# 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:** 6
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/101 "2015-01-13T19:28:06Z")
IQ1: Were you the basis of George Costanza? IQ2: Were you one of the authors of _The Mote in God’s Eye_? IQ3: Were you depicted in the early computer game One-on-One? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/102 "2015-01-13T20:16:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Superman’s girlfriend? > 2. Were you Superman’s girlfriend’s sister? > 3. Were you Superboy’s girlfriend? > > I say “were” cause Superman is dating Wonder Woman these days. Not Lois Lane or Lana Lang. 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 13, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/103 "2015-01-13T20:19:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > L it is. > > IQs: > > Was David Davis a friend of yours? > Did the actress who played you have to put on a lot of weight? > Did you sometimes sleep outside your boss’s door with a blanket, a gun and a dagger? Not Abraham Lincoln. Take two DQs for the other questions ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/104 "2015-01-13T20:20:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Odie Cologne’s friend? > IQ2: Are you Hardy Har Har’s friend? > IQ3: Are you Billy Boid’s friend? Not King Linus the Lion-Hearted (or his Itchy Brother!) Take two DQs for the others ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/105 "2015-01-13T20:21:35Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you the basis of George Costanza? > IQ2: Were you one of the authors of _The Mote in God’s Eye_? > IQ3: Were you depicted in the early computer game One-on-One? Not Larry David or Larry Niven. Take a DQ for #3 (I suspect his name is also Larry!) ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/106 "2015-01-13T20:34:04Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you the basis of George Costanza? > IQ2: Were you one of the authors of _The Mote in God’s Eye_? > IQ3: Were you depicted in the early computer game One-on-One? Correct on the first two, the last was Larry Bird. (One-on-One was a computer basketball game from the early 80s.) I briefly had the urge to come up with a clue for David Niven, before I realized that in spite of the symmetry of having him as the third after Larry David and Larry Niven, his name tragically lacks an L. DQ: Are you real? ---
**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 13, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/107 "2015-01-13T20:42:06Z")
IQ1: Are you the author of _Get Shorty_ and _3:10 to Yuma_? IQ2: Did you defeat “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler for the World Boxing Council’s middleweight title in 1987? IQ3: Did you compose the musical theatre production _Mass_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/108 "2015-01-13T20:57:14Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the author of _Get Shorty_ and _3:10 to Yuma_? > IQ2: Did you defeat “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler for the World Boxing Council’s middleweight title in 1987? > IQ3: Did you compose the musical theatre production _Mass_? Not ELmore Leonard, Sugar Ray Leonard, or Leonard Bernstein SUMMARY 1. Real person ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/109 "2015-01-13T21:19:30Z")
IQ1: Were you the first in your class to orbit the Earth? IQ2: Were you the title character in a series which lasted for more than ten seasons on US broadcast TV? IQ3: Were you a character who was introduced on the first episode of _The Simpsons_ to be broadcast? (To clarify, a prior appearance on _The Tracey Ullman Show_ would count as your introduction, so to be the answer to this question you can’t have previously appeared there.) ---
**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 13, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/110 "2015-01-13T21:29:50Z")
IQ1: Are you an early 20th century gangster who had so many attempts made on your life, you became known as the “clay pigeon of the underworld”? IQ2: Are you a Sicilian-American gangster credited for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families? IQ3: Are you a Jewish gangster who with IQ2 developed the National Crime Syndicate? ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/111 "2015-01-14T02:46:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Odie Cologne’s friend? > IQ2: Are you Hardy Har Har’s friend? > IQ3: Are you Billy Boid’s friend? > [@astorian](#): > > Not King Linus the Lion-Hearted (or his Itchy Brother!) > > Take two DQs for the others King Leonardo. Lippy the Lion. Linus the Lionhearted. Cartoon lions x3! (Itchy Brother was actually Leonardo’s sibling, not Linus’s, and Linus wasn’t a king.) DQ1: Male? DQ2: Living? IQ1: Did you abstain, courteously? IQ2: Were you one of the fathers of photography? IQ3: Were you the one of the Three who wasn’t related to the other three? ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/112 "2015-01-14T02:53:24Z")
Oops - my mistake. “Roar, roar, roar for Linus the king, Linus the star, Linus the Lionhearted!” ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/113 "2015-01-14T02:54:56Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Superman’s girlfriend? > 2. Were you Superman’s girlfriend’s sister? > 3. Were you Superboy’s girlfriend? > > I say “were” cause Superman is dating Wonder Woman these days. > Not Lois Lane or Lana Lang. > > Take a DQ for #2 #2 was Lucy Lane. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 14, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/114 "2015-01-14T04:35:42Z")
Previous Qs: Was David Davis a friend of yours? - Yes, a plump judge whom Abraham Lincoln later put on SCOTUS. Did the actress who played you have to put on a lot of weight? - Sally Field told NPR she had to drink a lot of milkshakes to play Mary Todd Lincoln. Did you sometimes sleep outside your boss’s door with a blanket, a gun and a dagger? - U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon, who thus guarded President Lincoln. DQs: American? Last name start with L? IQs: Were you a cleric after whom an American college was named? Did your selection lead to chants, by some, of “Boston-Austin”? Did you create the show _Battlestar Galactica_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/115 "2015-01-14T20:33:58Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first in your class to orbit the Earth? > IQ2: Were you the title character in a series which lasted for more than ten seasons on US broadcast TV? > IQ3: Were you a character who was introduced on the first episode of _The Simpsons_ to be broadcast? (To clarify, a prior appearance on _The Tracey Ullman Show_ would count as your introduction, so to be the answer to this question you can’t have previously appeared there.) Take a DQ for #1 Not… Lou Grant? Not… Lisa SImpson? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/116 "2015-01-14T20:35:01Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an early 20th century gangster who had so many attempts made on your life, you became known as the “clay pigeon of the underworld”? > IQ2: Are you a Sicilian-American gangster credited for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families? > IQ3: Are you a Jewish gangster who with IQ2 developed the National Crime Syndicate? Not… Lepke Buchalter? Not… Lucky Luciano? Not Meyer Lansky? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/117 "2015-01-14T20:36:03Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. First name starts with L ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/118 "2015-01-14T20:37:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you abstain, courteously? > IQ2: Were you one of the fathers of photography? > IQ3: Were you the one of the Three who wasn’t related to the other three? Not Louis Daguerre Take DQs for the other two ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/119 "2015-01-14T20:40:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a cleric after whom an American college was named? > Did your selection lead to chants, by some, of “Boston-Austin”? > Did you create the show _Battlestar Galactica_? Not Ignatius Loyola, Lyndon Johnson or Glen A Larson. ---
**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 14, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/120 "2015-01-14T20:57:31Z")
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