IQ1: Are you a famously bad but enthusiastic singer? - Florence Foster Jenkins.
IQ2: Were you a Civil War general known for sucking lemons and sitting on your horse with your hand in the air, to ease a wounded finger? T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson.
IQ: Were you an executive with the habit of conducting business meetings while sitting on the toilet? Lyndon Baines Johnson, who sometimes met with advisors while so situated.
DQ1: First name “John”?
New IQs:
IQ1: Are you the alliterative hero of a children’s song, whose name is my name as well?
IQ2: Are you famous in folklore under a nickname given you because there were already too many men with your name working for your employer?
IQ3: Were you a learned Roman Emperor, who tried to return the Empire to the worship of the classical gods and away from the fashionable new religion of Christianity?
*IQ1: Are you the alliterative hero of a children’s song, whose name is my name as well?
IQ2: Are you famous in folklore under a nickname given you because there were already too many men with your name working for your employer?
IQ3: Were you a learned Roman Emperor, who tried to return the Empire to the worship of the classical gods and away from the fashionable new religion of Christianity? *
Not John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith (or Schmidt, depending on the version). Take 2 DQs.
Correct on J.J. Jingleheimer Schmidt (as I heard it). IQ2 was John Luther Jones, who was given the nickname “Casey” when he joined the Illinois Central Railroad, because there were already several John Joneses in his division. IQ3 was Flavius Claudius Julianus Augustus, known by the Christians as Julian the Apostate, Byzantine Emperor from 361 to 363 C.E.
DQ1: Sitcom created by Norman Lear?
DQ2: Character was an adult?
DQ3: Sitcom set in California?
DQ4: Character was middle-class?
And the other of EH’s earned DQs: Series had a notable theme song?
I can’t speak for EH or the Prof, but I can’t think of any British sitcom remade as an American series prior to about 1990. Maybe Sanford and Son/Steptoe and Son, but those series ran concurrently (both started in 1962, according to Wikipedia), so it’s hard to say who copied whom. Not to mention Sanford and Son not having a white main character. I thought perhaps Jodie Whittaker from Family Affair as well, but he was a child.
Otherwise, what we have is a comedy character in California in the 60s or 70s, named Jim, James, Jamie, Jodie, Joe, or Joseph. I grew up in the 80s, so I’m a bit spotty about sitcoms from earlier.
Otherwise, what we have is a comedy character in California in the 60s or 70s, named Jim, James, Jamie, Jodie, Joe, or Joseph.
There’s a few names missing from that list, one of those missing names is the name of the character.
So, earned questions, last guesses, however you want to phrase it, do it before tomorrow.
I was thinking All in the Family, but the timing, setting etc. was wrong. I didn’t know, or had forgotten, that Three’s Company was an American adaptation of a British show: Man About the House - Wikipedia
Good job, KO!
On to L…
IQs:
Did you work closely with William Herndon?
Were you the wife of that person?
Did you look a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio in your youth?