Botticelli June 2023

  1. Did Joe Pesci play you in the Lethal Weapon movies?
  2. Did you play Buck Greene and Colonel Decker on different 1980s TV shows?
  3. Did you play Johnny Cage in the 1995 movie Mortal Kombat?

Haha, tricked ya! Nos. 1 and 2 were indeed Lolas, from the Barry Manilow and Kinks songs; but No. 2 was Lydia Deetz, Winona Ryder’s Goth girl character from Beetlejuice.

DQ:

  1. Living?

Not Louis L’Amour, dunno and dunno.

Not Lee Majors, not Lee Meriwether and dunno

Dunno x3.

Also dunno x3.

L.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with L
  4. dead

Correct
Lyle Lovett
Julian Lennon

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Died after 1900?
  1. Laura Croft aka the tomb raider
  2. Lazlo Hollyfeld from the movie Real Genius (one of my all time faves)
  3. Liz (Elizabeth) Taylor

Reserve 3 for now.

Correct, Correct, rock crititc Lester Bangs

Holding one DQ

IQ1: Are you a former member of the Moody Blues who later teamed up with Paul McCartney in Wings?
IQ2: Were you bassist for the Faces/Small Faces?
IQ3: DId you found a line of plus-size women’s clothing?

I ruled out Elizabeth Taylor as to the violet eyes, but didn’t think of her nickname. D’oh!

Dunno, dunno and not Lane Bryant.

L.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with L
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. died after 1900

IQs:

  1. Did you play Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace?
  2. Did you create The Phantom?
  3. Did you write The Phantom of the Opera?

Not Liam “Always a bigger fish” Neeson, dunno and dunno.

Correct on Liam Neeson.
#2 was Lee Falk.
#3 was Gaston Leroux.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics/military?
  2. Died after 1970?

Leo Getz, Lance LeGault, Linden Ashby.

Holding 3 DQs

L.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with L
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. not really known for politics/military
  8. died before 1970

IQs:

  1. Were you one of the most famous stars of the Harlem Globetrotters, and the second-greatest basketball player to come from Wilmington, N.C.?

  2. Did you write a series of thirteen children’s books, concealing your real name, Daniel Handler, under this pseudonym?

  3. Were you a writer for a fictional sketch comedy show, based on your actress and creator’s experiences as a writer for a famous real-life sketch comedy show?

Denny Laine, Ronnie Lane (Back in the 80s I always mixed up/conflated the two)
Correct - fun bit of trivia - Her name was actually Lena, but the bank messed up her loan paperwork, and she just rolled with it.

DQ: Known for business?
DQ: American?

Holding one DQ

IQs:

  1. Were you a skittles performer who had a hit with Rock Island Line?
  2. Was a running joke of the 1920’s, “Don’t step on it! It might be [you].”?
  3. Were you “over a barrel” in the movie Tarantula?

IQ1: Were you the first woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards for one of your works?
IQ2: Are you an overly affectionate skunk?
IQ3: Did you sing a song whose title became a SDMB meme?

IQs:

  1. On your back do you have the battle of Waterloo and beside it the wreck of the Hesperus too?
  2. Did you write all your notes backwards because you were left handed
  3. Are you professor Xavier’s son?

Not Meadowlark Lemon, not Lemony Snicket and not Julia Louis-Dreyfus (sp?).

Dunno x3.

Not Ursula K. LeGuin, not Louis Loverboy Skunk and not Simon “Rio” LeBon of Duran Duran.

Not Lydia, O Lydia; dunno and dunno.

L.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with L
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. not really known for politics/military
  8. died before 1970
  9. known, in a way, for business
  10. American
  1. Yes the tattooed lady
  2. Leonardo Da Vinci
  3. Legion

DQs

  1. known for inventing something or innovating the new way something was done (e.g. first person to put ads on radio)
  2. Born before 1890?

3 DQs still reserved

#1 was Lonnie Donegan.
#2 was Lon Chaney, Sr.
#3 was Leo G. Carroll.

DQ: Caucasian?

2 DQs reserved.