# Botticelli, July 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711 "2011-07-12T03:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/321 "2011-07-29T14:06:47Z")
A couple of points - if you don’t know the answer to your own IQ, it doesn’t count for anything, even if it’s the correct answer. \*Hypothetical IQ: Are you the person who is 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with “F” 4. Nobody’s idea of a hero 5. Not a movie character 6. Whose creator was British 7. Who has appeared in both novels and short stories 8. Who appeared after 1900, but before 1950. 9. Who did not appear in mysteries 10. Who is British 11. The works in which you appear are comedic in nature 12. and whose creator was P.G. Wodehouse? \* - would otherwise be a legitimate game winner. Obviously, it shouldn’t be. I am a fan of Wodehouse, in fact, and yet, I confess myself to be stumped, partly because so many of Bertie’s chums who get themselves into scrapes go by their first names, or their Drones’ Club nicknames, which are all that come to mind at present. The only research honour will allow is a re-reading of the Wodehouse oeuvre, which I will gladly undertake. Google is, in my opinion, the equivalent of dropping your panache on the field of battle to escape the enemy’s notice. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/322 "2011-07-29T14:32:31Z")
Let’s just say my interests lean toward marine biology, and leave it at that. If that clue doesn’t help, tell me so- then I’ll just reveal the answer and call it a day. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/323 "2011-07-29T16:31:59Z")
I prefer the game as we’ve been playing it thus far - no research of any kind (unless the OP needs to do so to accurately answer a question). > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did you hamper a notable filmmaker by sometimes inconveniently taking back what you’d lent him? On very short notice, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos occasionally sent the helicopters he was lending Francis Ford Coppola to film _Apocalypse Now_ off to fight insurgents in the jungles. Wodehouse, eh? Hmm. OK, I’ll take a stab at it. DQ: Are you Gussie Fink-Nottle? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/324 "2011-07-29T16:53:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I prefer the game as we’ve been playing it thus far - no research of any kind (unless the OP needs to do so to accurately answer a question). > > On very short notice, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos occasionally sent the helicopters he was lending Francis Ford Coppola to film _Apocalypse Now_ off to fight insurgents in the jungles. > > Wodehouse, eh? Hmm. OK, I’ll take a stab at it. > > DQ: Are you Gussie Fink-Nottle? **YES! I am Augustus “Gussie” Fink-Nottle, devoted friend of Bertie Wooster and expert on all things related to the newt. Your turn!** ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/325 "2011-07-29T17:28:17Z")
Well done, **Elendil’s Heir**! I think I like the rule on having to know the answer to your own IQ (which I have flouted twice in this last game, but was wrong both times anyway), will stick to this in future. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/326 "2011-07-29T17:32:38Z")
The other possibility I found while googling was Cyril Fotheringay-Phipps. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/327 "2011-07-30T17:51:44Z")
Hey, thanks! A bit too busy here at the moment, so I’ll start the next round on Monday. Enjoy your weekends. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2011/588711/328 "2011-08-01T13:27:33Z")
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