# 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:** 8
**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 20, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/141 "2013-04-20T05:04:05Z")
Rubens - d’oh! Nice one, **SCAdian**. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you married to the 1st guy to make the mistake of invading Russia in the winter? Nitpick: He invaded in the summer; he was unfortunately still there in the winter. J it is. IQs: Is your favorite sailboat displayed outside a museum dedicated to you? Did you privately have harsh things to say about Indira Gandhi? A businessman and diplomat, did you have a fling with Gloria Swanson? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/142 "2013-04-20T05:11:38Z")
**EH** -I originally had that as fall. 😉😃 ---
**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 20, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/143 "2013-04-20T13:26:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you voiced by Tiffany in the movie? > 2. Were you the original big name in publishing? > 3. Did you suggest to Sigmund Freud that he should be psychoanalyzed himself? Not … Jung? No idea on the first two. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you married to the 1st guy to make the mistake of invading Russia in the winter? Not Josephine de Beauharnais. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Is your favorite sailboat displayed outside a museum dedicated to you? > Did you privately have harsh things to say about Indira Gandhi? > A businessman and diplomat, did you have a fling with Gloria Swanson? Not Jawaharlal Nehru. No idea on the others. Take DQs as appropriate… ---
**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 20, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/144 "2013-04-20T13:40:40Z")
Yep, Jung. Tiffany voiced Judy Jetson in the Jetsons movie, and Johann Gutenberg was the original big name in publishing. DQ4: Are you real? DQ5: Are you European? ---
**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 20, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/145 "2013-04-20T15:07:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yep, Jung. Tiffany voiced Judy Jetson in the Jetsons movie, and Johann Gutenberg was the original big name in publishing. Bah. I thought of Gutenberg, but dismissed him as a printer, not a publisher. > [@](#): > > DQ4: Are you real? > DQ5: Are you European? **J** 1. Female 2. Dead 3. Not American 4. Real 5. European ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/146 "2013-04-20T22:03:30Z")
IQ: Did you lead a ragtage army of French soldiers? ---
**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 20, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/147 "2013-04-20T23:00:53Z")
IQs 1. Were you the protagonist of an apocryphal OT book? 2. Is your name a synonym for betrayer? 3. Were you Chuza’s miraculously healed wife? ---
**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 21, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/148 "2013-04-21T21:09:31Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you lead a ragtage army of French soldiers? DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you the protagonist of an apocryphal OT book? > 2. Is your name a synonym for betrayer? > 3. Were you Chuza’s miraculously healed wife? Not Josiah(?) or Judas. DQs as appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/149 "2013-04-21T21:11:35Z")
Going for Joan of Arc. DQ: Military figure? ---
**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 21, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/150 "2013-04-21T21:32:22Z")
I’ll have to give you Judas though I was going for Jezebel. Judith is the protagonist, Johanna the wife. DQs 1. Did you die before 1900? 2. Were you royalty? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/151 "2013-04-21T22:51:57Z")
IQ: Were you a queen born in Cleeves? ---
**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 22, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/152 "2013-04-22T01:24:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Is your favorite sailboat displayed outside a museum dedicated to you? > Did you privately have harsh things to say about Indira Gandhi? > A businessman and diplomat, did you have a fling with Gloria Swanson? > [@SCAdian](#): > > …Not Jawaharlal Nehru. > No idea on the others… John F. Kennedy’s sailboat _Victura_: [http://www.hage-homepage.de/Victura.jpg](http://www.hage-homepage.de/Victura.jpg) Not Nehru, but Jackie Kennedy, in her recently-released oral history. Joseph P. Kennedy, JFK’s dad. DQs: Last name start with J? British? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you very briefly Queen of England? Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives? Did Tuesday Next enter your literary world? ---
**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 22, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/153 "2013-04-22T01:58:34Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > DQ: Military figure? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs > > 1. Did you die before 1900? > 2. Were you royalty? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Last name start with J? > British? > > One DQ reserved. **J** 1. Female 2. Dead 3. Not American 4. Real 5. European 6. Not a military figure 7. Did not die before 1900 8. Not royalty 9. First name starts with J 10. Not British (though this may come as a surprise to 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:** [April 22, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/154 "2013-04-22T02:07:30Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a queen born in Cleeves? Only person from Cleves that I can think of is Anne, so DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you very briefly Queen of England? > Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives? > Did Tuesday Next enter your literary world? Not Jane Grey, Jane Seymour or Jane Eyre. And that is one weird book… ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/155 "2013-04-22T04:38:31Z")
I thought it was Jane :smack: cede 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:** [April 22, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/156 "2013-04-22T11:54:21Z")
IQs 1. Did you star in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman? 2. Were you 20th Century Fox’s answer to Elizabeth Taylor? 3. Did you have Dem Old Kozmic Blues? ---
**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 22, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/157 "2013-04-22T15:26:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you very briefly Queen of England? > Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives? > Did Tuesday Next enter your literary world? > [@SCAdian](#): > > …Not Jane Grey, Jane Seymour or Jane Eyre. > > And that is one weird book… Correct as to all three, and yes, it is. IQs: Did you father several children with your royal sister? Were you the oldest of those children? Were you a female American Olympic track-and-field star? ---
**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 23, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/158 "2013-04-23T01:47:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Did you star in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman? > 2. Were you 20th Century Fox’s answer to Elizabeth Taylor? > 3. Did you have Dem Old Kozmic Blues? Not Jayne Mansfield(?). No idea on the other two. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you father several children with your royal sister? > Were you the oldest of those children? > Were you a female American Olympic track-and-field star? If this were _P_, I’d say Ptolemy on the first two, but for _J_? No idea on any of these. DQs as appropriate. ---
**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 23, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/159 "2013-04-23T12:02:40Z")
My answers: 1) Jane Seymour (not the wife of Henry VIII); Joan Collins, and Janis Joplin. DQ: 1. Were you in the movies? I’ll save the other two until I think of better questions. ---
**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 23, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789/160 "2013-04-23T20:37:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you father several children with your royal sister? > Were you the oldest of those children? > Were you a female American Olympic track-and-field star? Ser Jaime Lannister, in _Game of Thrones_. The odious King Joffrey. Jackie Joyner-Kersee. DQs: Best known for creative arts? (usual definition) Died since 1950? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you command the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland? Did you negotiate a controversial early American treaty? Did you briefly assume command in Capt. Picard’s absence? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2013/654789.md?page=9)