Botticelli -- June 2026

[Eureka]

1. Louis XIV
2. Laisa from the Vorkosigan Saga
3. Correct, of course.

[Eureka]

DQ: Known for sports?

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown?
2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you the protagonist of Ulysses?
2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of The Odyssey?
3. Do you play basketball?

[kitap]

@kitap

IQs:

1. Are you perhaps known for co-starring in The Road to movies with Bob Hope & Bing Crosby?
2. Did you star in the 1995 version of A Little Princess?
3. Did you write A Sand County Almanac?

Dorothy Lamour, Liesel Matthews, Aldo Leopold

DQs:

1. Known for sports?
2. Caucasian?

One DQ reserved

[SCAdian]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Will the actor who recently played Aquaman play you in the upboming Supergirl movie?
2. Were you Mary Martin’s actor son?
3. Were you a character from a 17th century play whose name has come to mean any amoral but charming womanizer?

DQ
DQ
Not … Lothario?

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown?
2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner?

Three DQs

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Were you the protagonist of Ulysses?
2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of The Odyssey?
3. Do you play basketball?

DQ
DQ What’s she doing in *The Odyssey?
Not Lew Alcindor

L

1. Real
2. Male
3. American
4. As best known, only name begins with L
5. Living
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not known for appearances in media
8. Not born after 1970
9. Not known for sports
10. Caucasian

@kitap

DQs:

1. Known for sports?

DQ 9, fom Eureka. Try again.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Will the actor who recently played Aquaman play you in the upboming Supergirl movie?
2. Were you Mary Martin’s actor son?
3. Were you a character from a 17th century play whose name has come to mean any amoral but charming womanizer?

DQ
DQ
Not … Lothario?

1 is Lobo, playeed by Jason Momoa.
2 was Larry Hagman.
3 is correct.

2 DQs reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you the protagonist of Ulysses?
2. Are you playing Helen of Troy in the upcoming film version of The Odyssey?
3. Do you play basketball?

@SCAdian

DQ
DQ What’s she doing in *The Odyssey?
Not Lew Alcindor

1 was Leo Bloom; 2 was Lupita Nyong’o (Odysseus fought in the Trojan War, so presumably she’ll appear at the start of the movie or in flashbacks); 3 was LeBron James. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired from basketball 37 years ago, and hasn’t been known as Lew Alcindor, legally or publicly, for even longer, so I’m not accepting it.

DQs:
1. born after 1950?
2. known for politics, or other form of leadership?

One DQ reserved.

[knoodler]

@SCAdian

@knoodler

1. Did you cause big mama Lulu Belle to have a nervous breakdown?
2. Were you married to a Kardashian sister, and appear in a spinoff to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
3. Did you rename yourself after screen ingenue Lana Turner?

Three DQs

Leroy Brown (Queen’s version)
Lamar Odom (Khloé & Lamar)
Lana Del Rey (nee Elizabeth Woolridge Grant)

3 DQs reserved

[Elendil_s_Heir]

L it is!

IQs:

Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role?
Were you that person’s eldest child?
Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: known for fashion?

1 DQ reserved.

[SCAdian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role?
Were you that person’s eldest child?
Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel?

None of those seems likely to be Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, so three DQs.

L

1. Real
2. Male
3. American
4. As best known, only name begins with L
5. Living
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not known for appearances in media
8. Not born after 1970
9. Not known for sports
10. Caucasian
11. Born after 1950
12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership
13. Not known for fashion

And that’s twenty already! No more IQs, please, and ask all remaining earned DQs by 2200 Eastern tomorrow, 2 June.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did the actress who played you, a historic person, tell NPR that she had to drink a lot of disgustingly thick milkshakes to put on weight for the role? - Mary Todd Lincoln, played by Sally Field in Spielberg’s Lincoln
Were you that person’s eldest child? - Robert Todd Lincoln
Were you another child of that person and the focus of a relatively recent novel? - Willie Lincoln, in the deeply weird but oddly touching Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017)

DQs:

Best known for political activism?

Two DQs reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Name usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir?

[SCAdian]

L

1. Real
2. Male
3. American
4. As best known, only name begins with L
5. Living
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not known for appearances in media
8. Not born after 1970
9. Not known for sports
10. Caucasian
11. Born after 1950
12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership
13. Not known for fashion
14. Not best known for political activism
15. Name is usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir

And that’s twenty already! No more IQs, please, and ask all remaining earned DQs by 2200 Eastern tomorrow, 2 June.

[kitap]

DQs:

1. From a famous family?
2. Known for social activism?

[SCAdian]

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L

1. Real
2. Male
3. American
4. As best known, only name begins with L
5. Living
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not known for appearances in media
8. Not born after 1970
9. Not known for sports
10. Caucasian
11. Born after 1950
12. Known for politics, or other form of leadership
13. Not known for fashion
14. Not best known for political activism
15. Name is usually accompanied by a title, such as Dr. or Sir
16. Not from a famous family
17. Known for social activism

[SCAdian]

After counting five times, I show six remaining DQs: knoodler has 3, EH has 2, and Eureka has 1.

Please ask them by 2300 tonight, Tuesday, 2 June.

[knoodler]

DQs:

1. Became famous after 2000?
2. Best known from a single event or incident?

1 DQ reserved

[Eureka]

Name starts with La - Le?