# Botticelli - February 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 2, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792 "2017-02-02T00:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 17, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/201 "2017-02-17T05:06:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Were you shot down whilst flying a spy plane over the Soviet Union? Yes, indeed, I am Gary Powers The U-2 pilot (a former USAF officer but a CIA employee at the time) whose downing in May 1960 seriously damaged U.S.-Soviet relations: [Francis Gary Powers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers). Well done, **SCAdian**! ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/202 "2017-02-17T10:35:40Z")
As I said, good one SCA! ---
**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 17, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/203 "2017-02-17T23:37:48Z")
No idea why that name popped into my head. I had no idea when or how he died, but it seemed like it might work. And I have to say it looks very odd, seeing “Gary Powers” without “Francis” in front of it… I am J. ---
**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 17, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/204 "2017-02-17T23:40:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did you author _In His Own Write_? 2. Did you star in _Fierce Creatures_? 3. Did you have a hit with _Madman Across The Water_? ---
**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, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/205 "2017-02-18T00:35:31Z")
IQs: Were you called by your middle name, Lawrence, throughout your youth, but are better known today by your actual first name? Were you the protagonist of a book about a cloned President? Were you Lincoln’s close friend and roomie for awhile? ---
**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, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/206 "2017-02-18T00:58:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you author _In His Own Write_? > 2. Did you star in _Fierce Creatures_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Madman Across The Water_? DQ. Not John Cleese. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you called by your middle name, Lawrence, throughout your youth, but are better known today by your actual first name? > Were you the protagonist of a book about a cloned President? > Were you Lincoln’s close friend and roomie for awhile? Not … Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain? DQ. DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/207 "2017-02-18T01:28:07Z")
Congrats SCAdian! IQ1: Were you featured in the music video for Run-D.M.C’s “It’s Tricky”, though not for music? IQ2: Did you abandon your immortal friend when you grew up? IQ3: Was your reign nearly ended when a riot of the Blues and the Greens cooperatively moved to besiege your palace? ---
**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, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/208 "2017-02-18T02:10:05Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you author In His Own Write? > 2. Did you star in Fierce Creatures? > 3. Did you have a hit with Madman Across The Water? > DQ. > Not John Cleese. > DQ. #1 was John Lennon. #2 was, indeed, John Cleese. #3 was Elton John. DQs: 1. Real? 2. 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 18, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/209 "2017-02-18T02:27:43Z")
IQ1: Have you been married to Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch? IQ2: Were you Lenny Briscoe on _Law & Order_? IQ3: Are you a former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted in 2011 of sexual abuse of minors? ---
**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, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/210 "2017-02-18T02:31:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did Dolly Parton beg you in a song not to take her man? 2. Did Paul Simon wonder in a song where you went? 3. Did Ray Stevens sing a song in praise of your medication with a highly descriptive name? ---
**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, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/211 "2017-02-18T02:54:40Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Congrats SCAdian! > > IQ1: Were you featured in the music video for Run-D.M.C’s “It’s Tricky”, though not for music? > IQ2: Did you abandon your immortal friend when you grew up? > IQ3: Was your reign nearly ended when a riot of the Blues and the Greens cooperatively moved to besiege your palace? DQ. Not Jackie Paper. Not Justinian. ---
**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, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/212 "2017-02-18T03:03:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Have you been married to Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch? > IQ2: Were you Lenny Briscoe on _Law & Order_? > IQ3: Are you a former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted in 2011 of sexual abuse of minors? DQ. Not Jerry Orbach. DQ. Orbach went to the same high school I did, a few years before I was born. The drama teacher who got him interested in acting was an assistant principal when I was there. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dolly Parton beg you in a song not to take her man? > 2. Did Paul Simon wonder in a song where you went? > 3. Did Ray Stevens sing a song in praise of your medication with a highly descriptive name? Not Jolene. Not … Julio? Jeremiah Somebody, I think, but take a DQ. **J** 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:** [February 18, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/213 "2017-02-18T03:06:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dolly Parton beg you in a song not to take her man? > 2. Did Paul Simon wonder in a song where you went? > 3. Did Ray Stevens sing a song in praise of your medication with a highly descriptive name? > Not Jolene. > DQ. > Jeremiah Somebody, I think, but take a DQ. Correct on Jolene #2. From _Mrs. Robinson_: “Where did you go, Joe DiMaggio?” #3. The song was “Jeremiah Peabody’s Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills” DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with J? ---
**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, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/214 "2017-02-18T05:44:17Z")
Previous IQs: Were you called by your middle name, Lawrence, throughout your youth, but are better known today by your actual first name? - Yes, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a hero of Little Round Top Were you the protagonist of a book about a cloned President? - Joshua Kellogg, who seemed an awful lot like (without ever mentioning his name) John Kennedy, in the book _Joshua Son of None_ Were you Lincoln’s close friend and roomie for awhile? - Joshua Speed Joshua x3! DQs: American? Best known for the arts? IQs: In one of your movies, were you last seen pregnant on a park bench? Were you spoofed as screeching “Save the liver”? Did you use the excuse of going to visit your son in New Jersey to get out of an undesired social engagement? ---
**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, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/215 "2017-02-18T14:17:50Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Have you been married to Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch? > IQ2: Were you Lenny Briscoe on Law & Order? > IQ3: Are you a former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted in 2011 of sexual abuse of minors? > > DQ. > Not Jerry Orbach. > DQ. Jerry Hall, correct, Jerry Sandusky Jerry x3! holding 2 DQs ---
**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, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/216 "2017-02-18T14:30:16Z")
IQ1: Are you a NFL linebacker of Samoan descent who suffered from chronic brain damage and committed suicide in 2012? IQ2: Were you permanently disabled from a gunshot meant for Ronald Reagan? IQ3: Are you a professional wrestler from Fiji who died 12 days after being dismissed from trial for involuntary manslaughter? ---
**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, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/217 "2017-02-18T14:38:25Z")
IQs: 1. Did you “play a guitar just like a ringing bell”? 2. Did you sing with your brother on _Scream_? 3. Did you have a hit with _You Belong To Me_ back in the 1950’s? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/218 "2017-02-18T20:07:32Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Congrats SCAdian! > > IQ1: Were you featured in the music video for Run-D.M.C’s “It’s Tricky”, though not for music? > IQ2: Did you abandon your immortal friend when you grew up? > IQ3: Was your reign nearly ended when a riot of the Blues and the Greens cooperatively moved to besiege your palace? Penn Jillette (and Teller) performed magic on the video, and you were correct on the other two. Holding a DQ. IQ1: Did you play the head nurse on a TV drama? IQ2: Did you find a bomb in a public area and begin an evacuation, though not soon enough to prevent loss of life when it went off a short time later? IQ3: Were you a famous female chef who was more than six feet tall? ---
**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, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/219 "2017-02-18T21:00:13Z")
Strange – I distinctly remember responding to PP and EH’s questions before I went to work this morning… > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > In one of your movies, were you last seen pregnant on a park bench? > Were you spoofed as screeching “Save the liver”? > Did you use the excuse of going to visit your son in New Jersey to get out of an undesired social engagement? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a NFL linebacker of Samoan descent who suffered from chronic brain damage and committed suicide in 2012? > IQ2: Were you permanently disabled from a gunshot meant for Ronald Reagan? > IQ3: Are you a professional wrestler from Fiji who died 12 days after being dismissed from trial for involuntary manslaughter? DQ. Not James Brady. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you “play a guitar just like a ringing bell”? > 2. Did you sing with your brother on _Scream_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _You Belong To Me_ back in the 1950’s? Not Johnny B Goode. (I’ve always heard that line as "like a-ringing a bell.) DQ. DQ. > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you play the head nurse on a TV drama? > IQ2: Did you find a bomb in a public area and begin an evacuation, though not soon enough to prevent loss of life when it went off a short time later? > IQ3: Were you a famous female chef who was more than six feet tall? DQ. DQ. Not Julia Child. **J** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Last name does not start with J 5. Not American 6. Best 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:** [February 18, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/220 "2017-02-18T21:23:51Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you “play a guitar just like a ringing bell”? > 2. Did you sing with your brother on Scream? > 3. Did you have a hit with You Belong To Me back in the 1950’s? > Not Johnny B Goode. (I’ve always heard that line as "like a-ringing a bell.) > DQ. > DQ. #1 correct. You may be right about the lyric, I dunno. #2 was Janet Jackson. It was her one duet with Michael. #3 was Jo Stafford. DQs: 1. Born after 1970? 2. Known for the performing arts? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=12)