Was thinking Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire was in Seabiscuit)
DQ: Did the movies win any Oscars?
#1 - is Petrarch. He wrote most of his sonnets in praise of Laura, and, of course, the Petrarchan Sonnet is written as an octave and a sestet.
#2 - I’m very sorry, Fender of Fender Guitars was Leo Fender. I was after someone who is from the town of Waukesha, Wisconsin, who tried to sell his design for an electric guitar to Fender, only to be rejected and become a huge success with Gibson. The one and only Lester Polfus, better known as Les Paul.
#3 - is Joe Pass, many of whose recordings for Pablo Records were named ‘Virtuoso’. (There was a Virtuoso in New York, Virtuoso 4, presumably a Virtuoso 3 though I don’t have that one…)
Before I ask a DQ, may I ask for a clarification of a previous answer? Does your answer of ‘Crime fighter’ for number 13 include characters who would normally be described as ‘detectives’, ‘policemen’ and/or ‘superheroes’? I’m not sure if I should use a precious DQ to clarify what you feel has already been made clear…
Peter Parker was already an answer for post #191. Sorry, no DQ again.
I think that’s the kind of clarification you’d have to use a DQ for. There are many different kinds of crimefighter, as you say.
P.
- Not real
- Male
- Living
- American
- Not known for his contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game
- First appeared in a film or cartoon
- Not a military or political figure
- First name begins with P
- Appeared in a live action feature
- Born before 1950
- Appeared in more than one film
- Not a scientist or inventor
- Crime fighter
- Not a secret identity
Fair enough; ye cannae blame me for trying.
DQ1: Are you a private investigator/detective?
I’ll reserve my other two DQs for the nonce.
Do you mean a private investigator/[private] detective?
Or a private investigator/[police] detective?
Private investigator/Private detective was what I intended. (As opposed to someone associated with a Police Force or Federal Law Enforcement agency such as the FBI.)
Many thanks for double-checking; the latter option would not necessarily narrow it down as much as I would hope.
Roger that.
P.
- Not real
- Male
- Living
- American
- Not known for his contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game
- First appeared in a film or cartoon
- Not a military or political figure
- First name begins with P
- Appeared in a live action feature
- Born before 1950
- Appeared in more than one film
- Not a scientist or inventor
- Crime fighter
- Not a secret identity
- Not a private investigator/private detective
DQ2: Are you a member of a municipal, state or federal law enforcement agency?
DQ3: Was the film in which you first appeared released before 1980?
IQ1: Did Charles Bronson play you in the Death Wish series of films?
IQ2: Did Reginald VelJohnson play you in two Die Hard films?
Dunno the name of Bronson’s character. The second was the plump black cop, right? Don’t remember his name, either. Take two DQs.
P.
- Not real
- Male
- Living
- American
- Not known for his contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game
- First appeared in a film or cartoon
- Not a military or political figure
- First name begins with P
- Appeared in a live action feature
- Born before 1950
- Appeared in more than one film
- Not a scientist or inventor
- Crime fighter
- Not a secret identity
- Not a private investigator/private detective
- A member of a municipal, state or federal law enforcement agency
- Film released before 1980
Bronson’s character was Paul Kersey. The cop was Al Powell.
I’ll reserve these DQs for now.
IQ1: Are you known for your ‘weighty’ cantos?
IQ2: Did Nobody blind you?
IQ3: When you finally got be a judge (in preparation for the governorship of the island you had long been promised), did you astound everyone with your wisdom?
Side talk - Okay, ‘first appeared in film’ stumps me more than a little. I know detective fiction fairly well, but I can’t come up with a cop, agent or state trooper yet that might have been in a pre-1980 film. Smokey & the Bandit, maybe? Every Which Way but Loose? I can’t remember their names at all, let alone their first names.
Would it be worth trying to narrow down the city/part of the country? I think specific agency will take too long - we’ve only got three questions left… Opinions and ideas welcomed!!!
Appearing in more than one film makes it tough, too - there can’t be too many multi-film series that started before 1980. It wouldn’t have been Jaws (Martin Brodie), Star Wars (no Americans), or the Godfather (the only cop I remember gets killed in the first movive) … was there a recurring American cop in any Bond films? Superman?
Dunno the first.
No, I’m not the Cyclops… Polyphemus?
I’m not Prospero either.
There was CIA agent Felix Leiter (no ‘P’). There was also the good old boy sheriff in the first 2 Roger Moore films (major character in Live and Let Die, quick cameo in Man With the Golden Gun), but I don’t remember the character’s name.
No, I realized I couldn’t remember it either. But I do remember what he said in his cameo:
“Hey, I know you! You’re that English secret agent fella from England!”
Any other IQs or DQs?
Polyphemus, indeed.
#1. is a punning reference to Ezra Pound.
#3. I’m afraid Prospero was never a judge, nor had he been promised the governorship of an island - his arrival on the isle was due to the kindness of Gonzalo and the fortunes of the waves. If Antonio had had his way, Prospero and Miranda would have drowned.
I was after Sancho Panza, who is forever harping on about the governorship of an island that Don Quixote has promised. In the second book of ‘Don Quixote’, Sancho is made a judge, and all are amazed at the Solomon-like qualities of his pronouncements.
That being said, I have two DQs and I have no idea what to do with them.
If the team will forgive me a ‘Hail Mary’ kind of question…
DQ - Are you a title character in any of your films?
IQ - In a recent film, does Tony Stark say that your first name is ‘Agent’?
Not Agt. Phil Coulson of SHIELD.
P.
- Not real
- Male
- Living
- American
- Not known for his contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game
- First appeared in a film or cartoon
- Not a military or political figure
- First name begins with P
- Appeared in a live action feature
- Born before 1950
- Appeared in more than one film
- Not a scientist or inventor
- Crime fighter
- Not a secret identity
- Not a private investigator/private detective
- A member of a municipal, state or federal law enforcement agency
- Film released before 1980
- Not a title character in any of his films