# Botticelli - August 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104 "2019-08-03T05:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/201 "2019-08-25T13:28:23Z")
1 was Edgar Wallace, 2 was Benjamin Nottingham Webster. DQ1: Are you a painter, or other visual artist? DQ2: Are you known for the written word? ---
**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 25, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/202 "2019-08-25T13:44:30Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with W 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Not political/military 7. Died before 1950 8. Lived most of his life in the 19th Century 9. Born after 1800 10. Not a painter or other visual artist 11. A prolific writer, but best known for the subject of his writings rather than the writings themselves ---
**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 25, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/203 "2019-08-25T16:00:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Mr. Wilson, Woodrow Wilson or Wilson the Volleyball. Swept me! Wilson x3. IQs: Are you known for your photos of a particular kind of dog? Did you once travel with a young woman who let her pet snake crawl all over body? Were you a prominent British abolitionist? ---
**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 25, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/204 "2019-08-25T16:09:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Swept me! Wilson x3. > > IQs: > > Are you known for your photos of a particular kind of dog? > Did you once travel with a young woman who let her pet snake crawl all over body? > Were you a prominent British abolitionist? #2. I am not Will Smith. (Well, I know his kids have pet snakes.) Take 2 or 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/205 "2019-08-26T01:21:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Winona Ryder. > #2. I am not the Watchdog. > Take a DQ. 2 was a good guess but is in fact the Whether Man (he never makes up his mind about anything); 3 was Willis O’Brien. DQs: 1. European? 2. born before 1840? IQs: 3. Were you the tallest person in recorded history? 4. Does your recipe for a large cake begin “Take 40 eggs and divide the whites from the yolks and beat them to a froth”? 5. Was the first phone call made to you? ---
**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 26, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/206 "2019-08-26T11:49:02Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with W 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Not political/military 7. Died before 1950 8. Lived most of his life in the 19th Century 9. Born after 1800 10. Not a painter or other visual artist 11. A prolific writer, but best known for the subject of his writings rather than the writings themselves 12. European 13. Born before 1840 ---
**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 26, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/207 "2019-08-26T11:50:04Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the tallest person in recorded history? > 2. Does your recipe for a large cake begin “Take 40 eggs and divide the whites from the yolks and beat them to a froth”? > 3. Was the first phone call made to you? #3 was to Watson (Come here, I need you.), Take 2 DQs for others. ---
**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 26, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/208 "2019-08-26T12:38:02Z")
IQ1: Are you one of the authors of the Illiminatus trilogy? IQ2: Did academy students stand in their chairs reciting the title of one of your poems in _Dead Poets Society_? IQ3: Did you direct _Dead Poets Society_? ---
**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 26, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/209 "2019-08-26T12:44:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the authors of the Illiminatus trilogy? > IQ2: Did academy students stand in their chairs reciting the title of one of your poems in _Dead Poets Society_? > IQ3: Did you direct _Dead Poets Society_? 1. I am not Robert Anton Wilson. 2. I am not Walt Whitman. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/210 "2019-08-26T12:59:00Z")
IQs: IQ1: Are you a poet with the middle name Greenleaf? IQ2: Did you write a story about an aging painting of an ageless man? IQ3: Was a search engine named after a fictional butler you wrote about? ---
**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 26, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/211 "2019-08-26T13:08:59Z")
> [@atimnie](#): > > IQs: > > IQ1: Are you a poet with the middle name Greenleaf? > IQ2: Did you write a story about an aging painting of an ageless man? > IQ3: Was a search engine named after a fictional butler you wrote about? 1. I am not John G. Whittier. 2. I am not Oscar Wilde. 3. I am not P. G. Wodehouse. ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/212 "2019-08-26T19:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the authors of the Illiminatus trilogy? > IQ2: Did academy students stand in their chairs reciting the title of one of your poems in Dead Poets Society? > IQ3: Did you direct Dead Poets Society? > > 1. I am not Robert Anton Wilson. > 2. I am not Walt Whitman. > Take a DQ for #3. Peter Weir DQ: From the British Isles? (that includes all of Ireland) ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/213 "2019-08-26T19:21:33Z")
Previous IQs: Are you known for your photos of a particular kind of dog? - William Wegman, known for his pictures of Weimaraners Did you once travel with a young woman who let her pet snake crawl all over body? - William Howard Taft, traveling to Asia with Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President Were you a prominent British abolitionist? - William Wilberforce William x3 redux! DQs: Best known for a single work? Won a top prize for his writing? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you command the USS \*Kearsarge \*in her famous duel with the Confederate commerce raider CSS _Alabama_? Did you command the USS _Monitor_ in her famous duel with the Confederate ironclad CSS _Virginia_? Are you AKA Deadpool? ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/214 "2019-08-26T19:50:59Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with W 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Not political/military 7. Died before 1950 8. Lived most of his life in the 19th Century 9. Born after 1800 10. Not a painter or other visual artist 11. A prolific writer, but best known for the subject of his writings rather than the writings themselves 12. European 13. Born before 1840 14. British 15. Not best known for any one piece of writing but for his ideas 16. He received top honors for his ideas, but not any one piece of writing ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/215 "2019-08-26T19:52:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir;21826708 One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you command the USS \*Kearsarge \*in her famous duel with the Confederate commerce raider CSS _Alabama_? Did you command the USS _Monitor_ in her famous duel with the Confederate ironclad CSS _Virginia_? Are you AKA Deadpool?[/QUOTE] #3. I am not Wade Wilson. Take 2 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 26, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/216 "2019-08-26T21:17:50Z")
There’s one name that stands out in my mind, who goes by three names, the middle one beginning with W. I just want to make sure the Prof doesn’t consider a middle name to be part of a last name. Ex: C. Estes Kefauver = last name K, not last name E. I’m pretty sure Prof would have said “Middle name begins with W” if that were the case, but I have to ask these types of questions to Project Managers at work, each of whom have their own unique interpretations of reality. Plus, I’m still pissed Ireland = British Isles minus UK. ---
**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 26, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/217 "2019-08-26T21:34:58Z")
The W’s not the middle name, it’s the surname. Ireland isn’t British (well, Northern Ireland is). Ask 'em. ---
**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 27, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/218 "2019-08-27T02:50:51Z")
Ireland - all of it - is generally considered part of the British Isles, though, as **KO** noted: [British Isles - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles) Previous IQs: Did you command the USS _Kearsarge_ in her famous duel with the Confederate commerce raider CSS _Alabama_? - Capt. John A. Winslow Did you command the USS _Monitor_ in her famous duel with the Confederate ironclad CSS _Virginia_? - Capt. John L. Worden Are you AKA Deadpool? - Yes, Wade Wilson DQs: Best known for writing on an important public issue of his day? English? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a master Ohio woodcarver noted for his intricately-detailed trains? Did you both precede and succeed Ted Heath as British PM? Was it joked that you reported LIVE FROM THE MOON? ---
**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 27, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/219 "2019-08-27T11:28:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with W 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Not political/military 7. Died before 1950 8. Lived most of his life in the 19th Century 9. Born after 1800 10. Not a painter or other visual artist 11. A prolific writer, but best known for the subject of his writings rather than the writings themselves 12. European 13. Born before 1840 14. British 15. Not best known for any one piece of writing but for his ideas 16. He received top honors for his ideas, but not any one piece of writing 17. Known for writings on a scientific subject 18. Born in Wales, died in Dorset, England ---
**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 27, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/220 "2019-08-27T11:30:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a master Ohio woodcarver noted for his intricately-detailed trains? > Did you both precede and succeed Ted Heath as British PM? > Was it joked that you reported LIVE FROM THE MOON? #2. I am not Harold Wilson (??). Take 2 or 3 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=12)