Earlier-earned DQs:
Best known for a single incident?
Born east of Vienna?
Ever appeared in movies?
IQ: Did you invent a system of phonetic punctuation? (scri-itch, pop?)
Hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to ignore these - because…
…yes, I am Danish pianist/comedian Victor Borge!
I remembered your “Joe Green” question from last month, and thought that might be right. I’ll post a new letter in the mornin’.
Well done, Prof. Pepperwinkle!
Thought I might be using him a little too soon…
But speaking of Joe Green…
And let’s not forget Fliszt!
Happy Fathers Day, fellow Dopers!
I am** L **!
IQ1: Are you a deranged Bavarian king?
IQ2: Are you a writer whose books included a series about an early visitor to the Virginia colony and his descendants?
IQ3: Are you an Etruscan king who attacked Rome?
Well, I’m not Ludwig the Mad. (Bwahaahaaa!)
Take 2 DQs for the others.
Correct on King Ludwig II.
Louis L’Amour wrote 17 books about Barnabas Sackett and his descendants, some of whom also appeared in other books by L’Amour.
The story of Horatius at the Bridge is set during Lars Porsena 's war against Rome.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Did you meet both very tall people and very short ones during your travels?
IQ2: Did you team up with a banjo player to sing about a TV oil millionaire?
IQ3: Did you and Henry Fonda star in a movie about a large family?
DQ1) Real
DQ2) Male
I’m not Lemuel Gulliver. I’m not Lester Flatt, and I’m not Lucille Ball.
Correct.
IQ1: Did you write about a disappearing Scottish village?
IQ2: Were you Mr Terhune’s dog?
IQ3: Do they all agree you were a problem kind of kid?
I love Brigadoon, but I’m not Lerner or Loewe. I think Terhune owned Lassie.
So take 1 (or 2) DQs.
Correct on Lerner and Loewe. (I was specifically thinking of the former, but of course either would do.)
Right breed, wrong sex - Albert Payson Terhune’s collie Lad was the subject of Lad: A Dog.
“Yesterday in old Fall River / Mr. Andrew Borden died / And he got his daughter, Lizzie / On a charge of homicide. / Some folks say she didn’t do it / And others say of course she did, / But they all agree, Miss Lizzie B / Was a problem kinda kid.”
DQ1: Alive?
DQ2: American?
All right, PP! Well done.
IQs (in honor of Father’s Day):
Did you attend a ceremony honoring your dad in 1922?
Was your dad good friends with Henry Clay?
Did you fail to attend your dad’s funeral, even though you pretty easily could have?
IQ1: Are you the son of Parsifal?
IQ2: Are you the composer of a less-famous ‘La Boheme’?
IQ3: Whatever you want, do you get?
And…take 3 DQs.
I really love Wagner, but can’t think of #1 to save me. No idea on #2.
I am not Lola.
Take 2 DQs.
DQ1) Real.
DQ2) Male.
DQ3) Dead.
DQ4) Not American.