# Botticelli - June, 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766 "2014-06-01T13:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 1, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/1 "2014-06-01T13:20:08Z")
Happy June, everyone! I am C! ---
**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 1, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/2 "2014-06-01T15:42:13Z")
Answers from the previous game: > [@Botticelli - May 2014](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/240): > > 1. Did you have a horse named Rocinante? > 2. Was Frederic Dannay half of you? > 3. Were you the alleged author of a series starring a boy named Djuna? > [@Botticelli - May 2014](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/242): > > Not Don Quixote, dunno and dunno. Correct on Don Quixote. Dannay was one of two authors (I can never remember the other’s name) who wrote together as Ellery Queen. Ellery Queen Jr. IQ1: That famous day in history, did a young man tell you he didn’t want to go? IQ2: Did you and your girlfriend go on an interstate killing spree in the late 1950s? IQ3: Was Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnapping and killing your son? (I’ll try to get back here more often…) ---
**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 1, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/3 "2014-06-01T15:48:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: That famous day in history, did a young man tell you he didn’t want to go? > IQ2: Did you and your girlfriend go on an interstate killing spree in the late 1950s? > IQ3: Was Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnapping and killing your son? > > (I’ll try to get back here more often…) I’m not Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Take a DQ for #2. I’m not Charles Lindbergh. ---
**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 1, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/4 "2014-06-01T16:17:51Z")
IQs: Are you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? Are you the monarch in that novel? Did you record “letters” to your sister from your tent? ---
**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 1, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/5 "2014-06-01T16:35:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? > Are you the monarch in that novel? > Did you record “letters” to your sister from your tent? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/6 "2014-06-01T16:50:59Z")
Are you a painter born in the Danish West Indies? Did you lead the Free French Forces during WWII? Are you the father of taxonomy? ---
**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 1, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/7 "2014-06-01T17:23:41Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > Are you a painter born in the Danish West Indies? > Did you lead the Free French Forces during WWII? > Are you the father of taxonomy? I should know the first, but take a DQ. I am not Charles DeGaulle. I am not Carl Linnaeus. ---
**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 1, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/8 "2014-06-01T17:24:07Z")
IQ1: Were you a fictional death row inmate with a strange healing power? IQ2: Were you both a pro baseball player and The Rifleman? IQ3: Realizing your prom was bloody awful, did you go home to kill your mother? ---
**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 1, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/9 "2014-06-01T18:08:44Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional death row inmate with a strange healing power? > IQ2: Were you both a pro baseball player and The Rifleman? > IQ3: Realizing your prom was bloody awful, did you go home to kill your mother? Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Chuck Connors. I’m not Carrie. ---
**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 1, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/10 "2014-06-01T18:18:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Chuck Connors. I’m not Carrie. Correct on Chuck Connors and Carrie. The death row inmate was John Coffey (“Like the drink, only not spelled the same”), from Stephen King’s “The Green Mile.” DQ: Real? ---
**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 1, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/11 "2014-06-01T20:03:41Z")
DQs: 1. Real. ---
**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 1, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/12 "2014-06-01T20:33:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: That famous day in history, did a young man tell you he didn’t want to go? > IQ2: Did you and your girlfriend go on an interstate killing spree in the late 1950s? > IQ3: Was Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnapping and killing your son? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m not Gen. George Armstrong Custer. > Take a DQ for #2. > I’m not Charles Lindbergh. Correct on Custer. Charlie Starkweather. Correct on Lindbergh. DQ: American? IQ1: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play? IQ2: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxing champion better known under another name? ---
**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 1, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/13 "2014-06-01T21:10:47Z")
Previous IQs: Are you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel _First Among Equals_? - Charles Hampton Are you the monarch in that novel? - King Charles III (the conclusion was set in the near future) Did you record “letters” to your sister from your tent? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on _M_A_S_H\*. DQs: Male? Living? Last name start with C? IQs: Were you an “an ice-devouring sex tornado”? Did you play Aeon Flux? Did you almost single-handedly stop a military coup in your country? ---
**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 1, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/14 "2014-06-01T21:40:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Not American. 3. Female. 4. Dead. 5. Last name starts with C. ---
**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 1, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/15 "2014-06-01T21:41:37Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play? > IQ2: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play > IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxing champion better known under another name? 1 or 2: I am not Michael Caine. (Sleuth) Take a DQ for the other. #3. I am not Cassius Clay. ---
**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 1, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/16 "2014-06-01T21:43:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you an “an ice-devouring sex tornado”? > Did you play Aeon Flux? > Did you almost single-handedly stop a military coup in your country? I am not Charlize Theron. Take DQs for 1 and 3. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/17 "2014-06-01T23:09:09Z")
IQ1: Did you write _The Mousetrap_? IQ2: Did you discover radioactivity and radium? IQ3: Are you an Egyptian pharaoh who was brought up speaking Greek, but learned Egyptian later? ---
**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 2, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/18 "2014-06-02T00:01:30Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _The Mousetrap_? > IQ2: Did you discover radioactivity and radium? > IQ3: Are you an Egyptian pharaoh who was brought up speaking Greek, but learned Egyptian later? I am not Dame Agatha Christie. I am not Marie Curie. I am not Cheops. ---
**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 2, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/19 "2014-06-02T00:37:17Z")
Previous IQs: Were you an “an ice-devouring sex tornado”? - Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell), thus described in _Blades of Glory_. Did you play Aeon Flux? - Yes, Charlize Theron. Did you almost single-handedly stop a military coup in your country? - King Juan Carlos of Spain, in the early Eighties. DQs: Died since 1900? Have a famous husband? IQs: Did you decipher the Rosetta Stone? Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? Although a great athlete, did you insist that you were no one’s role model? ---
**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 2, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/20 "2014-06-02T01:06:30Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Not American. 3. Female. 4. Dead. 5. Last name starts with C. 6. Died before 1900. 7. Did not have a famous husband. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766.md?page=2)