1:Bill Bryson titled his book of childhood recollections, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2:AS YOU SAID, BRIAN BLESSED!
3: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins troubled Bilbo Baggins of Bag End
DQ1: Known for sporting or athletic achievements?
DQ2: Last name begins with B?
IQ1: Are you a controversial baseball player?
IQ2: Are you a US civil servant who had responsibility for economic stimulus?
IQ3: Did you play the Starkiller?
Previous IQs:
Have you played a cutthroat prosecutor, a network exec and a folk music impresario? - Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, Seinfeld and A Mighty Wind.
Did you like drinking mead and killing monsters? - Beowulf.
Are you perhaps the most famous person to come from Tarth? - Brienne, an ugly but honest knight in Game of Thrones.
DQs:
Consistent with our new rule, which name starts with B?
Born east of the Miss. River?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you a notable female Took?
Did you give an odd speech at an award show last night?
Did you fake an assassination attempt?
EH-Your 1st DQ was asked above.
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Balthasar (the traditional names for the three wise men).
Correct on Billy the Kid.
Richard Ira Bong.
DQ: Born after 1950?
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Were you opponent of Moose and Squirrel?
IQ2: Was #1’s name a pun on yours?
IQ3: Did you leave on a rainy evening, with nothing but a comb?
When did we agree on that?
Posts 253-254, to which no one other than you objected?
Previous IQs:
Were you a notable female Took? - Belladonna Took, who IIRC was Pippin’s mother.
Did you give an odd speech at an award show last night? - Jacqueline Bisset.
Did you fake an assassination attempt? - Bob Roberts, in the movie of the same name.
DQs:
Political/military?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Are you an American billionaire who’s fond of playing cards?
Are you a younger American billionaire who’s also fond of playing cards?
Were you the storied head of the OSS?
Sca and EH-3 DQs each, though I should know Sca’s
Boris Badenov.
Boris Godunov.
Bill Bailey.
Five DQs reserved.
1.Real
2.American
3.Male
4.Living
5.Not in the Arts
6.Last (of 2) initials is “B”
7.In a competitive, though not athletic, endeavor
8.Born West of the Mississippi
9.Born before 1950
10.Not a Political/Military figure
11.Born South of the Mason-Dixon line
Previous IQs:
Are you an American billionaire who’s fond of playing cards? - Warren Buffett.
Are you a younger American billionaire who’s also fond of playing cards? - Bill Gates (they sometimes play bridge together)
Were you the storied head of the OSS? - Bill Donovan.
DQs:
Businessman?
Known mostly for one incident or event?
One DQ reserved.
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I’m not aware that many people agreed to that rule either, and think that without mass support we should stick with what we’ve had in the past
IMHO it’s a waste of a question to have to figure out if the letter in question is a first, middle or last initial (there are even people who routinely use four initials, such as Samuel F.B. Morse, George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien), but whatevs.
IQs:
Were once you a quirky comedic sidekick to a late-night talkshow host?
Are you noted for your painting of a goddess?
Were you a denizen of Nighttown?
EH-Not Doc Seversein, 2 DQs
Fan-3 DQ
Then you are not Barry Bonds, Ben Bernanke or Bruce Boxleitner.
Previous IQs:
Were once you a quirky comedic sidekick to a late-night talkshow host? - Not who I was thinking of, so I’ll rephrase.
Are you noted for your painting of a goddess? - Sandro Botticelli painted Venus.
Were you a denizen of Nighttown? - Leo Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
DQs:
Known for being a player of games?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were once you a quirky, nonmusical comedic sidekick to a late-night talkshow host?
Were you, in the past six years, rumored to be having an affair with a Canadian Member of Parliament?
Did a helpful little bird tell you where to shoot?
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