# Botticelli February 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 2, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611 "2015-02-02T16:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/201 "2015-02-12T11:58:29Z")
Sorry for my oversight- answer the “real person” question, please. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/202 "2015-02-12T12:02:01Z")
- Originally Posted by astorian IQ1) Were you written out of TV’s most popular Western because the actor who played you got too big for his britches, and wanted to do work that was more politically and socially progressive? IQ2) Was your husband based on “The Bayonne Bleeder,” aka Chuck Wepner? IQ3) Did you name your \*_immensely successful electronics corporation after the Latin word for “sound”?_ Adam Cartwright was written off _ **Bonanza** _ because actor Pernell Roberts couldn’t stop griping about how little social relevance the show had. Club fighter Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner’s fight with Muhammad Ali inspired the movie _ **Rocky** _… so I was looking for Adrian Balboa. The Latin word for sound is “sonus,” which is why young Japanese entrepreneur Akio Morita named his new radio-making company “Sony.” DQ1) Male? DQ2) Last name start with “A”? DQ3) American? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/203 "2015-02-12T15:09:51Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you serve 7 years for shooting the wife of your lover Joey Buttafuoco? > IQ2: Are you a five-time Grammy Award winner for your album Back to Black who died of alcohol poisoning at age 27? > IQ3: Are you the author of The Joy Luck Club? > > Not Amy LNU, dunno, and not Amy Tan. Amy Fischer, Amy Winehouse, correct. Amy x3! Holding 5 DQs until next page. ---
**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, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/204 "2015-02-12T15:55:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > …IQ1: Did your employees often pass through Del Floria’s tailor shop? > IQ2: Were you Dr Ray Palmer? > IQ3: Were you Dr Henry Pym? Not Archibald LNU the boss on _The Man from U.N.C.L.E._, dunno, and not Ant-Man. A. 1. real person 2. female 3. last name starts with A 4. American ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/205 "2015-02-12T16:30:49Z")
DQ: Alive? DQ: Known from the arts? holding 3 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:** [February 12, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/206 "2015-02-12T16:48:04Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a 16th century painter who made portraits out of vegetables, fruits and books? 2. Were you a New York hard-edge abstract painter who died in the 1960’s? 3. Did you often say: “No, after you, Gaston.”? ---
**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, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/207 "2015-02-12T16:52:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 16th century painter who made portraits out of vegetables, fruits and books? > 2. Were you a New York hard-edge abstract painter who died in the 1960’s? > 3. Did you often say: “No, after you, Gaston.”? I know that painter’s work, but not his name. Dunno the second at all. I’m not Alphonse. A. 1. real person 2. female 3. last name starts with A 4. American 5. dead 6. not known from the arts ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/208 "2015-02-12T18:16:20Z")
DQ: Died before 1900? DQ: Born east of the Mississippi? one DQ left ---
**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, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/209 "2015-02-12T18:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 16th century painter who made portraits out of vegetables, fruits and books? > 2. Were you a New York hard-edge abstract painter who died in the 1960’s? > 3. Did you often say: “No, after you, Gaston.”? > > I know that painter’s work, but not his name. Dunno the second at all. I’m not Alphonse. 1 was Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 2 was Ad Reinhardt. Correct on Alphonse. DQ: Known for politics? 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/210 "2015-02-12T20:17:02Z")
IQ1) Are you remembered for telling your husband, “Don’t forget the ladies”? IQ2) Did you just write a book saying President Obama lied about his stance on gay marriage? IQ3) Were yoou the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/211 "2015-02-12T20:37:01Z")
IQ1: Are you the founder of Hull House and the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace? IQ2: Are you the first woman to become US Secretary of State? IQ3: Did you write “Remember the ladies!” to your husband as he and other founding fathers were forming the new government? ---
**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, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/212 "2015-02-12T23:29:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did your employees often pass through Del Floria’s tailor shop? > IQ2: Were you Dr Ray Palmer? > IQ3: Were you Dr Henry Pym? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Archibald LNU the boss on _The Man from U.N.C.L.E._, dunno, and not Ant-Man. Alexander Waverly, actually (who with Bell and Solzhenitsyn made Alexander x3), but you’ve correctly guessed that I meant the head of UNCLE. The Atom, from DC comics. Correct. DQ IQ1: Did you write _Mansfield Park_? IQ2: Did you write _Rose in Bloom_? IQ3: Did you write in all lower-case because you couldn’t hold the shift key down? ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/213 "2015-02-13T01:10:46Z")
I just noticed I duped astorian. Replace my IQ3 with "Are you nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans”? ---
**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, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/214 "2015-02-13T05:26:46Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Are you remembered for telling your husband, “Don’t forget the ladies”? > > IQ2) Did you just write a book saying President Obama lied about his stance on gay marriage? > > IQ3) Were yoou the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon? Not Abigail Adams, David Axelrod or Arthur Ashe. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the founder of Hull House and the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace? > IQ2: Are you the first woman to become US Secretary of State? > IQ3: [Are you nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans”?] Not Jane Addams, Madeleine Albright or Jeanne d’Arc. > [@SCAdian](#): > > … > IQ1: Did you write _Mansfield Park_? > IQ2: Did you write _Rose in Bloom_? > IQ3: Did you write in all lower-case because you couldn’t hold the shift key down? Not Jane Austen, dunno and dunno. A. 1. real person 2. female 3. last name starts with A 4. American 5. dead 6. not known from the arts 7. died after 1900 8. born east of the Miss. River 9. not known for politics ---
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/215 "2015-02-13T14:00:19Z")
IQ1: Were you Helen Keller’s teacher and lifelong companion? IQ2: Are you an evangelist who went missing for over a month and claimed to have been kidnapped? IQ3: Are you an operatic contralto and the first black person to ever perform at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC? last DQ: Are you primarily known for a single historic event? ---
**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, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/216 "2015-02-13T14:08:31Z")
DQ: Died after 2000? 2 DQs remain. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/217 "2015-02-13T15:13:16Z")
Axelrod and Abigail Adams were correct, but the first African American to win a WImbledon singles title was not Arthur Ashe- it was a woman, Althea Gibson, who did it 15 years earlier. DQ) Best known for one specific incident? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/218 "2015-02-13T15:17:16Z")
IQ1) Did you once say, “If you can’t say anything nice, come sit by me?” IQ2) Were you Gus Hall’s runnuinbg mate for President on the Communist Party ticket? IQ3) Did you establish the Foursquare Church? ---
**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, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/219 "2015-02-13T15:35:50Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Nightcrawler’s father? 2. Are you the Unabridged King of Dictionopolis in _The Phantom Tollbooth_? 3. Are you Al Capp’s best known creation? ---
**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, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/220 "2015-02-13T18:01:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Mansfield Park_? > IQ2: Did you write _Rose in Bloom_? > IQ3: Did you write in all lower-case because you couldn’t hold the shift key down? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Jane Austen, dunno and dunno. Correct. Louisa May Alcott. Mehitabel’s friend, archy. DQs reserved. IQ1: Were you an American who claimed to be a surviving Romanoff? IQ2: Were you that Romanoff? IQ3: Are you a doctor portrayed on screen by someone who also played a DJ and an alien? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=12)