# 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:** 9
**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 14, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/161 "2017-02-14T21:23:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Meriadoc Brandybuck? > 2. Did you change your name to Rebecca Rolfe? > 3. Are you #2’s father? Not Peregrine Took; dunno x2. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an Italian playwright who tore up his Fascist Party membership card? > IQ2: When asked why you continued to practice the cello three hours a day at 93 years old, did you reply ‘I’m beginning to notice some improvement…’? > IQ3: Were you the host of Mutual of Omaha’s _Wild Kingdom_ from 1963 to 1985? Not Luigi Pirandello, Pablo Casals or Marlon Perkins. > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did Duncan Idaho teach you swordfighting? > IQ2: Did you play Duncan MacLeod? > IQ3: Were you a president of DC Comics and writer of the Legion of Super Heroes? Not Paul Atreides, Paul Lambert or… dunno (a Paul, probably). P. 1. real 2. male ---
**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 14, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/162 "2017-02-14T21:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Meriadoc Brandybuck? > 2. Did you change your name to Rebecca Rolfe? > 3. Are you #2’s father? > Not Peregrine Took; dunno x2 #1, correct. #2 was Pocahantas. #3 was Powhatan. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with P? ---
**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 14, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/163 "2017-02-14T22:42:43Z")
IQ1: Are you a songwriter who was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson? IQ2: Are you the longtime bassist for The Grateful Dead? IQ3: Are you the drummer/lead vocalist for Genesis? ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/164 "2017-02-14T23:08:07Z")
IQ1: Are you a Cornell grad (BA in psych) who went on to a career as a singer? IQ2: Is the best missed unless you’re around? IQ3: Are you #1’s partner? ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/165 "2017-02-14T23:15:47Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did Duncan Idaho teach you swordfighting? > IQ2: Did you play Duncan MacLeod? > IQ3: Were you a president of DC Comics and writer of the Legion of Super Heroes? Correct on 1, nope - it was Adrian Paul, and the third was indeed a Paul, Paul Levitz. Christopher Lambert played Connor MacLeod in the movie, which may be where the confusion came from. DQ: American? Holding one 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 14, 2017, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/166 "2017-02-14T23:31:48Z")
IQ1: Did you write _Tau Zero_? IQ2: Are you a professor of psychology at Harvard? IQ3: Did you play James T. Kirk? ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/167 "2017-02-15T02:43:24Z")
IQs: 1. Did Rabelais write about you and Gargantua? 2. Were you Candide’s teacher? 3. Did you write _Remembrance of Things Past_? ---
**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 15, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/168 "2017-02-15T05:28:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a songwriter who was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson? > IQ2: Are you the longtime bassist for The Grateful Dead? > IQ3: Are you the drummer/lead vocalist for Genesis? Not Phil Spector, dunno, and not Phil Collins. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Cornell grad (BA in psych) who went on to a career as a singer? > IQ2: Is the best missed unless you’re around? > IQ3: Are you #1’s partner? Not Paula Abdul (wildass guess), and dunno x2. > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Tau Zero_? > IQ2: Are you a professor of psychology at Harvard? > IQ3: Did you play James T. Kirk? Not Poul Anderson, dunno, and not Chris Pine. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rabelais write about you and Gargantua? > 2. Were you Candide’s teacher? > 3. Did you write _Remembrance of Things Past_? Dunno, dunno, and not Proust. P. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with P 5. American ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/169 "2017-02-15T12:02:39Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rabelais write about you and Gargantua? > 2. Were you Candide’s teacher? > 3. Did you write Remembrance of Things Past? #1 was Pantagruel. #2 was Pangloss. Correct on #3 DQs: 1. Known for politics/military? 2. Died before 1900? ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/170 "2017-02-15T12:11:39Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Laertes’s father in _Hamlet_? 2. Are you the head of the group of actors in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_? 3. Did you give “the quality of mercy” speech in _The Merchant of Venice_? ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/171 "2017-02-15T13:11:44Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a songwriter who was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson? > IQ2: Are you the longtime bassist for The Grateful Dead? > IQ3: Are you the drummer/lead vocalist for Genesis? > Not Phil Spector, dunno, and not Phil Collins. Phil Lesh Phil x3! holding a DQ IQ1: Did you play three roles in _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_? IQ2: Did you mount and ride the bomb as it dropped in the same movie? IQ3: Did you play the Russian ambassador in the same movie? ---
**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 15, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/172 "2017-02-15T16:49:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Laertes’s father in _Hamlet_? > 2. Are you the head of the group of actors in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_? > 3. Did you give “the quality of mercy” speech in _The Merchant of Venice_? Not Polonius; dunno x2. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > … > > IQ1: Did you play three roles in _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_? > IQ2: Did you mount and ride the bomb as it dropped in the same movie? > IQ3: Did you play the Russian ambassador in the same movie? Not Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens (“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!”) and dunno. P. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with P 5. American 6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking 7. died after 1900 ---
**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 15, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/173 "2017-02-15T17:19:04Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Laertes’s father in Hamlet? > 2. Are you the head of the group of actors in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? > 3. Did you give “the quality of mercy” speech in The Merchant of Venice? > Not Polonius; dunno x2. Correct on #1. #2 was Peter Quince. #3 was Portia. DQs: 1. Died after 1980? 2. Known for military pursuits? ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/174 "2017-02-15T18:09:07Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Tau Zero_? > IQ2: Are you a professor of psychology at Harvard? > IQ3: Did you play James T. Kirk? Correct, Stephen Pinker, and correct. Holding two DQs. IQ1: Were you awarded two unshared Nobel prizes? IQ2: Were you the first to isolate(‘discover’) Oxygen? IQ3: Did They Might Be Giants sing your biography? ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/175 "2017-02-15T18:13:57Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in _Miracle on 34th Street_? 2. Are you the eponymous lead character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly? 3. Is your presence in your story always accompanied by string instruments? ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/176 "2017-02-15T18:30:23Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you play three roles in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? > IQ2: Did you mount and ride the bomb as it dropped in the same movie? > IQ3: Did you play the Russian ambassador in the same movie? > Not Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens (“Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!”) and dunno. Peter “I do not support the work of imperialist stooges” Bull DQ: Born east of the Mississippi? holding a DQ IQ1: Did you compose _Peter and the Wolf_? IQ2; Was your work _Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary_ adapted into the music score for _A Clockwork Orange_? IQ3: Was Nadezhda von Meck your patron, even though they two of you never met? ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/177 "2017-02-15T19:14:35Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > … > > IQ1: Were you awarded two unshared Nobel prizes? > IQ2: Were you the first to isolate(‘discover’) Oxygen? > IQ3: Did They Might Be Giants sing your biography? Not Linus Pauling; dunno x2. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Kris Kringle’s lawyer in _Miracle on 34th Street_? > 2. Are you the eponymous lead character of a comic strip by Walt Kelly? > 3. Is your presence in your story always accompanied by string instruments? Dunno, not Pogo, and dunno. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > … > > IQ1: Did you compose _Peter and the Wolf_? > IQ2; Was your work _Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary_ adapted into the music score for _A Clockwork Orange_? > IQ3: Was Nadezhda von Meck your patron, even though they two of you never met? Not P.I. Tchaikovsky, not Henry Purcell (love that piece - you can hear it in the recent Austen film _Love & Friendship_, too), and… dunno. P. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with P 5. American 6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking 7. died after 1900 8. died before 1980 9. known for military pursuits, broadly speaking 10. born east of the Mississippi ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/178 "2017-02-15T19:47:17Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you awarded two unshared Nobel prizes? > IQ2: Were you the first to isolate(‘discover’) Oxygen? > IQ3: Did They Might Be Giants sing your biography? Correct on Pauling, Joseph Priestley, and [James K. Polk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvJMZs5Rs). DQ1: Were you an officer in a branch of the US military? DQ2: Are you known for your service in either World War? holding two 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 15, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/179 "2017-02-15T21:34:24Z")
P. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. last name starts with P 5. American 6. known for politics/military, broadly speaking 7. died after 1900 8. died before 1980 9. known for military pursuits, broadly speaking 10. born east of the Mississippi 11. had been an officer in a branch of the U.S. military 12. not known for his service in either World War ---
**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 15, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792/180 "2017-02-15T21:41:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Cornell grad (BA in psych) who went on to a career as a singer? > IQ2: Is the best missed unless you’re around? > IQ3: Are you #1’s partner? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Paula Abdul (wildass guess), and dunno x2. Peter Yarrow. Pop (Snap and Crackle’s buddy). Paul Stookey. Three DQs reserved. IQ1: Were you a fictional commando with a “bumbershoot”? IQ2: Was the M26 tank named after you? IQ3: Did you come between Cathy and Tara? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2017/778792.md?page=10)