# 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:** 7
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/121 "2015-01-14T21:01:19Z")
IQs: 1. Did you host _Kids Say The Darnedest Things_? 2. Were you a mordant hypochondriac and brilliant pianist? 3. Did you write _It Can’t Happen Here_? ---
**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, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/122 "2015-01-14T21:31:21Z")
Oll korrect as to Loyola, Lyndon and Larson. IQs: Does a painting of you hang in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives? Did you play a horny bartender in _Bad Santa_? Are you the title character of _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_? ---
**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, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/123 "2015-01-14T21:50:36Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. First name starts with L 6. Died before 1950 ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/124 "2015-01-14T21:52:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you host _Kids Say The Darnedest Things_? > 2. Were you a mordant hypochondriac and brilliant pianist? > 3. Did you write _It Can’t Happen Here_? Not Art Linkletter or Sinclair Lewis. For the pianist… not Franz Liszt? (Take a DQ if that’s wrong.) ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/125 "2015-01-14T21:53:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Oll korrect as to Loyola, Lyndon and Larson. > > IQs: > > Does a painting of you hang in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives? > Did you play a horny bartender in _Bad Santa_? > Are you the title character of _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_? Not Lisbeth Salander. Take DQs for the othr two. ---
**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 14, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/126 "2015-01-14T22:42:08Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not… Lepke Buchalter? > > Not… Lucky Luciano? > > Not Meyer Lansky? Legs Diamond, correct x2 DQ: European? ---
**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 15, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/127 "2015-01-15T00:05:31Z")
> [@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.) > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ for #1 > > Not… Lou Grant? > > Not… Lisa SImpson? I went heavy theme this time.😃 1 was Laika, first of class Mammalia to orbit the Earth. 2 was Lassie. Did the series titled Lou Grant really last more than 10 years? 3 was Santa’s Little Helper, a racing greyhound whose adoption was part of the primary plot of the first episode of \*The Simpsons \*to be broadcast (a Christmas themed episode). Lisa had already been introduced on _The Tracey Ullman Show._ ---
**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 15, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/128 "2015-01-15T01:07:07Z")
[QUOTE] IQs: 1. Did you host Kids Say The Darnedest Things? 2. Were you a mordant hypochondriac and brilliant pianist? 3. Did you write It Can’t Happen Here? Not Art Linkletter or Sinclair Lewis. For the pianist… not Franz Liszt? (Take a DQ if that’s wrong.) [QUOTE] Correct on Art and Sinclair. #2 was Oscar Levant. DQ: Born before 1800? ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/129 "2015-01-15T03:51:52Z")
> [@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? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Louis Daguerre > > Take DQs for the other two Lewis Morris, delegate from New York, as portrayed in _1776_. Correct. Larry Fine. The other three members of the Three Stooges - Moe, Shemp and Curly Howard - were brothers. DQ: Known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. IQ1: Did you hide your booze in your teetotal friend’s footlocker? IQ2: Were you and your wife, Judy-Lynn, noted SF editors? IQ3: Did you speak for Phineas J Whoopee? ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/130 "2015-01-15T03:58:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did you win Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Peace? 2. Was your nickname “the Lip”? 3. Are you Lex Luthor’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/131 "2015-01-15T04:45:27Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. First name starts with L 6. Died before 1950 7. European 8. Not involved in the arts 9. Born before 1800 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/132 "2015-01-15T04:47:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you hide your booze in your teetotal friend’s footlocker? > IQ2: Were you and your wife, Judy-Lynn, noted SF editors? > IQ3: Did you speak for Phineas J Whoopee? Not Larry Storch (I loved Tennessee Tuxedo) Take 2 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 15, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/133 "2015-01-15T04:48:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Peace? > 2. Was your nickname “the Lip”? > 3. Are you Lex Luthor’s sister? Not Linus Pauling or Leo Durocher Take a DQ for #3 ---
**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 15, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/134 "2015-01-15T05:09:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you hide your booze in your teetotal friend’s footlocker? > IQ2: Were you and your wife, Judy-Lynn, noted SF editors? > IQ3: Did you speak for Phineas J Whoopee? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Larry Storch (I loved Tennessee Tuxedo) > > Take 2 DQs for the others Lewis Nixon (_Band of Brothers_). Lester del Rey. Correct. (It’s always been one of my favourites, too.) DQ1: Born before 1500? DQ2: Military/political/royal figure? DQ3: Native speaker of a Germanic language? IQ1: Did you have two brothers with the same name? IQ2: Were you le roi soliel? IQ3: Were you an archaeologist who was killed in a motorctcle accident? ---
**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 15, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/135 "2015-01-15T05:57:18Z")
Previous IQs: Does a painting of you hang in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives? - The Marquis de Lafayette: [http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/House-Chamber/Lafayette-Washington/](http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/House-Chamber/Lafayette-Washington/) Did you play a horny bartender in _Bad Santa_? - Lauren Graham, in a _very_ different role from _Gilmore Girls_. Are you the title character of _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_? - Yes, Lisbeth Salander. DQs: British? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Were you one of the Lincoln conspirators who was hanged? Were you a Nixon appointee to SCOTUS? Did your best-known colleague get a promotion almost 200 years later? ---
**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 15, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/136 "2015-01-15T13:50:53Z")
IQ1: Did you write that a government’s right to rule must be based on the consent of its people in _The two treatises of the government_? IQ2: Are you a Norse explorer who made the first European journey to North America? IQ3: Did you develop cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases in the 19th century? ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/137 "2015-01-15T15:44:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win Nobel Prizes in both Chemistry and Peace? > 2. Was your nickname “the Lip”? > 3. Are you Lex Luthor’s sister? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Linus Pauling or Leo Durocher > Take a DQ for #3 Correct on Linus and Leo. #3 is Lena Thorul. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/138 "2015-01-15T15:46:06Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. First name starts with L 6. Died before 1950 7. European 8. Not involved in the arts 9. Born before 1800 10. Born after 1500 11. Spoke a Germanic language 12. Not known as a royal, military or political figure 13. Not British 14. Can’t say if he was a “good” guy, but is regarded as a great man and definitely not viewed as a villain ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/139 "2015-01-15T15:47:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you have two brothers with the same name? > IQ2: Were you le roi soliel? > IQ3: Were you an archaeologist who was killed in a motorctcle accident? Not Louis XIV or Louis Leakey Take a DQ for #1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055/140 "2015-01-15T15:49:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of the Lincoln conspirators who was hanged? > Were you a Nixon appointee to SCOTUS? > Did your best-known colleague get a promotion almost 200 years later? Not Lewis Powell or Lewis Powell- good one!!! Take a DQ for #3 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2015/709055.md?page=8)