# Botticelli - December 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446 "2015-12-04T19:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 5, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/21 "2015-12-05T17:07:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > All correct. > > SCAdian has a DQ pending: Living? > > IQ1: Were you originally a sidekick to Pat Dugan, whom you joined in battling Nazis and Fifth-Columnists during WWII? > IQ2: Are you IQ1’s real name? > IQ3: Are you Pat Dugan’s alias? I am not Sylvester Pendleton, nor either the Star-Spangled Kid or Stripesy. ---
**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 5, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/22 "2015-12-05T19:56:07Z")
Curses. Foiled again. IQ1: Did Hal Jordan succeed you as Green Lantern? IQ2: Are you a Legion of Super-Heroes member whose real name is Dirk Morgna? IQ3: Are you the Elongated Man’s wife? ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/23 "2015-12-05T20:59:32Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Curses. Foiled again. > > IQ1: Did Hal Jordan succeed you as Green Lantern? > IQ2: Are you a Legion of Super-Heroes member whose real name is Dirk Morgna? > IQ3: Are you the Elongated Man’s wife? 1. I am not Abin Sur. 2. I am not Sun Boy. 3. I am not Sue Dibny. ---
**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 5, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/24 "2015-12-05T22:47:17Z")
Previous IQs: Did you insult Lincoln when you both worked on the McCormick Reaper case? - Edwin Stanton, a noted trial lawyer at the time and later Lincoln’s Secretary of War. Did Lincoln tell you, after accepting a diplomat’s credentials, who he would be appointing as postmaster in Detroit? - William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Were you appointed Chief Justice of the United States in late 1864? - Salmon P. Chase. DQs: American? Died since 2000? Best known for the arts? IQs: Did you describe yourself as “an old Aberdeen pub-crawler?” Did your dad have a unique doctorate? Did you have a bird as a middle 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 6, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/25 "2015-12-06T03:29:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with S 4. Dead 5. American 6. Died before 2000 7. Not known for the arts ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/26 "2015-12-06T03:30:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you describe yourself as “an old Aberdeen pub-crawler?” > Did your dad have a unique doctorate? > Did you have a bird as a middle name? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 6, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/27 "2015-12-06T04:32:16Z")
Previous IQs: Did you describe yourself as “an old Aberdeen pub-crawler?” - Cmdr. Montgomery “Scotty” Scott. Did your dad have a unique doctorate? - Scott Evil. Did you have a bird as a middle name? - Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer. Scott x3! DQs: Political/military? Died before 1900? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? IQs: Were you Charles Seymour’s chief political rival? Did Mike Myers play you, a little British boy in his tub? Did Alan Arkin play you in a movie that stated that the Nixon who went to China was not the Nixon who came back? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/28 "2015-12-06T13:59:33Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with S 4. Dead 5. American 6. Died before 2000 7. Not known for the arts 8. Political/military 9. Died before 1900 10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/29 "2015-12-06T14:01:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Charles Seymour’s chief political rival? > Did Mike Myers play you, a little British boy in his tub? > Did Alan Arkin play you in a movie that stated that the Nixon who went to China was not the Nixon who came back? #3. I am not Simon. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/30 "2015-12-06T19:30:15Z")
IQ1: Are you the original Vigilante’s Asian sidekick, first incarnation as Jimmy Leong and later as Victor Leong? IQ2: Are you Supergirl’s Supercat? IQ3: Are you the strongest member of Granny Goodness’s Female Furies? ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/31 "2015-12-06T19:47:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the original Vigilante’s Asian sidekick, first incarnation as Jimmy Leong and later as Victor Leong? > IQ2: Are you Supergirl’s Supercat? > IQ3: Are you the strongest member of Granny Goodness’s Female Furies? #2. I am not Streaky. I misremember #3, so take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/32 "2015-12-07T01:58:15Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the original Vigilante’s Asian sidekick, first incarnation as Jimmy Leong and later as Victor Leong? > IQ2: Are you Supergirl’s Supercat? > IQ3: Are you the strongest member of Granny Goodness’s Female Furies? > > #2. I am not Streaky. I misremember #3, so take 2 DQs. Stuff the Chinatown kid, correct, Stompa DQ: Died before 1800? holding a DQ ---
**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, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/33 "2015-12-07T02:20:43Z")
IQ1: Are you the first black Green Lantern? IQ2: Did you help Darkseid murder Highfather’s wife? IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Green Lantern villain who was named for a nursery rhyme character who was born on a Monday? ---
**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, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/34 "2015-12-07T02:31:10Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with S 4. Dead 5. American 6. Died before 2000 7. Not known for the arts 8. Political/military 9. Died before 1900 10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line 11. Died after 1800 ---
**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, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/35 "2015-12-07T02:32:11Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the first black Green Lantern? > IQ2: Did you help Darkseid murder Highfather’s wife? > IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Green Lantern villain who was named for a nursery rhyme character who was born on a Monday? I am not John Stewart. Take a DQ for #2. I am not Solomon Grundy. ---
**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, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/36 "2015-12-07T05:02:47Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Charles Seymour’s chief political rival? - Simon Kerslake, in Jeffrey Archer’s British political thriller _First Among Equals_. Did Mike Myers play you, a little British boy in his tub? - Simon, on _SNL_, always talking about his “drawrings.” Did Alan Arkin play you in a movie that stated that the Nixon who went to China was not the Nixon who came back? - Yes, Simon, in the movie of the same name. Simon x3! DQs: Best known for Civil War fame? Ever held Federal office? IQs: Were you the sole Confederate Vice President? Were you, born in Vermont and elected in Penna., played by a Texan? Were you captain of the CSS _Alabama_? ---
**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, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/37 "2015-12-07T12:57:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you, born in Vermont and elected in Penna., played by a Texan? I had to look up Tommy Lee Jones to see where he was from, but, yes, I am Thaddeus Stevens! Good one, EH! ---
**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, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/38 "2015-12-07T14:53:44Z")
Woohoo! Quite a cheery fellow, was our Thaddeus: [http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/19/70619-004-C81DC8F1.jpg](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/19/70619-004-C81DC8F1.jpg) Other previous IQs: Were you the sole Confederate Vice President? - Alexander Stephens. Were you captain of the CSS _Alabama_? -Raphael Semmes. Thanks. Next round to start later today. ---
**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, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/39 "2015-12-07T21:17:35Z")
We haven’t done it in awhile, so our letter is B ---
**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, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/40 "2015-12-07T21:48:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Birth of the Messiah_ and _The Death of the Messiah_? 2. Did you write _My Last Duchess_? 3. Did you write _The Pilgrim’s Progress_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446.md?page=3)