# Botticelli - March 2013 **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**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 3, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/21 "2013-03-03T21:57:51Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you get married to the widow next door? > IQ2: Are you a girl who wants to be a writer and a spy? > IQ3: Did you win an important battle at a bridge? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno the first; not Harriet the Spy or Horatio. Henry the Eighth. Correct on Harriet. Horatius Cocles, but close enough. DQ reserved pending the answers to Enginerd’s. IQ1: Are you a Belgian with an egg-shaped head? IQ2: Are you a slapstick comedian with a “bowl” haircut? IQ3: Are you a robot with a bushy orange moustache? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/22 "2013-03-03T22:52:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Henry Lodge, dunno the second, not Harry “Day-O!” Belafonte. Correct on Harry Belafonte. But Veronica’s father was actually Hiram Lodge. As for the robot, it was Hymie (played by Dick Gautier) who worked for CONTROL, alongside Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. Two DQs reserved for now–I’d like to see the answers to **Enginerd** ’s first. ---
**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 4, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/23 "2013-03-04T01:36:04Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Belgian with an egg-shaped head? > IQ2: Are you a slapstick comedian with a “bowl” haircut? > IQ3: Are you a robot with a bushy orange moustache? Not Hercule Poirot, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges or… dunno the third. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name starts with H 5. Dead 6. Not a military or political figure 7. Died before 1900 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/24 "2013-03-04T01:46:51Z")
Halston was mentioned in _Big Shot_, BTW. !Q: Do you appear in commericals for a popular bank? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/25 "2013-03-04T02:29:34Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Two DQs reserved for now… I’ll bring these forward. DQ: Are you involved in the arts, as we usually define them in this game? DQ: Died before 1850? ---
**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 4, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/26 "2013-03-04T02:40:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Belgian with an egg-shaped head? > IQ2: Are you a slapstick comedian with a “bowl” haircut? > IQ3: Are you a robot with a bushy orange moustache? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Hercule Poirot, Moe Howard of the Three Stooges or… dunno the third. Correct on Hercule Poirot and Moe Howard. Hatchworth, from the steampunk band Steam Powered Giraffe. Two DQs reserved because Spoons just asked the questions I was going to ask… IQ1: Did you lead US forces at Tippecanoe? IQ2: Do you have a dog named Ribsy? IQ3: Did you write a poem about a man a-talking to the sunshine in the air? ---
**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 4, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/27 "2013-03-04T03:12:58Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > …!Q: Do you appear in commericals for a popular bank? Dunno this one. Take a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > …IQ1: Did you lead US forces at Tippecanoe? > IQ2: Do you have a dog named Ribsy? > IQ3: Did you write a poem about a man a-talking to the sunshine in the air? Not William Henry Harrison, or Henry Huggins (love those books!), but dunno the third. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name starts with H 5. Dead 6. Not a military or political figure 7. Died before 1900 8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined 9. Died after 1850 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/28 "2013-03-04T03:14:40Z")
DQ: Inventor? ---
**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 4, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/29 "2013-03-04T04:06:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead US forces at Tippecanoe? > IQ2: Do you have a dog named Ribsy? > IQ3: Did you write a poem about a man a-talking to the sunshine in the air? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not William Henry Harrison, or Henry Huggins (love those books!), but dunno the third. Correct on Harrison and Huggins (I was really disappointed that Ramona Quimby took over as the main character in that series). Henry Herbert Knibbs, whose poem [“Out There Somewhere”](http://www.angelfire.com/az2/sirdanimal/OutThereSomewhere.html) was quoted liberally in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s _The Return of the Mucker_. Three DQs now reserved… IQ1: Did you invent a sewing machine? IQ2: Were you married to the Flanders mare? IQ2: Were you head of the Schutzstaffel? IQ3: ---
**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 4, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/30 "2013-03-04T04:14:13Z")
DQ: Born before 1800? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/31 "2013-03-04T08:57:44Z")
IQ: Did you write about a girl who had to wear a red letter on her bodice? ---
**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 4, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/32 "2013-03-04T21:44:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you invent a sewing machine? > IQ2: Were you married to the Flanders mare? > IQ[3]: Were you head of the Schutzstaffel?.. Not \_\_\_\_\_ Hoover, King Henry VIII, or the odious former chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler. > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ: Did you write about a girl who had to wear a red letter on her bodice? Not Nathaniel Hawthorne. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name starts with H 5. Dead 6. Not a military or political figure 7. Died before 1900 8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined 9. Died after 1850 10. Not an inventor 11. Born before 1800 ---
**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 4, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/33 "2013-03-04T23:49:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you invent a sewing machine? > IQ2: Were you married to the Flanders mare? > IQ2: Were you head of the Schutzstaffel? > IQ3: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not \_\_\_\_\_ Hoover, King Henry VIII, or the odious former chicken farmer Heinrich Himmler. Don’t know of any Hoover associated with sewing machines, and Wikipedia doesn’t mention any. I was thinking of Elias Howe. Correct on Henry and Himmler. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/34 "2013-03-05T00:11:32Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > One DQ reserved. DQ: Were you a businessman? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/35 "2013-03-05T00:28:31Z")
IQ1: Were you a pioneer of “yellow journalism”? IQ2: Did you offer your flagship product in any color the customer wanted, provided it was black? IQ3: Did you create a world in which the answer to IQ2 was a god-like figure? ---
**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 5, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/36 "2013-03-05T02:37:56Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Were you a pioneer of “yellow journalism”? > IQ2: Did you offer your flagship product in any color the customer wanted, provided it was black? > IQ3: Did you create a world in which the answer to IQ2 was a god-like figure? Not William Randolph Hearst, Henry Ford or Aldous Huxley. **SCAdian** , I thought the Hoover Co. offered a sewing machine at some point. Oh, well - take a DQ. H. 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name starts with H 5. Dead 6. Not a military or political figure 7. Died before 1900 8. Not involved in the arts, as usually defined 9. Died after 1850 10. Not an inventor 11. Born before 1800 12. A businessman, among other things ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/37 "2013-03-05T02:41:50Z")
IQ: Did Leonardo DiCaprio play you in a movie? ---
**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 5, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/38 "2013-03-05T03:10:08Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did Leonardo DiCaprio play you in a movie? Not J. Edgar Hoover. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/39 "2013-03-05T03:36:50Z")
I actually meant Howard Hughes (_Aviator_) ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/40 "2013-03-05T03:49:02Z")
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