# Botticelli - January 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 5, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055 "2015-01-05T19:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [January 21, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/201 "2015-01-21T17:47:33Z")
I have heard of the movie, but never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/202 "2015-01-21T17:52:44Z")
I know the movie, and remember the ending well (I was stunned when Frank got shot before getting to Switzerland). But I never would have guessed it. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/203 "2015-01-21T17:57:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I have heard of the movie, but never saw it. Ditto on both counts. Good one, **SCAdian**. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/204 "2015-01-22T02:42:12Z")
I’ve never seen the movie either, but I did read the book when I was a kid. That was over 50 years ago, though, so I really don’t remember much other than that I enjoyed it. Time for a reread, I think… In the meantime - I am **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:** [January 22, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/205 "2015-01-22T03:19:20Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a bad old puddy tat? 2. Did you write _Corridors of Power_? 3. Did you weasel your way out of writing the Declaration of Independence? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/206 "2015-01-22T03:32:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a bad old puddy tat? > 2. Did you write _Corridors of Power_? > 3. Did you weasel your way out of writing the Declaration of Independence? Not Sylvester. DQ. Not Roger Sherman (a simple cobbler, he!). ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/207 "2015-01-22T03:46:03Z")
Correct on 1 and 3. C. P. Snow wrote _Corridors of Power_. DQ: 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:** [January 22, 2015, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/208 "2015-01-22T03:48:04Z")
IQs: 1. Were you one of the scholars who helped translate the New Testament in the King James Version (and one of my ancestors to boot)? 2. Did you write _The Vampire: His Kith and Kin_? 3. Have you, on occasion, been the Easter Beagle? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/209 "2015-01-22T05:16:17Z")
IQs: Other than Dean Martin, are you arguably the best-known person ever born in Steubenville, Ohio? Did an interviewer forget your wife had died? Did two unrelated men of this same name appear simultaneously on SNL? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/210 "2015-01-22T12:42:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of the scholars who helped translate the New Testament in the King James Version (and one of my ancestors to boot)? > 2. Did you write _The Vampire: His Kith and Kin_? > 3. Have you, on occasion, been the Easter Beagle? DQ. DQ. Not Snoopy. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Other than Dean Martin, are you arguably the best-known person ever born in Steubenville, Ohio? > Did an interviewer forget your wife had died? > Did two unrelated men of this same name appear simultaneously on SNL? Three DQs. **S** 1. Fictional ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/211 "2015-01-22T13:13:38Z")
IQ1: Are you an actor who was also a volunteer fireman and helped with rescue efforts during the 9/11 tragedy? IQ2: Are you one of the two founders of Apple Inc.? IQ3: Are you the other founder? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/212 "2015-01-22T13:45:40Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of the scholars who helped translate the New Testament in the King James Version (and one of my ancestors to boot)? > 2. Did you write The Vampire: His Kith and Kin? > 3. Have you, on occasion, been the Easter Beagle? > > DQ. > DQ. > Not Snoopy. #1 was John Spencer, part of the Westminster group that worked on the New Testament Epistles. #2 was Montague Summers. Correct on Snoopy. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Best known from a movie or movies? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/213 "2015-01-22T14:17:35Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Supergirl’s pet? 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s partner? 3. Did your father sing about your “laughing face”? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/214 "2015-01-22T16:10:56Z")
Previous IQs: Other than Dean Martin, are you arguably the best-known person ever born in Steubenville, Ohio? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SECWAR Did an interviewer forget your wife had died? - Martin Short: [Kathie Lee Gifford forgets MARTIN SHORT wife is dead on Today Show: HUGE MISTAKE May 30 2012... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk3TxOnqyCA) Did two unrelated men of this same name appear simultaneously on SNL? - There’s only one thing better than a single Paul Simon…: [https://screen.yahoo.com/paul-simon-monologue-000000150.html](https://screen.yahoo.com/paul-simon-monologue-000000150.html) DQs: American? Last name start with S? First appeared since 1964? IQs: Did you call a timeout during a war for a foe’s wedding night? Did your name become a watchword for brutal labor management? Did you like to play chess on set with your castmembers? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/215 "2015-01-22T16:19:44Z")
IQ) Did you travel around having drunken adventures with Dean Moriarty? IQ2) Did you create a popular sitcom and write numerous bestselling trashy romance novels? IQ3) Did you write “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/216 "2015-01-22T20:29:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an actor who was also a volunteer fireman and helped with rescue efforts during the 9/11 tragedy? > IQ2: Are you one of the two founders of Apple Inc.? > IQ3: Are you the other founder? DQ. Not Steve Jobs. Not Steve Wozniak. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Supergirl’s pet? > 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s partner? > 3. Did your father sing about your “laughing face”? Not Streaky. DQ. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you call a timeout during a war for a foe’s wedding night? > Did your name become a watchword for brutal labor management? > Did you like to play chess on set with your castmembers? Not Saladin (who seems to have been the only decent leader on either side during the entire series of Crusades). Not Simon Legree. DQ. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ) Did you travel around having drunken adventures with Dean Moriarty? > > IQ2) Did you create a popular sitcom and write numerous bestselling trashy romance novels? > > IQ3) Did you write “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”? Three DQs. **S** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Probably best known from a movie or movies 4. Not American 5, Last name starts with S 5. Did not first appear after 1964 ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/217 "2015-01-22T20:54:30Z")
Previous IQs: Did you call a timeout during a war for a foe’s wedding night? - Yes, Saladin, during the Crusades Did your name become a watchword for brutal labor management? - Yes, Simon Legree, from _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ Did you like to play chess on set with your castmembers? - Stanley Kubrick DQ: European? IQs: Were you one of the protagonists of Jeffrey Archer’s _First Among Equals_? Did a comedian say that you were obsessed with fellatio? Were you that comedian? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/218 "2015-01-22T21:27:34Z")
**IQ) Did you travel around having drunken adventures with Dean Moriarty?** Sal Paradise (Jack Kerouac’s alter ego) cavorted with Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassidy’s alter ego) in the novel\*\*\* On the Road.\*\*\* IQ2) **Did you create a popular sitcom and write numerous bestselling trashy romance novels?** In addition to writing trashy romance novels, Sidney SHeldon created _ **I Dream of Jeannie** _ \*\* IQ3) Did you write “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”? \*\* Behavioral psychologist BF Skinner DQ1) European? DQ2) Did you originally appear in a novel or short story? DQ3) Created by an 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:** [January 22, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/219 "2015-01-22T22:37:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Supergirl’s pet? > 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s partner? > 3. Did your father sing about your “laughing face”? > > Not Streaky. > DQ. > DQ. Correct on Streaky. #2 was Stripesy. #3 was Nancy Sinatra. Frank sang “Nancy with the Smiling Face”, so I goofed and no 2nd DQ for me. 1 DQ 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:** [January 22, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/220 "2015-01-22T22:51:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of the protagonists of Jeffrey Archer’s _First Among Equals_? > Did a comedian say that you were obsessed with fellatio? > Were you that comedian? Three DQs. **S** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Probably best known from a movie or movies 4. Not American 5, Last name starts with S 5. Did not first appear after 1964 6. European 7. Originally appeared in a novel or short story 8. Not created by an American astorian, ask another DQ - EH had already asked your first one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=12)