I’m gonna guess Edvard Munch for the second; dunno about the first and third.
You might wanna take a look at the link I provided when I gave the answer.
Dunno about the first and third, again. For the second, Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
E.
IQ: Did you and your best friend go and kill Humbaba, even though you thought it was a bad idea?
Elston Howard, catcher of the Yankees, won the MVP award in 1963, making him the first black AL MVP.
Romantic icon Eugene Delacroix painted “The Barque of Dante”
Eugene Ionesco wrote the play “Rhinoceros,” in which nearly everyone in the world turns into a rhino.
DQ1: Born in the 18th century?
DQ2: Married to someone as famous as (or more famous than) yourself?
DQ3: Were you an actress, singer or stage performer of some other kind?
Did you compose the soundtracks of both ***National Lampoon’s Animal House ***and The Magnificent Seven?
Did a play (not a musical) based on your most famous novel run for nearly 8 years on Broadway?
Did you write “The New Colossus,” which nobody has read but every American can quote 2 lines from?
IQ: Were you a scribe who forced the dissolution of many interfaith marriages?
IQ: Were you a “talented amateur” in a catsuit?
IQ: Were you a catcher who was considered the slowest man ever to play big-league baseball?
IQ: Were you an automobile designer “brought back to life” in a series of commercials?
IQ: Were you famous for a routine which supposedly involved Kenyan musicians?
Paul Simon originally had written “here’s to you, Mrs. Roosevelt”, in honor of Eleanor before adapting the song for “The Graduate”. Mell Lazarus, author of “Momma” and “Miss Peach of the Kelly School” is no known relation to Emma the poet.
DQ: Was your fame earned during or pre- the American Revolution (ooh, I think I know)?
I’ll wait on the second in case my hunch is wrong.
No idea whatsoever. Baffled. Take a DQ.
No, I’m not Elmer Bernstein, T.S. Eliot or Emma Lazarus.
No, I’m not… Eleazar, or Elizabeth Montgomery, respectively?
Dunno about the first and third, but no, I’m not Hayley Earle. Two DQs.
E.
You are not the biblical scribe Ezra, nor are you Emma Peel of The Avengers, who was introduced in each week’s pre-credit sequence as the “talented amateur” assistant of “top professional” John Steed.
I think I know who AppallingGael is thinking of, and I think he (she?)'s got it figured out, so I’ll save my DQs just in case he’s wrong.
He. It’s a play on “Pauline Kael” that I created for my one and only IMDB movie review, recycled for this place simply to keep my various internet ID’s somewhat managable.
Here goes, then…Are you a famous vexillographer whose name was shared by a recent Lieutenant Governor of New York?
Actually, the designer’s name was Harley Earl. But since I suspect we’ve found out the mystery person’s identity, I’ll jusrt say that the first question refers to Ernie Lombardi, who supposedly never legged out an infield hit despite hitting .306 for his career and being named an All-Star eight times. The “Kenyan musicians” were the Nairobi Trio, who appeared several times on the TV show hosted by Ernie Kovacs.
Saving DQ’s just in case AppallingGael doesn’t have this round all sewn up.
Yes, I am Elizabeth “Betsy” Ross!
Good job!
Congratulations, AppallingGael! You stitched it up neatly!
Just to clean up -
Yet another Assyrian reference. In ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’, Gilgamesh talks Enkidu into taking on Humbaba, the powerful being who protects the great cedar forest.
Thanks. I might have also alluded to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in the DQ though perhaps she never went by “Betsy”.
I went and counted how many times each letter has been used since the revival of this game in May, with these results:
A-2
B-3
D-1
E-1
F-1
G-2
H-1
I-1
J-3
K-1
L-2
M-3
R-2
S-3
T-1
W-1
I’ll go with what seems to be the among the most fertile of the untapped: C.
IQ: Did Joseph Cotten play your character’s best friend?
IQ: At the end of a spectacular career as an actor in both TV and film, did George Wendt star in the only film (made for TV) that you ever directed?
Congrats, Gael!
Just to clear up one last thing… I asked for a play (not a musical) that ran on BRoadway for 8 years. The answer was “Tobacco Road,” based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell.
IQ1: Were you the first Time Magazine Man of the Year?
IQ2: Did you turn to a career in baseball partly because it was so difficult and expensive to obtain equipment for left-handed dentists?
IQ3: Did John Cleese play a fictional character with your REAL name in a popular movie?
I am not Charles Foster Kane (confused–if you are looking for the name of an actor, I guess I don’t know).
IQ: Did you have the dubious honor of appearing nude in Playboy and Penthouse simultaneously?
IQ: Are you Springfield’s slack-jawed yokel?
IQ: Are you a vandal that described yourself as “a bulldog running at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn’t like”?
I’m not Art Carney?