I’m not Peter Stuyvesant. Dunno the other two; ask two DQs.
The B 52’s appeared as the BC 52’s in The Flintstones, and their lead singer Fred Schneider performed “The Bedrock Twitch.”
And Alan Shepard popularized the prayer “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f–k up.”
DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Real person?
Were you the Corleone family insider who paid with his life for trying to betray Michael to Barzini?
In the history of the National Football League, are you the winningest head coach who’s never won a championship?
Did your career as a poet end when you were killed fighting to end Spain’s occupation of the Netherlands?
S.
- Male
- Fictional
Damn. The Abe Vigoda character, right? You got me. DQ.
No, I’m not… Don Shula?
No, I’m not Sir Philip Bleedin’ Sydney.
You got Sir Philip Sidney, author of “gay Boys in Bondage.”
The winningest coach without a championship is Marty Shottenheimer.
And Sal Tessio (yes, the Abe Vigoda character) is the one who tried to betray Mike, Just before he goes to his death, he haplessly tells Tom Hagen “Tell Mike it was just business- I always liked him.” Strangely (but accurately), Hagen replies, “He understands.”
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Have you appeared as a character in any movies?
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Are you American?
Congrats on the solve, Elendil’s! Getting on to busines…
IQ1: Is Effie Perrine your receptionist?
IQ2: Does “Ann Coulter” appear in the classic English novel of which you are the title character?
No, I’m not Rex Stout.
No, I’m not …Lady Susan?
S.
- Male
- Fictional
- Has appeared as a movie character
- Not American
Effie Perrine worked for Sam Spade (and Miles Archer, till he got careless).
Ann Coulter is a very, very minor character in Silas Marner. Just a name drop, really, as I recall.
DQ1: Did you appear in any other medium before your debut as a movie character?
DQ2: Are you a native speaker of English?
IQ: Were you trying to kill your son’s best friend?
This was a reference to Jethro Tull.
IQ for new round: Are you a baseball great from Donora?
Did your early gimmicks include “The Homo Room,” where men play Penis Ping Pong and Testicle Croquet?
Do you know obscenity when you see it, even though you can’t define it?
Did you have a one-eyed husband and a female friend named Hank?
Dunno. DQ for you.
No, I’m not… Tris Speaker?
No, I’m not… Salvador Dali?
No, I’m not Associate Justice Potter Stewart.
Dunno. Another DQ.
S.
- Male
- Fictional
- Has appeared as a movie character
- Not American
- Appeared in another medium before debut as a movie character
- Native speaker of English, as far as I know
In his early days as a shock jock, Howard Stern played Penis Ping Pong in the Homo Room.
Comic strip reporter Brenda Starr married Basil St. John, the man with the eye patch (while “Hank” was a gruff older female reporter).
DQ1: Does your last name start with “S”
DQ2: Was your creator from the UK?
S.
- Male
- Fictional
- Has appeared as a movie character
- Not American
- Appeared in another medium before debut as a movie character
- Native speaker of English, as far as I know
- First name starts with “S”
- Creator not from the UK
A reference to King Saul, and his irrational hatred toward David. David loved Jonathan, Saul’s son, ‘more than women’. Saul, fearing that David was after the throne made several failed attempts to kill David.
DQ: The movie in which you appear, was it set in the period between 1900 and 2011?
IQ: Did you once sue a musician for plagiarizing himself?