# 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:** 2
**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 5, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/21 "2015-08-05T20:20:01Z")
Congrats, **Prof. P**.! Previous IQs: Were you a Norwegian no-goodnik? - Peer Gynt. Did you write about the death of that guy’s mother? - Edvard Grieg: [Death of Aase from Peer Gynt - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxjw6ZsHjNU) Were you a longtime and celebrated conductor the Cleveland Orchestra? - George Szell. ---
**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 5, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/22 "2015-08-05T21:06:27Z")
Thank you! I am J! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/23 "2015-08-05T21:49:48Z")
IQ1) Did Marcia Gay Harden win an Oscar for playing your wife? IQ2) Did you let your sister, Mimi Smith, raise your first-born son? IQ3) Did you create the fictional African city of Celesteville? ---
**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 5, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/24 "2015-08-05T22:07:02Z")
IQ1: Were you a fictional army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan? IQ2: Did you write about a cycling trip you and two friends made through Germany? IQ3: Did the US government adopt your patented method for attaching a sabre to a belt? ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/25 "2015-08-05T23:00:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did Marcia Gay Harden win an Oscar for playing your wife? > > IQ2) Did you let your sister, Mimi Smith, raise your first-born son? > > IQ3) Did you create the fictional African city of Celesteville? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/26 "2015-08-05T23:01:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan? > IQ2: Did you write about a cycling trip you and two friends made through Germany? > IQ3: Did the US government adopt your patented method for attaching a sabre to a belt? I am not Dr. John Watson. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/27 "2015-08-06T00:21:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional army surgeon wounded in Afghanistan? > IQ2: Did you write about a cycling trip you and two friends made through Germany? > IQ3: Did the US government adopt your patented method for attaching a sabre to a belt? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Dr. John Watson. > Take 2 DQs for the others. Correct. Jerome K Jerome. J E B Stuart. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/28 "2015-08-06T00:49:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/29 "2015-08-06T01:05:18Z")
IQ1: Were you a 19th-century multi-millionaire in the fur trade? IQ2: Did four of your twenty children become noted musicians and composers? IQ3: Were you one of those four? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/30 "2015-08-06T02:01:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 19th-century multi-millionaire in the fur trade? > IQ2: Did four of your twenty children become noted musicians and composers? > IQ3: Were you one of those four? I am not John Jacob Astor. I am not Johann Sebastian Bach. I am not Johann Christopher Bach. ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/31 "2015-08-06T05:27:42Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 19th-century multi-millionaire in the fur trade? > IQ2: Did four of your twenty children become noted musicians and composers? > IQ3: Were you one of those four? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not John Jacob Astor. > I am not Johann Sebastian Bach. > I am not Johann Christopher Bach. Correct. Correct. Johann Christian or Johann Christoph Friedrich, actually, but close enough. IQ1: Did your sister marry the man who had killed her first husband? IQ2: Did you sit on a candlestick? IQ3: Did you balk at going to Nineveh? ---
**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 6, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/32 "2015-08-06T11:28:51Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your sister marry the man who had killed her first husband? > IQ2: Did you sit on a candlestick? > IQ3: Did you balk at going to Nineveh? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Jack Be Nimble. I am not Jonah. ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/33 "2015-08-06T12:40:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your sister marry the man who had killed her first husband? > IQ2: Did you sit on a candlestick? > IQ3: Did you balk at going to Nineveh? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. > I am not Jack Be Nimble. > I am not Jonah. Jessica Tate (_Soap_). Jack Be Nimble was told to jump over a candlestick; Jack Flash sat on one (“'Cause fire is the devil’s only friend”). Correct. DQ1: Living? DQ2: American? IQ1: Did you play Ward’s son Theodore? IQ2: Are you an oil millonaire who lives with his mother-in-law, daughter, and cousin? IQ3: Are you that cousin’s twin sister? ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/34 "2015-08-06T12:43:44Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Living 4. Not American ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/35 "2015-08-06T12:44:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play Ward’s son Theodore? > IQ2: Are you an oil millonaire who lives with his mother-in-law, daughter, and cousin? > IQ3: Are you that cousin’s twin sister? I am not Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. I am not J. R. I didn’t watch the show, so take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/36 "2015-08-06T13:31:49Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play Ward’s son Theodore? > IQ2: Are you an oil millonaire who lives with his mother-in-law, daughter, and cousin? > IQ3: Are you that cousin’s twin sister? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. > I am not J. R. > I didn’t watch the show, so take a DQ for #3. Correct. I never watched _Dallas_, so I’ll take your word for it. I was thinking of Jed Clampett, so: Jethrine Bodine. DQ: Known for the Arts? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/37 "2015-08-06T13:44:10Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Living 4. Not American 5. Known for the Arts ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/38 "2015-08-06T14:38:14Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did Marcia Gay Harden win an Oscar for playing your wife? > > IQ2) Did you let your sister, Mimi Smith, raise your first-born son? > > IQ3) Did you create the fictional African city of Celesteville? Jackson Pollock, Julia Lennon (she gave John to his Aunt Mimi), and Jean de Brunhof (Celesteville was home of King Babar the elephant). DQ1) First name start with J? DQ2) European? DQ3) Over 49 years of age? ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/39 "2015-08-06T15:18:39Z")
IQs: Did you once visit Germany with your best friend LeMoyne? Did you call your new house Glen Ora? Did Elaine lust for you at the gym? ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/40 "2015-08-06T15:32:14Z")
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