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The next letter is
T.
IQs:
- Did you call Lou Grant “big guy”?
- Were you Maxwell Smart’s boss?
- Were you present or nearby at three presidential assassinations?
IQ1: Is the largest moon of Uranus named after you?
IQ2: Is the largest moon of Neptune named after you?
IQ3: Are you a mathematician noted for writing songs?
IQ: Did you hold the top job in two branches of the federal government, the latter your dream job?
IQ1: Are you the eponymous heroine of a classic English novel?
IQ2: Have you repeatedly tried to kill Bart Simpson?
IQ: Did you investigate Iran Contra, and later fail to become Secretary of Defense?
Not Ted Knight, Thaddeus LNU, or Robert Todd Lincoln.
Not Titan or Titania (I forget which was which) or Tom Lehrer.
Not William Howard Taft of Ohio, President and later Chief Justice of the United States.
Dunno the first; not Robert Terwilliger AKA Sideshow Bob.
Not John Tower.
Correct on Titania.
Triton. (Titan is one of Saturn’s moons.)
Correct on Tom Lehrer.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Are you co-author of a series about people who can step from one parallel world to the next?
IQ2: Are you Korak’s father?
IQ3: Did you do the original illustrations for Dodgson’s best-known books?
1 was Tess of the d’Urbervillles
2 was indeed Robert Underdog Terwilliger.
I had to get some Us in, but I can see why you went straight to T.
Right on all 3.
IQs:
- Did you play the 4th Doctor?
- Did you play Magnum, P.I.?
- Are you the disputed author of The Hymn of the Pearl?
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Does your curse supposedly lie on US Presidents inaugurated in particular years?
IQ2: Did you chronicle the battle of Mons Graupius?
IQ3: Were you a leading figure in an organisation that no-one expects?
Plagiarist. 
Take three DQs.
Not Tom Baker, not Tom Selleck, and dunno.
Not Tecumseh, dunno, and not Torquemada (“I’ll come in again”).
T.
- real
The Long Earth and its sequels are being written by Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
Korak the Killer is the eponymous hero of The Son of Tarzan, the fourth Tarzan book.
Sir John Tenniel illustrated the first editions of Alice and Through the Looking-Glass.
DQ1: Male?
DQ2: American?
DQ3: Living?
IQ1: Did you work with Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman?
IQ2: Did you write “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”?
IQ3: Were you shot and killed in Dallas on 22 Nov 63?
Oops, sorry about that.
Tacitus chronicled the battle of Mons Graupius
DQ: Known for the arts?
IQ1: Are you a quarterback who famously kneels in prayer on the field?
IQ2: Are you simply the best?
Not Tim Conway, James Thurber, or Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit.
Not Tim Tebow or Tina Turner.
T.
- real
- female
- American
- dead
- not known for the arts
#3 was imputed to be by St. Thomas the Apostle (but it’s not the case).
DQ: Died since 1900?
Correct on all three.
T.
- real
- female
- American
- dead
- not known for the arts
- Died since 1900
IQs:
- Were you the over-cosmetized wife of a philandering televangelist?
- Did you portray Sarah Palin on SNL?
- Are you a Doper mod?