Correct, Mel Lazarus, correct.
1 DQ reserved.
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- American
- Died after 1950
- Last name(s) started with L
- Not known for the arts
- Died after 2000
- Not involved in science
- Born very slightly West of the Mississippi
- Not a political figure
- Not connected to sports
- Not famous for just one incident
DQ: Known for business?
Previous IQs:
Did you create the original Battlestar Galactica? - Yes, Glen Larson.
Did you like to draw mischievous cows and women with beehive hairdos? - Yes, The Far Side’s Gary Larson.
Was a Pennsylvania fort named after you? - Lord Ligonier: Fort Ligonier - Wikipedia
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you the Imperial Planetologist on Arrakis?
Were you R. Daneel Olivaw’s partner?
Were you the nerdiest guy at WKRP?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- American
- Died after 1950
- Last name(s) started with L
- Not known for the arts
- Died after 2000
- Not involved in science
- Born very slightly West of the Mississippi
- Not a political figure
- Not connected to sports
- Not famous for just one incident
- Not a businesswoman or entrepreneur
Not Les Nessman
Take DQs for 1 and 2
IQs:
- Are you the father of the knight who found the Holy Grail?
- Did you write The Phantom of the Opera?
- Did you play the Hulk on TV and in movies?
Not Lancelot, Gaston Leroux or Lou Ferrigno.
Correct on all three.
IQs:
- Were you Clyde Crashcup’s assistant?
- Were you a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named?
- Were you the foremost Polish author of science fiction?
Not Leonardo (I used to watch the Chipmunks, too!) or Poe’s Leonore.
Take a DQ for #3 (they always get me on sci fi and fantasy!)
Previous IQs:
Were you the Imperial Planetologist on Arrakis? - Liet Kynes, in Dune.
Were you R. Daneel Olivaw’s partner? - Lije Bailey, in The Caves of Steel and other Asimov stories.
Were you the nerdiest guy at WKRP? - Yes, Les Nessman.
DQs:
Journalist?
Won a top prize in her field?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Were you involuntarily shifting between different universes in an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series?
Did you have a special pillow embroidered with, “If you can’t say anything nice, sit right next to me”?
Did you have to have some letters retyped because you got blood on them?
SUMMARY
- Real person
- Female
- Dead
- American
- Died after 1950
- Last name(s) started with L
- Not known for the arts
- Died after 2000
- Not involved in science
- Born very slightly West of the Mississippi
- Not a political figure
- Not connected to sports
- Not a journalist, exactly, but something akin to a journalist
- Never won a major award (not sure her profession HAS a top prize), but won all kinds of honorary prizes over career
Not Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Take DQs for 1 or 3
IQ1: Are you really Joseph Levitch?
IQ2: Are you really Sofia Scicolone?
IQ3: Are you really Harold Lipschitz?
Not Jerry Lewis.
Not Sophia Loren
Not… Ralph Lauren?
correct x2, Leo Buscaglia
holding 2 DQs
IQ1: Are you a recurring character in books by Robert Heinlein whose birth name was Woodrow Wilson Smith?
IQ2: Did you portray sassy phone operator Ernestine in Laugh-In?
IQ3: Are you an Argentinian pianist who composed the theme to Mission Impossible and Dirty Harry?
DQ: Known for a historical event?
holding a DQ
Correct.
Correct.
Hal Linden.
Two DQs (one from now and one from a few posts back) reserved.
IQs:
- Did you write The Late, Great Planet Earth?
- Did you star in The Parent Trap with Jamie Lee Curtis?
- Were you Debbie Reynolds’ daughter’s best known role?
Previous IQs:
Were you involuntarily shifting between different universes in an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series? - Lazarus.
Did you have a special pillow embroidered with, “If you can’t say anything nice, sit right next to me”? - Yes, T.R.'s ornery daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Did you have to have some letters retyped because you got blood on them? - Lyndon Johnson, who had very dry skin as a young man.
DQ:
Commentator/critic?
Two DQs reserved.
IQs:
Did you play the treasonous Gen. Scott?
Were you a cleric who had a major college named after you?
Were you an Italian who wrote The Leopard?