# Botticelli - June 2012 **URL:** \ **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:** 14
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/261 "2012-06-20T22:35:40Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Do you work for a man obsessed with the animal who crippled him? I am not Ishmael. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a “Reverend” who drove a NYC cab? I am not Jim Ignatowski. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQ1: After erroneous allegations, did you go into exile for almost a decade? > IQ2: Do many people incorrectly think this person is related to IQ1? (Just as famous) > IQ3: Is your father a puffed up egomaniac? 3 DQs for you. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/262 "2012-06-21T01:29:40Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 3 DQs for you. Ingmar Bergman / Ingrid Bergman / Ivanka Trump DQ1: Are you male? DQ2: Are you a real (versus fictional) person? DQ3: Are you best known for you contribution to the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/263 "2012-06-21T01:45:12Z")
1. I am a man. 2. I am a fictional character. 3. I am not known for any contribution to The Arts. ---
**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 21, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/264 "2012-06-21T02:21:27Z")
IQs: Did your last name eventually grace an institution of higher learning? Are you a writer from a noted political family in your home country? Did you once command the USS _Constitution_? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/265 "2012-06-21T03:13:59Z")
IQ1: Did you lose your head? IQ2: Did you despise a Dane? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/266 "2012-06-21T04:03:19Z")
Hey - you skipped mine! > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you talkin’ about _practice_, man? > IQ2: Do you call it a good day when you don’t have to use your Kalashnikov? > IQ3: Are you a cross-dressing comedian? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/267 "2012-06-21T04:38:35Z")
IQ1: Were you the subject of a memorial concert at which the Folksmen, the New Main Street Singers, and Mitch and Mickey played? IQ2: Are you an archeologist/adventurer who insisted that the Cross of Coronado be put in a museum? IQ3: Were you involved in Hungarian politics in the 1950s? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/268 "2012-06-21T07:02:24Z")
IQ: Did your hubris get you killed, because you flew too close to the sun? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/269 "2012-06-21T14:13:51Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Nice job, **Wargamer** , and nice pick **MissTake**! I love Bloom County, and I’m kicking’ myself for missing it! > IQ1: Are you talkin’ about _practice_, man? > IQ2: Do you call it a good day when you don’t have to use your Kalashnikov? > IQ3: Are you a cross-dressing comedian? Oops, sorry **Enginerd** for not seeing this…:smack: I’m not Allen Iverson or Eddie Izzard, but you can have a DQ for your second question. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/270 "2012-06-21T14:19:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your last name eventually grace an institution of higher learning? > Are you a writer from a noted political family in your home country? > Did you once command the USS _Constitution_? Not Isaac Hull, but you can take two more DQs. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did your hubris get you killed, because you flew too close to the sun? I’m not Icarus. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQ1: Did you lose your head? > IQ2: Did you despise a Dane? Two DQs. > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Were you the subject of a memorial concert at which the Folksmen, the New Main Street Singers, and Mitch and Mickey played? > > IQ2: Are you an archeologist/adventurer who insisted that the Cross of Coronado be put in a museum? > > IQ3: Were you involved in Hungarian politics in the 1950s? I’m not Indiana Jones. Two DQs for the others, but the Hungarian guy is on the tip of my toungue, but I can’t drag his name up from the memory banks at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/271 "2012-06-21T14:57:05Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ2: Do you call it a good day when you don’t have to use your Kalashnikov? [Ice Cube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M&feature=player_detailpage#t=226s). DQ: Does your first name begin with I? ---
**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 21, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/272 "2012-06-21T15:38:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your last name eventually grace an institution of higher learning? > Are you a writer from a noted political family in your home country? > Did you once command the USS _Constitution_? Ignatius Loyola. Isabel Allende. Yes, Capt. Isaac Hull. DQs: American? Although fictional, would you be alive in 2012? IQs: Did you complain when the filming of a big movie messed up traffic in your neighborhood? Have you played a villainous soldier and a troubled cop? Did a writer named after a U.S. President immortalize you? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/273 "2012-06-21T17:06:13Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > I’m not Indiana Jones. Two DQs for the others, but the Hungarian guy is on the tip of my toungue, but I can’t drag his name up from the memory banks at the moment. The subject of the memorial concert was folk music impresario Irving Steinbloom. The concert itself was a part of the mockumentary film, _A Mighty Wind_. The Hungarian politician was Imre Nagy. I’ll reserve my DQs for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/274 "2012-06-21T17:42:22Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > [Ice Cube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M&feature=player_detailpage#t=226s). > > DQ: Does your first name begin with I? > [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Did you complain when the filming of a big movie messed up traffic in your neighborhood? > Have you played a villainous soldier and a troubled cop? > Did a writer named after a U.S. President immortalize you? 3 DQs. DQ Summary 1. I am a man. 2. I am a fictional character. 3. I am not known for any contribution to The Arts. 4. My last name begins with ‘I’. 5. I am an American creation. 6. Yes, even though fictional, I would be alive as of 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/275 "2012-06-21T17:57:06Z")
I’ll bring forward my DQs. DQ: Are you involved in politics? DQ: Are you a character in literature? ---
**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 21, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/276 "2012-06-21T18:10:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you complain when the filming of a big movie messed up traffic in your neighborhood? > Have you played a villainous soldier and a troubled cop? > Did a writer named after a U.S. President immortalize you? Isaac Asimov, during the Central Park West filming of _Ghostbusters_. Jason Isaacs, in _The Patriot_ and _Awake_. Washington Irving (d’oh, another “I”!) wrote about Ichabod Crane. DQs: Do you appear in just a single work of fiction (one book, one movie, one TV series, etc.)? Are you a U.S. citizen? Are you commonly thought of as being from the East Coast? IQs Were you a noted comic actress? During the American Revolution and its aftermath, was your brother a much-better-known man than you were? Did you recently speak at Oberlin College and bask in the students’ adulation? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/277 "2012-06-21T18:13:18Z")
IQ1: Are you regarded as a co-creator of Mickey Mouse, together with Walt Disney? IQ2: Were you a department store mogul who died in the _Titanic_ tragedy? IQ3: Were you the wife of the man in IQ2? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/278 "2012-06-21T18:15:04Z")
Does #6 imply your creator is alive? ---
**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 21, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/279 "2012-06-21T19:48:01Z")
IQ1: Are you the most famous character Mandy Patinkin has ever played? IQ2: Are you a handsome, blonde Russian spy? IQ3: Did you compose three ballets for impressario Sergei Diagalev’s ‘Ballet Russe’ in the early 20th century? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/280 "2012-06-22T01:55:08Z")
IQ1: Did you style yourself the uncrowned King of Scotland? IQ2: Did your trading career end with a prison sentence and a $100 million fine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=15)