# Botticelli - June 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899 "2013-06-01T22:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/61 "2013-06-05T16:32:29Z")
Comic strip character Barney Google was the owner of Sparkplug. Tom Baker was the 4th Doctor, not the 5th. DQ: Male? ---
**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 5, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/62 "2013-06-05T19:06:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Male? Yes Summary: D 1. Male ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/63 "2013-06-05T19:11:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you rush out to save a teenager who had wandered into the area where a new bomb was being tested? > IQ2: Are you a Marine pilot who received the Medal of Honor in WW II? > IQ3: Did you have 500 hats? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ3: Not Bartholomew Cubbins. Take 2 DQs for the others. Bruce Banner (that’s how he was originally turned into the Hulk). Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. Correct on Dr Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins. You got the one I expected you to miss, and missed the two I expected you to get… DQ1: Real? DQ2: American? IQ1: Did you write a children’s guide to the orchestra? IQ2: Did you keep your bullet in your shirt pocket? IQ3: Did your little sister take over a series of books that were originally about a boy and his dog? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/64 "2013-06-05T19:38:08Z")
IQ1) Are you famous for saying: “I would prefer not to.”? IQ2) Are you remembered partly for saying you didn’t inhale? IQ3) Were you the warrior queen of the Iceni? ---
**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 5, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/65 "2013-06-05T19:41:49Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Did you switch the death potion for the love potion so that your mistress wouldn’t die? > IQ2: Were you the most beloved of Wotan’s daughters, for a time? > IQ3: Are you the uncle of Lancelot? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ2: Not Brunhilde. Take DQs for the other 2. Quite right on Brünnhilde. #1. is **Brangäne** , Isolde’s maid in Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’. #3 is **Bors the Elder** , King of Gaul, brother of Ban and therefore, Lancelot’s uncle. DQ1: Is ‘B’ the initial letter of your last name? If I may, I’ll hold on my second DQ until I find out if you’re real or not… ---
**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 5, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/66 "2013-06-05T20:18:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: Real? > DQ2: American? Yes Yes > [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a children’s guide to the orchestra? > IQ2: Did you keep your bullet in your shirt pocket? > IQ3: Did your little sister take over a series of books that were originally about a boy and his dog? Not Beezus Quimby, older sister to Ramona, who first appeared in the Henry Huggins and Ribsy books. Take DQs for the other 2. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ1) Are you famous for saying: “I would prefer not to.”? > IQ2) Are you remembered partly for saying you didn’t inhale? > IQ3) Were you the warrior queen of the Iceni? IQ1: Not Melville’s Bartleby the Schrivener IQ2: Not Bill Clinton Take a DQ for #3. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > DQ1: Is ‘B’ the initial letter of your last name? Yes Summary: B 1. Male 2. Real 3. American 4. ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/67 "2013-06-05T21:24:48Z")
#3 is Boadicea, she of the many vowels. DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/68 "2013-06-05T21:36:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a children’s guide to the orchestra? > IQ2: Did you keep your bullet in your shirt pocket? > IQ3: Did your little sister take over a series of books that were originally about a boy and his dog? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Beezus Quimby, older sister to Ramona, who first appeared in the Henry Huggins and Ribsy books. Take DQs for the other 2. Benjamin Britten composed _The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra_. Barney Fife, from _The Andy Griffith Show_. Correct on Beezus. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/69 "2013-06-05T22:00:52Z")
DQ: Known for the arts (according to our usual definition)? One DQ reserved. IQ1: Were you a British airbourne general during WW II? IQ2: Were you a British intel officer who played that general in a movie thirty-odd years later? IQ3: Are you Tuppence’s husband? ---
**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 5, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/70 "2013-06-05T22:30:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Alive? No > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ: Known for the arts (according to our usual definition)? No > [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you a British airbourne general during WW II? > IQ2: Were you a British intel officer who played that general in a movie thirty-odd years later? > IQ3: Are you Tuppence’s husband? 3 DQs for you. (The only Tuppence I remember was from a BBC Agatha Christie adaptation on PBS in the 80s, but I thought the husband’s name was Tommie, which isn’t a ‘B’ word) Summary: B 1. Male 2. Real 3. American 4. ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name 5. Not alive 6. Not known for the arts ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/71 "2013-06-05T23:10:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a British airbourne general during WW II? > IQ2: Were you a British intel officer who played that general in a movie thirty-odd years later? > IQ3: Are you Tuppence’s husband? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 3 DQs for you. (The only Tuppence I remember was from a BBC Agatha Christie adaptation on PBS in the 80s, but I thought the husband’s name was Tommie, which isn’t a ‘B’ word) Frederick “Boy” Browning was played by Dirk Bogarde (who had actually known Browning during the war) in _A Bridge Too Far_. You have the right Tuppence; her husband was Tommy Beresford. DQ1: Born before 1900? DQ2: Military/political figure? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 6, 2013, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/72 "2013-06-06T00:42:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: Born before 1900? > DQ2: Military/political figure? No No Summary: B 1. Male 2. Real 3. American 4. ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name 5. Not alive 6. Not known for the arts 7. Born after 1900 8. Not a military/political figure ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/73 "2013-06-06T01:03:35Z")
IQ: Were you the last surviving chartermember of the Football HoF ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/74 "2013-06-06T01:52:36Z")
IQ1) Are you the cover mascot of a monstrous breakfast cereal? IQ2) Are you a superpet? IQ3) Were you a comic famous for an extremely big mouth? ---
**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 6, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/75 "2013-06-06T02:32:34Z")
Cashing in my DQ left over from post #65 - DQ: Are you known for your athletic endeavours? ---
**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 6, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/76 "2013-06-06T02:35:28Z")
IQ1: Are you a female astronaut? IQ2: Are you a choreographer? IQ3: Are you a Scottish comedian? ---
**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 6, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/77 "2013-06-06T04:48:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you the last surviving chartermember of the Football HoF DQ for you > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ1) Are you the cover mascot of a monstrous breakfast cereal? > IQ2) Are you a superpet? > IQ3) Were you a comic famous for an extremely big mouth? 1: Neither Boo Berry nor Franken Berry (nor Fruit Brute for that matter) Take 2 DQs for the others > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Cashing in my DQ left over from post #65 - > > DQ: Are you known for your athletic endeavours? No > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a female astronaut? > IQ2: Are you a choreographer? > IQ3: Are you a Scottish comedian? IQ2: A lot to choose from…I’ll go with not Bob Fosse. Take 2 more DQs Summary: B 1. Male 2. Real 3. American 4. ‘B’ is the initial letter of last name 5. Not alive 6. Not known for the arts 7. Born after 1900 8. Not a military/political figure 9. Not known for athletic endeavours ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/78 "2013-06-06T04:51:22Z")
That was Sammy Baugh. DQ: Known as a scientist/inventor? ---
**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 6, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/79 "2013-06-06T11:45:09Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a female astronaut? > IQ2: Are you a choreographer? > IQ3: Are you a Scottish comedian? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ2: A lot to choose from…I’ll go with not Bob Fosse. > Take 2 more DQs #1 is **Dr. Roberta Bondar** , Canadian astronaut and the first neurologist in space. #3 is The Big Yin himself, **Billy Connolly**. **Bob Fosse** wasn’t who I was thinking of, but he’ll do nicely. Hmph. DQ1: Did you die before 2000? DQ2: Were you born east of the Mississippi? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899/80 "2013-06-06T11:51:24Z")
Superpets include Beppo the Supermonkey, Byron the Superhorse or Ace the Bathound. Joey Brown had the big mouth. Oh, and Colin Baker was the Fifth Doctor. I’ll hold on to the DQs until answers arrive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2013/659899.md?page=5)