# 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:** 2
**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, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/21 "2018-12-10T14:47:03Z")
Previous IQs: Did a biographer concede you’d done nothing much in your adult life other than kill small animals and collect stamps? - King George V Were you a real person who makes a tragic appearance in a work of fiction by Susanna Clarke? - Yes, it was in _Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell_, but it was George III Were you a real person who, played by an actor, makes a semi-comic appearance in one of the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ movies? - Yes, George II George x3 redux redux! DQs: Born in or east of Vienna? Born in or north of Vienna? IQs: Were you JFK’s ambassador to India? Are you SpongeBob’s pet snail? Were you an author who was discovered, only after his death, to have served in the German military during World War II? ---
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/22 "2018-12-10T21:04:03Z")
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 12. Born north of Vienna 13. Born east of Vienna ---
**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, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/23 "2018-12-10T21:05:03Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > Were you JFK’s ambassador to India? > Are you SpongeBob’s pet snail? > Were you an author who was discovered, only after his death, to have served in the German military during World War II? #2. I am not Gary. Take 2 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 10, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/24 "2018-12-10T21:40:34Z")
Previous IQs: Were you JFK’s ambassador to India? - John Kenneth Galbraith Are you SpongeBob’s pet snail? - Yes, Gary Were you an author who was discovered, only after his death, to have served in the German military during World War II? - German author Gunter Grass DQs: Best known as a novelist? Greatest fame before 1914? IQs: Are you a writer with a last name similar to a popular search engine? Did you write about business history for _American Heritage_? Did Sherlock Holmes have your portrait hanging at 221B Baker Street? ---
**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, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/25 "2018-12-10T23:07:02Z")
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 12. Born north of Vienna 13. Born east of Vienna 14. Best known as a novelist, but he wrote in other forms as well 15. Greatest fame after 1914 EH, take another 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 11, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/26 "2018-12-11T03:06:18Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a writer with a last name similar to a popular search engine? - Nikolai Gogol Did you write about business history for _American Heritage_? - John Steel Gordon Did Sherlock Holmes have your portrait hanging at 221B Baker Street? - Gen. Sir Charles “Chinese” Gordon, slain at Khartoum DQ: Write under a pen name? Russian? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you, rather surprisingly, offered command of U.S. troops during the Civil War? Were you a TV sf character with the same last name as that person? Did you once take out your penis and pound it on a bar to get the attention of the bartender? ---
**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, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/27 "2018-12-11T03:15:03Z")
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 12. Born north of Vienna 13. Born east of Vienna 14. Best known as a novelist, but he wrote in other forms as well 15. Greatest fame after 1914 16. Wrote under a pen name 17. Russian ---
**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, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/28 "2018-12-11T03:16:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you, rather surprisingly, offered command of U.S. troops during the Civil War? > Were you a TV sf character with the same last name as that person? > Did you once take out your penis and pound it on a bar to get the attention of the bartender? 1. I am not General Robert E. Lee (???). Take 2 or 3 DQs. ---
**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 11, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/29 "2018-12-11T04:23:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Gumby, and I’m not Grimace. 1 (the Flyers mascot) is Gritty. IQs: 1. Are you a simian enemy of the Flash? 2. Did you revamp Animal Man? 3. Did you create Howard the Duck? DQ: born before 1900? ---
**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, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/30 "2018-12-11T14:16:48Z")
Previous IQs: Were you, rather surprisingly, offered command of U.S. troops during the Civil War? - Robert E. Lee was, yes, but he’s not a “G;” this was Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi Were you a TV sf character with the same last name as that person? - Michael Garibaldi on _Babylon 5_ Did you once take out your penis and pound it on a bar to get the attention of the bartender? - Graham Chapman DQs: Tried to avoid Soviet censorship? One DQ reserved. Hmmm. Tolstoy, Pushkin, Pasternak, Chekhov - but can’t think of any Russian “G” authors other than Gogol. ---
**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, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/31 "2018-12-11T14:30:50Z")
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 12. Born north of Vienna 13. Born east of Vienna 14. Best known as a novelist, but he wrote in other forms as well 15. Greatest fame after 1914 16. Wrote under a pen name 17. Russian 18. Born before 1900 19. Not known for trying to avoid Soviet censorship ---
**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, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/32 "2018-12-11T18:26:00Z")
DQ: Best known for what he wrote while living in Russia? ---
**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, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/33 "2018-12-11T18:40:47Z")
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 12. Born north of Vienna 13. Born east of Vienna 14. Best known as a novelist, but he wrote in other forms as well 15. Greatest fame after 1914 16. Wrote under a pen name 17. Russian 18. Born before 1900 19. Not known for trying to avoid Soviet censorship 20. Best known works were written in Russia, though he whote several successful novels while in exile in Sorrento And that is 20. Any final DQs need to be asked by 9 p.m. EST tonight. ---
**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, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/34 "2018-12-11T18:42:53Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1 (the Flyers mascot) is Gritty. > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a simian enemy of the Flash? > 2. Did you revamp Animal Man? > 3. Did you create Howard the Duck? 1. I am not Gorilla Grodd. 2. I am not Grant Morrison. 3. I am not Steve Gerber. ---
**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, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/35 "2018-12-12T12:02:08Z")
Okay. Last guesses by 8 p.m. tonight EST. ---
**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, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/36 "2018-12-12T17:57:11Z")
Damn, I’m stumped. ---
**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 13, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/37 "2018-12-13T00:37:51Z")
DQ: Are you Maxim Gorky? ---
**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 13, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/38 "2018-12-13T01:38:42Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQ: Are you Maxim Gorky? Das Vedanya! I am indeed Soviet author Maxim Gorky, for whom Gorky Park in Moscow was named. Great job, DLR! ---
**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 13, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/39 "2018-12-13T05:20:59Z")
:: headsmack :: How could I not have thought of him? Good job, **DLR**! ---
**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 13, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/40 "2018-12-13T23:07:14Z")
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