# 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:** 33
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/641 "2014-09-02T14:14:07Z")
Female Asian leaders came up in a game I was playing last week, or I would not have thought of her. I am A. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/642 "2014-09-02T14:31:08Z")
Way to go, **Prof**.! Previous IQs: Did a servant nicely set the table for you even though you were dining alone at work? - This was Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States. He enjoyed the perks of office, according to Woodward and Armstrong’s _The Brethren_. Did you play a network executive with a hawt daughter? - Bob Balaban, on _Seinfeld_. A young Denise Richards, later to marry Charlie Sheen, played the daughter, whom George ogled: [Seinfeld Denise Richards S04E17 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ZJeduq4kM) Did a national magazine say you liked a card game called “Oh, Hell”? - As mentioned in an _Esquire_ profile of Bill Clinton in late 2000. New IQs: Were you Peer Gynt’s mom? Were you Estel’s dad? Are you Estel by your much-better-known name? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/643 "2014-09-02T14:33:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > New IQs: > > Were you Peer Gynt’s mom? > Were you Estel’s dad? > Are you Estel by your much-better-known name? Take 3 DQs and a fourth DQ for reaching your half-century mark. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/644 "2014-09-02T15:22:29Z")
IQ1) Is “Onward Christian Soldiers” about the only serious musical piece you’re still remembered for? IQ2) Did you conduct the very first performance of the opera\*\*\* Amahl and the Night Visitors \*\*\*live on television? IQ3) For many years, did you appear on a unit of currency that had an automobile on the back? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/645 "2014-09-02T15:41:21Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Is “Onward Christian Soldiers” about the only serious musical piece you’re still remembered for? > > IQ2) Did you conduct the very first performance of the opera\*\*\* Amahl and the Night Visitors \*\*\*live on television? > > IQ3) For many years, did you appear on a unit of currency that had an automobile on the back? I’m not Arthur Sullivan. (There’s also _The Lost Chord_.) Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/646 "2014-09-02T15:50:06Z")
Arturo Toscanini conducted the opera live on NBC For many years, there was a car parked in front of the Treasury building on the back of an American ten dollar bill. Alexander Hamilton was on the front. 1. Real person? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/647 "2014-09-02T15:54:10Z")
IQ1) Were you a Pulitzer Prize winning poet as well as the director of the Library of Congress? IQ2) Was your voice dubbed by Marni Nixon in an Oscar-winning movie musical? IQ3) Were you a Hall of Fame pitcher once played by Ronald Reagan in a movie? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/648 "2014-09-02T16:12:24Z")
IQ: Did you share an extremely awkward kiss with your wife at a political event? The ugly world leader was Brezhnev BTW. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/649 "2014-09-02T16:14:59Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Male. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/650 "2014-09-02T16:16:01Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you a Pulitzer Prize winning poet as well as the director of the Library of Congress? > > IQ2) Was your voice dubbed by Marni Nixon in an Oscar-winning movie musical? > > IQ3) Were you a Hall of Fame pitcher once played by Ronald Reagan in a movie? I’m not Audrey Hepburn. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/651 "2014-09-02T16:17:17Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you share an extremely awkward kiss with your wife at a political event? > > The ugly world leader was Brezhnev BTW. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/652 "2014-09-02T16:47:33Z")
That was Al Gore (Jr.) DQ: Living? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/653 "2014-09-02T17:01:05Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/654 "2014-09-02T17:02:57Z")
IQ: Did you do your best work while processing ideas for new inventions? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/655 "2014-09-02T17:06:41Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you do your best work while processing ideas for new inventions? I am not Alexander Graham Bell. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/656 "2014-09-02T17:15:46Z")
That was Einstein. DQ: 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:** [September 2, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/657 "2014-09-02T17:17:58Z")
Grats Prof, now tuck those ninja blades away… IQ1: Did you win the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for your philosophy of “Reverence for Life”? IQ2: Are you a former president of Uganda who added CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire) to your title after the British broke off diplomatic relations? IQ3: Did your daughter Christina tell you the reason your son Alexander died was because your new wife was cursed? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/658 "2014-09-02T17:20:25Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American ---
**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:** [September 2, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/659 "2014-09-02T17:23:35Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Grats Prof, now tuck those ninja blades away… > > IQ1: Did you win the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for your philosophy of “Reverence for Life”? > IQ2: Are you a former president of Uganda who added CBE (Conqueror of the British Empire) to your title after the British broke off diplomatic relations? > IQ3: Did your daughter Christina tell you the reason your son Alexander died was because your new wife was cursed? I am not Albert Schweitzer. I am not Idi Amin Dada. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/660 "2014-09-02T17:27:00Z")
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