I was just thinking that as I reread my post, right before reading yours. 8)
IQs:
Do soldiers cheer for you in a non-American movie featuring characters named Handcock and Witton?
Are you the leading man in that movie?
Is your long-ago acquisition still a major irritant between the U.K. and Greece?
1: DQ
2: I am not Ella Fitzgerald
2: I am not Albert Einstein
1: I am not Eddie the Eagle Edwards
2: DQ
3: DQ
1: i am not e. e. cummings.
2: DQ
3: DQ (Should have been playing the death pool, then I’d have known…)
DQ
1: DQ
2: DQ
3: I am not Lord Elgin
#1 is Elmer Gantry.
Correct on #2 and #3.
DQ: Real?
Correct on Eddie the Eagle.
The banjo player is Earl Scruggs; and number 3 was looking for poet T.S. Eliot. The quote is from the first few lines of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
DQ: Last name start with E?
DQ: American?
Previous IQs:
Do soldiers cheer for you in a non-American movie featuring characters named Handcock and Witton? - King Edward VII, in Breaker Morant.
Are you the leading man in that movie? - Edward Woodward.
Is your long-ago acquisition still a major irritant between the U.K. and Greece? - Yes, Lord Elgin.
DQs:
Male?
Living (or would be today, if fictional)?
IQs:
Did you play a kindly teacher in Matilda?
A top military officer, did your son become mayor of a major city?
Did you quit your job while at Fort Belvedere?
IQs:
- Were you the Wizard of Menlo Park?
- Were you a Russian film director called the Father of Montage?
- Are you the pseudonym of Romain de Tirtoff
That was Eisenhower.
DQ: In the Arts?
My inital is E and …
1: I am real
2: My last name does not start with E
3: I am not American
4: I am female
5: I am not currently alive
6: I am not known for the arts.
1: DQ
2: I am … still not Dwight D Eisenhower?
3: DQ
I am not Thomas Edison
I am not Sergei Eisenstein
I don’t know to whom you refer
Correct on Edison and Eisenstein. #3 is Erte.
I’ll wait on the DQ.
Correct on E E Cummings.
Mr Ed. (“Go right to the source / And ask the horse. / He’ll give you an answer that you’ll endorse.”)
Don Everly. (The death pool was the only reason I knew Phil died…)
DQ1: Known for science?
DQ2: European?
IQ1: Were you mooned by someone who didn’t have nothin’ on but a smile?
IQ2: Are you the current “Duke of Lancaster”?
IQ3: Were you Gloriana?
Previous IQs:
Did you play a kindly teacher in Matilda? - That was actress Embeth Davidtz.
A top military officer, did your son become mayor of a major city? - Erwin Rommel’s son entered German politics after WWII and became mayor of Hamburg, IIRC.
Did you quit your job while at Fort Belvedere? - King Edward VIII, who became the Duke of Windsor after his abdication.
DQs:
Died since 1950?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did you speak before Lincoln at Gettysburg?
Did you fall for Mr. Darcy?
Did you write a poem about a very large structure that was later inscribed at its base?
0 for 3
1: Dunno
2: Prince Edward?
3: Renders them all irrelevant, for I am Elizabeth I
All right, SCAdian!
Previous IQs:
Did you speak before Lincoln at Gettysburg? - Edward Everett.
Did you fall for Mr. Darcy? - Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice.
Did you write a poem about a very large structure that was later inscribed at its base? - Emma Lazarus, about the Statue of Liberty (“huddled masses yearning to breathe free” etc.).
Good job, SCAdian!
Ethel, from the Ray Stevens song “The Streak.”
Elizabeth II. (Note that the title is in quotes - it’s not official, but she is referred to as such within the duchy.)
That was indeed whom I had in mind.
I am D
IQs:
- Are you Barry Hansen’s better known radio alter ego?
- Is your horse named Horse?
- Does your boyfriend wear a sailor shirt but no pants?
Not … Doctor Demento?
Not Dudley Do-Right.
Not Daisy Duck.
It’s a jumper, not a shirt.
IQs:
Were you a fictional monarch who wanted his people to travel in space as soon as possible?
Did your weapon become a metaphor?
Were you a political symbol of a small republic?
Not King David (of King David’s Spaceship, by Pournelle).
Not Damocles.
All I can think of is Dandolo, a doge of Venice. If that’s not right, have a DQ.