# Botticelli - March 2013

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [March 1, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774 "2013-03-01T22:59:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 14

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/261 "2013-03-27T02:29:35Z")

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> [@Enginerd](#):
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> :smack: Doh! Sorry - not sure how I missed that. I’ll forego the next one I earn.
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> IQ: Did you hatch a plot with a former slave to buy his wife?  
> IQ: Was your handling of public issues often at odds with your supervisor’s expectation?  
> IQ: Is your mom a big fat stupid bitch?

1. Dr. King Schultz from Django Unchained
2. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
3. Kyle from South Park

DQ: Living?  
DQ: Associated with the arts, by the expansive definition we’ve been using (and including models)?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/262 "2013-03-27T02:35:16Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> I am:
> 
> 1.Real  
> 2.Male  
> 3.American  
> 4.Living  
> 5.Involved in Arts, but needed previous life experience to allow for it (not a model) 😉

Added more DQs, sorry for #5 being so convoluted

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/263 "2013-03-27T02:39:09Z")

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Remember everyone-There’s a DQ floating out there.

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**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:** [March 27, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/264 "2013-03-27T04:02:20Z")

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IQ1; Did you kill Viscount Greystoke’s father?  
IQ2: Were you Viscount Greystoke’s foster mother?  
IQ3: Were you a British secret agent in northwestern India in the early 20th century?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/265 "2013-03-27T04:03:18Z")

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**SCA** - 4 DQs (the 3 you’ve earned plus the one outstanding)

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**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:** [March 27, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/266 "2013-03-27T11:11:10Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1; Did you kill Viscount Greystoke’s father?  
> IQ2: Were you Viscount Greystoke’s foster mother?  
> IQ3: Were you a British secret agent in northwestern India in the early 20th century?

> [@etv78](#):
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> **SCA** - 4 DQs (the 3 you’ve earned plus the one outstanding)

Kerchak.  
Kala.  
Athelstan King.

(Viscount Greystoke, of course, was Tarzan. King is from the book _King of the Khyber Rifles_, by Talbot Mundy.)  
DQ1: Born before 1960?  
DQ2: Was the previous life experience military/political in nature?  
IQ1: Were you head of the German army during WW II?  
IQ2: Were you a Navy officer killed when your remotely controlled bomber exploded?  
IQ3: Were you a one-armed general killed during the US Civil War?

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/267 "2013-03-27T12:56:53Z")

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IQ1: Were you suspended by the NFL after you threw an opponent’s helmet into the stands during a game?  
IQ2: Did you coin the term “white man’s burden” to refer to the duties and costs of imperialism?  
IQ3: Is the cartoon you created in 1951 still drawn (by other artists) today, more than ten years after your death?

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**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:** [March 27, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/268 "2013-03-27T13:43:49Z")

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K it is.

IQs:

Did you supposedly once say, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”?  
Did a guard tell you you couldn’t use that phone?  
Did you interview both your future husband and his future political foe?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/269 "2013-03-27T18:27:11Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> I am:
> 
> 1.Real  
> 2.Male  
> 3.American  
> 4.Living  
> 5.Involved in Arts (but had previous experience to make this necessary)  
> 6.Born before 1960  
> 7.Military experience (made #5 possible)

More DQ answers

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/270 "2013-03-27T18:29:49Z")

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**SCA** -Should know #3 but 3 DQs

**nerd** -Not Kyle Turley or Ruyard Kipling, DQ for cartoonist.

**EH** -3 DQs

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/271 "2013-03-27T19:02:50Z")

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**SCA** -You also have a DQ (and the 1 floating) at your disposal.

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/272 "2013-03-27T19:43:10Z")

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> [@Enginerd](#):
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> IQ3: Is the cartoon you created in 1951 still drawn (by other artists) today, more than ten years after your death?

Cartoonist Hank Ketcham created Dennis the Menace.

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/273 "2013-03-27T20:23:25Z")

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DQ: Does your first name start with K?

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**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:** [March 27, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/274 "2013-03-27T20:44:06Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Did you supposedly once say, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”?  
> Did a guard tell you you couldn’t use that phone?  
> Did you interview both your future husband and his future political foe?

Henry Kissinger.  
John F. Kennedy, when he was a very young U.S. senator and a Capitol policeman thought he was a college student.  
Jackie Kennedy - scroll about halfway down here: [http://www.pinkpillbox.com/cameragirl.htm](http://www.pinkpillbox.com/cameragirl.htm)

DQs:

Best known as an actor?  
Ever won a major award in your field?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a World War II meme?  
Did a student tell you his name meant “The cattle are dying”?  
Were you the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_?

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**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:** [March 27, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/275 "2013-03-27T21:25:12Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you head of the German army during WW II?  
> IQ2: Were you a Navy officer killed when your remotely controlled bomber exploded?  
> IQ3: Were you a one-armed general killed during the US Civil War?

> [@etv78](#):
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> **SCA** -Should know #3 but 3 DQs

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.  
Lieutenant Joseph Kennedy Jr (Jack, Bobby and Teddy’s brother).  
Major General Philip Kearny.  
Four DQs reserved while I think a bit…

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/276 "2013-03-28T02:15:35Z")

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**EH** -3 DQs

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/277 "2013-03-28T02:21:45Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> I am:
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> 1.Real  
> 2.Male  
> 3.American  
> 4.Living  
> 5.Involved in Arts (needed prior life events to create Arts noteworthyness)  
> 6.Born before 1960  
> 7.Military figure (needed this to allow for #5)  
> 8.Not an Actor  
> 9.Did win award

More DQ answers

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/278 "2013-03-28T02:36:19Z")

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**etv** , I think you missed this one.

> [@Enginerd](#):
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> DQ: Does your first name start with K?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/279 "2013-03-28T02:54:30Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> I am:
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> 1.Real  
> 2.Male  
> 3.American  
> 4.Living  
> 5.Involved in Arts, though needed prior life experience  
> 6.Born before 1960  
> 7.Military figure (this the is the “life experience” referenced in #5)  
> 8.Not an Actor  
> 9.Did win award  
> 10.Last name starts “K”

Thanks **Enginerd**! I did miss #10.

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**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:** [March 28, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/280 "2013-03-28T20:21:48Z")

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DQ1: Writer of some sort?

Three DQs reserved.  
IQ1: Did you, Della, Randy and Jake leave Tucson together?  
IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer who adopted his nieces and nephew?  
IQ3: Did you and your wife adopt an alien baby?

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