Did you appear with very long sideburns in a recent British documentary? - John Lithgow, in a special on the 50th anniversary of the National Theatre.
Were you played by an actress who was inexplicably attacked as a child? - Liz Lemon on 30 Rock was played by Tina Fey, slashed on the face by a never-caught assailant.
Did you play, on TV, someone everyone loved to hate? - Larry Linville played Maj. Frank Burns on MASH*.
DQs:
British?
Political/military?
Died since 1975?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Are you a noted contemporary Chinese pianist?
Are you an actor who narrates many PBS science and nature shows?
Did you, later in life, utterly reject your best-known work?
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
9: I am not British
10: I am not a political or military figure
11: I died before 1975
You were on the right track when you mentioned “the Titanic film.” Note, though, that that film was based on a book named A Night to Remember, which was written by Walter Lord (who also wrote The Dawn’s Early Light some years later).
The “celebrity” was Rula Lenska, who was a well-known stage actress in the UK, but had no recognition at all in North America.
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
9: I am not British
10: I am not a political or military figure
11: I died before 1975
12: I am not French
13: I am known for the sciences
14: I was born before 1900
15: I am not a sports figure
Loretta Lynn.
Lon Chaney Jr.
Lazlo, from Camp Lazlo.
DQ: Native speaker of a Slavic language?
IQ1: Did you write about a party which included a Bellman, a Baker, a Beaver, a Boots, a Billiard-Marker, and others?
IQ2: Were you a pilot for whom a circle was named?
IQ3: Did you write The Moonshine War?
1: I know that a Bellman featured prominently in The Hunting of The Snark, and it sounds like the sort of thing Lewis Caroll would have written, but I’m not him
2: I am not … Charles Lindbergh?
3: I don’t know to whom you refer
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
9: I am not British
10: I am not a political or military figure
11: I died before 1975
12: I am not French
13: I am known for the sciences
14: I was born before 1900
15: I am not a sports figure
16: I am not a native speaker of a Slavic language
Correct on Lewis Carroll (and also on The Hunting of the Snark).
Raoul Lufbery (The Lufbery circle is a defensive manoeuvre in which a group of planes follow each other in a circle.)
Elmore Leonard.
DQ: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
Are you a noted contemporary Chinese pianist? - Lang Lang
Are you an actor who narrates many PBS science and nature shows? - Yes, Leonard Nimoy, but I was thinking of someone else, so I’ll rephrase.
Did you, later in life, utterly reject your best-known work? - Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, was born again and turned strongly against porn.
DQs:
Born in or east of Vienna?
Best-known scientific achievement before 1939?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Other than Leonard Nimoy, are you an actor who narrates many PBS science and nature shows?
Were you a famous scientist about whom a humorous song was written?
Were you the person who composed and sang that song?
IQ1: Did you add multiplications and divisions to Pascal’s calculator?
IQ2: Are you the most famous Hungarian composer?
IQ3: Are you the father of taxonomy?
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
9: I am not British
10: I am not a political or military figure
11: I died before 1975
12: I am not French
13: I am known for the sciences
14: I was born before 1900
15: I am not a sports figure
16: I am not a native speaker of a Slavic language
17: I died after 1950
18: I am not from a former Warsaw Pact nation
19: I am not a native speaker of a Germanic language
20: I was born west of Vienna
21: My best known scientific achievement was before 1930
That’s us past 20. Anyone who has a DQ is now entitled to ask “Are you [name]?”