And then there's the Beatles song "Doctor Robert," a tribute to Dr. Robert Freymann, a Manhattan physician "known to New York's artists and wealthier citizens for his vitamin B-12 injections, which also featured liberal doses of amphetamine," according to Wikipedia. He signed Charlie Parker's death certificate, according to the same source.
Couldn't drag Dr Jack Kevorkian's name up out of my memory, partly because as an Australian, I'm far more familiar with Dr Philip Nitschke in that context. Perhaps, given his international prominence as the first doctor to legally assist a suicide, Nitschke could also be accepted as a valid answer.
That’s the more common name these days. Dr Robotnik is the guy we beat on the death egg in Sonic 2 back in 1995. Those days are gone. Jim Carrey is now Sonic’s enemy to 90% of young people. I hate it, too, but the world goes on without your Robotniks and Walkmans and Tamagotchis.
More people know a 10 year old high budget movie starring A-List celebrities within the highest grossing movie franchise of all time, than a 70 year old book from the Soviet Union? What a shock! Also the clue for Dr. Zhivago is a lot more ambiguous than the one for Dr. Stange
Honestly, both are mid. Doctor Zhivago was a boring slog of a movie and I have no idea how it was a massive hit. I have to assume the book is just as boring, as I’ve heard Pasternak’s writing is similar to Tolstoy’s but even drier. Maybe I’ll read it some day… but I give it an uninformed 👎
Personally, i'm french, and in French it's Doctor Jivago, i had no idea the name was different in english. I have seen that Jivago was not accepted so i thought it was something else. Pretty salty to do 17 and not 18 though.
That shouldn't really be a surprise though, should it? Soviet author, so it's obviously written in the cyrillic alphabet rather than the latin one. Whichever language it gets translated into would obviously transliterate the title by their own pronunciation rules rather than keep Живаго. It's Zjivago in Swedish and Živago in Italian (the first language it was translated into).
No Dr. van Nostrand? He’s from the clinic. And I suppose after Elaine threw him out the window, we won’t be seeing any more of Dr. Zaius in any quizzes.
I'm Frieda's boss.
Who's Frieda?
My secretary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nitschke
Equally, it seems