IQ1: Were you a legendary Gaulish leader?
IQ2: Did you lose three legions in Tuetoberg Forest?
IQ3: Were you the counterpart of Hephaestus from another culture?
IQ1: Are you the hero of a long-running comic strip set in Arthurian times?
IQ2: Did your concerts include songs sung by Marilyn Mulvey?
IQ3: Was your son the last king of Italy?
Way to go, Prof. P.!
Previous IQs:
Were you a top Catholic prelate, but not a Pope, profiled in The New Yorker? - Rembert Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee back in the 1980s.
Did someone close to you very often express bafflement at your remarks? - “Whatchoo talkin’ about, Willis?”
Was Geraldine your alter ego? - Yes, Flip Wilson.
New IQs:
Did someone show you a ring featuring the Cross of Lorraine?
Did your husband, anguished but polite, wait outside the house while you were with your lover?
Did you write Assassination Vacation?
I’m not Vercingetorix. Take a DQ for #2. I’m not Vulcan.
I’m not Prince Valiant.
Take a DQ for #2.
Take a DQ for Umberto II’s dad.
I’m not Victor Laszlo.
Take 2 DQs for the others.
Correct on Prince Valiant.
Victor Borge (it was Marilyn who sang the aria by “Joe Green”).
Victor Emmanuel.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Is one of the United Kingdom’s highest-ranking awards named after you?
IQ2: Did you star in The Sheikh?
IQ3: Were your ships the first to sail directly from Europe to India?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
Take a DQ for #1.
I’m not Rudolph Valentino.
I’m not Vasco de Gama (not sure about this one).
Previous IQs:
Did someone show you a ring featuring the Cross of Lorraine? - Yes, Victor Laszlo in Casablanca.
Did your husband, anguished but polite, wait outside the house while you were with your lover? - Vivien Leigh; her husband Laurence Olivier did not want to cause a scene.
Did you write Assassination Vacation? - Writer and NPR commentator Sarah Vowell.
DQs:
Last name start with V?
Living?
IQs:
Were you the first baby of European ancestry born in North Carolina?
Did your dad’s praise of a particular newspaper lead you to write a famous letter?
Were you a prominent head of the New York Public Library?
- Is indeed Vercingetorix
2: "Thus cried mighty Caesar as he caught his head a crack, Varrus, Varrus, General Varrus, give me my three legions back!
3: Is indeed Vulcan.
IQ1: Did you conduct illegal secret marriages?
IQ2: Do Chevrolet sell a car indirectly named after you?
IQ3: Were you a Roman emperor?
Queen Victoria (the Victoria Cross).
Correct on Valentino and Vasco da Gama.
DQ: American?
IQ1: Were you killed in a plane crash in Iowa?
IQ2: Did you play a man whose mother reincarnated in a very strange form?
IQ3: Did you play a chimney sweep, a crackpot inventor, and a museum security guard?
I am not Virginia Dare. I am not “Yes, Virginia…”
Take a DQ for the third.
I’m not Vespasian. Take 2 DQs for the others.
Take a DQ for #1.
I’m neither Jerry nor Dick van Dyke.
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- First name starts with V
- Dead
- American
1 - Saint Valentine, who secretly conducted Christian marriages in defiance of the Roman authorities.
2 - The Chevy Volt is named after the unit of potential difference, which in turn is named after Alessandro Volta
3 - Is indeed Vespasian
DQ1: Died since 1900?
DQ2: Known for the arts?
Ritchie Valens, who died in the same crash as Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and (the man no one ever mentions) their pilot.
Correct on the Van Dyke brothers.
DQ held pending answers to fanganga’s questions.
IQ1: Were you called “the Commodore”?
IQ2: Did you play Dr Phibes?
IQ3: Were you a young noble with a secret identity as the admiral commanding a mercenary fleet?
I’m not Vincent Price. Take 2 DQs (and I’m kicking myself already about #3).