# Botticelli July 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885 "2016-07-01T19:49:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/61 "2016-07-06T19:49:24Z")
1. Male. 2. Real. 3. Last name starts with L. 4. Living. 5. Not American. 6. Not known for government/politics/the military. 7. Best known for the arts. 8. Born before 1980. 9. Born before 1960. 10. Known for music. 11. Not best known as a singer. 12. Not European. 13. Never won a Grammy. 14. Born in the Northern Hemisphere. 15. A bit difficult to quantify, but I’ll go with not known as a composer. 16. Born in the Western Hemisphere. 17. Instrumentalist. 18. English is his primary language. 19. Had solo projects, but is far better known for his affiliation with a group. 20. Rock genre. 21. Canadian. 22. Guitarist. OK, I’ll give it till midnight board time Friday night/Saturday morning, or until everyone gives up, whichever is sooner. But so you don’t go off in a completely mystified haze…one of the IQ’s was really close to the correct answer. 🙂 ---
**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 6, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/62 "2016-07-06T20:33:54Z")
DQ: Are you Alex Lifeson of Rush? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/63 "2016-07-06T22:59:23Z")
Ding ding ding ding ding! He’s one of my guitar heroes, in large part because he’s almost completely self-taught like me (and I wish I could play half as well as he can). He’s of Serbian ancestry, and his birth name is Alexandar Zivojinovich, but he’s better known as Alex Lifeson! Congrats! ---
**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 6, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/64 "2016-07-06T23:42:56Z")
Well, the only other “L” Canadian artists I was coming up with were Gordon Lightfoot and Avril Lavigne, and I knew it wasn’t them. I will ponder and get back with an M. ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/65 "2016-07-07T02:30:55Z")
I’m back, and I’m… M ---
**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 7, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/66 "2016-07-07T04:00:08Z")
Good job, **Prof**. I could only name one person in Rush, and Lee was the one. On to M. IQs: Were your theories on naval power influential with T.R.? Were you the victor at Gettysburg? Were you Sauron’s boss? ---
**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 7, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/67 "2016-07-07T13:29:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Good job, **Prof**. I could only name one person in Rush, and Lee was the one. > > On to M. > > IQs: > > Were your theories on naval power influential with T.R.? > Were you the victor at Gettysburg? > Were you Sauron’s boss? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Gen. Meade. I am not Melkor. ---
**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 7, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/68 "2016-07-07T13:54:50Z")
Previous IQs: Were your theories on naval power influential with T.R.? - Alfred Thayer Mahan. Were you the victor at Gettysburg? - Yes, George G. Meade. Were you Sauron’s boss? - Yes, Melkor AKA Morgoth. DQ: Real? IQs: Did you make a short documentary film about the JFK assassination? Were you an orange tabby pitchcat? Did you advise Bill Clinton on “triangulation”? ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/69 "2016-07-07T14:00:30Z")
DQs: 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:** [July 7, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/70 "2016-07-07T14:02:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you make a short documentary film about the JFK assassination? > Were you an orange tabby pitchcat? > Did you advise Bill Clinton on “triangulation”? #2: I’m not Morris the Cat. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/71 "2016-07-07T17:00:26Z")
IQ1) Did the pilot of a popular television show you starred in revolve partially around your character falling off a bicycle? IQ2) Did you spend several years trapped on a spaceship shaped like a dog bone? IQ3) Did you portray one half of the McKenzie Brothers? ---
**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 7, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/72 "2016-07-07T17:07:41Z")
Previous IQs: Did you make a short documentary film about the JFK assassination? - Errol Morris Were you an orange tabby pitchcat? - Yes, Morris. Did you advise Bill Clinton on “triangulation”? - Dick Morris. Morris x3! DQs: Alive? Male? IQs: Were you a European nobleman known for his far-out stories? Were you a noted German architect? Were you Frasier’s sister-in-law? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/73 "2016-07-07T19:56:40Z")
IQ’s: Are you the longtime bassist for the band Genesis? Are you a documentarian who worked for _Mother Jones_ before your more famous career began? Were you Larry Csonka’s backfield running mate for the Miami Dolphins, who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1972? ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/74 "2016-07-07T21:02:43Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > IQ1) Did the pilot of a popular television show you starred in revolve partially around your character falling off a bicycle? > IQ2) Did you spend several years trapped on a spaceship shaped like a dog bone? > IQ3) Did you portray one half of the McKenzie Brothers? #3) I am not Rick Moranis. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/75 "2016-07-07T21:05:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a European nobleman known for his far-out stories? > Were you a noted German architect? > Were you Frasier’s sister-in-law? I am not Baron von Munchaussen. I am not Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Take a DQ for the third one. ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/76 "2016-07-07T21:06:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > IQ’s: > > Are you the longtime bassist for the band Genesis? > Are you a documentarian who worked for _Mother Jones_ before your more famous career began? > Were you Larry Csonka’s backfield running mate for the Miami Dolphins, who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1972? I am not Mike Rotherford. I am not Michael Moore. (If that’s wrong, take a DQ.) Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 7, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/77 "2016-07-07T21:07:56Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/78 "2016-07-07T21:31:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Are you the longtime bassist for the band Genesis? > Are you a documentarian who worked for _Mother Jones_ before your more famous career began? > Were you Larry Csonka’s backfield running mate for the Miami Dolphins, who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1972? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Mike Rotherford. > I am not Michael Moore. (If that’s wrong, take a DQ.) > Take a DQ for #3. It’s Rutherford, but close enough. Yes, it’s Michael Moore. And the last is Mercury Morris. DQ: Last name starts with M? ---
**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 7, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/79 "2016-07-07T22:05:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name starts with M ---
**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 8, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/80 "2016-07-08T03:03:23Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a European nobleman known for his far-out stories? - Correct, Baron von Munchausen Were you a noted German architect? - Yes, Mies van der Rohe Were you Frasier’s sister-in-law? - The perennially spoken-of-but-unseen Maris Crane, wife of Niles DQ: American? IQs: Are you a sf TV character with the middle name of “Edward”? Were you the nebbishy producer of _FYI_? Were you an early American colonist who was famously in a romantic triangle? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885.md?page=5)