# Botticelli June 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445 "2015-06-02T15:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/241 "2015-06-14T22:55:51Z")
Previous IQs: Did you use an unusual form of leverage to try to bring about peace? - Yes, Lysistrata (no sex for you men until you stop fighting!). Did you lead the Spartans at Thermopylae? - Leonidas. Were you Emperor of Humanity at the time of the events in _The Mote in God’s Eye_? - Another monarch named Leonidas. DQs: Royalty? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you write _I Discover Columbus_? Were you Dr. Zhivago’s true love? Did a colleague doubt your ability to bear a child? ---
**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 14, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/242 "2015-06-14T23:08:52Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Were you named after a Beatles song? Wow, you’re good. Yes, I am Lucy, the three-million-year old Austrolopithecine hominid discovered by Louis Leakey in Ethiopia in 1974. Congratulations again. ---
**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 14, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/243 "2015-06-14T23:31:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Wow, you’re good. > > Yes, I am [COLOR=“Gray”][SIZE=“7”]discovered by Louis Leakey You seem to have misspelled “Donald Johanson.” 😃 ---
**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 15, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/244 "2015-06-15T00:43:09Z")
Huh, I’d always thought it was Louis. Wiki says is was Donald Johanson working with Tom Gray. I stand corrected. ---
**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, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/245 "2015-06-15T02:23:29Z")
Good one! Probably the oldest-named person you could play in Botticelli. If you see the Scarlett Johansson movie _Lucy_, the Austrolopithecine female makes a small but important appearance. ---
**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 15, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/246 "2015-06-15T02:42:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Probably the oldest-named person you could play in Botticelli. [Toumai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahelanthropus) (_Sahelanthropus tchadensis_): ~7 Mya [Ardi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardi) (_Ardipithecus ramidus_): ~4.4 Mya [Lucy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)) (_Australopithecus afarensis_): ~3.2 Mya Toumai and Ardi may not be hominins. And let’s not forget [Sue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_(dinosaur)) (_Tyrannosaurus rex_): 65.5-67 Mya 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/247 "2015-06-15T10:42:21Z")
Back to me, eh? Okay… let’s try **D** ---
**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 15, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/248 "2015-06-15T13:50:14Z")
Yeah, but Toumai and Ardi didn’t get the book deal Lucy did. IQs: 1. Were you perpetually pestered on your TV series by a marionette named Umbriago? 2. Are you referred to in Rocky’s one solo song in _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_? 3. Are you Hugh Lofting’s best known character? ---
**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 15, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/249 "2015-06-15T14:04:46Z")
IQ1: Did you go on a long journey with Abner Perry? IQ2: Did you play a surgeon, a tank commander, an IRA member, and a train robber? IQ3: Did you write stories about the second son of the duke of Denver and his (the son’s, that is) valet, Bunter? ---
**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 15, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/250 "2015-06-15T19:16:34Z")
IQ1: Are you an NBA center who now plays for the Houston Rockets because you couldn’t get along with Kobe Bryant when you were with the LA Lakers? IQ2: Are you a country singer who had a role as an abusive boyfriend in _Slingblade_? IQ3: Did you pitch for the NY Mets when they won the World Series in 1986, then do the same for the NY Yankees in 1996 and 2000? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/251 "2015-06-16T14:22:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yeah, but Toumai and Ardi didn’t get the book deal Lucy did. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you perpetually pestered on your TV series by a marionette named Umbriago? > 2. Are you referred to in Rocky’s one solo song in _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_? > 3. Are you Hugh Lofting’s best known character? Not Dr . Doolittle Take DQs for 1 and 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/252 "2015-06-16T14:28:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you go on a long journey with Abner Perry? > IQ2: Did you play a surgeon, a tank commander, an IRA member, and a train robber? > IQ3: Did you write stories about the second son of the duke of Denver and his (the son’s, that is) valet, Bunter? Not Donald Sutherland or Dorothy Sayers Take a DQ for 1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/253 "2015-06-16T14:29:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an NBA center who now plays for the Houston Rockets because you couldn’t get along with Kobe Bryant when you were with the LA Lakers? > IQ2: Are you a country singer who had a role as an abusive boyfriend in _Slingblade_? > IQ3: Did you pitch for the NY Mets when they won the World Series in 1986, then do the same for the NY Yankees in 1996 and 2000? Not Dwight Howard, Dwight Yoakum, or Dwight Gooden. ---
**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 16, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/254 "2015-06-16T14:55:23Z")
IQ1: Were you the primary founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel? IQ2: In the night before the invasion of the Syria–Lebanon Campaign, did a French bullet take out your eye while you were looking through binoculars? IQ3: Did you establish a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, almost 1000 years before the birth of Christ? ---
**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 16, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/255 "2015-06-16T14:57:20Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you go on a long journey with Abner Perry? > IQ2: Did you play a surgeon, a tank commander, an IRA member, and a train robber? > IQ3: Did you write stories about the second son of the duke of Denver and his (the son’s, that is) valet, Bunter? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Donald Sutherland or Dorothy Sayers > > Take a DQ for 1 David Innes, in the Pellucidar novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Correct on the other two. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/256 "2015-06-16T15:06:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the primary founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel? > IQ2: In the night before the invasion of the Syria–Lebanon Campaign, did a French bullet take out your eye while you were looking through binoculars? > IQ3: Did you establish a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, almost 1000 years before the birth of Christ? Not David Ben-Gurion. Moshe Dayan or King David ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/257 "2015-06-16T15:07:51Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person ---
**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 16, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/258 "2015-06-16T16:56:22Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you perpetually pestered on your TV series by a marionette named Umbriago? > 2. Are you referred to in Rocky’s one solo song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show? > 3. Are you Hugh Lofting’s best known character? > > Not Dr . Doolittle > > Take DQs for 1 and 2 Correct on Dr. Dolittle. #1 was Jimmy Durante. #2 is Damocles (“The sword of Damocles is hangin’ over my head [that ain’t no crime]”) DQs: 1. Living? 2. Male? ---
**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 16, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/259 "2015-06-16T16:59:13Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the eponymous character in a Rudyard Kipling poem? 2. Did you play the Watcher in the _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ movie? 3. Were you one of Jimmy Nelson’s ventriloquist dummies? ---
**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 16, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/260 "2015-06-16T17:14:41Z")
I don’t like it when astorian is the quizmaster. He keeps sweeping me. IQ1: Did your cousin strangle you to get the ring you just found in the Gladden river? IQ2: Are you Faramir and Boromir’s father? IQ3: Were you the first dwarf to bear one of the seven rings of Sauron? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=14)