# 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:** 14
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/261 "2015-06-16T19:46:10Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. 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 16, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/262 "2015-06-16T19:47:51Z")
IQ1: Were you responsible for Uriah’s death? IQ2: Were you the only congressman from Tennessee to vote against the Indian Removal Act? IQ3: Were you and your father both commodores in the US Navy? ---
**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, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/263 "2015-06-16T19:51:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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? Not Gunga Din Take DQs for 2 and 3 ---
**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, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/264 "2015-06-16T19:52:45Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 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? Not Deagol or… Denethor. 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 16, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/265 "2015-06-16T19:54:36Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Deagol or… Denethor. > > Take a DQ for 3 correct x2, Durin DQ: Last name start with D? ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/266 "2015-06-16T20:04:54Z")
IQ1: Were you the leader of China after Mao Zedong’s death? IQ2: Did you flee from Tibet in 1959 to exile in India? IQ3: Are you considered master of the lüshi, or “regulated verse” genre of poetry? ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/267 "2015-06-16T20:12:41Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name starts with “D” ---
**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, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/268 "2015-06-16T20:13:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you responsible for Uriah’s death? > IQ2: Were you the only congressman from Tennessee to vote against the Indian Removal Act? > IQ3: Were you and your father both commodores in the US Navy? Not King David, Davy Crockett or… Take a DQ for 3 ---
**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, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/269 "2015-06-16T20:14:47Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the leader of China after Mao Zedong’s death? > IQ2: Did you flee from Tibet in 1959 to exile in India? > IQ3: Are you considered master of the lüshi, or “regulated verse” genre of poetry? Not Deng Xiaoping, the Dalai Lama, or… Take a DQ for 3 ---
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/270 "2015-06-16T20:15:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you responsible for Uriah’s death? > IQ2: Were you the only congressman from Tennessee to vote against the Indian Removal Act? > IQ3: Were you and your father both commodores in the US Navy? > [@astorian](#): > > Not King David, Davy Crockett or… > > Take a DQ for 3 Correct. Correct. Stephen Decatur Jr. DQ: 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 16, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/271 "2015-06-16T20:28:15Z")
IQ1: Were you the second admiral in the US Navy? IQ2: Were you his adoptive brother, the first admiral in the US Navy? IQ3: Did you play a werewolf, an SS lieutenant colonel, and a king of Scotland? ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/272 "2015-06-16T22:04:47Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > Not Gunga Din > > Take DQs for 2 and 3 I had in mind Danny Deever, but Gunga works too. #2 was Donald Sutherland. #3 was Danny O’Day. DQ: Died after 1900? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/273 "2015-06-16T23:27:04Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name starts with “D” 5. Not known for the arts 6. Died after 1900 ---
**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, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/274 "2015-06-16T23:37:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Deng Xiaoping, the Dalai Lama, or… > Take a DQ for 3 correct x2, Du Fu DQ: American? ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/275 "2015-06-16T23:48:38Z")
IQ1: Do you have a well where the Tuatha Dé could bathe in when wounded and get healed? IQ2: Are you a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann who could kill nine men with one stroke of his club and use the handle to bring the slain back to life? IQ3: Are you the Father of the Irish and the Lord of the Dead? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/276 "2015-06-17T00:32:15Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name starts with “D” 5. Not known for the arts 6. Died after 1900 7. American ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/277 "2015-06-17T00:35:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Do you have a well where the Tuatha Dé could bathe in when wounded and get healed? > IQ2: Are you a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann who could kill nine men with one stroke of his club and use the handle to bring the slain back to life? > IQ3: Are you the Father of the Irish and the Lord of the Dead? Take 3 dad Sigh… Totally Irish and stumped by Celtic folklore ---
**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 17, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/278 "2015-06-17T02:31:13Z")
Ahem… > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the second admiral in the US Navy? > IQ2: Were you his adoptive brother, the first admiral in the US Navy? > IQ3: Did you play a werewolf, an SS lieutenant colonel, and a king of Scotland? ---
**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 17, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/279 "2015-06-17T12:21:46Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Do you have a well where the Tuatha Dé could bathe in when wounded and get healed? > IQ2: Are you a High King of the Tuatha Dé Danann who could kill nine men with one stroke of his club and use the handle to bring the slain back to life? > IQ3: Are you the Father of the Irish and the Lord of the Dead? > Take 3 dad > > Sigh… Totally Irish and stumped by Celtic folklore Dian Cecht, Dagda, Donn DQ: Known for a historical event? holding 2 DQs ---
**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 17, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/280 "2015-06-17T13:33:36Z")
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