Botticelli - March 2013

Updated DQs again

IQ1: Were you an American Idol?
IQ2: Were you the wisecracking friend on Full House?
IQ3: Did you die of heat stroke suffered in an NFL training camp?

Congrats to Enginerd! I am Kelly Clarkson!

Correct on Kaley Cuoco and Kevin Bacon. The economist who wrote the book “on capital” was Karl Marx, who wrote the appropriately-named Das Kapital.

And on preview, I see that congratulations to Enginerd are in order. Well done!

Thanks, folks!

The other two here were Kimmy Gibbler and Korey Stringer.

Let’s go ahead and move on to the letter L. I’ll be back in the morning to start answering IQs.

Rudyard Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King.
Kiss Me, Kate.
Kimball Kinnison.

Whoever she might be…

Kelly Clarkson

IQ1: Did Sugar Bear and Billy Bird appear on your show?
IQ2: Were you the king of Bongo Congo?
IQ3: Are you 16, going on 17?

Okay, moving on to L

IQ1: Were you known as “Pinto” during your time at Faber College?
IQ2: Do you work at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?
IQ3: Were you the captain of the 1989 Stanley Cup-winning team?

I’m not Liesl von Trapp, but I don’t know the others - 2 DQs.

I’m not Larry Kroger, Lenny, or… Mario Lemieux? Take a DQ if Lemieux is wrong.

Correct on Larry Kroger and Lenny, but the hockey player was Lanny McDonald–1989 was the year that the Calgary Flames won the Cup.

DQ: Are you real?

Linus the Lionhearted.
King Leonardo.
Correct on Liesl.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Do you abstain, courteously?
IQ2: Were you Angel Eyes?
IQ3: Are you an Etruscan king who attacked Rome?

I’m not Lee van Cleef - take two more DQs.
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Male

Congrats, Enginerd! From the previous round:

Yes, Katy Perry.
Koloth, the Klingon captain in Star Trek’s “The Trouble with Tribbles”
Gene Kelly.

So… on to L:

IQs:

Did you get along surprisingly well with your racist older neighbor?
Was a warship named after you in a Jules Verne tale?
Did your husband’s aides refer to you as “the Hell-cat”?

Just to clear up from the last round, these are
Jonas Kaufmann, who is currently singing ‘Parsifal’ at The Met.
Ken Kesey, perhaps better known as the author of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’.
Ken Dryden, who was a goalie with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, and a Member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011.

Congratulations, Enginerd!

Lewis Morris, representative from New York, in 1776.
Correct on Lee Van Cleef.
Lars Porsena.
DQ1: Living?
DQ2: European?
IQ1: Were you an agent for APE?
IQ2: Were you a Bavarian king who built ornate castles?
IQ3: Did you write about a Jewish slave in Rome?

I’m not Lionel Jefferson - take 2 DQs.

No ideas here - take 3 more DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. European

IQ1: Are you the son of Percival?
IQ2: Did you accuse your wife Hermione of adultery with Polixines?
IQ3: Did you fight a duel without knowing there was poison on the tip of your blade?

Yes, Lionel Jefferson.
The USS Abraham Lincoln is in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Nancy Todd Lincoln.

DQs:

British?
Last name start with “L”?

IQs:

Did you die an untimely death in a motorcycle accident?
Was your wife not at all peppery?
Were you part of The Mod Squad?

I’m not Leontes or Laertes - take a DQ for Percy’s kid.