Botticelli - October 2013

Not Abraham Lincoln.
DQs for #2 and 3 (though I’m going to kick myself for #3, as you’ve used that question before…).

Last time I watched SNL, the Coneheads were passing out beer and fried eggs for Hallowe’en…

Cowboys … that’s football, right? :stuck_out_tongue:

DQ.

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?

Right on all three.

New IQs:

  1. Were you a contemporary of Andy Warhol known for creating paintings based on romance comic book art?
  2. Did you create Woody Woodpecker?
  3. Were you the foremost jazz vibraphonist?

That was Tom Landry

DQ: Died after 1950?

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?

L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950

DQ.
DQ.
Not Ligonier.

Not Roy Lichtenstein.
Not Walter Lantz.
DQ.

Not Lagrange.
DQ.
DQ.

Lionel Hampton was the vibraphonist.

DQ: Famous for the Arts as we lovingly call them?

Lionel Hampton was the vibraphonist.

DQ: Famous for the Arts as we lovingly call them?

There seems to be an echo in here tonight…
L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Not famous for the Arts

Stereo.

IQs:

  1. Were you the king of Bongo Congo?
  2. Are you Pozzo’s slave?
  3. Did you portray Mr. Greenjeans?

Yes, Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

#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)?

Not King Leonardo.
DQ.
DQ.
L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Not famous for the Arts
  8. Female
  9. Not 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?

Lucky was Pozzo’s slave in Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot.
Lumpy Brannam was Mr. Greenjeans opposite Bob Keeshan’s Captain Kangaroo.

ETA: Ninja’d by EH, so I’ll wait on my DQs.

Three DQs.
L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Not famous for the Arts
  8. Female
  9. Not famous for scientific advancements (or failures)
  10. Political
  11. Not born east of the Mississippi River

DQs:

  1. Died since 2000?
  2. Caucasian?

L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Not famous for the Arts
  8. Female
  9. Not famous for scientific advancements (or failures)
  10. Political
  11. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  12. Died since 2000
  13. Caucasian

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?