# Botticelli August 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985 "2023-08-03T02:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**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 21, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/301 "2023-08-21T12:45:50Z")
Nicely done, **SMV!** ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/302 "2023-08-21T21:09:16Z")
New round. I am: [![](https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/T-bvcndT9H-sa1FGc8NvaK-Bsio/w_700/prints/~artwork/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/misc/41f8604455bd4473a7e8680966340c8a/~~/letter-m-in-calligraphy-calligraphed-letter-m-handlettered-m-handlettering-majuscule-capital-letter-cursive-writing-black-and-white-wall-art-art-print-prints.jpg) ](https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/T-bvcndT9H-sa1FGc8NvaK-Bsio/w_700/prints/~artwork/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/misc/41f8604455bd4473a7e8680966340c8a/~~/letter-m-in-calligraphy-calligraphed-letter-m-handlettered-m-handlettering-majuscule-capital-letter-cursive-writing-black-and-white-wall-art-art-print-prints.jpg) ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/303 "2023-08-22T03:04:34Z")
Barbie - d’oh! Good one. Not like she hasn’t been everywhere this summer. On to M. IQs: Were you the fictional head of SIS in 1960? Was your song prominently featured in _The Bourne Identity_? Were you ship’s surgeon of HMS _Surprise_? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/304 "2023-08-22T10:45:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the fictional head of SIS in 1960? > Was your song prominently featured in _The Bourne Identity_? > Were you ship’s surgeon of HMS _Surprise_? 1. I am not “M”. 2. DQ. 3. Jesus and Mary and Patrick be with you, but I am not Stephen Maturin, for all love. ---
**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 22, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/305 "2023-08-22T13:09:58Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write that a specter was haunting Europe? 2. Did you write _H is for Hawk_? 3. Are your notebooks still radioactive? ---
**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 22, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/306 "2023-08-22T13:46:35Z")
IQs: 1. Were you “the Say Hey Kid”? 2. Is your name the first to appear in the song _Science Fiction Double Feature_? 3. Did you write the poem _Sea Fever_? ---
**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 22, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/307 "2023-08-22T14:15:52Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the fictional head of SIS in 1960? - Yes, M, in the Ian Fleming spy novels Was your song prominently featured in _The Bourne Identity_? - Moby (“Extreme Ways”) Were you ship’s surgeon of HMS _Surprise_? - Yes, dear Dr. Maturin, in Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic sea adventures DQ: Real? IQs: Were you a Seventies Congresswoman with an excruciatingly WASPy name? Did you lead The Citadel after WW2? Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/308 "2023-08-22T14:23:12Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you write that a specter was haunting Europe? > 2. Did you write _H is for Hawk_? > 3. Are your notebooks still radioactive? 1. I am not Karl Marx. 2. DQ. 3. I am not Marie Curie. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you “the Say Hey Kid”? > 2. Is your name the first to appear in the song _Science Fiction Double Feature_? > 3. Did you write the poem _Sea Fever_? 1. I am not Willie Mays. 2. I am not Michael Rennie. 3. I am not…Herman Melville. ---
**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 22, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/309 "2023-08-22T14:25:31Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not Karl Marx. > 2. DQ. > 3. I am not Marie Curie. 2 was Helen Macdonald. DQ: real? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/310 "2023-08-22T14:53:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a Seventies Congresswoman with an excruciatingly WASPy name? > Did you lead The Citadel after WW2? > Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? 1. DQ. 2. DQ. 3. I am not Marko Ramius, from _The Hunt For Red October._ ---
**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 22, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/311 "2023-08-22T14:53:46Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you “the Say Hey Kid”? > > 2. Is your name the first to appear in the song _Science Fiction Double Feature_? > > 3. Did you write the poem _Sea Fever_? > > 1. I am not Willie Mays. > 2. I am not Michael Rennie. > 3. I am not…Herman Melville. Correct Correct #3 was John Masefield. “I must go down to the sea again, To the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship And a star to steer her by.” DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/312 "2023-08-22T15:00:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3 was John Masefield. > “I must go down to the sea again, > To the lonely sea and the sky, > And all I ask is a tall ship > And a star to steer her by.” After I posted my guess, I thought, “Nah, that’s not right. It’s probably that English sea-poet, what’s-'is-name.” But I still wouldn’t have gotten it, because I was thinking of Walter de la Mare. DQs: 1. Real 2. Male @De_La_Rue, **EH** asked the same DQ earlier, so take another. ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/313 "2023-08-22T15:04:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969 and never again? 2. Were you an NFL quarterback known as “Joe Cool”? 3. Did Claude Monet coerce the French government into buying your best known works from your widow for a small fortune? ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/314 "2023-08-22T15:12:01Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Seventies Congresswoman with an excruciatingly WASPy name? - Millicent Fenwick Did you lead The Citadel after WW2? - Gen. Mark Clark Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? - Yes, Capt. Marko Ramius Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 22, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/315 "2023-08-22T15:12:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Seaguy_? 2. Were you a Know Nothing? 3. After Barbara Bush called your family the dumbest thing she’d ever seen, did you write a letter in response defending them, despite being a fictional character? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/316 "2023-08-22T16:08:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969 and never again? > 2. Were you an NFL quarterback known as “Joe Cool”? > 3. Did Claude Monet coerce the French government into buying your best known works from your widow for a small fortune? 1. DQ. 2. I am not Joe Montana. 3. I am not…Manet? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Seaguy_? > 2. Were you a Know Nothing? > 3. After Barbara Bush called your family the dumbest thing she’d ever seen, did you write a letter in response defending them, despite being a fictional character? 1. DQ. 2. I am not Millard Fillmore. 3. I am not Murphy Brown. ---
**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 22, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/317 "2023-08-22T16:55:47Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969 and never again? > > 2. Were you an NFL quarterback known as “Joe Cool”? > > 3. Did Claude Monet coerce the French government into buying your best known works from your widow for a small fortune? > > 1. DQ. > 2. I am not Joe Montana. > 3. I am not…Manet? #1 was Mario Andretti. Correct on the others. DQ: Last name starts with M? ---
**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 22, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/318 "2023-08-22T17:43:45Z")
DQs: Living? American? IQs: Were you Trump’s first SECDEF? Were you a Foundation “merchant prince” in Asimov’s writings? Were you a bootlegger with occult interests? ---
**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 22, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/319 "2023-08-22T18:14:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you write _Seaguy_? > 2. Were you a Know Nothing? > 3. After Barbara Bush called your family the dumbest thing she’d ever seen, did you write a letter in response defending them, despite being a fictional character? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. DQ. > 2. I am not Millard Fillmore. > 3. I am not Murphy Brown. 1 was Grant Morrison; 3 was Marge Simpson. I’ve been watching the special features on a _Simpsons_ DVD set, and one of them goes over the Bush-Simpson brouhaha. Of course, I’ve seen Marge’s letter and Bush’s diplomatic reply before, but the great thing about the DVD is that you get to hear Julie Kavner read the letter as Marge. DQ: known for the arts? 2 DQs reserved. IQs: 1. Did you ask “What’s Going On?” 2. Did you refuse to endorse Beanee Weenee(s)? 3. Barbara Bush doesn’t read her letter on the DVD–instead, do you, which makes a sort of sense, since you were the longtime voice of a female authority figure on the show as Mrs. Krabappel? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/320 "2023-08-22T19:05:02Z")
IQ: In your original appearance did you co-star with a giant ape, and then later with your brother, but now have a primary franchise all on your own? Do you Transform into a gun? Are you a tomboy video game aficionado, whose life was saved by her love of Kate Bush songs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=17)