# Botticelli - June 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 11, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899 "2018-06-11T17:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/181 "2018-06-21T19:29:19Z")
Previously-reserved DQ: Was knighted or ennobled? ---
**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 22, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/182 "2018-06-22T00:47:38Z")
DQs: 1. Born before 1950 2. Real 3. Last name starts with W 4. Male 5. Not American 6. Dead 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Not known from film 9. British 10. Known from the Arts 11. Not best known for the visual arts 12. Born before 1900 13. Not known from a TV series 14. Known for music, but not as a musician 15. Did not win a top award as we would think of it, but received many honors 16. Not known as a performer 17. Born before 1800 18. Known for writing 19. Not known as a composer of music, but as a songwriter 20. Born before 1700 21. Born after 1600 22. Surname of two or less syllables 23. Several songs he wrote are still being sung today, usually on Sundays, and especially one at Christmas 24. Never knighted or ennobled ---
**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 22, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/183 "2018-06-22T04:24:56Z")
Still drawing a blank. ---
**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 22, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/184 "2018-06-22T11:20:38Z")
IQ: Were you a prominent British abolitionist? ---
**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 22, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/185 "2018-06-22T13:52:06Z")
DQs: 1. Born before 1950 2. Real 3. Last name starts with W 4. Male 5. Not American 6. Dead 7. Not known for politics/military 8. Not known from film 9. British 10. Known from the Arts 11. Not best known for the visual arts 12. Born before 1900 13. Not known from a TV series 14. Known for music, but not as a musician 15. Did not win a top award as we would think of it, but received many posthumous honors 16. Not known as a performer 17. Born before 1800 18. Known for writing 19. Not known as a composer of music, but as a songwriter 20. Born before 1700 21. Born after 1600 22. Surname of two or less syllables 23. Several songs he wrote are still being sung today, usually on Sundays, and especially one at Christmas 24. Never knighted or ennobled 25. Not a prominent abolitionist That’s 25, and I’m calling it closed. Ask your final DQ’s in the form of “Are you FirstName LastName?” by 10pm EDT today, please. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/186 "2018-06-22T15:21:07Z")
Can we ask even if we don’t have a previous 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 22, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/187 "2018-06-22T15:22:55Z")
I concede. If it’s not John or Charles Wesley, I don’t know who it is. ---
**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 22, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/188 "2018-06-22T15:37:18Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Can we ask even if we don’t have a previous DQ? If you earned any DQ in this round (which you did, **DLR** ), yes, you can. My DQ: Are you Wickliffe? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/189 "2018-06-22T15:40:00Z")
Okay then: Are you Isaac Watts? ---
**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 22, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/190 "2018-06-22T16:53:14Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Okay then: > > Are you Isaac Watts? Ding, ding, ding! Yes, I am the Godfather of English Hymnody, Isaac Watts! **Well done, De La Rue! You host the next round.** Watts’s better known hymns (from among his thousands) include: \* Alas! and did my Saviour bleed I sing the mighty power of God O God, our help in ages past When I survey the wondrous cross\* and the hymn he wrote for Easter, but which gets sung at Christmas: _Joy to the World, the Lord is come._ ---
**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 22, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/191 "2018-06-22T19:34:38Z")
I know “Joy to the World,” but not Isaac Watts. Good job, **DLR**! ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/192 "2018-06-23T21:12:02Z")
(Belated correction: I did know that I earned a DQ; I should have said “previous unclaimed DQ.”) I am B. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/193 "2018-06-23T22:24:46Z")
IQs 1. Were you Max Fleischer’s sexy female cartoon? 2. Are you Popeye’s nemesis? 3. Are you the “baddest man in the whole damn town?” 4. Were you the “Lion of the Blues”? ---
**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 23, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/194 "2018-06-23T22:56:40Z")
3 IQs at a time, MM Grats DLR! IQ1: Did you have a hit with “Loser” in 1994? IQ2: Do you advise angered people not to give birth to a bovine? IQ3: Did you make heads turn with your portrayal of a possessed teenager? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/195 "2018-06-23T23:27:00Z")
Scratch #4 ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/196 "2018-06-24T02:19:18Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you Max Fleischer’s sexy female cartoon? > 2. Are you Popeye’s nemesis? > 3. Are you the “baddest man in the whole damn town?” 1. I am not Betty Boop. 2. I am not Bluto. 3. I am not Leroy Brown. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a hit with “Loser” in 1994? > IQ2: Do you advise angered people not to give birth to a bovine? > IQ3: Did you make heads turn with your portrayal of a possessed teenager? 1. I am not Beck. 2. I am not Bart Simpson. 3. I am not Linda Blair. ---
**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 24, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/197 "2018-06-24T04:44:27Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > …IQ3: Did you make heads turn with your portrayal of a possessed teenager? Heheheheh. B it is. IQs: Did you write _Enemy Mine_? Did you write “Love’s Theme”? Did you write “Ballad of the Green Berets”? ---
**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, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/198 "2018-06-24T14:59:09Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Sonnets from the Portuguese_? 2. Did you write _To a Louse_? 3. Did you write _The Pilgrim’s Progress_? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/199 "2018-06-24T16:02:53Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. I am not Betty Boop. Correct > 2. I am not Bluto. Correct > 3. I am not Leroy Brown. Correct > > Nice sweep **DLR**! on we go ---
**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, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/200 "2018-06-24T17:21:10Z")
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