# Botticelli - June 2012
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406 "2012-06-07T17:23:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/1 "2012-06-07T17:23:44Z")
Previous thread: [Botticelli (Part Whatever) - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=652578)
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/2 "2012-06-07T17:50:20Z")
IQ1: Were you partially responsible for authoring a book that tells others how to write?
IQ2: Is your first name the result of a misspelling?
IQ3: Are you a comedian who always be thinkin’?
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/3 "2012-06-07T17:57:43Z")
IQ1: Are you an English composer renowned for the soundtrack music to ‘Henry V’ and ‘The Battle of Britain’?
IQ2: Are you a different English composer who wrote ‘A Sea Symphony’, among other symphonic and operatic works?
IQ3: Are you the American poet whose words were set throughout the above composer’s ‘A Sea Symphony’? (And ‘Toward the Unknown Region’, ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ among many others…)
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/4 "2012-06-07T17:58:28Z")
IQ1: Did you warn Smokey that he was entering “a world of pain”?
IQ2: Were you a millstone around Dukakis’s neck in 1988?
IQ3: Did you invent and lend your name to a vaguely obscene-sounding rotary engine?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/5 "2012-06-07T18:00:32Z")
Have you been married 46 years, and are very bitter about it?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/6 "2012-06-07T19:17:40Z")
IQ1: Were you a wealthy businessman in a James Bond movie featuring a character named Tiffany Case?
IQ2: Whatchoo talkin’ 'bout?
IQ3: Did you witness your parents’ death at the hands of a gunman, while you and they were heading home from the theatre?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/7 "2012-06-07T19:47:39Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> IQ1: Were you partially responsible for authoring a book that tells others how to write?
> IQ2: Is your first name the result of a misspelling?
> IQ3: Are you a comedian who always be thinkin’?
No, I’m not E.B. White.
Dunno about the second or third. Two DQs, then.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/8 "2012-06-07T19:48:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a wealthy businessman in a James Bond movie featuring a character named Tiffany Case?
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> IQ2: Whatchoo talkin’ 'bout?
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> IQ3: Did you witness your parents’ death at the hands of a gunman, while you and they were heading home from the theatre?
The first… was that the guy played by Jimmy Dean? I forget his name. DQ. I’m neither Willis from Diff’rent Strokes, nor Bruce Wayne.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/9 "2012-06-07T19:50:00Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Are you an English composer renowned for the soundtrack music to ‘Henry V’ and ‘The Battle of Britain’?
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> IQ2: Are you a different English composer who wrote ‘A Sea Symphony’, among other symphonic and operatic works?
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> IQ3: Are you the American poet whose words were set throughout the above composer’s ‘A Sea Symphony’? (And ‘Toward the Unknown Region’, ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ among many others…)
I think William Wyler is one of these, but I’m not sure. Take two, or three if earned, DQs.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/10 "2012-06-07T19:51:54Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> IQ1: Did you warn Smokey that he was entering “a world of pain”?
> IQ2: Were you a millstone around Dukakis’s neck in 1988?
> IQ3: Did you invent and lend your name to a vaguely obscene-sounding rotary engine?
I’m not Walter Sobchak, the John Goodman character from _The Big Lebowski_, nor am I Willie Horton, or Mr. Wankel.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/11 "2012-06-07T19:52:57Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Have you been married 46 years, and are very bitter about it?
Dunno this one. Take a DQ.
You guys are good!
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/12 "2012-06-07T20:03:05Z")
DQ:Are you a fictional character? (I was going for Jeff Dunham’s “friend” Walter)
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/13 "2012-06-07T20:08:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> The first… was that the guy played by Jimmy Dean? I forget his name. DQ. I’m neither Willis from Diff’rent Strokes, nor Bruce Wayne.
Correct on Bruce Wayne and Willis.
You’re right; it was the guy played by Jimmy Dean. The character’s name was Willard Whyte.
DQ: Are you male?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/14 "2012-06-07T20:35:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> No, I’m not E.B. White.
> Dunno about the second or third. Two DQs, then.
Oprah Winfrey was supposed to be Orpah, and the third question related to comedian George Wallace.
I would like to hold my DQ’s for a little bit.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/15 "2012-06-07T20:47:05Z")
IQ1: Did you star, alongside Richard Pryor, in a 70s movie about a murder aboard a train?
IQ2: Did you issue five Golden Tickets in random packages of your product?
IQ3: Did You Ever Look For Jobs At Apple Computer?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/16 "2012-06-07T22:36:20Z")
IQ1: Are you an electrician turned labor leader turned president?
IQ2: Were you a part of the Everly Brothers’ touring band in the early 1970s?
IQ3: Were you a philosopher whose most influential work was published posthumously?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/17 "2012-06-08T00:24:44Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: Did you star, alongside Richard Pryor, in a 70s movie about a murder aboard a train?
> IQ2: Did you issue five Golden Tickets in random packages of your product?
> IQ3: Did You Ever Look For Jobs At Apple Computer?
I’m Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka, or Steve Wozniak.
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> IQ1: Are you an electrician turned labor leader turned president?
> IQ2: Were you a part of the Everly Brothers’ touring band in the early 1970s?
> IQ3: Were you a philosopher whose most influential work was published posthumously?
I’m not Lech Walesa, dunno the second, or Wittgenstein. Take a DQ.
W.
1. Real person
2. Male
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/18 "2012-06-08T00:39:54Z")
Warren Zevon was the Everly Brothers keyboard player and band leader for a few years.
DQ: Are you currently alive?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/19 "2012-06-08T01:12:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> I’m Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka, or Steve Wozniak.
Correct on all, though I think you meant to say, “I’m _not_ Gene Wilder…” 😉
IQ1: I know you’re not Tyler or Arthur or Pierce or even Hayes, but could you be another, who died in thirty days?
IQ2: Are you the father in a movie and Broadway show that includes such songs as “You’re Timeless to Me,” and “I Can Hear the Bells”?
IQ3: Did you develop the brand that marketed itself as “the best in the house, in 87 lands”?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/20 "2012-06-08T01:20:56Z")
Did you represent the U.S. at the Versaille Conference?
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