# August Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072 "2013-08-01T11:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/81 "2013-08-05T08:24:17Z")
IQ1: Was your ship the subject of a philosophical thought-experiment? IQ2: Did you undergo the first sex-change? IQ3: Did Dr. Kervorkian name his equipment after 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 5, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/82 "2013-08-05T11:04:48Z")
IQ1: Are you the leader of the inhabitants of Fangorn Forest? IQ2: Did you have to touch to believe? IQ3: Did you write a series about teens having adventures in parallel worlds? ---
**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 5, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/83 "2013-08-05T12:10:33Z")
Thumbelina escaped marriage to a mole in the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. DQ: Are you real? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/84 "2013-08-05T12:11:07Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the 40 voice motet ‘Spem in Alium’? > IQ2: Did your brother Modest write you libretti for you? > IQ3: Did you write the opera version of ‘Hamlet’? > [@MissTake](#): > > DQ > I am not Tchaikovsky > DQ Absolutely right on Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Modest wrote the libretti for both _Queen of Spades_ and _Iolanta_. #1 is **Thomas Tallis** , an outstanding composer of the late Renaissance. #3 is **Ambrose Thomas** , who was for many years the head of the Paris Conservatoire. _Hamlet_ and _Mignon_ are his best known works. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/85 "2013-08-05T12:36:47Z")
Let me start with this: **The letter is T** 1. I am real 2. I am male (the “real” DQ was duplicated, so one of you gets another DQ) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/86 "2013-08-05T12:44:19Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you one of 2 men to be the highest ranking person in two branches of the federal government? DQ > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Was your ship the subject of a philosophical thought-experiment? > IQ2: Did you undergo the first sex-change? > IQ3: Did Dr. Kervorkian name his equipment after you? DQ DQ I am not Thanatos > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you the leader of the inhabitants of Fangorn Forest? > IQ2: Did you have to touch to believe? > IQ3: Did you write a series about teens having adventures in parallel worlds? DQ DQ I am not Tolkein (and I’m guessing your first question was from his books?) ---
**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 5, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/87 "2013-08-05T12:50:32Z")
I’ll let Le Ministre have the DQ. IQs: 1. Are you the muse of dance? 2. Did Paul refuse to have you circumcised? 3. Were you the first supervillain the Silver Age Flash fought? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/88 "2013-08-05T13:12:20Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Was your ship the subject of a philosophical thought-experiment? Then you are not Theseus, as in [the Ship of Theseus.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus) > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ2: Did you undergo the first sex-change? Keeping with the Greek mythology theme, you would also not be [Tiresias](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias) > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ3: Did Dr. Kervorkian name his equipment after you? You got who I was thinking of. IQ1: Did you lead an offshoot of the Mongol empire to great conquests? IQ2: Could you have been found at Wardencliffe? IQ3: Are you known for your role in a group achievement for which your partner was knighted, but you were not? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/89 "2013-08-05T13:26:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the muse of dance? > 2. Did Paul refuse to have you circumcised? > 3. Were you the first supervillain the Silver Age Flash fought? I am not Terpsichore I am not Titus DQ > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead an offshoot of the Mongol empire to great conquests? > IQ2: Could you have been found at Wardencliffe? > IQ3: Are you known for your role in a group achievement for which your partner was knighted, but you were not? DQ I am not Tesla 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 5, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/90 "2013-08-05T13:29:04Z")
The first Flash foe was the Turtle (the Slowest Man Alive). DQ: Are you alive? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/91 "2013-08-05T13:37:03Z")
**The letter is T** 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased ---
**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 5, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/92 "2013-08-05T13:51:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play an escaped convict in _O Brother Where Art Thou_? 2. Did you play a different escaped convict in _O Brother Where Art Thou_? 3. Are you the genius inventor son of a genius inventor? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/93 "2013-08-05T14:06:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play an escaped convict in _O Brother Where Art Thou_? > 2. Did you play a different escaped convict in _O Brother Where Art Thou_? > 3. Are you the genius inventor son of a genius inventor? One of my favorite movies 🙂 I am not John Turturro I am not Tim Blake Nelson I am not Theodore Edison ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/94 "2013-08-05T14:14:07Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead an offshoot of the Mongol empire to great conquests? Then you are not Tamerlane, also known as Timur the Lame, ruler of the Timurid Empire > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ2: Could you have been found at Wardencliffe? As you said, you are not Tesla. > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ3: Are you known for your role in a group achievement for which your partner was knighted, but you were not? Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary, now known as Sir Edmund Hillary. DQ1: Is T the initial letter of your last name? DQ2: Were you born west of the Greenwich Meridian? DQ3: Were you born before AD 1500? (using my DQ from before) DQ4: reserved. IQ1: Did you observe that all happy families are alike and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way? IQ2: Did you observe that work is whatever a body’s obliged to do? ---
**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 5, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/95 "2013-08-05T14:19:46Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > One of my favorite movies 🙂 > I am not John Turturro > I am not Tim Blake Nelson > I am not Theodore Edison Right on the first two. Your answer to #3 was better than my original: Tom Swift Jr. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/96 "2013-08-05T14:20:00Z")
The letter is T 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. T is the initial of my first name 5. I was not born west of the Greenwich Meridian 6. I was born before 1500 AD ---
**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 5, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/97 "2013-08-05T14:24:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you succeeded by Caligula? 2. Did Steve Martin write and perform a song about you? 3. Were you one of Jesus’s 12 Disciples? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/98 "2013-08-05T14:35:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you succeeded by Caligula? > 2. Did Steve Martin write and perform a song about you? > 3. Were you one of Jesus’s 12 Disciples? DQ I am not King Tut I am not Thomas ---
**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 5, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/99 "2013-08-05T14:44:46Z")
#1 was Tiberius. DQ: European? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/100 "2013-08-05T15:16:09Z")
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