# Botticelli - April, 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789 "2013-04-04T01:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/81 "2013-04-13T21:28:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Walt Kelly’s eponymous comic strip character? > 2. Are you a Flemish Renaissance painter known for scenes with peasants? > 3. Are you the son of #2? Not Pogo or Pieter Brueghel (the Elder _or_ the Younger). Where’d everybody else go? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/82 "2013-04-13T22:52:35Z")
IQ: Are you an artist whose works were stolen in the biggest art heist in history? ---
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/83 "2013-04-13T23:12:19Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you an artist whose works were stolen in the biggest art heist in history? No idea. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/84 "2013-04-13T23:21:41Z")
Having said that, I googled _biggest art heist in history_ to make sure I shouldn’t be saying “yes.” My name wasn’t listed, but I didn’t see any other ‘P’ listed, either… ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/85 "2013-04-14T05:05:58Z")
DQ:From one of the Low Countries? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/86 "2013-04-14T10:51:34Z")
What was the answer to your IQ? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/87 "2013-04-14T16:25:55Z")
Blast! I thought sure it was a Bruegel! IQs: 1. Were you the sf author the World of Tiers series? 2. Were you the actress who played the girlfriend of Russell Ziskey’s best friend? 3. Were you the High Priest of Israel in the wilderness who distinguished himself through his zeal toward heretics? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/88 "2013-04-14T19:01:33Z")
Do I need to answer that to be entitled to a DQ? ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/89 "2013-04-14T22:24:06Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Do I need to answer that to be entitled to a DQ? Certainly seems to me that you should have a legitimate IQ in order to get a DQ… ---
**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:** [April 14, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/90 "2013-04-14T22:26:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the sf author the World of Tiers series? > 2. Were you the actress who played the girlfriend of Russell Ziskey’s best friend? > 3. Were you the High Priest of Israel in the wilderness who distinguished himself through his zeal toward heretics? Not PJF. DQs for the actress and the priest. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/91 "2013-04-15T03:50:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a coworker tell your boss you were an only child? > Did you fly a flag with unusual stripes? > Did a court make a prediction about your lawsuit that turned out to be quite wrong? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not John Paul Jones. > Have yourself a couple of DQs (though that first one is really nagging at me…). Pavel Chekov’s coworker Lt. Sulu told Capt. Kirk that he was an only child. Yes, John Paul Jones: [Serapis flag - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis_flag) The Supreme Court predicted that Paula Jones’s lawsuit against Bill Clinton would not be a major distraction for him from his work as President. Uh, yeah, about that… DQs: Painter? From what is now Holland? IQs: Were you the pet of a cartoon aardvark? Were you a crusading editor before you were elected to public office? Did you wear combat boots and a business suit in the Oval Office? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Where’d everybody else go? 😕 Sorry - dunno why this dropped off my subscribed-threads list! Out of sight, out of mind. > [@SCAdian](#): > > What was the answer to your IQ? > [@etv78](#): > > Do I need to answer that to be entitled to a DQ? It has always been our custom that you give the answer to your successful IQ or stumper before your followup DQ is answered. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/92 "2013-04-15T03:52:38Z")
In that case, I cede my earned DQ. (was hoping someone from the Gardner heist would work) ---
**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:** [April 15, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/93 "2013-04-15T11:54:58Z")
The actress was P. J. Soles, playing Bill Murray’s love interest in Stripes. The Biblical character was Phinehas. I’ll post my DQs when I can think of something that will actually help. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/94 "2013-04-15T14:07:22Z")
DQs: 1. Were you French? 2. Did you die before 1600? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/95 "2013-04-16T00:35:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Painter? > From what is now Holland? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Were you French? > 2. Did you die before 1600? **P** 1. Male 2. Real 3. First name starts with P 4. Dead 5. English was not my first language 6. Associated with the arts 7. European 8. Not a writer 9. Not an actor 10. Died before 1900 11. Not associated with classical music 12. Died before 1700 13. Visual artist 14. Not Italian 15. Did not die before 1500 16. Painter 17. Not from what is now Holland 18. Not French 19. Did not die before 1600 ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/96 "2013-04-16T00:53:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the pet of a cartoon aardvark? > Were you a crusading editor before you were elected to public office? > Did you wear combat boots and a business suit in the Oval Office? Only cartoon aardvark I can think of is Arthur, and I have no idea if he even had a pet. Haven’t a clue on the other two. So take three more DQs. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/97 "2013-04-16T02:01:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the pet of a cartoon aardvark? > Were you a crusading editor before you were elected to public office? > Did you wear combat boots and a business suit in the Oval Office? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Only cartoon aardvark I can think of is Arthur, and I have no idea if he even had a pet. Haven’t a clue on the other two. So take three more DQs. Yes, Arthur, who had a puppy named Pal. U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.). Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator Paul Bremer. Hmm. I have a feeling I’m not going to recognize the name of our mystery European painter. Thinking out loud… what would be useful a twentieth question to ask right now? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/98 "2013-04-16T03:16:00Z")
(Thinking out loud) Might he be German or Prussian? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/99 "2013-04-16T03:22:43Z")
Or Spanish? El Greco worked in that time period, I think - did he have any contemporaries who fit all the answers? ---
**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:** [April 16, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/100 "2013-04-16T11:57:20Z")
oooookay, IQs: 1. Were you the first person to call himself an anarchist? 2. Were you a French romantic painter of the 19th Century known for your allegorical paintings and pretentious spelling? 3. Were you the father of the love interest in a Neil Gaiman novel? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789.md?page=6)