# 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:** 16
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/301 "2015-06-17T16:13:39Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the Doctor Who archenemy who created the Daleks? > IQ2: Did Terry Farrell play you in _ST: Deep Space Nine_? > IQ3: Are you a blind superhero from Marvel comics? Not Jazia Dax or Daredevil Take a DQ for #1 (I’m the only Doper who never, ever got into Dr. Who). ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/302 "2015-06-17T17:19:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Jazia Dax or Daredevil > Take a DQ for #1 (I’m the only Doper who never, ever got into Dr. Who). correct x2, Davros holding 2 DQs IQ: Did you invent the game _Monopoly_? ---
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/303 "2015-06-17T18:11:59Z")
> [@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? > [@astorian](#): > > For #2… Not David Farragut? > > If that’s right, take two DQs. If wrong, take 3. David Dixon Porter. Correct. David Thewlis (Harry Potter flicks, _The Boy in the Striped Pajamas_, _Macbeth_). > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ for #1 (I’m the only Doper who never, ever got into Dr. Who). Huh. And here I thought I was… ---
**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, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/304 "2015-06-17T18:38:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > correct x2, Davros > > holding 2 DQs > > IQ: Did you invent the game _Monopoly_? YESSSS!!! I am Charles Darrow, the man widely (but not universally) regarded as the creator of Monopoly. ---
**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 17, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/305 "2015-06-17T19:22:23Z")
Previous IQs: Did you star in _Timecop_? - Yes, Jean-Claude van Damme. Do you work for the PHB? - Yes, Dilbert, inflicted with the Pointy-Haired Boss. Did your show set the TV Tropes standard for older actors playing younger characters? - The title character of _Dawson’s Creek_: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting). DQ: Invented a toy? IQs: Did you play Kolchak? Were you Rudy Giuliani’s predecessor as Mayor of NYC? Did you ask, "“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” ---
**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, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/306 "2015-06-17T19:23:52Z")
I had just read an article in _Games_ magazine about the origins of _Monopoly_. It was originally intended as a visual aid for keeping track of finances by somebody else. Darrow found out about it and came up with the game concept. The new letter is R. ---
**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, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/307 "2015-06-17T19:51:17Z")
IQ1) Did your first major league team regard you as a bust, and trade you for Jim Fregosi? IQ2) Were you a British Home Secretary regularly mocked (and compared to a fish) on _ **Monty Python’s Flying Circus?** _ IQ3) Did you die on the couch while being interviewed about health food on _ **The Dick Cavett Show** _? ---
**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 17, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/308 "2015-06-17T20:21:09Z")
D’oh! New page. Congrats once more, **KO**. Previous IQs: Did you play Kolchak? - Darrin McGavin. Were you Rudy Giuliani’s predecessor as Mayor of NYC? - David Dinkins. Did you ask, "“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” - Charles De Gaulle. On to R… IQs: Did picking a liberal Penna. Republican running mate not help you clinch the nomination? Did you hang out around Rhosgobel? Did you create the space probe Nomad? ---
**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, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/309 "2015-06-17T20:40:31Z")
Congrats from me as well, KO! IQs: 1. Are you aka Chen Lu? 2. Did you write the Fu Manchu stories? 3. Did you sue Bette Midler and the producers of _For The Boys_ for using your life without paying? ---
**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, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/310 "2015-06-17T22:57:58Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did your first major league team regard you as a bust, and trade you for Jim Fregosi? > > IQ2) Were you a British Home Secretary regularly mocked (and compared to a fish) on _ **Monty Python’s Flying Circus?** _ > > IQ3) Did you die on the couch while being interviewed about health food on _ **The Dick Cavett Show** _? not Rod Carew(?), dunno x2 ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/311 "2015-06-17T22:59:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did picking a liberal Penna. Republican running mate not help you clinch the nomination? > Did you hang out around Rhosgobel? > Did you create the space probe Nomad? dunno x2, not Roykirk ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/312 "2015-06-17T23:01:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you aka Chen Lu? > 2. Did you write the Fu Manchu stories? > 3. Did you sue Bette Midler and the producers of _For The Boys_ for using your life without paying? take 3 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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/313 "2015-06-17T23:32:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Congrats from me as well, KO! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka Chen Lu? > 2. Did you write the Fu Manchu stories? > 3. Did you sue Bette Midler and the producers of _For The Boys_ for using your life without paying? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > take 3 DQs #1 is Marvel’s Radioactive Man. #2 is Sax Rohmer. #3 is Martha Raye. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Alive? 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 18, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/314 "2015-06-18T01:46:47Z")
IQ1: Did you lead the first party to reach the South Pole? IQ2: Did you lead the second party to reach the South Pole? IQ3: Did Harold, Phil, Don and Lew wonder what had happened to you? ---
**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 18, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/315 "2015-06-18T02:06:32Z")
Previous IQs: Did picking a liberal Penna. Republican running mate not help you clinch the nomination? - Ronald Reagan, in his 1976 challenge to Gerald Ford. Did you hang out around Rhosgobel? - Radagast the Brown, a wizard in LOTR. Did you create the space probe Nomad? - Yes, Jackson Roykirk in ST:TOS “The Changeling.” DQs: Last name start with R? American? IQs: Were you a British statesman who wrote biographies of both Gladstone and Churchill? Did you never visit your son at school despite his heartbreaking notes begging you to? Did you and Jim Baker swap jobs in 1985? ---
**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 18, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/316 "2015-06-18T02:52:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you appear in both _Diff’rent Strokes_ and _The Facts of Life_? 2. Did Clarice sing “There’s Always Tomorrow” to you? 3. Did you play piano for Jimmy Dean on his show? ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/317 "2015-06-18T11:38:22Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Female 4. First name starts with R 5. 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 18, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/318 "2015-06-18T11:40:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead the first party to reach the South Pole? > IQ2: Did you lead the second party to reach the South Pole? > IQ3: Did Harold, Phil, Don and Lew wonder what had happened to you? take 3 DQs ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/319 "2015-06-18T11:42:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a British statesman who wrote biographies of both Gladstone and Churchill? > Did you never visit your son at school despite his heartbreaking notes begging you to? > Did you and Jim Baker swap jobs in 1985? dunno x2, not Donald Regan ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/320 "2015-06-18T11:43:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you appear in both _Diff’rent Strokes_ and _The Facts of Life_? > 2. Did Clarice sing “There’s Always Tomorrow” to you? > 3. Did you play piano for Jimmy Dean on his show? I’m on a roll today Take 3 DQs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=17)