# 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:** 9
**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 17, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/161 "2019-06-17T18:40:14Z")
Hmmm … if we’re backing up from the Prof to me, should we also back up from O to N? 😃 I am P. ---
**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 17, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/162 "2019-06-17T18:58:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you, conceivably, do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe? 2. Did you play me in The Adventures of Superman? 3. Have you been described as “the anti-C. S. Lewis”? ---
**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 17, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/163 "2019-06-17T23:36:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you, conceivably, do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe? > 2. Did you play me in The Adventures of Superman? > 3. Have you been described as “the anti-C. S. Lewis”? Not Professor Plum. Not that guy whose name I should know because you ask about him all the time. 😃 Not … Philip Pullman? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/164 "2019-06-18T01:14:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Hmmm … if we’re backing up from the Prof to me, should we also back up from O to N? 😃 > I am P. Nope. Go ahead and take a big “P” in the thread\*. 😃 IQ1: Were you the assistant to the man who unexpectedly made you CEO of his fictional arms and technology manufacturer? IQ2: Were you the actress who played IQ1? IQ3: Are you an American downhill skier, whose name makes you sound like a character on _Sesame Street_? \*I promise, I’m not actually a 14 year-old boy in real life. But I do have one living in my brain… ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/165 "2019-06-18T01:31:38Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you, conceivably, do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe? > 2. Did you play me in The Adventures of Superman? > 3. Have you been described as “the anti-C. S. Lewis”? > Not Professor Plum. > Not that guy whose name I should know because you ask about him all the time. > Not … Philip Pullman? Correct, the incredible Phil Tead, and correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/166 "2019-06-18T02:00:16Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write \*Dr. Zhivago \*? 2. Are you Sean Astin’s mother? 3. Were you one of the stars of _Mad About You_? ---
**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 18, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/167 "2019-06-18T04:24:59Z")
IQs: In the works of Isaac Asimov, are you the First Speaker of the Second Foundation? Are you the imaginary brother of a young Russian man who, for a time, believed you actually existed? Did you command mortar boats during the American Civil War and later become an admiral? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/168 "2019-06-18T13:16:48Z")
IQ1: Does Clark Gregg play you in MARVEL Agents of SHIELD? IQ2: Are you QB for the Dallas Cowboys? IQ3: Are you QB for the LA Chargers? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/169 "2019-06-18T13:18:13Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you the assistant to the man who unexpectedly made you CEO of his fictional arms and technology manufacturer? > > IQ2: Were you the actress who played IQ1? > > IQ3: Are you an American downhill skier, whose name makes you sound like a character on _Sesame Street_? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write \*Dr. Zhivago \*? > 2. Are you Sean Astin’s mother? > 3. Were you one of the stars of _Mad About You_? Not Boris Pasternak. DQ. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > In the works of Isaac Asimov, are you the First Speaker of the Second Foundation? > Are you the imaginary brother of a young Russian man who, for a time, believed you actually existed? > Did you command mortar boats during the American Civil War and later become an admiral? I haven’t had my coffee yet – three DQs. P 1. Fictional ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/170 "2019-06-18T13:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write Dr. Zhivago ? > 2. Are you Sean Astin’s mother? > 3. Were you one of the stars of Mad About You? > Not Boris Pasternak. > DQ. > DQ. 1. Correct. 2. Patty Duke (then Patty Duke Astin) 3. Paul Reiser DQs: 1. Male? 2. Created by an American author (or authors)? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/171 "2019-06-18T13:46:46Z")
IQs: 1. Did you host _The Tonight Show_ before Johnny Carson? 2. Were you one of Daddy Warbucks’s bodyguards? 3. Were you a notable French portraitist in the time of Napoleon who added an apostrophe to the middle of your name? ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/172 "2019-06-18T13:51:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you command mortar boats during the American Civil War and later become an admiral? Oh, bother (said Pooh) – David Dixon Porter, right? ---
**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 18, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/173 "2019-06-18T16:36:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you host _The Tonight Show_ before Johnny Carson? > 2. Were you one of Daddy Warbucks’s bodyguards? > 3. Were you a notable French portraitist in the time of Napoleon who added an apostrophe to the middle of your name? DQ. (I thought that was Steve Allen…) Not Punjab. DQ. P 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created by an American author (or authors) ---
**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 18, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/174 "2019-06-18T17:11:31Z")
Previous IQs: In the works of Isaac Asimov, are you the First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver Are you the imaginary brother of a young Russian man who, for a time, believed you actually existed? - Pavel Chekov, an only child under the influence of an alien lifeform, wanted to avenge his brother Piotr’s death at the hands of the Klingons Did you command mortar boats during the American Civil War and later become an admiral? - Yes, David Dixon Porter DQs: First appeared in print? First appeared after 1950? IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? Were you a young aardvark’s puppy? Were you trainer to the gods in Disney’s _Hercules_? ---
**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 18, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/175 "2019-06-18T19:14:15Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you host The Tonight Show before Johnny Carson? > 2. Were you one of Daddy Warbucks’s bodyguards? > 3. Were you a notable French portraitist in the time of Napoleon who added an apostrophe to the middle of your name? > DQ. (I thought that was Steve Allen…) > Not Punjab. > DQ. 1. Between Steve and Johnny was Jack Paar. 2. Correct. 3. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 18, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/176 "2019-06-18T19:21:08Z")
IQ1: Does Clark Gregg play you in MARVEL Agents of SHIELD? IQ2: Are you QB for the Dallas Cowboys? IQ3: Are you QB for the LA Chargers? ---
**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 19, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/177 "2019-06-19T12:59:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you found Kenyon College? > Were you a young aardvark’s puppy? > Were you trainer to the gods in Disney’s _Hercules_? DQ. Not Pal. DQ. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Does Clark Gregg play you in MARVEL Agents of SHIELD? > IQ2: Are you QB for the Dallas Cowboys? > IQ3: Are you QB for the LA Chargers? Three DQs. P 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created by an American author (or authors) 4. First appeared in print 5. Did not first appear after 1950 ---
**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 19, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/178 "2019-06-19T13:06:02Z")
DQs: 1. From a work of prose fiction? 2. First appeared in 1900 or later? ---
**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 19, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/179 "2019-06-19T14:28:10Z")
Previous IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? - Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase of Ohio Were you a young aardvark’s puppy? - Yes, Pal, Arthur’s dog Were you trainer to the gods in Disney’s _Hercules_? - Philoctetes DQs: Last name start with P? Considered a good guy? IQs: Were you Lady Jessica’s only son? Were you a top economist who declined a Federal appointment by JFK? Did you do metalwork on the frigate USS _Constitution_? ---
**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 19, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880/180 "2019-06-19T14:43:17Z")
P 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created by an American author (or authors) 4. First appeared in print 5. Did not first appear after 1950 6. From a work of prose fiction 7. First appeared in 1900 or later 8. Last name starts with P 9. Considered a good guy EH, go ahead and take the DQ for Porter, if you wish – I did award it to you. Answers to IQs later… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2019/834880.md?page=10)