Botticelli - August 2019

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=878366

A new month and a new letter! As discussed earlier, let’s break from alphabetical order and this time go with

L

Have at you!

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IQs:

  1. Did you lead 300 Spartans in a famous battle?
  2. Are you “the Beloved Physician”?
  3. Did you write The Cyberiad?
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  1. Did your second voyage take you to Brobdingnag?
  2. Did you secretly record conversations with your friend Monica?
  3. Were you a member of TLC?
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I’m not Leonidas, and dunno x2.

Not Lemuel Gulliver, Linda Tripp and dunno.

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Correct on Leonidas.
#2 is St. Luke, the Apostle.
#3 was Stanislav Lem.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

and Welcome Back, De La Rue!

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IQ!: Did Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb play you in Raising Arizona?
IQ2: Did you play the mad scientist in Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster?
IQ3: Did you play IQ2 in Ed Wood?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with “To Sir With Love”?
  2. Did Paul McCartney write “Hey Jude” about you?
  3. Did your sword stab Hamlet?
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Thanks, Prof.! It’s good to be back.

3 was Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Were you launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodome in November, 1957?
  2. Were you known as the Sun King?
  3. Are you the last Czarnian?
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Not Lee J. Cobb, Bela Lugosi or Martin Landau.

Not Julie London, Julian Lennon or Laertes.

Yes, welcome back, DLR! I’m not Laika, Louis XIV or… is that a misspelling? I’m not Alexandra (who’s not an “L”).

L.

  1. fictional
  2. female
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Leonard Smalls, correct, correct

DQ: Last name start with L?

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Swept me. Alas!

IQs:

  1. Are you mentioned in the valediction in II Timothy?
  2. Did you play Clint Eastwood’s sidekick in Any Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can?
  3. Are you #2’s actress daughter?
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IQ1: Were you lead singer for The Cramps?
IQ2: Did you perform the theme song for the TV shows Mr. Belvedere and Harry and the Hendersons?
IQ3: Are you a rapper/actress whose real name is Dana Elaine Owens?

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Dunno, not Sandra Locke, and dunno.

Dunno x3.

L.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. last name starts with L
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IQs:

  1. Are you mentioned in the valediction in II Timothy?
  2. Did you play Clint Eastwood’s sidekick in Any Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can?
  3. Are you #2’s actress daughter?
    Dunno, not Sandra Locke, and dunno.

#1 is Linus (traditionally later Pope Linus).
#2 was Geoffrey Lewis, Sandra being love interest.
#3 is Juliette Lewis.

DQs:

  1. By an American author or authors?
  2. From a work of prose literature?
  3. Created after 1949?
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L.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. last name starts with L
  4. by an American author or authors
  5. from a work of prose literature
  6. created before 1949
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Not a misspelling; 3 was DC Comics’ bounty hunter Lobo (who hails from the planet Czarnia).

DQs:

  1. Created before 1900?
  2. Main character?

IQs:

  1. Is your autobiography entitled “WE”?
  2. Did you star in The Dancing Cavalier?
  3. Did you also star in The Dancing Cavalier, although your voice was dubbed?
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Not Charles Lindbergh, dunno, and dunno.

L.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. last name starts with L
  4. by an American author or authors
  5. from a work of prose literature
  6. created before 1949
  7. created after 1900
  8. a main character
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IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of a romance by Richard D. Blackmore?
  2. Did you write the novel It Can’t Happen Here?
  3. Did you play the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz?
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Lux Interior, Leon Redbone, Queen Latifah

DQ: Adapted to film or TV?
DQ: Younger than 30?
DQ: Caucasian?

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Dunno, not Sinclair Lewis or Bert Lahr.

L.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. last name starts with L
  4. by an American author or authors
  5. from a work of prose literature
  6. created before 1949
  7. created after 1900
  8. a main character
  9. adapted to film or TV
  10. probably older than 30
  11. Caucasian