IQs:
- Did you host Kids Say The Darnedest Things?
- Were you a mordant hypochondriac and brilliant pianist?
- Did you write It Can’t Happen Here?
Oll korrect as to Loyola, Lyndon and Larson.
IQs:
Does a painting of you hang in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives?
Did you play a horny bartender in Bad Santa?
Are you the title character of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with L
- Died before 1950
Not Art Linkletter or Sinclair Lewis.
For the pianist… not Franz Liszt? (Take a DQ if that’s wrong.)
Not Lisbeth Salander.
Take DQs for the othr two.
Legs Diamond, correct x2
DQ: European?
I went heavy theme this time.
1 was Laika, first of class Mammalia to orbit the Earth.
2 was Lassie. Did the series titled Lou Grant really last more than 10 years?
3 was Santa’s Little Helper, a racing greyhound whose adoption was part of the primary plot of the first episode of *The Simpsons *to be broadcast (a Christmas themed episode). Lisa had already been introduced on The Tracey Ullman Show.
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IQs:
- Did you host Kids Say The Darnedest Things?
- Were you a mordant hypochondriac and brilliant pianist?
- Did you write It Can’t Happen Here?
Not Art Linkletter or Sinclair Lewis.
For the pianist… not Franz Liszt? (Take a DQ if that’s wrong.)
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Correct on Art and Sinclair. #2 was Oscar Levant.
DQ: Born before 1800?
Lewis Morris, delegate from New York, as portrayed in 1776.
Correct.
Larry Fine. The other three members of the Three Stooges - Moe, Shemp and Curly Howard - were brothers.
DQ: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you hide your booze in your teetotal friend’s footlocker?
IQ2: Were you and your wife, Judy-Lynn, noted SF editors?
IQ3: Did you speak for Phineas J Whoopee?
IQs:
- Did you win Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Peace?
- Was your nickname “the Lip”?
- Are you Lex Luthor’s sister?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with L
- Died before 1950
- European
- Not involved in the arts
- Born before 1800
Not Larry Storch (I loved Tennessee Tuxedo)
Take 2 DQs for the others
Not Linus Pauling or Leo Durocher
Take a DQ for #3
Lewis Nixon (Band of Brothers).
Lester del Rey.
Correct. (It’s always been one of my favourites, too.)
DQ1: Born before 1500?
DQ2: Military/political/royal figure?
DQ3: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
IQ1: Did you have two brothers with the same name?
IQ2: Were you le roi soliel?
IQ3: Were you an archaeologist who was killed in a motorctcle accident?
Previous IQs:
Does a painting of you hang in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives? - The Marquis de Lafayette: http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/House-Chamber/Lafayette-Washington/
Did you play a horny bartender in Bad Santa? - Lauren Graham, in a very different role from Gilmore Girls.
Are you the title character of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? - Yes, Lisbeth Salander.
DQs:
British?
Considered a “good guy”?
IQs:
Were you one of the Lincoln conspirators who was hanged?
Were you a Nixon appointee to SCOTUS?
Did your best-known colleague get a promotion almost 200 years later?
IQ1: Did you write that a government’s right to rule must be based on the consent of its people in The two treatises of the government?
IQ2: Are you a Norse explorer who made the first European journey to North America?
IQ3: Did you develop cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases in the 19th century?
Correct on Linus and Leo. #3 is Lena Thorul.
1 DQ reserved.
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Male
- Dead
- Not American
- First name starts with L
- Died before 1950
- European
- Not involved in the arts
- Born before 1800
- Born after 1500
- Spoke a Germanic language
- Not known as a royal, military or political figure
- Not British
- Can’t say if he was a “good” guy, but is regarded as a great man and definitely not viewed as a villain
Not Louis XIV or Louis Leakey
Take a DQ for #1
Not Lewis Powell or Lewis Powell- good one!!!
Take a DQ for #3