# Botticelli - July, 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768 "2014-07-10T14:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/361 "2014-07-28T02:32:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Does your family have your music performed yearly at the Bayreuth festival? > IQ2: Were you the artist for Mad Magazine’s “Superduperman?” > IQ3: Were you a newspaper columnist and radio commentator who would start his broadcasts with “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let’s go to press.”? DQ (though I know I’m going to kick myself for this one). DQ. Not Walter Winchell. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you appear in a series of “Impossible Stories” with Wonder Woman? > 2. Are you aka Wonder Man? > 3. Are you aka Ted Grant? Not … Wonder Girl? Wonder Man’s name was Simon, as I recall, but I can’t remember his surname so take a DQ. DQ. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you Danicka Mckellar’s best loved character? DQ. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/362 "2014-07-28T02:41:05Z")
**W**. 1. Fictional ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/363 "2014-07-28T03:10:19Z")
That’s Winnie Cooper DQ: 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:** [July 28, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/364 "2014-07-28T03:25:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ (though I know I’m going to kick myself for this one). > DQ. > Not Walter Winchell. Richard Wagner, Wally Wood, correcto DQ: From movies? reserving a DQ ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/365 "2014-07-28T03:31:10Z")
**W**. 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not from movies ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/366 "2014-07-28T04:07:00Z")
IQ: Are you Pebble’s mom? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/367 "2014-07-28T04:18:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you Pebble’s mom? Not Wilma Flintstone. ---
**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 28, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/368 "2014-07-28T04:22:42Z")
Previous IQs: Were you yellow and finicky? - Morris the Cat. Did Angelina Jolie recently play you? - Maleficent, foe of Snow White. Did you live in a house in Paris all covered with vines? - Madeline, the little French girl in the children’s stories. W it is. IQs: Did you tell your wife’s former rival that you were at his disposal for a week in late 2012? Were you a self-described “large party”? Did you the “log cabin and hard cider” candidate? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/369 "2014-07-28T12:14:26Z")
DQ: From literature? IQ1: Were you a Hollywood Squares regular who was also the voice of Underdog? IQ2: Did you play detectives on TV and radio and narrate the Rocky and Bullwinkle show? IQ3: Did you write _The Age of Innocence_, which was adapted into film three times? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/370 "2014-07-28T13:41:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > PIQs: > > Did you tell your wife’s former rival that you were at his disposal for a week in late 2012? > Were you a self-described “large party”? > Did you the “log cabin and hard cider” candidate? Guessing, but… Not Wm Jefferson Clinton. Not Wm Howard Taft. Not Wm Henry Harrison. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Hollywood Squares regular who was also the voice of Underdog? > IQ2: Did you play detectives on TV and radio and narrate the Rocky and Bullwinkle show? > IQ3: Did you write _The Age of Innocence_, which was adapted into film three times? Three DQs. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/371 "2014-07-28T13:47:47Z")
**W**. 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not from movies 4. Not from literature. Oh, and: > [@SCAdian](#): > > (Anybody know offhand who Guenther Luetjens, Rene Fonck and Abd-el-Kader were?) The admiral in charge of _Bismarck_’s deployment, a French WWI ace, and a Berber leader who gave the Foreign Legion problems in the 1920s. All from my fascination with military history starting when I was in first grade. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/372 "2014-07-28T14:33:06Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you appear in a series of “Impossible Stories” with Wonder Woman? > 2. Are you aka Wonder Man? > 3. Are you aka Ted Grant? > > Not … Wonder Girl? > Wonder Man’s name was Simon, as I recall, but I can’t remember his surname so take a DQ. > DQ. 1. Either Wonder Girl or Wonder Tot. 2. Simon Williams, so you are right as far you as went. 3. Wildcat. DQs: 1. From TV? 2. By an American author? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/373 "2014-07-28T14:36:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the archer for The Inferior Five? 2. Did you write _The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody_? 3. Were you Jeeves’s employer? ---
**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 28, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/374 "2014-07-28T15:36:17Z")
Correct as to all three Presidential Williams. IQs: Was your best friend Garth? Was your middle name that of a famous Indian warrior? Did a costar give you a hard time about what you’d done (or not) in the war? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/375 "2014-07-28T16:16:50Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Hollywood Squares regular who was also the voice of Underdog? > IQ2: Did you play detectives on TV and radio and narrate the Rocky and Bullwinkle show? > IQ3: Did you write _The Age of Innocence_, which was adapted into film three times? Wally Cox, William Conrad, Edith Wharton Holding 3 DQs ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/376 "2014-07-28T17:51:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the archer for The Inferior Five? > 2. Did you write _The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody_? > 3. Were you Jeeves’s employer? Not White Feather. Not Will Cuppy. Not Bertie Wooster. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was your best friend Garth? > Was your middle name that of a famous Indian warrior? > Did a costar give you a hard time about what you’d done (or not) in the war? DQ. Not Wm Tecumseh Sherman. DQ. **W**. 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not from movies 4. Not from literature. 5. Not from TV 6. By an American creator (author, poet, whatever) ---
**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 28, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/377 "2014-07-28T17:59:40Z")
Previous IQs: Was your best friend Garth? - The star of SNL’s _Wayne’s World_ Was your middle name that of a famous Indian warrior? - Yes, Gen. Sherman Did a costar give you a hard time about what you’d done (or not) in the war? - John Wayne, alleged draft dodger, on the set of _They Were Expendable_ DQs: Would be alive today, if real? Last name start with W? IQs: Did you work closely with Buck Rogers? Are you a dog whom one man sees as a guy in a dog costume? Did you recently speak at the Cleveland Cinematheque? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/378 "2014-07-28T18:10:19Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Did you write _Frankenstein_? 2. Were you a cartoonist who created “22 Panels That Always Work”? 3. Did John Hamilton play you on a landmark TV series? ---
**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:** [July 28, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/379 "2014-07-28T19:53:24Z")
DQ1: Connected with advertising? DQ2: Last name start with W? Reserving 1 DQ ---
**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:** [July 29, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/380 "2014-07-29T02:02:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you work closely with Buck Rogers? > Are you a dog whom one man sees as a guy in a dog costume? > Did you recently speak at the Cleveland Cinematheque? Not Wilma Deering. DQ. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Frankenstein_? > 2. Were you a cartoonist who created “22 Panels That Always Work”? > 3. Did John Hamilton play you on a landmark TV series? Not Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. DQ. DQ. **W**. 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not from movies 4. Not from literature. 5. Not from TV 6. By an American creator (author, poet, whatever) 7. Would not be alive today, if real 8. Last name starts with W 9. Not connected with advertising KO, EH already asked your second question… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768.md?page=20)