# 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:** 16
**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 27, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/301 "2015-01-27T17:06:37Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you the bassist for jazz fusion band Return to Forever? > IQ2: Did you direct scenes for a famous movie in which your actors thought they were doing a drama, but actually turned out to be a comedy? > IQ3: Do you play Caesar Flickerman in the Hunger Games movies? > > Not… Stanley Clarke? > > Take two DQs for the others correct, Stanley Kubrick (for _Dr. Strangelove_), Stanley Tucci DQ: Male? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/302 "2015-01-27T17:31:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > I was wondering if it might be a western, but I’ve never seen that movie (not a big Mel Brooks fan) so I would never have guessed it. > IQ1: Were you originally Josip Dzhugashvili? > IQ2: Did they call you “Vinegar Joe”? > IQ3: Were you a senior auror who was a member of the Order of the Phoenix? Not Joe Stalin or Kingsley Shacklebolt. Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/303 "2015-01-27T17:32:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Good one, **astorian**! I shoulda thought of _Blazing Saddles_. > > On to S… > > IQs: > > After Dean Martin, are you the best-known person born in your hometown? > Was this hometown named after you, another S? > Did Lincoln appoint you to an important post in late 1864? Not Edwin Stanton (I just saw this factoid somewhere else on the SDMB the other day) Not Frederick von Steuben Not SUpreme COurt Justice Salmon P. Chase ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/304 "2015-01-27T17:34:06Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/305 "2015-01-27T18:16:04Z")
IQ1: Are you a French explorer who founded Quebec and mapped the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes? IQ2: Were you elected the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836? IQ3: Are you the poet who wrote _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_? DQ: Alive? ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/306 "2015-01-27T18:22:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you revise Stephanus’s _Textus Receptus_? 2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money? 3. Did you write the novel _Quo Vadis_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/307 "2015-01-27T20:11:56Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a French explorer who founded Quebec and mapped the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes? > IQ2: Were you elected the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836? > IQ3: Are you the poet who wrote _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_? > > DQ: Alive? Not Samuel de Champlain Not Sam Houston Not Samuel Taylor Colerige ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/308 "2015-01-27T20:12:56Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Still alive ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/309 "2015-01-27T20:13:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you revise Stephanus’s _Textus Receptus_? > 2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money? > 3. Did you write the novel _Quo Vadis_? Not Ben Stein Take two DQs for the others ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/310 "2015-01-27T20:50:23Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > SUMMARY > > 1. Real Person > 2. Male > 3. Still alive > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you revise Stephanus’s _Textus Receptus_? > 2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money? > 3. Did you write the novel _Quo Vadis_? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Ben Stein > > Take two DQs for the others #1 was Scrivener. Correct on Ben. #3 was Henrik Szienkiewicz. DQs: 1. Last name starts with S? 2. American? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/311 "2015-01-27T21:08:35Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Still alive 4. American 5. Last name starts with 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 27, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/312 "2015-01-27T21:31:56Z")
IQs: 1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus? 2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution? 3. Did you compose _Finlandia_? ---
**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 27, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/313 "2015-01-27T21:36:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you originally Josip Dzhugashvili? > IQ2: Did they call you “Vinegar Joe”? > IQ3: Were you a senior auror who was a member of the Order of the Phoenix? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Joe Stalin or Kingsley Shacklebolt. > > Take a DQ for #2 Correct. Gen Joseph Stilwell. Correct. DQ: Known for the Arts, as usually defined by us? IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s? IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner _Hispaniola_? IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Edwin Stanton (I just saw this factoid somewhere else on the SDMB the other day) EH asked it during my last game. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/314 "2015-01-27T21:40:49Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Still alive 4. American 5. Last name starts with S 6. Not involved in the arts ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/315 "2015-01-27T21:41:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus? > 2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution? > 3. Did you compose _Finlandia_? Not Simon of Cyrene or Jean Sibelius. Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/316 "2015-01-27T21:43:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s? > IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner _Hispaniola_? > IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer? Not Bart Starr or Long John Silver. For #3… not Meryl Streep? (I know she played Margaret Thatcher, but can’t remember the archer or the Duchess.) ---
**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 27, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/317 "2015-01-27T21:58:49Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s? > IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner _Hispaniola_? > IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Bart Starr or Long John Silver. > > For #3… not Meryl Streep? (I know she played Margaret Thatcher, but can’t remember the archer or the Duchess.) Correct. Correct. Peter Sellers played all three of those parts in _The Mouse That Roared_. DQ: Known for political/military service? IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender? IQ2: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother? IQ3: Did you serve in the Confederate Army, the Union Army, and the Union Navy? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/318 "2015-01-27T22:08:41Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Still alive 4. American 5. Last name starts with S 6. Not involved in the arts 7. Not involved in politics or military affairs ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/319 "2015-01-27T22:09:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender? > IQ2: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother? > IQ3: Did you serve in the Confederate Army, the Union Army, and the Union Navy? Not Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) Not Sally Forth Take a DQ for #3 ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/320 "2015-01-27T22:10:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus? > 2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution? > 3. Did you compose _Finlandia_? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Simon of Cyrene or Jean Sibelius. > > Take a DQ for #2 Correct on Simon and Sibelius. #2 was Shirley Temple Black. DQ: Known for Sports? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=17)