Did you good-naturedly insult your wife’s family for putting on airs? - Yes, Abraham Lincoln, who said God just needed one “d,” but the Todds needed two.
Did your husband’s aides refer to you behind your back as “the hellcat”? - Mary Todd Lincoln.
Did your dad say he liked his preachers “to look as if they [were] fighting bees”? - Robert Todd Lincoln.
DQs:
Last name start with L?
Died since 1900?
IQs:
Did a detective fall in love with you, thinking you were dead?
Did Monty Python reimagine you as a gunfighter?
Was a fort in western Penna. named after you?
IQ1: Did you give your name to points in space where gravitational fields cancel each other out?
IQ2: Despite the excesses of your musical youth, did you take Holy Orders before your death?
IQ3: Are you a classical pianist with a ‘repetitive’ name?
#2. is Franz Liszt. Considering his reputation as a wild thing in his youth, it surprised many that he took Orders late in life. #3. is Lang Lang. I am told that with the correct intonation, the two halves of his name are different. For most English speaking people who see the Romanization of his name, it looks like the same thing twice.
DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Famous for scientific advancements (or failures)?
Did a detective fall in love with you, thinking you were dead? - The title character in the noir mystery Laura
Did Monty Python reimagine you as a gunfighter? - Henri “No time” Toulouse Latrec
Was a fort in western Penna. named after you? - Yes, General Ligonier
DQs:
Political?
Born east of the Mississippi River?
IQs:
Over the years, were both your father and your husband Presidential candidates?
Were you a European cleric who gave his name to an American university?
Did Hugh Grant not know who you were in Notting Hill?
IQ1: Are you a Roman historian?
IQ2: Did you free a Roman youth from captivity when he burned his hand off to show his bravery?
IQ3: Are you the father of Odysseus?