# Botticelli - July 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634 "2024-07-02T14:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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 25, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/161 "2024-07-25T04:18:58Z")
I think you misspelled “begin” above. Previous IQs: Were you Henry VIII’s only son to take the throne? - Edward VI Were you Victoria’s only son to take the throne? - Edward VII Were you his grandson, who reigned for less than a year? - Edward VIII Royal Edward x3! DQs: American? Living? Best known for the Arts? IQs: Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? Did you play Miss Honey in _Matilda_? Did you command the Afrika Korps? ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/162 "2024-07-25T12:57:18Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did Katherine Hepburn play you, opposite Peter O’Toole, who was playing the same character he had in an earlier movie with Richard Burton? > > 2. Are you a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, who was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 2004? > > 3. Are you an English composer whose most famous work is commonly heard around May and June? > > I am not Eleanor of Aquitaine, John Edwards or Elgar. Swept me, by crikey! Thought I’d get you with Eleanor of Aquitaine. IQs: 1. Were you a Libyan Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth’s circumference around 240 BCE, obtaining a result that is only 2.4% off the modern scientific measurement? 2. Were you Harry Flashman’s much-loved, much-betrayed wife? 3. Were you a philosopher who, ironically, given the popular misunderstanding of his teachings, ate very simple meals and lived an austere life? ---
**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 25, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/163 "2024-07-25T14:29:12Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you in a Spanish study group at a _Community_ college? > 2. Are you a cast member of _Saturday Night Live_, known for characters like Lisa from Temecula? > 3. Were you the Communist leader of Albania? > [@kitap](#): > > Take a DQ, take another and I am not Enver Hoxha. 1 was Annie Edison, on the sitcom _Community_; 2 was Ego Nwodim. 1 DQ reserved. DQs: 1. Did you write _Adam Bede_, _Middlemarch_, _The Mill on the Floss_, and _Silas Marner_? 2. Were you an unusually-eyed member of Bill Cipher’s Henchmaniacs on _Gravity Falls_? 3. Were you a British member of Parliament and cabinet secretary who, on April 28th, 2011, mistakenly posted a tweet consisting entirely of his name on Twitter? ---
**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 25, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/164 "2024-07-25T14:49:48Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the famous championship-level lovable stupid idiot on the highly acclaimed, freshly polished, unpolarized, all-Kodiak 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > > 2. Are you one of Martin Short’s better known characters? > > 3. Did you end up with Mr. Darcy? > > Take a DQ, I am not Ed Grimly, I am not Elizabeth Bennett. #1 is the famous Eccles. Correct on Ed and Elizabeth. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/165 "2024-07-25T18:48:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? > Did you play Miss Honey in _Matilda_? > Did you command the Afrika Korps? Take 2 DQs and I am not Erwin Rommel. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > DQs: > 1. Did you write _Adam Bede_, _Middlemarch_, _The Mill on the Floss_, and _Silas Marner_? > 2. Were you an unusually-eyed member of Bill Cipher’s Henchmaniacs on _Gravity Falls_? > 3. Were you a British member of Parliament and cabinet secretary who, on April 28th, 2011, mistakenly posted a tweet consisting entirely of his name on Twitter? I M not George Eliot and take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/166 "2024-07-25T18:49:43Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Libyan Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth’s circumference around 240 BCE, obtaining a result that is only 2.4% off the modern scientific measurement? > 2. Were you Harry Flashman’s much-loved, much-betrayed wife? > 3. Were you a philosopher who, ironically, given the popular misunderstanding of his teachings, ate very simple meals and lived an austere life? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/167 "2024-07-25T18:52:04Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with E. 4. American 5. living 6. Best known for the Arts ---
**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 25, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/168 "2024-07-25T18:52:46Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I M not George Eliot and take 2 DQs. 2 was Eightball; 3 [Ed Balls](https://x.com/edballs/status/63623585020915713). DQ: born after 1964? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/169 "2024-07-25T18:56:47Z")
DQ: Known for literature? 2 DQs 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 25, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/170 "2024-07-25T19:53:23Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Dorothy Gale’s pet kitten, who somehow turned pink? 2. Did you create a popular plan for speed reading? 3. Are you Dagwood Bumstead’s neighbor, a sometimes annoying little boy? ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/171 "2024-07-25T20:20:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did you and H.I. steal a quintuplet in _Raising Arizona_? 2. Did you, Pete, and Delmar go an odyssey in _O Brother, Where Art Thou_? 3. Are you one of the links between and the obvious person to ask about after mentioning the above 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 25, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/172 "2024-07-25T22:03:11Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? - Edwin Stanton Did you play Miss Honey in _Matilda_? - Embeth Davidtz Did you command the Afrika Korps? - Yes, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you an opinionated but hard-of-hearing woman played by Gilda Radner? Were you Alice Roosevelt’s pet snake? Did Julie Harris famously play you in a one-woman show? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/173 "2024-07-26T04:42:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Dorothy Gale’s pet kitten, who somehow turned pink? > 2. Did you create a popular plan for speed reading? > 3. Are you Dagwood Bumstead’s neighbor, a sometimes annoying little boy? I am not Eureka, take a DQ, I am not Elmo. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/174 "2024-07-26T04:50:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you and H.I. steal a quintuplet in _Raising Arizona_? > 2. Did you, Pete, and Delmar go an odyssey in _O Brother, Where Art Thou_? > 3. Are you one of the links between and the obvious person to ask about after mentioning the above movies? I am not Edwina, then take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? - Edwin Stanton > Did you play Miss Honey in _Matilda_? - Embeth Davidtz > Did you command the Afrika Korps? - Yes, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel > > Two DQs reserved. > > IQs: > > Were you an opinionated but hard-of-hearing woman played by Gilda Radner? > Were you Alice Roosevelt’s pet snake? > Did Julie Harris famously play you in a one-woman show? I am not Emily Litella and take 2 DQs unless #3 is Eleanor Roosevelt. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/175 "2024-07-26T04:52:55Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with E. 4. American 5. living 6. Best known for the Arts 7. Born before 1964 8. Not known for literature. 9. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/176 "2024-07-26T08:16:22Z")
DQ: Known for the performing arts? DQ: Born after 1945? IQs: 1. Were you the last husband of Carla Tortelli? 2. Are you the first person to ski jump for England at an Olympics? 3. Did you play #2 in a biopic? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/177 "2024-07-26T09:18:54Z")
I am not Eddie, I am not Eddie the Eagle, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/178 "2024-07-26T09:20:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with E. 4. American 5. living 6. Best known for the Arts 7. Born before 1964 8. Not known for literature. 9. Known for the Performing Arts. 10. Born after 1945. ---
**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 26, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/179 "2024-07-26T13:37:27Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a Libyan Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth’s circumference around 240 BCE, obtaining a result that is only 2.4% off the modern scientific measurement? > > 2. Were you Harry Flashman’s much-loved, much-betrayed wife? > > 3. Were you a philosopher who, ironically, given the popular misunderstanding of his teachings, ate very simple meals and lived an austere life? > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Eratosthenes, Chief Librarian of the Library at Alexandria, who measured the angle of sunlight hitting the earth in Alexandria, then compared it to the angle at a city 5,000 stadia away on the same meridian, and used geometry to calculate the circumference of the earth. 2 was Elspeth Morrison Flashman. 3 was Epicurius, who taught that the highest goal was pleasure, which he defined as the avoidance of fear, stress, and pain, not excessive hedonism. DQs: 1. Actor? 2. Known for filmed work (movies or TV)? 1 DQ reserved. IQs: 1. Were you an expatriate American-English poet who apparently didn’t like April? 2. Were you a contemporary of 1, who published his most celebrated work while incarcerated in a mental hospital after being judged unfit to stand trial for treason? 3. Were you an influential Victorian poet of sonnets, whose reputation was, until the 70s and 80s, overshadowed by that of your husband? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/180 "2024-07-26T14:30:56Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I am not Eddie, I am not Eddie the Eagle, take a DQ. Yes, Eddie Lebec, and “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards. #3 was Taron Edgerton. 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634.md?page=10)