# Botticelli April 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 2, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886 "2016-04-02T04:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/21 "2016-04-02T21:12:33Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. My surname begins with S 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Died prior to 1900 ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/22 "2016-04-02T21:14:15Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > IQ1: Did you have one of your two brief appearances as a role in a major motion picture replaced with a different actor playing the same role in a later release of that film? > IQ2: Are you a famous guitarist who shares your (first and last) name with a former professional baseball player? > IQ3: Were you a drummer in a band which had a former drummer that had the same (first and last) name as a drummer who played on solo albums released by former bandmates of your father? That’s a sweep, 3 DQ for 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 2, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/23 "2016-04-02T23:07:27Z")
IQ1: Did Matoaka allegedly save your life? IQ2: Did you write a book in which the Earth was hit by a string of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994? IQ3: Have you composed symphonies, operas, and a ballet, and also written over four dozen books, many of them in the SF and horror genres? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/24 "2016-04-03T02:32:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Matoaka allegedly save your life? > IQ2: Did you write a book in which the Earth was hit by a string of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994? > IQ3: Have you composed symphonies, operas, and a ballet, and also written over four dozen books, many of them in the SF and horror genres? DQ Ugh, I hate to be reduced to guessing for SF questions, but here goes: Kim Stanley Robinson? I don’t remember the specific work, but it sounds like something he’d write. Dan Simmons? Operas and ballet aren’t ringing any bells, and since Stephen King’s already been asked Simmons is who I next came up with for an ‘S’ crossover SF/Horror author. ---
**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 3, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/25 "2016-04-03T03:35:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Matoaka allegedly save your life? > IQ2: Did you write a book in which the Earth was hit by a string of comet fragments like those that hit Jupiter in 1994? > IQ3: Have you composed symphonies, operas, and a ballet, and also written over four dozen books, many of them in the SF and horror genres? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQ > Ugh, I hate to be reduced to guessing for SF questions, but here goes: > Kim Stanley Robinson? I don’t remember the specific work, but it sounds like something he’d write. > Dan Simmons? Operas and ballet aren’t ringing any bells, and since Stephen King’s already been asked Simmons is who I next came up with for an ‘S’ crossover SF/Horror author. John Smith. (She’s better known as Pocahontas.) S M Stirling (_The Peshawar Lancers_). Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul (who usually uses the name S P Somtow on his fiction). DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language? DQ2: Died before 1650? DQ3: Military/political? ---
**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 3, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/26 "2016-04-03T03:45:02Z")
March’s thread: [Botticelli March 2016 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=785552) IQs: Is your middle name Kooi? Did you have the bottom of your shoes polished? Was Bleeding Gums Murphy your musical inspiration? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/27 "2016-04-03T04:09:07Z")
IQ1: After serving as an advisor to Nero for decades, did the dictator falsely accuse you of treason and force your suicide? IQ2: Did your ultimate defeat of Hannibal resolve the Second Punic War in Rome’s favor? IQ3: Did your 15th-century victories over Ottoman forces in the Balkans earn you esteem as Albania’s national hero? ---
**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 3, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/28 "2016-04-03T12:02:26Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have the combined powers of the Fantastic Four? 2. Were you christened on Tuesday? 3. Did you invent pointillism? ---
**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 3, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/29 "2016-04-03T12:48:46Z")
IQ1: Were you a 17th-century Dutch philosopher? IQ2: Did you devise a pre-WWI plan for invading France? IQ3: Were you the first Roman emperor born in Africa? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/30 "2016-04-03T13:24:13Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. My surname begins with S 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Died prior to 1900 9. Native speaker of a Germanic Language 10. Died after 1650 11. I was not military/political ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/31 "2016-04-03T13:26:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Is your middle name Kooi? > Did you have the bottom of your shoes polished? > Was Bleeding Gums Murphy your musical inspiration? DQx2, and Lisa Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/32 "2016-04-03T13:40:36Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > IQ1: After serving as an advisor to Nero for decades, did the dictator falsely accuse you of treason and force your suicide? > IQ2: Did your ultimate defeat of Hannibal resolve the Second Punic War in Rome’s favor? > IQ3: Did your 15th-century victories over Ottoman forces in the Balkans earn you esteem as Albania’s national hero? I should remember 1, but DQ for you. I’m not Scipio Africanus, and another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/33 "2016-04-03T13:41:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have the combined powers of the Fantastic Four? > 2. Were you christened on Tuesday? > 3. Did you invent pointillism? I’m neither the Super-Skrull nor Solomon Grundy, and DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/34 "2016-04-03T13:51:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 17th-century Dutch philosopher? > IQ2: Did you devise a pre-WWI plan for invading France? > IQ3: Were you the first Roman emperor born in Africa? DQ, I’m not Shlieffen, and another 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 3, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/35 "2016-04-03T13:57:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have the combined powers of the Fantastic Four? > 2. Were you christened on Tuesday? > 3. Did you invent pointillism? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m neither the Super-Skrull nor Solomon Grundy, and DQ. Correct, Correct, and Georges Seurat. DQ: Known for Science? ---
**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 3, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/36 "2016-04-03T14:09:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 17th-century Dutch philosopher? > IQ2: Did you devise a pre-WWI plan for invading France? > IQ3: Were you the first Roman emperor born in Africa? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQ, I’m not Shlieffen, and another DQ. Baruch Spinoza. Correct on Alfred von Schlieffen. Septimius Severus. DQ; English? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 3, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/37 "2016-04-03T14:18:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? 2. Did you star opposite Dolly Parton in _Rhinestone_? 3. Did you battle the evil Aku and his henchmen through all time? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/38 "2016-04-03T14:24:12Z")
I am S and I am: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. My surname begins with S 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Died prior to 1900 9. Native speaker of a Germanic Language 10. Died after 1650 11. I was not military/political 12. Known for science, if very broadly construed 13. I’m not English. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/39 "2016-04-03T14:31:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > 2. Did you star opposite Dolly Parton in _Rhinestone_? > 3. Did you battle the evil Aku and his henchmen through all time? DQx2, and I’m not Samurai Jack ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886/40 "2016-04-03T14:47:37Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I should remember 1, but DQ for you. I’m not Scipio Africanus, and another DQ. Seneca served Nero before being falsely accused of being part of a plot to assassinate the emperor. Correct on Scipio Africanus. Skanderbeg’s military prowess is fondly remembered in Albania to this day. … DQ: Are you a native speaker of a Scandinavian language? DQ: Are you a native speaker of a Celtic language (e.g. any form of Gaelic) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2016/750886.md?page=3)