IQs:
- Did you write The Vampire: His Kith and Kin?
- Did you have a hit with Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Dragged In)?
- Are you the “Celine Dion of Country Music”?
Previous IQs:
Were you a top political aide to Bill Clinton in 1996? - Dick Morris, who has since become quite conservative
Did you make a movie focusing on Donald Rumsfeld? - Errol Morris
Were you a finicky feline? - Yes, Morris the cat
DQs:
Has won an Oscar?
Considered a character actor?
IQs:
Did you lead The Citadel after WWII?
Have you played an Army officer, a top public official and a deserter?
Have you played a gangster’s moll, a cop and a wizardess?
Three DQs.
Not … Mark Clark?
DQ.
DQ.
M
- First name does not start with ‘M’
- Real
- Male
- American
- Dead
- Best known for the Arts
- Not born after 1950
- Born after 1900
- Not a singer, musician or composer (I’ve sung in public, but that’s not what I’m best known for)
- Known for the performing arts
- Born east of the mighty Mississippi
- Born north of the Mason Dixon Line
- Actor
- Not known for playing comedy roles (This seems to be the best answer here…)
- Known primarily from movies
- Did not win an Oscar
- Not considered a character actor
Previous IQs:
Did you lead The Citadel after WWII? - Yes, Mark Clark
Have you played an Army officer, a top public official and a deserter? - Martin Sheen, in Apocalypse Now, The West Wing and The Execution of Private Slovik
Have you played a gangster’s moll, a cop and a wizardess? - Helen Mirren, in The Long Good Friday, Prime Suspect and Excalibur
DQs:
Biggest fame before 1970?
Had a famous wife?
IQs:
Does your portrait hang in the SCOTUS dining room?
Does yours, too?
Were you also known as Olorin and Tharkun?
#1 was Montague Summers. #2 is Michael Penn. #3 is Martina McBride.
DQ: Do you usually portray the movie’s protagonist?
3 DQs reserved.
IQ1: Have you played a retired jockey who tried to steal the Black Stallion?
IQ2: Do you write the Mike Hammer detective novels?
IQ3: Are you a MLB player with the nickname “The Commerce Comet”?
Two corrects and IQ2 was Travis McGee.
I almost had you name three more Marx brothers until I realized they’d been excluded by question 14. hmmm…
IQs:
- Did you team up with George Burns in The Sunshine Boys?
- Did you play the original Absent Minded Professor?
- Were you the Saint and one of the Bonds?
Not … Thurgood Marshall?
DQ.
Not Mithrandir.
Three DQs.
DQ.
DQ.
Not Roger Moore (who also played one of the Mavericks).
M
- First name does not start with ‘M’
- Real
- Male
- American
- Dead
- Best known for the Arts
- Not born after 1950
- Born after 1900
- Not a singer, musician or composer (I’ve sung in public, but that’s not what I’m best known for)
- Known for the performing arts
- Born east of the mighty Mississippi
- Born north of the Mason Dixon Line
- Actor
- Not known for playing comedy roles (This seems to be the best answer here…)
- Known primarily from movies
- Did not win an Oscar
- Not considered a character actor
- Biggest fame before 1970
- Did not have a famous wife
- Protagonist. Hmmm… Usually played a good guy and the romantic lead. That might make me the (a?) protagonist…
Endgame! All outstanding DQs are hereby cancelled. fanfanga, KO, Prof P, astorian, Tim, and EH may each ask one DQ in the form “Are you Firstname Lastname?”
ZUI DQs 14 and 20.
As the man said, I shall return.
DQ: Are you Robert Mitchum?
#1 was Walter Matthau. #2 was Fred MacMurray (in the Disney movie of the same name).
Time to ponder…
Mickey Rooney, Mickey Spillane, Mickey Mantle
Mickey X3!
Would you be Lee Marvin?
Previous IQs:
Does your portrait hang in the SCOTUS dining room? - William Marbury
Does yours, too? - James Madison
Were you also known as Olorin and Tharkun? - Yes, Mithrandir AKA Gandalf
Mitchum, Matthau and Marvin are all great guesses. Hmmm.
Are you Lee Majors?
I am not.
I am not.
I am not.
I can think of two Victors who fit…
DQ: Are you Victor Mature?
I am not.
Waiting on fanganga and astorian…
:: gets ready to headsmack self ::
The only ones I can think of have already been tried and rejected, I yield.
I got nothing.
Are you… Joel McRea?