!
Grats, EH.
Nefertiti was the wife of Akhenaten or Amenhotep, before he changed his name. So, you had two chances. Not that it mattered.
Congratulations, EH!
Thanks, ChockFull. That was a good one. Next round to start tomorrow. G’night, all!
OK, next I’ll go with
Q
IQs:
- Were you a U.S. president and the son of a U.S. president?
- Did you have a burro for a sidekick?
- Did you portray Mama in the movie version of Chicago?
And “Author, but not what I’m best known for” includes a very good SF novel (co-authored with John Barnes) called Encounter with Tiber.
Q, eh?
- Did you have a horse named Rocinante?
- Was Frederic Dannay half of you?
- Were you the alleged author of a series starring a boy named Djuna?