# Botticelli - December 2017

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [December 2, 2017, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317 "2017-12-02T08:30:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**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, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/41 "2017-12-05T23:33:43Z")

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I hope SCAdian comes back soon.

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**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, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/42 "2017-12-06T02:57:42Z")

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IQ1: Were you the 11th US president?  
IQ2: Were you the host of “Jackass”?  
IQ3: Are you aka the Milwaukee Cannibal?

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**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, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/43 "2017-12-06T03:33:29Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Were you the 11th US president?  
> IQ2: Were you the host of “Jackass”?  
> IQ3: Are you aka the Milwaukee Cannibal?

1. I am not James K. Polk.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/44 "2017-12-06T05:03:39Z")

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Way to go, **Prof. P.**!

Previous IQs:

Were you Elendil’s son? - Isildur, in _LOTR_  
Were you Miss Trixie Delight’s maid? - Imogene, in _Paper Moon_  
Were you Hillary’s top aide in her failed 1990s healthcare-reform effort? - Ira Magaziner

On to J…

IQs:

Were you once told not to use a phone that you were perfectly entitled to use?  
Were you that person’s spouse?  
Were you that person’s son?

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**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, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/45 "2017-12-06T13:24:06Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQ1: Were you the 11th US president?  
> IQ2: Were you the host of “Jackass”?  
> IQ3: Are you aka the Milwaukee Cannibal?
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> 1. I am not James K. Polk.  
> Take 2 DQs.

correct, Johnny Knoxville, Jeffrey Dahmer

DQ: Real?  
DQ: First name start with J?

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**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, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/46 "2017-12-06T13:28:22Z")

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IQ1: Did _Thor: Ragnarok_ feature set designs based on your artwork?  
IQ2: Are you a longtime \*Mad \*magazine cartoonist who created the fold-in?  
IQ3: Are you the artist of _BC_?

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**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, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/47 "2017-12-06T14:08:43Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with J

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**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, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/48 "2017-12-06T14:10:05Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Were you once told not to use a phone that you were perfectly entitled to use?  
> Were you that person’s spouse?  
> Were you that person’s son?

Guessing…  
I am not Lyndon B. Johnson.  
I am not Lady Bird Johnson.  
I am not Ray J. Johnson, Jr…

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**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, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/49 "2017-12-06T14:11:05Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Did _Thor: Ragnarok_ feature set designs based on your artwork?  
> IQ2: Are you a longtime \*Mad \*magazine cartoonist who created the fold-in?  
> IQ3: Are you the artist of _BC_?

1. I am not Jack Kirby.
2. I am not Al Jaffee.
3. I am not Johnny Hart.

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**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, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/50 "2017-12-06T15:28:46Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you once told not to use a phone that you were perfectly entitled to use? - JFK, in his first term in Congress and still very young-looking, was told by a Capitol Police officer, “Those phones are just for Congressmen, son”  
Were you that person’s spouse? - Jackie Kennedy, of course  
Were you that person’s son? - JFK Jr.

DQs:

Male?  
Living?  
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Were you one of Lincoln’s two personal aides?  
Were you the other?  
Did you say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”?

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**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, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/51 "2017-12-06T16:11:23Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with J
3. Female
4. Dead
5. Born before 1950

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**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, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/52 "2017-12-06T16:12:30Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Were you one of Lincoln’s two personal aides?  
> Were you the other?  
> Did you say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”?

I am not John Hay.  
I’m not coming up with the other aide.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/53 "2017-12-06T16:26:59Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you one of Lincoln’s two personal aides? - Yes, John Hay  
Were you the other? - John Nicolay  
Did you say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”? - British economist John Maynard Keynes

John x3!

DQs:

American?  
Born before 1850?

IQs:

Were you the best-known recipient of an early sex-change operation?  
Are you a living American woman with an honorary British order of chivalry?  
Are you a late head of the Congressional Black Caucus?

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**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, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/54 "2017-12-06T17:03:43Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with J
3. Female
4. Dead
5. Born before 1950
6. American
7. Born after 1850

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**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, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/55 "2017-12-06T17:04:44Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Were you the best-known recipient of an early sex-change operation?  
> Are you a living American woman with an honorary British order of chivalry?  
> Are you a late head of the Congressional Black Caucus?

I am not Christine Jorgensen (sp?).  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/56 "2017-12-06T17:14:36Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known recipient of an early sex-change operation? - Yes, Christine Jorgensen (I think that’s the correct spelling)  
Are you a living American woman with an honorary British order of chivalry? - Angelina Jolie, for her work on international refugee issues  
Are you a late head of the Congressional Black Caucus? - Stephanie Tubbs Jones, my Congresswoman at the time and a wonderful person

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?  
Had a famous husband?

IQs:

Did you say, “My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete”?  
Did Stephen King use something you wrote as an epigraph in _'Salem’s Lot_?  
Did you provide the voice of a computer system in a recent Joaquin Phoenix movie?

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**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, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/57 "2017-12-06T17:23:56Z")

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IQ1: Are you an ABA/NBA small forward from the 70’s-80’s era nicknamed Dr. J?  
IQ2: Are you a former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, football announcer, and the name for a popular football video game?  
IQ3: Are you a former SF 49ers QB whose surname is a US state?

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**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, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/58 "2017-12-06T17:25:50Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with J
3. Female
4. Dead
5. Born before 1950
6. American
7. Born after 1850
8. Best known for the Arts
9. Did not have a famous husband

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**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, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/59 "2017-12-06T17:27:03Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> Did you say, “My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete”?  
> Did Stephen King use something you wrote as an epigraph in _'Salem’s Lot_?  
> Did you provide the voice of a computer system in a recent Joaquin Phoenix movie?

1. I am not Thomas Jefferson (?).
2. I am not Stephen Jawking (ha?).

Take at least 2 DQs.

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**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, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2017/803317/60 "2017-12-06T17:28:23Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you an ABA/NBA small forward from the 70’s-80’s era nicknamed Dr. J?  
> IQ2: Are you a former head coach of the Oakland Raiders, football announcer, and the name for a popular football video game?  
> IQ3: Are you a former SF 49ers QB whose surname is a US state?

1. I am not Julius Erving.
2. I am not John Madden.
3. I am not Joe Montana.

Wow, I think I just got 3 sports questions right.

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