# Botticelli - December 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153 "2014-12-02T19:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/21 "2014-12-03T13:13:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Critique of Pure Reason_? > 2. Do they celebrate your birthday in Hawaii on June 11th? > 3. Are some of the Psalms attributed to your sons? Not Immanuel Kant (?), not King Kamehameha (complete WAG), not King Solomon (?) :o ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/22 "2014-12-03T13:15:30Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1 was Kevin Matchstick, in Matt Wagner’s _Mage_; the other two were correct. > > IQ1: Were you a consultant for the movie _Interstellar_? > IQ2: Did you play an undercover agent infiltrating a group of surfing bank robbers? > IQ3: Did you play a US Naval officer assigned to investigate the suspicious death of a woman who you and your boss had each been secretly having an affair with? I remembered the character, but it had been so long since I read _Mage_, I completely forgot his name. dunno, not Keanu Reeves, dunno ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/23 "2014-12-03T14:27:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write The Critique of Pure Reason? > 2. Do they celebrate your birthday in Hawaii on June 11th? > 3. Are some of the Psalms attributed to your sons? > > Not Immanuel Kant (?), not King Kamehameha (complete WAG), not King Solomon (?) Correct on Manny and Kame. #3 was Korah to whose sons are attributed Psalms 42-49 and others. DQ: Known for the Arts, performing or creative? ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/24 "2014-12-03T14:32:27Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Borscht Belt comic who was Historian for the Friar’s Club? 2. Did you play the Pirate King in the movie version of _The Pirates of Penzance_? 3. Were you a founding member of the New Mutants? ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/25 "2014-12-03T14:52:39Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you also known as Grasshopper? > IQ2: Were you a fictional secret agent in the British Raj in the late 1800s? > IQ3: Were you a fictional secret agent in the British Raj in the early 1900s? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Not Kwa-chang Kang (from the TV series Kung Fu, played by David Carradine, I’m sure I butchered the spelling) > pass x2 Corect (it’s Kwai Chang Caine). Kim (_Kim_, by Rudyard Kipling). Athelstan King (_King of the Khyber Rifles_, by Talbot Mundy). DQ1: Born after 1950? DQ2: Born east of the Mississippi? IQ1: Did you write _The Affluent Society_? IQ2: Did preventing your death delay US entry into WW II, leading to an Axis victory? IQ3: Did you fall in love with that person? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/26 "2014-12-03T15:46:36Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. First name starts with K 3. American 4. Male 5. Alive 6. Known for the Arts, performing or creative 7. Born after 1950 8. Born west of the Mississippi ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/27 "2014-12-03T15:48:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Borscht Belt comic who was Historian for the Friar’s Club? > 2. Did you play the Pirate King in the movie version of _The Pirates of Penzance_? > 3. Were you a founding member of the New Mutants? Not Alan King, pass, not Kid Cyclops 😃 ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/28 "2014-12-03T15:50:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _The Affluent Society_? > IQ2: Did preventing your death delay US entry into WW II, leading to an Axis victory? > IQ3: Did you fall in love with that person? pass, can’t remember her name, not James T. Kirk ---
**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 3, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/29 "2014-12-03T16:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Borscht Belt comic who was Historian for the Friar’s Club? > 2. Did you play the Pirate King in the movie version of The Pirates of Penzance? > 3. Were you a founding member of the New Mutants? > > Not Alan King, pass, not Kid Cyclops Correct on Alan. #2 was Kevin Kline. #3 was Karma. DQs: 1. Known for the performing arts? 2. Common first name? ---
**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 3, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/30 "2014-12-03T16:04:15Z")
IQs: 1. Did you accompany Betty Boop and Bimbo in a number of cartoons? 2. Did you help to bind Prometheus? 3. Are you the consort of Siva? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/31 "2014-12-03T16:06:48Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1 was Kevin Matchstick, in Matt Wagner’s _Mage_; the other two were correct. > > IQ1: Were you a consultant for the movie _Interstellar_? > IQ2: Did you play an undercover agent infiltrating a group of surfing bank robbers? > IQ3: Did you play a US Naval officer assigned to investigate the suspicious death of a woman who you and your boss had each been secretly having an affair with? 1 was Kip Thorne, 2 was correct, 3 was Kevin Costner in _No Way Out_. Prof grabbed variants of my DQs while I was editing, so waiting on those. ---
**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 3, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/32 "2014-12-03T16:10:57Z")
Previous IQs: Did you like to sail on the _Victura_? - John F. Kennedy: [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/0VB9As8Dd0Cgfh8OnhAOrg.aspx](http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/0VB9As8Dd0Cgfh8OnhAOrg.aspx) Were you a famous woman first married in Rhode Island? - Jackie Kennedy, in Newport: [http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/01\_00161939.jpg?w=740](http://timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/01_00161939.jpg?w=740) Were you POTUS in the novel _Fatherland_? - Joe Kennedy Sr. - it’s an alternative history/mystery. Good stuff. DQs: Best known for the performing arts? Born since 1970? Has received a top prize in his field? IQs: Was your tour of the U.S. the subject of a recent PBS documentary? Did you talk to a subordinate about your boss being “loaded”? Are you the most famous fictional fan of the Toledo Mudhens? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/33 "2014-12-03T16:16:09Z")
IQ1) Did a Monty Python sketch claim that you owned a large menagerie in which all the animals were named Abdul? IQ2) Did you sing lead on “I Just Stopped By to See What Condition My Condition Was in”? IQ3) Are you the first British author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/34 "2014-12-03T16:16:39Z")
IQ1: Are you the civilian name of one of the founders of the Legion of Super Heroes? (There are way way too many [name] Kids in the LSH…) IQ2: Are you a record-setting game show contestant? IQ3: Did you write a trilogy of books set in the Star Wars universe? ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/35 "2014-12-03T18:07:41Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. First name starts with K 3. American 4. Male 5. Alive 6. Known for the Arts, performing or creative 7. Born after 1950 8. Born west of the Mississippi 9. Known for the performing arts 10. First name is fairly common 11. Born since 1970 12. Has not received top prize in his field ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/36 "2014-12-03T18:09:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you accompany Betty Boop and Bimbo in a number of cartoons? > 2. Did you help to bind Prometheus? > 3. Are you the consort of Siva? pass, not Kronos, not Kali ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/37 "2014-12-03T18:13:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your tour of the U.S. the subject of a recent PBS documentary? > Did you talk to a subordinate about your boss being “loaded”? > Are you the most famous fictional fan of the Toledo Mudhens? not Kruschev, dunno, not Max Klinger ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/38 "2014-12-03T18:14:21Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did a Monty Python sketch claim that you owned a large menagerie in which all the animals were named Abdul? > > IQ2) Did you sing lead on “I Just Stopped By to See What Condition My Condition Was in”? > > IQ3) Are you the first British author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? dunno x2, not Keats ---
**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:** [December 3, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/39 "2014-12-03T18:15:44Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Are you the civilian name of one of the founders of the Legion of Super Heroes? (There are way way too many [name] Kids in the LSH…) > IQ2: Are you a record-setting game show contestant? > IQ3: Did you write a trilogy of books set in the Star Wars universe? not Kyle Gardner, not Kenneth (don’t remember last name), pass ---
**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 3, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/40 "2014-12-03T18:44:57Z")
[/QUOTE] 1. Did you accompany Betty Boop and Bimbo in a number of cartoons? 2. Did you help to bind Prometheus? 3. Are you the consort of Siva? pass, not Kronos, not Kali [/QUOTE] #1 was Koko the Clown. #2 was Kratos (personification of brute force), by that time Kronos was dead. #3 is correct. DQ: Known for TV? 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=3)