# 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:** 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 9, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/61 "2015-12-09T14:02:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a stand-up comedy duo with Avery Schreiber? 2. Did you star opposite Steve Martin in _The Jerk_? 3. Did you have a big hit with _White Christmas_? ---
**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 9, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/62 "2015-12-09T19:44:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Tennessee sheriff known for your one-man war against the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob? > IQ2: Did Eddie Anderson play your valet and chauffeur, Rochester van Jones? > IQ3: Were you a science fiction writer who also wrote Golden Age Captain Marvel comics stories? Not Buford Pusser, Jack Benny or… Ray Bradbury? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a stand-up comedy duo with Avery Schreiber? > 2. Did you star opposite Steve Martin in _The Jerk_? > 3. Did you have a big hit with _White Christmas_? Dunno, but not Bernadette Peters or Bing Crosby. B. 1. real 2. last name starts with B 3. male 4. dead 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not known for politics/military 8. not known for the arts 9. European ---
**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 9, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/63 "2015-12-09T19:57:40Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a stand-up comedy duo with Avery Schreiber? > 2. Did you star opposite Steve Martin in The Jerk? > 3. Did you have a big hit with White Christmas? > Dunno, but not Bernadette Peters or Bing Crosby. #1 was Jack Burns. Correct on the others. DQ: Known for Science? ---
**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 9, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/64 "2015-12-09T20:38:58Z")
B. 1. real 2. last name starts with B 3. male 4. dead 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not known for politics/military 8. not known for the arts 9. European 10. known for science ---
**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 9, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/65 "2015-12-09T23:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Tennessee sheriff known for your one-man war against the Dixie Mafia and the State Line Mob? > IQ2: Did Eddie Anderson play your valet and chauffeur, Rochester van Jones? > IQ3: Were you a science fiction writer who also wrote Golden Age Captain Marvel comics stories? > > Not Buford Pusser, Jack Benny or… Ray Bradbury? Otto Binder - all 1974 deaths DQ: From a country that speaks a Germanic language? ---
**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 9, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/66 "2015-12-09T23:09:47Z")
IQ1: Is a law named after you that describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas? IQ2: Are you a Middle Ages scholar also known as Doctor Mirabilis? IQ3: Is a model of the atom named after you? ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/67 "2015-12-10T05:23:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Is a law named after you that describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas? > IQ2: Are you a Middle Ages scholar also known as Doctor Mirabilis? > IQ3: Is a model of the atom named after you? Dunno, dunno, and not Bohr. B. 1. real 2. last name starts with B 3. male 4. dead 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not known for politics/military 8. not known for the arts 9. European 10. known for science 11. from a country that speaks a Germanic language ---
**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 10, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/68 "2015-12-10T15:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Is a law named after you that describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas? > IQ2: Are you a Middle Ages scholar also known as Doctor Mirabilis? > IQ3: Is a model of the atom named after you? > > Dunno, dunno, and not Bohr. Robert Boyle, Roger Bacon, correct DQ: died before 1800? DQ: is science field related to astronomy? ---
**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 10, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/69 "2015-12-10T16:16:24Z")
IQ1: Does a law named after you describe the relative distances of planets from their primary? IQ2: Were you also called Thayendanegea? IQ3: Did you invent the ballpoint pen? ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/70 "2015-12-10T19:59:32Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the central character in a trilogy by Jonathan Stroud? 2. Are you the head of Muppet Labs? 3. Are you #2’s woeful assistant? ---
**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 11, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/71 "2015-12-11T05:10:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Does a law named after you describe the relative distances of planets from their primary? > IQ2: Were you also called Thayendanegea? > IQ3: Did you invent the ballpoint pen? Not Brahe, dunno, and not… Bic? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the central character in a trilogy by Jonathan Stroud? > 2. Are you the head of Muppet Labs? > 3. Are you #2’s woeful assistant? Dunno (although my dad’s middle name is Stroud), not Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and not Beaker (meep!). B. 1. real 2. last name starts with B 3. male 4. dead 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not known for politics/military 8. not known for the arts 9. European 10. known for science 11. from a country that speaks a Germanic language 12. died after 1800 13. not best known from science field related to astronomy ---
**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 11, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/72 "2015-12-11T12:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the central character in a trilogy by Jonathan Stroud? > 2. Are you the head of Muppet Labs? > 3. Are you #2’s woeful assistant? > Dunno (although my dad’s middle name is Stroud), not Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, and not Beaker (meep!). #1 is the djinni Bartimaeus. Correct on the others. DQ: Known for the field of chemistry? ---
**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 11, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/73 "2015-12-11T13:20:27Z")
IQ1: Are you a character actor and environmental activist best known for playing Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series _St. Elsewhere_? IQ2: Did you invent the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany and the Saturn V for the United States? IQ3: Did you expand on Fritz Harper’s process to fix nitrogen into mass production of fertilizer and explosives? ---
**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 11, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/74 "2015-12-11T13:40:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus_? 2. Were you a member of the Beatles? 3. Do you have me “rockin’ and a-rollin’, rockin’ and a-reelin’”? ---
**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 11, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/75 "2015-12-11T21:18:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a character actor and environmental activist best known for playing Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series _St. Elsewhere_? > IQ2: Did you invent the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany and the Saturn V for the United States? > IQ3: Did you expand on Fritz Harper’s process to fix nitrogen into mass production of fertilizer and explosives? Not Ed Begley Jr., Dr. Werner von Braun, or… dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus_? > 2. Were you a member of the Beatles? > 3. Do you have me “rockin’ and a-rollin’, rockin’ and a-reelin’”? Dunno, not Pete Best, and not Ba Ba Ba Ba Baba Ran, er, Barbara Ann. B. 1. real 2. last name starts with B 3. male 4. dead 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not known for politics/military 8. not known for the arts 9. European 10. known for science 11. from a country that speaks a Germanic language 12. died after 1800 13. not best known from science field related to astronomy 14. known for the field of chemistry ---
**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 11, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/76 "2015-12-11T22:44:23Z")
I realized I spelled a name wrong, so I’m re-asking an IQ. IQ1: Did you expand on Fritz Haber’s process to fix nitrogen into mass production of fertilizer and explosives? IQ2: Is a laboratory burner named after you? IQ3: Are you an alchemist who thought phlogiston was released during combustion? ---
**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 11, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/77 "2015-12-11T22:52:11Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write The Life And Adventures of Santa Claus? > 2. Were you a member of the Beatles? > 3. Do you have me “rockin’ and a-rollin’, rockin’ and a-reelin’”? > Dunno, not Pete Best, and not Ba Ba Ba Ba Baba Ran, er, Barbara Ann. #1 was L. Frank Baum. Correct on 2 and 3. DQ: British? ---
**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 11, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/78 "2015-12-11T23:41:03Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Does a law named after you describe the relative distances of planets from their primary? > IQ2: Were you also called Thayendanegea? > IQ3: Did you invent the ballpoint pen? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Brahe, dunno, and not… Bic? Johann Bode. Joseph Brant. Laszlo Biro. (The Brits call ballpoints “biros.”) Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 12, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/79 "2015-12-12T04:12:35Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > …IQ2: Is a laboratory burner named after you?.. Yes, I am Robert Bunsen of Bunsen burner fame: [Robert Bunsen - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bunsen) Good job, **Knowed Out**! I knew it was probably only a matter of time, after **Prof. P.**'s out-of-left-field IQ about Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. ---
**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 12, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/80 "2015-12-12T13:38:53Z")
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