# Botticelli - August 2017

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 1, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593 "2017-08-01T20:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 14

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**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 18, 2017, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/261 "2017-08-18T23:07:45Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Did you write the songs for _The Music Man_?
> 2. Did you and another guy go on a long hike with Sacagawea?
> 3. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick?

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> DQ, not Meriwether Lewis, DQ

#1 was Meredith Willson.  
Correct on #2.  
#3 was Morocco Mole.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Male?

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**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 19, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/262 "2017-08-19T01:17:49Z")

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DQ Assemblage

1. Real
2. Male

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**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 19, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/263 "2017-08-19T01:32:23Z")

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IQ1: Were you a volant murid clad in _or_ and _gules_?  
IQ2: Were you a cervid whose comrade was a sciurid?  
IQ3: Were you a hirsute afrothere who associated with, amongst others, a xenarthran?

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**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 19, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/264 "2017-08-19T02:15:24Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you write _Cruel Shoes_?
2. Did you write _Archy and Mehitabel_?
3. Did you write _Le Misanthrope_?

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**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 19, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/265 "2017-08-19T05:29:14Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you the model for the military-academy superintendent in Pat Conroy’s _The Lords of Discipline_? - Gen. Mark Clark, who headed the Citadel  
Were you the patron saint of Venice? - St. Mark  
Have you played a police officer, a dumb bodybuilder and a rental-car company drone? - Mark Wahlberg, in _Patriots Day, Pain & Gain_ and _Ted_

Mark x3!

DQs:

Living?  
American?  
Last name start with M?

IQs:

Are you the Red Priestess?  
Are you Grey Worm’s lover?  
Are you a badass little girl who heads a pro-Stark house?

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**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 19, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/266 "2017-08-19T11:36:02Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a volant murid clad in _or_ and _gules_?  
> IQ2: Were you a cervid whose comrade was a sciurid?  
> IQ3: Were you a hirsute afrothere who associated with, amongst others, a xenarthran?

3 DQs

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**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 19, 2017, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/267 "2017-08-19T11:37:26Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you write _Cruel Shoes_?
> 2. Did you write _Archy and Mehitabel_?
> 3. Did you write _Le Misanthrope_?

not Steve Martin, DQ, not Marquis De Sade?

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**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 19, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/268 "2017-08-19T11:44:56Z")

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DQ Assemblage

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. American
5. Only name starts with M

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**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 19, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/269 "2017-08-19T11:48:11Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Are you the Red Priestess?  
> Are you Grey Worm’s lover?  
> Are you a badass little girl who heads a pro-Stark house?

not Melisandre, not Missandei, DQ

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**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 19, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/270 "2017-08-19T14:48:22Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you write _Cruel Shoes_?
> 2. Did you write _Archy and Mehitabel_?
> 3. Did you write _Le Misanthrope_?

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> not Steve Martin, DQ, not Marquis De Sade?

Correct on Steve Martin.  
Don Marquis was #2.  
Moliere was #3.

DQs:

1. Known for the Arts?
2. Born after 1959?

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**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 19, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/271 "2017-08-19T14:51:46Z")

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IQs:

1. According to some accounts, did you live your life backwards?
2. Did you voice Sylvester and Tweety?
3. Were you a British historian born on the 25th of October?

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**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 19, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/272 "2017-08-19T15:57:11Z")

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Previous IQs:

Are you the Red Priestess? - Got it  
Are you Grey Worm’s lover? - Got it  
Are you a badass little girl who heads a pro-Stark house? - Lady Lyanna Mormont

DQ:

White?

IQs:

Did you steal the _Red October_?  
Are you the gloomiest robot ever?  
Is your son’s codename “Duchess”?

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**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 19, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/273 "2017-08-19T20:46:20Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a volant murid clad in _or_ and _gules_?  
> IQ2: Were you a cervid whose comrade was a sciurid?  
> IQ3: Were you a hirsute afrothere who associated with, amongst others, a xenarthran?

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> 3 DQs

Mighty Mouse.  
Bullwinkle J Moose.  
Manny the woolly mammoth.  
Three DQs reserved.

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**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 19, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/274 "2017-08-19T22:39:13Z")

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[applause to SCAdian for those IQs by the way.]

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**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 20, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/275 "2017-08-20T02:10:04Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> [applause to SCAdian for those IQs by the way.]

[How many of them did you get?]

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**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 20, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/276 "2017-08-20T02:44:31Z")

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[The first two.]

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**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 20, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/277 "2017-08-20T14:57:39Z")

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DQ Assemblage

1. Real
2. Male
3. Living
4. American
5. Only name starts with M
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Born after 1959
8. Race not known - most probably white

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**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 20, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/278 "2017-08-20T14:58:45Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. According to some accounts, did you live your life backwards?
> 2. Did you voice Sylvester and Tweety?
> 3. Were you a British historian born on the 25th of October?

not Merlin, not Mel Blanc, DQ

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**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 20, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/279 "2017-08-20T14:59:56Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Did you steal the _Red October_?  
> Are you the gloomiest robot ever?  
> Is your son’s codename “Duchess”?

DQ, not Marvin, DQ

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**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 20, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/280 "2017-08-20T15:55:44Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you steal the _Red October_? - Capt. Marko Ramius (Sean Connery in the movie)  
Are you the gloomiest robot ever? - Yes, Marvin the Paranoid Android  
Is your son’s codename “Duchess”? - Mallory Archer, in the animated spy spoof _Archer_

DQs:

Political/military?  
Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Did Louis Armstrong, among others, sing of your return?  
Were you the Nazi assassin in _The ODESSA File_?  
Are you both the subject of a Motown song, and a prominent Cleveland lawyer in real life?

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