Botticelli, June 2011

If you’re thinking of Lex Luthor (whom I believe impersonated Superman once or twice), no. If I’m on the wrong track, ask a DQ.

I’ll be back either in a few hours or tomorrow morning. Keep the questions coming, but be prepared to wait for responses!

IQ: Are you one of Superman’s romantic interests whose initials are LL and whose name is NOT Lois Lane, Lori Lemaris, or Lana Lang? (And yes there is more than one correct answer).

I was looking for either Nathan Leopold or Richard Loeb, of Leopold and Loeb murder infamy. They were fans of Nietzsche and viewed themselves as “supermen” who were so intelligent they could commit and get away with the perfect crime.

DQ: Are you fictional?

IQ: Do you have a deep throat?

IQ: I feel fine. Are you not afraid?

Just to go back to the last question to Johnny LA, Albert Einstein is Albert Brooks in Real Life, and the other person in question is Mel Brooks (another stage name, incidentally). The person quoted IIRC is Carl Reiner, and reportedly this is what made Albert decide on Brooks for his stage name.

This was Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau in Ed Wood.

I remember Pancho from The Right Stuff. Good job, Sternvogel!

IQ: Did you upset your wife by hanging around the house with no shoes on, saying that your feet needed to “breathe”?

IQ: Did your jealousy turn your wife into a statue?

I learned to fly at Barnes Aviation. :wink:

panamajack: I’ll have to parse you post later. Brain’s not working right now.

I was being a little bit silly. “Albert Brooks” is the stage name of Albert Einstein, and Albert Brooks directed and starred in the movie Real Life.
Melvin Kaminsky(?) has the stage name “Mel Brooks” - so either stage name to satisfy the ‘B’ requirement would have worked.

IQ: Do you walk like a woman and talk like a man?

To steal a question from the previous game:

IQ: Are you a dominant tennis player from the 1980s?

IQ: Are you an American writer most famous for writing books about the Yukon wilderness under this pseudonym?

Man, you covered the three I know. Ask a DQ.

No.

No, I’m not Linda Lovelace.

I’m afraid I don’t recognize the reference. DQ time!

I figured Johnny L.A. might turn to aviation. Turns out I was right!

Man, I should know this, but I’m blanking. You get a DQ.

Another reference to something too deep in the recesses of my memory to recall. DQ for you!

All I can think of is the joke about Frankie Valli singing “Walk Like a Man” with a voice like a woman’s, and he’s not an L anyway. DQ opportunity.

On preview: Sorry, Dead Cat, I’m neither Rod Laver nor Jack London.

Summary:

  1. I am not fictional.

Were you a prominent chemist/biologist who worked with oxygen and discovered the elemental make-up of water?

Abraham Lincoln.

DQ: Male?

IQ: Although you once took a political shellacking, did your daughter later do pretty well for herself on the political front?

You are not Lyla Lerrol, who Superman met when he traveled through time back to before Krypton’s destruction.

DQ: First/last/both names start with L?

Is this Joseph Lister? If not, ask a DQ.

Ah yes, I think you’ve posted that on a trivia thread or two.

Yes.

I can think of tons of people who fit either part of your question, but no L who satisfies both. Take another DQ.

Summary:

  1. I am not fictional.
  2. I am male.
  3. (On preview) Only one of my names starts with L.

From ‘A Winter’s Tale’ by William Shakespeare. Leontes, king of Sicilia is convinced that his chaste wife Hermione is having an affair with Polixenes, king of Bohemia. When he defies even the oracle of Apollo, his wife ‘dies’ forthwith, then his first born son dies. Leontes is doomed to a life of misery and regret until that which is lost, his newborn daughter Perdita, is found. The ending turns happy when Perdita is found, and Hermione turns out not to be dead, but to have been a statue for the last 16 years.

DQ: Were you born before the 20th century?

Yes.

Summary:

Summary:

  1. I am not fictional.
  2. I am male.
  3. (On preview) Only one of my names starts with L.
  4. I was born before the 20th century.

Alf Landon of Kansas, squashed like a bug by FDR in the 1936 election; his daughter Nancy was later elected to the U.S. Senate.

DQ: American?

IQ: Was your life saved by the brother of a man who later did something terrible to your family?

Lavoisier

DQ: Are you a politician?

From REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

DQ: Were you born before 1600?