Botticelli June 2015

Take a DQ for 1

Not Lily Tomlin or Lalo Schifrin

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
  9. Not involved in science
  10. Born very slightly West of the Mississippi
  11. Not a political figure
  12. Not connected to sports
  13. Not a journalist, exactly, but something akin to a journalist
  14. Never won a major award (not sure her profession HAS a top prize), but won all kinds of honorary prizes over career
  15. Not known for any historical events
  16. Definitely not a critic… SORT of a commentator, but not exactly.

Not Hal Lindsay or Princess Leia
Take a DQ for 2

Not Burt Lancaster or Ignatius Loyola

Take a DQ for 3

IQ1: Were you employed by Mongkut?
IQ2: Did you and your twin sister Popo write newspaper advice columns?
IQ3: Are you #2’s better-known identity?

Previous IQs:

Did you play the treasonous Gen. Scott? - Yes, Burt Lancaster, in Seven Days in May.
Were you a cleric who had a major college named after you? - Yes, Ignatius Loyola.
Were you an Italian who wrote The Leopard? - Lampedusa (I forget his first name).

DQ:

On American TV a lot in past five years?

IQs:

Were you a key Globetrotter?
Are you a fictional punk hacker?
Were you known for your purple plastic purse?

Correct, Lindsey Lohan, correct.

1 DQ reserved.

YESSS! I am EPPIE LEDERER, aka ANN LANDERS, longtime advice columnist!!!

Congrats, SCAdian!

All right, SCAdian! Well done.

Don’t know why I suddenly thought of her.

I am R.

Good going, SCAdian!

IQs:

  1. Did Elton John sing a song about you on his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album?
  2. Are you the protagonist in the first two of C. S. Lewis’s Space trilogy?
  3. Were you the protagonist in the TV series The Greatest American Hero?

Before we get too far along here, may I suggest you start a July thread, SCAdian?

Done.