DQ Roundup for B
- Fictional
- Male
- Last name starts with B
- Did not die in story
- Did not first appear in print
- First appeared after 1930
not Betty White, not Betty Grable, not Betty Crocker
DQ x 2, not Botticelli
(Discourse isn’t letting me reply to Chock’s post)
not Beavis and Butthead, not Barbara Bach (I actually remember her from the flop Up The Academy)
deadcat:
IQ1: Are you one of the farmers in Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox?
IQ2: Were you a market stall trader who sold Slade’s Noddy Holder his famous hat before striking the big time as a rock star yourself?
IQ3: Did you die while leaning against the mantelpiece “just to prove it could be done” (at least, according to Douglas Adams)?
me: Take 3 DQs
2 (spent a lot of pages proving that 1+1=2) was Bertrand Russell; 3 (author of Animalia, The Eleventh Hour, other picture books) was Graeme Base.
IQs:
1. Were you working in the lab late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight?
2. Do you (and others of your kind) live on the cube planet of Htrae?
3. Did you endear yourself to voters by playing the sax on The Arsenio Hall Show?
DQs:
1. first appeared after 1980?
2. from film/TV?
Previous IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s AG? - Edward Bates
Were you JFK’s national security advisor? - McGeorge Bundy
Did you paint, among other things, the emergence of Venus from a giant clamshell? - Yes, Botticelli (sorry, I’d missed the earlier reference to him)
I had asked “Would be alive today, if real?” and you replied, “Did not die in story.” With respect, K_O, I don’t think that’s entirely responsive. Someone might not die in a story set in 1066, but they would assuredly be dead by now.
DQs:
DId you smash a folk singer’s guitar and then offer a half-hearted apology?
Did you play that guitar smasher?
Did you travel under the name “Mr. Underhill”?
Yes, I am John Blutarsky.
The reason I didn’t do the “Would be alive if real” answer properly is because John Belushi died 3 years after Animal House, and the epilogue credits showed Blutarsky became a senator. I’m pretty sure he would have died from some kind of misadventure before today, but who knows. Chris Christie is still alive. Rob Ford isn’t.
Grats EH!
That was quick! Congrats @Elendil_s_Heir
- Any of Boggis, Bunce, or Bean.
- Farokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury.
- Bramwell Bronte, the less well known brother of the 3 famous authoresses.
Thanks! A funny character in a great movie. Here’s the scene: Animal House Guitar Scene - YouTube
Other previous IQs:
Did you play that guitar smasher? - Belushi, of course
Did you travel under the name “Mr. Underhill”? - Frodo Baggins, in LOTR
Lemme think of our next letter…
Let’s go with
O
Wow, missed a whole round! Good going, EH!
IQs:
- Did you write The Art of Love?
- Did you fail to create Project Omega?
- Are you Superman’s Pal?
IQs
Were you one of the longest serving Speakers of the House?
Did you get your start writing for The Simpson’s and SNL?
Were you an Irish writer who went to prison for “lewd acts”?
Not Onan, dunno, and not Jimmy Olson.
Not Tip O’Neill, Conan O’Brien or Oscar Wilde.
IQ1: Did you play TV’s Son of TV’s Frank in the MST3K reboot?
IQ2: Did you play Derek Zoolander’s arch rival Hansel McDonald?
IQ3: Are you the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history?
IQs
- Did your on/off beau murder your dad, driving you to madness?
- Did you recently host a Q&A after a fundraiser for The WI Dem party?
- Are you Katy Perry’s baby daddy?
IQs:
1. Did you end a radio production by saying “If your doorbell rings and nobody’s there, that’s no Martian, it’s Halloween”?
2. Did you write Down and Out in Paris and London?
3. Did Dennis Nedry have a photo of you on his desk?
#1. Good joke, but it was Ovid.
#2 was Aristotle Onassis.
Correct on Jimmy.
DQs:
- Real?
- Last name starts with O?
Dunno, not Owen Wilson, and not Orrin Hatch.
Not Ophelia, dunno and dunno.
Not Orson Welles, dunno and dunno.
O.
- real
- last name starts with O