I figured pre-1900 English literature was likely either Dickens or Shakespeare. Not a beauty or a romantic character indicated a villain. And Madame P., who sews, had just run across a book yesterday called What Would Madame DeFarge Knit?
So, I am E.
All right, Prof. P.!
Previous IQs:
Is your tale seen by some as an allegory of Progressivism? - Yes, Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz: Is The Wizard of Oz a satire of the French Revolution? - The Straight Dope
Do you get some of the credit for the extra red brake light added to American-made cars in the 1980s? - Then-Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole
Was the first line of your memoir that you had “always had a particular idea” of your country? - Charles De Gaulle
On to E…
IQs:
Do you not bite people on the neck as you might otherwise be expected to?
Did you play Harry Harbord Morant?
Did you reign in 1936, and only in 1936?
Can’t think of a vampire with an E. Take two DQs.
I am not Edward VIII.
IQ1) Are you an architecture professor who got rich selling a doohickey you’d invented to Ideal Toys?
IQ2) Are you a FInnish architect whose name appears about once a week in daily newspaper crossword puzzles?
IQ3) Do you help your police Inspector Dad and his assistant, Sgt. Velie, to solve crimes?
I was so sure I nailed it with Mrs. Danvers. I had my E name ready.
/calls CIA to send a laser beam down from their satellite to read **Pepperwinkle’s **mind
IQ1: Did Johnny Depp play you in a film about an artificial man taken in by a suburban family?
IQ2: Are you currently presiding in Russia after leaking NSA info?
IQ3: Are you a cosmic entity from Marvel Comics charged with protecting the Celestial Axis?
Take 3 DQs.
Pish-tosh. The tinfoil hat works just fine, thanks.
I am not Edward Scissorhands.
I am not Edward Snowden.
I am not Eternity.
Milady de Winter.
Correct.
Dirk Bogarde.
E…
IQ1: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II?
IQ2: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II?
IQ3: Was Frederic Dannay half of you?
Take 3 DQs.
Evans Carlson and Merritt Edson were the two jarheads; Dannay was one of the two authors who co-wrote as Ellery Queen.
This was a test to see if you’re any better than I am at remembering the answers to frequently asked questions. 
May as well begin with the usual three…
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American?
IQ1: Were you the Ricardos’ landlady?
IQ2: Were you Arthur’s foster father?
IQ3: Did someone keep hollering for you not to look?
DQs:
Correct.
Sir Ector.
Correct.
DQ: European?
IQ1: Did you escape from prison disguised as a dead priest?
IQ2: Are you the hero of a kids’ mystery story written in German?
IQ3: Are you the victim in an unfinished mystery novel?
DQs:
I am not Edmond Dantes.
I am not Emil (of Emil and the Detectives, or The Headless Horse).
I am not Edwin Drood.
correct, correct, Eon
DQ: From literature?
Correct on all three. (Emil und die Detektive***** was the first book we read in third-year German, but I’m not familiar with The Headless Horse - the closest I can come to that is a French book called The Horse Without a Head.)
IQ1: Did you star with Tom Cruise in the film adaptation of the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill?
IQ2: Did you write Less Than Zero?
IQ3: Are you the main protagonist in said novel?
Erno Rubik was the architecture professor who got rich selling a doohickey called the Rubik’s Cube.
Finnish architect EERO Saarinen appears constantly in crossword puzzles
Ellery Queen solves cases with his Dad and Sgt. velie.
DQ1) Last name start with E?
DQ2) Primarily known as a movie character?
DQ3) Are you a hero/good guy?