#1 was Lorna Doone. Correct on the others.
DQ: From horror/fantasy/science fiction genres?
IQ1: Are you now a running back for the NY Jets, after sitting out 2918 on the Steelers’ bench?
IQ2: Are you head coach of the LA Chargers?
IQ3: Are you QB for the Indianapolis Colts?
2 was Don Lockwood and 3 was Lina Lamont, from Singing in the Rain.
IQs:
- created before 1930?
- adapted to film only?
DQs: - Were you Jon Arbuckle’s roommate?
- Did you say, regarding the request to rename your newspaper comic, “They could have called it Revenge of the Zucchini People for all I cared”?
- In cartoons by Rube Goldberg, were you an inventor of elaborate and unusual machines for everyday tasks?
Dunno x3.
Also dunno x3.
L.
- fictional
- female
- last name starts with L
- by an American author or authors
- from a work of prose literature
- created before 1949
- created after 1900
- a main character
- adapted to film or TV
- probably older than 30
- Caucasian
- not from horror/fantasy/science fiction genres
- created after 1930
- not adapted to film only
Le’veon Bell, Anthony Lynn, Andrew Luck
DQ: Mystery genre?
DQ: Does story take place during WWII era?
holding a DQ
IQs:
- Are you a Welsh sea god?
- Were you Mary Richards’s boss?
- Are you the title character in a song by Blood, Sweat & Tears?
Dunno, not Lou Grant, and dunno.
L.
- fictional
- female
- last name starts with L
- by an American author or authors
- from a work of prose literature
- created before 1949
- created after 1900
- a main character
- adapted to film or TV
- probably older than 30
- Caucasian
- not from horror/fantasy/science fiction genres
- created after 1930
- not adapted to film only
- not in the mystery genre
- story does not take place during WWII era
#1 is Llyr.
Correct on Lou.
#3 is Lucretia MacEvil.
DQs:
- From a children’s story?
- From a novel?
L.
- fictional
- female
- last name starts with L
- by an American author or authors
- from a work of prose literature
- created before 1949
- created after 1900
- a main character
- adapted to film or TV
- probably older than 30
- Caucasian
- not from horror/fantasy/science fiction genres
- created after 1930
- not adapted to film only
- not in the mystery genre
- story does not take place during WWII era
- not from a children’s story
- not from a novel
1 was Lyman (from Garfield); 2 was Gary Larson (of The Far Side); 3 was Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts (from the Rube Goldberg inventions cartoons).
DQs:
- created after 1940?
- only adapted to TV?
- story set in the past (that is, the past when the story was published)?
IQs: - Did you have US Patent 6,469 (a device for “buoying vessels over shoals”)?
- Are you a friend and confidante of the Shadow?
- Was your daughter upset over your portrayal in a recently-released movie?
IQ1: Did the Kinks sing about you in 1970?
IQ2: Did Angelina Jolie play you in Tomb Raider?
IQ3: Did Monica Bellucci play you in Spectre?
IQ1: Were you engaged to Opus?
IQ2: Are you better known by your Hispanic nickname than your real name, Dolores?
IQ3: Are you an Italian actress, memetically famous as a sex symbol? (Come to think of it, there are two such actresses, so I’ll accept either).
Not Abraham Lincoln (how did you remember the patent number?!?), not Lamont Cranston, and not Bruce Lee (in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which I just saw and enjoyed).
Not Lola or Lara Croft, and dunno.
Dunno, dunno, and not Gina Lollibrigida.
L.
- fictional
- female
- last name starts with L
- by an American author or authors
- from a work of prose literature
- created before 1949
- created after 1900
- a main character
- adapted to film or TV
- probably older than 30
- Caucasian
- not from horror/fantasy/science fiction genres
- created after 1930
- not adapted to film only
- not in the mystery genre
- story does not take place during WWII era
- not from a children’s story
- not from a novel
- created before 1940
- not only adapted to TV
- story set in the past (that is, the past when the story was published)
That’s it for IQs. Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST Friday.
Lucia
DQ: From a song?
DQ: From an advertisement?
IQ1: Lola Granola.
IQ2: Lolita, from Nabokov’s novel.
IQ3: Correct, Gina Lollobrigida is who I had in mind. But I realized that Sophia Loren would also qualify, though she was categorized more as a “beauty”, where Lollobrigida was more “sexy bombshell”.
DQ1: From a comic book/graphic novel?
DQ2: Superheroine?
L.
- fictional
- female
- last name starts with L
- by an American author or authors
- from a work of prose literature
- created before 1949
- created after 1900
- a main character
- adapted to film or TV
- probably older than 30
- Caucasian
- not from horror/fantasy/science fiction genres
- created after 1930
- not adapted to film only
- not in the mystery genre
- story does not take place during WWII era
- not from a children’s story
- not from a novel
- created before 1940
- not only adapted to TV
- story set in the past (that is, the past when the story was published)
- not from a song
- not from an advertisement
- not from a comic book/graphic novel
- not a superheroine
Correct on 1 and 3. For 2, I was thinking Margo Lane; I know that Cranston lets the Shadow use his identity as a cover, but are they really friends and confidantes?
So, an adult female main character, last name starts with L, probably from a short story (or novella) written by an American in the 1930’s that’s been made into features for TV and movies. Not a kid’s book or genre fiction, and set in the past (pre-1930’s). I never read Little House on the Prairie, but I’m thinking it’s something like that.
OTOH, did Simon Legree have a wife?
No. The Civil War Charleston diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut pointed that out in a glancing allusion to plantation owner’s habits of raping their female slaves: “Mrs. Stowe did not hit the sorest spot. She makes Legree a bachelor.”
That book’s the wrong decade anywho.
And Little House is a children’s series if I remember correctly.