# August 2014 Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690 "2014-08-03T00:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/261 "2014-08-08T23:02:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create the Theory of Relativity? 2. Do you have a successful daytime talk show titled by your first name? 3. Did you operate out of Menlo Park? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/262 "2014-08-08T23:24:57Z")
IQs: Are you the most famous lawyer to come from East Cleveland, Ohio? Were you Lincoln’s SECWAR? Did you speak just before Lincoln at Gettysburg? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/263 "2014-08-08T23:50:40Z")
IQ1: During your 60-year recording career, were you the winner of 14 Grammy Awards, awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan, and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush? IQ2: Are you an Australian model who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue five times? IQ3: Did you portray the bride of Frankenstein’s monster? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/264 "2014-08-09T03:07:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a cartoon girl with naturally curly hair? > IQ2: Are you #1’s cat? > IQ3: Are you still dead? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Frieda. > Take a DQ for the cat. > I am not Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Correct. Faron, that apparently boneless beast she carried draped over her forearms. Correct. On to **E** … IQ1: Did you resign a top job to marry the woman you loved? IQ2: Are you the Earl of Wessex? IQ3: Did your two half-sisters follow you in a top job? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/265 "2014-08-09T10:26:04Z")
IQ: are you me? IQ2: Were you the last President born in the 19th. C? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/266 "2014-08-09T15:53:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you create the Theory of Relativity? > 2. Do you have a successful daytime talk show titled by your first name? > 3. Did you operate out of Menlo Park? Not Einstein or Edison. Take a DQ for the talk show. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/267 "2014-08-09T15:55:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the most famous lawyer to come from East Cleveland, Ohio? > Were you Lincoln’s SECWAR? > Did you speak just before Lincoln at Gettysburg? Not Edwin Stanton or Edward Everett. Take a DQ for the Cleveland lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/268 "2014-08-09T15:56:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: During your 60-year recording career, were you the winner of 14 Grammy Awards, awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan, and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush? > IQ2: Are you an Australian model who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue five times? > IQ3: Did you portray the bride of Frankenstein’s monster? Not Elle Macpherson or Elsa Lanchester. And not… Duke Ellington? If Ellington is wrong, take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/269 "2014-08-09T15:56:19Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you create the Theory of Relativity? > 2. Do you have a successful daytime talk show titled by your first name? > 3. Did you operate out of Menlo Park? > > Not Einstein or Edison. > > Take a DQ for the talk show. Ellen DeGeneres hosts _Ellen_. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/270 "2014-08-09T15:57:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you resign a top job to marry the woman you loved? > IQ2: Are you the Earl of Wessex? > IQ3: Did your two half-sisters follow you in a top job? Not King Edward the 8th Not the current Prince Edward Not Edward Tudor (Edward the 6th) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/271 "2014-08-09T15:58:28Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: are you me? > IQ2: Were you the last President born in the 19th. C? Not ETV or… Eisenhower? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/272 "2014-08-09T16:10:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Ellen DeGeneres hosts _Ellen_. > > 1 DQ reserved. Duh! How’d I miss that one??? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/273 "2014-08-09T17:26:19Z")
Yup, Ike was born in 1890. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/274 "2014-08-09T17:27:34Z")
IQ: Were a humorist who wrote about the life of the everyday life of a housewife? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/275 "2014-08-09T17:35:03Z")
DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/276 "2014-08-09T20:24:50Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Elle Macpherson or Elsa Lanchester. And not… Duke Ellington? > > If Ellington is wrong, take a DQ Ella Fitzgerald DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/277 "2014-08-09T20:45:58Z")
IQ1: Are you a TV personality who died in a car crash in 1962, supposedly as a result of you trying to light a cigar? IQ2: Are you a condescending telephone operator played by Lily Tomlin? IQ3: Were you chosen as the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson in 1956? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/278 "2014-08-09T22:23:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you resign a top job to marry the woman you loved? > IQ2: Are you the Earl of Wessex? > IQ3: Did your two half-sisters follow you in a top job? > [@astorian](#): > > Not King Edward the 8th > > Not the current Prince Edward > > Not Edward Tudor (Edward the 6th) Correct on all three. IQ1: Did you go on an adventure with Jill Pole? IQ2: Were you a Marine Raider CO during WW II? IQ3: Were you a Marine Raider CO during WW II? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/279 "2014-08-10T04:39:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the most famous lawyer to come from East Cleveland, Ohio? > Were you Lincoln’s SECWAR? > Did you speak just before Lincoln at Gettysburg? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Edwin Stanton or Edward Everett. Take a DQ for the Cleveland lawyer. Correct on both. The lawyer was Erwin Griswold, dean of Harvard Law School and also U.S. Solicitor General (top appellate lawyer) for LBJ and Nixon. DQ: Last name start with E? IQs: Was your catchphrase “Never mind”? Did you play Miss Honey in the movie _Matilda_? Did Irish-Americans not appreciate your pre-Civil War visit to the U.S.? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/280 "2014-08-10T13:52:20Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were a humorist who wrote about the life of the everyday life of a housewife? Not Erma Bombeck [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=15)