# Botticelli, February 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 2, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337 "2014-02-02T06:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [February 11, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/141 "2014-02-11T23:37:13Z")
IQ1: Are you a king who urgently needed a space programme? IQ2: Did you write the music for a film about a bird? IQ3: Did you clim New Albion for the Queen? ---
**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:** [February 11, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/142 "2014-02-11T23:49:46Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Count of Monte Cristo? 2. Did you write _Notes from the Underground_? 3. Did you invent a hypothetical spherical megastructure often used in science fiction? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/143 "2014-02-12T01:11:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a king who urgently needed a space programme? > IQ2: Did you write the music for a film about a bird? > IQ3: Did you clim New Albion for the Queen? 1: I am not King David 2: I don’t know to whom you refer 3: The only Age of Exploration figure I can think of with a name beginning with D is Sir Francis Drake, and I don’t think he did much exploring. I’m not him, though. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Count of Monte Cristo? > 2. Did you write _Notes from the Underground_? > 3. Did you invent a hypothetical spherical megastructure often used in science fiction? 1: I don’t know to whom you refer 2: I am not Fydor Dostoevsky 3: I am not Freeman Dyson. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/144 "2014-02-12T04:46:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Count of Monte Cristo? > 2. Did you write _Notes from the Underground_? > 3. Did you invent a hypothetical spherical megastructure often used in science fiction? > [@fanganga](#): > > 1: I don’t know to whom you refer > 2: I am not Fydor Dostoevsky > 3: I am not Freeman Dyson. Correct on 2 and 3. Edmond Dantes was the Count of Monte Cristo in the book of the same name by Dumas. DQ: Real? IQs: 1. Are you one of Donald Duck’s nephews? 2. In a 20th Century film, did you play a man playing a woman playing another woman? 3. Did you have a hit with _Son of a Preacher Man_? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/145 "2014-02-12T05:39:06Z")
Nicely done, **fanganga**. Never saw those movies but I’ve heard the name. D, eh? IQs: Did you and several male chums from your school make a short-lived pact never to marry? Were you The Man in a political thriller? Did Churchill mock your name? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/146 "2014-02-12T10:06:32Z")
IQ1: Are you a hoser? IQ2: Are you an actor who plays that hoser? IQ3: Do you wear a sailor blouse, but not pants? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/147 "2014-02-12T15:16:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a king who urgently needed a space programme? > IQ2: Did you write the music for a film about a bird? > IQ3: Did you clim New Albion for the Queen? [quote=“fanganga, post:143, topic:680337”] 1: I am not King David 2: I don’t know to whom you refer 3: The only Age of Exploration figure I can think of with a name beginning with D is Sir Francis Drake, and I don’t think he did much exploring. I’m not him, though./QUOTE] Correct on King David. Neil Diamond (_Jonathan Livingston Seagull_). Correct on Sir Francis. DQ: Male? IQ1: Were you the leader of the first European expedition to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? IQ2: Are you known for something dangling over your head? IQ3: Did you write about Harry the Horse and Big Jule? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/148 "2014-02-12T22:41:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nicely done, **fanganga**. Never saw those movies but I’ve heard the name. > > D, eh? > > IQs: > > Did you and several male chums from your school make a short-lived pact never to marry? > Were you The Man in a political thriller? > Did Churchill mock your name? I’m 0 for 3 > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Are you a hoser? > IQ2: Are you an actor who plays that hoser? > IQ3: Do you wear a sailor blouse, but not pants? The only one I know is Donald Duck > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the leader of the first European expedition to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? > IQ2: Are you known for something dangling over your head? > IQ3: Did you write about Harry the Horse and Big Jule? I am not … Vasco di Gama? I am not Damocles I don’t know to whom you refer My initial is D and 1: I am real 2: I am male ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/149 "2014-02-12T22:55:59Z")
IQs: 1. Are you one of Donald Duck’s nephews? 2. In a 20th Century film, did you play a man playing a woman playing another woman? 3. Did you have a hit with Son of a Preacher Man? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/150 "2014-02-12T23:11:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you one of Donald Duck’s nephews? > 2. In a 20th Century film, did you play a man playing a woman playing another woman? > 3. Did you have a hit with Son of a Preacher Man? 1: I’m not Dewey 2: I’m not Dustin Hoffman 3: I’m not … Dolly Parton? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/151 "2014-02-12T23:32:55Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > The only one I know is Donald Duck. Correct on Donald Duck. The hoser is Doug Mackenzie (of SCTV’s Bob and Doug Mackenzie, who called each other “hoser” a lot.) Doug Mackenzie was played by Dave Thomas. DQs: Alive today? Last name start with D? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/152 "2014-02-12T23:47:18Z")
Quote: > [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you one of Donald Duck’s nephews? > 2. In a 20th Century film, did you play a man playing a woman playing another woman? > 3. Did you have a hit with Son of a Preacher Man? > > 1: I’m not Dewey > 2: I’m not Dustin Hoffman > 3: I’m not … Dolly Parton? Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Dusty Springfield. I’ll wait on the DQ a bit. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/153 "2014-02-12T23:56:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the leader of the first European expedition to sail around the Cape of Good Hope? > IQ2: Are you known for something dangling over your head? > IQ3: Did you write about Harry the Horse and Big Jule? > [@fanganga](#): > > I am not … Vasco di Gama? > I am not Damocles > I don’t know to whom you refer Bartholomew Dias. (He turned back not long afterward; da Gama was the first to continue on to India.) Correct on Damocles. Damon Runyon. DQ1: American? DQ2: Known for the Arts? IQ1: Did you kill a man from Gath? IQ2: Were you and your brother the first American manufacturers of gasoline-powered cars? IQ3: Did you and your brother produce the Model J and its supercharged version, the SJ? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/154 "2014-02-13T02:41:35Z")
IQs: 1. Did you costar with Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in _Singin’ in the Rain_? 2. Were you the eponymous star of a comic strip about a WWII orphan? 3. Were you Lillian Gish’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/155 "2014-02-13T03:18:33Z")
IQ1: On TV, were you the nemesis of Reuben Kincaid? IQ2: Were you the actor who played that nemesis? IQ3: Have your roles included Vernon Demerest, Sam Harmon, and Matt Helm? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/156 "2014-02-13T06:09:47Z")
Previous IQs: Did you and several male chums from your school make a short-lived pact never to marry? - Dwight D. Eisenhower, at West Point. Within a few years all were married, including Ike. Were you The Man in a political thriller? - Douglass Dilman in the Irving Wallace novel and subsequent movie _The Man_ (1972), about the first black President. Did Churchill mock your name? - Ike’s SecState, John Foster Dulles. Churchill joked, “Dull, duller, Dulles.” DQs: American? Alive? Last name start with D? IQs: Did you give your name to the seminal U.S. legal case on what constitutes reliable science? Is your most recent book about T.R., Taft and the muckrakers? Is Wally your most delightfully scheming but lethargic coworker? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/157 "2014-02-13T07:04:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > American? > Alive? You may want to change these–see posts 151 and 153. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/158 "2014-02-13T12:26:05Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: On TV, were you the nemesis of Reuben Kincaid? > IQ2: Were you the actor who played that nemesis? > IQ3: Have your roles included Vernon Demerest, Sam Harmon, and Matt Helm? 3 passes > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you give your name to the seminal U.S. legal case on what constitutes reliable science? > Is your most recent book about T.R., Taft and the muckrakers? > Is Wally your most delightfully scheming but lethargic coworker? I don’t know to whom you refer I don’t know to whom you refer I am not Dilbert > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you kill a man from Gath? > IQ2: Were you and your brother the first American manufacturers of gasoline-powered cars? > IQ3: Did you and your brother produce the Model J and its supercharged version, the SJ? I am not the Biblical David I am not Daimler I am not Daimler (I’m guessing he’s the answer for one of the two, but I don’t know which one) My initial is D and 1: I am real 2: I am male 3: I am currently alive 4: I am American 5: I am not known for the arts 6: My last name starts with D ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/159 "2014-02-13T14:06:59Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you kill a man from Gath? > IQ2: Were you and your brother the first American manufacturers of gasoline-powered cars? > IQ3: Did you and your brother produce the Model J and its supercharged version, the SJ? > [@fanganga](#): > > I am not the Biblical David > I am not Daimler > I am not Daimler (I’m guessing he’s the answer for one of the two, but I don’t know which one) Correct on King David. Charles and Frank Duryea. Frederick and August Duesenberg. (My dream car is a Duesenberg Model J dual-cowl phaeton, such as [this one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duesenberg_Convertible_SJ_LA_Grand_Dual-Cowl_Phaeton_1935.jpg).) Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Did you succeed the best-known lord of Annandale? IQ2: Is “You’re despicable” your catchphrase? IQ3: Were you the hero of a song sung by a Belgian nun? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337/160 "2014-02-13T14:18:34Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > You may want to change these–see posts 151 and 153. Right you are - thanks. I’d missed those. I withdraw my two, then. Previous IQs: Did you give your name to the seminal U.S. legal case on what constitutes reliable science? - The plaintiff in the _Daubert_ case. Is your most recent book about T.R., Taft and the muckrakers? - Doris Kearns Goodwin, _The Bully Pulpit_. Is Wally your most delightfully scheming but lethargic coworker? - Yes, Dilbert. DQs: Born since 1950? Political/military? Born east of the Miss. River? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? IQs: Did Sam Neill play you as an adult? Were you the protagonist in many P.D. James mysteries? Were you a top JFK White House aide? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2014/680337.md?page=9)