Aaargh- you have found one of my glaring weaknesses- a near-total ignorance of sci-fi and fantasy literature!
I’ll guess… not Isaac Asimov for #3. Otherwise, I got nothing. Take as many DQ’s as you’ve earned.
Oooh, temptation to ask only science fiction questions is rising…
Well, maybe not all science fiction but I can’t resist the occasional one.
IQ1: Are you a laboratory mouse whose intelligence was greatly enhanced, but later that enhancement deteriorated and then you died?
IQ2: Were you granted abilities beyond those of other mortal men when you were dipped into a river as an infant?
IQ3: Were your last words incorrect, because the news about your longtime rival hadn’t reached you yet?
Abraham (the Biblical one) was originally Abram.
Correct on the other two.
DQ: American?
IQ1: Did you write a series of stories about Manse Everard?
IQ2: Did you play a Russian submariner on a New England island?
IQ3: Did your daughter disappear off the Carolina coast?
IQs:
- Did Mickey Rooney play you in a series of box-office smash hits?
- Were you the main character in an old time radio series that began with your mother calling your name?
- Did you teach people to dance “in a hurry”?
[All is well. The surgery was textbook. Madame P. is home and is healing ahead of schedule. Thanks to all for your kind thoughts.]
[Wow. Go away a few days and come back to find etv78 was banned. Adios, my friend.]
What? When did that happen??
Yesterday. Here’s the thread from ATMB: Etv78 has been banned. - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board
Well, at least they had the decency to not kill him in the middle of a game…
You know as much about the subject as I do about military history then.
Forest J. Ackerman, A. E. Van Vogt, Alfred Bester
holding 3 DQs
Welcome back Prof, glad Mrs. Pepperwinkle is OK.
Not Algernon the mouse, not Achilles and not John Adams
SUMMARY
- Real
- Male
- Dead
Previous IQs:
Did you have a brother named Aberforth? - Albus Dumbledore.
Did Colin Farrell play you in a widely-panned biopic? - Yes, Alexander the Great.
Is one of your works displayed in the Pittsburgh Intl. Airport? - Dunno of any Warhol there; this is Alexander Calder, who has a great mobile on display: Pittsburgh Lost, and Pittsburgh Found | I finally found it. … | Flickr.
DQs:
Last name start with A?
American?
IQs:
Did you con people during the Depression?
Did you create the Iron Throne?
Were you a longtime gossip columnist for Variety magazine?
Not Alan Arkin (The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!)
Take DQs for #1 and #3
SUMMARY
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
Take a DQ for #1 and #2
#3- Not Army Archerd
Manse was the main character in the Time Patrol stories by Poul Anderson.
Correct.
Aaron Burr.
DQ1: Died after 1900?
DQ2: Known for the Arts, as usually defined here?
IQ1: Did you write stories set in the Dipple?
IQ2: Are you a pen name used by #1?
IQ3: Are you really Frederick Austerlitz?
DQ: Military?
holding 2 DQs
IQ1: Are you a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and currently a running back for the Washington Redskins?
IQ2: Were you a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and the author of “The Charge of the Light Brigade”?
IQ3: Are you an American publisher who thought Doctor Zhivago “incredibly tedious… If Krushchev had banned it for dullness instead of its political implications, he might have been in the clear.”
Previous IQs:
Did you con people during the Depression? - Addie Pray, in the book of that name and the movie based on it, Paper Moon.
Did you create the Iron Throne? - Aegon the Conqueror, in the backstory of Game of Thrones.
Were you a longtime gossip columnist for Variety magazine? - Yes, Army Archerd.
DQs:
Last name start with A?
Born after 1850?
IQs:
Were you also known as Undomiel?
Was your mom buried in one place in a book, and in another place in a movie?
Were you a maid and cook who misunderstood just about every order she was ever given?
SUMMARY
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- American
- Not involved in the arts
- Not a military figure
- Died after 1900
Take a DQ for #1 and #2
Not Fred Astaire
Not Alfred Morris or Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Take a DQ for #3 (who is undoubtedly another Alfred!)