IQ 4: Is it a mistaken belief that a 1920’s dance craze was named after you?
IQ 5: Were you a 1930’s bombshell who died in a 1940’s plane crash?
IQ 6: Are you noted for your method of decribing the Periodic Table?
- No idea - take a DQ.
- I’m not Abraham Lincoln.
- I’m not Lisa Marie Presley? If you were thinking of somebody else, take a DQ.
I’d say take another DQ for Lucy Lawless - I have no idea if the Hiawatha of Longfellow’s epic actually had a ululating battle cry - it was just the only answer I could come up with.
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
I’m not Tom Lehrer. Take DQs for 4 and 5.
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Les Nesman, four (I think it was four) time winner of the Buckeye newshawk award for his farm futures reports on WKRP in Cincinnati, Oh.
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Lovie Howell, who on an episode of Gilligan’s Island dealt with the mistaken belief that the minister who performed her marriage to Thurston Howell the Third was a fraud, and who for a brief period of time, believed she was single again. (Hijinks ensued).
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I thought the Lindy Hop was named after the Lone Eagle, Charles Lindbergh, but my researching the question discovered that it was called that before the 1927 trans-Atlantic flight.
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Carole Lombard, the 1930’s Platinum Blonde bombshell died in a plane crash on a War Bond tour in the 40’s.
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
DQs
10. Did you die after 2000?
11. Was your noteriety based on a political or military accomplishments?
(I’ll hold off the other 2 until Enginerd has a chance to answer the first two.
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
10. I did not die after 2000.
11. My notoriety was not based on political or military accomplishments.
Pending DQs:
Wargamer (2)
Spoons (1)
Baffle (1)
Elendil’s Heir (3)
Abraham Lincoln. He had some issues with his dad.
His son Robert Todd Lincoln was saved by Edwin Booth when the young man almost fell from a train.
His wife Mary Todd Lincoln, who chose White House china decorated in that particular shade of reddish purple: http://store.jfklibrary.org/Presidential-China/Abraham-Lincoln-Presidential-China/PAAAAAOFJIFEBBFL/3084/Product
There was another Abraham Lincoln question asked since. Shall I just ask two DQs?
Inventor or scientist?
Well-regarded by most people?
IQs:
Did you play an interpreter during a crisis?
Were you someone important’s “old war horse”?
Did your character have killer shoes?
DQ: Are you well-known for your work in the sciences?
As for the “worm eating” IQ, I was looking for Larry Linville, who played Frank Burns on the MAS*H television show. For a while, Hawkeye was fond of saying, “Frank Burns eats worms.”
He even taught the phrase to some South Korean refugees.
Nah, take the DQ that you earned.
I am neither an inventor nor a scientist.
I was not well-regarded by most people (which is not to say that I was poorly regarded by most people either).
I’m not Lee’s old war horse James Longstreet, but I don’t know the other two - two more DQs.
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
10. I did not die after 2000.
11. My notoriety was not based on political or military accomplishments.
12. I am neither an inventor nor a scientist.
13. I was not well-regarded by most people.
Pending DQs:
Wargamer (2)
Spoons (1)
Baffle (1)
Elendil’s Heir (1)
In light of the previous post, would you like to ask a different DQ?
IQ1: Did you have particular affinity for the star Sirius as you watched the Earth from a high place?
DQ: are you an athlete?
Я не лайка (I am not Laika).
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
10. I did not die after 2000.
11. My notoriety was not based on political or military accomplishments.
12. I am neither an inventor nor a scientist.
13. I was not well-regarded by most people.
14. I am an athlete.
Pending DQs:
Wargamer (2)
Spoons (1)
Elendil’s Heir (1)
IQ1: Is your best-known opera about a troupe of clowns?
IQ2: Was your music featured prominently in the films of Stanley Kubrick?
IQ3: Are you China’s best known pianist?
The closest I can come to any of these is knowing that the opera about clowns is Pagliacci, but I had to look up the composer. Take 3 DQs.
IQ1: Were you disqualified from your best event in the Atlanta Olympics due to multiple false starts?
IQ2: Are you an electrician who became President despite having no higher education?
IQ3: Did your boss tell you to “bake 'em away, toys”?
I’m not Carl Lewis (?) or Lech Walesa. Take a DQ for #3, and another if Lewis isn’t correct.
DQ: Was your sport a team sport?
Will reserve next DQ until next answer.
IQ1: Did you get knocked out by a phantom punch?
IQ2: Did your Pa get booted for being too early?
I’m not Sonny Liston, but you get another DQ for your second question.
Direct Questions
1: I am real.
2: My last name does not begin with ‘L.’
3: I am not still living.
4: I was born after 1900.
5: I am American.
6: I am male.
7: I was born after 1940.
8: I was not best known for being an entertainer.
9. I am not best known for a single act or circumstance.
10. I did not die after 2000.
11. My notoriety was not based on political or military accomplishments.
12. I am neither an inventor nor a scientist.
13. I was not well-regarded by most people.
14. I am an athlete.
15. My sport was a team sport.
Pending DQs:
Wargamer (2)
Spoons (1)
Elendil’s Heir (1)
Baffle (1, maybe 2)
Larry Hagman played the President’s Russian interpreter in the movie Fail-Safe.
Correct as to Longstreet.
Lotte Lenya (sp?) played a Soviet agent with blades at the tips of her shoes in From Russia With Love.
Thanks for the second Lincoln DQ.
DQs:
Did your sport involve a ball?
Were you alive in 1980?
Did you ever compete in an Olympics?
IQs:
Were you once played by someone from a famous sporting-related family?
Was the fact that your true love was slightly older than you a matter of life and death?
Do the people of a city who once cheered your every move now almost unanimously hate your guts?
IQ 2: Laura Ingalls, who’s family was removed from the Oklahoma Territory in Little House on the Praire for jumping the gun and trying to settle before the Land Rush.
DQ: Did your team(s) win any championships?