# 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:** 21
**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 29, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/401 "2014-07-29T23:55:35Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a noted news photographer whose middle name is Bartholomew? 2. Were you a comic who routinely traveled with Bob Hope on his USO tours? 3. Were you a singer who got his big break when you followed Enrico Caruso on a variety show bill? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/402 "2014-07-29T23:58:48Z")
IQ: Did you write about an endangered Native American tribe? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/403 "2014-07-30T01:41:41Z")
IQ1: Was your name originally Dzhugashvili? IQ2: Did they call you Vinegar" Joe? IQ3: Was your life allegedly saved by a young girl who later married John Rolfe? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/404 "2014-07-30T01:55:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a noted news photographer whose middle name is Bartholomew? > 2. Were you a comic who routinely traveled with Bob Hope on his USO tours? > 3. Were you a singer who got his big break when you followed Enrico Caruso on a variety show bill? dunno, not Jack Benny, not Joni Mitchell ---
**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, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/405 "2014-07-30T01:57:44Z")
All right, **Knowed Out**! Previous IQs: Do you like to photograph your Weimaraners? - Yes, William Wegman Were you noted for your pictures of the Thirties New York street scene? - This was Weegee: [weegee - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1748&bih=892&q=weegee&oq=weegee&gs_l=img.3..0l10.89.2271.0.2597.11.9.2.0.0.0.130.745.8j1.9.0.ehm_loc%2Chmss2%3Dfalse%2Chms2min%3D10%2Chms2max%3D10%2Chmtb%3D120%2Chmta%3D1440%2Chmrde%3D0-0%2Chmde%3D1-0%2Chmmpp1%3D0-5%2Chmmpp2%3D0-3%2Chmth%3D4%2Chmffs%3D10000...0...1.1.49.img..0.11.750.AeQUKQGn8bw#hl=en&q=weegee+photographs&tbm=isch&imgdii=_) Were you a top Nazi general? - Yes, Wilhelm Keitel > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > … > 2) Were you the first president to throw out the ball at the start of a baseball game? > … I’d already asked about William Howard Taft in post 368. J it is. IQs: Did you illustrate Edward Lear’s _The Owl and the Pussy Cat_ with a Caribbean theme? Were you to hold a summit meeting with Hitler in the Robert Harris alt-hist masterpiece _Fatherland_? Did you write _Why England Slept_? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/406 "2014-07-30T01:59:07Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you write about an endangered Native American tribe? can’t even guess this one ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/407 "2014-07-30T02:02:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your name originally Dzhugashvili? > IQ2: Did they call you Vinegar" Joe? > IQ3: Was your life allegedly saved by a young girl who later married John Rolfe? Strike one, strike two, strike three ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/408 "2014-07-30T02:05:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you illustrate Edward Lear’s _The Owl and the Pussy Cat_ with a Caribbean theme? > Were you to hold a summit meeting with Hitler in the Robert Harris alt-hist masterpiece _Fatherland_? > Did you write _Why England Slept_? Not Jack Davis, not Josef Stalin, not John Cleese ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/409 "2014-07-30T02:08:23Z")
James Fennimore Cooper DQ: 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:** [July 30, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/410 "2014-07-30T02:16:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a noted news photographer whose middle name is Bartholomew? > 2. Were you a comic who routinely traveled with Bob Hope on his USO tours? > 3. Were you a singer who got his big break when you followed Enrico Caruso on a variety show bill? > > dunno, not Jack Benny, not Joni Mitchell #1 is James “Jimmy” Olsen of the Daily Planet. #2 was Jerry Colonna. As far as I know, Benny never traveled with Hope’s tour. #3 was Al Jolson. After following the man known as the Greatest Singer In The World, he was able to start his career by telling the crowd: “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” and breaking into a ragtime number that brought the house down. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name start with J? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/411 "2014-07-30T02:52:03Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your name originally Dzhugashvili? > IQ2: Did they call you Vinegar" Joe? > IQ3: Was your life allegedly saved by a young girl who later married John Rolfe? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Strike one, strike two, strike three Josef Stalin. Gen Joseph Stilwell. John Smith. (The girl, of course, was Pocahontas.) DQ1: Real? DQ2a: (If real) American? DQ2b: (If fictional) From an American source? One DQ reserved. DQ1: Were you and Mitchie gettin’ kind of itchy? DQ2: Did you write “The Thunderer”? DQ3: Were you the US commander in Europe during WW I? ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/412 "2014-07-30T12:03:29Z")
1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with J 4. American 5. From an American source ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/413 "2014-07-30T12:05:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: Were you and Mitchie gettin’ kind of itchy? > DQ2: Did you write “The Thunderer”? > DQ3: Were you the US commander in Europe during WW I? dunno, dunno, not John Pershing ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/414 "2014-07-30T12:37:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ2a: (If real) American? > DQ2b: (If fictional) From an American source? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 1. American > 2. From an American source That was meant to be one question, not two. ☹ > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: Were you and Mitchie gettin’ kind of itchy? > DQ2: Did you write “The Thunderer”? > DQ3: Were you the US commander in Europe during WW I? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunno, dunno, not John Pershing John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, according to the first line of “Creeque Alley.” John Philip Sousa. Correct on John J Pershing. DQ1: From literature? DQ2: Created after 1950? IQ1: Were you called “Dingus”? IQ2: Are you Fenton’s son, and Frank’s brother? IQ3: Were you the father of Ephraim and Manasseh? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/415 "2014-07-30T13:59:14Z")
OK, revised DQ list: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with J 4. American 5. Not from literature 6. Created after 1950 ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/416 "2014-07-30T14:03:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you called “Dingus”? > IQ2: Are you Fenton’s son, and Frank’s brother? > IQ3: Were you the father of Ephraim and Manasseh? I can only think of Hank Venture, which doesn’t qualify Not James T. Kirk Not Joseph ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/417 "2014-07-30T16:53:06Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the protagonist in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_? 2. Are you the protagonist in Disney’s _Pirates of the Caribbean_ series? 3. Are you the protagonist in _Big Trouble In Little China_? ---
**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 30, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/418 "2014-07-30T17:12:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the protagonist in _The Nightmare Before Christmas_? > 2. Are you the protagonist in Disney’s _Pirates of the Caribbean_ series? > 3. Are you the protagonist in _Big Trouble In Little China_? Not Jack-O-Lantern, not Jack Sparrow, not Jack Burton ---
**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 30, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/419 "2014-07-30T18:21:38Z")
#1 is actually Jack Skellington. Correct on the other two. DQ: from movies? ---
**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, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768/420 "2014-07-30T18:22:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQs: > > Did you illustrate Edward Lear’s _The Owl and the Pussy Cat_ with a Caribbean theme? > Were you to hold a summit meeting with Hitler in the Robert Harris alt-hist masterpiece _Fatherland_? > Did you write _Why England Slept_? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Not Jack Davis, not Josef Stalin, not John Cleese None of those, sorry. Jan Brett: [The Owl and the Pussycat: Edward Lear, Jan Brett: 9780399231933: Amazon.com: Books](http://www.amazon.com/The-Owl-Pussycat-Edward-Lear/dp/0399231935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406743866&sr=8-1&keywords=brett+lear+owl) Joseph Kennedy Sr. JFK DQs: First appeared on TV? Created after 1990? Generally considered a “good guy”? IQs: Did you once serve under a Capt. Garrovick? Did a man named Vargo do you no favors? Are you the next-to-most-recent President of Iraq? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2014/692768.md?page=22)