# Botticelli - Dec. 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 8, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212 "2016-12-08T16:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/61 "2016-12-17T02:49:45Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/62 "2016-12-17T02:51:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do you dally and gather and pluck and shine? > IQ2: Did you write a book in which the number ((six to the sixth power) to the sixth power) was important? > IQ3: Were you the main character of _Centerburg Tales_? > IQ3: #1. I am not Prof. Harold Hill. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/63 "2016-12-17T03:12:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do you dally and gather and pluck and shine? > IQ2: Did you write a book in which the number ((six to the sixth power) to the sixth power) was important? > IQ3: Were you the main character of _Centerburg Tales_? > IQ3: > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Prof. Harold Hill. > Take 2 DQs for the others. Correct. Robert A Heinlein (_The Number of the Beast_, in which that was his interpretation of said number). Homer Price. DQ1: Living? DQ2: Known for the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/64 "2016-12-17T03:16:00Z")
The Austinite who edited Rolling Stone was O. Henry And the guy who tried stealing a fortune in bonds was Hans Gruber, in “Die Hard” Van Helsing wasn’t who I had in mind, but your answer kinda works. DQ1) First name starts with H? DQ2) American? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/65 "2016-12-17T05:35:19Z")
Previous IQs: Is Bruno Ganz one of the most recent actors to portray you? - Yes, Adolf Hitler. Ganz was actually very good in _Downfall_; too bad he’s best known now for being in all those “Hitler throws a tantrum” YouTube videos. Did you supposedly tell Abraham Lincoln to “Get down, you damn fool”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., during the 1864 Confederate attack on Ft. Stevens, part of the defenses of Washington. Are you that person’s literary dad? - O.W. Holmes Sr. DQs: Born east of the Miss.? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? IQs: Were you assassinated in Operation ANTHROPOID? Were you that person’s immediate superior? Did you die in Spandau Prison? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/66 "2016-12-17T11:51:22Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not known for the Arts 5. Only name starts with H 6. Not American EH, given #6 above, I’ll let you re-ask your DQs. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/67 "2016-12-17T11:52:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you assassinated in Operation ANTHROPOID? > Were you that person’s immediate superior? > Did you die in Spandau Prison? #3. I am not Rudolf Hess. Take another 2 DQs for the others. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/68 "2016-12-17T13:27:14Z")
Did astrologers visit you to ask about the birth of a new king? Did the U.S. postal service’s motto (“Neither rain now sleet nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers”) come from your writings? Did you famously note that one can never step in the same river twice? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/69 "2016-12-17T17:14:51Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did astrologers visit you to ask about the birth of a new king? > > Did the U.S. postal service’s motto (“Neither rain now sleet nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers”) come from your writings? > > Did you famously note that one can never step in the same river twice? 1. I am not Herod. 2. I am not Herodotus. 3. I am not Heraclites. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/70 "2016-12-17T22:40:12Z")
IQ1: Were you a Babylonian king now best known for the laws you enacted? IQ2: Were you a first-century Roman poet? IQ3: Were you an ancient Greek who experimented with steam power and wind power? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/71 "2016-12-17T23:18:23Z")
Were the Thompson Twins named after characters you created? Did you really hate Mordecai and his kinsmen? Did you use your adulterous wife as a metaphor for idolatry? ---
**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:** [December 17, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/72 "2016-12-17T23:48:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Babylonian king now best known for the laws you enacted? > IQ2: Were you a first-century Roman poet? > IQ3: Were you an ancient Greek who experimented with steam power and wind power? ding,ding,ding! I am indeed Hammurabi. Good job, SCA! I’m guessing that only having one name placed the person in antiquity without any questions regarding time needed. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/73 "2016-12-18T01:12:17Z")
Good job, **SCAdian**! Previous IQs: Were you assassinated in Operation ANTHROPOID? - Reinhard Heydrich, a top SS official known as “the Butcher of Prague” Were you that person’s immediate superior? - Heinrich Himmler. Did you die in Spandau Prison? - Yes, Rudolf Hess. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/74 "2016-12-18T01:13:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m guessing that only having one name placed the person in antiquity without any questions regarding time needed. Yep. 🙂 (Well, that and not being known for the Arts…) > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ2: Were you a first-century Roman poet? > IQ3: Were you an ancient Greek who experimented with steam power and wind power? Those were Horace and Hero (aka Heron) of Alexandria. I am now **N**. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/75 "2016-12-18T02:22:15Z")
IQs: 1. Do you grow orchids and solve crimes? 2. Were you a deadpan comic actor contemporary with W. C. Fields? 3. Are you best known for writing brief comic verse? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/76 "2016-12-18T04:28:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you grow orchids and solve crimes? > 2. Were you a deadpan comic actor contemporary with W. C. Fields? > 3. Are you best known for writing brief comic verse? Not Nero Wolfe. DQ. Not Ogden Nash. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/77 "2016-12-18T05:01:28Z")
IQs: After the humiliating capture of much of your army’s supplies, were you nicknamed “Commissary”? Did you face off against Cornwallis at Guilford Court House? Did a well-known book of yours have an incongruous discussion of patronage in the early U.S.? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/78 "2016-12-18T16:29:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you grow orchids and solve crimes? > 2. Were you a deadpan comic actor contemporary with W. C. Fields? > 3. Are you best known for writing brief comic verse? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Nero Wolfe. > DQ. > Not Ogden Nash. Correct, Ned Sparks, correct. DQ: Real? IQs: 1. Did you play Lois Lane in _The Adventures of Superman_? 2. Were you the Man from U.N.C.L.E.? 3. Did you play the Joker in _Batman_? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/79 "2016-12-18T23:40:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > After the humiliating capture of much of your army’s supplies, were you nicknamed “Commissary”? > Did you face off against Cornwallis at Guilford Court House? > Did a well-known book of yours have an incongruous discussion of patronage in the early U.S.? DQ. Not … Nathanael Greene? DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Lois Lane in _The Adventures of Superman_? > 2. Were you the Man from U.N.C.L.E.? > 3. Did you play the Joker in _Batman_? DQ. Not Napoleon Solo. Not … Jack Nicholson? **N** 1. 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:** [December 19, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212/80 "2016-12-19T01:30:34Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Lois Lane in The Adventures of Superman? > 2. Were you the Man from U.N.C.L.E.? > 3. Did you play the Joker in Batman? > DQ. > Not Napoleon Solo. > Not … Jack Nicholson? #1 was Noel Neill. Correct on the others. DQ: Male? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2016/774212.md?page=5)