# Botticelli - April 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714 "2017-04-04T03:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 17
**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 28, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/321 "2017-04-28T03:10:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a film producer called “The Boy Wonder”? > 2. Were you aka Diedrich Knickerbocker? > 3. Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes? Sorry, you ninja’d me by seconds. Dunno x2; not… Irving Wallace? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the son of Cedric the Saxon? > IQ2: Did we learn about one day in your life? > IQ3: Did you write the score for _Shaft_? Dunno, not Ivan Denisovich, and not Isaac Hayes. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you head honcho of Jethro Tull? > IQ2: Did you portray the Emperor in the _Star Wars_ movies? > IQ3: Were you Bilbo Baggins in the _The Lord of the Rings_ and _The Hobbit_ films? Dunno, not Ian McDiarmid (sp?), and not the always-impressive Ian Holm. > [@guylevesque](#): > > … > > IQ1: Were you a Japanese military commander whose plane was shot down by the Americans? > IQ2: Were you a behaviorist psychologist best known for experiments on dogs? > IQ3: Did you design the Louvre Pyramid? Not Isoroku Yamamoto, Ivan Pavlov or I.M. Pei. I. 1. real 2. male 3. first name starts with I 4. dead 5. not American 6. not known for the Arts ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/322 "2017-04-28T03:50:21Z")
IQ1: Did you invent and pilot the first functioning helicopter in America? IQ2: Did you believe that practical reason can be a source of morality, by opposition to Hume’s passion theory? IQ3: Were you a Rhodesian statesman who established racial policies against the Black majority? ---
**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 28, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/323 "2017-04-28T12:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you head honcho of Jethro Tull? > IQ2: Did you portray the Emperor in the Star Wars movies? > IQ3: Were you Bilbo Baggins in the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films? > Dunno, not Ian McDiarmid (sp?), and not the always-impressive Ian Holm. Ian Anderson Ian x 3! DQ: European? DQ: Known for the sciences? ---
**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 28, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/324 "2017-04-28T12:26:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the son of Cedric the Saxon? > IQ2: Did we learn about one day in your life? > IQ3: Did you write the score for _Shaft_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Ivan Denisovich, and not Isaac Hayes. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe. Correct. Correct. 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 28, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/325 "2017-04-28T13:07:04Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a film producer called “The Boy Wonder”? > 2. Were you aka Diedrich Knickerbocker? > 3. Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes? > Sorry, you ninja’d me by seconds. Dunno x2; not… Irving Wallace? #1 was Irving Thalberg. #2 was Washington Irving. #3 was Clifford Irving. DQ: Died before 1900? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/326 "2017-04-28T14:30:14Z")
IQ1: During your stand-up routines, did you portray yourself as an absent-minded professor who frequently used double talk and malapropisms? IQ2: Are you an Israeli-American violinist who usually performs sitting because of polio? IQ3: Are you a short-tempered mouse who frequently smashes Krazy Kat’s head with bricks? ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/327 "2017-04-28T14:38:13Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Did you invent and pilot the first functioning helicopter in America? > IQ2: Did you believe that practical reason can be a source of morality, by opposition to Hume’s passion theory? > IQ3: Were you a Rhodesian statesman who established racial policies against the Black majority? Not Igor Sikorsky, dunno, and not Ian Smith. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: During your stand-up routines, did you portray yourself as an absent-minded professor who frequently used double talk and malapropisms? > IQ2: Are you an Israeli-American violinist who usually performs sitting because of polio? > IQ3: Are you a short-tempered mouse who frequently smashes Krazy Kat’s head with bricks? Now Prof. Irwin, I should know the second but I’m blanking, and not Ignatz. I. 1. real 2. male 3. first name starts with I 4. dead 5. not American 6. not known for the Arts 7. European 8. not known for the sciences, as such 9. died before 1900 ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/328 "2017-04-28T14:46:36Z")
DQs: 1. Known for politics/military? 2. Died before 1800? ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/329 "2017-04-28T14:50:09Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an ancient Greet orator and rhetorician? 2. Were you a Ukranian-American violinist and conductor? 3. Did you appear opposite Sid Caesar on _Your Show of Shows_? ---
**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 28, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/330 "2017-04-28T21:15:30Z")
DQ: Native speaker of a Germanic language? ---
**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 28, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/331 "2017-04-28T21:31:45Z")
IQ1: Were you the author of a 17th-century work on fishing? IQ2: Were you a Spaniard who invented a submarine? IQ3: Were you the founder of the Society of Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/332 "2017-04-28T23:08:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Igor Sikorsky, dunno, and not Ian Smith. Correct x2, second one was Immanuel Kant. DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/333 "2017-04-28T23:24:34Z")
IQ1: Were you a prolific engineer during the British Industrial Revolution who is responsible for engineering the Great Western Railway? IQ2: Are you believed to be the first permanent settler in Iceland? IQ3: Were you Djoser’s vizier? ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/334 "2017-04-28T23:50:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: During your stand-up routines, did you portray yourself as an absent-minded professor who frequently used double talk and malapropisms? > IQ2: Are you an Israeli-American violinist who usually performs sitting because of polio? > IQ3: Are you a short-tempered mouse who frequently smashes Krazy Kat’s head with bricks? > > Now Prof. Irwin, I should know the second but I’m blanking, and not Ignatz. Itzhak Perlman holding a DQ ---
**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 29, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/335 "2017-04-29T02:03:11Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Were you a prolific engineer during the British Industrial Revolution who is responsible for engineering the Great Western Railway?.. Damn, you’re good! Yes, I am Isambard Kingdom Brunel Quite a guy; he came in second in a 2002 BBC poll of Greatest Britons: [Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel) Want to start a new thread for May, **guy**? ---
**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 29, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/336 "2017-04-29T12:33:33Z")
I never heard of him, but that’s the most awesome name ever. ---
**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 29, 2017, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/337 "2017-04-29T16:00:24Z")
Wow! Great job, guy! I don’t know Brunel. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/338 "2017-04-29T16:45:34Z")
New thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825050](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825050) ---
**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:** [May 1, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/339 "2017-05-01T10:51:11Z")
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