# 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:** 12
**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, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/221 "2019-08-27T15:28:17Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a master Ohio woodcarver noted for his intricately-detailed trains? - David Warther Did you both precede and succeed Ted Heath as British PM? - Yes, Harold Wilson Was it joked that you reported LIVE FROM THE MOON? - Brian Williams, after being caught overstating his past experiences as a journalist: [https://awesomejelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/brian3.jpg](https://awesomejelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/brian3.jpg) DQs: Knighted? Died before 1900? One DQ reserved. Hmmm. Think think think… ---
**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 27, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/222 "2019-08-27T16:29:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3 was to Watson (Come here, I need you.), > Take 2 DQs for others. 1 (world’s tallest man) was Robert Wadlow; 2 (recipe for a large cake) was Martha Washington. DQ: wrote about biology? IQs: 1. Do you go waltzing with bears? 2. Would you gladly pay Tuesday for a hamburger today? 3. Are you a Democratic Party front-runner for president from Massachusetts? One DQ reserved. ---
**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, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/223 "2019-08-27T16:45:54Z")
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 19. Never knighted 20. Died after 1900 21. Wrote about biology And that’s 20+. I’ll answer DLR’s IQ’s, but everyone please have your final DQ’s asked by noon EDT tomorrow. ---
**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, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/224 "2019-08-27T16:46:57Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you go waltzing with bears? > 2. Would you gladly pay Tuesday for a hamburger today? > 3. Are you a Democratic Party front-runner for president from Massachusetts? > > One DQ reserved. 1. Take a final DQ. 2. I am not Wimpy. 3. I am not Elizabeth Warren. ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/225 "2019-08-27T18:19:46Z")
Darwin, Faraday, Rutherford and Lister are about the only British scientists I know from roughly that era, and none of them is a “W.” I yield my earned DQ to whoever wishes to ask it. ---
**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 27, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/226 "2019-08-27T18:22:40Z")
Okay, I’ll ask… DQ: Is your work familiar to high school students? ---
**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, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/227 "2019-08-27T20:06:24Z")
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 19. Never knighted 20. Died after 1900 21. Wrote about biology 22. Probably not familiar to high school students. ---
**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 28, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/228 "2019-08-28T12:52:08Z")
Are you Mr. Wedgwood? ---
**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 28, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/229 "2019-08-28T13:01:02Z")
I looked it up. I wouldn’t have got it. ---
**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 28, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/230 "2019-08-28T13:35:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you Mr. Wedgwood? I am not. ---
**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 28, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/231 "2019-08-28T13:37:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I looked it up. I wouldn’t have got it. Ah, but have you heard of him? ---
**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 28, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/232 "2019-08-28T15:47:40Z")
DQ: first person to write about something? ---
**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 28, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/233 "2019-08-28T15:52:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Ah, but have you heard of him? Can’t really say that I have, but he looks to be a historical figure worth studying. ---
**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 28, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/234 "2019-08-28T16:02:25Z")
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 19. Never knighted 20. Died after 1900 21. Wrote about biology 22. Probably not familiar to high school students. 23. Nearly simultaneously first with another person to write about something. DLR: It’s down to you. KO’s looked him up, and EH has had his guess. ---
**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 28, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/235 "2019-08-28T16:22:06Z")
Oops, sorry. And atimnie has a guess coming as well. Please have your final “Are you FirstName LastName?” questions in by 8pm EDT. ---
**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 28, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/236 "2019-08-28T16:38:49Z")
I have no guess on this one, pass. ---
**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 28, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/237 "2019-08-28T17:34:09Z")
Final question: Are you Alfred Russell Wallace? ---
**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 28, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/238 "2019-08-28T18:43:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Final question: Are you Alfred Russell Wallace? Yes, I am Alfred Russel Wallace! Well done indeed, De Lar Rue! ---
**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 29, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/239 "2019-08-29T03:09:09Z")
Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 (waltzes with bears) was [Uncle Walter](https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7586). I am H. ---
**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 29, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/240 "2019-08-29T03:25:19Z")
I knew there had been someone who’d figured out evolution at roughly the same time as Darwin, but didn’t know his name. Here’s more on the guy: [Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace) Good job, **DLR**! On to H… IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first VP? Were you the most famous fictional person to serve on the board of the Baltimore Symphony? Were you arguably Carthage’s greatest general? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=13)