Nice job, Prof. P.! I’ve read some Turtledove books (Guns of the South, despite its farfetched premise, is probably my favorite) but wasn’t thinking of genre fiction like that.
S it is.
IQs:
Were you liked more in your lifetime in a particular region than you are now, many years after your death?
Did your creator first name you Sherrinford?
Were you the female lead of The Skin of Our Teeth?
DQ: American?
Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Sherlock Holmes. My High School Thespian Club did The Skin of Our Teeth. It was one of the first plays I ever saw, and I never got over it. I’m not Sabina.
DQs:
IQ1: Was your name changed from Sarai?
IQ2: Did you write a book about Cedric the Saxon’s son?
IQ3: Was your name given to the mountains that served as a landmark for men searching for lost mines?
#1) No, I’m not Sarah. #2 I’m not Sir Walter Scott. #3 Unless this is John Sutter, take a DQ.
Correct on Sarah and Sir Walter.
Sheba’s Breasts were a pair of mountains in King Solomon’s Mines.
DQ: European?
DQs:
Gen. William T. Sherman toured the South not long after the Civil War and was welcomed; it was only later that stories of his troops’ depredations got more and more exaggerated, and he became more and more hated.
Correct as to the other two. I was actually in a high school production of The Skin of Our Teeth, and played the Stage Manager. A good part in a good play, I thought.
DQ:
Last name start with S?
IQs:
Were you FDR’s Secretary of War?
Are you a terrible womanizer on a current popular sitcom?
Did you call a brief truce for an enemy’s wedding night?
I oughta know #1, but I’m blank. My daughter watches How I Met Your Mother and you may mean Neal Patrick Harris’s character, or somebody from Two and a Half Men, but I don’t watch 'em. No clue on #3.
As usual, EH, take 3 DQs.
DQs:
IQ1: Did you write about a girl who growed?
IQ2: Did you compose a march named for an Austrian general?
IQ3: Were you an orange quangaroo?
Heh. I thought I was doing quite well to get as many of his as I did…
Congratulations, Prof. I’m kicking myself, because his name kept on popping up, but whenever I went to post I kept getting stuck on Thackery and Twain.
IQ1: Are you good enough, are you smart enough and gosh-darn it do people like you?
IQ2: Did you have a famous scene involving crossing and uncrossing your legs?
IQ3: Did Obama nominate you to the US Supreme Court?
I am not Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote of Topsy. I’m gonna guess Strauss, the Waltz King for #2. I ate Quisp and Quake, but don’t remember the Quangaroo’s name. So take 1 or 2 DQs.
#1. Oh yeah, the character of the funny guy from SNL who was killed by his wife? Don’t recall the name.
#2. I’m not Sharon Stone.
#3. I know this one. I’m just drawing a very big semi-current-events blank.
Take 2 DQs.
“As usual”? You’ve gotten plenty. Stop flattering me, would ya?
Henry Stimson
Barney Stinson from, yes, How I Met Your Mother
The great Muslim warrior Saladin, during the Crusades
DQs:
British?
Died before 1900?
Political/military?
IQs:
Did the actor who played your uncle quote a famous line from another movie of his?
Are you a Latina actress with a great figure?
Have you twice played Hellboy’s true love?
Is indeed Sharon Stone
DQ1: Are you known for the arts as conventionally defined?
DQ2: Did you die before 1500?
IQ1: Did you come closer to God by sitting on a pillar?
IQ2: Were you a rival of Empress Maud?
IQ3: Were you ordered to kill yourself with hemlock?
Take a DQ for #1. Not Selma Hayek. Not Selma Blair.
I’m not Socrates. Take 2 DQs for the others.
DQs:
fanganga, I won’t count your DQ2, since #8 covers that.