# Botticelli April 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845 "2015-04-04T23:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/181 "2015-04-15T22:09:30Z")
Welcome to my world, SCAdian. 🙂 The new letter is H. ---
**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, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/182 "2015-04-15T22:38:44Z")
IQs: 1. Were you LBJ’s VP? 2. Were you president just before Coolidge? 3. Were you president just after Coolidge? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/183 "2015-04-15T23:52:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you LBJ’s VP? > 2. Were you president just before Coolidge? > 3. Were you president just after Coolidge? Not Hubert Humphrey, not Herbert Hoover, you got me ---
**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, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/184 "2015-04-16T01:46:00Z")
IQ1: Did you write _Ruled Britannia_? IQ2: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? IQ3: Did you write _Mission of Gravity_? ---
**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, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/185 "2015-04-16T03:24:03Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you LBJ’s VP? > 2. Were you president just before Coolidge? > 3. Were you president just after Coolidge? > Not Hubert Humphrey, not Herbert Hoover, you got me Correct on Hubert. Coolidge was sandwiched in between Harding and Hoover. DQ: Real? ---
**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, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/186 "2015-04-16T03:25:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you bear Thomas Jefferson’s illegitimate children? 2. Were you Abe Lincoln’s mother? 3. Were you the President whose middle name was Birchard? ---
**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, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/187 "2015-04-16T03:31:44Z")
IQs: Were you FDR’s cadaverous top aide? Were you David Letterman’s longtime director, whose last name he often purposefully botched? Were you Lincoln’s first VP? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/188 "2015-04-16T12:41:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you bear Thomas Jefferson’s illegitimate children? > 2. Were you Abe Lincoln’s mother? > 3. Were you the President whose middle name was Birchard? not Hattie McDaniels (going to hell for that), dunno, not Rutherford B. Hayes ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/189 "2015-04-16T12:45:01Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/190 "2015-04-16T12:49:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you FDR’s cadaverous top aide? > Were you David Letterman’s longtime director, whose last name he often purposefully botched? > Were you Lincoln’s first VP? dunno (had to look it up to see why you said cadaverous, and saw that he was too important to let die), dunno, dunno ---
**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, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/191 "2015-04-16T12:58:45Z")
Previous IQs: Were you FDR’s cadaverous top aide? - Harry Hopkins. Were you David Letterman’s longtime director, whose last name he often purposefully botched? - Hal Gurnee. Were you Lincoln’s first VP? - Hannibal Hamlin, Republican of Maine. DQs: Male? American? Last name start with H? IQs: Were you an American Civil War general who functioned as Lincoln’s de facto chief of staff? Were you imprisoned in a building that looked an awful lot like an actual real-world art museum? Did you give your name to that museum? ---
**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, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/192 "2015-04-16T13:20:48Z")
Oi. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Ruled Britannia_? > IQ2: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? > IQ3: Did you write _Mission of Gravity_? ---
**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, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/193 "2015-04-16T14:49:33Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you bear Thomas Jefferson’s illegitimate children? > 2. Were you Abe Lincoln’s mother? > 3. Were you the President whose middle name was Birchard? > > not Hattie McDaniels (going to hell for that), dunno, not Rutherford B. Hayes #1 was Sally Hemings. #2 was Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Correct on Rutherford. DQs: 1. Best known from a movie? 2. Are you the protagonist? ---
**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, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/194 "2015-04-16T15:53:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you lead the A-Team? 2. Did you co-write _My Fair Lady_, _You Can’t Take It With You_ and _The Man Who Came To Dinner_? 3. Did you have “the greatest show in town”? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/195 "2015-04-16T17:04:37Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Ruled Britannia_? > IQ2: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? > IQ3: Did you write _Mission of Gravity_? dunno, not Harry Harrison, dunno ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/196 "2015-04-16T17:07:22Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Last name starts with H 5. Have been in a movie, but not best known for that 6. Not the protagonist ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/197 "2015-04-16T17:10:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you an American Civil War general who functioned as Lincoln’s de facto chief of staff? > Were you imprisoned in a building that looked an awful lot like an actual real-world art museum? > Did you give your name to that museum? take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/198 "2015-04-16T17:12:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you lead the A-Team? > 2. Did you co-write _My Fair Lady_, _You Can’t Take It With You_ and _The Man Who Came To Dinner_? > 3. Did you have “the greatest show in town”? Not Hannibal Smith, not Hal David, dunno ---
**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, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/199 "2015-04-16T17:55:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you lead the A-Team? > 2. Did you co-write _My Fair Lady_, _You Can’t Take It With You_ and _The Man Who Came To Dinner_? > 3. Did you have “the greatest show in town”? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Not Hannibal Smith, not Hal David, dunno Correct on Hannibal. Moss Hart was #2. #3 is Huckleberry Hound, but, when I check for the link, I find that it was “the biggest show”, so no DQ for me for that one. DQ: Best known from TV? ---
**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, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/200 "2015-04-16T18:57:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Ruled Britannia_? > IQ2: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? > IQ3: Did you write _Mission of Gravity_? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunno, not Harry Harrison, dunno Harry Turtledove. Correct. Harry Stubbs (better known by his pen name, Hal Clement). SF author Harry x3! 😃 DQ1: Created by an American? DQ2: If you were real, would you still be alive today? IQ1: Did you share “digs” with a former Army surgeon? IQ2: Did you kill Rudolf V? IQ3: Were you an orphaned gypsy boy raised by a family in Yorkshire? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845.md?page=11)