# Botticelli - February 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441 "2020-02-03T20:14:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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 19, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/141 "2020-02-19T13:56:16Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American ---
**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 19, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/142 "2020-02-19T15:59:49Z")
IQs: Were you a Vietnam War-era general who later got a tank named after him? Were you shot and killed in the opening scene of _Life After Life_? Did you write that novel? ---
**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 19, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/143 "2020-02-19T16:30:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a Vietnam War-era general who later got a tank named after him? > Were you shot and killed in the opening scene of _Life After Life_? > Did you write that novel? 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 19, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/144 "2020-02-19T18:18:14Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Vietnam War-era general who later got a tank named after him? - Creighton Abrams Were you shot and killed in the opening scene of _Life After Life_? - Adolf Hitler, in a Munich pastry shop in Nov. 1930 Did you write that novel? - Kate Atkinson DQs: Living? European? First name starts with A? IQs: Did you defend the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre? Were you that person’s wife? Were you their son? ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/145 "2020-02-19T18:42:34Z")
Nice job on Marian Paroo. I was clueless during that entire sequence. IQs: 1. Did you write the “Just for Variety” column for the _Variety_ trade newspaper for nearly 50 years? 2. Did you play _Maigret_ in the recent British television series of the same name? 3. Were you a Greek shipping magnate who married a former American first lady? ---
**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 19, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/146 "2020-02-19T22:20:20Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. European 6. Last name starts with A ---
**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 19, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/147 "2020-02-19T22:21:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you defend the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre? > Were you that person’s wife? > Were you their son? I am not John, Abigail or John Quincy Adams. > [@Personal](#): > > Nice job on Marian Paroo. I was clueless during that entire sequence. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the “Just for Variety” column for the _Variety_ trade newspaper for nearly 50 years? > 2. Did you play _Maigret_ in the recent British television series of the same name? > 3. Were you a Greek shipping magnate who married a former American first lady? Take a DQ for #1. #2. I am not Rowan Atkinson, who is very impressive in that role. #3. I am not Aristotle Onassis. ---
**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 20, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/148 "2020-02-20T04:47:21Z")
Swept me, as I knew you would! IQs: Were you JFK’s Solicitor General, even more famous for what he did later? Were you a noted writer about the sinking of the _Titanic_? Did your dad have the family dog stuffed after it died? ---
**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 20, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/149 "2020-02-20T13:09:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Swept me, as I knew you would! > > IQs: > > Were you JFK’s Solicitor General, even more famous for what he did later? > Were you a noted writer about the sinking of the _Titanic_? > Did your dad have the family dog stuffed after it died? And swept me back! 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 20, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/150 "2020-02-20T15:11:51Z")
Previous IQs: Were you JFK’s Solicitor General, even more famous for what he did later? - Archibald Cox, later the Watergate special counsel Were you a noted writer about the sinking of the _Titanic_? - Archibald Gracie Did your dad have the family dog stuffed after it died? - Alan Alda DQs: From the British Isles? Died since 1900? Political/military? IQs: Did you never provide the first name of a government official about whom you often wrote? Did your new wife confide to her diary how rapturously in love with you she was? Were you compared by a foe to a dangerously mesmerizing snake in a zoo? ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/151 "2020-02-20T15:36:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. European 6. Last name starts with A 7. Not from the British Isles 8. Died before 1900 9. Not political/military ---
**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 20, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/152 "2020-02-20T15:37:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you never provide the first name of a government official about whom you often wrote? > Did your new wife confide to her diary how rapturously in love with you she was? > Were you compared by a foe to a dangerously mesmerizing snake in a zoo? Take 3 more 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 20, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/153 "2020-02-20T16:07:15Z")
Previous IQs: Did you never provide the first name of a government official about whom you often wrote? - Arthur Conan Doyle only gave us Scotland Yard Insp. Lestrade’s first initial, “G” Did your new wife confide to her diary how rapturously in love with you she was? - Queen Victoria wrote this of Prince Albert Were you compared by a foe to a dangerously mesmerizing snake in a zoo? - The title character of Conan Doyle’s short story “Charles Augustus Milverton” DQs: Best known for the Arts? Native speaker of a Romance language? Died before 1800? IQs: Did Richard Harris play you in 2000? Did Russell Crowe play you in a movie which the filmmakers hoped would be the first of a series? Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine? ---
**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 20, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/154 "2020-02-20T21:43:45Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. European 6. Last name starts with A 7. Not from the British Isles 8. Died before 1900 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Native speaker of a Romance language 12. Died before 1800 ---
**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 20, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/155 "2020-02-20T21:47:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Richard Harris play you in 2000? > Did Russell Crowe play you in a movie which the filmmakers hoped would be the first of a series? > Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine? 1. I am not King Arthur (??) 2. I would guess that’s Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde, but those aren’t A’s. Take a DQ. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 21, 2020, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/156 "2020-02-21T05:04:55Z")
Previous IQs: Did Richard Harris play you in 2000? - Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in _Gladiator_ Did Russell Crowe play you in a movie which the filmmakers hoped would be the first of a series? - Capt. John “Lucky Jack” Aubrey, in _Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World_ Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine? - Col. Adelbert Ames, later a Carpetbagger governor of Mississippi DQs: Died before 1700? Best known for a single incident? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher? Are you a noted American legal scholar and reformer? Were you Lincoln’s Minister to the Court of St. James’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 21, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/157 "2020-02-21T12:11:33Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. European 6. Last name starts with A 7. Not from the British Isles 8. Died before 1900 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Native speaker of a Romance language 12. Died before 1800 13. Died before 1700 14. Not best known for a single incident ---
**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 21, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/158 "2020-02-21T12:12:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > One DQ reserved. > > IQs: > > Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher? > Are you a noted American legal scholar and reformer? > Were you Lincoln’s Minister to the Court of St. James’s? 1. I am not St. Augustine. Take 2 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 21, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/159 "2020-02-21T13:57:58Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher? - I’ll rephrase Are you a noted American legal scholar and reformer? - Bryan Adamson Were you Lincoln’s Minister to the Court of St. James’s? - Charles Francis Adams DQs: Died before 1000? Best known as a philosopher/thinker? IQs: You are not St. Augustine. Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher? Was your mother Gilraen? Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? ---
**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 21, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/160 "2020-02-21T14:11:02Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Dead 5. European 6. Last name starts with A 7. Not from the British Isles 8. Died before 1900 9. Not political/military 10. Not best known for the Arts 11. Native speaker of a Romance language 12. Died before 1800 13. Died before 1700 14. Not best known for a single incident 15. Died after 1000 16. Best known as a philosopher/thinker [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441.md?page=9)