IQ1: Did you wear a black wig and play a gangster’s girlfriend in one of your movies?
IQ2: Did Thor once sleep in your glove, thinking it was a cave?
IQ3: Were you named Rookie of the Year after your first appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue?
Since identified, probably: Umbrella man (JFK assassination) - Wikipedia
Previous IQs:
Do some think your first name is Nyota? - Yes, Lt. Uhura
Did you destroy an entire alien race in an instant of rage? - A near-omnipotent alien who passed as the human Kevin Uxbridge killed all the Husnock after they killed his wife, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Were you Tolkien’s publisher? - Stanley Unwin
DQs:
Best known for the arts?
Married to a famous person?
IQs:
Were you a senior State Department official in the Kennedy Administration?
Was your son Telemachus?
Were you a noted Swedish actress of the 1970s?
Not Uma Thurman
I assume #2 was one of the Popes named Urban. I’ll say Urban I. If that’s wrong, take a DQ
No idea who the Spirit of America is- take a DQ
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- An American citizen, but not born in USA
- Last name starts with U
- Born before 1964
- Died after 1980
Take 3 DQs- I’m totally stumped.
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- An American citizen, but not born in USA
- Last name starts with U
- Born before 1964
- Died after 1980
- Known for the arts, broadly defined.
- Never married to anyone particularly famous
Take a DQ for #1
Not Ulysses/Odysseus
Not Liv Ullman (who’s actually Norwegian, but amde her best known movies in Sweden with Ingmar Bergman)
Previous IQs:
Were you a senior State Department official in the Kennedy Administration? - U. Alexis Johnson
Was your son Telemachus? - Yes, Ulysses
Were you a noted Swedish actress of the 1970s? - Yes, Liv Ullmann
DQ:
Actress?
IQs:
Did you once work for David Niven?
Did the man who told your story include only a partial year in doing so?
Did a fan accidentally kick you on stage?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- An American citizen, but not born in USA
- Last name starts with U
- Born before 1964
- Died after 1980
- Known for the arts, broadly defined.
- Never married to anyone particularly famous
- Actress
Not Peter Ustinov or Usher
Take a DQ for #2
Uma Therman (Pulp Fiction), Utgard-Loki (great story), Kate Upton
IQ1: Did you play Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper in the TV series The Courtship of Eddie’s Father?
IQ2: Did you play the role of Alison Porter in both the stage and film version of Look Back in Anger?
IQ3: Are you the 2005 American Idol winner?
#1 is correct.
#2 is Bishop James Ussher from the 17th Century.
#3 is Uncle Sam.
3 DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did you once work for David Niven? - Yes, Peter Ustinov
Did the man who told your story include only a partial year in doing so? - Roderick Usher, from the Poe story
Did a fan accidentally kick you on stage? - Yes, the other Usher, the rock star
DQ:
Won an Oscar?
IQs:
Was your appearance in a bikini a big deal at the time?
Were you not a fan of the Chicago meatpacking trade?
Did the Germans give you your own train to cause mischief?
Miyoshi Umeki
YESSSS!!! I am Japanese-born actress Miyoshi Umeki, Oscar-winning co- star of "Sayonara, " Tony-nominated star of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Flower Drum Song, " and nanny on the sitcom “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.”
Good job, KO! I don’t remember hearing of her, though I know the movie and the show. Good pick, astorian.
Never heard of her, though I have heard of Flower Drum Song (I believe my high school did that the year I was in 8th grade) and the TV show.
Next…?
OK, getting into uncommon first letter territory.
I am the Great and Powerful V!
IQs:
- Did you write Candide?
- Were you President of the United States?
- Were you Batman’s girlfriend in the first Michael Keaton movie?
IQ1) Did you defeat Miyoshi Umeki and win the 1959 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, for your work in Redhead?
IQ2) Did Francis Bacon paint a horrifying spoof of your portrait of Pope Innocent?
IQ3) Did you say “Tell Mike, it was just business- I always liked him”?
IQ: Were you the 1st European to keep going after rounding the southern tip of Africa?
IQ: Did Andy Roddick’s wife fix you up with your current gf?