# Botticelli August 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071 "2022-08-04T03:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/41 "2022-08-08T18:47:29Z")
Previous IQs: Did you sorta kinda win the Battle of Antietam? - Yes, George McClellan Did you definitely win at Gettysburg? - Yes, George Meade Were you appointed to command FUSAG? - Another George, this time Patton, and his fake army: [First United States Army Group - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_United_States_Army_Group) DQ: Knighted? IQs: Were you a cartoon character in a Christian-themed kids’ magazine, intended to teach moral conduct? Were you, too? Did you marry a cursed woman who could only be beautiful half of every day? ---
**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 8, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/42 "2022-08-08T19:26:18Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a committed Swedish environmental activist? 2. Are you the inspiration behind Dr. Spectrum, the Scarlet Scepter, the Black Hand, the Lamplighter, and La Lumière Bleue? 3. Are you the comics author who recently wrote the series of the above character, from 2019 to 2021? ---
**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, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/43 "2022-08-08T21:07:39Z")
IQ: Did you and your ~~accomplice~~ partner write _Ruddigore_? ---
**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 8, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/44 "2022-08-08T22:12:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Q: Did you and your ~~accomplice~~ partner write _Ruddigore_? # Yes! I am William Schwenck Gilbert! Good job, SCA! ---
**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, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/45 "2022-08-09T19:33:29Z")
Good job, **SCA**. However, answer #11 now seems a bit misleading. Gilbert is better known for _creating_ art than supporting 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 9, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/46 "2022-08-09T19:36:04Z")
But that question was about the performing arts: acting, singing, dancing, etc. Writing the plays and songs isn’t performing them. ---
**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, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/47 "2022-08-09T19:37:08Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a cartoon character in a Christian-themed kids’ magazine, intended to teach moral conduct? - Goofus, the oaf Were you, too? - Gallant, the good kid Did you marry a cursed woman who could only be beautiful half of every day? - Sir Gawaine, in Arthurian legend ---
**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, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/48 "2022-08-09T19:39:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > But that question was about the performing arts: acting, singing, dancing, etc. Writing the plays and songs isn’t performing them. The question was, “Known for the performing arts….” I think the more accurate and helpful answer would have been simply yes. ---
**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, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/49 "2022-08-10T15:45:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > **supported by workers in related fields** , such as [songwriting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriting) Rereading that was what made me think of Gilbert. I am **K**. ---
**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, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/50 "2022-08-10T16:08:49Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write \*Either/Or"? 2. Are you currently the protagonist in a movie now playing featuring The Rock as your voice? 3. Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_? ---
**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 10, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/51 "2022-08-10T16:36:00Z")
IQs: 1. Oh-hoh SAAAY can YOOOUU SEEEEE…by the DAWN’S early LIGHT? 2. Were you nominated to the US Supreme Court by Joe Biden? 3. Did you create _Ren and Stimpy_? ---
**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 10, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/52 "2022-08-10T20:06:34Z")
IQs: Was your heart surgery spoofed by _Doonesbury_? Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_? Are you the most famous fictional fan of the Toledo Mud Hens? ---
**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, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/53 "2022-08-10T20:22:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you write \*Either/Or"? > 2. Are you currently the protagonist in a movie now playing featuring The Rock as your voice? > 3. Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_? Three DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Oh-hoh SAAAY can YOOOUU SEEEEE…by the DAWN’S early LIGHT? > 2. Were you nominated to the US Supreme Court by Joe Biden? > 3. Did you create _Ren and Stimpy_? You only get two DQs 1. Not Francis Scott Key > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your heart surgery spoofed by _Doonesbury_? > Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_? > Are you the most famous fictional fan of the Toledo Mud Hens? You might get one. 1. Not … Henry Kissinger? 2. Not Kitchener 3. Not Max Klinger ---
**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 10, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/54 "2022-08-10T20:34:53Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Oh-hoh SAAAY can YOOOUU SEEEEE…by the DAWN’S early LIGHT? > 2. Were you nominated to the US Supreme Court by Joe Biden? > 3. Did you create _Ren and Stimpy_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > 1. Not Francis Scott Key 2 was Ketanji Brown Jackson; 3 was John Kricfalusi. DQs: 1. real? 2. first name begins with K? ---
**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 10, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/55 "2022-08-10T20:34:58Z")
Swept me (for Kissinger, the surgeon was thinking of all of the terrible things the former Nixon aide had done, and then remembered his Hippocratic Oath). IQs: Did you like to sail on the _Victura_? Did you visit the Taj Mahal with your sister? Did your American wedding make the cover of _Life_ in the early Eighties? ---
**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, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/56 "2022-08-10T21:20:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you write \*Either/Or"? > > 2. Are you currently the protagonist in a movie now playing featuring The Rock as your voice? > > 3. Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_? > > Three DQs. #1 was Soren Kierkegaard. #2 is Krypto, Superman’s pet dog, now staring in _Legion of Super-Pets_. #3 was Immanuel Kant. DQ: 1. Male? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/57 "2022-08-10T21:42:17Z")
IQ1: Did you make music with Lucille? IQ2: Did you direct _Maximum Overdrive_? IQ3: Were you a clown friend of Betty Boop? ---
**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 11, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/58 "2022-08-11T00:12:50Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the current vice president of the US? 2. Are you the current Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel? 3. Were you born Temujin–the name you’re currently known by is a title, possibly meaning “Oceanic [i.e. universal] Ruler”? In fact, at the time of your death in the 13th century your empire stretched from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea. ---
**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 11, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/59 "2022-08-11T02:34:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you like to sail on the _Victura_? > Did you visit the Taj Mahal with your sister? > Did your American wedding make the cover of _Life_ in the early Eighties? Three DQs > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you make music with Lucille? > IQ2: Did you direct _Maximum Overdrive_? > IQ3: Were you a clown friend of Betty Boop? 1. Not … Kenny Rogers? 2. DQ 3. DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the current vice president of the US? > 2. Are you the current Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel? > 3. Were you born Temujin–the name you’re currently known by is a title, possibly meaning “Oceanic [i.e. universal] Ruler”? In fact, at the time of your death in the 13th century your empire stretched from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea. 1. Not Kamala Harris 2. DQ 3. Not Genghis/Jenghis/Chingis (pick a spelling – any spelling) Khan **K** 1. Not real 2. First name begins with K 3. Male ---
**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 11, 2022, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071/60 "2022-08-11T02:50:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 1. Not Kamala Harris > 2. DQ > 3. Not Genghis/Jenghis/Chingis (pick a spelling – any spelling) Khan 2 was Kamala Khan. DQ: created before 1980? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2022/969071.md?page=4)