Not Pontius Pilate.
Still not Pythagoras (post 138).
Not Pablo Picasso.
P
- Real
- Male
I really ought to get around to reading Dickens someday…
Hmm. It’s a good guess, though Pompey was the one trying to save the republic. I’ll save the fellow I was after for another IQ.
#2 was Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine tango virtuoso, and the man most closely associated with the Bandoneon. It’s very much like an accordion, but using exclusively buttons rather than a keyboard. Here’s a lovely example of Piazzolla’s playing - Milonga del Angel
#3 is the delightful Ponyo.
DQ1: Alive?
DQ2: American?
IQs:
- Did you found the Academy in Athens?
- Did you compose Madame Butterfly?
- Were you Candide’s tutor?
That was Adm. John Poindexter
DQ: Politician?
Not Plato.
Not Pucchini.
Not … Pangloss?
P
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not a politician
Correct on all three.
IQs:
- Are you a detective in the novels of S. S. van Dine?
- Do you try to see the good in everyone and everything?
- Are you the protagonist of the most performed Norwegian play?
Yes for Pontius Pilate and Pablo Picasso. Although there are scholars who credit Pythagoras with discovering the regular solids, they’re referred to as the Platonic solids.
IQ: Were you a major WWI general?
Interesting - I’ve always known them as Pythagorean solids. Google gives plenty of hits for both terms, though.
I should know this, but I’ve never read any of them. DQ.
Not … Pat Boone?
Not Peer Gynt.
Not Black Jack Pershing.
I should know this, but I’ve never read any of them. DQ.
Not … Pat Boone?
Not Peer Gynt.
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- Philo Vance
- No… Pollyanna. (Given your familiarity with children’s lit I though that one would be easy.)
- Yep, PG.
I’ll save my DQs for now.
Aargh. I have read that, but it was fifty years ago and it’s not a book I’ve ever been tempted to reread…
DQs:
- First name starts with P?
- Known for the Arts?
Previous IQs:
Did all of your living relatives have British accents, despite being putatively French? - Jean-Luc Picard, in ST:TNG “Family.”
Were you a well-connected French courtesan? Yes, Madame de Pompadour.
Were you Brett’s best buddy belowdecks? - Parker, in Alien.
DQs:
Died before 1900?
Best known for military role?
IQs:
Did you play a turncoat scientist, a Nazi bigwig, and the President of the United States?
Were you a head of government assassinated since 1970?
Did you once live on Caladan?
Three DQs.
P
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not a politician
- First name does not start with P
- Known for the Arts
- Did not die before 1900
- Associated with the military, but not best known for military role
IQs:
- Were you Earth 2’s version of Supergirl?
- Were you an illusion-casting member of the Legion of Superheroes?
- Were you the Lois Lane to Underdog’s Superman?
Previous IQs:
Did you play a turncoat scientist, a Nazi bigwig, and the President of the United States? - Donald Pleasence played a scientist in Fantastic Voyage, Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed, and the President in Escape from New York.
Were you a head of government assassinated since 1970? - Olof Palme, late Prime Minister of Sweden, slain in 1986.
Did you once live on Caladan? - Paul Atreides, in Dune.
DQs:
Died since 1950?
Born east of the Mississippi River?
Best-known for a single incident or act?
IQs:
Did Jack Bauer do his best to protect you?
Are you the dog of a boy in a series of kids’ books?
Did you create an illustration of a notorious bloodletting?
DQ.
DQ (though I should know this…).
Not Sweet Polly Purebred.
DQ.
DQ.
Not … Howard Pyle?
P
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not a politician
- First name does not start with P
- Known for the Arts
- Did not die before 1900
- Associated with the military, but not best known for military role
- Did not die since 1950
- Born east of the Mississippi River
- Not best-known for a single incident or act
IQ: Did you create a comic starring a military figure?
DQ.
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- Power Girl
- Princess Projectra
and, of course, you are right about Sweet Polly Purebred.
DQ: Author?