Botticelli - April 2021

IQ1: Did you play a werewolf, a rancher’s son, and the head of a pioneer family?
IQ2: Were you a Medal of Honor recipient who fathered six kids with your wife, two with your secretary, and five with two other mistresses?
IQ3: Were you a Heinlein character called “Slipstick”?

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 was Peter Lorre.

DQ: Born after 1979?

IQs:

  1. Were you the star of Sea Hunt?
  2. Did you write Ringworld?
  3. A tenor, did you sing opera for MGM?

IQ1: I am not Michael Landon.
IQ2: I am not Charles Lindbergh?
IQ3: Take a DQ.

1. I am not Lloyd Bridges?
2. I am not Larry Niven.
3. I am not Mario Lanza?

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name doesn’t start with L
4. living
5. American
6. known for the Arts
7. born before 1979

IQs:

  1. Were you a well-known female voodoo practitioner in New Orleans?
  2. Were you Ursula’s evil ex-fiance in George of the Jungle?
  3. Were you the author of Strawberry Girl?

Previous IQs:

Were you the leader of the Nez Perce tribe? - Never mind, withdrawn; had a brainfart. This was Chief Joseph (not an L)
Did you become a runner with Jessica, whose brother you saw killed? - Yes, the title character from Logan’s Run
Were you honored with a monument at Vicksburg and a traffic circle in Washington, D.C.? - Gen. John Logan

Logan x2!

DQ:

Best known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Did you husband like to go about the house with his shoes off, to “let his feet breathe”?
Were you that husband?
Were you their almost-as-famous son?

Swept me again.

  1. Did Henry Morton Stanley presume upon your identity when you met him?
  2. Did you play a bandleader in the movie High Society?
  3. Did you play Woody’s love interest in Bananas?

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Lazarus Long’s buddy, Andrew Libby.


One DQ reserved.

1. I am not Marie Laveau.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
I am not Mary Todd Lincoln.
I am not Abe Lincoln.
I am not Willie, Robert, or Tad Lincoln.

1. I am not Livingston.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Louise Lasser?

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name doesn’t start with L
4. living
5. American
6. known for the Arts
7. born before 1979
8. best known for the performing arts

Correct, Louis Armstrong, Correct.

DQ: Known as an actor?

Swept me!

IQs:

Did you write the musical Camelot?
Did you, too?
Did you introduce yourself as the art teacher at an unusual New York school?

Another sweep!

IQ1: Was your attempt at the “perfect crime” the inspiration for Hitchcock’s film Rope? (yes, I know it was a play first)
IQ2: Did you join IQ1 in the attempt?
IQ3: Did you play a key role in developing the electric guitar?

Respectively:
I am not Lerner.
I am not Loewe.
I am not Logan, AKA Wolverine.

IQ1: I am not Leopold.
IQ2: I am not Loeb.
IQ3: I am not Les Paul?

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name doesn’t start with L
4. living
5. American
6. known for the Arts
7. born before 1979
8. best known for the performing arts
9. known as an actor

Swept me again. Well done!

Was Oliver Hazard Perry a friend and shipmate of yours?
Did you wish a houseguest would use his goddamn prepositions?
Was a still-standing fort named after you in Pennsylvania?

Another sweep.

IQ1: Have you played a homeless murder suspect, a Nazi industrialist and a Jedi?
IQ2: Do you voice a bucktoothed tow truck?
IQ3: Do you have a recurring role on Saturday Night Live playing a senator from Vermont?

DQ: Best known for movies?

IQs:

  1. Were you King of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae?
  2. Were you the French composer of Symphonie espagnole?
  3. Are you a contemporary designer whose market is exclusively young girls-to-early teens?

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Lionel Twain, as played by Truman Capote in Murder by Death.
Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Liam Neeson.
IQ2: I am not Larry the Cable Guy.
IQ3: I am not Larry David.

1. I am not Leonidas.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Lisa Frank? If not Frank, take a DQ.

DQs
1. real
2. male
3. last name doesn’t start with L
4. living
5. American
6. known for the Arts
7. born before 1979
8. best known for the performing arts
9. known as an actor
10. not best known for movies

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 was Lalo.

DQ: Born before 1960?

Correct, Lyle, Lois Lenski.

DQs:

  1. Best known for TV shows?

Two DQs reserved.