# Botticelli - January 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391 "2013-01-07T20:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/301 "2013-02-10T04:06:14Z")
IQ: Were you a heavyweight champ with uncreative names for you kids? ---
**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 10, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/302 "2013-02-10T18:16:40Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you an eccentric Canadian pianist? > IQ2: Are you the king of birds, for whom the Indonesian airline is named? > IQ3: Are you the author of the original ‘Phantom of the Opera’? Dunno any of these, although I should know the last, in particular. Three DQs. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a heavyweight champ with uncreative names for you kids? Not George Foreman. G. 1. Real ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/303 "2013-02-10T18:55:17Z")
IQ1: Are you a Texas singer-songwriter who builds his own guitars? IQ2: As mayor, did you direct city personnel to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law? IQ3: Were you the chief engineer on NCC-1701-D? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/304 "2013-02-10T19:25:25Z")
IQ: Did you lose a recall election and were replaced by the “Governator”? ---
**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 10, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/305 "2013-02-10T19:58:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Austria’s top submarine captain in WW I? > IQ2: Did you play a purser on a cruise liner? > IQ3: Were you that purser? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Georg von Trapp, Fred Grandy or Gopher. Correct on all three. IQ1: Did you, your brother and his son all receive the Victoria Cross? IQ2: Are you that brother? IQ3: Are you that son? ---
**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 10, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/306 "2013-02-10T20:06:56Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Texas singer-songwriter who builds his own guitars? > IQ2: As mayor, did you direct city personnel to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law? > IQ3: Were you the chief engineer on NCC-1701-D? Dunno the first, not Gavin Newsome of San Francisco, and not Geordi LaForge. One DQ. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you lose a recall election and were replaced by the “Governator”? Not the hapless Gray Davis. > [@SCAdian](#): > > …IQ1: Did you, your brother and his son all receive the Victoria Cross? > IQ2: Are you that brother? > IQ3: Are you that son? Dunno any of these three. Does anyone else here? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/307 "2013-02-10T20:29:01Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you an eccentric Canadian pianist? > IQ2: Are you the king of birds, for whom the Indonesian airline is named? > IQ3: Are you the author of the original ‘Phantom of the Opera’? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno any of these, although I should know the last, in particular. Three DQs. #1. is **Glenn Gould** , who was at least as famous for his strange personal habits as for his playing. He has just won a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys. #2. is **Garuda** , who rescues Sita from the demon Ravana in the Hindu epic ‘The Ramayana’. Garuda Airlines is the official airline of Indonesia. #3. is **Gaston Leroux**. Though best known for ‘Phantom’, ‘The Mystery of the Yellow Room’ is a classic of the ‘locked room’ genre of mysteries. DQ1: Are you male? DQ2: Are you living? DQ3: Are you American? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/308 "2013-02-10T20:51:29Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Texas singer-songwriter who builds his own guitars? Guy Clark. DQ: Are you associated with the arts, by our customary definition? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/309 "2013-02-10T20:57:02Z")
IQ: Were you a former child-star who ran in the Davis recall election? ---
**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 11, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/310 "2013-02-11T01:54:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on all three. > IQ1: Did you, your brother and his son all receive the Victoria Cross? > IQ2: Are you that brother? > IQ3: Are you that son? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno any of these three. Hugh Gough VC. Charles Gough VC. John Gough VC. DQs reserved pending answers to Le Ministre’s and Enginerd’s questions. IQ1: Do they call you Possum? IQ2: Did you paint a farmer and his daughter standing in front of their house? IQ3: Were you a hot Italian film star in the '60s? ---
**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 11, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/311 "2013-02-11T02:05:52Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a former child-star who ran in the Davis recall election? Not Gary Coleman from _Diff’rent Strokes_. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Hugh Gough VC. > Charles Gough VC. > John Gough VC. Not to detract in any way from their heroism, but has anyone else heard of these guys? > [@SCAdian](#): > > … > IQ1: Do they call you Possum? > IQ2: Did you paint a farmer and his daughter standing in front of their house? > IQ3: Were you a hot Italian film star in the '60s? Dunno the first; not Grant Wood (supposed to the farmer and his wife in _American Gothic_, wasn’t it?) or Gina Lollabrigida (sp?). G. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the creative arts #5 per our usual definition. ---
**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 11, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/312 "2013-02-11T02:23:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do they call you Possum? > IQ2: Did you paint a farmer and his daughter standing in front of their house? > IQ3: Were you a hot Italian film star in the '60s? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno the first; not Grant Wood (supposed to the farmer and his wife in _American Gothic_, wasn’t it?) or Gina Lollabrigida (sp?). Country singer George Jones. Correct on Grant Wood (I’ve always heard it as being his daughter). Correct on Gina Lollobrigida. DQ: Died after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/313 "2013-02-11T02:30:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not to detract in any way from their heroism, but has anyone else heard of these guys? If I’m remembering right, one of them was with the British forces during the Napoleonic War, and then went to India/Afghanistan. Seems to me the other two fought for the British in India. Wasn’t there a mention of Gough in either the Hornblower series or the Aubery/Maturin series? Gough Ave. in Toronto is named for one of them. I couldn’t tell you which one is which without SCAdian’s help, though. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/314 "2013-02-11T02:47:59Z")
IQ1: Are you a multi-instrumentalist with The Band? (I know, they’re all multi-instrumentalists…) IQ2: Are you a Canadian author who writes an interesting blend of fantasy and historical fiction? IQ3: Was ‘Falstaff’ your final masterpiece? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/315 "2013-02-11T03:08:43Z")
IQ1: Did you write the _History of the Kings of Britain_? IQ2: Do you work for Spacely Sprockets? IQ3: Did you write of that Aprille with his shoures soote? ---
**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 11, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/316 "2013-02-11T04:16:02Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > …Gough Ave. in Toronto is named for one of them. I couldn’t tell you which one is which without SCAdian’s help, though. Good enough for me. Thanks. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a multi-instrumentalist with The Band? (I know, they’re all multi-instrumentalists…) > IQ2: Are you a Canadian author who writes an interesting blend of fantasy and historical fiction? > IQ3: Was ‘Falstaff’ your final masterpiece? Dunno any of these. Three DQs. > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the _History of the Kings of Britain_? > IQ2: Do you work for Spacely Sprockets? > IQ3: Did you write of that Aprille with his shoures soote? Not Geoffrey of Monmouth, George Jetson (thinking of Elroy, were you?) or Geoffrey Chaucer. G. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the creative arts 6. Died after 1950 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/317 "2013-02-11T04:35:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Geoffrey of Monmouth, George Jetson (thinking of Elroy, were you?) or Geoffrey Chaucer. Correct on all, though I must admit that I was thinking of Elroy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/318 "2013-02-11T04:42:43Z")
IQ: Did your “Plan” rebuild post-WWII Europe? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/319 "2013-02-11T05:07:32Z")
IQ1: Are you the lead singer of Rush? IQ2: Did you wonder how an elephant got into your pyjamas? IQ3: Did you invent Dungeons and Dragons? ---
**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 11, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/320 "2013-02-11T05:19:08Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did your “Plan” rebuild post-WWII Europe? Not George C. Marshall. (True story: One of my history professors in college was in the crowd as a graduating student for the Harvard commencement ceremony at which the Secretary of State announced the Marshall Plan. Talk about being part of history!) > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Are you the lead singer of Rush? > IQ2: Did you wonder how an elephant got into your pyjamas? > IQ3: Did you invent Dungeons and Dragons? Not Getty Lee, Groucho Marx or Gary Gygax. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391.md?page=17)