# Botticelli, April 2014
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [April 6, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513 "2014-04-06T23:17:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/61 "2014-04-09T02:42:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you refer to the Royal Marines as harumfrodites?
> IQ2: Were you called Creepy?
> IQ3: Is there a famous photo of you carrying a bucket of water to put out a big fire in Connecticut?
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> No idea. Take 3 DQs.
Rudyard Kipling, in the poem “Soldier an’ Sailor Too.”
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis was a member of Ma Barker’s gang
[Emmett Kelly](http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/6/58286.jpg), the clown, at the Hartford Circus Fire in 1944.
Thinking…
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### Author:  [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/62 "2014-04-09T23:50:01Z")
IQ: Did you feel the earth move under your feet or the sky come tumbling down?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/63 "2014-04-10T00:07:17Z")
> [@TexCat](#):
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> IQ: Did you feel the earth move under your feet or the sky come tumbling down?
No, I’m not Carole King.
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### Author:  [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/64 "2014-04-10T02:30:22Z")
Dang, I was sure you were Carole King.
IQ: Did you hang out with pips?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/65 "2014-04-10T02:31:22Z")
> [@TexCat](#):
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> Dang, I was sure you were Carole King.
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> IQ: Did you hang out with pips?
I am not Gladys Knight.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/66 "2014-04-10T04:30:17Z")
Previous IQs:
Were you a foe of Buck Rogers? - Close enough; it was Killer Kane.
Are you mocked by coworkers for your allegedly giant hands? - Lana Kane, on the very funny animated spy spoof _Archer_.
Did you write your best-known work on a very, very long piece of paper? - That’s how Jack Kerouac typed _On the Road_: [Original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road to be exhibited in London](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9557844/Original-manuscript-of-Jack-Kerouacs-On-the-Road-to-be-exhibited-in-London.html).
DQs:
A hip hop or R&B artist?
Biggest hit since 2000?
IQs:
Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child?
Did you get an important award your boss resented you for winning?
Did you kill young prisoners, and thus get yourself executed?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/67 "2014-04-10T13:15:21Z")
DQs:
1. Real
2. American
3. Living
4. Last name starts with K
5. Born after 1950
6. Female
7. Born east of the Mississippi
8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
9. Born before 1975
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Not an actress
12. Has won more than one top award in her field: multiple Grammys.
13. Singer
14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
16. R& B artist (well, offshoot of R&B)
17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
I’m giving extra info because I’ll be heading to a SciFi/Fantasy convention in Louisville, KY tomorrow morning and will be gone until Monday, so I’m hoping to wrap this one up today.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/68 "2014-04-10T13:19:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child?
> Did you get an important award your boss resented you for winning?
> Did you kill young prisoners, and thus get yourself executed?
I’m not Kelly Rowland. Take 2 DQs for the others.
Note: Buck Rogers’s foe was named Coe “Killer” Kane.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/69 "2014-04-10T13:28:57Z")
Never heard “Killer” Kane’s first name before; thanks.
Previous IQs:
Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child? - I’ll rephrase.
Did you get an important award your boss resented you for winning? - Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Vietnam War negotiations; Richard Nixon really wanted it.
Did you kill young prisoners, and thus get yourself executed? - Lord Karstark, in _Game of Thrones._
DQ:
Black?
One DQ reserved.
IQs:
Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child who’s not Kelly Rowland?
Did a literary critic say your autobiography was only accidentally truthful?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/70 "2014-04-10T13:31:40Z")
DQs:
1. Real
2. American
3. Living
4. Last name starts with K
5. Born after 1950
6. Female
7. Born east of the Mississippi
8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
9. Born before 1975
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Not an actress
12. Has won more than one top award in her field: multiple Grammys.
13. Singer
14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
16. R& B artist (well, offshoot of R&B)
17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
18. Black
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/71 "2014-04-10T13:32:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> IQs:
> Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child who’s not Kelly Rowland?
> Did a literary critic say your autobiography was only accidentally truthful?
I am not Beyonce Knowles.
Take another DQ for the second one.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/72 "2014-04-10T14:32:04Z")
That was Nikita Khruschev.
Two DQs reserved.
Hmm. A living black female American singer, biggest hits in the Seventies and Eighties, born in the northeast after 1950, last name starts with K, but not Gladys Knight. Everyone I’m thinking of (Eartha Kitt, for instance) is older than that, or dead.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/73 "2014-04-10T15:14:07Z")
I am sorry to inform you that the greatly talented Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas Day in 2008.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/74 "2014-04-10T15:28:22Z")
Hence my use of the phrase “or dead.”
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### Author:  [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/75 "2014-04-10T16:39:42Z")
IQ: Did you make your own kind of music? Did you sing your own special song?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/76 "2014-04-10T17:07:52Z")
> [@fanganga](#):
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> IQ: Did you make your own kind of music? Did you sing your own special song?
I equate that song with Mama Cass Elliott, so take a DQ.
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### Author:  [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/77 "2014-04-10T17:34:17Z")
I relinquish my DQ upon learning that Mama Cass is not Mama Kass.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/78 "2014-04-10T18:50:43Z")
DQs:
1. Real
2. American
3. Living
4. Last name starts with K
5. Born after 1950
6. Female
7. Born east of the Mississippi
8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
9. Born before 1975
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Not an actress
12. Has won more than one top award in her field: has won ten Grammys.
13. Singer
14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
16. R& B artist, known for Funk
17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
18. Black
Revised #16 in hope of finishing this today.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/79 "2014-04-10T19:05:54Z")
I don’t know any female funk singers, although I’m sure there were some.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2014/685513/80 "2014-04-10T22:05:47Z")
DQs:
1. Real
2. American
3. Living
4. Last name starts with K
5. Born after 1950
6. Female
7. Born east of the Mississippi
8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
9. Born before 1975
10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
11. Not an actress
12. Has won more than one top award in her field: has won ten Grammys.
13. Singer
14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
16. R& B artist, known for Funk
17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
18. Black
18A. Fronted for Rufus before beginning her solo career.
This may or may not be the dead giveaway.
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