# 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:** 7
**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, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/121 "2017-02-12T15:43:26Z")
**F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not best known for politics/government 6. Died before 1950 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Last name starts with F 9. Did not die before 1850 ---
**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, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/122 "2017-02-12T15:48:30Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Confederate general whose nickname was “Swet”? 2. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg? 3. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured in Pickett’s Charge? ---
**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 12, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/123 "2017-02-12T16:22:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Welcome back! > > Not … Frank Zappa? > Not Benjamin Franklin. > Not … Franklin Pierce? That’s a sweep, in spite of the ellipsis! IQ1: Were you a Mississippi riverboat man who was known for brawling? IQ2: Did you design the _Nautilus_? IQ3: Is an allotrope of carbon named after you? ---
**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, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/124 "2017-02-12T17:58:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Confederate general whose nickname was “Swet”? > 2. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg? > 3. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured in Pickett’s Charge? Three DQs. (Unless, of course, #3 is a reworded version of #2 posted by mistake, in which case you only get two. :D) > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Mississippi riverboat man who was known for brawling? > IQ2: Did you design the _Nautilus_? > IQ3: Is an allotrope of carbon named after you? Not Mike Fink. Not Robert Fulton. DQ. ---
**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, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/125 "2017-02-12T18:03:58Z")
IQ1: Are you the only winner for the Nobel Prize in literature born in Mississippi? IQ2: Are you a violinist who performed works ascribed to more famous composers like Vivaldi, but turned out to be your own? IQ3: Were you one of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Earl Scruggs? ---
**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, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/126 "2017-02-12T18:04:24Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Confederate general whose nickname was “Swet”? > 2. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg? > 3. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured in Pickett’s Charge? > Three DQs. (Unless, of course, #3 is a reworded version of #2 posted by mistake, in which case you only get two. ) #1 was Winfield Scott Featherston. #2 was William H. Forney. #3 was Birkett D. Fry. DQ: Known for the Arts? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/127 "2017-02-12T18:44:55Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the only winner for the Nobel Prize in literature born in Mississippi? > IQ2: Are you a violinist who performed works ascribed to more famous composers like Vivaldi, but turned out to be your own? > IQ3: Were you one of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Earl Scruggs? Not … Faulkner? DQ. Not Lester Flatt **F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not best known for politics/government 6. Died before 1950 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Last name starts with F 9. Did not die before 1850 10. Not 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 12, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/128 "2017-02-12T18:45:55Z")
DQ: Known for the military? ---
**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, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/129 "2017-02-12T19:13:36Z")
Previous IQs: Did your coworkers watch a home movie of your wedding and mock it as they did? - Frank Burns, on _M_A_S_H\* (one of the funniest scenes in the show, I think) Did your girlfriend call you “Pizza Man”? - Frank Furillo, on _Hill Street Blues_ Did you love watching another man lip-synch “The Candy-Colored Clown”? - Frank Booth, in _Blue Velvet_ Frank x3! DQs: Died before 1900? Best known for a single incident or achievement? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you the only black kid in a comic strip? Did you command the CSS _Virginia_? Have you been played by Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight and Bill Murray? ---
**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, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/130 "2017-02-12T20:13:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the only black kid in a comic strip? > Did you command the CSS _Virginia_? > Have you been played by Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight and Bill Murray? Not Franklin (_Peanuts_). DQ. DQ. **F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not best known for politics/government 6. Died before 1950 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Last name starts with F 9. Did not die before 1850 10. Not known for the Arts 11. Not known for the military 12. Did not die before 1900 13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement ---
**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, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/131 "2017-02-12T20:19:35Z")
DQ: Known for science and/or technology? ---
**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, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/132 "2017-02-12T20:23:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Bilbo Baggins in the recent Hobbit movies? 2. Were you Eisenhower’s Secretary of State? 3. Did you play Charlie on _Charlie’s Angels_? ---
**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, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/133 "2017-02-12T20:51:44Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the only winner for the Nobel Prize in literature born in Mississippi? > IQ2: Are you a violinist who performed works ascribed to more famous composers like Vivaldi, but turned out to be your own? > IQ3: Were you one of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Earl Scruggs? > Not … Faulkner? > DQ. > Not Lester Flatt Fritz Kreisler holding a DQ IQ1: Did you create the first nuclear reactor and known as the “father of the nuclear age”? IQ2: Are you an American zoologist buried in a gorilla cemetery in Rwanda, Africa? IQ3: Are you an American theoretical physicist and hero to Sheldon Cooper of _The Big Bang Theory_? ---
**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 12, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/134 "2017-02-12T22:11:14Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Mississippi riverboat man who was known for brawling? > IQ2: Did you design the _Nautilus_? > IQ3: Is an allotrope of carbon named after you? Two correct, and Buckminster Fuller had buckminsterfullerenes (a.k.a. Buckyballs) named for him. Holding a DQ. IQ1: Were you, the son of a famous American Revolutionary, a Loyalist who lived in London after the war? IQ2: Did you design Fallingwater? IQ3: Did the sitting President ceremonially ‘give the bride away’ for your wedding? ---
**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, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/135 "2017-02-13T01:55:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Bilbo Baggins in the recent Hobbit movies? > 2. Were you Eisenhower’s Secretary of State? > 3. Did you play Charlie on _Charlie’s Angels_? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you create the first nuclear reactor and known as the “father of the nuclear age”? > IQ2: Are you an American zoologist buried in a gorilla cemetery in Rwanda, Africa? > IQ3: Are you an American theoretical physicist and hero to Sheldon Cooper of _The Big Bang Theory_? Not Enrico Fermi. Not Diane Fossey. Not … Richard Feynman? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you, the son of a famous American Revolutionary, a Loyalist who lived in London after the war? > IQ2: Did you design Fallingwater? > IQ3: Did the sitting President ceremonially ‘give the bride away’ for your wedding? Presumably Benjamin Franklin’s son, the “Royal Governor of New Jersey” referred to in _1776_, but I’ve no idea what his first name was so take a DQ. Not Frank Lloyd Wright. DQ. **F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not best known for politics/government 6. Died before 1950 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Last name starts with F 9. Did not die before 1850 10. Not known for the Arts 11. Not known for the military 12. Did not die before 1900 13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement 14. Not known for science and/or technology ---
**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, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/136 "2017-02-13T02:04:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Bilbo Baggins in the recent Hobbit movies? > 2. Were you Eisenhower’s Secretary of State? > 3. Did you play Charlie on Charlie’s Angels? > Three DQs. #1 was Martin Freeman. #2 was John Foster Dulles. #3 was John Forsythe. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 13, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/137 "2017-02-13T02:28:11Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you, the son of a famous American Revolutionary, a Loyalist who lived in London after the war? > IQ2: Did you design Fallingwater? > IQ3: Did the sitting President ceremonially ‘give the bride away’ for your wedding? Yep, it was William Franklin, correct, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s bride Eleanor was given away by her uncle Theodore Roosevelt. DQ: known for business or commerce? holding a DQ. ---
**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, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/138 "2017-02-13T04:30:45Z")
IQ1: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime sound man and sketch writer? IQ2: Is one of your characters motivational speaker Matt Foley? IQ3: Was Ebenezer Scrooge your apprentice? ---
**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, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/139 "2017-02-13T05:33:34Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the only black kid in a comic strip? - Yes, Franklin in _Peanuts_ Did you command the CSS _Virginia_? - Franklin Buchanan, during the American Civil War Have you been played by Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight and Bill Murray? - Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin x3! DQs: Won a top prize in his field? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you exclaim, “Frog left!” Did you play the bad guy in _Star Trek: Insurrection_? Were you president of Oberlin College beginning in 1983? ---
**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, 2017, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/140 "2017-02-13T12:08:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime sound man and sketch writer? > IQ2: Is one of your characters motivational speaker Matt Foley? > IQ3: Was Ebenezer Scrooge your apprentice? DQ. DQ. Not Fezziwig. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you exclaim, “Frog left!” > Did you play the bad guy in _Star Trek: Insurrection_? > Were you president of Oberlin College beginning in 1983? Not Fozzie. DQ. DQ. **F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not best known for politics/government 6. Died before 1950 7. Born east of the Mississippi 8. Last name starts with F 9. Did not die before 1850 10. Not known for the Arts 11. Not known for the military 12. Did not die before 1900 13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement 14. Not known for science and/or technology 15. Not known for business or commerce 16. Won a top prize in his field 17. Not born north of the Mason-Dixon Line [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=8)