Correct as to Lando.
I’ll rephrase the second.
Leonidas of Sparta, after whom the Emperor of Humanity in Niven and Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye is named.
DQs (one just earned, and one earlier reserved):
Businessman or tycoon?
Generally admired in his lifetime?
IQs:
Are you a European religious figure still honored by many, despite your anti-Semitism?
Has the pronunciation of your first name changed in recent years among your admirers?
Did an actor from Taxi provide your voice in an animated movie?
Not famous for accomplishments related to the arts
Born before 1950
Not known as an athlete
Not a scientist
Died after 1950
Born before 1900
Citizen of another European country before becoming a citizen of the UK.
Not a businessman or tycoon
Well-regarded, but not necessarily well-known, during his lifetime. His primary claim to fame is posthumous.
Amendment to DQ answers
Part of the reason I picked this guy was because he doesn’t fit easily into any of the typical categories we ask about, but that also mean you burn through more DQs than with most people. You could make an argument of including him in the arts (although you’d have to expand the definition we’ve been using a little more), or another for considering him a scientist. I wouldn’t buy either of those arguments, but it might help get you onto the right track.
I’m also happy to go past 20 questions if you want - let’s see what the next 3 bring.
IQ1: Are you a librettist who collaborated with Mozart on three operas?
IQ2: Were you a conductor for the New York Philharmonic?
IQ3: Was the city we now call ‘Kinshasa’ originally named for you?
Leonard Bernstein and Leopold of Belgium are both correct. Beethoven was a good guess, but sadly, wrong. (I’m not sure, without grabbing either of their biographies, if they ever met…) Lorenzo da Ponte was the librettist for The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.
One more wild guess, and then I think I’m done…
DQ: Do you hold a hereditary title, whether royal or through an honour system such as the British peerage? (King, Prince, Count, Viscount, Marquis, Earl, Duke, Baron or their foreign language equivalents…)
Yes, Martin Luther.
Jazz musicians IME now almost universally refer to “LOU-is” Armstrong rather than the long-popular “Louie” Armstrong.
Danny DeVito provided the voice of the Lorax.
DQs:
Died since 2000?
Was something about him discovered after his death that then made him famous?
IQs:
Were you a British general after whom a Pennsylvania fort was named?
Are you those who carry on your business called “names”?
Were you a character in a popular series of kids’ books whose name was comprised of two colors?
A lateral pass to the rest of the team - so, I wonder if this is some sort of Schindler/Raoul Wallenberg sort of figure, who smuggled people out of either Nazi Germany or early Soviet Russia.
I was thinking maybe this might have been one of the people smuggled, Graf Leopold von something or other, perhaps…
Other than that idea, I have nothing. Elendil’s Heir has the last two DQs; maybe those answers will turn something up.
Apologies for the protracted absence - real life intervened this week.
DQs:
Real
Not American
Male
Dead
European
British citizen at some point in his life
First name starts with L
Not famous for political or military roles
Not famous for accomplishments related to the arts
Born before 1950
Not known as an athlete
Not a scientist
Died after 1950
Born before 1900
Citizen of another European country before becoming a citizen of the UK.
Not a businessman or tycoon
Well-regarded, but not necessarily well-known, during his lifetime. His primary claim to fame is posthumous.*
Does not hold hereditary title
Died before 2000 (but since he was born before 1900, this doesn’t tell you much - EH, do you want to reconsider the year or ask a different DQ?)
There was nothing discovered after his death that made him more famous*
*Addendum to DQs 17/20:
He was well known within his field during his lifetime. After he died, his influence expanded greatly not with a discovery, but with the publicization of his work.
Not famous for accomplishments related to the arts
Born before 1950
Not known as an athlete
Not a scientist
Died after 1950
Born before 1900
Citizen of another European country before becoming a citizen of the UK.
Not a businessman or tycoon
Well-regarded, but not necessarily well-known, during his lifetime. His primary claim to fame is posthumous.*
Does not hold hereditary title
Died before 2000
There was nothing discovered after his death that made him more famous*
Died of natural causes
*Addendum to DQs 17/20:
He was well known within his field during his lifetime. After he died, his influence expanded greatly not with a discovery, but with the publicization of his work.
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