# 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:** 7
**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 7, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/121 "2014-12-07T15:36:14Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is the character of E. K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind based on you? > 2. Did you write archy & mehitabel? > 3. Did you write The Late George Apley? > > uh oh, take 3 DQs #1 was H. L. Mencken. #2 was Don Marquis. #3 was John P. Marquand. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Male? 3. 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 7, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/122 "2014-12-07T15:38:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Paradise Regained_? 2. Did you compose _Night on Bald Mountain_? 3. Did you write _The Master and Margarita_? ---
**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 7, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/123 "2014-12-07T15:40:05Z")
DQ Roundup: 1. Real 2. First name starts with M 3. Dead 4. Male 5. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/124 "2014-12-07T16:10:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Paradise Regained_? > 2. Did you compose _Night on Bald Mountain_? > 3. Did you write _The Master and Margarita_? I’m going to go ahead and guess John Milton on 1, but it’s probably wrong as I don’t think they wrote many sequels back then. Take 2 DQs for 2 and 3. ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/125 "2014-12-07T16:22:51Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write Paradise Regained? > 2. Did you compose Night on Bald Mountain? > 3. Did you write The Master and Margarita? > > I’m going to go ahead and guess John Milton on 1, but it’s probably wrong as I don’t think they wrote many sequels back then. > > Take 2 DQs for 2 and 3. #1 was indeed John Milton. #2 was Modest Mussorgsky. #3 was Mikhail Bulgakov. DQs: 1. Died after 1950? 2. Known for politics or the military? 3. American? ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/126 "2014-12-07T16:31:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1 was indeed John Milton. > #2 was Modest Mussorgsky. > #3 was Mikhail Bulgakov. > > DQs: > > 1. Died after 1950? > 2. Known for politics or the military? > 3. American? It would appear you have but two DQs, as #1 was answered correctly. Which two would you like to ask? ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/127 "2014-12-07T16:42:09Z")
1. Did you begin the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe? 2. Were you shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida? 3. Did you direct _Taxi Driver_? ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/128 "2014-12-07T16:54:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 1. Did you begin the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe? > 2. Were you shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida? > 3. Did you direct _Taxi Driver_? 1. I’m not Martin Luther 2. I’m not Treyvon Martin 3. I’m not Martin Scorcese ---
**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 7, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/129 "2014-12-07T17:01:50Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > It would appear you have but two DQs, as #1 was answered correctly. Which two would you like to ask? Oops. DQs: 1. American? 2. Died after 1950? ---
**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 7, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/130 "2014-12-07T17:12:37Z")
DQ Roundup: 1. Real 2. First name starts with M 3. Dead 4. Male 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not an American[SUP][1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17920297&postcount=331)[/SUP] 7. Died before 1950 ---
**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 7, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/131 "2014-12-07T18:01:31Z")
Ooo, a Botticelli footnote! IQs: Did you write “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”? Did you perform at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of _Gone with the Wind_? Were you Frasier and Niles’s ex-cop dad? ---
**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 7, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/132 "2014-12-07T18:37:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you write “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”? > Did you perform at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of _Gone with the Wind_? > Were you Frasier and Niles’s ex-cop dad? hmm… I’m guessing Cotton Mather on the first take a DQ on the second I remember the character but I’m unsure of his given name… was he Martin Crane? ---
**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 7, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/133 "2014-12-07T18:44:22Z")
IQ1: Are you and fellow Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann known as “the rhythm devils”? IQ2: Are you a drummer for T. Rex who shares the name of a knockout drink? IQ3: Were you considered part of the Jewish Mafia along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel? ---
**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 7, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/134 "2014-12-07T18:56:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? 2. Were you the title character in a juvenile musical written by Paul Williams? 3. Did you hang around with Secret Squirrel? ---
**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 7, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/135 "2014-12-07T22:49:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Swamp Fox? > IQ2: When there is a wrong to right, will you join the fight? > IQ3: Are Sid and Diego your best friends? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Take a DQ for 1 and 3, I think 2 is Mighty Mouse. Col Francis Marion. Correct on Mighty Mouse. Manny, the mammoth in the _Ice Age_ films. DQ1: European? DQ2: Best known for military and/or political work? IQ1: Did Stephen of Blois fight you for a top job? IQ2: Are you known for your work with peas? IQ3: Did you have a 12-string guitar that was like nothing David Allan Coe ever heard? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/136 "2014-12-07T23:36:24Z")
IQ1) Were you the older sister of King Arthur? IQ2) Do you have a jackknife that you keep out of sight? IQ3) Did you hit a famous walkoff homer over Yogi Berra’s head at Forbes Field? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/137 "2014-12-08T00:28:13Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did your mother call you Norma Jean? > IQ2: Are you a shock rocker whose music was enjoyed by the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre? > IQ3: Are you “the smartest woman in the world”? As you said, Marilyn Monroe As you said, Marilyn Manson As you said, Marilyn vos Savant I just realised I forgot to tell everyone who the mermaid LL was - Lori Lemaris. 1: Were you the highest ranking person taken prisoner by Henran Cortez? 2: Were you the Red Baron? 3: Did you unexpectedly become Thane of Cawdor? ---
**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 8, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/138 "2014-12-08T01:11:55Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you and fellow Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann known as “the rhythm devils”? > IQ2: Are you a drummer for T. Rex who shares the name of a knockout drink? > IQ3: Were you considered part of the Jewish Mafia along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel? Take a DQ for 1 and 3, I’m guessing Mickey Finn for IQ2. ---
**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 8, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/139 "2014-12-08T01:12:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? > 2. Were you the title character in a juvenile musical written by Paul Williams? > 3. Did you hang around with Secret Squirrel? … and that’s a complete blank. Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 8, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/140 "2014-12-08T01:14:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Col Francis Marion. > IQ1: Did Stephen of Blois fight you for a top job? > IQ2: Are you known for your work with peas? > IQ3: Did you have a 12-string guitar that was like nothing David Allan Coe ever heard? hmm… blanking on 1 and 3, was IQ2 Mandel, of genetics fame? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=8)