Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
501

#1 was Fernard Leger.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Bert Lahr.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
502

And so it was…
IQ1: Did you work with Goose Tatum?
IQ2: Are you really Daniel Whitney?
IQ3: Did you sing “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”?

503

Good one Prof! I’d heard of Marston, but for some reason his name didn’t come to my mind.

504

All right, astorian!

On to L.

Was your last major public appearance in 1922?
Were you married in an Episcopal ceremony on a rainy day, despite not being Episcopalian?
Were you, as well?

505

Lana Del Rey

holding a DQ

506

IQ1: Did you help the Air Force develop the stealth bomber program, work with NASA on Galileo’s mission to Jupiter, and invent the Super Soaker?
IQ2: Did you use an abandoned military communication technique to develop a reading system for the blind?
IQ3: Are you credited with improving on Edison’s light bulb by instituting the use of carbon filaments instead of paper?

507

IQs:

  1. Were you Superman’s mermaid love?
  2. Did you gain fame for creating pop art paintings of comic book panels?
  3. Did you write the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus?
508

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
509

Not Meadowlark Lemon or Larry the Cable Guy

Take a DQ for 3

510

No idea on any of these. Take 3 DQs

511

Not Louis Braille
Take DQs for 1 and 3

512

Not Roy Liechtenstein or Ludwig Wittgenstein (a beery swine)

Take a DQ for #1… but how much you wanna bet her initials are LL? All of Superman’s gals have those initials!

513

Lonnie Johnson, correct, Lewis Howard Latimer

DQ: Alive?
DQ: American?

holding a DQ

514

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Dead
  4. American
515

Previous On to L.

Was your last major public appearance in 1922? - Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial.
Were you married in an Episcopal ceremony on a rainy day, despite not being Episcopalian? - His dad.
Were you, as well? - His mom.

DQs:

Died since 1950?
Best known for the arts?
Last name start with L?

IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top?
Were you Clinton’s first SecTreas?
Were you a member of the band pretty much only because of who you married?

516

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Died after 1950
  6. Last name(s0 started with L
  7. Not known for the arts
    #6 gives you a teeny hint. Not a giveaway now, but may help later
517

IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top?
Were you Clinton’s first SecTreas?
Were you a member of the band pretty much only because of who you married?
Not Lloyd Bentsen or Linda McCartney

Take a DQ for #1, which I SHOULD know but can’t remember (I’ve given myself more than ample time to recall).

518

Correct on 2 and 3. #1 was Lori Lemaris, an early LL.

DQ: Died after 2000?

519

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Died after 1950
  6. Last name(s) started with L
  7. Not known for the arts
  8. Died after 2000
520

IQs:

  1. Are you Marjorie H. Buell’s best known creation?
  2. Did you die avenging your father’s death in a Shakespearean tragedy?
  3. Did Rosemary Benet write a poem beginning with you coming back as a ghost?