# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/381 "2015-06-24T16:09:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you Lincoln’s first Attorney General? > Was your heraldic symbol the bee? > Did you play a crime boss with a young Helen Mirren as your moll? Take DQs for 1 and 2 Not Bob Hoskins ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/382 "2015-06-24T16:10:50Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Greek hero who slew the Chimera by suffocating it with lead? > IQ2: Are you the Roman version of Dionysus? > IQ3: Did Loki trick Hohr into killing you with a spear of mistletoe? Not Bellerophon, Bacchus or… Balder? ---
**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 24, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/383 "2015-06-24T16:34:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the eponymous heroine of a Hanoi Jane movie? > IQ2: Were you the eponymous hero of a novel written by a governor of the New Mexico territory? > IQ3: Did you write the story of Avatar and Blackwolf? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Barbarella or Judah Ben-Hur > > Take a DQ for #3 Ralph Bakshi (_Wizards_). DQ: Best known from literature? IQ1: Did you design the Lincoln cent? IQ2: Were you a Holy Roman emperor who drowned in a river? IQ3: Were you the captain of _Queen Anne’s Revenge_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/384 "2015-06-24T16:44:30Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not known from TV or movies 4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine 5. Not primarily known from literature ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/385 "2015-06-24T16:45:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you design the Lincoln cent? > IQ2: Were you a Holy Roman emperor who drowned in a river? > IQ3: Were you the captain of _Queen Anne’s Revenge_? Not Frederick Barbarossa Take a DQ for 1 and 3 ---
**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 24, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/386 "2015-06-24T18:42:00Z")
IQs: 1. Did Godzilla step on you? 2. Were you a noted scrivener? 3. Were you Jeremiah’s scribe? ---
**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 24, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/387 "2015-06-24T18:56:52Z")
grrrrr IQ1: Are you a bear-descended man whose legs Bilbo Baggins thought he could walk through without touching your body? IQ2: Are you the goblin leader IQ1 slew in the Battle of the Five Armies? IQ3: Do you own the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/388 "2015-06-24T20:27:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Godzilla step on you? > 2. Were you a noted scrivener? > 3. Were you Jeremiah’s scribe? Not Bambi, Bartleby or… Baruch? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/389 "2015-06-24T20:28:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > grrrrr > > IQ1: Are you a bear-descended man whose legs Bilbo Baggins thought he could walk through without touching your body? > IQ2: Are you the goblin leader IQ1 slew in the Battle of the Five Armies? > IQ3: Do you own the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree? Not Butterbur Take a DQ for 1 and 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 24, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/390 "2015-06-24T23:25:34Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Bambi, Bartleby or… Baruch? …and he swept it again! IQs: 1. Were you a 20th Century British painter known for your grotesquely raw images? 2. Did you write and illustrate the _Madeline_ books? 3. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war at a young age? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/391 "2015-06-25T01:42:02Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first Attorney General? - Edward Bates. Was your heraldic symbol the bee? - Napoleon Bonaparte: [The symbols of Empire - napoleon.org](http://www.napoleon.org/en/essential_napoleon/symbols/symbolique.jpg) Did you play a crime boss with a young Helen Mirren as your moll? - Yes, Bob Hoskins, in _The Long Good Friday_. DQs: From a song? First name start with B? IQs: Was Veronica Lodge your principal rival? Was a beautiful young woman the sole guest in your quarters? Have you played a computer expert, a network executive and a concierge? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/392 "2015-06-25T01:50:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you design the Lincoln cent? > IQ2: Were you a Holy Roman emperor who drowned in a river? > IQ3: Were you the captain of _Queen Anne’s Revenge_? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Frederick Barbarossa > Take a DQ for 1 and 3 Victor David Brenner, whose initials originally appeared on the coins. Correct. Blackbeard. DQ1: First appeared after 1950? DQ2: Created by an American? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/393 "2015-06-25T03:03:28Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not known from TV or movies 4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine 5. Not primarily known from literature 6. First name starts with B 7. Best known from a song ---
**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 25, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/394 "2015-06-25T11:30:45Z")
/quote]IQ1: Are you a bear-descended man whose legs Bilbo Baggins thought he could walk through without touching your body? IQ2: Are you the goblin leader IQ1 slew in the Battle of the Five Armies? IQ3: Do you own the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree? Not Butterbur Take a DQ for 1 and 2 [/quote] Beorn, Bolg, correct DQ: From a rock song? holding a DQ ---
**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 25, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/395 "2015-06-25T14:17:37Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: First appeared after 1950? > DQ2: Created by an American? … ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/396 "2015-06-25T14:35:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …and he swept it again! > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 20th Century British painter known for your grotesquely raw images? > 2. Did you write and illustrate the _Madeline_ books? > 3. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war at a young age? You swept me back- take three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/397 "2015-06-25T14:37:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was Veronica Lodge your principal rival? > Was a beautiful young woman the sole guest in your quarters? > Have you played a computer expert, a network executive and a concierge? Not Betty Cooper No idea on #2 Nope, #3 isn’t coming to me, either. Take 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 25, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/398 "2015-06-25T14:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 20th Century British painter known for your grotesquely raw images? > 2. Did you write and illustrate the Madeline books? > 3. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war at a young age? > You swept me back- take three DQs. #1 was Francis Bacon. #2 was Ludwig Bemelmans. #3 was Frederic Bazille. 3 DQs reserved pending the answers to waiting DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/399 "2015-06-25T14:38:30Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Not known from TV or movies 4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine 5. Not primarily known from literature 6. First name starts with B 7. Best known from a song 8. Created before 1950 9. Not created by an American 10. Not in a pop/rock song (though a few pop/rock artists have recorded the song I’m known for) ---
**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 25, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/400 "2015-06-25T14:49:04Z")
Previous IQs: Was Veronica Lodge your principal rival? - Yes, Betty Cooper, in the \*Archie \*comics. Was a beautiful young woman the sole guest in your quarters? - Capt. Barbarossa in _Pirates of the Caribbean_. Now if only I could remember her name… Have you played a computer expert, a network executive and a concierge? - Bob Balaban, in _2010: The Year We Make Contact, Seinfeld_ and _The Grand Budapest Hotel_. DQs: The object of the singer’s affections? A nice person, from what we know of her in the song? IQs: Were you the CMO on DS9? Were you his boss? Were you a noted Pirates pitcher of the late Seventies? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=21)