- I am not Louisa May Alcott.
Take 2 DQs.
Correct on all three. Well done!
IQs:
You are a fictional character. Do we only know your first initial for sure, and not your full first name?
Did your best friend, to your surprise, once call you a “lunkhead”?
Were you the female lead in The King and I?
I am not Anna Leonowens. Take 2 DQs for the first two.
IQ1: Were you the first movie Tarzan?
IQ2: Were you the star of Safety Last!?
IQ3: Did you portray Henry Hill Jr?
I am not Elmo Lincoln.
I am not Harold Lloyd.
Take a DQ for #3.
correct, Howie Long, Louie CK
DQ: Known for education or science?
holding a DQ
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with L
- American
- Died before 1970
- Not political/military
- Not known for the arts
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Died after 1900
- Died before 1935
- Not famous as a businessman/tycoon
- Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
- Not known from a historical event
- Known for education or science
Correct.
Correct.
Ray Liotta (Goodfellas).
DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did Andrew Johnson say that you, Lee, and Davis were the three Confederate leaders who would never receive amnesty?
IQ2: Were you the co-author of a book in which a comet hits the Earth?
IQ3: Was your identity presumed?
I am not Dr. Livingstone. Take 2 DQs.
Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis’ full name was Joseph Louis Barrow.
Leon (Lev) Trotsky was murdered in 1940 by a Stalinist agent with an ice axe.
DQ) Known as an inventor?
DQ2) Known for wortk in the field of medicine or biology?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with L
- American
- Died before 1970
- Not political/military
- Not known for the arts
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Died after 1900
- Died before 1935
- Not famous as a businessman/tycoon
- Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
- Not known from a historical event
- Known for education or science
- Not an inventor
- Not known for work in medicine or biology
IQ1: Did you do a lot of the early work on the nature of the chemical bond, including coming up with a ‘dot structure’ style of depicting electrons in molecules commonly used by chemists that is named for you?
IQ2: Were you awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes?
IQ3: Are you married to Chuck Taine?
I am not Luorno Durgo. Take 2 DQs for the others.
Oh, just realized I hadn’t acknowledged your earlier sweep of Lucky and the Lindberghs.
Luorno is of course correct, too bad I couldn’t get it past you even in the midst of non-comics IQs
First was Gilbert Lewis of Lewis Dot Structures fame and second was Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace), who also did a lot of the early work on the nature of the chemical bond.
DQ: Are you known for your work in a physical science?
Holding one DQ.
IQ1: Were you the author of “The Physical Revue”?
IQ2: Were you described by IQ1 as 'the greatest that ever got chalk on his coat"
IQ3: Were you mentioned by IQ1 as dancing for National Brotherhood Week?
DQs:
- Real
- Male
- Dead
- Last name starts with L
- American
- Died before 1970
- Not political/military
- Not known for the arts
- Born east of the Mississippi
- Died after 1900
- Died before 1935
- Not famous as a businessman/tycoon
- Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
- Not known from a historical event
- Known for education or science
- Not an inventor
- Not known for work in medicine or biology
- Known for work in a physical science
I am not Tom Lehrer.
I am not Lobachevsky.
I am not Lena Horne, who’s dancing cheek to cheek with Sheriff Clarke.
Correct on all three, congrats on your Lehrer knowledge!
IQ1: Are you one of the two people LLNL is named after?
IQ2: Are you the other one?
IQ3: Did you discover cold fusion in the 1950s?
Take 3 DQs.
1 and 2 are Lawrence and Livermore (NL is National Laboratory). Lawrence was a particle physicist and I don’t actually know much about Livermore.
3 was Luis W. Alvarez, using muons as catalysts (which cost more in energy to make than they give back from the fusion.) Later cold fusion attempts tended to be more fictional, but that one was real
Ugh, I’m drawing a blank on this one at this point.
DQ: Was he a physicist?