# Botticelli - July 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 8, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688 "2019-07-08T00:18:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 8, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/1 "2019-07-08T00:18:59Z")
Happy July. I am V. ---
**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 8, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/2 "2019-07-08T01:47:46Z")
IQ1: Were you a 15th century Wallachian prince called the “Son of the Dragon”? IQ2: Did you play music by Joe Green? IQ3: Were you Joe Green? ---
**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 8, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/3 "2019-07-08T01:51:17Z")
[Last month’s thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=876495). ---
**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 8, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/4 "2019-07-08T03:22:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose the songs for _Babes in Toyland_? 2. Were you Bond’s love interest in _Casino Royale_? 3. Did you write \*Journey to the Center of the Earth \*? ---
**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, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/5 "2019-07-08T04:19:25Z")
Good job, **KO**! Congrats. Previous IQs: Have you played a lawyer, an airport manager and POTUS? - Blair Underwood, in _LA Law, LAX_ and _The Event_ Were you supposed to be “Johnny on the spot” in _Saving Private Ryan_? - Cpl. Upham Did you sing “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love”? - Yes, Usher: [Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (Official Music Video) ft. Pitbull - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dvTjK_07c) On to V… IQs: Were you a scruffy street musician in London? Did you play a dentist in the Wild West? Was a doctor friend of yours nicknamed “Stinky”? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/6 "2019-07-08T11:24:47Z")
Nice catch, **Knowed Out**! IQ1: Did you invite some soldiers to come to your country to fight against your enemies, only to realize you’d invited soldiers to come invade your country? IQ2: Did you choose a different regnal name than your first name of Alexandrina? IQ3: Did your unhealthy obsession with chewing gum ultimately lead to your being taken away to be juiced? ---
**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 8, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/7 "2019-07-08T11:40:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 15th century Wallachian prince called the “Son of the Dragon”? > IQ2: Did you play music by Joe Green? > IQ3: Were you Joe Green? not Vlad the Impaler, DQ, DQ ---
**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 8, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/8 "2019-07-08T11:43:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose the songs for _Babes in Toyland_? > 2. Were you Bond’s love interest in _Casino Royale_? > 3. Did you write \*Journey to the Center of the Earth \*? DQ, DQ, not Jules Verne ---
**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 8, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/9 "2019-07-08T11:44:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a scruffy street musician in London? > Did you play a dentist in the Wild West? > Was a doctor friend of yours nicknamed “Stinky”? take 3 DQs ---
**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 8, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/10 "2019-07-08T11:45:55Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Did you invite some soldiers to come to your country to fight against your enemies, only to realize you’d invited soldiers to come invade your country? > IQ2: Did you choose a different regnal name than your first name of Alexandrina? > IQ3: Did your unhealthy obsession with chewing gum ultimately lead to your being taken away to be juiced? DQ, not Queen Victoria, 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 8, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/11 "2019-07-08T13:43:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 15th century Wallachian prince called the “Son of the Dragon”? > IQ2: Did you play music by Joe Green? > IQ3: Were you Joe Green? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Vlad the Impaler, DQ, DQ Correct. Victor Borge. Giuseppe Verde. IQ1: Real? IQ2: Male? ---
**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 8, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/12 "2019-07-08T13:43:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose the songs for _Babes in Toyland_? > 2. Were you Bond’s love interest in _Casino Royale_? > 3. Did you write \*Journey to the Center of the Earth \*? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, DQ, not Jules Verne #1 was Victor Herbert. #2 was Vesper Lynd. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Last name starts with V? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 8, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/13 "2019-07-08T14:56:08Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Gender unknown 3. Only name starts with V ---
**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 8, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/14 "2019-07-08T16:16:22Z")
DQ: Created by an American author or authors? ---
**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 8, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/15 "2019-07-08T16:18:46Z")
IQs: 1. Did Tom Hardy play you in a recent movie? 2. Did you appear briefly topless on a PBS TV presentation of the play _Steambath_ in the 1970’s? 3. Did you play the title role in the movie _The Man Who Laughs_? ---
**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 8, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/16 "2019-07-08T17:16:47Z")
IQ1: Did your grandfather invent a new type of baking powder? IQ2: Were you a cartoon character created by Sparky Schulz? IQ3: Were you the main character in a comic strip called “the greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years” by the Duke of Windsor? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/17 "2019-07-08T17:45:16Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Did you invite some soldiers to come to your country to fight against your enemies, only to realize you’d invited soldiers to come invade your country? - Vercingetorix, the probably-mythical British king who invited the Angles, Saxons and Jutes to come to Britain. IQ2: Did you choose a different regnal name than your first name of Alexandrina? - Correct, Queen Victoria. IQ3: Did your unhealthy obsession with chewing gum ultimately lead to your being taken away to be juiced? - Violet Beauregarde, from _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_. New IQs: IQ1: Were you a journeyman quarterback who had an undistinguished career with the Jets, Browns, Cowboys, Patriots, and Ravens, despite having won the Heisman at Miami? (This should be right in your wheelhouse, **Knowed Out**!) IQ2: Were you the man who remembered, oh so well, the night they drove Old Dixie down? IQ: Are you a masked vigilante in a dystopian fascist alternate Britain, whose visage has been adopted in real life by Anonymous? DQ1: From a graphic novel? DQ2: From a work of speculative fiction? ---
**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, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/18 "2019-07-08T17:51:22Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a scruffy street musician in London? - Vinculus, in _Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell_ Did you play a dentist in the Wild West? - Val Kilmer, in _Tombstone_ Was a doctor friend of yours nicknamed “Stinky”? - Valentine Michael Smith, in _Stranger in a Strange Land_ DQs: Human? First appeared in print? First appeared after 1950? IQs: Were you the last governor of New France? Were you a prominent Appalachian potter in early 1800s who established a pottery which remained active until 1928? Did you provide the voice of the title character in _The Iron Giant_? ---
**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 8, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/19 "2019-07-08T18:05:14Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Gender unknown 3. Only name starts with V 4. Created by an American author or authors 5. Not originally from a graphic novel, but has been published in that form 6. Genre is not specifically speculative 7. Not human 8. Did not first appear in print 9. First appeared 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 8, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688/20 "2019-07-08T18:09:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Tom Hardy play you in a recent movie? > 2. Did you appear briefly topless on a PBS TV presentation of the play _Steambath_ in the 1970’s? > 3. Did you play the title role in the movie _The Man Who Laughs_? not Venom, dunno, not Conrad Veidt (that movie reminded me of _[Mr. Sardonicus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sardonicus)_, which I watched on The Great Gillooley the other night) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2019/836688.md?page=2)