IQ1: Were you a terrorist financier who sometimes bled from your tear ducts?
IQ2: Were you a brilliant French mathematician?
IQ3: Are you most famous for writing a story about a man who could converse with animals?
IQ1: Are you the only surviving human in the universe, currently stuck on the mining ship Red Dwarf?
IQ2: Did you pen In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works?
IQ3: Have you appeared in multiple film franchises including Star Wars, James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and Lord of the Rings?
IQs:
1. Did you play Manon the handyman in The Alligator People?
2. Did you invite people to do the Loco-Motion?
3. Did you get in trouble because of your “wide stance” in a bathroom?
Did David Sedaris voice a character in an acclaimed audiobook about your death and its aftermath? - Sedaris and many others provided voices for Lincoln in the Bardo, about the death of Willie Lincoln, the President’s son.
Were you JFK’s personal secretary? - Evelyn Lincoln
Were you Gary Seven’s assistant? - Yes, Roberta Lincoln (Teri Garr)
Lincoln x3 redux!
DQs:
English?
Novelist?
IQs:
Were you killed by crossbow in a privy?
Were you a son of that guy?
Were you, too?
David Lister, from the British comedy show Red Dwarf
Correct on the other two.
I’ll hold onto my DQ until I see the answer to some of the others.
IQ1: Did you invent the runcible spoon?
IQ2: Were you the title character of the Righteous Brothers’ debut single?
IQ3: Are you a composer given a prominent shout-out in REM’s 1987 hit “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”?
Not from Dune - you’ll kick yourself - it’s Le Chiffre from Fleming’s Casino Royale.
Laplace is not who I was thinking of, but certainly an acceptable answer. Correct on 3 also.
DQ: Died before 1800?
IQ1: Were you able to safely go to school despite a propensity to go on murderous rampages every month, thanks to an ingenious solution by the headmaster?
IQ2: Did you die on the same day as JFK?
IQ3: Are you most famous for being lost, and found, in Tanzania?
The author C.S. Lewis died on the same day as JFK. You presume correctly on the other 2.
However, my knowledge of 19th century Scottish novelists is slim to non-existent, and I don’t see another DQ helping much, so I think I will have to concede defeat on this one! If inspiration strikes before the deadline I shall return.