# 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:** 25
**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 21, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/481 "2014-08-21T23:09:49Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother? > IQ2: Did you contend with Maude for a top job? > IQ3: Did Jael kill you in a rather unusual fashion? Ouch. Dunno any of these. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Snow Crash_? > 2. Did Mickey Rooney repeatedly do the voice work for your character on TV? > 3. Did your puppets include Hush Puppy and Charley Horse? Not Neal Stephenson, Santa Claus, or Sharri. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you superintendent of the college that eventually became Louisiana State University? > > IQ2) Are you obsessed with stealing the formula for the perfect burger? > > IQ3) Did you take your stage name from a minor character in _ **The Great Gatsby** _? Not William T. Sherman, dunno (did you mean Plankton?), or Sigourney FKA Susan Weaver. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose the musical version of _A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum_? > IQ2: Were you horrified when Josef Stalin attended attended a performance of your adaptation of _Lady Macbeth_ and laughed at the love-making scene? > IQ3: Did you compose _The Rite of Spring_? Dunno; not Shostakovich or Stravinsky. ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/482 "2014-08-22T00:29:07Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary? 2. Did you compose _Finlandia_? 3. Are you the Father of Pointillism? ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/483 "2014-08-22T00:35:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother? > IQ2: Did you contend with Maude for a top job? > IQ3: Did Jael kill you in a rather unusual fashion? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ouch. Dunno any of these. Sally Forth, from the eponymous newspaper strip. Stephen of Blois. (He won, and became King Stephen of England.) Sisera. (She pounded a tent peg through his temple. It’s Biblical - the Book of Judges, I think…) DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: American (if real) or an American character (if fictional)? IQ1: Are Col Renwick and Prof Littlejohn among your associates? IQ2: Do you know nothing? IQ3: Were you killed by a stingray? ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/484 "2014-08-22T00:49:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary? > 2. Did you compose _Finlandia_? > 3. Are you the Father of Pointillism? Not Sequoyah, Sebelius or Seurat. > [@SCAdian](#): > > …IQ1: Are Col Renwick and Prof Littlejohn among your associates? > IQ2: Do you know nothing? > IQ3: Were you killed by a stingray? Dunno, not Jon Snow (good question!), and not Steve Irwin. S. 1. real 2. male 3. not American ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/485 "2014-08-22T00:54:05Z")
Originally Posted by Knowed Out IQ1: Did you compose the musical version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum? IQ2: Were you horrified when Josef Stalin attended attended a performance of your adaptation of Lady Macbeth and laughed at the love-making scene? IQ3: Did you compose The Rite of Spring? Dunno; not Shostakovich or Stravinsky. Steven Sondheim, correct x2 DQ: Alive? ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/486 "2014-08-22T01:06:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are Col Renwick and Prof Littlejohn among your associates? > IQ2: Do you know nothing? > IQ3: Were you killed by a stingray? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Jon Snow (good question!), and not Steve Irwin. Doc Savage. Jon Snow? Who’s he when he’s up and dressed? (I’ll rephrase…) Correct. DQ: European? IQ1: Did you play someone who died on the barricades in the June Rebellion? IQ2: If you owned both places, would you live in Hell and rent out Texas? IQ3: Did you give “Little Sure Shot” her name? ---
**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 22, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/487 "2014-08-22T04:22:00Z")
**SCAdian** , Jon Snow is a character from _Game of Thrones_. His lover’s catchphrase is, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.” > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play someone who died on the barricades in the June Rebellion? > IQ2: If you owned both places, would you live in Hell and rent out Texas? > IQ3: Did you give “Little Sure Shot” her name? Dunno, not Phil Sheridan, and not… Sam Oakley? S. 1. real 2. male 3. not American 4. dead 5. European ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/488 "2014-08-22T12:13:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play someone who died on the barricades in the June Rebellion? > IQ2: If you owned both places, would you live in Hell and rent out Texas? > IQ3: Did you give “Little Sure Shot” her name? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **SCAdian** , Jon Snow is a character from _Game of Thrones_. His lover’s catchphrase is, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.” Ah. My sister-in-law gave me the first two books for Xmas a couple years ago, but I haven’t read them yet, and I’ve never seen the show. > [@](#): > > Dunno, not Phil Sheridan, and not… Sam Oakley? Samantha Barks played Eponine in the 2012 film version of _Les Miserables_. Correct. Sitting Bull. (They worked together in Bufalo Bill’s Wild West Show.) DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c)? DQ2: Born after 1800? IQ1: Did you paint the _Portrait of Madame X_? IQ2: Did you star in a film about a Jewish cross-dresser? IQ3: Did you write the story that film was based on? ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/489 "2014-08-22T12:22:42Z")
IQ1: Were you the first commander of the _Schutzstaffel_ (SS)? IQ2: Were you an English naval administrator, famous for a diary that included eyewitness accounts of events such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London? IQ3: Were you the president of Yugoslavia when it broke up into six republics? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/490 "2014-08-22T14:26:33Z")
William Tecumseh Sherman and SIgourney Weaver are right. Yes, I was after Plankton, but you needed his first name: Sheldon. DQ: Were you from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian)? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/491 "2014-08-22T14:28:43Z")
IQ1) Did you write the play\*\*\* Miss Julie\*\*\*? IQ2) Did Archie Bunker discover at your funeral that you were Jewish? IQ3) Did you create a hit Sixties sitcom \*\*\*I Dream of Jeannie \*\*\*and then write dozens of successful trashy romance novels? ---
**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 22, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/492 "2014-08-22T14:44:09Z")
Correct again on all three. IQs: 1. Were you a frequent adversary of the Golden Age Green Lantern? 2. Were you the archenemy of the Silver Age Green Lantern? 3. Did you portray Howling Mad Murdock? ---
**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 22, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/493 "2014-08-22T19:35:05Z")
I must’ve forgotten (if I ever knew) that Plankton had a first name! > [@SCAdian](#): > > … > IQ1: Did you paint the _Portrait of Madame X_? > IQ2: Did you star in a film about a Jewish cross-dresser? > IQ3: Did you write the story that film was based on? Not John Singer Sargent, Barbra Streisand (_Yentl_) or Isaac Bashevis (sp?) Singer. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first commander of the _Schutzstaffel_ (SS)? > IQ2: Were you an English naval administrator, famous for a diary that included eyewitness accounts of events such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London? > IQ3: Were you the president of Yugoslavia when it broke up into six republics? Not… Speidel? Not Samuel Pepys or Slobodan Milosevic. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you write the play\*\*\* Miss Julie\*\*\*? > > IQ2) Did Archie Bunker discover at your funeral that you were Jewish? > > IQ3) Did you create a hit Sixties sitcom \*\*\*I Dream of Jeannie \*\*\*and then write dozens of successful trashy romance novels? Dunno the first two; not Jacqueline Susann (sp?). > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Were you a frequent adversary of the Golden Age Green Lantern? > 2. Were you the archenemy of the Silver Age Green Lantern? > 3. Did you portray Howling Mad Murdock? Not Sinestro, another guy named Sinestro, or… dunno. S. 1. real 2. male 3. not American 4. dead 5. European 6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c) 7. born before 1800 8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/494 "2014-08-22T19:45:10Z")
Strindberg wrote \*\*\*Miss Julie; \*\*\*; Stretch Cunningham, Archie Bunker’s best friend, was Jewish; Sidney Sheldon was a romance writer and the creator of \*\*\*I Dream of Jeannie * * * DQ1) Were you French DQ2) Were you born before 1600? DQ3) Were you involved in the arts, broadly defined? ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/495 "2014-08-22T20:25:25Z")
S. 1. real 2. male 3. not American 4. dead 5. European 6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c) 7. born before 1800 8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian) 9. not French 10. born after 1600 11. involved in the arts, broadly defined ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/496 "2014-08-22T20:35:46Z")
> [@](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Were you a frequent adversary of the Golden Age Green Lantern? > 2. Were you the archenemy of the Silver Age Green Lantern? > 3. Did you portray Howling Mad Murdock? > Not Sinestro, another guy named Sinestro, or… dunno. Sinestro didn’t exist until the Golden Age. Solomon Grundy was the first GL’s frequent foe. #2 is correct. #3 is Dwight Schultz. DQs: 1. Last name start with S? 2. Born after 1700? ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/497 "2014-08-22T21:21:08Z")
S. 1. real 2. male 3. not American 4. dead 5. European 6. not a native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, English, Danish, &c, &c) 7. born before 1800 8. from a country that speaks a Romance language (French, Italian, Spanish or Italian) 9. not French 10. born after 1600 11. involved in the arts, broadly defined 12. last name starts with S 13. born before 1700 ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/498 "2014-08-22T21:21:17Z")
IQ1: Were you the first commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS)? Julius Schreck, other two correck DQ: Spanish? ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/499 "2014-08-22T21:41:03Z")
IQ1: Are you an Italian architect who designed the Chapel of the Immaculate in the Cathedral of Osma? IQ2: Are you an Italian Baroque composer, considered to be the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera? IQ3: Are you his son, who composed 555 keyboard sonatas? ---
**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 22, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/500 "2014-08-22T22:30:37Z")
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