IQs:
- Did you write Idylls of the King?
- Did Paul write one epistle to you?
- Did you write Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me?
Well done, CFOHG (and that’s a beautiful bit of calligraphy).
Previous IQs:
Have you written about a President’s childhood, a big dig, a famous bridge and a pair of enterprising brothers, among other topics? - David McCullough, in Mornings on Horseback (as to TR), The Path Between the Seas (the Panama Canal), The Great Bridge (the Brooklyn Bridge) and The Wright Brothers
Did you play the younger, thinner brother of a TV character who moved west? - Yes, David Hyde Pierce, on Frasier
Are you the host of the Marketplace public radio show? - David Brancaccio (sp?)
David x3!
On to T…
Did you win big at the 1864 Battle of Nashville?
Did your son not come to your funeral, even though he pretty easily could’ve?
Were you a Starfleet admiral who had not a word of dialogue?
Not Tobe Hooper
Not Harry S. Truman
Take a DQ
DQ
Not Timothy
DQ
Take 3 DQs
1 was correct (the challenge is Hooptober, on Letterboxd); 2 was correct; 3 was Tina Fey.
DQ: real?
H
DQs:
- Fictional
I thought we’re doing T’s, CFOHG?
Previous IQs:
Did you win big at the 1864 Battle of Nashville? - Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas
Did your son not come to your funeral, even though he pretty easily could’ve? - Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s dad
Were you a Starfleet admiral who had not a word of dialogue? - Adm. Thomas, on ST:TNG “The Drumhead.” He appears in a courtroom scene, observes what’s happening, and leaves without making a sound.
Thomas x3!
Three DQs reserved.
#1 was Lord Tennyson.
#2 was Titus. Paul wrote two epistles to Timothy.
#3 was Augustus P. Toplady.
DQs:
- Male?
- Created by an American or Americans?
- Originally from prose fiction?
Whoops! You’re right. Brain fart from the previous round.
T
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Created by an American or Americans
- Not originally from prose fiction
Congrats!
- Did you play War (yes, one of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse) on Supernatural?
- Did you play Wandsworth in Clue?
- Were you the original Magnum’s helicopter pilot friend?
IQs:
1. CHAAAAAARGE! Does Mortimer’s brother in Arsenic and Old Lace think he’s you?
2. Were you lucky to sing joyously with the Rock Bottom Remainders (arguably sort of a club)?
3. Do you have a dog named Snowy (Milou, en Francais)?
Take 3 DQs
Not Teddy Roosevelt
Not Amy Tan?
Not Tintin
A clean sweep!
IQs:
1. Did you write Carpe Jugulum (about vampires who want to break with tradition)?
2. Were you Wendy Corduroy’s purple-haired friend?
3. Were you an early American adopter of macaroni and cheese, having a pasta machine sent over from Italy in the 18th century?
Titus Welliver, Tim Curry, Theodore “T C” Calvin.
DQs:
- Originally from movies or TV?
- From a genre?
1 DQ reserved
T
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Created by an American or Americans
- Not originally from prose fiction
- Originally from movies or TV
- From a genre
DQ
Not Tambry - did she have a last name?
DQ
1 was Terry Pratchett; 2 is correct (and as far as I can tell, no); 3 was Thomas Jefferson.
DQs:
1. first name begins with T?
2. created after 1970?
T
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Created by an American or Americans
- Not originally from prose fiction
- Originally from movies or TV
- From a genre
- Last name begins with T
- Created before 1970
IQs:
- Were you repeatedly portrayed by the actor son of the Man of a Thousand Faces?
- Were you Gomez Addams’s right hand, er, hand?
- Were you one of the Monkees?
It’s TR’s birthday today, as it happens. Huzzah for the Colonel!
Previously-reserved DQs:
American character?
Originally from movies?
Good guy?
IQs:
Were you a transporter double who turned to crime?
Was the Fat Controller your boss?
Was King Henry II your frenemy but regretted your death?
Not Thomas the Tank Engine
Not Thing
Not Peter Tork
But…
Yes, I am Lawrence/Larry Talbot AKA Universal’s The Wolf Man!
played in at least 5 films by Lon Chaney Jr. (He also played Kharis the Mummy in mutiple Universal films)