# Botticelli #37 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 31, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371 "2008-07-31T16:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/1 "2008-07-31T16:31:34Z")
JM. Shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/2 "2008-07-31T16:37:37Z")
Did you break on through to the other side in July of 1971? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/3 "2008-07-31T16:49:34Z")
Were you the third person holding your job to die on the Fourth of July? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/4 "2008-07-31T17:03:01Z")
I’m not Jim Morrison or James Madison, I think. ETA: Doh! Should have gone with James Monroe. DQ for **Fretful Porpentine**. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/5 "2008-07-31T17:06:43Z")
Did you play the Beaver? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/6 "2008-07-31T17:12:09Z")
Not Jerry Mathers, but would never have got that without looking it up just now, so take a DQ. Logging off now, back in 14 hours or so! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/7 "2008-07-31T17:12:29Z")
DQ: Are you male? IQ: Did you start learning Greek at the age of three? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/8 "2008-07-31T17:30:27Z")
Are you a major Watergate scandal figure? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/9 "2008-07-31T17:30:57Z")
(What’s DQ and IQ here?) ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/10 "2008-07-31T17:54:06Z")
Were you killed in your bathtub? ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/11 "2008-07-31T17:56:52Z")
Leaffan: I assume the abbreviations mean “direct question’” and “indirect question,” a guesser being allowed to ask a direct question if the chooser can’t think of someone matching the guesser’s guess. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/12 "2008-07-31T19:09:26Z")
IQ - Indirect question. You have to ask a vaguely worded question about a historical figure with the initials chosen (in this case JM). If the answer stumps the player, then you may ask a Direct Question - a Yes or No question ‘Are you alive?’ ‘Are you a man?’ etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/13 "2008-08-01T01:13:51Z")
Did you write a Tony-winning play about a high school basketball team? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/14 "2008-08-01T01:15:55Z")
Did you raise a breed of horses named after you, in Vermont? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/15 "2008-08-01T01:22:15Z")
Were you the first manager to win pennants in both the American and National Leagues? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/16 "2008-08-01T01:43:19Z")
Did you run unsuccessfully for Congress in Bucks County? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/17 "2008-08-01T01:46:08Z")
Were the last years of your life affected by a much younger female hanger-on? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/18 "2008-08-01T01:50:40Z")
Were you most praised for work you did because Chris Schenkel needed some sleep? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/19 "2008-08-01T03:07:33Z")
Did you ask Jim Lovell if he’d ever masturbated in space, and Ted Williams if he’d ever farted in a catcher’s face? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371/20 "2008-08-01T09:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=Fretful Porpentine] DQ: Are you male? IQ: Did you start learning Greek at the age of three? [/QUOTE] I am male. I thought you may have got me there with a fact about my person I did not know about, but it seems you’re referring to John Stuart Mill, and I’m not him. However, take another DQ as I looked it up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-37/458371.md?page=2)