# 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:** 3
**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 14, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/41 "2018-12-14T00:29:40Z")
IQs: 1. Are you tired of being an Elf, and want to be a dentist instead? 2. Did Doper Exapno Mapcase derive his name from an anecdote about you? 3. Did you play Jonathan Higgins on the first version of _Magnum, P.I._? ---
**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 14, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/42 "2018-12-14T20:30:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you tired of being an Elf, and want to be a dentist instead? > 2. Did Doper Exapno Mapcase derive his name from an anecdote about you? > 3. Did you play Jonathan Higgins on the first version of _Magnum, P.I._? 1. I am not Hermey. 2. I am not Harpo Marx. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 14, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/43 "2018-12-14T22:34:33Z")
Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was John Hillerman. DQ: Real? ---
**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 14, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/44 "2018-12-14T22:39:14Z")
IQs: 1. Did the Disney Studios mimic your drawings for the _Rhapsody in Blue_ segment of _Fantasia 2000_? 2. Did you cause the North Pole to become a warm spot for one day? 3. Did you defend the Pons Sublicus? ---
**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 15, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/45 "2018-12-15T00:14:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did the Disney Studios mimic your drawings for the _Rhapsody in Blue_ segment of _Fantasia 2000_? > 2. Did you cause the North Pole to become a warm spot for one day? > 3. Did you defend the Pons Sublicus? 1. I am not Al Hirschfield. 2. I am not Heat Miser. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. real ---
**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 15, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/46 "2018-12-15T00:39:46Z")
Correct on #1 and #2. #3 was Horatius (of Horatius at the Bridge). DQ: Male? ---
**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 15, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/47 "2018-12-15T01:49:10Z")
IQs: Did you die at your gentlemen’s club in Maine long after leaving high public office? Were two movies about your killing released within months of each other? Did your boss twice tell you to “beware of rashness”? ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/48 "2018-12-15T15:24:05Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a little bug who hung around Ludvig von Drake? 2. Were you George Bailey’s brother in _It’s A Wonderful Life_? 3. Were you a gospel columnist whose son played Paul Drake on _Perry Mason_? ---
**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 15, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/49 "2018-12-15T18:49:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you die at your gentlemen’s club in Maine long after leaving high public office? > Were two movies about your killing released within months of each other? > Did your boss twice tell you to “beware of rashness”? Take three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a little bug who hung around Ludvig von Drake? > 2. Were you George Bailey’s brother in _It’s A Wonderful Life_? > 3. Were you a gospel columnist whose son played Paul Drake on _Perry Mason_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. DQs: 1. real 2. female ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/50 "2018-12-15T19:37:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a little bug who hung around Ludvig von Drake? > 2. Were you George Bailey’s brother in It’s A Wonderful Life? > 3. Were you a gospel columnist whose son played Paul Drake on Perry Mason? > 4. Take a DQ. > 5. Take a DQ. > 6. I am not gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. #1 was Herman. #2 was Henry Bailey. Correct on Heda. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with H? ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/51 "2018-12-15T19:38:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _The African Queen_? 2. Did you star in _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_? 3. Did you star (along with your younger sister) in _Lipstick_? ---
**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 16, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/52 "2018-12-16T01:12:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in _The African Queen_? > 2. Did you star in _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_? > 3. Did you star (along with your younger sister) in _Lipstick_? 1. I am not Humphrey Bogart. 2. I am not Audrey Hepburn. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. real 2. female 3. dead 4. first name starts with H ---
**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 16, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/53 "2018-12-16T02:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in The African Queen? > 2. Did you star in Breakfast at Tiffany’s? > 3. Did you star (along with your younger sister) in Lipstick? > 4. I am not Humphrey Bogart. > 5. I am not Audrey Hepburn. > 6. Take a DQ. Correct, Correct, and Margaux Hemingway. DQ: Died in 1900 or later? ---
**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 16, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/54 "2018-12-16T04:36:28Z")
Previous IQs: Did you die at your gentlemen’s club in Maine long after leaving high public office? - Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s VP and the last member of the Lincoln Cabinet to die Were two movies about your killing released within months of each other? - Reinhard Heydrich, a top Nazi, in _HHHH_ and _Anthropoid_ Did your boss twice tell you to “beware of rashness”? - Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, during the Civil War: [Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker](http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/hooker.htm) DQs: American? Best known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. IQs: Although known to most people as a child, was a movie made about you as an adult not long ago? Was your ship the _Half Moon_? Are you the best-known person to qualify as an Apache attack helicopter pilot? ---
**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 16, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/55 "2018-12-16T15:18:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Although known to most people as a child, was a movie made about you as an adult not long ago? > Was your ship the _Half Moon_? > Are you the best-known person to qualify as an Apache attack helicopter pilot? Respectively: I am not [Hansel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_%26_Gretel%3A_Witch_Hunters). Take a DQ. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. real 2. female 3. dead 4. first name starts with H 5. died after 1900 6. American 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 16, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/56 "2018-12-16T16:04:01Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a notable Socialist speaker who was born blind and deaf? 2. Were you a Russian occultist who founded the Theosophical Society? 3. Were you one of the stars of the TV series _Mad About You_? ---
**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 16, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/57 "2018-12-16T16:16:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a notable Socialist speaker who was born blind and deaf? > 2. Were you a Russian occultist who founded the Theosophical Society? > 3. Were you one of the stars of the TV series _Mad About You_? 1. I am not Helen Keller. 2. I am not Helena Blatavsky. 3. I am not Helen Hunt. ---
**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 16, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/58 "2018-12-16T19:08:32Z")
Previous IQs: Although known to most people as a child, was a movie made about you as an adult not long ago? - Yes, Hansel Was your ship the _Half Moon_? - Henry Hudson Are you the best-known person to qualify as an Apache attack helicopter pilot? - Prince Harry DQs: Best known for politics/military? Died after 1950? Had a famous spouse? IQs: Were you AKA Leo Walsh? Did your guards tell you to move back from a window after an attempt had been made on your life? Was your last name given to a boat in a Wes Anderson movie? ---
**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 16, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/59 "2018-12-16T19:44:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you AKA Leo Walsh? > Did your guards tell you to move back from a window after an attempt had been made on your life? > Was your last name given to a boat in a Wes Anderson movie? Respectively: Take a DQ. I am not Harry Truman. I am not Harry Belefonte. DQs: 1. real 2. female 3. dead 4. first name starts with H 5. died after 1900 6. American 7. not known for the Arts 8. best known for politics/military 9. died before 1950 10. didn’t have a famous spouse ---
**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 16, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745/60 "2018-12-16T22:44:09Z")
Correct on all 3. IQs: 1. Were you an escaped slave and a female abolitionist? 2. Were you a long-time editor-in-chief of _Cosmopolitan_? 3. Did you write _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2018/825745.md?page=4)