Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
102

Previous IQs:

Did your boys knock inkwells around your office, creating a terrible mess? - Abraham Lincoln (the boys were Tad and Willie; Lincoln’s law partner, William Herndon, who was not at all amused, later wrote about the incident)
Were you the mother of those brats? - Mary Todd Lincoln
Were you their eldest brother? - Robert Todd Lincoln

DQs:

American?
First appeared before 1950?
Good guy?

IQs:

Was a fort in Pennsylvania named after you?
Did Farrah Fawcett, early in her career, appear in a movie named after you?
Was a species of owl lice named after you?

103

Take 2 DQs and I am not Gary Larson.

104

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. First appeared after 1950
  6. Good guy
105

DQ: From a work of literature?

IQs:

  1. Did you have an unrequited crush on a Beethoven-loving piano player?
  2. Are you #1s brother?
  3. Was your most famous character spun off from a series starring Kevin Sorbo?
106

IQs:

  1. Did you star in The Postman Always Rings Twice?
  2. Are you a young knight from the west in a poem by Sir Walter Scott?
  3. Did you have a duet with Frank Sinatra singing The Lady Is A Tramp?
107

I am neither Lucy nor Linus van Pelt. Nor am I Lucy Lawless.

I am not Lana,Turner, Lochinvar or Steve Lawrence.

108

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. First appeared after 1950
  6. Good guy
  7. Not from a work of literature.
109

Previous IQs:

Was a fort in Pennsylvania named after you? - Lord Ligonier
Did Farrah Fawcett, early in her career, appear in a movie named after you? - She had a bit part in Logan’s Run
Was a species of owl lice named after you? - Yes, Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson

DQs:

Protagonist?
First appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Are you standup comic who pretends to have a particular line of work?
Were you an early political aide of FDR’s?
Were you Jimmy Carter’s best-known OMB director?

110

Tqke 3 DQs

111

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. First appeared after 1950
  6. Good guy
  7. Not from a work of literature.
  8. Define protagonist, please
  9. Did not first appear in a movie
112

Correct, Correct, but Luther Vandross.

A protagonist is the central character in a story. Most stories have only one protagonist (e.g., Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, or John McClane in Die Hard), but some have two (The War of the Roses, Rush Hour), and the rare few have more (Love, Actually, The Umbrella Academy).
Everyone else is support or opposition.

DQ: From a TV show?

113

IQs:

  1. Did you room with Dr. Sheldon Cooper?
  2. Were you one of the Mod Squad on TV?
  3. Did your “father” give you gorilla DNA to save your life?
114

I am not Leonard
I am not Link
I am not Lancelot Link

115

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. First appeared after 1950
  6. Good guy
  7. Not from a work of literature.
  8. Not a protagonist
  9. Did not first appear in a movie
  10. From a TV show
116

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you identify yourself as “Son of David” during fal tor pan?
  2. Did you help manage an inn in Star’s Hollow?
  3. Did you play #2?
117

And take 3 more DQs

118

Correct, Correct, and Luther from The Umbrella Academy.

1 DQ reserved.

119

#1 was Dr. Leonard H. McCoy, medical officer, USS Enterprise.
#2 was Lorelai Gilmore.
#3 was Lauren Graham.

DQ: First appeared after 1980?

2 DQs reserved.

120

DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. First appeared after 1950
  6. Good guy
  7. Not from a work of literature.
  8. Not a protagonist
  9. Did not first appear in a movie
  10. From a TV show
  11. First appeared before 1980.