Swept me again! Gonna have to up my game.
IQs:
Were you a French gentleman thief and master of disguise?
Were you a New York mafioso who supposedly earned his nickname by surviving “being taken for a ride”?
According to one version of the story, did you say “I fear the Greeks, even when they bear gifts”?
correct
correct
Loretta Swit (MASH)
DQ: Known for the Arts (culinary, performing, &c, but not including martial arts)?
IQ1: Was your closest associate a hyena?
IQ2: Did you command the Cavalry Division in the Crimea?
IQ3: Were most of your coworkers known by numbers?
Previous IQs:
Did you like to read at home with your shoes off, to let your feet “breathe”? - Abraham Lincoln
Were you that person’s spouse, who was annoyed by the habit? - Mary Todd Lincoln
Were you their eldest child? - Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln x3!
DQs:
Best known for the Arts?
Died since 1950?
Originally European?
IQs:
Were you a Confederate general nearly disemboweled by a cannon shot?
Were you the protagonist of a movie, the title of which Sarah Silverman joked about?
Were you the Emperor of Humanity in The Mote in God’s Eye?
I am not Le Chiffre, dunno, and I am not Laocoon.
(Touche’! I think I just got swept…)
Swept me. Take 3 more DQs.
That was a bold move, Cotton, and it payed off for you.
I am not Leonidas Polk, dunno, and I am not Leonidas.
Take at least one DQ.
L.
Elendil_s_Heir’s first DQ was a duplicate, so they have one more.
Total of 10 DQs pending, if my math is right.
Whew! Either everyone’s questions got tougher, or I’m really tired.
Lippy the Lion (and Hardy Har Har – Saturday morning kids’ TV)
Lord Lucan
Larrabee (his best-known coworkers being 86 and 99)
Three DQs reserved…
IQ1: Were you named after a Beatles song?
IQ2: Did you create the Vitruvian Man?
IQ3: Did your associates include Tubby and Iggy?
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I already asked that.
Not quite; you were correct on 3. 1 was Arsène Lupin and 2 was Salvatore “Lucky” Luciano.
DQs:
IQs:
Did you write Trinity and Exodus?
Are you the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, despite your definitely non-Irish name?
Were you a Christian bishop, legendarily martyred by roasting on a grill, who was said to have told his torturers to turn him, as he was done on that side?
IQs:
Previous IQs:
Were you a Confederate general nearly disemboweled by a cannon shot? - Yes, Leonidas Polk
Were you the protagonist of a movie, the title of which Sarah Silverman joked about? - Leonidas, King of Sparta, in 300. She said the title was the answer to the question, “On a scale of 1 to 10, just how homoerotic is it?”
Were you the Emperor of Humanity in The Mote in God’s Eye? - Yes, a much later but just as royal Leonidas
Leonidas x3!
Sorry I’d overlooked the Arts question. Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did you develop the first Battlestar Galactica?
Were you a British lord who had a fort in Pennsylvania named after him?
Were you a homespun Vermonter who had two brothers with the same name?
I am not Penny Lane, I am not Leonardo da Vinci, and I am not La La the Teletubbiie.
I am not Leon Uris, I am not Leo Varadkar, and I am not Saint Lucian.
L.
Almost swept me - 3 was Saint Lawrence.
DQ:
Most famous for one particular role?
IQs:
Were you a comic actor who developed a callous on one check, from all the times your partner slapped you?
Were you a Belgian priest who conceived the idea of the Big Bang?
Did you star in a 1939 movie where you held up a turnip and declaimed, “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”?
I think you missed my post. It happens to everyone.
Sorry, Prof, just thought I’d take a break and answer a few DQs. Be back after I walk the dog…
No idea, I am not Lilly von Schtupp and no idea.
I am not Glen Larson, don’t know, and I am not Larry the brother of Darryl and Darryl from Newhart.
I am not Larry Fine, I am not Georges LeMaitre, and I am not Vivien Leigh.
L.
#1 was lingerie designer Lily St. Cyr.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Peter Lorre.
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