# Botticelli July 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 8, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747 "2020-07-08T16:04:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 14, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/101 "2020-07-14T22:29:51Z")
IQ1: Did you fund the discovery of King Tut’s tomb? IQ2: Did you turn down the title of Duke of London? IQ3: Did you marry M Pontmercy? ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/102 "2020-07-14T22:57:18Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Not American 4. First name starts with C ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/103 "2020-07-14T22:59:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a hero of Little Round Top in 1863? > Were you the best-known Frankish king? > Did you say, “How can anyone hope to govern a country with 430 different kinds of cheese”? #1. Take a DQ. #2. I am not Charlemagne. #3. I am not Charles de Gaulle (??) > [@SCAdian](#): > > Q1: Did you fund the discovery of King Tut’s tomb? > IQ2: Did you turn down the title of Duke of London? > IQ3: Did you marry M Pontmercy? #3. I am not Cosette. Take 2 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 14, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/104 "2020-07-14T23:11:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you fund the discovery of King Tut’s tomb? > IQ2: Did you turn down the title of Duke of London? > IQ3: Did you marry M Pontmercy? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3. I am not Cosette. > Take 2 DQs. Lord Carnarvon. Carnarvon: Can you see anything? Carter: Yes, wonderful things! Winston Churchill. Correct. . DQ1: European? DQ2: Known for the Arts? ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/105 "2020-07-14T23:17:28Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top in 1863? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Were you the best-known Frankish king? - Yes, Charlemagne Did you say, “How can anyone hope to govern a country with 430 different kinds of cheese”? - Yes, Charles de Gaulle DQ: Living? Born since 1950? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes? Did Sophie Okenodo play you in a recent stage production? Were you likened to “a rotten mackerel by moonlight”? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/106 "2020-07-14T23:23:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Wendy Carlos. > #2. I am not Howard Carter. > #3. Take a DQ. 3 was Walter [Cronkite](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Krankheit). 1 DQ reserved. IQs: 1. Were you a _New Yorker_ cartoonist whose recurring characters were adapted into a TV sitcom in the 60s? 2. Did you represent John Scopes? 3. In a Shakespeare play, are you a much-decorated military leader who becomes elected consul, but then abandons Rome to side with the enemy Volscians? ---
**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 14, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/107 "2020-07-14T23:35:01Z")
IQ1: Could a certain British army officer describe every detail of your uniform? IQ2: Did you marry a princess of Helium? IQ3: Did you marry a princess of Ptarth? ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/108 "2020-07-15T13:06:13Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Not American 4. First name starts with C 5. European 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Living 8. Born since 1950 ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/109 "2020-07-15T13:09:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes? > Did Sophie Okenodo play you in a recent stage production? > Were you likened to “a rotten mackerel by moonlight”? #3. I am not Henry Clay. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a _New Yorker_ cartoonist whose recurring characters were adapted into a TV sitcom in the 60s? > 2. Did you represent John Scopes? > 3. In a Shakespeare play, are you a much-decorated military leader who becomes elected consul, but then abandons Rome to side with the enemy Volscians? #1. I am not Charles Addams. #2. I am not Clarence Darrow. Take a DQ for #3. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Q1: Could a certain British army officer describe every detail of your uniform? > IQ2: Did you marry a princess of Helium? > IQ3: Did you marry a princess of Ptarth? #1. I am not Caractacus. #2. I am not John Carter. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/110 "2020-07-15T13:19:11Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes? - Charles Augustus Milverton Did Sophie Okenodo play you in a recent stage production? - Cleopatra, in the British National Theatre’s production of _Anthony and Cleopatra_ (Ralph Fiennes played the Roman dude) Were you likened to “a rotten mackerel by moonlight”? - Yes, Henry Clay, as he “both shined and stank” DQs: Political/military? From the British Isles? Born since 1975? IQs: Were your children Jeremy and Jemima? Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? Were you the hapless PM who succeeded Thatcher in the original British _House of Cards_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/111 "2020-07-15T13:34:27Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the main character in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frakweiler”? 2. Were you captured by the Comanche at approximately 10 and lived with them until captured by the Texas Rangers and forcibly returned to her birth family? 3. Did you write a series of books called The Parasol Protectorate? ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/112 "2020-07-15T13:45:04Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:108, topic:914747, full:true”] DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Not American 4. First name starts with C 5. European 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Living 8. Born since 1950 9. Not political/military 10. From the British Isles 11. Born since 1975 ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/113 "2020-07-15T13:46:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were your children Jeremy and Jemima? > Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? > Were you the hapless PM who succeeded Thatcher in the original British _House of Cards_ ? Take 3 DQs. > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the main character in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frakweiler”? > 2. Were you captured by the Comanche at approximately 10 and lived with them until captured by the Texas Rangers and forcibly returned to her birth family? > 3. Did you write a series of books called The Parasol Protectorate? Take 3 DQs, and welcome back, **kitap**! ---
**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 15, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/114 "2020-07-15T13:54:42Z")
Yes, indeed - glad to have you back, **kitap**! Previous IQs: Were your children Jeremy and Jemima? - Caractacus Potts in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood Were you the hapless PM who succeeded Thatcher in the original British _House of Cards_? - Henry Collingridge DQs: English? Scientific/inventor? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did Paul Bettany play both you and a fictional character that may have been loosely based on you? Did Alice Roosevelt Longworth say that it looked like you “had been weaned on a pickle”? Were you painted in a red dress and with a white dog for your official portrait? ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/115 "2020-07-15T14:16:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Not American 4. First name starts with C 5. European 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Living 8. Born since 1950 9. Not political/military 10. From the British Isles 11. Born since 1975 12. English 13. Not a scientist/inventor ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/116 "2020-07-15T14:16:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Could a certain British army officer describe every detail of your uniform? > IQ2: Did you marry a princess of Helium? > IQ3: Did you marry a princess of Ptarth? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Caractacus. > #2. I am not John Carter. > Take a DQ for #3. Correct. Correct. John Carter’s son, Carthoris. . One DQ reserved. ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/117 "2020-07-15T14:16:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Paul Bettany play both you and a fictional character that may have been loosely based on you? > Did Alice Roosevelt Longworth say that it looked like you “had been weaned on a pickle”? > Were you painted in a red dress and with a white dog for your official portrait? #2. I am not Calvin Coolidge. Take 2 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 15, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/118 "2020-07-15T14:22:59Z")
IQ1: In your first film role, were you killed in a fight in the Flavian Amphitheatre? IQ2: Did you sing “A Summer Song”? IQ3: Did you sing “Yesterday’s Gone”? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/119 "2020-07-15T14:24:53Z")
Thanks! 1. Claudia Kincaid 2. Cynthia Ann Parker 3. Gail Carriger DQs: 1. Royalty? 2. Known for the Social Sciences or History? 3. Caucasian? ---
**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 15, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/120 "2020-07-15T14:32:19Z")
In the past, I believe the rule has been that royalty is inherently political for Botticelli purposes. Previous IQs: Did Paul Bettany play both you and a fictional character that may have been loosely based on you? - Charles Darwin in _Creation_ and Dr. Stephen Maturin in _Master and Commander_ Did Alice Roosevelt Longworth say that it looked like you “had been weaned on a pickle”? - Yes, Calvin Coolidge Were you painted in a red dress and with a white dog for your official portrait? - His wife Grace: [Grace Coolidge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Coolidge#/media/File:Grace_Coolidge_Official_portrait.jpg) Three DQs reserved. IQs: Were you badly beaten by Preston Brooks? Did you costar in _Temperatures Rising_? Were you Beldar and Prymaat’s daughter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=7)