FTR, this was Brian Dennehy, Brian Blessed and Bill Clinton (born in Hope, Ark.).
Congrats, AppallingGael! Well done. I was wracking my brains to think of British musicians during that period.
IQ: Did you costar in Hellcats of the Navy?
IQ: Did JFK wish you a happy birthday not long before he died?
IQ: The daughter of a losing Presidential candidate, did you later win election to the U.S. Senate yourself?
The film star I had in mind was comedian Norman Wisdom. Unless someone can produce evidence that Niven got a similar pass from dictator Enver Hoxha, I’ll go ahead and ask a
DQ: Male?
IQ: Were you a Cleveland Indians third baseman whose first name was often misspelled?
IQ: Were you rumored to have married Roy Fitzgerald?
IQ: Were you scheduled to perform when a fatal gust of wind struck the Indiana State fair earlier this year?
Almost. The guy to whom JFK wished happy birthday by phone was John Nance Garner, FDR’s first VP, who was 90-something when JFK went to Dallas. Good job on the others.
DQ: Fictional?
IQ: Were you misquoted as saying you always tried to get there “firstest with the mostest?”
IQ: Does your statue stand outside CIA HQ in Langley, Va.?
IQ: As played by Roger Rees, did you make the cover of Time magazine?
IQ: Did Buzz Lightyear briefly resign himself to this role?
IQ: Were you part of the self-proclaimed “loudest band in rock and roll”?
IQ: Did you never allow the Hardy Boys to get fresh with you?
Sorry, but Newman attended Shaker Heights High in suburban Cleveland. The Benedictine alum I had in mind was Chuck Noll, who coached the Pittsburgh Steelers to too many victories over the Browns. My dad was a freshman at Benedictine when Noll was a senior.
DQ: Primarily a literary character?
DQ: American?
IQ: Were you almost certainly the greatest player the Duluth Eskimos ever had?
I don’t know if they inhabited the same world as the Hardys, but…I’m not Nancy Drew? No idea about Buzz (but wl try anyway–Nurse Lightyear?), and I’ll go with Ted Nugent for loud (he did suffer significant hearing loss, after all).
Mrs. Nesbit, when dressed for Sid’s sister’s doll tea party in the first Toy Story.
Nigel Tufnel, from This is Spinal Tap.
Yes, Nancy Drew.
DQ: Best known as a TV character?
DQ: Would she be alive in 2011, in her fictional world?
IQ: Did you die not far from two other actors, one of them your spouse?
IQ: Did you advise the filmmakers of a recent hit movie on life at a prominent institution of higher learning?
IQ: Did you sing the best-known recent cover of “Because the Night”?