# 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:** 5
**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 9, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/81 "2019-06-09T01:21:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a female black woman who ran for US President in 1972? > IQ2: Is a drink made with ginger ale and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry named after you? > IQ3: Did you provide the voice in the soundtrack to _Goldfinger_? (bah-wah-wah-wahhhh) DQ. Not Shirley Temple. DQ. ---
**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 9, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/82 "2019-06-09T01:30:36Z")
IQ1: Were you a pitcher for who the case can be argued that you were the greatest to ever play the game, and without question the greatest Jewish pitcher of all time? IQ2: Were you the host of a kid’s show who was disciplined for telling your audience to go into their parents’ rooms, get all the green pieces of paper with President’s portraits on them, and send them to you? IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium? ---
**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 9, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/83 "2019-06-09T01:40:21Z")
IQ1: Were you a pitcher for whom a case can be made that you were the best in history, while unquestionably being the best _Jewish_ pitcher of all time? IQ2: Were you the host of a children’s show, who was suspended for two weeks for telling your young viewers to go into their parents’ wallets and purses, and send him all the funny pieces of green paper with pictures of the Presidents? IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium? ---
**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 9, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/84 "2019-06-09T03:15:57Z")
Previous IQs: Do you have the large stone head of an Olmec war god in your basement? - Homer Simpson: [Olmec head | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Olmec_head) Do you work for the man who gave that stone carving? - Smithers Are you the favorite bartender of the first person? - Moe Syszlak DQs: American? Best known for the Arts? Born since 1950? IQs: Have you played an astronaut, an alcoholic and an adoptive mom? Did your best-known character make use of an icepick? Were you Madonna’s androgynous gal pal? ---
**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 9, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/85 "2019-06-09T14:01:59Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you a pitcher for who the case can be argued that you were the greatest to ever play the game, and without question the greatest Jewish pitcher of all time? > > IQ2: Were you the host of a kid’s show who was disciplined for telling your audience to go into their parents’ rooms, get all the green pieces of paper with President’s portraits on them, and send them to you? > > IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium? DQ. Not Soupy Sales. Not Stephen Jay Gould. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you played an astronaut, an alcoholic and an adoptive mom? > Did your best-known character make use of an icepick? > Were you Madonna’s androgynous gal pal? Three DQs. **S**. 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with S 4. Living 5. American 6. Not best known for the Arts 7. Not born after 1950 > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you a pitcher for whom a case can be made that you were the best in history, while unquestionably being the best _Jewish_ pitcher of all time? > > IQ2: Were you the host of a children’s show, who was suspended for two weeks for telling your young viewers to go into their parents’ wallets and purses, and send him all the funny pieces of green paper with pictures of the Presidents? > > IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium? Is there an echo in here? 😃 ---
**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 9, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/86 "2019-06-09T14:59:09Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a bad ol’ puddy tat? > 2. Were you the author of the Baby Ballads? > 3. Were you Tom Hanks’s best friend on his first TV Series? > Not Sylvester. > Assuming you mean the Bab Ballads, I am not W S Gilbert. If not, DQ. > DQ. (Tom Hanks had a TV series? More than one??) Correct on 1. Correct on 2. I blame auto-correct for turning Bab into Baby. #3 was Peter Scolari, who starred with Tom on _Bosom Buddies_, about two young guys who, in order to stay at a place they could afford, dressed up and pretended to be women. It lasted two seasons. Tom was also a recurring character on _Family Ties_. DQ: Known for business? ---
**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 9, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/87 "2019-06-09T15:02:13Z")
IQs: 1. Did you attempt to kill Pres. Gerald Ford? 2. Did you also attempt to assassinate Pres. Ford? 3. Were you known as “the High Priestess of Soul”? ---
**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 9, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/88 "2019-06-09T17:10:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a female black woman who ran for US President in 1972? > IQ2: Is a drink made with ginger ale and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry named after you? > IQ3: Did you provide the voice in the soundtrack to Goldfinger? (bah-wah-wah-wahhhh) > DQ. > Not Shirley Temple. > DQ. Shirley Chisholm, correct, Shirley Bassey Shirley x 3! DQ: Caucasian? 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 9, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/89 "2019-06-09T17:17:52Z")
IQ1: Did you rip apart a picture of the Pope during an SNL performance? IQ2: Are you the voice of Turunga Leela on _Futurama_? IQ3: Are you a punk rocker thought to have killed Nancy Spungen in 1978? ---
**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 10, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/90 "2019-06-10T01:54:46Z")
Previous IQs: Have you played an astronaut, an alcoholic and an adoptive mom? - Sandra Bullock, in _Gravity, 28 Days_ and _The Blind Side_ Did your best-known character make use of an icepick? - Sharon Stone, in _Basic Instinct_ Were you Madonna’s androgynous gal pal? - Sandra Bernhard DQ: Considered a beauty? Born east of the Miss. River? Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line? IQs: Did you costar in _The Last Picture Show_? Were Robert and Renly your brothers? Did you write the Maigret stories? ---
**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 10, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/91 "2019-06-10T02:55:33Z")
Well, that didn’t take as long as I’d hoped it would… > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you attempt to kill Pres. Gerald Ford? > 2. Did you also attempt to assassinate Pres. Ford? > 3. Were you known as “the High Priestess of Soul”? Not Sara Jane Moore or whoever IQ3 was, but yes, I am Manson follower and attempted assassin Lynette “ **S** queaky” Fromme. ---
**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 10, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/92 "2019-06-10T02:57:45Z")
IQs: EH’s IQ3 is Georges Simenon (EH’s IQ3). I think KO’s IQ3 was Sid Vicious. Don’t know any of the others. DQs: Not known for business Caucasian Probably not considered a beauty\* Born west of the Miss. River Born south of the Mason-Dixon Line Worked with a young lady named Fromme last summer – of course I asked, and she said yes, she was some sort of cousin. - I think she was really cute, though 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/93 "2019-06-10T12:17:11Z")
Grats Prof! You must have Mafia on the mind. ---
**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 10, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/94 "2019-06-10T12:34:50Z")
Thang Q. On to O. #3 was Nina Simone, BTW. ---
**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 10, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/95 "2019-06-10T13:53:36Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Did you costar in _The Last Picture Show_? - Cybill Shepherd Were Robert and Renly your brothers? - Stannis Baratheon, in _Game of Thrones_ Did you write the Maigret stories? - Yes, Georges Simenon On to O! IQs: Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown? Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best friends on his sitcom? Using a powerful aphrodisiac, did you collect the sperm of famous men in the early 1900s? ---
**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 10, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/96 "2019-06-10T14:18:46Z")
::Samuel L Jackson voice:: Check out the big brain on the Professor! ::/Samuel L Jackson. voice:: Just to clear up my last set of IQs, right on Soupy Sales and Stephen Jay Gould. The greatest Jewish pitcher in major league history was Sandy Koufax, of the Dodgers. IQ1: Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War? IQ2: Were you a writer of comic short stories, whose real name was W.S. Porter? IQ3: Were you one of the leads in _Gone With The Wind_? ---
**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 10, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/97 "2019-06-10T14:37:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > On to O! > > IQs: > > Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown? > Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best friends on his sitcom? > Using a powerful aphrodisiac, did you collect the sperm of famous men in the early 1900s? 1. I am not Lee Harvey Oswald. 2. I am not Oswald Lee Harvey. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 10, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/98 "2019-06-10T14:38:18Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > ::Samuel L Jackson voice:: Check out the big brain on the Professor! ::/Samuel L Jackson. voice:: > > Just to clear up my last set of IQs, right on Soupy Sales and Stephen Jay Gould. The greatest Jewish pitcher in major league history was Sandy Koufax, of the Dodgers. > > IQ1: Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War? > > IQ2: Were you a writer of comic short stories, whose real name was W.S. Porter? > > IQ3: Were you one of the leads in _Gone With The Wind_? #1. Take a DQ. #2. I am not O. Henry. #3. I am not Olivia de Havilland. ---
**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 10, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/99 "2019-06-10T21:19:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not O. Henry. > #3. I am not Olivia de Havilland. Right on O. Henry and Olivia de Havilland. The head of the Freedman’s Bureau was O.O. Howard. Stole this question from **Elendil’s Heir** , above!. IQ1: Did your sometimes-vitriolic rivalry with fellow paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope lead to the two of you discovering and describing dozens of species of dinosaurs? IQ2: Were you the fat, mustached half of a comedy duo that originated in vaudeville, but became famous through film? IQ3: Are you the Earl of Airlie? (Surname sufficient.) DQ1: Real? ---
**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 10, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/100 "2019-06-10T23:54:41Z")
Previous IQs: Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown? - Yes, Lee Harvey Oswald Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best friends on his sitcom? - Yes, that Oswald Using a powerful aphrodisiac, did you collect the sperm of famous men in the early 1900s? - The title character of the Roald Dahl novel _My Uncle Oswald_ Oswald x3! DQ: Male? IQs: Did you provide a voice in the cartoon version of _The Hobbit_ and have since become a Doper running gag? Were you the boss of Mork from Ork? Famous in your own right, were you related to Lincoln’s SECNAV? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=6)