# Botticelli - August 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 5, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053 "2015-08-05T12:08:54Z")\ **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:** [August 12, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/181 "2015-08-12T19:39:02Z")
IQ1: Are you an NFL running back for whom the Minnesota Vikings traded 5 players and 8 draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys in 1989? IQ2: Did you start playing for Florida State as a quarterback at the age of 26 and eventually win the Heisman Trophy in 2000? IQ3: Are you another FSU QB who won the Heisman in 2014, the youngest player ever to do so? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/182 "2015-08-12T20:02:19Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you the voice of Tigger and Dick Dastardly? > > IQ2) Were you the winning lawyer in the Roe vs. Wade case? > > IQ3) Are you a movie sex symbol who was once married to Dudley Moore? 1. Ventriloquist Paul Winchell 2. Sarah Weddington 3. Tuesday Weld DQ1) Created after 1960? DQ2) Appear in a series of books or stories? DQ3) European? ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/183 "2015-08-12T20:50:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional Montenegrin working out of your home in Manhattan? > IQ2: Were you an emperor with one arm shorter than the other? > IQ3: Is there debate whether you were born at Elderslie or at Ellerslie? 1. Nero Wolfe (I’m actually reading one atm.) 2 DQs > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an NFL running back for whom the Minnesota Vikings traded 5 players and 8 draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys in 1989? > IQ2: Did you start playing for Florida State as a quarterback at the age of 26 and eventually win the Heisman Trophy in 2000? > IQ3: Are you another FSU QB who won the Heisman in 2014, the youngest player ever to do so? 3 DQs, but I think I should know the Cowboy W 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not start with W 4. Originally from a novel or short story 5. Human 6. Has appeared on TV and movies, but is not known for that. 7. Created since 1900 8. Not American 9. Not Sci-fi/fantasy genre 10. Created before 1960 11. Appeared in a series of books or stories 12. European ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/184 "2015-08-12T21:12:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a superhero from underground comix artist Gilbert Shelton? > 2. Did you create Calvin & Hobbes? > 3. Did you paint The Embarkation for Cythera? > 3 DQs #1 was Wonder Warthog. #2 was Bill Watterson. #3 was Jean-Antoine Watteau. DQ: Action-adventure stories? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/185 "2015-08-12T21:18:17Z")
IQ1) Are you a detective in a long series of novels by Ruth Rendell? IQ2) Are you a voracious reader and eater from Montenegro? IQ3) Did Boston fans say it was you “and Sain, then pray for rain”? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/186 "2015-08-12T22:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you an NFL running back for whom the Minnesota Vikings traded 5 players and 8 draft picks to the Dallas Cowboys in 1989? > IQ2: Did you start playing for Florida State as a quarterback at the age of 26 and eventually win the Heisman Trophy in 2000? > IQ3: Are you another FSU QB who won the Heisman in 2014, the youngest player ever to do so? > > 3 DQs, but I think I should know the Cowboy Herschel Walker, Chris Weinke, Jameis Winston DQ: From the UK? holding 2 DQs ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/187 "2015-08-12T23:27:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional Montenegrin working out of your home in Manhattan? > IQ2: Were you an emperor with one arm shorter than the other? > IQ3: Is there debate whether you were born at Elderslie or at Ellerslie? > [@TexCat](#): > > 1. Nero Wolfe (I’m actually reading one atm.) > 2 DQs Correct. (Been a few years since I last read one.) Kaiser Wilhelm II. Sir William Wallace. (My grandmother was a Wallace; Ellerslie is a traditional family name for girls.) Two DQs reserved. IQ: Were you an army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan, who went back to England and took diggings with an unusual roommate? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/188 "2015-08-12T23:36:45Z")
IQ2: Were you the son of the Duke of Denver? IQ3: Were you the best-known member of the Drones Club? ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/189 "2015-08-12T23:44:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Are you a detective in a long series of novels by Ruth Rendell? > > IQ2) Are you a voracious reader and eater from Montenegro? > > IQ3) Did Boston fans say it was you “and Sain, then pray for rain”? Not Inspector Wexford Still not Nero Wolfe DQ > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Were you an army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan, who went back to England and took diggings with an unusual roommate? Not Dr. Watson. Was Doyle’s Watson in Afganistan, or was it only Martin Freeman? W 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name does not start with W 4. Originally from a novel or short story 5. Human 6. Has appeared on TV and movies, but is not known for that. 7. Created since 1900 8. Not American 9. Not Sci-fi/fantasy genre 10. Created before 1960 11. Appeared in a series of books or stories 12. European 13. Not from action/adventure series 14. From the UK ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/190 "2015-08-13T00:02:34Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > Not Dr. Watson. Was Doyle’s Watson in Afganistan, or was it only Martin Freeman? What’s a Martin Freeman? I just checked _A Study in Scarlet_ on Gutenberg. The first two paragraphs: IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy’s country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties. The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Maiwand is near Kandahar, in south-central Afghanistan. And now I want to know what “the course prescribed for surgeons in the army” covered… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/191 "2015-08-13T01:22:12Z")
Boston Braves fans said it was (Warren) Spahn and Sain then pray for rain." Are you from a country that speaks a Germanic language? ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/192 "2015-08-13T01:25:51Z")
Martin Freeman is the actor who plays Dr. Watson in the Cumberbatch modern-times Sherlock. I remembered that he was injured in Afghanistan, but it’s been a while since I’ve read Doyle, and might have guessed (incorrectly, I see) his Watson was injured in India or maybe Africa. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/193 "2015-08-13T01:32:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ2: Were you the son of the Duke of Denver? > IQ3: Were you the best-known member of the Drones Club? And I missed these 2 IQ’s, somehow. I am not Bertie Wooster, but I am Lord Peter Wimsey phew… Good job, SCA! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/194 "2015-08-13T01:34:00Z")
“Fatal battle,” indeed. According to Wiki, the Berkshires suffered 62% casualties at Maiwand, and another regiment 64%. Total British casualties were around 39%. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/195 "2015-08-13T01:34:39Z")
Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/196 "2015-08-13T01:48:00Z")
Well done, yet again, **SCAdian**! Previous IQs: Did you have prominent Indian chiefs appear in your Wild West show? - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody. In a cartoon, did Uncle Sam observe a fight between you and your former political mentor? - William Howard Taft, tussling with T.R. during the bitter GOP nomination battle of 1912: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/For\_Auld\_Lang\_Syne\_-\_Leonard\_Raven-Hill.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/For_Auld_Lang_Syne_-_Leonard_Raven-Hill.jpg) Did the FBI note that you were acting oddly while hospitalized? - Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Another William x3! ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/197 "2015-08-13T01:53:35Z")
I am **N**. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/198 "2015-08-13T11:49:48Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Harry Seacombe’s character on _The Goon Show_? 2. Were you aka The Tin Woodman? 3. Have you been portrayed by Emma Roberts and Tracy Ryan? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/199 "2015-08-13T12:49:44Z")
Grats SCAdian! IQ1: Are you the seven-eyed patron wizard of Fafhrd the northerner? IQ2: Are you a character from Marvel comics, a Japanese-American sorceress and leader of the Runaways? IQ3: Are you a sorceress from the \*Slayers \*anime series, rival of Lina Inverse? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/200 "2015-08-13T13:35:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Harry Seacombe’s character on _The Goon Show_? > 2. Were you aka The Tin Woodman? > 3. Have you been portrayed by Emma Roberts and Tracy Ryan? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Grats SCAdian! > > IQ1: Are you the seven-eyed patron wizard of Fafhrd the northerner? > IQ2: Are you a character from Marvel comics, a Japanese-American sorceress and leader of the Runaways? > IQ3: Are you a sorceress from the \*Slayers \*anime series, rival of Lina Inverse? Not Ningauble of the Seven Eyes. DQ. DQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053.md?page=11)