# Botticelli - December 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 7, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745 "2018-12-07T13:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/1 "2018-12-07T13:00:59Z")
And I am G! ---
**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, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/2 "2018-12-07T17:42:03Z")
November thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865115](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865115) IQs: Were you buried in Troy, N.Y., the hometown of your wife? Did David Morse play you brilliantly in an HBO miniseries? Did you take polite exception to a reporter’s question about your “feelings” on a proposed bill? ---
**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, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/3 "2018-12-07T17:56:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > November thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865115](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865115) > > IQs: > > Were you buried in Troy, N.Y., the hometown of your wife? > Did David Morse play you brilliantly in an HBO miniseries? > Did you take polite exception to a reporter’s question about your “feelings” on a proposed bill? 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 7, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/4 "2018-12-07T18:20:29Z")
Previous IQs: Were you buried in Troy, N.Y., the hometown of your wife? - Virginia-born Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, a hero of the Civil War Did David Morse play you brilliantly in an HBO miniseries? - George Washington, in _John Adams_ (here’s a particularly good scene: [George Washington, oath of office - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgCQDZdlMdc)) Did you take polite exception to a reporter’s question about your “feelings” on a proposed bill? - George C. Marshall, Truman’s Secretary of State, said, “I save my feelings for Mrs. Marshall” George x3! DQs: Real? Male? Last name start with G? IQs: Were you the best-known person born in New Rumley, Ohio? Have both Colin Firth and Jared Harris played you, despite looking very little like you? Were you once described as “a damned old goggle-eyed snapping turtle”? ---
**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, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/5 "2018-12-07T19:32:24Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G EH, you swept me again. Take 3 more 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 8, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/6 "2018-12-08T03:02:30Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the best-known person born in New Rumley, Ohio? - George Armstrong Custer Have both Colin Firth and Jared Harris played you, despite looking very little like you? - King George VI, in _The King’s Speech_ and _The Crown_ Were you once described as “a damned old goggle-eyed snapping turtle”? - George G. Meade, victor at Gettysburg, who was not always the warmest and fuzziest kind of guy George x3 redux! DQs: American? Living? Born since 1950? IQs: Did an admirer of a different race than your own ask for a lock of your hair to put in a piece of jewelry? Was your creator unsure if you had been reincarnated or not? Were you an unsavory advisor to a fictional king? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/7 "2018-12-08T03:25:27Z")
1. Is one of your songs strikingly similar to the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine”? 2. Did you play a live-action Fred Flintstone? 3. Did you write _The Phantom of the Opera_? ---
**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 8, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/8 "2018-12-08T11:16:35Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Born before 1950 ---
**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 8, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/9 "2018-12-08T11:17:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did an admirer of a different race than your own ask for a lock of your hair to put in a piece of jewelry? > Was your creator unsure if you had been reincarnated or not? > Were you an unsavory advisor to a fictional king? #3. I am not Grima Wormtongue. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 8, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/10 "2018-12-08T11:18:46Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Is one of your songs strikingly similar to the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine”? > 2. Did you play a live-action Fred Flintstone? > 3. Did you write _The Phantom of the Opera_? Take a DQ for #1. #2. I am not John Goodman. #3. I am not Gaston Leroux. ---
**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 8, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/11 "2018-12-08T20:40:04Z")
Previous IQs: Did an admirer of a different race than your own ask for a lock of your hair to put in a piece of jewelry? - Gimli asked this of Galadriel Was your creator unsure if you had been reincarnated or not? - Tolkien wrote this of the Elf-lord Glorfindel Were you an unsavory advisor to a fictional king? - Yes, Grima Wormtongue, advisor to Theoden King of Rohan DQs: European? Born before 1850? IQs: Were you a strange alien prostitute in the writings of Douglas Adams? Were you an occasional Scotland Yard foil to Sherlock Holmes? Were you another? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/12 "2018-12-09T04:55:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. > #2. I am not John Goodman. > #3. I am not Gaston Leroux. 1 was George Harrison, whose song “My Sweet Lord” led to a legal case and who was found to have “subconsciously” plagiarized. IQs: 1. Did you sing “Alice’s Restaurant”? 2. Were you the first female prime minister of India? 3. Are you the author of such young adult novels as _The Fault in Our Stars_ and _Paper Towns_? DQ: 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 9, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/13 "2018-12-09T13:50:01Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Born before 1950 7. European 8. Born after 1850 9. 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 9, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/14 "2018-12-09T13:52:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a strange alien prostitute in the writings of Douglas Adams? > Were you an occasional Scotland Yard foil to Sherlock Holmes? > Were you another? #1. I am not Eccentrica Gallumbits. #2. I am not Gaston (?) Lestrade. #3. Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you sing “Alice’s Restaurant”? > 2. Were you the first female prime minister of India? > 3. Are you the author of such young adult novels as _The Fault in Our Stars_ and _Paper Towns_? #1. I am not Arlo Guthrie. #2. I am not Indira Gandhi. #3. Take a DQ. ---
**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, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/15 "2018-12-09T20:08:04Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a strange alien prostitute in the writings of Douglas Adams? - Yes, Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore from Eroticon 4, IIRC Were you an occasional Scotland Yard foil to Sherlock Holmes? - Yes, G. Lestrade (Conan Doyle never told us what his full first name was) Were you another? - Insp. Gregson DQ: British? IQs: Did a biographer concede you’d done nothing much in your adult life other than kill small animals and collect stamps? Were you a real person who makes a tragic appearance in a work of fiction by Susanna Clarke? Were you a real person who, played by an actor, makes a semi-comic appearance in one of the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movies? ---
**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, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/16 "2018-12-09T21:44:25Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Born before 1950 7. European 8. Born after 1850 9. Known for the Arts 10. Not British ---
**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, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/17 "2018-12-09T21:48:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a biographer concede you’d done nothing much in your adult life other than kill small animals and collect stamps? > Were you a real person who makes a tragic appearance in a work of fiction by Susanna Clarke? > Were you a real person who, played by an actor, makes a semi-comic appearance in one of the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movies? #1. Take a DQ. #2. The only G I’m coming up with in _Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell_ is Flora Greysteel. If that’s not the person (and probably not), then take a DQ. #3. I am not King George II. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/18 "2018-12-10T01:59:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Arlo Guthrie. > #2. I am not Indira Gandhi. > #3. Take a DQ. 3 was best-selling author John Green. IQs: 1. Are you the furry orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers? 2. Are you the green-hued clay star of animated shorts by Art Clokey? 3. Are you a big purple milkshake-loving monster from McDonaldland? DQ: known for literature? ---
**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, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/19 "2018-12-10T02:22:07Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Born before 1950 7. European 8. Born after 1850 9. Known for the Arts 10. Not British 11. Known for Literature ---
**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, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/20 "2018-12-10T02:23:09Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the furry orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers? > 2. Are you the green-hued clay star of animated shorts by Art Clokey? > 3. Are you a big purple milkshake-loving monster from McDonaldland? Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Gumby, and I’m not Grimace. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745.md?page=2)