# 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:** 5
**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 7, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/81 "2013-03-07T00:46:40Z")
IQ1: Were you the first premier of the Soviet Union? IQ2: Did you write “God Bless America”? IQ3: Did you play a prisoner at Stalag 13? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/82 "2013-03-07T01:19:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first premier of the Soviet Union? > IQ2: Did you write “God Bless America”? > IQ3: Did you play a prisoner at Stalag 13? I am not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin or Irving Berlin. Take a DQ for last question 1. Real 2 Not American 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name doesn’t start with I 5. European 6. Not British 7. Died after 1900. 8. Known for creative arts but not only for that 9. Not French ---
**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 7, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/83 "2013-03-07T03:22:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first premier of the Soviet Union? > IQ2: Did you write “God Bless America”? > IQ3: Did you play a prisoner at Stalag 13? > [@guylevesque](#): > > I am not Vladimir Ilyich Lenin or Irving Berlin. Take a DQ for last question Correct on Lenin and Berlin. Ivan Dixon played Kinchloe on _Hogan’s Heroes_. DQ: Russian? IQ1: Did Disney combine your music with dinosaurs? IQ2: Did you write the music for Richard Roundtree’s first big role? IQ3: Are you a naturalist interested in cryptozoology? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/84 "2013-03-07T04:05:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on Lenin and Berlin. > Ivan Dixon played Kinchloe on _Hogan’s Heroes_. > DQ: Russian? > IQ1: Did Disney combine your music with dinosaurs? > IQ2: Did you write the music for Richard Roundtree’s first big role? > IQ3: Are you a naturalist interested in cryptozoology? He was not Russian but he was born in what was then Russia. I’m not Ivan Sanderson, Isaac Hayes and… Igor Stravinsky?? 1. Real 2 Not American 2. Dead 3. Male 4. Last name doesn’t start with I 5. European 6. Not British 7. Died after 1900. 8. Known for creative arts but not only for that 9. Not French 10. Not Russian but was born in what was Russia at the time ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/85 "2013-03-07T04:21:26Z")
IQ: Were you a pianist who became involved in your homeland’s independence movement? ---
**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 7, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/86 "2013-03-07T04:35:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a French actress known for your willingness to get naked on screen? > Were you Charles Bronson’s pretty wife? > Were you a Texas socialite with an unflattering name? > [@guylevesque](#): > > …I’m not Jill Ireland and for the actress not Isabelle Adjani maybe? DQ to you for Texas socialite question… I’ll rephrase the first. Yes, Jill Ireland. The Texan was Ima Hogg. DQ: Best known as an author? IQs: Are you a French actress, other than Isabelle Adjani, known for your willingness to get naked on screen? Did you write the story that the movie _Yentl_ was based on? Were you a clever Motie? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/87 "2013-03-07T04:37:52Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a pianist who became involved in your homeland’s independence movement? You are right because I am indeed… **Ignacy Jan Paderewski** , Polish pianist, composer and 2nd PM of the Republic of Poland! > **[Ignacy Jan Paderewski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Jan_Paderewski)** > > Ignacy Jan Paderewski (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Polish: \[iɡˈnatsɨ ˈjan padɛˈrɛfskʲi\] ⓘ; 6 November \[O.S. 25 October\] 1860 \[or 1859\] – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the nation's prime minister and foreign minister during which time he s Really good! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/88 "2013-03-07T04:44:26Z")
Continuing our tour of the alphabet, your letter is J ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/89 "2013-03-07T04:54:09Z")
IQ1: Are you a singer buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery? IQ2: Did you found analytical psychology? IQ3: Were you becoming increasingly blind and had to have an eye surgery a few months before your death? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/90 "2013-03-07T04:55:33Z")
I’m not Jim Morrison I’m not Carl Jung DQ (any a DQ in event 1st 2 are wrong) ---
**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 7, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/91 "2013-03-07T05:40:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Disney combine your music with dinosaurs? > IQ2: Did you write the music for Richard Roundtree’s first big role? > IQ3: Are you a naturalist interested in cryptozoology? > [@guylevesque](#): > > I’m not Ivan Sanderson, Isaac Hayes and… Igor Stravinsky?? Correct on all three. **New game:** IQ1: Are the robot pilot on a spaceship with a bunch of Martian chess fanatics? IQ2: Are you a redhead who is trying to take another woman’s man? IQ3: Did you rescue a wounded shipmate by towing him with a lifejacket strap between your teeth? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/92 "2013-03-07T06:39:43Z")
SC- I’m not JFK 2 DQs ---
**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 7, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/93 "2013-03-07T12:54:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are the robot pilot on a spaceship with a bunch of Martian chess fanatics? > IQ2: Are you a redhead who is trying to take another woman’s man? > IQ3: Did you rescue a wounded shipmate by towing him with a lifejacket strap between your teeth? > [@etv78](#): > > I’m not JFK > 2 DQs Jay Score, from _Men, Martians and Machines_, by Eric Frank Russell. (I very highly recommend it.) Jolene, from the song by Dolly Parton. DQ1: Real? DQ2: American? IQ1: Were you obnoxious and disliked? IQ2: Did you go boating with a dog and two other men? IQ3: Were you married to the Father of Lions? ---
**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:** [March 7, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/94 "2013-03-07T13:36:11Z")
Well done, **etv78**! Just to clear up, the film director I was after was **Ivan Reitman** , best known for Stripes, Meatballs and Ghostbusters. J. IQ1: Do the Mudders build a statue in honour of you in the town square? IQ2: Are you a master of Renaissance polyphony? IQ3: Are you a Canadian Prime Minister? ---
**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 7, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/95 "2013-03-07T15:17:27Z")
Way to go, **etv**! From the previous round: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQs: > > Are you a French actress, other than Isabelle Adjani, known for your willingness to get naked on screen? > Did you write the story that the movie _Yentl_ was based on? > Were you a clever Motie? Isabelle Huppert Isaac Bashevis Singer Ivan, in the classic Niven and Pournelle sf novel, _The Mote in God’s Eye_ On to J… IQs: Did your good friend never understand a single word you said? Were you mocked by Bryant Gumbel? Were you an ardent abolitionist, unlike your fellow Marylander Roger Taney? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/96 "2013-03-07T16:20:27Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Are you a singer buried at Pere Lachaise cemetery? > IQ2: Did you found analytical psychology? > IQ3: Were you becoming increasingly blind and had to have an eye surgery a few months before your death? Correct on the first two. The last one is Johann Sebastian Bach who had a really bad eyesight and died recovering from the eye surgery. DQ: Male? IQ1: Are you known for your 42-line Bible? IQ2: Are you the only confirmed human that lived past 120? IQ3: Did you write a novel that included the characters of Pierre Aronnax and Ned Land? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/97 "2013-03-07T17:31:43Z")
Nice job, **etv**! > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ2: Are you a Czech athlete who now coaches a top player in the individual sport you used to dominate? This was Ivan Lendl (currently coaching Andy Murray). On to J: IQ1: Did you play with Hot Tuna as a sideline to your better-known gig? IQ2: Shortly after you were paroled, did you join your brother on a mission from God? IQ3: Were you a labor activist turned governor who was (unfairly?) portrayed in an Eric von Schmidt song? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/98 "2013-03-07T18:45:22Z")
OK, here we go: I’m a real non-Yank SCA-3 DQs Ministre-3 DQs Guy-3 DQs Nerd-3 DQs Elendil-I’m not Jane Pauley or John Brown, DQ for other one. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/99 "2013-03-07T18:57:48Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Did you play with Hot Tuna as a sideline to your better-known gig? > IQ2: Shortly after you were paroled, did you join your brother on a mission from God? > IQ3: Were you a labor activist turned governor who was (unfairly?) portrayed in an Eric von Schmidt song? 1. Jorma Kaukonen 2. Jake Blues 3. Ebenezer Joshua DQ: Are you male? DQ: Are you alive? DQ: Does your first name start with J? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774/100 "2013-03-07T19:32:39Z")
I’m living, my 1st name starts “J”, but I have, as Sheldon Cooper calls them, “lady parts”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2013/651774.md?page=6)