I’ll post an invitational thread.
IQs:
Was Ward Hill Lamon a pal of yours?
Was Noah Brooks initially an admirer but later a critic of yours?
Did you, at one time, head the Pullman Railway Car Co.?
I’m pulling an O’fer. 3DQs for you.
Previous IQs:
Was Ward Hill Lamon a pal of yours? - Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia
Was Noah Brooks initially an admirer but later a critic of yours? - Mary Todd Lincoln; Brooks was a Sacramento journalist who became quite close to the Lincolns
Did you, at one time, head the Pullman Railway Car Co.? - Robert Todd Lincoln, the President’s eldest son
Lincoln x3!
DQs:
Male?
Real?
Last name start with L?
IQs:
Were you dying in bed while a big party went on downstairs?
Did you die just after coming home from a big European trip?
Were you JFK’s personal secretary?
IQ1: I am not my Auntie Ruth.
IQ2: I am not my Uncle Ralph.
IQ3: ?
I keed; I keed. 
But damn, 1 and 2 are some nebulous questions.
3 DQs.
L.
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
IQ1: Although widely regarded as a demonic figure, is one version of your origin a Jewish folk tale that you were too argumentative to be allowed in paradise?
IQ2: Are you a Latin American ghost whose name translates as “The Weeping Woman”?
IQ3: Are you one of Zeus’s mistresses who was transformed by a jealous Hera into a child-eating monster?
IQs:
- Are you aka John Whorfin?
- Are you a British naturalist painter who is now better remembered for his verse?
- Did you write Go Set A Watchman?
IQ1: Did a song about you include the lines “Jump like a fish, jump like a porpoise / All join hands and habeas corpus”?
IQ2: Did you pick a fine time to leave me?
IQ3: Did you sing “Sixteenth Avenue” and “Black Coffee”?
IQ1: I am not Lucifer.
IQ2: I am not…Senorita Lacrimal (??)
IQ3: I am not Leda (?)
IQ1: ?
IQ2: ?
IQ3: I am not (debatable) Harper Lee.
IQ1: ?
IQ2: I am not Lucille
IQ3: I am not k.d. lang
Lilith, La Llorona, Lamia
DQ: Originally from literature?
holding 2 DQs
IQs:
Were you dying in bed while a big party went on downstairs?
Did you die just after coming home from a big European trip?
Were you JFK’s personal secretary?
If they’re nebulous, that must mean there are several possible answers for them. Lay 'em on me.
Lizzie Borden.
Correct.
Lacy J Dalton.
DQ: American character?
DQ: Created by an American?
Nah, I have no answers. I was just pulling a Cliff Clavin/Jeopardy response (though I was still stuck on “R” when I should have used “L”). You still have your DQs.
L.
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
DQ4: Originally from literature
DQ5: Not an American character
DQ6: Character not created by an American
#1 was Dr. Emilio Lizardo as wonderfully overacted by John Lithgow in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Ninth Dimension.
#2 is Edward Lear, now remembered mainly for his limericks.
Correct on Harper Lee.
DQs:
- Originally from a work of prose fiction?
- Created after 1950?
IQs:
- Do you provide the voice of Sid in the Ice Age movie series?
- Did you write Hymns of the Marshes?
- Did you write The Cyberiad?
Hmmm, three DQs for you.
L.
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
DQ4: Originally from literature
DQ5: Not an American character
DQ6: Character not created by an American
DQ7: Originally from a work of prose fiction
DQ8: Not created after 1950
#1 is John Leguizamo.
#2 was Sidney Lanier.
#3 was Stanislaw Lem.
DQs:
- By a European author?
- Protagonist?
- Created after 1900?
IQs:
- Did you play Estragon in the U.S. premier of the stage play Waiting for Godot?
- Were you a 1960’s singer nicknamed “Little Miss Dynamite”?
- Were you (a Trojan priest) and your two sons attacked by giant snakes sent by the Greek gods?
Previous IQs:
Were you dying in bed while a big party went on downstairs? - Willie Lincoln, at the White House, likely of typhoid
Did you die just after coming home from a big European trip? - Tad Lincoln, his brother
Were you JFK’s personal secretary? - Evelyn Lincoln (no relation)
Lincoln x3 again!
DQs:
Would be alive today, if real?
Considered a “good guy”?
Has appeared in an American movie?
IQs:
Did you make your home at Taliesin?
Were you Clinton’s first SECTREAS?
Have you played a scientist, a cabbie and a judge?
IQ1: ?
IQ2: I am not Brenda Lee.
IQ3: ?
IQ1: ?
IQ2: I am not Lloyd Bentson
IQ3: I am not … Lon Chaney (??)
L.
DQ1: Not male
DQ2: Not real
DQ3: First name starts with L
DQ4: Originally from literature
DQ5: Not an American character
DQ6: Character not created by an American
DQ7: Originally from a work of prose fiction
DQ8: Not created after 1950
DQ9: Created by a European author
DQ10: Protagonist
DQ11: Created after 1900
DQ12:
DQ13: Considered a “good guy” (“good gal,” actually)
DQ14: Has appeared in a movie with some level of American backing/production
Requesting clarification re “Would be alive today, if real?”
I’m not sure how to interpret the question. Is this simply an age issue? So, if the character was 20 years old in a book set in 1970, then the answer is “yes” but if it is a character who was 20 years old in a book set in 1861, then the answer would be “no”?
Or is it based on the life of the character? So, if the character dies at the end of the book, the answer would be “no,” even if the story was set in 2015?