# 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:** 2
**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, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/21 "2019-06-03T19:30:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > DQ1: European? 😕 You think I’m going to give you a different answer from what I told EH? 😃 Try again… ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/22 "2019-06-03T20:03:17Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. #1. Correct. #2 was Noel Neill. #3 was Alfred Noyes. DQs: 1. Born after 1900? 2. Known for the performing arts? ---
**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, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/23 "2019-06-03T20:06:06Z")
IQs: 1. Did Pres. Trump use you as a nickname for Peter Buttigieg? 2. Were you an animated centaur who was a friend to The Mighty Hercules? 3. Were you Akhenaten’s queen? ---
**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/24 "2019-06-03T20:15:32Z")
Swept me! > [@SCAdian](#): > > …3. Last name does not start with N (though really it does)… Please clarify this answer. Am I missing a joke? IQs: Did you write “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”? A mighty king, did Bugs Bunny use your name to mean a doofus? Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? ---
**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 4, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/25 "2019-06-04T02:43:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Pres. Trump use you as a nickname for Peter Buttigieg? > 2. Were you an animated centaur who was a friend to The Mighty Hercules? > 3. Were you Akhenaten’s queen? DQ. DQ. Not Nefertiti. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you write “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”? > A mighty king, did Bugs Bunny use your name to mean a doofus? > Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? DQ. Not Nimrod. Not … Bill Nye the Science Guy? 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 11. Not born after 1900 12. Not known for the performing arts > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Please clarify this answer. Am I missing a joke? Enlightenment will come in due time. 😃 Until then y’all can amuse yourselves by trying to figure it out. ---
**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 4, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/26 "2019-06-04T12:35:01Z")
DQ: Mostly known for a single incident? holding 2 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 4, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/27 "2019-06-04T12:37:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 1. Last name does not start with N (though really it does) > > Enlightenment will come in due time. 😃 Until then y’all can amuse yourselves by trying to figure it out. Maybe the mystery guest’s last name begins with Z, but if you turn him 90 degrees it becomes N? ---
**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 4, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/28 "2019-06-04T13:21:47Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Pres. Trump use you as a nickname for Peter Buttigieg? > 2. Were you an animated centaur who was a friend to The Mighty Hercules? > 3. Were you Akhenaten’s queen? > DQ. > DQ. > Not Nefertiti. #1 was Alfred E. Newman (from Mad magazine) #2 was Newton #3 is correct. Regarding DQ#3: I’m guessing the guy’s pseudonym has an N for the first name, but his actual name has N for the last. But that’s just a guess. DQ: Known for the visual arts? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 4, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/29 "2019-06-04T14:47:46Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Did you write a young adult novel whose characters include Milo, Tock, the Humbug and Faintly Macabre, the Not-So-Wicked-Which? - Correct, Norton Juster. 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? - Also correct, Vladimir Nabokov, who’s contributions to entomology are apparently considered as significant as his contributions to American literature. 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? - Horatio Nelson. New IQs: IQ1: Are you the American-born Queen of a Middle Eastern state? IQ2: Did you waste away, contemplating the beauty of your beloved, and eventually turn into a flower? IQ3: Did you invent logarithms? > [@SCAdian](#): > > 😕 You think I’m going to give you a different answer from what I told EH? 😃 > Try again… :smack: One DQ reserved. ---
**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 4, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/30 "2019-06-04T16:00:25Z")
All righty then. Previous IQs: Did you write “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”? - Noel Coward A mighty king, did Bugs Bunny use your name to mean a doofus? - Yes, Nimrod Are you executive director of the Planetary Society? - Yes, Bill Nye the Science Guy: [http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/](http://www.planetary.org/blogs/bill-nye/) One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a cabdriver on _Taxi_? Did you and your commanding officer have a fling that started at a Christmas party? Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? ---
**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 4, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/31 "2019-06-04T18:35:31Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > New IQs: > > IQ1: Are you the American-born Queen of a Middle Eastern state? > > IQ2: Did you waste away, contemplating the beauty of your beloved, and eventually turn into a flower? > > IQ3: Did you invent logarithms? Not Queen Noor of Jordan. Not Narcissus. Not … Sir Isaac Newton? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a cabdriver on _Taxi_? > Did you and your commanding officer have a fling that started at a Christmas party? > Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? Three DQs. (Love that last quote!) 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 11. Not born after 1900 12. Not known for the performing arts 13. Not mostly known for a single incident 14. Not known for the visual arts ---
**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 4, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/32 "2019-06-04T21:11:51Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Are you the American-born Queen of a Middle Eastern state? Correct, Queen Noor. IQ2: Did you waste away, contemplating the beauty of your beloved, and eventually turn into a flower? - Correct, Narcissus. IQ3: Did you invent logarithms? - Close, but no cigar. John Napier. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Queen Noor of Jordan. > Not Narcissus. > Not … Sir Isaac Newton? > … IQ1: Were you the Prime Minister of the UK whose ham-fisted fumbling arguably cost Great Britain its American colonies? IQ2: Were you the author of two novellas, “A River Runs Through It” and “Hunting and Fishing and Your Pal, Jim”, as well as the non-fiction work _Young Men And Fire_? IQ3: Were you the nation’s second Quaker president? DQ1: Best known by a pseudonym? DQ2: Known for the literary arts? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/33 "2019-06-04T21:37:46Z")
IQ1: According to Daniel, did you become like a beast, wandering the wilderness and eating grass for several years? IQ2: Did you write the hit song “One,” made a hit by Three Dog Night? IQ3: Were you the foil for Laura Ingalls in TV’s _Little House on the Prairie_? ---
**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 4, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/34 "2019-06-04T21:56:22Z")
DQ: British or Irish? ---
**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 4, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/35 "2019-06-04T22:01:01Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around_? 2. Were you a male Ukranian ballet dancer of the early 20th Century? 3. Were you known for saying “Hi-ho, Steverino!”? ---
**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 5, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/36 "2019-06-05T01:22:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Prime Minister of the UK whose ham-fisted fumbling arguably cost Great Britain its American colonies? > > IQ2: Were you the author of two novellas, “A River Runs Through It” and “Hunting and Fishing and Your Pal, Jim”, as well as the non-fiction work _Young Men And Fire_? > > IQ3: Were you the nation’s second Quaker president? Three DQs. (I know I’m going to kick myself for #1, but all I can think of is Pitt…) > [@divemaster](#): > > IQ1: According to Daniel, did you become like a beast, wandering the wilderness and eating grass for several years? > IQ2: Did you write the hit song “One,” made a hit by Three Dog Night? > IQ3: Were you the foil for Laura Ingalls in TV’s _Little House on the Prairie_? Not Nebuchadnezzar. DQ. Not … Nellie? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around_? > 2. Were you a male Ukranian ballet dancer of the early 20th Century? > 3. Were you known for saying “Hi-ho, Steverino!”? DQ. Not Rudolf Nureyev. 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 11. Not born after 1900 12. Not known for the performing arts 13. Not mostly known for a single incident 14. Not known for the visual arts 15. Best known by a pseudonym 16. Known for the literary arts 17. British or Irish ---
**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 5, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/37 "2019-06-05T03:27:39Z")
[quote=“Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle, post:32, topic:834880”] IQ1: Were you the Prime Minister of the UK whose ham-fisted fumbling arguably cost Great Britain its American colonies? IQ2: Were you the author of two novellas, “A River Runs Through It” and “Hunting and Fishing and Your Pal, Jim”, as well as the non-fiction work _Young Men And Fire_? IQ3: Were you the nation’s second Quaker president? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs. (I know I’m going to kick myself for #1, but all I can think of is Pitt…) I think you’re going to kick yourself for IQ3, too. IQ1 was Lord North; IQ2 was Norman Maclean, and IQ3 was (I think) the only President who’s name started with an “N” - Richard Nixon. (The other Quaker was Herbert Hoover; interesting that the two Friends who have sat in Oval Office were both conservative Republicans.) DQ1: Novelist? DQ2: Journalist? DQ3: Londoner? ---
**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 5, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/38 "2019-06-05T04:00:06Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a cabdriver on _Taxi_? - Elaine Nardo (Marilu Henner) Did you and your commanding officer have a fling that started at a Christmas party? - Dr. Helen Noel and Capt. James T. Kirk in _ST:TOS_ “Dagger of the Mind” Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drain pipe”? - Churchill said this of Neville Chamberlain, who had been mayor of a big city (Manchester, I think) before entering Parliament DQs: Died before 1939? Greatest fame before 1900? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 5, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/39 "2019-06-05T13:37:32Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around? > 2. Were you a male Ukranian ballet dancer of the early 20th Century? > 3. Were you known for saying “Hi-ho, Steverino!”? > DQ. > Not Rudolf Nureyev. > DQ. #1 was Stevie Nicks. #2 was Nijinsky. (Nureyev was in the second half of the 20th Century.) #3 was Louie Nye. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 5, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/40 "2019-06-05T13:41:14Z")
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 11. Not born after 1900 12. Not known for the performing arts 13. Not mostly known for a single incident 14. Not known for the visual arts 15. Best known by a pseudonym 16. Known for the literary arts 17. British or Irish 18. Novelist 19. Not a journalist 20. Not a Londoner 21. Did not die before 1939 22. Greatest fame not before 1900 Aaaand – that’s twenty. Please ask all earned DQs by tomorrow (Thursday) noon Eastern: By my count, EH has one, the Prof has three, and divemaster has one or two. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ3 was (I think) the only President who’s name started with an “N” - Richard Nixon. (The other Quaker was Herbert Hoover; interesting that the two Friends who have sat in Oval Office were both conservative Republicans.) I was thrown off-balance by the “second” – I hadn’t realised we’d even had _one_ Quaker president, let alone two. If I’d done a little thinking, I’m sure I would have thought of Nixon, the first president I ever voted for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=3)