# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/121 "2012-06-12T19:34:51Z")
I think you missed **le Ministre’s** first DQ, too. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > DQ: Are you real? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/122 "2012-06-12T19:59:02Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you do something that kicked off unrest in 110 American cities (and full-blown riots in a few) in 1968? > IQ2: Were you a nuclear engineer turned peanut farmer? > IQ3: Did you become an internet meme by getting all your friends “killed” in World of Warcraft? 1. I’m not James Earl Ray, the assassin who sparked riots by killing Dr. King. 2. I’m not Jimmy Carter, nuclear officer, peanut farmer, and oh yeah, leader of the free world. 3. Take a DQ. DQ Summary 1. I am a man. 2. I am real. (I did miss the DQ, thanks for the catch **Enginerd**. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/123 "2012-06-12T20:03:02Z")
IQ: Did you deliver an iconic line by a character you didn’t physically portray? (my other IQ did indeed refer to John Mell **e** ncamp) ---
**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 12, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/124 "2012-06-12T20:31:32Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > I’m not Xanthus, one of the horse-taming Trojans. (At least, I think that’s who you’re after…) No, that was Xenophon, too. I was just a bit behind **Wargamer** in asking about him. So it’s J now, eh? IQs: Were you told by a cop that you couldn’t use a particular telephone? Did something distinctive about you appear on a U.S. warship? Were you appointed to high office by one President, later switch parties and rise even higher under a President of your later party affiliation? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/125 "2012-06-12T20:31:36Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you deliver an iconic line by a character you didn’t physically portray? > > (my other IQ did indeed refer to John Mell **e** ncamp) No idea - have a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/126 "2012-06-12T20:38:00Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ3: Did you become an internet meme by getting all your friends “killed” in World of Warcraft? [LEEROY JENKINS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUCPyv3028)! DQ: Are you 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 12, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/127 "2012-06-12T20:40:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No, that was Xenophon, too. I was just a bit behind **Wargamer** in asking about him. I was in the car when I remembered ‘Oh, yeah - there’s ‘On Cavalry’ by Xenophon; I’ve never read that one…’ ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/128 "2012-06-12T20:49:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No, that was Xenophon, too. I was just a bit behind **Wargamer** in asking about him. > > So it’s J now, eh? > > IQs: > > Were you told by a cop that you couldn’t use a particular telephone? > Did something distinctive about you appear on a U.S. warship? > Were you appointed to high office by one President, later switch parties and rise even higher under a President of your later party affiliation? 1. No idea - DQ. 2. I’m not [File:USS John Hancock Stern.jpg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_John_Hancock_Stern.jpg) 3. Take a DQ, if you aren’t Andrew Johnson - and I suspect that you aren’t. DQ Summary 4. I am a man. 5. I am real. 6. I am dead. ---
**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 12, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/129 "2012-06-12T20:51:08Z")
IQ1: An Old Testament king, are you also the term for a double-magnum sized bottle? IQ2: Does your underwear figure in one of the Old Testament’s oddest stories? IQ3: Were you a kind of Judah who instituted religious reforms? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/130 "2012-06-12T21:00:19Z")
IQ1: Did you describe your job as “not worth a bucket of warm piss”? IQ2: Were you also known as Bonzo? IQ3: Do spasmodic arm movements go along with your distinctive voice when you perform? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/131 "2012-06-12T21:08:33Z")
I was thinking James Earl Jones (voice of Darth vader) DQ: Are you a politician? ---
**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 12, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/132 "2012-06-12T22:36:18Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. I’m not Jesse James. > > 2. Parker! That contractor? He doesn’t work for me, J. Jonah Jamison! > > 3. Take a DQ. Correct on James and Jamison. For the third, we were looking for Janis Joplin. In the second verse of “Mercedes Benz,” she sang, “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV? Dialing for Dollars is trying to find me…” DQ: Did you die after 1900? ---
**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 13, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/133 "2012-06-13T00:35:31Z")
IQ1: Is your real name unknown, but the name the authorities gave you 130 years still lives in infamy? IQ2: Were you one of the most famous traitors in ancient times? IQ3: Were you the person IQ2 betrayed? ---
**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 13, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/134 "2012-06-13T01:58:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQs: > > Were you told by a cop that you couldn’t use a particular telephone? > Did something distinctive about you appear on a U.S. warship? > Were you appointed to high office by one President, later switch parties and rise even higher under a President of your later party affiliation? John F. Kennedy, as a very young-looking Congressman, was told by a Capitol policeman that he couldn’t use an official phone because “those are reserved for Congressmen, son.” Yes, John Hancock. John Connally was appointed Secretary of the Navy by JFK as a Democrat, but later switched to the GOP and was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Nixon. Nixon had hopes that Connally would succeed him in 1976. DQ: Last name start with “J”? American? IQs: Did your dad look a lot like Keith Richards? Were you, as a child, willing to wear a ridiculous costume to get candy at Halloween? Did you tell a man on the tarmac that they were all your helicopters? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/135 "2012-06-13T02:57:26Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: An Old Testament king, are you also the term for a double-magnum sized bottle? > > IQ2: Does your underwear figure in one of the Old Testament’s oddest stories? > > IQ3: Were you a kind of Judah who instituted religious reforms? 1. I’m not Jeroboam (I think). 2. I’m not Joshua (I think it was Joshua and his undies hanging out Rahab’s window at the Battle of Jericho, wasn’t it? If not - a DQ. 3. I don’t know - a DQ. > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you describe your job as “not worth a bucket of warm piss”? > IQ2: Were you also known as Bonzo? > IQ3: Do spasmodic arm movements go along with your distinctive voice when you perform? 1. Not John Gardner Nance. 2. Not John Lennon? Or, take a DQ. 3. Not Joe Cocker. > [@Miss Take](#): > > IQ1: Is your real name unknown, but the name the authorities gave you 130 years still lives in infamy? > IQ2: Were you one of the most famous traitors in ancient times? > IQ3: Were you the person IQ2 betrayed? 1. I’m not Jack the Ripper. 2. I’ll answer number 3 first. 3. I’m not Julius Caesar. 4. I can’t think of a conspirator that started with a J without looking it up on Google, so have a DQ. > [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Did your dad look a lot like Keith Richards? > Were you, as a child, willing to wear a ridiculous costume to get candy at Halloween? > Did you tell a man on the tarmac that they were all your helicopters? 1. I’m not Captain Jack Sparrow 2. No idea - DQ 3. That sounds like something JR Ewing would/would’ve said, so I’ll guess him, but expect you to get a DQ because that W.A.G. is wrong. DQ Summary 1. I am a man. 2. I am real. 3. I am dead. 4. I am not a politician. 5. I died after 1900 BC. (Also after 1900 AD as well) 🙂 6. My last name does NOT start with a J. 7. I am not an American. ---
**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 13, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/136 "2012-06-13T03:58:02Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. I’ll answer number 3 first. > 2. I’m not Julius Caesar. > 3. I can’t think of a conspirator that started with a J without looking it up on Google, DQ Summary so have a DQ. 1. I was thinking Judas Iscariat, leaving 2. to be Jesus DQ: Were you known for contributions to the Arts? DQ: Were you an Englishman? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/137 "2012-06-13T05:40:46Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. Not John Lennon? Or, take a DQ. Bonzo was the nickname given to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. DQ: Were you born after 1900? DQ: (reserved until **MissTake’s** questions are answered). ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/138 "2012-06-13T13:19:46Z")
DQ Summary 1. I am a man. 2. I am real. 3. I am dead. 4. I am not a politician. 5. I died after 1900 BC. (Also after 1900 AD as well) 6. My last name does NOT start with a J. 7. I am not an American. 8. I am noted for my contribution to The Arts. 9. I am English. 10. I was not born before 1900. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/139 "2012-06-13T13:21:47Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > DQ: (reserved until **MissTake’s** questions are answered). DQ: Are you known for your contributions to music (defined inclusively)? ---
**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 13, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/140 "2012-06-13T13:43:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQs: > > Did your dad look a lot like Keith Richards? > Were you, as a child, willing to wear a ridiculous costume to get candy at Halloween? > Did you tell a man on the tarmac that they were all your helicopters? Yes, Jack Sparrow. Jerry Seinfeld, in a routine about Halloween. Lyndon Johnson, when directed by an Air Force officer towards a particular helicopter. DQs: Born after 1950? Musician? IQs: Has a statute in your honor been vandalized over and over? Did you enjoy privately shopping for books, for yourself and as presents? Did you write one of the first respected books about the JFK assassination? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=8)