# Botticelli - August 2017 **URL:** \ **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:** 15
**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, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/281 "2017-08-20T19:11:15Z")
> [@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? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Merlin, not Mel Blanc, DQ Correct, Correct, Thomas Macaulay. 1 DQ 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:** [August 20, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/282 "2017-08-20T23:45:25Z")
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 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for a single incident ---
**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/283 "2017-08-20T23:51:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? 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 21, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/284 "2017-08-21T01:34:55Z")
DQ: Known for Sports? ---
**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 21, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/285 "2017-08-21T04:25:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did Louis Armstrong, among others, sing of your return? - Mack the Knife Were you the Nazi assassin in _The ODESSA File_? - Mackensen Are you both the subject of a Motown song, and a prominent Cleveland lawyer in real life? - Jimmy Mack Mack x3! DQs: Born after 1980? Considered handsome? Greatest fame after 2000? IQs: Did Gregory Peck play you, one of his very few villainous roles? Were you the protagonist of Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_? Were you Hercules’s sweetheart in the Disney movie? ---
**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 21, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/286 "2017-08-21T10:56:11Z")
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 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for a single incident 11. Not known for sports 12. Born before 1980 13. Never seen his picture, so don’t know if handsome or not 14. Greatest fame after 2000 ---
**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 21, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/287 "2017-08-21T10:57:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did Gregory Peck play you, one of his very few villainous roles? > Were you the protagonist of Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_? > Were you Hercules’s sweetheart in the Disney movie? 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 21, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/288 "2017-08-21T11:22:41Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Lois McMaster Bujold’s best known character? 2. Did you drop ping pong balls on Captain Kangaroo? 3. Were you Botticelli’s sponsor? ---
**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 21, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/289 "2017-08-21T13:55:46Z")
Previous IQs: Did Gregory Peck play you, one of his very few villainous roles? - Dr. Josef Mengele, in _The Boys from Brazil_ Were you the protagonist of Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_? - Berlin SS investigator Xavier March Were you Hercules’s sweetheart in the Disney movie? - Megara Hmm. Can’t figure out who this is. DQs: Best known for business/commerce? Wealthy today? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did the same man who played you also play a wealthy old fart in Minnesota? Did you insist that all of your colleagues live with you to enhance collegiality? Late in life, did you invariably wear white socks with dark suits? ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/290 "2017-08-22T19:55:19Z")
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 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for a single incident 11. Not known for sports 12. Born before 1980 13. Never seen his picture, so don’t know if handsome or not 14. Greatest fame after 2000 15. Not best known for business/commerce 16. Don’t know state of wealth, but would assume middle class income ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/291 "2017-08-22T19:56:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Lois McMaster Bujold’s best known character? > 2. Did you drop ping pong balls on Captain Kangaroo? > 3. Were you Botticelli’s sponsor? 3 DQs ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/292 "2017-08-22T19:58:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did the same man who played you also play a wealthy old fart in Minnesota? > Did you insist that all of your colleagues live with you to enhance collegiality? > Late in life, did you invariably wear white socks with dark suits? 3 DQs ---
**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 22, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/293 "2017-08-22T20:46:22Z")
Previous IQs: Did the same man who played you also play a wealthy old fart in Minnesota? - The same actor (whose name escapes me) played Gen. George C. Marshall in _Saving Private Ryan_ and Jerry Lundegaard’s crusty father-in-law in _Fargo_ Did you insist that all of your colleagues live with you to enhance collegiality? - Chief Justice John Marshall persuaded his Supreme Court colleagues to live in the same Washington boarding house with him Late in life, did you invariably wear white socks with dark suits? - Thurgood Marshall Marshall x3! Hmmm. Can’t figure out who this guy is. I yield my earned DQs, one apiece, to other players. ---
**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 22, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/294 "2017-08-22T21:35:56Z")
DQ1: Known for science? DQ2: Born south of the Mason Dixon line? ---
**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 22, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/295 "2017-08-22T22:00:23Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Lois McMaster Bujold’s best known character? > 2. Did you drop ping pong balls on Captain Kangaroo? > 3. Were you Botticelli’s sponsor? > 3 DQs 1. Miles Vorkosigan. 2. Mr. Moose. 3. Lorenzo de Medici. 3 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:** [August 22, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/296 "2017-08-22T23:30:24Z")
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 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for a single incident 11. Not known for sports 12. Born before 1980 13. Never seen his picture, so don’t know if handsome or not 14. Greatest fame after 2000 15. Not best known for business/commerce 16. Don’t know state of wealth, but would assume middle class income 17. Not known for science 18. Place of birth not known ---
**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 22, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/297 "2017-08-22T23:43:46Z")
DQ: Is your name a nickname rather than a given name? ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/298 "2017-08-23T02:00:49Z")
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 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for a single incident 11. Not known for sports 12. Born before 1980 13. Never seen his picture, so don’t know if handsome or not 14. Greatest fame after 2000 15. Not best known for business/commerce 16. Don’t know state of wealth, but would assume middle class income 17. Not known for science 18. Place of birth not known 19. Goes by nickname ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/299 "2017-08-23T02:30:58Z")
A thought: when we ask the question “American?” it is generally understood that we are asking if the person is a citizen of the U.S.A. For clarification, is this your understanding as well, KO? ---
**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 23, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/300 "2017-08-23T12:42:05Z")
Yes, I mean USA American. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=16)