# 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:** 21
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/401 "2017-09-01T12:08:55Z")
IQ1: Were you appointed by President Richard Nixon as America’s “Ambassador of Love” in 1970? IQ2: Did you sing “Bess, you is my woman now” on stage? IQ3: Did you star as IQ2 in a 1959 Samuel Goldwyn film? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/402 "2017-09-01T12:27:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a loveable eccentric scientist from _The Adventures of Superman_? > 2. Are you the actor who played him? > 3. Did John Hamilton play you on _The Adventures of Superman_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Professor Pepperwinkle. > DQ. > Not … Perry White? > I really ought to know #2 by now, as often as you’ve asked it, but it’s late and I’m on my way to bed… #1 is correct. #2 is the inestimable Phil Tead. #3 is correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/403 "2017-09-01T12:35:00Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the prankster ghost of Hogwarts? 2. Are you the porcine amigo of an anthropomorphic ursid melliphile? 3. Did you possibly do “it” in the Conservatory with the Candlestick? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/404 "2017-09-01T22:26:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you surrender Vicksburg? > Were you a Baltimore homicide detective? > Were you Truman’s longtime political patron? Three 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:** [September 1, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/405 "2017-09-01T22:36:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you appointed by President Richard Nixon as America’s “Ambassador of Love” in 1970? > IQ2: Did you sing “Bess, you is my woman now” on stage? > IQ3: Did you star as IQ2 in a 1959 Samuel Goldwyn film? DQ. Not Porgy. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the prankster ghost of Hogwarts? > 2. Are you the porcine amigo of an anthropomorphic ursid melliphile? > 3. Did you possibly do “it” in the Conservatory with the Candlestick? Not Peeves. Not Piglet. Not Professor Plum. **P** 1. Real ---
**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:** [September 1, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/406 "2017-09-01T22:51:43Z")
All correct. IQs: 1. Is today your very first day at Hogwarts? 2. Were you the most recent previous governor of Indiana? 3. Did you play the male lead in _The Music Man_? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/407 "2017-09-02T00:51:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > All correct. > > IQs: > > 1. Is today your very first day at Hogwarts? > 2. Were you the most recent previous governor of Indiana? > 3. Did you play the male lead in _The Music Man_? Not … Albus Potter? DQ. Not Robert Preston. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/408 "2017-09-02T01:08:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > All correct. > > IQs: > > 1. Is today your very first day at Hogwarts? > 2. Were you the most recent previous governor of Indiana? > 3. Did you play the male lead in _The Music Man_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not … Albus Potter? > DQ. > Not Robert Preston. #1. Correct. In the epilogue of the final Harry Potter book it gave today’s date as Albus’s first day. #2. Now VP Mike Pence. #3. Correct. DQ: Living? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/409 "2017-09-02T01:32:52Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. Dead The specific date is mentioned in the epilogue? I just remember its saying that it was set “19 years later.” ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/410 "2017-09-02T01:38:18Z")
Well, it was in today’s news, which called it to mind and prompted me to ask. > **[‘Harry Potter’ Fans Celebrate Albus Potter’s First Day at Hogwarts](https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/harry-potter-fans-celebrate-albus-potters-first-day-at-hogwarts-w500803/)** > > ‘Harry Potter’ fans and J.K. Rowling celebrated Harry Potter’s son Albus Severus boarding the Hogwarts Express for the first time on September 1, 2017 — read more! ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/411 "2017-09-02T03:10:07Z")
Previous IQs: Did you surrender Vicksburg? - Gen. Pemberton, in 1863 Were you a Baltimore homicide detective? - Det. Pembleton Were you Truman’s longtime political patron? - Boss Pendergast DQs: Male? Died since 2000? Last name start with P? IQs: Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s _Hercules_? Did you found Kenyon College? Did you serve as both Attorney General and Secretary of State? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/412 "2017-09-02T10:57:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Baltimore homicide detective? - Det. Pembleton Never heard of him. What’s he famous for? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s _Hercules_? > Did you found Kenyon College? > Did you serve as both Attorney General and Secretary of State? Three DQs. **P** 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Female 4. Did not die after since 2000 5. Last name starts with P ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/413 "2017-09-02T11:12:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Well, it was in today’s news, which called it to mind and prompted me to ask. > > [‘Harry Potter’ Fans Celebrate Albus Potter’s First Day at Hogwarts | Us Weekly](http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/harry-potter-fans-celebrate-albus-potters-first-day-at-hogwarts-w500803) Odd. Nineteen years ago was when the second or third book came out. (I read the first two or three that year, when my mother-in-law borrowed them from the library to see what all the fuss was about.) ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/414 "2017-09-02T11:42:16Z")
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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:** [September 2, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/415 "2017-09-02T12:55:47Z")
IQs: 1. Were you also known as Rebecca Rolfe? 2. Were you Mike Myers’s most successful movie role? 3. Were you King Arthur’s father? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/416 "2017-09-02T14:36:18Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you appointed by President Richard Nixon as America’s “Ambassador of Love” in 1970? > IQ2: Did you sing “Bess, you is my woman now” on stage? > IQ3: Did you star as IQ2 in a 1959 Samuel Goldwyn film? > > DQ. > Not Porgy. > DQ. Pearl Bailey, Correct, Sidney Portier American? Known for the Arts? ---
**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:** [September 2, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/417 "2017-09-02T15:04:01Z")
IQ1: Did you overdose on cocaine and morphine while Johnny Depp, Flea and Gibby Haines were performing on stage in front of you at The Viper Room? IQ2: Are you an American army general who died in a 1945 car crash while on a hunting trip? IQ3: Are you an American abstract artist who died in a 1956 car crash while under the influence? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/418 "2017-09-03T00:09:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you also known as Rebecca Rolfe? > 2. Were you Mike Myers’s most successful movie role? > 3. Were you King Arthur’s father? Not Pocahontas. Not the abominable Austin Powers. Not Uther Pendragon. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you overdose on cocaine and morphine while Johnny Depp, Flea and Gibby Haines were performing on stage in front of you at The Viper Room? > IQ2: Are you an American army general who died in a 1945 car crash while on a hunting trip? > IQ3: Are you an American abstract artist who died in a 1956 car crash while under the influence? DQ. Not George Patton. DQ. **P** 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Female 4. Did not die after 2000 5. Last name starts with P 6. Not American 7. Known for the Arts ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/419 "2017-09-03T00:49:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Never heard of him. What’s he famous for?.. Pembleton (I think Andre Braugher won an Emmy for playing him) was a character on _Homicide: Life on the Street_s. Previous IQs: Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s _Hercules_? - Philoctetes (Danny DeVito) Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase Did you serve as both Attorney General and Secretary of State? - Philander Knox Phil x3! DQs: European? Actress? Died after 1950? IQs: Were you a teammate of Willie Stargell? Were you another? Were you Arthur’s adorable puppy on PBS? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/420 "2017-09-03T00:59:06Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you overdose on cocaine and morphine while Johnny Depp, Flea and Gibby Haines were performing on stage in front of you at The Viper Room? > IQ2: Are you an American army general who died in a 1945 car crash while on a hunting trip? > IQ3: Are you an American abstract artist who died in a 1956 car crash while under the influence? > > DQ. > Not George Patton. > DQ. River Phoenix, correct, Jackson Pollack holding 2 DQs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=22)