# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/61 "2017-02-07T17:34:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Are you Sir Edmund Hillary? I am not. ---
**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 7, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/62 "2017-02-07T17:47:06Z")
Okay, taking EH’s offer. DQ: Are you Edward J. Smith, captain of the Titanic? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/63 "2017-02-07T19:20:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Are you Edward J. Smith, captain of the Titanic? DINGDINGDING!! Yes, that is correct! Congrats, **Prof. P**!!! ---
**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 7, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/64 "2017-02-07T19:27:04Z")
Thank you! And, since I borrowed EH’s DQ, it’s his turn to host. ---
**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 8, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/65 "2017-02-08T20:26:12Z")
No, thanks, you go ahead, **Prof.** ---
**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 8, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/66 "2017-02-08T21:00:29Z")
All righty then, I am S! ---
**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 8, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/67 "2017-02-08T21:29:11Z")
IQs: Did Jack Burden work for you? Was Robb your eldest child? Were you a noted leader of the Green Mountain Boys? ---
**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 8, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/68 "2017-02-08T21:33:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Jack Burden work for you? > Was Robb your eldest child? > Were you a noted leader of the Green Mountain Boys? #3. I am not Sethan Sallen. Oh, all right, take 3 DQs. ---
**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 8, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/69 "2017-02-08T22:58:17Z")
Previous IQs: Did Jack Burden work for you? - Gov. Willie Stark, in _All The King’s Men_ Was Robb your eldest child? - Eddard “Ned” Stark, in _Game of Thrones_ Were you a noted leader of the Green Mountain Boys? - John Stark Stark x3! DQs: Real? Male? Last name start with S? IQs: Was your middle name McMasters? Did a political foe concede that you probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove? Were you a noted New York man-about-town and diarist in the 1860s, quoted at length in Ken Burns’s _The Civil War_ documentary? ---
**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 8, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/70 "2017-02-08T23:40:14Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with S ---
**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 8, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/71 "2017-02-08T23:41:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your middle name McMasters? > Did a political foe concede that you probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove? > Were you a noted New York man-about-town and diarist in the 1860s, quoted at length in Ken Burns’s _The Civil War_ documentary? 1. I am not Edwin M. Stanton. Take 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 9, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/72 "2017-02-09T00:22:23Z")
IQ1: Are you a loud screaming stand-up comic who died in a car crash in 1992? IQ2: Are you credited with bringing Texas into the US as a state? IQ3: Are you an actor who played a gangster quoting scripture as he brandished a gun in a diner? ---
**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 9, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/73 "2017-02-09T00:29:33Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a loud screaming stand-up comic who died in a car crash in 1992? > IQ2: Are you credited with bringing Texas into the US as a state? > IQ3: Are you an actor who played a gangster quoting scripture as he brandished a gun in a diner? 1. I am not Sam Kinison. 2. I am not Sam Houston. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/74 "2017-02-09T02:50:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Sam Kinison. > 2. I am not Sam Houston. > Take a DQ for #3. Samuel L. Jackson (in _Pulp Fiction_) DQ: From the movies? ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/75 "2017-02-09T03:04:39Z")
ID1: Are you the cartoonist for _The Straight Dope_? ID2: Are you the cartoonist of _Maus_? IQ3: As artist/writer of _Thor_, did you create the character Beta Ray Bill? ---
**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 9, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/76 "2017-02-09T05:22:31Z")
Previous IQs: Was your middle name McMasters? - Yes, Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s second SECWAR Did a political foe concede that you probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove? - Simon Cameron, the notoriously crooked Penna. pol and Lincoln’s first SECWAR Were you a noted New York man-about-town and diarist in the 1860s, quoted at length in Ken Burns’s _The Civil War_ documentary? - George Templeton Strong (voiced on the show by George Plimpton) DQs: American? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Were you written by Robert Lawson as a rabble-rouser and a mooch? Did you later say your military service in the Civil War was limited to hiding out in the woods with your buddies? Were you James T. Kirk’s doomed brother? ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/77 "2017-02-09T14:43:11Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with S 4. Has been in movies, but not exclusively known from them 5. Not American 6. Wouldn’t be alive today, if 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 9, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/78 "2017-02-09T14:44:31Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > ID1: Are you the cartoonist for _The Straight Dope_? > ID2: Are you the cartoonist of _Maus_? > IQ3: As artist/writer of _Thor_, did you create the character Beta Ray Bill? 1. I am not Slug Signorino. 2. I am not Art Spiegelman. 3. I am not Walt Simonson. ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/79 "2017-02-09T14:45:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you written by Robert Lawson as a rabble-rouser and a mooch? > Did you later say your military service in the Civil War was limited to hiding out in the woods with your buddies? > Were you James T. Kirk’s doomed brother? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/80 "2017-02-09T16:15:42Z")
Previous IQs: Were you written by Robert Lawson as a rabble-rouser and a mooch? - Sam Adams, in _Mr. Revere and I._ Did you later say your military service in the Civil War was limited to hiding out in the woods with your buddies? - Sam Clemens AKA Mark Twain. Were you James T. Kirk’s doomed brother? - Sam Kirk, who looked an awful lot like William Shatner: [George Samuel Kirk | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/George_Samuel_Kirk) Sam x3! DQs: European? First appeared in or after 1964? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Were you the respected late governor of your state in a pre-1970 novel? Were you that man’s son, a surgeon? Or his daughter, a spinster? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=5)