What was it that made you think it might be ol’ Oscar?
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IQs:
Were you a postmaster and a grocer before moving on to a much more important job?
Did your husband joke that your family thought it was better than God?
Did Monty Python reimagine you as a gunslinger?
Shazbot!! I was thinking of Oscar de la Renta when I asked about fashion. Well done, M. Levesque!
IQ1: Are you Beetle Bailey’s sister?
IQ2: Are you an archaeologist who was killed in a motorcycle accident?
IQ3: Did you write of aliens who looked like baby elephants with two trunks?
IQs:
IQ1: Are you the title character of a Wagner opera?
IQ2: Were you the librettist for 3 of Mozart’s most celebrated operas?
IQ3: Are you the title character of Alban Berg’s second opera?
IQ1: Were you involved in a complex love polygon with at least Demetrius, Hermia and Helena?
IQ2: Would you rather offer your daughters to the tender mercies of a mob than your guests?
IQ3: Did you famously make your notes in mirror-writing?
IQ1: Are you associated with a vehicle named for a city known for its Redbirds?
IQ2: Did Dana Carvey mention you, under another name?
IQ3: Did you nearly have a fistfight over a missing poker chip?
I have to admit Ministre’s DQ inspired me because I didn’t think of fashion design right away when you said he was connected to the arts.
Also, I can only thin of Thomas Lipton for #1. If not, have 3 DQs because I don’t know the others.
I’ not T.E. Lawrence or Lois Flagston. DQ for #3.
Not Leda. 2 DQs
Not Lohengrin or Lulu. DQ for #2.
Not Lysander or Leonardo da Vinci. Have a DQ for the second one.
As you say, Lysander from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Then you are not Lot, the last righteous man in Sodom. My phrasing may have made this misleading as Lot offered his daughters to the mob when the mob demanded his guests, but looking at the question I see it could be read as lot trusting the mob with his daughters more than trusting his guests with his daughters.
As you say, Leonardo da Vinci
DQ: Are you male?
IQ1: Have you been looking for love in several wrong places?
IQ2: Are you a member of the Legion of Doom?
IQ3: Are you one of Tina Fey’s better known characters?
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3 DQS
Yes, I am male.
But I’m not Johnny Lee, Lex Luthor or Liz Lemon.
L.
Those were:
1)Charles Lindberg
2)Lucifer
3)Jeff Lisandro
DQ1)Living?
DQ2)American?
DQ3)Born North of the Mason-Dixon line?
John Lennon, when asked how the Beatles got their name, said that he had a vision of a man riding a flaming pie that was flying through the sky. He told John “You shall be the Beatles with an A.” And John said, “Thank you, Mr. man.” Paul named one of his more recent albums Flaming Pie accordingly. John, of course, was joshing.
Isaiah 14:12 calls Nebuchadnezzaar “Lucifer” (Light bringer) and predicts his fall.
Yeah, Leda.
I’ll wait on my DQs.
Correct on Lex Luthor and Liz Lemon. Johnny Lee wasn’t whom I was thinking of, but I’ll give you the point.
IQ: Were the wrong places where you were looking for love in the city of Lost Wages?
Dead. Not American but geographically born North of the Mason-Dixon Line
Not Larry Laffer.
L.
Correct on Lois and Lawrence.
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote Footfall, which told of an alien invasion of the Earth.
DQ: European?
IQ1: Did your brother outscore you in World War I?
IQ2: Were you the millionaire’s wife?
IQ3: Did your army meet disaster in Egypt?
Abraham Lincoln.
Mary Todd Lincoln (“…God only needed one ‘d’”).
“No-Time Toulouse” Latrec.
DQs:
European?
Last name start with L?
Died since 1900?
IQs:
Did you live in Vermont with two oddly-named siblings?
Did you not notice your son’s allergic reaction on Thanksgiving?
Were you a doctor featured in 1776?
IQ1: Did conditions in your colonial holdings inspire Joseph Conrad to write Heart of Darkness?
IQ2: Did you propose one of the earliest iterations of big bang theory with your “primeval atom”?
IQ3: Did you propose a theory of evolution by inheritance of acquired characteristics, that was superseded by Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection?
#2 is Lorenzo da Ponte, who was the librettist for ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Così fan tutte’.
I’ll hold on to my DQ for a moment, if I may.
No idea. 3 DQs
Yes, I’m European.
My last name starts with L and I died after 1900.
Not Lyman Hall. Have 2 DQs.
I’m not Leopold II of Belgium or Georges Lemaître. DQ for the last question.
L.