# 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:** 6
**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 11, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/101 "2019-06-11T00:00:22Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 11, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/102 "2019-06-11T00:01:53Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 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.) #2. I am not Oliver Hardy. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 11, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/103 "2019-06-11T00:03:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? #1. I am not Orson Bean. #2. I am not Orson. #3. I am not Orson Welles. Oh, wait… Gideon Welles? That’s not an O… ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/104 "2019-06-11T02:54:13Z")
Swept me! Orson Welles, a nonlinear descendant of Gideon Welles, is indeed the third Orson there. IQs: Do you live in a garbage can on Sesame Street? Was your request for more gruel cruelly denied? Did Jon Snow see you hanged for killing him? ---
**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 11, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/105 "2019-06-11T13:06:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Swept me! Orson Welles, a nonlinear descendant of Gideon Welles, is indeed the third Orson there. > > IQs: > > Do you live in a garbage can on Sesame Street? > Was your request for more gruel cruelly denied? > Did Jon Snow see you hanged for killing him? 1. I am not Oscar the Grouch. 2. I am not Oliver the Twist. Take a DQ for 3. ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/106 "2019-06-11T16:13:07Z")
IQ1: Did you direct _Natural Born Killers_? IQ2: Did you play Vulcan in _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_? IQ3: Was your nickname “Old Ironsides”? ---
**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 11, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/107 "2019-06-11T16:39:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2. I am not Oliver Hardy. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on #2. The paleontologist was Othniel Charles Marsh, and the current Earl of Airlie is David Ogilvy. (Son of, incidentally, David Ogilvy, grandson of David Ogilvy, and great-grandson of David Ogilvy. Apparently, when they find a name they like, the Ogilvys stick with it.) IQ1: Were you a Civil War veteran who served as a justice on the Supreme Court, son of a noted poet of the same name? IQ2: Did you hack into \*Pravda \* to change a headline to “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!”, causing Casper Weinberger to look “noticeably shaken”? IQ3: Did you write a series of novels – in truth, one long novel, broken up into many – about a English sea captain and his closest friend, an Irish-Catalan physician and spy? DQ1: American? DQ2: Born after 1925? ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/108 "2019-06-11T18:42:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you direct _Natural Born Killers_? > IQ2: Did you play Vulcan in _The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_? > IQ3: Was your nickname “Old Ironsides”? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Oliver Reed. #3. I’m aware of the USS Constitution being called that. 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 11, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/109 "2019-06-11T18:43:46Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Civil War veteran who served as a justice on the Supreme Court, son of a noted poet of the same name? > > IQ2: Did you hack into \*Pravda \* to change a headline to “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnip! Buttocks!”, causing Casper Weinberger to look “noticeably shaken”? > > IQ3: Did you write a series of novels – in truth, one long novel, broken up into many – about a English sea captain and his closest friend, an Irish-Catalan physician and spy? #1. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. #2. I am not Opus. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/110 "2019-06-11T18:44:46Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 ---
**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 11, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/111 "2019-06-11T20:27:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. > #2. I am not Opus. > Take a DQ for #3. Two DQs, I’m afraid; you were correct on Oliver Wendell Holmes, but #2 was a different _Bloom County_ character - Oliver Wendell Jones. #3 was Patrick O’Brian, whose Aubrey-Maturin novels I can recommend unhesitatingly. IQ1: Did you claim that God told you you’d die if you couldn’t raise $8,000,000.00 by the end of the month? IQ2: Were you a Cy Young-, NLCS-, and World Series MVP-winning pitcher with the Dodgers, who joked that if you were a wrestler, your persona would be “The Mad Librarian”? IQ3: Were you a sober bicycle manufacturer from Dayton, Ohio, who achieved fame in the Outer Banks of North Carolina? DQ1: British? DQ2: Known for the 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 11, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/112 "2019-06-11T20:46:37Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 5. Not British 6. Not known for the 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 11, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/113 "2019-06-11T20:47:53Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Two DQs, I’m afraid; you were correct on Oliver Wendell Holmes, but #2 was a different _Bloom County_ character - Oliver Wendell Jones. #3 was Patrick O’Brian, whose Aubrey-Maturin novels I can recommend unhesitatingly. > > IQ1: Did you claim that God told you you’d die if you couldn’t raise $8,000,000.00 by the end of the month? > > IQ2: Were you a Cy Young-, NLCS-, and World Series MVP-winning pitcher with the Dodgers, who joked that if you were a wrestler, your persona would be “The Mad Librarian”? > > IQ3: Were you a sober bicycle manufacturer from Dayton, Ohio, who achieved fame in the Outer Banks of North Carolina? Good choice on the O.W. Jones question. I confess I stopped thinking when I got to Opus. 1. I am not Oral Roberts. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Orville Wright. ---
**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 12, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/114 "2019-06-12T04:03:06Z")
Previous IQs: Do you live in a garbage can on Sesame Street? - Yes, Oscar the Grouch Was your request for more gruel cruelly denied? - Yes, Oliver Twist Did Jon Snow see you hanged for killing him? - Ollivar, who had also killed Snow’s true love Ygritte with arrows DQ: European? IQs: Were you an Old Testament figure known for spilling his seed? Were you the nude _MPFC_ organist? Were you Ike’s sole female Cabinet appointee? ---
**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 12, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/115 "2019-06-12T12:10:40Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you direct Natural Born Killers? > IQ2: Did you play Vulcan in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen? > IQ3: Was your nickname “Old Ironsides”? > > Take a DQ for #1. > I am not Oliver Reed. > #3. I’m aware of the USS Constitution being called that. Take a DQ. Oliver Stone, correct, Oliver Cromwell, scourge of Ireland Oliver x 3! DQ: Alive? DQ: Known for a business or product? ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/116 "2019-06-12T14:36:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 5. Not British 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Dead 9. Not known for a business or product ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/117 "2019-06-12T14:37:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you an Old Testament figure known for spilling his seed? > Were you the nude _MPFC_ organist? > Were you Ike’s sole female Cabinet appointee? 1. I am not Onan. Take 2 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 12, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/118 "2019-06-12T16:06:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Good choice on the O.W. Jones question. I confess I stopped thinking when I got to Opus. > > 1. I am not Oral Roberts. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Orville Wright. I :smack:-ed myself when I read your response; Opus didn’t even occur to me. Sheesh. But, correct on Oral Roberts and Orville Wright. The Dodgers pitcher was Orel Hershisher. DQ1: Known for politics? IQ1: Are you the English singer-songwriter of “She Cries Your Name” and “Stolen Car”, known for mixing elements of folk and electronica? IQ2: Were you a Dutch astronomer, who lent his name to the source of astronomical phenomena that are of periodic (heh) interest? IQ3: Were you the founder of a debtor’s colony whose original bylaws prohibited Roman Catholics, slavery, liquor, and lawyers? ---
**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 12, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/119 "2019-06-12T16:20:51Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Born before 1925 5. Not British 6. Not known for the Arts 7. European 8. Dead 9. Not known for a business or product 10. Not known for politics ---
**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 12, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/120 "2019-06-12T16:22:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Are you the English singer-songwriter of “She Cries Your Name” and “Stolen Car”, known for mixing elements of folk and electronica? > > IQ2: Were you a Dutch astronomer, who lent his name to the source of astronomical phenomena that are of periodic (heh) interest? > > IQ3: Were you the founder of a debtor’s colony whose original bylaws prohibited Roman Catholics, slavery, liquor, and lawyers? #3. I am not James Oglethorpe. Take 2 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=7)