# 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:** 2
**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, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/21 "2014-06-02T01:07:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? 1 am not Champollion. (Not sure I spelled that correctly) Take 2 DQs for the last two. ---
**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 2, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/22 "2014-06-02T12:21:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Dame Agatha Christie. I am not Marie Curie. I am not Cheops. First two are correct. Third was actually Cleopatra. DQ: Died before 1800? ---
**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, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/23 "2014-06-02T12:41:50Z")
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. 8. Died before 1800. ---
**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, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/24 "2014-06-02T14:57:17Z")
Previous IQs: Did you decipher the Rosetta Stone? - Yes, Champollion. Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood. Although a great athlete, did you insist that you were no one’s role model? - Charles Barkley. DQs: European? Best known for the creative arts? IQs: Were you one of the most noteworthy Emperors of Humanity in Asimov’s _Foundation_ series? Did you have a torrid affair with a married man on Hilton Head? Were you both a jurist and a onetime candidate for President? ---
**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 2, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/25 "2014-06-02T15:15:42Z")
IQ1: Are you a Russian monarch with an alleged fatal love for horses? IQ2: Were you married to Agamemnon? IQ3: Did you succeed Marcos as President of the Philippines? ---
**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, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/26 "2014-06-02T15:58:42Z")
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. 8. Died before 1800. 9. European. 10. Not known for the creative arts. ---
**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, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/27 "2014-06-02T16:00:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of the most noteworthy Emperors of Humanity in Asimov’s _Foundation_ series? > Did you have a torrid affair with a married man on Hilton Head? > Were you both a jurist and a onetime candidate for President? I am not Cleon. Take 2 DQs for the last two. ---
**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, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/28 "2014-06-02T16:01:33Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Russian monarch with an alleged fatal love for horses? > IQ2: Were you married to Agamemnon? > IQ3: Did you succeed Marcos as President of the Philippines? I am not Catherine the Great. I am not Clytemnestra. Take a DQ for #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 2, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/29 "2014-06-02T17:36:39Z")
3 is Corazon Aquino. DQ: Royalty? ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/30 "2014-06-02T17:41:43Z")
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. 8. Died before 1800. 9. European. 10. Not known for the creative arts. 11. Not royalty. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/31 "2014-06-02T22:04:22Z")
My IQ was referring to Camille Pissarro DQ: Born west of the Rhine? IQ1: Are you a ballet dancer born in Belgium? IQ2: Are you a Spanish writer who moved to New Spain? IQ3: Did you assassinate an American president and was hanged for that reason? ---
**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 2, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/32 "2014-06-02T22:52:57Z")
IQ1: Were you Andromeda’s mother? IQ2: Were you Andromeda’s father? IQ3: Was Andromeda was chained to a rock to await you before you got killed by Perseus? ---
**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 3, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/33 "2014-06-03T01:59:37Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you Andromeda’s mother? > IQ2: Were you Andromeda’s father? > IQ3: Was Andromeda was chained to a rock to await you before you got killed by Perseus? I am not Cepheus, Cassiopeia or Cetus. ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/34 "2014-06-03T02:00:47Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Are you a ballet dancer born in Belgium? > IQ2: Are you a Spanish writer who moved to New Spain? > IQ3: Did you assassinate an American president and was hanged for that reason? Take DQs for the first 2. I’m not Leon Czolgosz. ---
**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 3, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/35 "2014-06-03T02:01:58Z")
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. 8. Died before 1800. 9. European. 10. Not known for the creative arts. 11. Not royalty. 12. Born west of the Rhine. ---
**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 3, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/36 "2014-06-03T03:26:15Z")
Previous IQs: Were you one of the most noteworthy Emperors of Humanity in Asimov’s _Foundation_ series? - Yes, Cleon. Did you have a torrid affair with a married man on Hilton Head? - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, during the Civil War. It wasn’t discovered until many years later when her journals were published. Were you both a jurist and a onetime candidate for President? - Charles Evans Hughes, who served on the Supreme Court (twice, I think) and also narrowly lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916. DQs: British? Died before 1700? IQs: Were you known as “the Mountain who Rides?” Are you that guy’s brother? Did you say that you and your sister “are all kinds of things to each other”? ---
**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 3, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/37 "2014-06-03T03:42:54Z")
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. 8. Died before 1800. 9. European. 10. Not known for the creative arts. 11. Not royalty. 12. Born west of the Rhine. 13. Not British 14. Died after 1700. ---
**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 3, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/38 "2014-06-03T03:45:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you known as “the Mountain who Rides?” > Are you that guy’s brother? > Did you say that you and your sister “are all kinds of things to each other”? I am neither Gregor nor Sandor Clegane. Since #3 isn’t Jaime Lannister, take a DQ. ---
**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 3, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/39 "2014-06-03T04:43:34Z")
IQ1: Did you only pay 5c for a psychiatrist visit? IQ2: Did you found a company that markets, among other things, a substance called “No. 5”? IQ3: Were you Rhoda’s doorman? ---
**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 3, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766/40 "2014-06-03T13:04:44Z")
IQ1. Were you Queen of France and blamed for the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? IQ2: Were you a ballet dancer and the first woman to execute the entrechat quatre? IQ3: Did you write _Silent Spring_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2014/689766.md?page=3)