Yes, I am the First Actor, Thespis!
Good job, astorian! You have “U”.
Previous IQs:
Did a recent biographer note that you were soft on animals, and always had several hanging around your “office”? - My Civil War hero, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, whose HQ always had cats, squirrels, dogs, etc. underfoot
Did you build and sail Kon-Tiki? - Yes, Thor Heyerdahl
Were you a Time magazine writer who found a place at the Clinton White House? - Strobe Talbott, who IIRC ended up as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow
DQs:
Ever performed in the U.S.?
Married to another famous person?
IQs:
Did an Army officer offer you a prostitute which you indignantly declined?
Are you a fictional actor who appeared in a number of movies with ridiculous titles?
Did you inspire a villainous character in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot?
I saw that KO had snuck his question in while I was typing my post, but I hadn’t had my coffee yet - by the time I thought of another Thomas, it was over five minutes since I’d posted…
Oops, ninja’d! Congrats, astorian.
Previous IQs:
Did an Army officer offer you a prostitute which you indignantly declined? - Harry Truman, who was in Berlin for the Potsdam Conference
Are you a fictional actor who appeared in a number of movies with ridiculous titles? - “Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You may know me from such films as…”: List of Troy McClure Films | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom
Did you inspire a villainous character in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot? - Col. Banastre Tarleton; the movie character was named Tavington
Oooh, lucky me- I get to think of a “U” person. Oh dear…
Okay, got one. Let the games begin.
IQ: Did you write the gold standard Presidential memoir?
IQ2: Were you Secretary General of the UN?
IQ3: Are you an author known for historical epics?
IQs:
- Were you the last king of Italy?
- Are you secretly Shoe-Shine Boy?
- Were you an American editor who was widely criticized for including your own poems in anthologies?
IQ1: Did you use magic to disguise yourself as someone in order to get into bed with his wife?
IQ2: Was the story of you and your small house performed as a play within a play?
IQ3: Were you a black TV-show hostess in the '60s?
Blink: We’re on U already?
IQ1: Were you tasked by Enki to abandon your worldly possessions and create a giant ship to be called The Preserver of Life?
IQ2: Are you a professional wrestler whose real name is James Hellwig?
IQ3: Are you a jazz musician who formed a group called the Music Revelation Ensemble?
U who?
IQs:
Did you write of William of Baskerville?
Despite your name, were you not known for having piles of stuff?
Were you a noted black actress of the 1970s?
Not Ulysses S. Grant
Not U Thant
Take a DQ for #3
Not Umberto the 2nd or Underdog.
Take a DQ for #3 (didn’t I just say that?)
Louis Untermeyer is #3. Correct on the first two.
DQ: Real?
Leon Iris
DQ: Male?
Not Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur
Not Leslie Uggams.
But take a DQ for #2 (for a change of pace!)
No idea on #1
Not… the Ultimate Warrior? (Take a DQ if that’s wrong.)
Definiutely not James Blood Ullmer.
So take one or two DQs.
Not Umberto (Name of the Rose) Eco
I guess you can take two DQs for the others, UNLESS #3 is Leslie Uggams again.
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
Utnapishtim, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and inspiration for Noah
DQ: Alive?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead