# Botticelli, Aug. 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030 "2011-08-01T13:26:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/181 "2011-08-19T11:55:02Z")
IQ: Were you an eccentric composer years ahead of your time who also sold insurance? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/182 "2011-08-19T12:52:18Z")
Did you bequeath the royalties from your best known work to the Boy Scouts? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/183 "2011-08-19T12:53:42Z")
Did you found the most notorious order of Roman Catholic priests? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/184 "2011-08-19T12:54:44Z")
Were you mocked in a comical short film called _ **De Duva** _? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/185 "2011-08-19T12:55:57Z")
Did you lose your job for insulting a college basketball team? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/186 "2011-08-19T18:46:20Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Were you an eccentric composer years ahead of your time who also sold insurance? No, I am not Igor Stravinsky > [@](#): > > \*\*astorian \*\* Did you bequeath the royalties from your best known work to the Boy Scouts? I should know this but I don’t. Have a DQ > [@](#): > > \*\*astorian \*\*Did you found the most notorious order of Roman Catholic priests? No, I am not Ignatius Loyola > [@](#): > > **astorian** Were you mocked in a comical short film called De Duva? Have another DQ > [@](#): > > ``` > Did you lose your job for insulting a college basketball team? > > ``` No, I am not Don Imus. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/187 "2011-08-19T20:45:08Z")
Irving Berlin bequeathed all royalties from “God Bless America” to the Boy Scouts. And\*\*\* De Duva \*\*\*was a comedy film spoken in fake-Swedish that satirized _ **The Seventh Seal** _ and other movies by Ingmar Bergman. But you got St. Ignatius Loyola and Don Imus right. DQ1: Are you male? DQ2: Are You European? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/188 "2011-08-19T20:47:08Z")
Did you get your picture taken with Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block and Mike Strank? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/189 "2011-08-19T20:48:31Z")
Did you play bass on “Money for Nothing” and “Sultans of Swing”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/190 "2011-08-19T20:49:32Z")
Did you divorce an NBA basketball star to marry a glam rock star? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/191 "2011-08-19T20:50:33Z")
Did you regard Brom Bones as a rival for the girl of your dreams? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/192 "2011-08-19T21:37:25Z")
I Am: 1. Real Person 2. Male 3.European > [@astorian](#): > > Did you get your picture taken with Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block and Mike Strank? I’ll probably feel stupid later, but ask a DQ. [QUOTE\*\*] astorian\*\* Did you play bass on “Money for Nothing” and “Sultans of Swing”? [/QUOTE] I am not John Ilsey(sp?) of Dire Straits. > [@](#): > > ``` > Did you divorce an NBA basketball star to marry a glam rock star? > > ``` Once again my pop culture fu fails me. Another DQ. > [@](#): > > ``` > Did you regard Brom Bones as a rival for the girl of your dreams? > > ``` I am not Ichabod Crane. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/193 "2011-08-19T21:50:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Did you divorce an NBA basketball star to marry a glam rock star? > =Once again my pop culture fu fails me. Another DQ.- Cancel that. I am not Iman. Only One DQ this round. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/194 "2011-08-19T21:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Le Ministre de l’au-delà View Post > IQ: Were you an eccentric composer years ahead of your time who also sold insurance? > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > No, I am not Igor Stravinsky If Igor Stravinsky ever sold insurance, I will eat a pound of live cockroaches. (I also wouldn’t have called him particularly eccentric.) No, I was after **Charles Ives** , who was notorious in the late 19th/early 20th century for deliberately playing two different pieces of music at the same time, inspired by his love of the sound of marching bands in parades. Polyrhythms, polytonality, tone clusters, aleatoric devices, microtonality - he explored it all with great enthusiasm about 20 years ahead of many European modernist composers. He was also involved in insurance and estate planning, starting his own insurance company sometime in the first decade of the 20th century. In addition to his music, Ives was eccentric. He had a second door in his office, where he could escape from unwanted visitors. He famously berated a fellow attendee at a concert of the music of Carl Ruggles - when the other gentleman booed, Ives screamed at him “You God-damned sissy! Use your ears like a man, for Christ’s sakes!” His biography makes for some amusing reading - he was a true American original.. DQ: Were you born in the 20th century? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/195 "2011-08-19T22:10:38Z")
You got John Illsley, Iman and Ichabod Crane. The one you didn’t get was Pima Indian/U.S. Marine hero Ira Hayes, who appeared in the famous photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima with Sousley, Block, Strank, Doc Bradley and Rene Gagnon. DQ: Were you born after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/196 "2011-08-19T22:12:47Z")
IQ: Did Laurence Fishburne receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/197 "2011-08-19T22:13:52Z")
IQ: Did Natalie Woods run naked down the hall in a movie based on one of your plays? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/198 "2011-08-19T22:15:41Z")
IQ: Are you the CEO of the corporation that markets Quaker Oats, Lipton Tea, Tropican orange juice and Lay’s potato chips? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/199 "2011-08-19T22:17:06Z")
Do you wish with all your heart that you HADN’T worn such a long neckerchief, your last day on Earth? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/200 "2011-08-19T22:31:50Z")
I Am: 1. Real Person 2. Male 3.European 3. Born in the 20th Century, ergo after 1900 > [@](#): > > \*\*astorian \*\* Do you wish with all your heart that you HADN’T worn such a long neckerchief, your last day on Earth? I am not Isidora Duncan > [@](#): > > IQ: Are you the CEO of the corporation that markets Quaker Oats, Lipton Tea, Tropican orange juice and Lay’s potato chips? No clue. ask a DQ > [@](#): > > ``` > IQ: Did Natalie Woods run naked down the hall in a movie based on one of your plays? > > ``` I am not William Inge. > [@](#): > > IQ: Did Laurence Fishburne receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination for playing you? I am not Ike Turner [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030.md?page=11)