Botticelli - June 2021

Not Lolita, Les Nessman or… Frank Lloyd Wright?

Correct, correct, and Sam Loyd.

DQ: Real?

Don’t think I’d ever heard of Sam Loyd before. Interesting!: Back from the Klondike - Wikipedia

L.

  1. fictional

Yeah, sometimes you choose somebody obviously well-known.

IQs:
1. Did you have an advice column, like your sister?
2. Is your autobiography entitled “WE”?
3. Was a website devoted to the belief that you should eat more salsa?

Not Ann Landers, Charles Lindbergh or Larry “The Salsa Guy” Lopez.

3 was Leonard Nimoy. (Unfortunately, the pictures weren’t saved; see here for a glimpse.)

DQ: first name begins with L?

Wow! I checked out a few days and missed 2 entire rounds!

IQ1: Did you conduct the score for Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia?
IQ2: Did you compose the score for West Side Story?
IQ3: Were you fired from Rolling Stone magazine for giving Canned Heat an extremely negative review?

Not Leopold "Leopold! Leopold!" Stokowski or Leonard Bernstein, and dunno.

L.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with L

Yes, Yes, Lester Bangs

DQ: Male?

IQ1: Were you the Bluebeard of Gambais?
IQ2: Did you rule Beta III, maintaining the purity of The Body?
IQ3: Was Night of the Hunter your only directorial effort?

IQs:
1. Did you encourage people to do the Locomotion?
2. Do you get an anachronistic mention in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, when Achoo is calling to Robin’s servant?
3. Do you also get an anachronistic mention in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, in the context of who the regal personage is?

IQs:

  1. Did you direct Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
  2. Are you a celebrity lawyer who died this week?
  3. Were you a secret agent chimpanzee on a Saturday morning kid’s show?

Dunno, not Landru and not… Burt Lancaster?

Dunno, not Jean-Luc Picard and also not Jean-Luc Picard.

Not Ang Lee, F. Lee Bailey or Lulu the Chimp Agent.

French serial killer Henri Landru
Correct on the other Landru
Charles Laughton

DQ: Would be alive today, if real?
Holding second DQ

L.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with L
  3. male
  4. would not be alive today, if real

Correct, correct, and Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.

DQ: Created by an American author or authors?

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character from a work by William Makepeace Thackeray?
  2. Did you stab Hamlet with a poisoned sword?
  3. Were you the coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s?

1 was Little Eva; 2 was Abe Lincoln; 3 was Larry King.

DQs:
1. created after 1950?
2. main character?
3. from movies/TV?

I never saw that movie, DLR - what was the Lincoln reference, please?

Grrrr I should know this, not Laertes and not Vince Lombardi.

L.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with L
  3. male
  4. would not be alive today, if real
  5. not created by an American author or authors
  6. created after 1950
  7. main character
  8. not originally from movies/TV

#1 was Barry Lyndon. Correct on the others.

DQ: Originally from a movie or movies?