DQ.
That was Roald Dahl.
DQ: Award winner?
D
- Real
- Last name does not start with D
- Male
- Dead
- Known for the Arts
- American
- Died after 1900
- Not known for the performing arts
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Known primarily as a writer
- A writer of fiction or non-fiction
- Did not die before 1960
- Not born south of the Mason-Dixon Line
- Unlicensed excerpts from one story were televised
- Not a science-fiction author
- Novelist
- Best-known work not published before 1950
- Still widely read
- Died after 1980
- Appears on best-seller and “Best Books” lists, but apparently not an award winner
Aaaaaaaand … that’s 20! Talk it out a bit, and the five of you who have asked DQs (Elendil’s Heir, Prof Pepperwinkle, fanganga, Spoons and etv78) can each ask one DQ of the “Are you Hiram Globetrotter?” variety.
Well, we’ve got “fiction or non-fiction,” but not science-fiction; and a novelist, though No. 14 indicated that he also wrote short stories. At least, that my interpretation, since the word “story” was specifically used instead of “novel.”
I’m just thinking out loud, but I’m wondering if it’s someone like Paul Gallico, who wrote novels, stories, and novellas (fiction), and did sportswriting as well (non-fiction). There were a lot of writers like Gallico–reporters, columnists, etc.–who also published short fiction in publications like The Saturday Evening Post and similar magazines.
Unfortunately, I cannot think of any such D writers at this time.
Are you Damon Runyan.
I am not.
Are you J. D. Salinger?
Yes, I am Jerome David Salinger (usually, as you say, called J D Salinger).
Bravo!
Wouldn’t that be a “J” or “S”?
When it hit #14 I thought of Salinger, but didn’t think it fit as he was called ‘Jerry’ not David.
Also, I’ve figured out the rules but I desperately want to know what DQ and IQ mean.
IQ is indirect question, about a specific person.
DQ is direct question, a yes or no question.
Thanks! I got the gist of it, but was determined to know what the ‘I’ and ‘D’ represented.
Not necessarily. Once, when X was the given letter, and Le Ministre was hosting, I asked an IQ about Francis X. Bushman. There was some discussion about whether middle initials were included, and Le Ministre answered as follows (you can follow the link in the quote):
So, it looks like middle initials are fair game; though perhaps we ought to allow DQs such as “Does X begin your first, middle, or last name?”
There are individuals, fictional and non fictional, who are little-known by their first names, while their middle names are better known. A few examples would include J. Edgar Hoover, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Fenimore Cooper, and the fictional J. Alfred Prufrock.
And what do you do about people known by all three names? The kids from the “Home Improvement” TV show come to mind: Zachary Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Taran Noah Smith. And then there is the fictional character Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardenal, from “Married with Children.” I’m unsure how we’d go with that one–but I’m sure we’d narrow it down somehow.
It would seem to me that middle names are fine, as long as DQs can be expanded to allow for a “first, middle, last?” question. Thoughts, anybody?
Sounds fair to me.
Welcome JacksMom!
I am C!
IQ1: Did you sing “Lipstick on Your Collar”?
IQ2: Did you sing “A Summer Song”?
IQ3: Did you sing “Five Feet High and Rising”?
And there are people who are commonly known only by their initials, such as T S Eliot, D H Lawrence, E E Cummings, I M Pei (my last previous choice) and J D Salinger. There were no objections when I used John Philip Sousa as a ‘P’ a while back, since no one ever calls him just “John Sousa,” the same should apply to people whose “common” name includes initials. (Professor Pepperwinkle’s mind seems to work the same way mine does - he was the one who guessed both Sousa and Salinger.)
As far as expanding the name question, I don’t know - Botticelli DQs have always been Yes/No questions. I think players should just bear in mind the possibility that “No, my last name doesn’t start with T” doesn’t automatically mean “Yes, my first name does start with T.”
I am not Connie Francis.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Johnny Cash.
Correct on Connie Francis.
Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde - take your pick. 
Correct on Johnny Cash.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Are you known as Karl der Grosse in Germany?
IQ2: Was your father executed, and your brother forced out of his job?
IQ3: Did you play Chon Wang?
Y’know, my first thought was Charlemagne, but I’m not him.
Take a DQ for #2.
I’m not Jackie Chan.