# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/101 "2013-08-05T15:20:29Z")
IQ1) Are you also known as the Common Doctor? ---
**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, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/102 "2013-08-05T15:34:24Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > IQ1) Are you also known as the Common Doctor? I am not Thomas Aquinas ---
**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, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/103 "2013-08-05T15:35:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’ll let Le Ministre have the DQ. Merci, mon cher. DQ: From the British Isles? ---
**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, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/104 "2013-08-05T15:54:27Z")
**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 7. I am European 8. I am not from the British Isles ---
**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, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/105 "2013-08-05T16:27:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did your energy in painting earn you the nickname Il Furioso? 2. Were you a French Impressionist who spent most of his time in England? 3. Were you a 20th Century artist known for his large-scale graffiti-inspired paintings? ---
**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, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/106 "2013-08-05T16:32:47Z")
IQ1: Are you a (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? IQ2: Are you a different (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? IQ3: Are you a different (still living) former Prime Minister of Canada? ---
**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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/107 "2013-08-05T16:35:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did your energy in painting earn you the nickname Il Furioso? > 2. Were you a French Impressionist who spent most of his time in England? > 3. Were you a 20th Century artist known for his large-scale graffiti-inspired paintings? I am not Tintoretto I am not Turner DQ ---
**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, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/108 "2013-08-05T16:36:38Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > 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? IQ3: Did you attribute the claim that “They would make a desert and call it peace” to a foreign leader? ---
**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, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/109 "2013-08-05T16:36:58Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? > IQ2: Are you a different (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? > IQ3: Are you a different (still living) former Prime Minister of Canada? Take three DQs ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/110 "2013-08-05T16:38:06Z")
#2’s James Tissot (Turner was born in England). #3 was Cy Twombly. DQs: 1. Political figure? 2. Roman/Italian? ---
**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, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/111 "2013-08-05T16:39:34Z")
**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 7. I am European 8. I am not from the British Isles 9. I am not a political figure 10. I am Roman/Italian ---
**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, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/112 "2013-08-05T16:41:39Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > 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? > IQ3: Did you attribute the claim that “They would make a desert and call it peace” to a foreign leader? I am not Tolstoy I am not Twain DQ ---
**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/113 "2013-08-05T16:45:40Z")
#3 is Tacitus, who in his Agricola recorded a speech by the Caledonian leader Calgacus in which a phrase that is commonly translated as “they make a desert and call it peace” occurs. Historians think it is likely that Tacitus made up the speech (and possibly also Calgacus) himself. ---
**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, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/114 "2013-08-05T16:48:12Z")
IQ: Are you the painter of the Madonna of the Rabbit? ---
**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, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/115 "2013-08-05T16:50:55Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? > IQ2: Are you a different (deceased) former Prime Minister of Canada? > IQ3: Are you a different (still living) former Prime Minister of Canada? > [@MissTake](#): > > Take three DQs In order of their Prime Ministership, these are Sir Charles Tupper (whose 69 day term is the shortest in Canadian history), Pierre Eliot Trudeau, and John Turner. DQ1: Are you best known for your contribution to The Arts, as we broadly define them in this game? I’ll reserve the other two until I know the answer to this one, if I may. ---
**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, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/116 "2013-08-05T17:04:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Are you the painter of the Madonna of the Rabbit? **YES!** I am Titian! Sometimes I wonder how people chose the person for a game. I chose Titian due to a bad hair dye. Seriously. I wanted titian red, it turned almost purple. ---
**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, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/117 "2013-08-05T20:07:42Z")
Good one, **Prof. Pepperwinkle**! ---
**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, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/118 "2013-08-05T20:11:13Z")
Congratulations, Prof. (And how weird that my arbitrary date happened to fall within his lifetime) ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/119 "2013-08-05T20:12:44Z")
Thank you all! and now… I am G! ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072/120 "2013-08-05T20:20:05Z")
IQ1: Did your nickname achieve wider recognition attached to the actor who starred in your biopic than it did to you? IQ2: Did you gain a measure of notoriety impersonating a cat on British TV? IQ3: In the summertime, do you find that the living is easy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-botticelli/665072.md?page=7)