Arthur Dent
holding a DQ
IQ1: Are you TV detective who convinced a lie detector he was born a long time ago in a galaxy far away?
IQ2: Are you a TV office worker convinced that one day the robots will take over?
IQ3: Is “Islands in the Stream” what we get when you swim on your back?
The Bishop of Digne, from Les Miserables.
DQ: Is your music known all over the world?
IQ: Are you the lead singer of a band named after a mediaeval device?
IQs:
- Were you the first queen of Carthage?
- In Much Ado About Nothing are you the obtusely comical head of the police watch?
- Are you the eldest of the Brothers Karamazov?
Previous IQs:
Were you married to an actress who has played a reporter and a diplomat? - This was also David Duchovny; Tea Leoni starred in Deep Impact and Madame Secretary. Do I get a DQ?
Were you a noted admiral of the American Civil War? - Yes, David Dixon Porter
Did Patrick Stewart play you on the London stage in late 1985? - King David of ancient Judea, in the play Yonodab (he was very good, too)
One (maybe two) DQs reserved.
Three DQs.
DQ. (Iron Maiden, I assume, but I’ve no idea what their names are.)
Not Dido.
DQ.
Not … Dmitri?
D
- Real
- Male
- Last name starts with D
- Alive
- Famous for accomplishment in the performing arts
- Born in the Americas
- U.S. citizen
- Actor, but not best known for that
- Not born after 1960
- Musician
- Solo artist
- Singer
- Usually not a pop/rock artist
- Songs I’ve written are known all over the world, though I don’t know if my recordings are.*
Since your question came before DC’s, yes – take a DQ.
- They are, actually, since there are American servicemen all over the world, but I’m sure that’s not what you meant.
Arthur Dietrich, Dwight Schrute, Dolly Parton 
DQ: Country artist?
holding 2 DQs
You are correct about Iron Maiden, whose lead singer is Bruce Dickinson.
I don’t think I’m going to know this person, so I’ll bow out for now but may come back to use my DQ if I see a reasonable use for it.
Figures. My favourite Dietrich: “Where the hell’d you get the atomic bomb?”
D
- Real
- Male
- Last name starts with D
- Alive
- Famous for accomplishment in the performing arts
- Born in the Americas
- U.S. citizen
- Actor, but not best known for that
- Not born after 1960
- Musician
- Solo artist
- Singer
- Usually not a pop/rock artist
- Songs I’ve written are known all over the world, though I don’t know if my recordings are.*
- Country artist
- They are, actually, since there are American servicemen all over the world, but I’m sure that’s not what you meant.
DQs:
Has won a Grammy?
Greatest fame before 1980?
IQs:
Were you a singer who also appeared in North Dallas Forty?
Were you a singer who also appeared in Diamonds Are Forever?
Were you a singer who also appeared in Oh, God?
Yes, I am singer*****, songwriter******, film***** and Broadway****** actor, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member, and 1974 Country Music Entertainer of the Year Mac Davis!
- “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked On Me,” “It’s Hard To Be Humble”
** “In the Ghetto,” “Don’t Cry Daddy” - North Dallas Forty, The Sting II
** The Will Rogers Follies
No.
Possibly.
Yes.
Not Jimmy Dean.
Still not John Denver.
Good job, EH!
I remember my mom used to watch his TV show, and he had the mimes Shields & Yarnell frequently.
Woohoo! Thanks, SCAdian. I was wracking my brains for country singers with last names starting with D. You got my other two.
Our next letter is, of course,
E
Nice work; I was write about not knowing the artist in question.
IQ1: Are you a British sportsman about whom a feature film was recently released?
IQ2: Are you an African swimmer who followed in the (metaphorical) footsteps of the above?
IQ3: Were you a British politician who was the subject of a (rather poor, in my view) joke with the punchline “Because if he didn’t, he’d be Ewar Woowar.”?
IQs:
- Are you Prometheus’s brother and the husband of Pandora?
- Do you wield Stormbringer?
- Are you probably the best known American transcendentalist essayist?
Not Eddie the Eagle, dunno, and not… Edward Woodward?
Not… Epiphemus? Not Elric, and not Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Spot on with those two (“Why is Edward Woodward spelled with so many ds?”), the other was Eric “The Eel” Moussambani who became famous at the Sydney Olympics for winning his qualifying heat despite recording the slowest time in Olympic history.
DQ: Alive?
IQ1: Are you a hunter prepared for all seasons?
IQ2: Were you a singer whose name literally translates as “Betty Blackhead”?
IQ3: Did you discover what most believe to be the most elegant equation in mathematics?
#1 was Epimetheus. Correct on the others.
DQ: Real?