# Botticelli, June 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 5, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366 "2011-06-05T04:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/241 "2011-06-14T04:36:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Do you pity the foo? No, I’m not Lawrence “Mr. T.” Tureaud. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/242 "2011-06-14T05:22:37Z")
Did you smash the hood of the Franklin? Ok, that’s a cheat. IQ: Did you severely damage Hood at Franklin? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/243 "2011-06-14T05:26:41Z")
IQ: Do you plan to bother everybody you meet, and then probably go home and get drunk? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/244 "2011-06-14T06:49:58Z")
IQ: Did The Dickies express a desire to be stuck in a pagoda with you? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/245 "2011-06-14T11:18:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Do you plan to bother everybody you meet, and then probably go home and get drunk? No, I’m not Tippy Turtle (why the hell do I remember THAT???). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/246 "2011-06-14T11:20:17Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Did you smash the hood of the Franklin? > > Ok, that’s a cheat. IQ: Did you severely damage Hood at Franklin? No, I’m not General George Thomas. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/247 "2011-06-14T11:25:06Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Did The Dickies express a desire to be stuck in a pagoda with you? The only Dickies song I know is their cover of “Nights in White Satin.” Ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/248 "2011-06-14T11:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Le Ministre de l’au-delà** > IQ: Did you use Colonel Kurtz as a character in a novel which was partially set in the Metro Toronto Reference Library? > [@astorian](#): > > I didn’t know anyone else had used this character from “Apocalypse Now.” Ask a DQ. So you’re not Canadian author Timothy Findley, whose novel “Headhunter” centres around a schizophrenic homeless woman who brings Colonel Kurtz to life while reading Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” in the Metro Toronto Reference Library. DQ: Are you fictional? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/249 "2011-06-14T12:18:34Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > So you’re not Canadian author Timothy Findley, whose novel “Headhunter” centres around a schizophrenic homeless woman who brings Colonel Kurtz to life while reading Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” in the Metro Toronto Reference Library. > DQ: Are you fictional? No. 1. I am not fictional. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/250 "2011-06-14T13:05:47Z")
IQ: Are you a classically trained guitarist who plays jazz, doubling on French Horn, 12 string guitar and piano? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/251 "2011-06-14T14:07:05Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Are you a classically trained guitarist who plays jazz, doubling on French Horn, 12 string guitar and piano? Jazz is one of my Achilles’ heels! Ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/252 "2011-06-14T14:12:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by \*\*Le Ministre de l’au-delà \*\* > IQ: Are you a classically trained guitarist who plays jazz, doubling on French Horn, 12 string guitar and piano? > [@astorian](#): > > Ask a DQ. Then you are not Ralph Towner, who was in the band ‘Oregon’, which bridged the spaces between jazz, classical and Indian music. He has become a mainstay of the ECM label, recording at least 20 albums since 1972. DQ: Are you male? > [@astorian](#): > > Jazz is one of my Achilles’ heels! Sadly for you, it is one of my specialties… As Paris once said “I will be gentle…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/253 "2011-06-14T14:14:23Z")
IQ: Are you buried underneath Mount Etna? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/254 "2011-06-14T14:14:57Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > DQ: Are you male? Yes. 1. I am or was a real person. 2. I am male. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/255 "2011-06-14T15:51:09Z")
IQ: When a young Oscar Peterson first heard your record, was he so impressed that he thought his dad was fooling him, and that it was actually an album with _two_ pianists? ---
**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:** [June 14, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/256 "2011-06-14T17:09:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > No, I’m not General George Thomas. It was actually John Schofield in battlefield command for the Union, but Thomas, in Nashville to the north, was his commander. IQ: Did you once, in a bad temper, marvel at Americans’ obsession with bosoms? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/257 "2011-06-14T18:50:34Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > IQ: Are you buried underneath Mount Etna? Ask a DQ- I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/258 "2011-06-14T18:51:45Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: When a young Oscar Peterson first heard your record, was he so impressed that he thought his dad was fooling him, and that it was actually an album with _two_ pianists? Sigh… you’re gonna keep hitting me with jazz musicians, aren’t you? Ask another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/259 "2011-06-14T18:53:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It was actually John Schofield in battlefield command for the Union, but Thomas, in Nashville to the north, was his commander. > > IQ: Did you once, in a bad temper, marvel at Americans’ obsession with bosoms? I may well have heard the quote in question, but can’t think of it. Ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/260 "2011-06-14T18:54:19Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > IQ: Are you buried underneath Mount Etna? > [@astorian](#): > > Ask a DQ- I’m stumped. You are not Typhon, the titan who Zeus defeated by dropping a mountain on top of him. Born in the 20th century? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366.md?page=14)