(Check the “More August Botticelli” thread for final comments on the previous game.)
I am D!
That very thread: More August Botticelli - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board
IQs:
Did you say, “Churchill would skin his own mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises?”
Did you have a very nutritious food item named after you in the past 20 years?
Did your plans for a seaside Scottish resort run into fierce local opposition?
IQs:
- Did you kill yourself a b’ar when you were only three?
- Did you discover chlorine and iodine?
- Did you “sing” for Spike Jones?
Here we go again… Take three.
Neither Davy Crockett nor Doodles Weaver. DQ for the chemist (for whom I know I will kick myself)…
The kicker’s Sir Humphrey Davy.
DQ: Real?
IQs:
- Were you the first Queen of Carthage?
- Were you a Venetian beauty slain by a wrongfully jealous spouse?
- Are you a tragic heroine of Irish myths?
IQ1: Are you an oracle for hire, and the eponymous character in a much-maligned webcomic?
IQ2: Are you a presenter of TV antiques programmes with the catchphrase “cheap as chips”?
IQ3: Are you a British political commentator with an alliterative name?
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
Dilbert: Dilbert's Assault On The Food Aisles Scott Adams's latest creation: the Dilberito, a vitamin-packed burrito for vegetarians - May 1, 2001
Donald Trump: You've Been Trumped (2011) - IMDb
DQs:
Male?
Last name start with D?
American?
IQs:
Were you a fictional character whose name was much later taken by a man in a very different line of work?
Were you the creator of that fictional character?
Were you and your colleagues given a set of commemorative cups that will, after a point, no longer ever be used?
Not Dido or … Danaan?
Take one or two DQs, as appropriate.
Take three.
Fine, be that way. Take three more.
D
- Fictional
- Male
- Last name does not start with D
- American
Dominic Deegan
David Dickinson
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David Dimbleby
DQ1: Are you a character from literature?
DQ2: Is your creator American?
DQ3: Was the first work in which you appear created after 1950?
IQ1: Are you commonly referred to by the same name and appellation (X the Y) as a British character who was created independently of you at roughly the same time?
IQ2: Are you and your dog named after people who fought in the Bible?
IQ3: Were you killed off by a faked suicide in prison?
Dido, of course. Desdemona was killed by Othello. Deirdre is #3.
I’ll hold on to my DQs for now.
IQ1: Have you been portrayed by George Clooney and Frank Sinatra?
IQ2: Would the town be horrified to know you’re little Pearl’s father?
IQ3: Did you (and some other people) raise the Titanic?
Not Dennis the Menace.
Not Davy (or is it Davey?).
DQ.
DQ.
DQ.
Not Dirk Pitt.
D
- Fictional
- Male
- Last name does not start with D
- American
- From literature
- Creator was American
- First appearance was not after 1950
DQs:
- The main character in the story?
- Is your character an adult?
Danny Ocean, in the two versions of Ocean’s 11.
Arthur Dimmesdale, The Scarlet Letter
DQ1: Did you appear in more than one work?
DQ2: Were you ever turned into a movie?
1 was Dennis the Menace, as you said - specifically Dennis Mitchell, the American one.
2 was Davey, of Davey and Goliath, as you said.
3 was - spoilered or anyone who hasn’t seen the Wire and is planning to - D’Angelo Barksdale, commonly referred to in the show as “D”
D
- Fictional
- Male
- Last name does not start with D
- American
- From literature
- Creator was American
- First appearance was not after 1950
- Main character in my story
- Adult
- Appeared in more than one work
- Was turned into a movie
Prof P wants to rule out all the kidlit I read, I see.
Hey, you’ve trapped me more than once with kid detective questions! 
IQs:
- Are you the Bumstead family’s dog?
- Did you play Kinch on Hogan’s Heroes?
- Were you Perry Mason’s detective?