# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/101 "2015-02-05T18:32:33Z")
IQ) Are you an astronomer whose sister won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry? ---
**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 5, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/102 "2015-02-05T19:20:31Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ) Are you an astronomer whose sister won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry? Yes, I am Percival Lowell., the almost discoverer of Pluto. Sister Amy won the Prize posthumously. Good job, astorian! ---
**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 5, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/103 "2015-02-05T19:42:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Andrew Johnson say that you, Lee, and Davis were the three Confederate leaders who would never receive amnesty? > IQ2: Were you the co-author of a book in which a comet hits the Earth? > IQ3: Was your identity presumed? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Dr. Livingstone. Take 2 DQs. General James Longstreet. Larry Niven wrote _Lucifer’s Hammer_ with Jerry Pournelle. Correct. ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/104 "2015-02-05T20:31:07Z")
Way to go, astorian! Previous IQs: You are a fictional character. Do we only know your first initial for sure, and not your full first name? - Sherlock Holmes often worked with G. Lestrade of Scotland Yard. Did your best friend, to your surprise, once call you a “lunkhead”? - Geordi LaForge, by Data, in _Star Trek Generations_. Were you the female lead in _The King and I_? - Yes, Anna Leonowens. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/105 "2015-02-05T21:23:55Z")
I will contine now with M! ---
**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 5, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/106 "2015-02-05T21:49:27Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? 2. Are you the best known creation of the central character of _Saving Mr. Banks_? 3. Did you play Radagast in the Hobbit movies? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/107 "2015-02-05T22:42:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? > 2. Are you the best known creation of the central character of _Saving Mr. Banks_? > 3. Did you play Radagast in the Hobbit movies? Not M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Not Mary Poppins? 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 5, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/108 "2015-02-05T23:24:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? > 2. Are you the best known creation of the central character of _Saving Mr. Banks_? > 3. Did you play Radagast in the Hobbit movies? > [@astorian](#): > > Not M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E > > Not Mary Poppins? > > Take a DQ for #3 Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Sylvester McCoy who also played the 6th Doctor on _Doctor Who_. 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:** [February 5, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/109 "2015-02-05T23:26:26Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Charlie McCarthy’s dimwitted friend? 2. Were you Gritpipe-Thynne’s French lackey? 3. Are you considered to have been the Arch-Impressionist? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/110 "2015-02-06T01:33:32Z")
IQ1: Are you a swimmer who broke the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympics in 1972? IQ2: Are you the owner of the Dallas Mavericks? IQ3: Did you kill John Lennon? ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/111 "2015-02-06T03:53:20Z")
IQ1: Were you a fictional college football player who became a surgeon after graduating? IQ2: Did you marry Donald Penobscott? IQ3: Did your cousin Stephen take a top job that was meant for you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/112 "2015-02-06T15:46:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Charlie McCarthy’s dimwitted friend? > 2. Were you Gritpipe-Thynne’s French lackey? > 3. Are you considered to have been the Arch-Impressionist? Not Mortimer Snerd Neither Claude Monet nor Edouard Manet Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/113 "2015-02-06T15:47:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a swimmer who broke the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympics in 1972? > IQ2: Are you the owner of the Dallas Mavericks? > IQ3: Did you kill John Lennon? Not Mark Spitz, Mark Cuban or Mark David Chapman ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/114 "2015-02-06T15:50:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional college football player who became a surgeon after graduating? > IQ2: Did you marry Donald Penobscott? > IQ3: Did your cousin Stephen take a top job that was meant for you? Not “Trapper John” McIntyre or Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan 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 6, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/115 "2015-02-06T15:51:58Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person ---
**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 6, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/116 "2015-02-06T16:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Charlie McCarthy’s dimwitted friend? > 2. Were you Gritpipe-Thynne’s French lackey? > 3. Are you considered to have been the Arch-Impressionist? > > Not Mortimer Snerd > Neither Claude Monet nor Edouard Manet > > Take a DQ for #2 Correct on Mortimer and Monet. #2 was Count Moriarty [from the highly acclaimed BBC series _The Goon Show_] DQ: Male? ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/117 "2015-02-06T17:10:35Z")
IQ1: Are you a comic-strip duck noted for conservative commentary? IQ2: Are you a DC comics superhero whose actual name is J’onn J’onzz? IQ3: Are you a movie character first played by Jim Carrey and later by Jamie Kennedy? ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/118 "2015-02-06T17:35:15Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Buffy’s kid sister? 2. Were you the 13th President of the United States? 3. Did you play the villainous False Face on the 1960’s TV series _Batman_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/119 "2015-02-06T17:51:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a comic-strip duck noted for conservative commentary? > IQ2: Are you a DC comics superhero whose actual name is J’onn J’onzz? > IQ3: Are you a movie character first played by Jim Carrey and later by Jamie Kennedy? Not Mallard Fillmore, the Martian Manhunter, or… The Mask? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611/120 "2015-02-06T17:52:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Buffy’s kid sister? > 2. Were you the 13th President of the United States? > 3. Did you play the villainous False Face on the 1960’s TV series _Batman_? Not Millard FIllmore or Malachi Throne (Robert Wagner’s boss on _ **It Takes a Thief** _) Take a DQ for #1 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2015/711611.md?page=7)