# Botticelli, June 2011

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366>\
**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:** 27

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/521 "2011-06-27T16:26:10Z")

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I’m “J”

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**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 27, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/522 "2011-06-27T16:28:15Z")

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IQ: Are you the only original member of the Justice League of America who had never had his own comic book?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/523 "2011-06-27T16:38:26Z")

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Nope

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**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 27, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/524 "2011-06-27T17:49:55Z")

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Uh… **etv78** , you have to say who you _aren’t_, mentioning a person who fits the parameters of **Tom Scud** ’s question. That’s how this game, y’know, works.

IQ: Were you Lincoln’s aide and McKinley’s Secretary of State?

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**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 27, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/525 "2011-06-27T18:15:14Z")

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IQ: Are you a Schwarzenegger parody responsible for enforcing Da Rules in an animated series?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/526 "2011-06-27T19:32:46Z")

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Did you call up MSNBC posing as a Newsweek editor, and tell the anchorman that Princess Diana’s death was due to her racing at high speed to the video store to rent the new Howard Stern movie?

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**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 27, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/527 "2011-06-27T19:47:36Z")

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IQ: Were you the King of Pop?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/528 "2011-06-27T19:51:12Z")

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I am not:

Edwin Stanton or Michael Jackson  
Chocki:gonna need a DQ

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**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 27, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/529 "2011-06-27T20:04:45Z")

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Not Edwin Stanton (where’s the “J” in that?); he was dead by McKinley’s time. It was John Hay.

DQ: Fictional?

IQ: Could you write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other _simultaneously_?

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**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 27, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/530 "2011-06-27T20:05:31Z")

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So you going to answer mine etv?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/531 "2011-06-27T20:26:32Z")

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I am not a fictional person, and I am not James Garfield. (cool parlor trick!)  
Tom-as a real person, it is not the JL memeber you’re thinking of.

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**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 27, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/532 "2011-06-27T20:28:42Z")

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Right, taking my DQ for J’onn J’onnz, the Martian Manhunter:

Born in the 20th century?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/533 "2011-06-27T20:30:45Z")

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I was born during the 20th c.

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**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 27, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/534 "2011-06-27T22:12:35Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ: Are you a Schwarzenegger parody responsible for enforcing Da Rules in an animated series?

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> Chocki:gonna need a DQ

You are not Jorgen Von Strangle, the boss of the fairies in _The Fairly Oddparents_  
DQ: Male?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/535 "2011-06-27T22:58:59Z")

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No, I am not male

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**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 28, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/536 "2011-06-28T00:43:20Z")

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IQ: Are you a jazz drummer who also plays piano well?

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**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 28, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/537 "2011-06-28T00:48:53Z")

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IQ: Would you like the Lord to buy you a Mercedes Benz?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/538 "2011-06-28T02:31:15Z")

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Did you write a fictional novel about the real life pirate Henry Morgan?

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**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 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/539 "2011-06-28T04:05:34Z")

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So “J” is:

1. A real person
2. Born in the 20th century
3. Female

IQ: Were you a cousin but a political foe of Thomas Jefferson?

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/540 "2011-06-28T06:32:48Z")

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IQ: Did you write a book about the life and death of American cities?

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