# Botticelli - Late Nov. 2012 round **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 23, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872 "2012-11-23T04:45:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/1 "2012-11-23T04:45:10Z")
Previous thread: [Late October 2012 Botticelli - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=669054) The letter this time is H. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/2 "2012-11-23T13:31:10Z")
IQ1: Are you the mother of Ishmael? IQ2: Did your description of a hippopotamus reveal the fact that you had never seen one? IQ3: Were you famously portrayed by Dan Blocker? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/3 "2012-11-23T16:14:55Z")
IQ1: Are you known as Vulcan in Rome? IQ2: Are you a spicy ginger pop star from the 1990s? IQ3: Are you an iconoclastic author, poet, and punk rock icon? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/4 "2012-11-23T17:48:19Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you the mother of Ishmael? > > IQ2: Did your description of a hippopotamus reveal the fact that you had never seen one? > > IQ3: Were you famously portrayed by Dan Blocker? Not Hagar, Hippocrates or Hoss. > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you known as Vulcan in Rome? > IQ2: Are you a spicy ginger pop star from the 1990s? > IQ3: Are you an iconoclastic author, poet, and punk rock icon? Not Haphaestus or Geri Halliwell; dunno the third. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/5 "2012-11-23T19:13:17Z")
Henry Rollins DQ: Are you 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:** [November 23, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/6 "2012-11-23T20:57:13Z")
H. 1. Real ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/7 "2012-11-24T02:23:10Z")
IQ: Did you write the 1st written code of law? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/8 "2012-11-24T03:12:22Z")
I don’t know about Hippocrates, I was after someone else. Disnae matter… IQ1: Did you play The Doctor? IQ2: Are you known as The Undercover Economist? IQ3: Do you have a falcon head? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/9 "2012-11-24T04:33:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you write the 1st written code of law? I’m not Hammurabi. > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > I don’t know about Hippocrates, I was after someone else. Disnae matter… > > IQ1: Did you play The Doctor? > > IQ2: Are you known as The Undercover Economist? > > IQ3: Do you have a falcon head? I’m not Christopher Heddleston, dunno the second, or Horus. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/10 "2012-11-24T08:17:12Z")
IQ: Were you the last prisoner at Spandau Prison? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/11 "2012-11-24T12:21:39Z")
IQ1: Are you an English TV character played by an American actor with the same initials as the character? IQ2: Did you create the talented Tom Ripley? IQ3: Are you the proposer of a possibly-detected particle? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/12 "2012-11-24T12:34:13Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Did you play The Doctor? > > IQ2: Are you known as The Undercover Economist? > > IQ3: Do you have a falcon head? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m not Christopher Heddleston, dunno the second, or Horus. Horus is correct. Christopher Eccleston is the Ninth Doctor in the 49 year old series ‘Doctor Who’, but he’s not an ‘H’. **William Hartnell** , the First Doctor, was who I was after. ‘The Undercover Economist’ is the title of **Tim Harford** ’s first book, and also the title of his blog/column with the Financial Times. Now - DQ1: Are you male? DQ2: Are you living? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/13 "2012-11-25T00:55:54Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you the last prisoner at Spandau Prison? Not Rudolph Hess. > [@Ximenean](#): > > IQ1: Are you an English TV character played by an American actor with the same initials as the character? > IQ2: Did you create the talented Tom Ripley? > IQ3: Are you the proposer of a possibly-detected particle? Dunno the first. Not Patricia Highsmith. Not Dr. (Prof.?) Higgs. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/14 "2012-11-25T01:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > [QUOTE=Ximenean] > IQ1: Are you an English TV character played by an American actor with the same initials as the character? > IQ2: Did you create the talented Tom Ripley? > IQ3: Are you the proposer of a possibly-detected particle? Dunno the first. Not Patricia Highsmith. Not Dr. (Prof.?) Higgs [/QUOTE] Correct re Patricia Highsmith and Peter Higgs of boson fame. Jonathan Higgins, played by John Hillerman, was Tom Selleck’s sidekick in _Magnum P.I._ My DQ: Were you alive at any time in the 20th century? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/15 "2012-11-25T03:17:05Z")
IQ: Did you go to jail because of Watergate? ---
**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:** [November 25, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/16 "2012-11-25T05:14:48Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you go to jail because of Watergate? Not H.R. Haldeman. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Deceased 4. Alive at some time in the 20th century ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/17 "2012-11-25T05:35:03Z")
IQ: Were you an aide to FDR at Yalta? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/18 "2012-11-26T02:50:25Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you an aide to FDR at Yalta? Not the cadaverous but irreplaceable Harry Hopkins. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/19 "2012-11-26T03:01:53Z")
**EH** -No idea what that means, but it made me LOL! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872/20 "2012-11-26T03:19:42Z")
IQ1: Did you and your colleagues take over Nakatomi Plaza in an unsuccessful heist? IQ2: Are you also known as “Papa Bear?” IQ3: Did you turn pro when the going got weird? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-late-nov-2012-round/641872.md?page=2)