# Botticelli, July 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 1, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407 "2023-07-01T15:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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 20, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/281 "2023-07-20T02:18:18Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a 1920s rocket pioneer? 2. Told you couldn’t join a beach club due to your religion, did you respond “My son’s half-Jewish–can he go in the water up to his knees?” 3. Since you were trapped there for decades while still looking like a child, do you MUFFIN FLUFFing hate Fairyland? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/282 "2023-07-20T02:33:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you have to borrow money from a neighbor to travel to a new job in 1789? > Did you say you wouldn’t mind swearing an oath before every meal, if you had to? > Did you give the Harvard U. commencement address in 1947? 1. I am not George Washington (?) Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 1920s rocket pioneer? > 2. Told you couldn’t join a beach club due to your religion, did you respond “My son’s half-Jewish–can he go in the water up to his knees?” > 3. Since you were trapped there for decades while still looking like a child, do you MUFFIN FLUFFing hate Fairyland? 1. I am not Goddard (?) 2. I am not Groucho Marx. 3. I am not Gertrude. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/283 "2023-07-20T02:42:11Z")
Previous IQs: Did you have to borrow money from a neighbor to travel to a new job in 1789? - Yes, George Washington, land-rich but cash-poor, making his way from Mount Vernon to NYC Did you say you wouldn’t mind swearing an oath before every meal, if you had to? - George H. Thomas, a Virginian who remained loyal to the US at the outbreak of the Civil War Did you give the Harvard U. commencement address in 1947? - George C. Marshall, announcing what would become known as the Marshall Plan (and one of my future professors was in the crowd to hear it in person) George x3! DQs: European character? Good guy? IQs: Were you, in some retellings of Arthurian legend, Sir Launcelot’s son? Did you once play Tom Hanks’s cranky old dad? Were you the only woman known to have served on the White Council? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/284 "2023-07-20T02:45:29Z")
### DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Originally from literature 3. Male 4. Created after 1900 5. Originally from prose 6. First name begins with G 7. Not created by American(s) 8. European character 9. Good guy ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/285 "2023-07-20T02:46:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you, in some retellings of Arthurian legend, Sir Launcelot’s son? > Did you once play Tom Hanks’s cranky old dad? > Were you the only woman known to have served on the White Council? 1. I am not Galahad. 2. I am not Jackie Gleason. 3. I am not Galadriel. #1 might be Gawain, but I’m gonna go with Galahad. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/286 "2023-07-20T02:54:26Z")
Swept me! IQs: Have you played a witch-hunter, an MI6 agent and a kidnap victim? Was the jet in which you set a speed record later lost at sea? Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before the fateful Dallas motorcade? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/287 "2023-07-20T02:59:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Goddard (?) > 2. I am not Groucho Marx. > 3. I am not Gertrude. A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Did you have to have adventures with Billy and Mandy? 2. Could you (allegedly) write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time? 3. In a Kenneth Branagh adaption of an Agatha Christie book, does your character have enough champagne to fill the Nile? ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/288 "2023-07-20T12:43:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you played a witch-hunter, an MI6 agent and a kidnap victim? > Was the jet in which you set a speed record later lost at sea? > Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before the fateful Dallas motorcade? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have to have adventures with Billy and Mandy? > 2. Could you (allegedly) write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time? > 3. In a Kenneth Branagh adaption of an Agatha Christie book, does your character have enough champagne to fill the Nile? #1. I am not the Grim Reaper. #2. I am not Pres.James A. Garfield #3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/289 "2023-07-20T13:01:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. After your acting career fell into abeyance after starring in a hit sitcom the 1970s, did you resurrect it as a commentator on professional poker? > > 2. Are you a primate who lives with a man with odd taste in headwear? > > 3. Were you a surfer girl, played in a movie by Sandra Dee and then on TV by Sally Field? > > #1. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not Curious George. > #3. I am not the girl midget Gidget IQ1 was Gabe “_Welcome Back, Kotter_” Kaplan. Correct on the other two. DQ: Created by British author(s)? IQs: 1. Did Sir Gawain cut your head off, in a Middle English poem? 2. Do historians now think you suffered from porphyria, rather than mental illness? 3. Were you invited into Pink Floyd to cover for and eventually replace Sid Barrett, when his mental illness grew too severe to continue his career? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Was a song of yours ubiquitous at sporting events in the 70s, 80s and 90s, only to disappear after your rather sordid arrest and conviction? > > IQ2: Did you co-create the best known table top role playing game? > > IQ3: Were you first person to be executed in the US after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976? > > #1. I am not Gary Glitter (?) > #2. I am not Gary Gygax. > #3. Take a DQ. Just want to express my admiration for this one - three Gary G’s. Nice! ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/290 "2023-07-20T13:52:17Z")
### DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Originally from literature 3. Male 4. Created after 1900 5. Originally from prose 6. First name begins with G 7. Not created by American(s) 8. European character 9. Good guy 10. British author(s) ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/291 "2023-07-20T13:52:54Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Sir Gawain cut your head off, in a Middle English poem? > 2. Do historians now think you suffered from porphyria, rather than mental illness? > 3. Were you invited into Pink Floyd to cover for and eventually replace Sid Barrett, when his mental illness grew too severe to continue his career? #1. I am not the Green Knight. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/292 "2023-07-20T13:58:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did Sir Gawain cut your head off, in a Middle English poem? > > 2. Do historians now think you suffered from porphyria, rather than mental illness? > > 3. Were you invited into Pink Floyd to cover for and eventually replace Sid Barrett, when his mental illness grew too severe to continue his career? > > #1. I am not the Green Knight. > Take 2 DQs You surprise me, Prof - I thought that if you missed one, it would be the first question, but you’d nail the second two. IQ1 is correct. IQ2 is “Mad” King George III. IQ3 was David Gilmour. DQ: 1. Originally from prose? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/293 "2023-07-20T13:59:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not the Grim Reaper. > #2. I am not Pres.James A. Garfield > #3. Take a DQ. 3 (Nile) was Gal Gadot. DQ: created after 1960? IQs: 1. Did Mark Twain help publish and edit your memoirs? 2. Do you show up in _Midnight in Paris_, played by Kathy Bates? 3. Are you Eric Powell’s brutish, hulking character, who along with Franky fights the forces of the Zombie Priest? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/294 "2023-07-20T14:52:54Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > DQ: > > 1. Originally from prose? This question has already been asked. #5 above. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/295 "2023-07-20T14:53:57Z")
### DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Originally from literature 3. Male 4. Created after 1900 5. Originally from prose 6. First name begins with G 7. Not created by American(s) 8. European character 9. Good guy 10. British author(s) 11. Created after 1960 ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/296 "2023-07-20T14:55:04Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Mark Twain help publish and edit your memoirs? > 2. Do you show up in _Midnight in Paris_, played by Kathy Bates? > 3. Are you Eric Powell’s brutish, hulking character, who along with Franky fights the forces of the Zombie Priest? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/297 "2023-07-20T15:05:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > DQ: > > > > 1. Originally from prose? > > This question has already been asked. #5 above Thank you, I missed that. Revised DQ: From a novel? Still 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 20, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/298 "2023-07-20T15:09:00Z")
### DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Originally from literature 3. Male 4. Created after 1900 5. Originally from prose 6. First name begins with G 7. Not created by American(s) 8. European character 9. Good guy 10. British author(s) 11. Created after 1960 12. From a series of novels ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/299 "2023-07-20T15:10:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Ulysses S. Grant; 2 was Gertrude Stein; 3 was the Goon. DQs: 1. adapted into film? 2. from science fiction or fantasy? 3. created after 1990? ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/300 "2023-07-20T15:11:34Z")
### DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Originally from literature 3. Male 4. Created after 1900 5. Originally from prose 6. First name begins with G 7. Not created by American(s) 8. European character 9. Good guy 10. British author(s) 11. Created after 1960 12. From a series of novels 13. Adapted into film 14. From science fiction or fantasy 15. Created after 1990 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=16)