# Botticelli - January 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285 "2017-01-04T00:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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 7, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/41 "2017-01-07T21:33:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Giles on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? > 2. Did William Shatner play you on _Third Rock From The Sun_? > 3. Did you have hit with _Treat Her Right_? Three DQs. **H** 1. 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 7, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/42 "2017-01-07T22:16:52Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer? > 2. Did William Shatner play you on Third Rock From The Sun? > 3. Did you have hit with Treat Her Right? > Three DQs. #1 was Anthony Head. #2 was The Big Giant Head. #3 was Roy Head. Head x3. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Living? 3. Last name starts with H? ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/43 "2017-01-07T22:20:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the hymn, _O Love Divine, That Stoop’st To Share_? 2. Did you write _Go Set A Watchman_? 3. A cartoon character, did you have “the greatest show in town”? ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/44 "2017-01-08T04:35:34Z")
You swept mine. IQs: Were you a Bond girl who had nothing to do with bees? Were you Capt. Miller’s right-hand-man in _Saving Private Ryan_? Have you played a Soviet functionary, a British mobster, a funny pirate and a private eye? ---
**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 8, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/45 "2017-01-08T15:23:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the hymn, _O Love Divine, That Stoop’st To Share_? > 2. Did you write _Go Set A Watchman_? > 3. A cartoon character, did you have “the greatest show in town”? DQ. DQ. Not Huckleberry Hound. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a Bond girl who had nothing to do with bees? > Were you Capt. Miller’s right-hand-man in _Saving Private Ryan_? > Have you played a Soviet functionary, a British mobster, a funny pirate and a private eye? Not Honeychile Rider. DQ. DQ. **H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with H ---
**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 8, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/46 "2017-01-08T17:53:43Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the hymn, O Love Divine, That Stoop’st To Share? > 2. Did you write Go Set A Watchman? > 3. A cartoon character, did you have “the greatest show in town”? > DQ. > DQ. > Not Huckleberry Hound. #1 was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. #2 was Harper Lee. Correct on Huck. DQs: 1. American? 2. Died after 1900? ---
**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 8, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/47 "2017-01-08T19:23:56Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Bond girl who had nothing to do with bees? - Yes, Honeychile Rider Were you Capt. Miller’s right-hand-man in _Saving Private Ryan_? - Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore) Have you played a Soviet functionary, a British mobster, a funny pirate and a private eye? - Bob Hoskins, in _Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Hook_ and _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ DQs: Political/military? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you allegedly sigh, “Oh, to be seventy again”? Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works? Were you the daughter of Amy Adams’s character in _Arrival_? ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/48 "2017-01-09T03:04:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you allegedly sigh, “Oh, to be seventy again”? > Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works? > Were you the daughter of Amy Adams’s character in _Arrival_? DQ. Not Hastur. DQ. **H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with H 5. American 6. Did not die after 1900 7. Political/military ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/49 "2017-01-09T03:07:30Z")
IQs: 1. Did you say “Give me liberty or give me death”? 2. Were you president at the start of the Great Depression? 3. Did Mickey Rooney star as you in a series of films? ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/50 "2017-01-09T04:29:41Z")
Previous IQs: Did you allegedly sigh, “Oh, to be seventy again”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., so the story goes, said this to a law clerk when, at age ninety, he saw a beautiful woman pass on the street. Were you “the Unspeakable” in Lovecraft’s works? - Yes, Hastur. Were you the daughter of Amy Adams’s character in _Arrival_? - Hannah DQs: Ever held elective office? Ever held appointive office? IQs: Did you retire to Spiegel Grove? Were you Lincoln’s first VP? Did you have the nervous habit of often rubbing your elbows? ---
**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 9, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/51 "2017-01-09T22:23:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you say “Give me liberty or give me death”? > 2. Were you president at the start of the Great Depression? > 3. Did Mickey Rooney star as you in a series of films? Not Patrick Henry. Not Herbert Hoover. Not … Andy Hardy? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you retire to Spiegel Grove? > Were you Lincoln’s first VP? > Did you have the nervous habit of often rubbing your elbows? DQ. Not … Hannibal Hamlin? DQ. **H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with H 5. American 6. Did not die after 1900 7. Political/military 8. Never held elective office 9. Never held appointive office ---
**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 9, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/52 "2017-01-09T22:25:36Z")
A clean sweep. IQs: 1. Were you sponsored on the radio by Bon Ami? 2. Were you aka the Fat Fury? 3. Were you a bald little boy who never spoke in a comic strip bearing your name? ---
**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 9, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/53 "2017-01-09T22:40:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you sponsored on the radio by Bon Ami? > 2. Were you aka the Fat Fury? > 3. Were you a bald little boy who never spoke in a comic strip bearing your name? DQ. DQ. Not Henry. ---
**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 9, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/54 "2017-01-09T23:40:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > A clean sweep. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you sponsored on the radio by Bon Ami? > 2. Were you aka the Fat Fury? > 3. Were you a bald little boy who never spoke in a comic strip bearing your name? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ. > DQ. > Not Henry. #1 was Paul Harvey. #2 was Herbie Popnecker (comic books). Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Military? 2. Died before 1860? ---
**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 10, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/55 "2017-01-10T03:09:34Z")
**H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with H 5. American 6. Did not die after 1900 7. Political/military 8. Never held elective office 9. Never held appointive office 10. Military 11. Did not die before 1860 ---
**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 10, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/56 "2017-01-10T05:07:36Z")
Previous IQs: Did you retire to Spiegel Grove? - Rutherford B. Hayes: [Spiegel Grove - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_Grove) Were you Lincoln’s first VP? - Yes, Hannibal Hamlin, Republican of Maine. Did you have the nervous habit of often rubbing your elbows? - Henry Halleck, Lincoln’s de facto military chief of staff in the last years of the Civil War. DQs: Served in the Civil War? Was a general? IQs: Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? Were you, with John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s two personal aides? A war hero, did you run against James Garfield in the 1880 election? ---
**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 10, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/57 "2017-01-10T15:39:09Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the subject of a current hip-hop Broadway success? 2. Did you write the hymn _I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say_? 3. Did you say, “An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”? ---
**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 10, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/58 "2017-01-10T23:16:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? > Were you, with John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s two personal aides? > A war hero, did you run against James Garfield in the 1880 election? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the subject of a current hip-hop Broadway success? > 2. Did you write the hymn _I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say_? > 3. Did you say, “An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”? Not … Alexander Hamilton? DQ. DQ. **H** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with H 5. American 6. Did not die after 1900 7. Political/military 8. Never held elective office 9. Never held appointive office 10. Military 11. Did not die before 1860 12. Did not serve in the Civil War 13. Was not a general **Re DQ5 and DQ7:** Think outside the box. ---
**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 10, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/59 "2017-01-10T23:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the subject of a current hip-hop Broadway success? > 2. Did you write the hymn I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say? > 3. Did you say, “An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”? > Not … Alexander Hamilton? > DQ. > DQ. #1 is correct. #2 was Horatius Bonar. #3 was Georg F. W. Hegel. 2 DQs 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 11, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/60 "2017-01-11T04:25:59Z")
Previous IQs: Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas of Civil War fame Were you, with John Nicolay, one of Lincoln’s two personal aides? - John Hay A war hero, did you run against James Garfield in the 1880 election? - Winfield Scott Hancock DQs: Native American? Best known for a single battle? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you not really an insane equine? Did you most famously play a Georgia house slave? Was your adorable mutt named Ribsy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285.md?page=4)