Thanks. My first was Thomas Midgley, chemist and king of unintended consequences - responsible for both leaded petrol and CFCs, he ultimately died when he became entangled in a system of pulleys he’d rigged to help him get in and out of bed while suffering limited mobility from polio.
I might be a while answering, what with tomorrow being Christmas, but I am L
Well done, fanganga! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, indeed, to all who celebrate it.
IQs:
Did you and your new girlfriend Jessica have to leave town in a hurry?
Did you provide the voice of a rusty truck?
Were you pierced by your own sword in a movie filmed in Ireland?
Good job fanganga! And a Merry Christmas to you too!
So we’re on to L?
IQ1: Did you host an interview show on CNN for many years?
IQ2: Did you tell someone “I love you” only to have them reply, “I know”?
IQ3: Were you Clark Kent’s girl-next-door in Smallville?
IQs:
- Were you Superman’s mermaid girlfriend?
- Did you ride out of the west?
- Did you reveal this year that you’re suffering from Parkinson’s Disease?
IQ: Did you nearly come to blows over a missing poker ante?
IQ2: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you writing the DoI?
Moses supposes his toeses are roses…
Dean Martin, in Something Big.
Maximilian.
IQ1: Was Kenneth Robeson usually you?
IQ2: Was Bruno Richard Hauptmann convicted of killing your son?
IQ3: Were you the Swedish Nightingale?
I’m 0 for 3, I’m afraid.
1: I am not Larry King
2: I am not Princess Leia Organa
3: I am not Lana Lang
1: I am not … Lori Lee?
2: I am not … the Lone Ranger?
3: I don’t know to whom you refer.
1: I don’t know to whom you refer
2: I don’t know to whom you refer
1: I am not … Laertes?
2: I don’t know to whom you refer
3: I don’t know to whom you refer.
Previous IQs:
Did you and your new girlfriend Jessica have to leave town in a hurry? - This was the hero in Logan’s Run.
Did you provide the voice of a rusty truck? - Larry the Cable Guy, in the Cars movies.
Were you pierced by your own sword in a movie filmed in Ireland? - Launcelot, in Excalibur.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with L?
IQs:
Did a future President admire you on your way to take a top job?
Did your husband like preachers “who looked they were fighting bees”?
Did the same actor play you who also played a cop, a cancer patient and an alien?
Correct on all. I guess I’ve got to come up with more difficult questions!
#1 was Lori Lemaris. #2 was young Lochinvar, but the Lone Ranger oughta count. #3 was Linda Ronstadt.
I’ll wait on my DQs. Merry Merry.
Kenneth Robeson was the pseudonym that appeared on the Doc Savage novels, as well as another pulp series. Lester Dent was the real author of most of the stories.
Charles Lindbergh.
Jenny Lind.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Living?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you known as “Slipstick”?
IQ2: Was your original name Woodrow Wilson Smith?
IQ3: Did you write about Lando, William Tell, Logan, Galloway and their kin?
1: I don’t know to whom you refer
2: I am not … ** Mary Todd Lincoln**?
3: I don’t know to whom you refer
Again, I must pass on all 3.
My initial is L and…
1: I am real
2: I am male
3: L is the initial of my last name
4: I am not American.
5: I am not living.
Andrew Jackson Libby, from Heinlein’s future history.
Lazarus Long, also from Heinlein.
Those are all characters in the Sackett books by Louis L’Amour.
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Died after 1900?
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Are you the Coal-Miner’s Daughter?
IQ2: Were you the star of The Wolf Man?
IQ3: Are you a monkey attending summer camp?
Previous IQs:
Did a future President admire you on your way to take a top job? - A young James Garfield met Abraham Lincoln at a public reception in Columbus, Ohio, as Lincoln was heading to Washington, D.C. to be inaugurated in early 1861. Garfield wrote to his wife that he liked what he saw of the President-elect.
Did your husband like preachers “who looked they were fighting bees”? - Yes, Mary Todd Lincoln.
Did the same actor play you who also played a cop, a cancer patient and an alien? - Joseph Gordon-Levitt played the President’s son Robert in Lincoln; he was also in The Dark Knight Rises, 50/50 and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
DQs:
European?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Did you appear with very long sideburns in a recent British documentary?
Were you played by an actress who was inexplicably attacked as a child?
Did you play, on TV, someone everyone loved to hate?
IQ1: Did The Dawn’s Early Light come not the next morning, but some years after, A Night to Remember?
IQ2: Did you seem to be a celebrity when you appeared in North American commercials for hair-care products, prompting Johnny Carson to famously ask, “Who the hell is _____?”
IQ3: Did you write a novel that consisted of a series of letters between Wormwood and Screwtape?
0 for 3
0 for 3… inspiration is failing me.
1: The capitalisation makes me think of the Titanic film, but I don’t know where to go from there … DQ
2: I don’t know to whom you refer.
3: Finally! One I know - I am not C.S. Lewis
My initial is L and…
1: I am real
2: I am male
3: L is the initial of my last name
4: I am not American.
5: I am not living.
6: I am not known for the arts
7: I died since 1900
8: I am European