# Botticelli - June 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880 "2019-06-01T15:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 1, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/1 "2019-06-01T15:59:55Z")
I am N! Previous month’s thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874957). ---
**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 1, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/2 "2019-06-01T16:16:51Z")
IQs: Did JFK wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? Were you a top general of George Washington’s? Were you the hero of _The Last of the Mohicans_? ---
**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 1, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/3 "2019-06-01T16:32:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did JFK wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? > Were you a top general of George Washington’s? > Were you the hero of _The Last of the Mohicans_? DQ. Not Nathaniel Greene. Not Natty Bumppo. ---
**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 1, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/4 "2019-06-01T22:58:06Z")
Good one, SCA! IQs: 1. Were you the front man for Herman & the Hermits? 2. Did you write the poem _Custard the Dragon_? 3. Were you an inspector’s daughter who was in love with a horse? ---
**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 2, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/5 "2019-06-02T00:28:58Z")
IQ1: When you first met Buffalo Bill, did he point a gun at you and order you out of town? IQ2: Did you tell your wife you were divorcing her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery? IQ3: Did you and Henry Kissinger make the cover of Time together? ---
**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 2, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/6 "2019-06-02T01:18:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the front man for Herman & the Hermits? > 2. Did you write the poem _Custard the Dragon_? > 3. Were you an inspector’s daughter who was in love with a horse? Not Peter Noone. DQ. 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 2, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/7 "2019-06-02T01:21:06Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: When you first met Buffalo Bill, did he point a gun at you and order you out of town? > IQ2: Did you tell your wife you were divorcing her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery? > IQ3: Did you and Henry Kissinger make the cover of Time together? Not … Ned Buntline? DQ. Not … Richard Nixon? ---
**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 2, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/8 "2019-06-02T03:09:55Z")
Previous IQs: Did JFK wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner Were you a top general of George Washington’s? - Yes, Nathaniel Greene Were you the hero of _The Last of the Mohicans_? - Yes, Natty Bumppo DQ: Real? IQs: Were you the hero of the latest movie version of _The Last of the Mohicans_? Were you Ralph Kramden’s best pal? Is your brother a psychologist and your father an ex-cop? ---
**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 2, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/9 "2019-06-02T12:10:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the hero of the latest movie version of _The Last of the Mohicans_? > Were you Ralph Kramden’s best pal? > Is your brother a psychologist and your father an ex-cop? DQ. (They changed his name? :eek:) Not Ed Norton. DQ. N 1. Real ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/10 "2019-06-02T23:01:56Z")
Congratulations, **SCAdian**! Just for the sake of completeness, my the answers to my last set of IQs are: Q1: Were you a 16th c. philosopher, known for his essays? Michel de Montaigne. IQ2: Were you a famous composer and pianist, whose catalog includes the immortal canto “Leck mich im Arsch” (“Lick Me In The Ass”)?. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, pianist, child prodigy, and a man who dearly loved a fart joke. IQ3: Are you a French-Canadian hockey player who made history when you donned goalie pads for the Atlanta Knights, a farm team for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first woman to play professional hockey for a men’s league? - Manon Rheaume. I saw her play. Now, on to N! IQ1: Were your _actual_ last words “A soldier must do his duty?” IQ2: Are you an English ex-pat author, two of whose novels have been adapted into currently running series? IQ3: Were you a Minneapolis-born singer with a royal name, known for your flamboyant costumes, musical brilliance, and overt sexuality? ---
**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 3, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/11 "2019-06-03T00:12:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Peter Noone. > DQ. > DQ. Correct on 1. Ogden Nash was 2. Nelly Fenwick loved Dudley Do-right’s horse, Horse. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with N? ---
**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 3, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/12 "2019-06-03T01:41:59Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: When you first met Buffalo Bill, did he point a gun at you and order you out of town? > IQ2: Did you tell your wife you were divorcing her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery? > IQ3: Did you and Henry Kissinger make the cover of Time together? > > Not … Ned Buntline? > DQ. > Not … Richard Nixon? correct, Newt Gengrich, correct DQ: Alive? ---
**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 3, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/13 "2019-06-03T01:45:09Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the hero of the latest movie version of _The Last of the Mohicans_? - Yes, they changed it for the movie, to Nathaniel Poe Were you Ralph Kramden’s best pal? -Yes, Ed Norton Is your brother a psychologist and your father an ex-cop? -Dr. Niles Crane, on _Frasier_ DQs: Born since 1950? American? IQs: Were you an officious bureaucrat on Deep Space Station K-7? Were you an armless witch in _Wicked_? Were you a longtime member of Spinal Tap? ---
**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 3, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/14 "2019-06-03T01:48:10Z")
IQ1: Are you QB for the Philadelphia Eagles? IQ2: Are you head coach of da Bears? (Chicago) IQ3: Did you write Bug Jack Barron? ---
**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 3, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/15 "2019-06-03T12:28:17Z")
Strange – I answered SMV’s IQs and the Prof’s DQs yesterday, but the post isn’t there now… > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were your _actual_ last words “A soldier must do his duty?” > > IQ2: Are you an English ex-pat author, two of whose novels have been adapted into currently running series? > > IQ3: Were you a Minneapolis-born singer with a royal name, known for your flamboyant costumes, musical brilliance, and overt sexuality? Not … Nathan Hale? DQ. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you an officious bureaucrat on Deep Space Station K-7? > Were you an armless witch in _Wicked_? > Were you a longtime member of Spinal Tap? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you QB for the Philadelphia Eagles? > IQ2: Are you head coach of da Bears? (Chicago) > IQ3: Did you write Bug Jack Barron? Three DQs. N 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with N (though really it does) 4. Dead 5. Not born after 1950 6. Not American When I see one of EH’s “Born since 19xx?” questions my first thought is “I haven’t been born since 19xx, but I was born several times before that year.” 😃 ---
**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 3, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/16 "2019-06-03T12:44:45Z")
IQs: 1. Do you habitually say “Pfui” when unhappy and “Satisfactory” when pleased? 2. Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_? 3. Did you write the poem _The Highwayman_? ---
**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 3, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/17 "2019-06-03T14:47:30Z")
Previous IQs: Were you an officious bureaucrat on Deep Space Station K-7? - Nilz Baris, on _ST:TOS_ “The Trouble with Tribbles” Were you an armless witch in _Wicked_? - Nessarose Were you a longtime member of Spinal Tap? - Nigel Tufnel DQs: European? Born after 1850? Political/military? IQs: Were you a noted Pan-African leader of the Sixties? Did you seize the Suez Canal and trigger a confrontation with the UK, France and Israel? Were you a self-proclaimed monarch who lived in San Francisco? ---
**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 3, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/18 "2019-06-03T15:01:03Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you QB for the Philadelphia Eagles? > IQ2: Are you head coach of da Bears? (Chicago) > IQ3: Did you write Bug Jack Barron? > > Three DQs. Nick Foles, Chuck Nagy, Norman Spinrad holding 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/19 "2019-06-03T15:09:36Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Were your _actual_ last words “A soldier must do his duty?” - Correct, Nathan Hale. IQ2: Are you an English ex-pat author, two of whose novels have been adapted into currently running series? - Neil Gaiman; Starz is showing “American Gods”, and Amazon Prime just released “Good Omens”, both based on Gaiman novels. My sig is a quote from _Good Omens_, which is why I deliberately left it off my last post. IQ3: Were you a Minneapolis-born singer with a royal name, known for your flamboyant costumes, musical brilliance, and overt sexuality? - P. Rogers Nelson. Or, as most people knew him, Prince. New IQs: IQ1: Did you write a young adult novel whose characters include Milo, Tock, the Humbug and Faintly Macabre, the Not-So-Wicked-Which? IQ2: Were you an entomologist whose work with butterflies was sufficiently important to have an entire genus named after you, while at the same time pursuing a career as a novelist, one of whose works – a story of a young girl named Delores – was ranked as #4 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 greatest American novels? IQ3: Did you once capture two enemy ships by boarding one, seizing it, then crossing its deck to board the vessel on the other side? DQ1: European? DQ2: 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 3, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/20 "2019-06-03T19:27:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you habitually say “Pfui” when unhappy and “Satisfactory” when pleased? > 2. Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_? > 3. Did you write the poem _The Highwayman_? Not Nero Wolfe. DQ. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted Pan-African leader of the Sixties? > Did you seize the Suez Canal and trigger a confrontation with the UK, France and Israel? > Were you a self-proclaimed monarch who lived in San Francisco? Not Nkrumah. Not Nasser. Not the Emperor Norton. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > New IQs: > > IQ1: Did you write a young adult novel whose characters include Milo, Tock, the Humbug and Faintly Macabre, the Not-So-Wicked-Which? > > IQ2: Were you an entomologist whose work with butterflies was sufficiently important to have an entire genus named after you, while at the same time pursuing a career as a novelist, one of whose works – a story of a young girl named Delores – was ranked as #4 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 greatest American novels? > > IQ3: Did you once capture two enemy ships by boarding one, seizing it, then crossing its deck to board the vessel on the other side? Not Norton Thephantomtollboothguy. 😃 Not … Vladimir Nabokov? DQ. N 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with N (though really it does) 4. Dead 5. Not born after 1950 6. Not American 7. Originally European 8. Born after 1850 9. Not political/military (but was a naval officer) 10. Known for the arts > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Or, as most people knew him, Prince. Ah, yes – The artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince… 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=2)