Correction: Were you the third of the four Pevensie children?
IQ1) Did Abe Lincoln say of your most famous creation, "All I have to say is what the girl said when she stuck her foot into the stocking- it strikes me there’s something in it”?
IQ2) Did you replace Julie Newmar in the final season of the sitcom Batman?
IQ3) Did you sing with your sister Maire in the folk group Clannad, before achieving stardom as a solo artist?
The Horse without a Head is what I was thinking of. Disney made movies out of both.
Take 2 DQs. I am not Edmund.
I’m guessing #1 is from The Last Samurai but I only saw that once, and it’s been years ago.
Take 3 DQs.
Note: SCAdian already asked about Ellery Queen, so your question, being redundant, doesn’t net you the 3rd DQ. Sorry.
- Take a DQ.
- I’m not Eartha Kitt.
- I’m not Enya.
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Not American
- European
- From literature
- Only name starts with an E
- Not primarily known as a movie character, though there have been movie and TV versions with the character.
Die drei Kameraden (the third book we read in third-year German :)) was written by Erich Maria Remarque, better known as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues.
Edward Rochester, in Jane Eyre.
Correct.
DQ1: From a work written in English?
DQ2: From a work written before 1900?
IQ1: Are you a fictional character killed in the fighting during the June Rebellion?
IQ2: Are you a fictional character killed in the fighting during in the June Rebellion?
IQ3: Were you an ill-advised king?
Previous IQs:
Do you not bite people on the neck as you might otherwise be expected to? - Edward Cullen, the sparkly Twilight vegetarian vampire
Did you play Harry Harbord Morant? - Edward Woodward, in the very good court-martial movie Breaker Morant
Did you reign in 1936, and only in 1936? - Yes, British King Edward VIII
DQs:
British character?
Generally considered a good guy?
IQs:
Did a newspaper once print a pun about your poor relationship with your mom?
Did you sing on the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack?
Did you play Miss Honey in Matilda?
John Ericsson designed the USS Monitor, which inspired Abe Lincoln’s quip.
DQ) Are you the primary character in the work(s) you’re best known for?
#1 is actually Edge of Tomorrow, and Cruise’s costar is Emily Blunt.
#2 Bret Easton Ellis
#3 Clay Easton
The film version of Less Than Zero has Robert Downey Jr from long before he was Iron Man, essentially playing himself at the time.
Holding 3 DQs as I ruminate…
IQ1: Do you try to keep your daughter Hermia from marrying Lysander in a Midsummer Night’s Dream?
IQ2: Do you plot to get rid of your brother and father so you can become the Earl of Gloucester in King Lear?
IQ3: Did you willingly give your life to destroy the Black Crochan in the Chronicles of Prydain?
I am not Ethelred the Unready. Take 2 DQs for the first two.
I am not Enya (#2). Take 2 DQs for the others.
#2. I am not Edgar. Take 2 DQs for the others.
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Not American
- European
- From literature
- Only name starts with an E
- Not primarily known as a movie character, though there have been movie and TV versions with the character.
- From works written in English.
- From works written after 1900.
- British character (technically, he’s rather universal).
- Generally considered a good guy.
- Not the primary character in the works.
Previous IQs:
Did a newspaper once print a pun about your poor relationship with your mom? - When the future Edward VII was resentfully waiting for his mother Queen Victoria to just die already, a newspaper (might’ve been the Times, but I’m not sure) printed this: “How is the Queen like the weather? Because she reigns, and reigns, and reigns… and never gives the poor Sun a chance.”
Did you sing on the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack? - Yes, Enya: Enya - Aniron - YouTube.
Did you play Miss Honey in Matilda? - Embeth Davidtz.
DQs:
From works first written after 1950?
Comic relief?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s SecWar?
Were you Lincoln’s AG?
Did you have an affair with your videographer?
DQs:
- Fictional
- Male
- Not American
- European
- From literature
- Only name starts with an E
- Not primarily known as a movie character, though there have been movie and TV versions with the character.
- From works written in English.
- From works written after 1900.
- British character (technically, he’s rather universal).
- Generally considered a good guy.
- Not the primary character in the works
- From works written before 1950 (but in TV/films adaptations, etc. that occur after 1950).
- Comic relief/supporting character.
I am not Edwin Stanton. I am not Edward Bates.
Take a DQ for the third one.
IQ) Did you write novels satirizing both lazy, alcoholic war correspondents and greedy funeral directors?
IQ2) Did you lose the heavyweight title to Jersey Joe Walcott?
IQ3) Did your employer’s wife inspire Jean RHys’ best known book?