Right on Geraldine and Gladys.
Arthur Godfrey famously fired Julius LaRosa on the air, which led to people thinking maybe he wasn’t as nice as he appeared, and his ratings suffered.
DQ: American?
Previous IQs:
Was your best-known battle at Guilford Court House? - Yes, Nathanael Green
Were you a head of state indirectly related to an early nautical ally of the U.S.? - Giscard d’Estaing, President of France in the 1970s, was related to Admiral the Comte d’Estaing, who helped out in the American Revolution during the Yorktown campaign.
Did you do early production artwork for a film version of Dune that never got off the, er, sand? - H.R. Giger, best known for designing the critter in Alien.
DQs:
Last name start with G?
Political/military?
IQs:
Did a new library, dedicated to the study of you and the preservation of your records, just open?
Did Doonesbury spoof your wooing of the Reagans?
Was the relationship between you and your boss likened by one observer to that of an abusive spouse and his victim?
IQs:
- Were you the mate to a seagull named Heathcliff?
- Were you the Evil Emperor (now deposed) in the Fables comics line?
- Did you pal around with Enkidu?
Not … George Balanchine?
Not … George W Bush?
Not … George H W Bush?
DQ.
G
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- Not American
- Last name starts with G
- Political/military
Yup, Balanchine (I asked about him when the answer was Mel Blanc)
IQ: Are you a major Greek political figure, with 2 terms as PM?
DQ: Did you hold elected office?
IQ1: Is there a biscuit named after you?
IQ2: Were you the leader of the Free French?
IQ3: Did you have a distinctive birthmark on your head?
Not Gertrude. (Damn, I loved that show!)
DQ.
Not Gilgamesh.
The only Greek politician that comes to mind is Papandreou, and I have no idea what his first name is/was, so take a DQ.
Not Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Not Charles de Gaulle.
DQ.
G
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- Not American
- Last name starts with G
- Political/military
- Did not hold elected office
It was Giorges (or something close)
DQ: European?
1: As you said, Guiseppe Garibaldi
2: As you said, Charles de Gaulle
3: Then you are not Mikhail Gorbachev
IQ1: Did a coward shoot you and only kill a man?
IQ2: Did you invade the Falkland Islands?
IQ3: Are you credited for claiming people will more readily believe a big lie than a small one?
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Not Gertrude. (Damn, I loved that show!)
DQ.
Not Gilgamesh.
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#2 is Geppetto. [Pinocchio has giant wooden soldier brothers.]
DQ: Died after 1970?
Previous IQs:
Did a new library, dedicated to the study of you and the preservation of your records, just open? - I’ll rephrase.
Did Doonesbury spoof your wooing of the Reagans? - That was George Will.
Was the relationship between you and your boss likened by one observer to that of an abusive spouse and his victim? - George Stephanopoulous and Bill Clinton, early in Clinton’s first term, when GS was often on the receiving end of the President’s temper.
DQs:
Best known for WWII service?
Army officer (as opposed to navy, air force, marines, etc.)?
IQs:
Did a new library, dedicated to the study of you and the preservation of your records, just open outside of Texas?
Were you a European expert on armored warfare?
Were you a trusted friend to a young spy?
G
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Died after 1900
- Not American
- Last name starts with G
- Political/military
- Did not hold elected office
- European
- Did not die after 1970
- Best known for WWII service
- Army officer
No idea. But no DQs, either, because…
No idea on #1 or #3 either, but yes, I am
Generaloberst Heinz Wilhelm Guderian.
I knew that was going to be too easy as soon as EH asked DQ7…
Wow. Good job, EH! I don’t remember this guy at all.
Congratulations, EH. I’m going to have to look this guy up in the interim when I’m allowed to look stuff up. Mine were :
1: Ernesto “Che” Guevara, whose last words were reportedly “Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.”
2: General Galiteri of Argentina
3: I was thinking of Joseph Goebells.
Woohoo! Thanks, SCAdian. Good one.
For those who were wondering: Heinz Guderian - Wikipedia
My previous IQs:
Did a new library, dedicated to the study of you and the preservation of your records, just open outside of Texas? - George Washington; his national library opened Sept. 27 in Mount Vernon, Va.: The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon · George Washington's Mount Vernon
Were you a trusted friend to a young spy? - Ol’ Golly in the kids’ book Harriet the Spy.
Next letter (since we’ve done it so seldom):
Q.
IQ: Did you lend your name to pointless pursuits?
IQ2: Did you betray your Nordic homeland to the Nazis?
IQ1: Are you a godlike being encountered in outer space?
IQ2: Have you been played by Desmond Llewellen and John Cleese?
IQ3: Did Dana Scully name her dog after you?
IQ: Are you an orange video game character from the 80s?
**fan-**which one did I steal? 
My original number 3 clashed with your number 2