# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/141 "2011-06-08T16:39:47Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Alf Landon of Kansas, squashed like a bug by FDR in the 1936 election; his daughter Nancy was later elected to the U.S. Senate. [/quote] :smack: I kept thinking of Goldwater and Mondale, while Landon never crossed my mind. > [@](#): > > DQ: American? Yes. > [@](#): > > IQ: Was your life saved by the brother of a man who later did something terrible to your family? No, “Abe”, I’m not your son Robert Lincoln. > [@divemaster](#): > > DQ: Are you a politician? Yep. > [@panamajack](#): > > DQ: Were you born before 1600? Nope. Summary: 1. I am not fictional. 2. I am male. 3. Only one of my names starts with L. 4. I was born before the 20th century. 5. I am American. 6. I am a politician. 7. I was not born before 1600. ---
**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 8, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/142 "2011-06-08T17:05:13Z")
IQ: Are you known as the Kingfish? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/143 "2011-06-08T17:20:30Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Are you known as the Kingfish? You got me! I am Huey Long, governor of Louisiana and victim of assassin Carl Weiss. Your turn! ---
**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 8, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/144 "2011-06-08T18:22:25Z")
Hey, good job, **ChockFull**! That was quick. ---
**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 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/145 "2011-06-08T19:58:16Z")
Wow. A Botticelli win and a first place Feud finish in the same week. I should buy a lottery ticket. I’ll be meetings all afternoon, so I won’t be able to respond for a while. I’ll start you off with… G ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/146 "2011-06-08T20:16:31Z")
IQ: In a classic movie, did you swashbuckle your way toward revenge disguising your identity as a weird clown? ---
**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 8, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/147 "2011-06-08T20:33:32Z")
IQ: Did you also answer to Tharkun, Mithrandir and Olorin? ---
**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 8, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/148 "2011-06-08T22:04:34Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ: In a classic movie, did you swashbuckle your way toward revenge disguising your identity as a weird clown? Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango? I know the movie but…drawing a blank on the actors and/or character names… Ask a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Did you also answer to Tharkun, Mithrandir and Olorin? No, I am not Gandalf. ---
**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 8, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/149 "2011-06-08T22:24:12Z")
IQ: Is your writing quoted on the Canadian $20 bill? ---
**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 9, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/150 "2011-06-09T00:39:00Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Is your writing quoted on the Canadian $20 bill? “This note is legal tender”?? Um… **G** overnment official? Last time I was in Canada (1990s) the $20 had a loon on it. Don’t remember any quotes. Have they changed the currency again? 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 9, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/151 "2011-06-09T00:48:39Z")
IQ: Are you friend to all children? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/152 "2011-06-09T01:38:28Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ: In a classic movie, did you swashbuckle your way toward revenge disguising your identity as a weird clown? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango? > I know the movie but…drawing a blank on the actors and/or character names… > Ask a DQ. Scaramouche–great movie. Stewart **G** ranger–great role! DQ: Are you 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 9, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/153 "2011-06-09T01:42:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Le Ministre de l’au-delà View Post > IQ: Is your writing quoted on the Canadian $20 bill? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > “This note is legal tender”?? Um… **G** overnment official? > > Last time I was in Canada (1990s) the $20 had a loon on it. Don’t remember any quotes. Have they changed the currency again? > > Ask a DQ. The current issue of paper money, the “Canadian Journey” series, features literary quotations on each of the $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. The $20. features the quotation “Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”, the English translation of « Nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes, sans les arts? » - **Gabrielle Roy** (1909–1983), from her novel La Montagne secrète (The Hidden Mountain). DQ: Are you a female? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/154 "2011-06-09T01:47:40Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > I figured **Johnny L.A.** might turn to aviation. Turns out I was right! I was counting on someone remembering my Greatest Passion In Life. 😉 ---
**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 9, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/155 "2011-06-09T03:26:15Z")
IQ: Do you have a problem with avoiding trees? ---
**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 9, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/156 "2011-06-09T03:31:44Z")
IQ: Do you often talk about a certain place in Mist County? ---
**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 9, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/157 "2011-06-09T08:30:02Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > IQ: Are you friend to all children? No, I am not Gamera > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Do you have a problem with avoiding trees? No, I am not George of the Jungle > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQ: Do you often talk about a certain place in Mist County? No, I am not Garrison Keillor As for DQs: 1. Yes, I am fictional 2. No, I am not female ---
**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 9, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/158 "2011-06-09T09:08:41Z")
IQ: Do you have a tendency to level Tokyo? ---
**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 9, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/159 "2011-06-09T09:10:57Z")
IQ: Are you a particularly idiotic Marine? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/160 "2011-06-09T11:28:25Z")
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