# 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:** 17
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/321 "2014-08-12T04:07:24Z")
IQ: Did you, while dragging your ax, apocryphally create the Grand Canyon? ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/322 "2014-08-12T04:10:56Z")
DQs: 1. First name starts with P? 2. From literature? ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/323 "2014-08-12T04:14:17Z")
IQs: 1. Was your horse named Widow-Maker, and was dynamite your favorite food? 2. Did you write _Jaws_? 3. Were your last words: “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”? ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/324 "2014-08-12T04:38:28Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you, while dragging your ax, apocryphally create the Grand Canyon? Not Paul Bunyan. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your horse named Widow-Maker, and was dynamite your favorite food? > 2. Did you write _Jaws_? > 3. Were your last words: “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”? Not … Pecos Bill? Not Peter Benchley. DQ. **P** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not start with P 4. From literature ---
**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 12, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/325 "2014-08-12T12:17:59Z")
Huh, never knew Prof. Pepperwinkle was a Superman character. That’s 2 Botticelli players with ties to comic books. Any others? IQ1: Are you the title character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly? IQ2: Are you the above’s pal, famous for the line “We have met the enemy and he is us”? IQ3: Are you Spider-man’s aunt? ---
**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 12, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/326 "2014-08-12T13:07:35Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Huh, never knew Prof. Pepperwinkle was a Superman character. That’s 2 Botticelli players with ties to comic books. Any others? Two? > [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the title character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly? > IQ2: Are you the above’s pal, famous for the line “We have met the enemy and he is us”? > IQ3: Are you Spider-man’s aunt? Not Pogo Possum. I thought Pogo himself said that, so take a DQ if it was indeed someone else. Not May Parker. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/327 "2014-08-12T14:20:04Z")
IQ: Were you famous for your Papers? ---
**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 12, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/328 "2014-08-12T14:22:37Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your horse named Widow-Maker, and was dynamite your favorite food? > 2. Did you write Jaws? > 3. Were your last words: “I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”? > > Not … Pecos Bill? > Not Peter Benchley. > DQ. Correct on Pecos and Peter. #3 was Pres. James K. Polk. DQ: By an American author? ---
**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 12, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/329 "2014-08-12T14:27:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did you marry Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? 2. Did you deliver the message disc to Buckaroo Banzai? 3. Is your superhero name Colossus? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/330 "2014-08-12T14:59:37Z")
IQ1: Were you regarded as the only great English composer prior to the 20th century? IQ2: were you the American League MVP in 1950? IQ3: Are you the only original member left in Deep Purple? ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/331 "2014-08-12T16:04:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Two? Elendil Heir’s role as an extra in _Avengers_ > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Pogo Possum. > I thought Pogo himself said that, so take a DQ if it was indeed someone else. > Not May Parker. Poop, I looked it up and Pogo did say it. I thought Porky Pine did. ---
**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 12, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/332 "2014-08-12T16:16:21Z")
IQ1: Did Phillip Roth write about you as a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor making lurid confessions to a psychoanalyst? IQ2: Are you the leader of the Lost Boys from Neverland? IQ3: Are you a CIA agent working under cover in the novel _The Quiet American_? ---
**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 12, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/333 "2014-08-12T20:16:15Z")
Congrats, **SCAdian**! Previous IQs: Were you supposed to have said, “I do not seek windows to peer into men’s souls”? - Queen Elizabeth I, trying to assure her subjects that she was not a religious zealot. Did your husband slyly comment on your wonderful skin? - Queen Elizabeth II. A family friend had commented to her husband Prince Philip that she seemed to almost glow, and Philip replied, “Yes, and she’s like that all over.” Were you Napoleon III’s wife? - Empress Eugenie. On to P. IQs: Were you Arthur’s mischievous little puppy? Did Jack Bauer go to great lengths to protect you? Were you Hades’s unhappy wife? ---
**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 12, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/334 "2014-08-12T20:17:07Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you famous for your Papers? Not Pickwick. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you marry Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? > 2. Did you deliver the message disc to Buckaroo Banzai? > 3. Is your superhero name Colossus? DQ. DQ. Not Piotr Rasputin. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1: Were you regarded as the only great English composer prior to the 20th century? > > IQ2: were you the American League MVP in 1950? > > IQ3: Are you the only original member left in Deep Purple? Not Henry Purcell. DQ. DQ. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did Phillip Roth write about you as a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor making lurid confessions to a psychoanalyst? > IQ2: Are you the leader of the Lost Boys from Neverland? > IQ3: Are you a CIA agent working under cover in the novel _The Quiet American_? Not … Portnoy? Not Peter Pan. DQ. **P** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not start with P 4. From literature 5. By an American author ---
**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 12, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/335 "2014-08-12T20:29:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Arthur’s mischievous little puppy? > Did Jack Bauer go to great lengths to protect you? > Were you Hades’s unhappy wife? DQ (though I really ought to know this one, assuming you’re talking about the alleged aardvark - my girls loved those stories). DQ. Not Persephone. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/336 "2014-08-12T20:38:12Z")
IQ: Did you “bubble” the Final Table at the 2003 WSOP Main Event? ---
**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 12, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/337 "2014-08-12T21:13:33Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you marry Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker? > 2. Did you deliver the message disc to Buckaroo Banzai? > 3. Is your superhero name Colossus? > > DQ. > DQ. > Not Piotr Rasputin. #1 is Anna Livia Plurabelle in James Joyce’s _Finnegans Wake_. #2 is the good alien John Parker. #3 is correct. DQs: 1. Created after 1950? 2. From a work of science fiction or fantasy? ---
**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 12, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/338 "2014-08-12T21:37:58Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you “bubble” the Final Table at the 2003 WSOP Main Event? DQ. **P** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not start with P 4. From literature 5. By an American author 6. Created after 1950 7. Not from a work of science fiction or fantasy ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/339 "2014-08-12T21:49:46Z")
That was Phil Ivey DQ: Creator still alive? ---
**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 12, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/340 "2014-08-12T22:04:12Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Arthur’s mischievous little puppy? - Yes, Arthur the aardvark’s dog, who was named… Pal. Did Jack Bauer go to great lengths to protect you? - Candidate and later President David Palmer on _24_. Were you Hades’s unhappy wife? - Yes, Persephone. DQs: American character? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Did the same man who wrote bios of Mao and Mitterrand also write one about you? Did you know the ways of a foreign people as if born to them? Were you a large, doomed X-Wing pilot? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=18)