December Botticelli

I may have made some mistakes when answering DQs - in the interests of clarity I will expand those answers which may be ambiguous.

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
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. I was born in a country in which the majority language is Germanic, but in a region of that country where the majority language is not Germanic. I published my best known work in a non-Germanic language
20: I was born west of Vienna
21: My best known scientific achievement was before 1930. My best known scientific achievement is related to an idea I first articulated before 1930, and developed at length in a book I published after 1939

That’s us past 20. Anyone who has a DQ is now entitled to ask “Are you [name]?” As guylvesque didn’t have the benefit of these clarifications when he made his guess, I’ll let him have another.

IQ: Were you the first person to talk about the Big Bang?

Congratulations, I was the Belgian priest and scientist, and native speaker of French, Georges Lemaitre.

And apologies for misspelling your name above.

No worries. You can spell it better than most people on other forums.

To continue the backwards alphabet, I am K

Congratulations guylevesque! And fanganga, that was a good choice!

IQs:

  1. Are you George Herriman’s best known creation?
  2. Are you a mild-mannered blogger, formerly a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper?
  3. Did you know… what Evil… lurks in the hearts of men?

IQ1: Did you a stately pleasure dome decree?
IQ2: Were you a fan of the soap opera, “Androids”?
IQ3: Did you play a Duchess and a Governor’s daughter?

IQ1: Did you work at Blair General?
IQ2: Was the wreck of one of your ships found in the Dominican Republic a few years ago?
IQ3: Did you play a missionary in Africa, a queen of England, and an antique-shop owner?

IQ1:Are you my #1 choice for “fantasy so it doesn’t count” cheating?

IQ2: Did you play a shy poetess, who was dating your rebel classmate in AP History?

I am not Krazy Kat. Take 2 DQs.

I’m not Kublai Khan. 2 DQs

I am not William Kidd or Kathy Bates? (I know she played Victoria). Have 1 DQ

I am not Diane Keaton? Take a DQ

Way to go, guy!

Previous IQs:

Other than Leonard Nimoy, are you an actor who narrates many PBS science and nature shows? - Liev Schreiber
Were you a famous scientist about whom a humorous song was written? - Yes, Lobachevsky
Were you the person who composed and sang that song? - Yes, Tom Lehrer

IQs:

Are you an actor who worked in the White House as a staffer?
Did a critic comment on your ill-fitting uniform?
Did you say you’d gladly accept a demotion if it meant more lines in the script?

Dr Kildare.
Correct on Captain Kidd.
Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen, The Lion in Winter, and Olly, Olly, Oxen Free).
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

1: As you say, you are not Kublai Khan
2: Then you are not Kryten from Red Dwarf.
3: Then you are not Kiera Knightley, who played Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in The Duchess and Governor Swan’s daughter, Elizabeth, in The Pirates of the Carribean*

DQ1: Is K the initial letter of your last name?
DQ2: Are you currently alive (or, if fictional are the setting and your storyline such that you would be currently alive?)

IQ1: Did you direct a film wich included Also Sprach Zarathustra in its soundtrack?
IQ2: Were you an English actor who starred in a film based on Mary Shelley’s book?
IQ3: Did you drive your car off a bridge near Martha’s Vineyard?

IQ1: Did you take a name beginning with K when you were ennobled?
IQ2: Did you appear in both Star Trek and Babylon 5?
IQ3: Did you make McDonald’s what it is today?

#2 is Clark Kent, formerly with the Daily Planet. #3 is Kent Allard, aka Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow

I am not Kal Penn

I am real and male.

K is the initial of my last name and I’m still alive.

I am not Stanley Kubrick or Boris Karloff. Have a DQ.

I am not Ray Kroc. Only Genghis Khan comes to mind for the first one. DQ for 2.

K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. K is the initial of my last name
  4. Alive

1: I was thinking of William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, but I’ll accept Ghengis Khan as an answer.
2: Walter Koenig played Chekov in Star Trek and Bester the Psi-cop in Babylon 5
3: As you said, Ray Kroc.

DQ: Were you born in the Northern hemisphere?

IQ1: Are you a Danish footballer known for diving?
IQ2: Are you a previous leader of the British Liberal Democrat party?
IQ3: Did you play Ghandi?