# Botticelli: Late June, 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 25, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209 "2012-06-25T03:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/81 "2012-06-27T19:36:32Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > IQ1: Tim Allen, voice of Buzz Lightyear > IQ2: Sir Francis is correct - yes, the PPE referred specifically to the defense, but the whole team was also referred to as Purple People Eaters (if you knew how many times I heard that stupid song growing up…) > IQ3: Torvald Helmer, Nora’s husband in Ibsen’s _A Doll’s House_ > > DQ1: Are you male? > DQ2: Are you alive? :smack: - Tim Allen. Tim Freaking Allen. Tim Mothe…OK, I’m over it. 🙂 DQ Summary 1. I am male. 2. I am currently dead. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/82 "2012-06-27T19:59:28Z")
IQ1: Did you turn down an invitation to the White House earlier this year? IQ2: Is bouncing what you do best? IQ3: Were you the last Incan leader to resist the 16th century Spanish conquest? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/83 "2012-06-27T20:19:13Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you turn down an invitation to the White House earlier this year? > IQ2: Is bouncing what you do best? > IQ3: Were you the last Incan leader to resist the 16th century Spanish conquest? 1. I’m not Boston Bruin goalie Tim Thomas. 2. Since my top is not made out of rubber, nor my bottom made out of springs, I cannot be Tigger. 3. Is that Teolochtchlian? (Spelling is obviously way off.) If not, then a DQ. ---
**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 27, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/84 "2012-06-27T20:30:30Z")
Way to go, **Wargamer**! Congrats. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Although associated with another country entirely, were you actually born on Corfu? > Do you own the world’s largest non-museum collection of Battle of the Alamo papers and artifacts? > Did you cowrite the screenplays for the _Lord of the Rings_ movie trilogy? Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He renounced his Greek citizenship (and claim to the Greek throne) when he married then-Princess Elizabeth. Phil Collins, the pop singer, of all people!: [Phil Collins Remembers the Alamo in Beautiful New Book | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-cara-price/phil-collins-alamo_b_1502830.html) Yes, either Peter Jackson or Philippa Boyens. T, eh…? IQs: Were you the Rock of Chickamauga? Did you write that you could not live without books? Was the bad guy in a Mel Gibson movie based on you? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/85 "2012-06-27T21:01:23Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. Is that Teolochtchlian? (Spelling is obviously way off.) If not, then a DQ. The last Incan emperor of Vilcabamba to resist the Spanish was Tupac Amaru (your guess is almost certainly an Aztec rather than Inca name). DQ: Are (were) you real? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/86 "2012-06-27T21:41:36Z")
IQ1: Are you responsible for “the shot heard round the world?” IQ2: Did you play Albert DeSalvo on the screen? IQ3: Were you born Herbert Khaury? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/87 "2012-06-27T21:52:59Z")
IQ1: Were you born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia? IQ2: Were you an author who also worked for the Post Office? IQ3: What’s new, she of the feline persuasion? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/88 "2012-06-27T22:13:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Way to go, **Wargamer**! Congrats. > > Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He renounced his Greek citizenship (and claim to the Greek throne) when he married then-Princess Elizabeth. > Phil Collins, the pop singer, of all people!: [Phil Collins Remembers the Alamo in Beautiful New Book | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-cara-price/phil-collins-alamo_b_1502830.html) > Yes, either Peter Jackson or Philippa Boyens. > > T, eh…? > > IQs: > > Were you the Rock of Chickamauga? > Did you write that you could not live without books? > Was the bad guy in a Mel Gibson movie based on you? 1. I’m not Gen. George Henry Thomas of the Union Army. 2. I’m not Henry David Thoreau? 3. Can’t think of a Gibson T-based villain (I keep coming back to Edward Longshanks in _Braveheart_, but I don’t think that’s right. So…a DQ. > [@denquixote](#): > > IQ1: Are you responsible for “the shot heard round the world?” > > IQ2: Did you play Albert DeSalvo on the screen? > > IQ3: Were you born Herbert Khaury? 1. I’m not Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants, who broke Dodgers hearts in the 1951 playoffs. 2. No idea who played The Boston Strangler. So a DQ. 3. Another DQ. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQ1: Were you born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia? > IQ2: Were you an author who also worked for the Post Office? > IQ3: What’s new, she of the feline persuasion? 1. While I have a condo made of stone-a, I am not King Tut. 2. Didn’t Thoreau also work for the Post Office while he lived in Walden? I think he did, and as you may have noticed, I’m not him. If not, take a DQ. 3. I’m not Tom Jones. DQ Summary 4. I am male. 5. I am currently dead. 6. I was a real person. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/89 "2012-06-27T22:15:04Z")
IQ: Were you a French intellectual who visitied the U.S. during the 1800’s? PS-If I had been near a computer today I woulda guessed Pol Pot too! ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/90 "2012-06-27T22:45:29Z")
IQ2: Tony Curtis IQ3: Tiny Tim DQ1: Were you American? DQ2: Last name begin with T? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/91 "2012-06-27T22:50:54Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a French intellectual who visitied the U.S. during the 1800’s? > > PS-If I had been near a computer today I woulda guessed Pol Pot too! I’m not Alexis de Toqueville. DQ Summary 1. I am male. 2. I am currently dead. 3. I was a real person. 4. I am American. 5. My last name does not begin with T. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/92 "2012-06-27T23:04:08Z")
IQ1: Were you known as a comic British actor, but better known for the gap between your top two fron teeth? IQ2: Did you create the fictional VuDu Ltd.? IQ3: Are you, a Catholic, married for the second time to a formerand current Washington lobbyist? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/93 "2012-06-27T23:14:24Z")
IQ: Did you design the buildings for the University of Virginia? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/94 "2012-06-27T23:55:53Z")
> [@denquixote](#): > > IQ1: Were you known as a comic British actor, but better known for the gap between your top two fron teeth? > > IQ2: Did you create the fictional VuDu Ltd.? > > IQ3: Are you, a Catholic, married for the second time to a formerand current Washington lobbyist? 3 DQs. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you design the buildings for the University of Virginia? I’m not Thomas Jefferson. ---
**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 28, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/95 "2012-06-28T01:18:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQs: > > Were you the Rock of Chickamauga? > Did you write that you could not live without books? > Was the bad guy in a Mel Gibson movie based on you? Yes, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas. This was Thomas Jefferson. I’ll waive my DQ since **etv78** asked about him, too. Col. Tavington in _The Patriot_ was loosely based on the cutthroat British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton. DQ: Died since 1900? IQs: Did your wife forbid Jewish people to come into the house? Did you die in a plane crash in Canton, Ohio? Did you sometimes pretend to be an elevator operator? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/96 "2012-06-28T02:01:46Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. Didn’t Thoreau also work for the Post Office while he lived in Walden? I think he did, and as you may have noticed, I’m not him. If not, take a DQ. I was thinking of Anthony Trollope, Victorian author and postal officer. DQ: Are you known for your contribution to the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/97 "2012-06-28T02:08:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas. > This was Thomas Jefferson. I’ll waive my DQ since **etv78** asked about him, too. > Col. Tavington in _The Patriot_ was loosely based on the cutthroat British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton. > > DQ: > > Died since 1900? > > IQs: > > Did your wife forbid Jewish people to come into the house? > Did you die in a plane crash in Canton, Ohio? > Did you sometimes pretend to be an elevator operator? And I just watched _The Patriot_ a couple of weeks ago too! IQs: I’m not Thurman Munson, and you can take two DQs for the other questions. DQ Summary 1. I am male. 2. I am currently dead. 3. I was a real person. 4. I am American. 5. My last name does not begin with T. 6. I died after 1900. 7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/98 "2012-06-28T02:11:02Z")
IQ1: Did you work with Harper Lee? IQ2: Were you the creator of what became a mass market crap on canvas? IQ3: Did you befriend a volleyball? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/99 "2012-06-28T02:31:05Z")
The Jew disliker is Harry Truman’s mother-in-law. IQ: Did you have a historic encounter with future colleagues? ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209/100 "2012-06-28T03:55:10Z")
#94 Today, 05:55 PM Wargamer Guest Join Date: Nov 2007 Quote: Originally Posted by denquixote IQ1: Were you known as a comic British actor, but better known for the gap between your top two fron teeth? IQ2: Did you create the fictional VuDu Ltd.? IQ3: Are you, a Catholic, married for the second time to a formerand current Washington lobbyist? 3 DQs. IQ1: Terry-Thomas IQ2: Ross Thomas IQ3: Clarence Thomas I assume MissTake has the answer; I’ll wait on my DQ’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-june-2012/626209.md?page=6)