# 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:** 17
**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 18, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/321 "2015-02-18T17:10:26Z")
IQ1: Are you a former Hellcat pilot and anti-pornographer whose savings and loan business losses amounted to $3.4 billion that the federal government had to cover? IQ2: Are you one of five senators IQ1 made contributions to and called for help in resisting regulators? IQ3: Are you a household product that IQ1 was nicknamed after? ---
**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 18, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/322 "2015-02-18T17:15:17Z")
Previous IQs: Were you LBJ’s last SECDEF? - Yes, Clark Clifford. A hero of the Battle of Franklin, were you later elected Governor of Ohio? - Jacob D. Cox. Did you lead the team which discovered the lost Confederate submarine _Hunley_? - Author and ocean explorer Clive Cussler. DQs: Male? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? IQs: Were you the supposed inspiration for _The Last Hurrah_? Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed? Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech? ---
**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 18, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/323 "2015-02-18T17:27:41Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your motto “It’s not easy being cheesy”? > 2. Were you one of Top Cat’s gang? > 3. Were you an 18th Century landscape painter best known for your scenes of Venice? > > Not Chester Cheetah? > > Take DQs for #2 and #3 Correct on Chester. #2 was Choo-Choo. #3 was Canaletto. DQ: Known for the Arts? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 18, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/324 "2015-02-18T17:30:50Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Neo-Classicist French painter who anticipated the Impressionists? 2. Did you assassinate Jean-Paul Marat? 3. Were you a noted crooner contemporary with Crosby and Vallee? ---
**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 18, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/325 "2015-02-18T18:11:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you do a strip about a flapper who married a millionaire? > IQ2: Are you that couple’s daughter? > IQ3: Did Tom Lehrer sing a song about you in the style of various composers, ending with Gilbert and Sullivan? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Chic YOung or Cookie Bumstead > > Take a DQ for #3 Oops - that was supposed to be “millionaire’s son,” but you’re correct. Correct. Clementine. (“Oh, my darlin’…”) DQ: Born east of the Mississippi? IQ1: Were you a black man a US submarine was named for? IQ2: Were you one of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? IQ3: Were you another of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/326 "2015-02-18T19:53:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former Hellcat pilot and anti-pornographer whose savings and loan business losses amounted to $3.4 billion that the federal government had to cover? > IQ2: Are you one of five senators IQ1 made contributions to and called for help in resisting regulators? > IQ3: Are you a household product that IQ1 was nicknamed after? Not Charles Keating. Not Alan Cranston (I remember he, John McCain and John Glenn were among the “Keating 5”). Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/327 "2015-02-18T19:54:45Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. American 1. Died before 1950 1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for 2. Last name starts with C 3. Died after 1900. 4. Not a military figure 5. Male 6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Born East of the Mississippi ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/328 "2015-02-18T19:56:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the supposed inspiration for _The Last Hurrah_? > Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed? > Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech? Not Boston mayor James Michael Curley Not Shakespeare’s Corliolanus Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/329 "2015-02-18T19:57:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Oops - that was supposed to be “millionaire’s son,” but you’re correct. > Correct. > Clementine. (“Oh, my darlin’…”) > DQ: Born east of the Mississippi? > IQ1: Were you a black man a US submarine was named for? > IQ2: Were you one of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? > IQ3: Were you another of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? Take a DQ for #1 Not Henry Clay or John C. Calhoun ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/330 "2015-02-18T20:00:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Neo-Classicist French painter who anticipated the Impressionists? > 2. Did you assassinate Jean-Paul Marat? > 3. Were you a noted crooner contemporary with Crosby and Vallee? Not… Gustave Courbet? (Nah, he’s a Realist… take a DQ if that’s wrong.) Not Charlotte Corday Take a DQ for #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:** [February 18, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/331 "2015-02-18T20:17:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Neo-Classicist French painter who anticipated the Impressionists? > 2. Did you assassinate Jean-Paul Marat? > 3. Were you a noted crooner contemporary with Crosby and Vallee? > [@astorian](#): > > Not… Gustave Courbet? (Nah, he’s a Realist… take a DQ if that’s wrong.) > > Not Charlotte Corday > > Take a DQ for #3 #1 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Correct on Charlotte Corday. #3 was Russ Columbo. **DQ: Known for Science?** 2 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 18, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/332 "2015-02-18T20:33:47Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. American 1. Died before 1950 1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for 2. Last name starts with C 3. Died after 1900. 4. Not a military figure 5. Male 6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Born East of the Mississippi 9. No involvement with science Pay attention to #5, friends. ---
**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 18, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/333 "2015-02-18T21:25:39Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former Hellcat pilot and anti-pornographer whose savings and loan business losses amounted to $3.4 billion that the federal government had to cover? > IQ2: Are you one of five senators IQ1 made contributions to and called for help in resisting regulators? > IQ3: Are you a household product that IQ1 was nicknamed after? > > Not Charles Keating. > > Not Alan Cranston (I remember he, John McCain and John Glenn were among the “Keating 5”). > > Take a DQ for #3 Mr. Clean DQ: Known for a historical event? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/334 "2015-02-18T21:35:00Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. American 1. Died before 1950 1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for 2. Last name starts with C 3. Died after 1900. 4. Not a military figure 5. Male 6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Born East of the Mississippi 9. No involvement with science 10. Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event” ---
**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 18, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/335 "2015-02-18T21:54:43Z")
IQ1: Are you a leader of the Black Panthers who wrote _Soul On Ice_? IQ2: Is there a hit recording of you and your daughter singing a duet, but in different time periods? IQ3: Are you a Trinidadian-American activist who was chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/336 "2015-02-18T22:02:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a leader of the Black Panthers who wrote _Soul On Ice_? > IQ2: Is there a hit recording of you and your daughter singing a duet, but in different time periods? > IQ3: Are you a Trinidadian-American activist who was chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)? Not Eldredge Cleaver Not Nat “King” Cole Not… Stokeley Carmichael? ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/337 "2015-02-18T23:04:37Z")
DQ: Last name starts with CA-CI? ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/338 "2015-02-19T02:55:59Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the supposed inspiration for _The Last Hurrah_? - Yes, Boston Mayor Curley Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a movie which he also directed? - Yes, Coriolanus Did President Reagan mispronounce your name in a speech? - French philosopher Albert Camus DQ: Committed a notable crime? IQs: Did Robert De Niro play in you in a movie, wielding a baseball bat? Did you play Eddie Morra? Were you Morra’s mentor and later rival? ---
**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 19, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/339 "2015-02-19T06:39:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a black man a US submarine was named for? > IQ2: Were you one of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? > IQ3: Were you another of the US Senate’s “Great Triumvirate”? > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ for #1 > > Not Henry Clay or John C. Calhoun George Washington Carver. Correct on Clay and Calhoun (you even listed them in the order I was thinking of :)). DQ reserved. IQ1: Were you special counsel to President Nixon? IQ2: Were you a Civil War soldier recently awarded the Medal of Honor? IQ3: Were you a British merchant skipper who became an Australian SF author? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/340 "2015-02-19T15:13:45Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. American 1. Died before 1950 1. Very much involved in politics, but that’s not what I’m best known for 2. Last name starts with C 3. Died after 1900. 4. Not a military figure 5. Male 6. Born North of Mason-Dixon Line 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Born East of the Mississippi 9. No involvement with science 10. Largely known for a single, sort-of historica,l sort-of “event” 11. Last name starts with CM-CZ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=18)