# 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:** 26
**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 29, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/501 "2015-06-29T21:37:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Cubist painter, sculptor and filmmaker? > 2. Did you name oxygen? > 3. Did you appear in a number of notable commercials for Lay’s chips? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Antoine Lavoisier > > Take DQs for 1 and 3 #1 was Fernard Leger. #2 is correct. #3 was Bert Lahr. DQs: 1. Real? 2. 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 29, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/502 "2015-06-29T22:00:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I have a feeling it will be someone I’ve never heard of, but I’ve heard of his best-known characters. And so it was… IQ1: Did you work with Goose Tatum? IQ2: Are you really Daniel Whitney? IQ3: Did you sing “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/503 "2015-06-29T22:10:20Z")
Good one Prof! I’d heard of Marston, but for some reason his name didn’t come to my mind. ---
**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 30, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/504 "2015-06-30T01:41:59Z")
All right, **astorian**! On to L. Was your last major public appearance in 1922? Were you married in an Episcopal ceremony on a rainy day, despite not being Episcopalian? Were you, as well? ---
**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 30, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/505 "2015-06-30T03:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a recording artist whose real name is Elizabeth Woolridge Grant? > IQ2: Are you a member of NSYNC who trained to be a cosmonaut? > IQ3: Are you an actor who pioneered makeup techniques so effectively you came to be known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces?” > > Not Lance Bass or Lon Chaney Lana Del Rey holding a DQ ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/506 "2015-06-30T12:13:14Z")
IQ1: Did you help the Air Force develop the stealth bomber program, work with NASA on Galileo’s mission to Jupiter, and invent the Super Soaker? IQ2: Did you use an abandoned military communication technique to develop a reading system for the blind? IQ3: Are you credited with improving on Edison’s light bulb by instituting the use of carbon filaments instead of paper? ---
**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 30, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/507 "2015-06-30T13:55:09Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Superman’s mermaid love? 2. Did you gain fame for creating pop art paintings of comic book panels? 3. Did you write the _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/508 "2015-06-30T14:47:43Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/509 "2015-06-30T14:48:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > And so it was… > IQ1: Did you work with Goose Tatum? > IQ2: Are you really Daniel Whitney? > IQ3: Did you sing “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”? Not Meadowlark Lemon or Larry the Cable Guy 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 30, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/510 "2015-06-30T14:50:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > All right, **astorian**! > > On to L. > > Was your last major public appearance in 1922? > Were you married in an Episcopal ceremony on a rainy day, despite not being Episcopalian? > Were you, as well? No idea on any of these. Take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/511 "2015-06-30T14:52:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you help the Air Force develop the stealth bomber program, work with NASA on Galileo’s mission to Jupiter, and invent the Super Soaker? > IQ2: Did you use an abandoned military communication technique to develop a reading system for the blind? > IQ3: Are you credited with improving on Edison’s light bulb by instituting the use of carbon filaments instead of paper? Not Louis Braille Take DQs for 1 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 30, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/512 "2015-06-30T14:53:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Superman’s mermaid love? > 2. Did you gain fame for creating pop art paintings of comic book panels? > 3. Did you write the _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_? Not Roy Liechtenstein or Ludwig Wittgenstein (a beery swine) Take a DQ for #1… but how much you wanna bet her initials are LL? All of Superman’s gals have those initials! ---
**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 30, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/513 "2015-06-30T15:50:54Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you help the Air Force develop the stealth bomber program, work with NASA on Galileo’s mission to Jupiter, and invent the Super Soaker? > IQ2: Did you use an abandoned military communication technique to develop a reading system for the blind? > IQ3: Are you credited with improving on Edison’s light bulb by instituting the use of carbon filaments instead of paper? > > Not Louis Braille > Take DQs for 1 and 3 Lonnie Johnson, correct, Lewis Howard Latimer DQ: Alive? DQ: American? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/514 "2015-06-30T16:06:52Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American ---
**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 30, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/515 "2015-06-30T17:32:45Z")
Previous On to L. Was your last major public appearance in 1922? - Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Were you married in an Episcopal ceremony on a rainy day, despite not being Episcopalian? - His dad. Were you, as well? - His mom. DQs: Died since 1950? Best known for the arts? Last name start with L? IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top? Were you Clinton’s first SecTreas? Were you a member of the band pretty much only because of who you married? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/516 "2015-06-30T18:51:57Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American 5. Died after 1950 6. Last name(s0 started with L 7. Not known for the arts #6 gives you a teeny hint. Not a giveaway now, but may help later ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/517 "2015-06-30T18:53:31Z")
IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top? Were you Clinton’s first SecTreas? Were you a member of the band pretty much only because of who you married? Not Lloyd Bentsen or Linda McCartney Take a DQ for #1, which I SHOULD know but can’t remember (I’ve given myself more than ample time to recall). ---
**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 30, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/518 "2015-06-30T19:58:54Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Superman’s mermaid love? > 2. Did you gain fame for creating pop art paintings of comic book panels? > 3. Did you write the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus? > > Not Roy Liechtenstein or Ludwig Wittgenstein (a beery swine) > > Take a DQ for #1… but how much you wanna bet her initials are LL? All of Superman’s gals have those initials! Correct on 2 and 3. #1 was Lori Lemaris, an early LL. DQ: Died after 2000? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/519 "2015-06-30T20:10:50Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American 5. Died after 1950 6. Last name(s) started with L 7. Not known for the arts 8. Died after 2000 ---
**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 30, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/520 "2015-06-30T20:41:07Z")
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