IQ1: Were you a Scottish businessman who founded a grocery company, most known for selling a particular beverage, that over a century later still bears your name? - Correct, Thomas Lipton. (Thought I’d get you with that one…)
IQ2: Are you an actress who starred in a sitcom that made “Kiss my grits!” a catchphrase for a time? Linda Lavin, in Alice.
IQ3: Are you an actor who spent years of your career acting while wearing a woman’s hairclip over your eyes? - Correct, LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
DQ: Female?
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IQ1: Are you symbolically represented by a winged ox?
IQ2: Are you the eponymous heroine of a Donizetti opera, famous for your “mad scene” (and also for a score that requires a glass harmonica in the orchestra)?
IQ3: Are you the eponymous heroine of a 19th century novel, whose name has been borrowed for a type of cookie?
IQ1: Are you symbolically represented by a winged ox? - Correct, Luke.
IQ2: Are you the eponymous heroine of a Donizetti opera, famous for your “mad scene” (and also for a score that requires a glass harmonica in the orchestra)? - Lucia di Lammermoor
IQ3: Are you the eponymous heroine of a 19th century novel, whose name has been borrowed for a type of cookie? - Correct, Lorna Doone.
IQ1: Did you retire from your very high-profile job, hand over the keys to an old adversary, and open a piano bar in Los Angeles?
IQ2: Are you the youngest of four siblings who rescued a land from eternal winter?
IQ3: Were you the “L” of a group of 17th century nobles whose initials created the word “cabal”?
IQ1: Did you retire from your very high-profile job, hand over the keys to an old adversary, and open a piano bar in Los Angeles? - Lucifer, in Neil Gaiman’s Season of Mists, and on a current TV series.
IQ2: Are you the youngest of four siblings who rescued a land from eternal winter? - Correct…ish. It’s Lucy Pevensie.
IQ3: Were you the “L” of a group of 17th century nobles whose initials created the word “cabal”? - Lauderdale. The rest were Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, and Arlington.
IQ1: Did you succeed Saint Peter?
IQ2: Are you a renowned biochemist who won two Nobel prizes, for chemistry and for peace?
IQ1: Did you succeed Saint Peter? - Correct, Linus.
IQ2: Are you a renowned biochemist who won two Nobel prizes, for chemistry and for peace? - Correct, Linus Pauling.
IQ3: Are you the inventor of Linux? - Correct, Linus Torvalds.
Swept my Linusapalooza!
IQ1: Would Superman have snapped your spine, catching you falling off a skyscraper, if superhero universes had real-world physics?
IQ2: Did you say “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it”?
IQ3: Are you a World of Warcraft gamer, whose name has become memetically famous as a real-life exemplar of the proverb “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”?
IQ1: Would Superman have snapped your spine, catching you falling off a skyscraper, if superhero universes had real-world physics? - Correct, Lois Lane.
IQ2: Did you say “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it”? - Correct, Robert E. Lee.
IQ3: Are you a World of Warcraft gamer, whose name has become memetically famous as a real-life exemplar of the proverb “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”? - Correct, Leeroy Jenkins.
Swept again!
Nah, you spotted the “Linus” theme.
IQ1: Are you a Richard Scarry character who only owns a jaunty Tyrolean hat, and a single sock?
IQ2: Are you a basketball player who brought your native city its first championship in a major sport since 1964?
IQ3: Are you a Hall of Fame wide receiver who played for the Steelers in the 1970s?
