Botticelli October 2012

Thread Games
101

That guy would be Matthew Lesko. Correct on Lee and Nessman, of course.

DQ: Does your first name start with L?

102

Way to go, Enginerd.

IQs:

Did you eulogize George Washington as “First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?
Were you the “Welsh Wizard”?
Have you played a translator, an astronaut and an amoral rich guy?

103

Deep blue is Osama bin Laden, and while I was thinking Lambeau, Lombardi works.

DQ1: Were you best known for you participation in sports?

104

Letter L:

  1. Male
  2. Not currently alive
  3. Not involved in the arts
  4. A real person
  5. American
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Not known for participation in sports

I’m not Harry Lee or Tommy Lee Jones(?). Take a wizarding DQ, and a second if Jones is wrong.

105

IQ: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you when writing the DoI?

106

Not John Locke.

107

IQ: Are you closely IDed with a vehicle named after a city known for its Redbirds?

108

Not Charles Lindbergh.

109

IQ: Did you almost come to blows at the WSOP over a missing chip?

110

No idea - take a DQ.

111

DQ: are you a scientist? (I was going for Jeff Lisandro) Hoped that’d earn a DQ.

112

Letter L:

  1. Male
  2. Not currently alive
  3. Not involved in the arts
  4. A real person
  5. American
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Not known for participation in sports
  8. Not a scientist
113

IQ: Were you a future SCOTUS Justice written about by JFK?

114

The only “L” justice I can come up with is Louis Brandeis, so unless “future” was a mistake you get another DQ.

115

DQ: Were you a political figure? (I was going for Lucius Lamar)

116

Correct as to “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, Robert E.'s dad.
David Lloyd George, British PM during WWI.
This was Larry Hagman, in Fail-Safe, I Dream of Genie and Dallas.

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?
Born since 1900?

117

IQ1: Did you deliver a memorable speech at a Pennsylvania battlefield?

IQ2: Are you the teen heartthrob role in a Broadway musical based on a John Waters movie starring Sonny Bono and Debbie Harry?

IQ3: Did you direct a movie that had the tagline, “Where were you in '62”?

118

Letter L:

  1. Male
  2. Not currently alive
  3. Not involved in the arts
  4. A real person
  5. American
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Not known for participation in sports
  8. Not a scientist
  9. A political figure
  10. Not best known for a single incident
  11. Born after 1900

I’m not Abraham Lincoln or George Lucas. I’m pretty sure #2 is referring to Hairspray, but I can’t come up with the answer, so take a DQ for that one.

119

Correct on Lincoln and Lucas. The show is indeed Hairspray, and the teen heartthrob role is Link Larkin.

DQ: Did you die after 1980?

120

Letter L:

  1. Male
  2. Not currently alive
  3. Not involved in the arts
  4. A real person
  5. American
  6. Last name starts with L
  7. Not known for participation in sports
  8. Not a scientist
  9. A political figure
  10. Not best known for a single incident
  11. Born after 1900
  12. Died after 1980