# 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:** 9
**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 14, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/161 "2012-06-14T20:59:47Z")
OK, then. Thanks. The new letter is A. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/162 "2012-06-14T21:01:08Z")
Were you a “Great” leader who conquered much of the known world? ---
**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 14, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/163 "2012-06-14T21:05:56Z")
IQ1: Were you best known for striking black and whites of nature? IQ2: Was your head removed due to being found guilty of incest and treason? IQ3: Were you known for outing Rock Hudson and his HIV status? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/164 "2012-06-14T21:39:53Z")
IQ1: Did you go to hell and back in WWII, and then repeat the trip in Hollywood? IQ2: Did you live many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea? IQ3: Did you see the best minds of your generation destroyed by madness? ---
**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 14, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/165 "2012-06-14T21:45:45Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Were you a “Great” leader who conquered much of the known world? Not Alexander. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQ1: Were you best known for striking black and whites of nature? > IQ2: Was your head removed due to being found guilty of incest and treason? > IQ3: Were you known for outing Rock Hudson and his HIV status? Not Ansel Adams or Anne Boleyn. Dunno the third. One DQ. > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you go to hell and back in WWII, and then repeat the trip in Hollywood? > IQ2: Did you live many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea? > IQ3: Did you see the best minds of your generation destroyed by madness? Not Audie Murphy, Alfred the Great or Allen Ginsberg. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/166 "2012-06-14T21:50:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Audie Murphy, **Alfred the Great** or Allen Ginsberg. ok… then (IQ2b) were you a _woman_ who lived “many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea”? ---
**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 14, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/167 "2012-06-14T23:32:55Z")
IQ3 was Army Archerd, noted gossip columnist DQ1: Are you male? ---
**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 15, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/168 "2012-06-15T00:03:40Z")
IQ1: Did she rock you gently, rock you slowly? IQ2: Were you an industrialist who was also a philanthropist; establishing public libraries in much of the English-speaking world? IQ3: Although you’re not a quarterback, do you call football plays? ---
**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 15, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/169 "2012-06-15T03:21:16Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > ok… then (IQ2b) were you a _woman_ who lived “many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea”? No, I’m not Anne of Cleves. > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did she rock you gently, rock you slowly? > > IQ2: Were you an industrialist who was also a philanthropist; establishing public libraries in much of the English-speaking world? > > IQ3: Although you’re not a quarterback, do you call football plays? I can hear that rock song, but don’t know the singer. Take a DQ. I’m not Andrew Carnegie (my hometown has a Carnegie Library). Dunno about football person. Another DQ. A. 1. Male ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/170 "2012-06-15T03:25:51Z")
IQ: Did you kill the 1st Treasury Secretary in a duel? ---
**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 15, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/171 "2012-06-15T03:44:35Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you kill the 1st Treasury Secretary in a duel? I’m not Aaron Burr. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/172 "2012-06-15T04:11:15Z")
IQ1: Did you marry an unwitting john in _True Romance_? IQ2: Are you the actress who played the character referred to in IQ1? IQ3: Are you the title character of an Edgar Allan Poe poem? ---
**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 15, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/173 "2012-06-15T04:15:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I can hear that rock song, but don’t know the singer. Take a DQ. > I’m not Andrew Carnegie (my hometown has a Carnegie Library). > Dunno about football person. Another DQ. That’s Andy Kim doing “Rock Me Gently.” The football person is Al Michaels, who “calls the plays” nowadays on NBC’s Sunday Night football, and who used to do it on ABC’s Monday Night Football. As for Andrew Carnegie–yep, my little city’s public library got its start thanks to Mr. Carnegie, as did the public library in the small Ontario town I used to live in. Great benefactor, and I am thankful for his philanthropy. DQ: Are you currently alive? DQ: Are you fictional? ---
**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 15, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/174 "2012-06-15T13:11:54Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you marry an unwitting john in _True Romance_? > IQ2: Are you the actress who played the character referred to in IQ1? > IQ3: Are you the title character of an Edgar Allan Poe poem? Dunno the first two; never saw the movie. No, I’m not… Angelique? A. 1. Male 2. Dead 3. Not fictional ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/175 "2012-06-15T13:21:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno the first two; never saw the movie. > No, I’m not… Angelique? > > A. > > 1. Male > 2. Dead > 3. Not fictional Alabama Whirley was played by Patricia Arquette in True Romance. And the Poe character was Annabel Lee (who lived “many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea” - I was going to get her into this game, damn it! :p). DQs: 1. Are you American? 2. Did you die before 1900? 3. Are you known for contributions 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 15, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/176 "2012-06-15T13:22:12Z")
IQ1. Could it be claimed that you were the world’s first press secretary/spokesman? IQ2. Have you been hearing that crap since you were at UCLA? IQ3. Do you have no quarrel with the VC? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/177 "2012-06-15T13:41:10Z")
IQ1: Did you play lead guitar on the studio recording of one of Eric Clapton’s most famous songs? IQ2: Did your essays about the land surrounding your Wisconsin home strongly influence the American conservation movement? IQ3: Did you just become the first Slovenian player to win the Stanley Cup? ---
**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 15, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/178 "2012-06-15T17:20:33Z")
Annabel, of course! :smack: > [@Wargamer](#): > > IQ1. Could it be claimed that you were the world’s first press secretary/spokesman? > IQ2. Have you been hearing that crap since you were at UCLA? > IQ3. Do you have no quarrel with the VC? Dunno the first, although I should. I’m not Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, er, I mean First Officer Murdock. Not Muhammad Ali. > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you play lead guitar on the studio recording of one of Eric Clapton’s most famous songs? > IQ2: Did your essays about the land surrounding your Wisconsin home strongly influence the American conservation movement? > IQ3: Did you just become the first Slovenian player to win the Stanley Cup? Ouch. Take three DQs. A. 1. Male 2. Dead 3. Not fictional 4. American 5. Died after 1900 6. Not known for contributions to the arts ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/179 "2012-06-15T17:44:22Z")
IQ: Is Bob Cousy the only person who called you by your given 1st name, Arnold? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/180 "2012-06-15T17:48:06Z")
The first press secretary/spokesman could be claimed to be the brother of Moses, Aaron, who spoke for Moses because of Moses’ speech impediment. DQ. Does your last name begin with ‘A’? IQ1. Did you write a 13 volume memoir of your early wastrel ways and your eventual reform? IQ2. Did you serve as Lord High Constable during the last coronation? IQ3. Is the local theater in Mount Airy, NC named after you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406.md?page=10)