# Botticelli - March 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955 "2015-03-01T21:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/321 "2015-03-18T19:26:11Z")
Me again? Seems like only yesterday… wait, it WAS. Okay, the new letter is K ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/322 "2015-03-18T20:24:01Z")
IQ1: Are you an Inhuman who hangs around with Gorgon and Triton? IQ2: Were you originally Fox Mulder’s partner who went rogue and frequently reappeared to bedevil Mulder again? IQ3: Did you portray Jenna Maroney on _30 Rock_? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/323 "2015-03-18T20:26:43Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write a number of hit songs with Gerry Goffin? 2. Are you the author of the book of _Ecclesiastes_? 3. Were you a noted speaker of the day: a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson and a radical socialist? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/324 "2015-03-18T20:27:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an Inhuman who hangs around with Gorgon and Triton? > IQ2: Were you originally Fox Mulder’s partner who went rogue and frequently reappeared to bedevil Mulder again? > IQ3: Did you portray Jenna Maroney on _30 Rock_? Not Jane Krakowski. Take two DQs for the others. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/325 "2015-03-18T20:33:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write a number of hit songs with Gerry Goffin? > 2. Are you the author of the book of _Ecclesiastes_? > 3. Were you a noted speaker of the day: a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson and a radical socialist? Not Carole King, King Solomon, or… Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/326 "2015-03-18T20:55:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write a number of hit songs with Gerry Goffin? > 2. Are you the author of the book of _Ecclesiastes_? > 3. Were you a noted speaker of the day: a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson and a radical socialist? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Carole King, King Solomon, or… > > Take a DQ Correct on Carole King. Correct on King Solomon. I didn’t think about the title. The author of the book of Ecclesiastes identifies himself as Koheleth, but nearly everyone associates him with Solomon. #3 was Helen Keller. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/327 "2015-03-18T20:59:06Z")
IQs: 1. Is your birthday celebrated in Hawaii on June 11th? 2. Were you aka the Shadow? 3. Did you write the _Barrack-Room Ballads_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/328 "2015-03-18T21:49:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your birthday celebrated in Hawaii on June 11th? > 2. Were you aka the Shadow? > 3. Did you write the _Barrack-Room Ballads_? Not King Kamehameha or Rudyard Kipling Not… Lamont Kranston (I always figured it started with C)? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/329 "2015-03-18T21:54:11Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/330 "2015-03-18T22:49:28Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your birthday celebrated in Hawaii on June 11th? > 2. Were you aka the Shadow? > 3. Did you write the Barrack-Room Ballads? > > Not King Kamehameha or Rudyard Kipling > > Not… Lamont Kranston (I always figured it started with C)? Correct on #1 and #3. Lamont Cranston was a multimillionaire playboy who let the Shadow use his identity. In actuality the Shadow was Kent Allard (or was he?). DQ: Male? ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/331 "2015-03-18T22:50:04Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Pole who is considered one of the greatest English-language novelists? Joseph Conrad. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/332 "2015-03-18T22:51:23Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the Nancy Drew mysteries? 2. Were you felled by beauty? 3. Were you a green-skinned foe of Superboy? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/333 "2015-03-19T00:49:48Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you an Inhuman who hangs around with Gorgon and Triton? > IQ2: Were you originally Fox Mulder’s partner who went rogue and frequently reappeared to bedevil Mulder again? > IQ3: Did you portray Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock? > > Not Jane Krakowski. > > Take two DQs for the others. Karnak, Alex Krycek, correct DQ: American? DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/334 "2015-03-19T01:08:41Z")
IQ1: Did you have a “Kollege of Musical Knowledge?” IQ2: Did Jackie Mason provide the voice of your father on _The Simpsons_? IQ3: Did you win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for your role in _A Fish Called Wanda_? ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/335 "2015-03-19T03:59:11Z")
I loved _Twin Peaks_! (The first season, anyway). Good job, **astorian**. On to K… IQs: Did you answer a phone you didn’t even know was there before? Did a military officer pose beside your bed when you weren’t in it yet? Did your son have his hands in his pockets when you were sworn in? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/336 "2015-03-19T14:51:24Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. American 4. Dead ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/337 "2015-03-19T14:52:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the Nancy Drew mysteries? > 2. Were you felled by beauty? > 3. Were you a green-skinned foe of Superboy? Not Caroline Keene, King Kong, or… Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/338 "2015-03-19T14:53:46Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a “Kollege of Musical Knowledge?” > IQ2: Did Jackie Mason provide the voice of your father on _The Simpsons_? > IQ3: Did you win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for your role in _A Fish Called Wanda_? Not Kay Kaiser, not Krusty the Klown, not Kevin Kline ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/339 "2015-03-19T14:57:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you answer a phone you didn’t even know was there before? > Did a military officer pose beside your bed when you weren’t in it yet? > Did your son have his hands in his pockets when you were sworn in? I’ll guess John Kennedy for #3. If that’s right, you get 2 DQs. If it’s wrong, you get 3. ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/340 "2015-03-19T15:07:29Z")
Previous IQs: Did you answer a phone you didn’t even know was there before? - This was JFK, in a story later told by Ted Sorensen, who was with him at the time. The phone was in a hidden White House bedroom alcove; the President, bemused, answered it and then assured the skeptical caller that she had not, in fact, reached a local veterinary clinic. Did a military officer pose beside your bed when you weren’t in it yet? - This was Jackie Kennedy. A special temporary clinic was set up for the pregnant First Lady in 1963 on a military base near Hyannisport; JFK was not pleased by all the publicity. Did your son have his hands in his pockets when you were sworn in? - Caroline Kennedy, when she became U.S. ambassador to Japan: [http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131112185054-caroline-kennedy-sworn-in-story-top.jpg](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131112185054-caroline-kennedy-sworn-in-story-top.jpg) I’ll take two DQs. DQs: Last name start with K? Born since 1900? IQs: Were you the bad guy in the movie _Breaker Morant_? Did Bob Hoskins play you in _Enemy at the Gates_? Did your errors lead to the death of you, your wife and your sister-in-law? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=18)