# 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:** 7
**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 8, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/121 "2017-08-08T19:46:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Spanish explorer credited with discovering the Mississippi River? > IQ2: Were you a guest on Billy Crystal’s “Fernando’s Hideaway” with Mr. T in 1984? > IQ3: Were you a sportscaster guest on Billy Crystal’s “Fernando’s Hideaway” in 1985? > Not Hernan De Soto, Hannibal from The A-Team or Howard Cosell #2 is Hulk Hogan. DQ: Crime/mystery genre? ---
**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 8, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/122 "2017-08-08T21:59:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the best-known of the Barcids? > IQ2: Were you the best-known resident of Centerburg? > IQ3: Do you write about Liam Devlin and Sean Dillon? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x2; not Jack Higgins Hannibal. Homer Price. Correct. DQ: British character? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 8, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/123 "2017-08-08T23:56:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Lord Macaulay write a long poem about your heroism in regards to your actions at a bridge? > 2. In the TV series _The Ghost and Mrs. Muir_, did you play Mrs. Muir? > 3. In a song of the 1930’s did Elsie Carlisle sing “Puh-leeze! Mr. [Your name]”? Not Horatius, dunno and not Herbert Hoover. H. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with H 4. not created by an American or Americans 5. created after 1899 6. originally from a prose work of literature 7. created before 1954 8. European creator(s) 9. by a British author 10. did not appear in more than one published story 11. appeared in a movie 12. not in military genre 13. not originally from a children’s story 14. not the protagonist 15. considered a good guy 16. not an unusual first name 17. crime/mystery genre 18. not British by birth ---
**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 9, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/124 "2017-08-09T00:23:55Z")
IQ1: Did a gigantic dog with blazing eyes tear your throat out in a Sherlock Holmes story? IQ2: Were you obsessed with Dolores Haze? IQ3: Did you develop the psychohistory algorithm? ---
**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 9, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/125 "2017-08-09T01:21:39Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did a gigantic dog with blazing eyes tear your throat out in a Sherlock Holmes story?.. IIRC he was injured but didn’t actually have his throat torn out, but yes, I was thinking of Sir Henry Baskerville Canadian-born client of Sherlock Holmes in the famous tale: [The Hound of the Baskervilles - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles) Good job, **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 9, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/126 "2017-08-09T15:22:03Z")
Actually, I was thinking of Hugo Baskerville, the evil patriarch. You want the next round again EH? I’ll leave it up to you. ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/127 "2017-08-09T16:25:18Z")
Nah, you were very close. Take it away. ---
**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 9, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/128 "2017-08-09T18:13:10Z")
Good job, KO! Good choice, EH! As it would happens, I just finished reading a supernatural spoof of the story, _Warlock Holmes and the Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles_, Gabriel Denning. The version had the following to recommend it: 1) it kept the same general tone as the origin; 2) it was generally amusing; 3) it was short. ---
**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 9, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/129 "2017-08-09T20:12:01Z")
OK, next up is I! ---
**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 9, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/130 "2017-08-09T20:38:25Z")
IQs: 1. Did you fly too close to the sun? 2. Did you portray both Gandalf and Magneto? 3. Were you the front man for Mott the Hoople? ---
**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 9, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/131 "2017-08-09T22:57:03Z")
IQs: Were you the most prominent later leader of Rhodesia? Were you a noted songwriter with the last name of a non-American capital city? Did you kill your own son in a rage and, by all accounts, immediately regret it? ---
**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 9, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/132 "2017-08-09T23:17:05Z")
IQ1: Were you the only survivor of the sinking of the _Pequod_? IQ2: Did your father keep trying to pass his wife off as his sister? IQ3: Were you #2’s younger half-brother? ---
**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 10, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/133 "2017-08-10T00:05:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you fly too close to the sun? > 2. Did you portray both Gandalf and Magneto? > 3. Were you the front man for Mott the Hoople? not Icarus, not Iam McLellan, DQ ---
**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 10, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/134 "2017-08-10T00:13:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the most prominent later leader of Rhodesia? > Were you a noted songwriter with the last name of a non-American capital city? > Did you kill your own son in a rage and, by all accounts, immediately regret it? DQ, not Irving Berlin, DQ ---
**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 10, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/135 "2017-08-10T00:14:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the only survivor of the sinking of the _Pequod_? > IQ2: Did your father keep trying to pass his wife off as his sister? > IQ3: Were you #2’s younger half-brother? not Ishmael, DQ, DQ ---
**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 10, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/136 "2017-08-10T01:01:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you fly too close to the sun? > 2. Did you portray both Gandalf and Magneto? > 3. Were you the front man for Mott the Hoople? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Icarus, not Iam McLellan, DQ Correct on Icarus and Ian McKellen [sic]. #3 was Ian Hunter. 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:** [August 10, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/137 "2017-08-10T01:03:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you deceive the Moor of Venice? 2. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat? 3. Are you AKA RiRi Williams? ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/138 "2017-08-10T02:03:24Z")
DQ Vault 1. Real ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/139 "2017-08-10T02:04:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you deceive the Moor of Venice? > 2. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat? > 3. Are you AKA RiRi Williams? not Iago, not Ignatz, DQ ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/140 "2017-08-10T02:05:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the only survivor of the sinking of the _Pequod_? > IQ2: Did your father keep trying to pass his wife off as his sister? > IQ3: Were you #2’s younger half-brother? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Ishmael, DQ, DQ Correct. Ishmael, son of Abraham and Hagar. Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah. DQ1: Male? DQ2: Living? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593.md?page=8)