Living, very European author, 50 years old or more. FIRST name starts with N.
Has won a major award.
IQ:
- Did you write Stardust and the Sandman comics?
Correct! I am [SIZE=“7”]Neil Gaiman![/SIZE]
Congrats Prof! You Have 0!
He’s one of my favorite authors, and my daughter’s all-time favorite.
Oh, Okay, I am O!
IQ1: Are you the last of only nine people to hold five-star rank in the United States Armed Forces?
IQ2: Did you play the part of Dr. Eric Foreman in House?
IQ3: Did you win a Golden Globe for your role in Lawrence of Arabia?
I am not Omar Bradley. I am not Peter O’Toole. Take a DQ for #2.
One of only two people to receive both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal - and he got them both for the same book.
On to O:
IQ1: Is one of Uranus’s moons named after you?
IQ2: Is one of Uranus’s moons named after you?
IQ3: Did you and your brother start selling sausage in Chicago in the 1880s?
I am not Oberon. Don’t know the other moon. I am not Orville Wright???
Take 1 or 2 DQs as directed.
Correct.
Ophelia. (The moons of Uranus are named after characters from Shakespeare.)
“My bologna has a first name…” 
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Were you the “Iron Chancellor”?
IQ2: Did dopers often say “Hi” to you?
IQ3: Did you murder J D Tippit?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
Nein, Ich bin nacht Otto von Bismarck.
I am not Opal.
Take a DQ for #3.
Correct (but it’s nicht, not nacht).
Correct.
Lee Harvey Oswald, around 45-50 minutes after JFK was shot.
DQ: Living?
IQ1: Did you sing “Please Mr Please” and “Let Me Be There”?
IQ2: Were you “the other reindeer”?
IQ3: Are you and your sister the only pair of siblings to have won lead/actor/actress Oscars?
IQ: Does your husband have a very unfortunate middle name?
Damn, you guys move fast! Congrats, Prof. P.
My favorite Gaiman piece - a Lovecraft/Conan Doyle mashup with a wickedly clever twist: http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf
Previous IQs:
Did you have to change a line in your stump speech when some wondered if you were referring to your wife? - Richard Nixon, during his 1960 campaign, said for awhile that the country “couldn’t stand pat.”
Did everyone know you by another name even though your birth name was Thelma? - Nixon’s wife, of course, long went by the nickname “Pat.”
Did your future father-in-law throw you repeatedly out of a bar? - Dr. Niles Crane, on Frasier.
On to O…
IQs:
Although best known as a Yankees player, were you very helpful to the Indians?
Did you say that you had “done the state some service, and they know it”?
Were you late submitting your work to the Alan Parsons Project?
IQ1) Did Randy Rhoads die while trying to pull a stupid practical joke on you?
IQ2) Do rumors abound that Danny Kaye was your gay lover?
IQ3) Did you and your best friend double date the Pidgeon Sisters?
DQs:
- Real
- Female
- Dead
I am not Olivia Newton-John. I am not Olive. I am not Olivia de Haviland.
I am not Michelle Obama.
Take 3 DQs.
Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Laurence Olivier.
I am not Oscar Madison.
I was actually looking for Omar Sharif, but it turns out both he and O’Toole won the same Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male.
#2 is Omar Epps. 3x Omars.
DQ: American?