# 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:** 5
**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, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/81 "2015-03-07T01:12:27Z")
Correct on all three of mine, too. IQs: Did Sam Kinnison joke that you were obsessed with fellatio? Were you the top drillmaster of George Washington’s troops? Are you arguably the second-best-known person to come from the town named after him? ---
**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 7, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/82 "2015-03-07T01:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you play the vampire in the original Fright Night? > IQ2: Are you the pre-op transexual IQ1 played in Dog Day Afternoon? > IQ3: Did Al Pacino play you in Dog Day Afternoon? > > Not Chris Sarandon correct, Leon Shermer, Sonny Wortzik DQ: European? DQ: Known for the arts? ---
**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 7, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/83 "2015-03-07T02:07:36Z")
IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play _Pygmalion_? IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White? IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/84 "2015-03-07T05:00:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all 3. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an ex-Puritan created by Robert E. Howard? > 2. Did you appear in over 50 movies, usually playing “the laziest man in the world”? > 3. Were you a member of Top Cat’s gang? Not Solomon Kane or Stepin Fetchit Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/85 "2015-03-07T05:01:55Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > All correct! > > IQ1: Did you write _Antigone_? > IQ2: Did you write _The First Circle_? > IQ3: Did you write _The Wealth of Nations_? Not Sophocles, Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Adam Smith ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/86 "2015-03-07T05:02:56Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with S 6. European 7. Not involved in the arts ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/87 "2015-03-07T05:06:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an Italian luthier who is considered to have been the best in your field? > IQ2: Did you write _The Carnival of the Animals_? > IQ3: Did you write the Nantucket trilogy? Not Camille Saint-Saens. Take DQs for 1 and 3 ---
**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, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/88 "2015-03-07T12:21:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an Italian luthier who is considered to have been the best in your field? > IQ2: Did you write _The Carnival of the Animals_? > IQ3: Did you write the Nantucket trilogy? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Camille Saint-Saens. > > Take DQs for 1 and 3 Antonio Stradivari. Correct. S M Stirling. DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language? DQ2: Died after 1700? IQ1: Were you a Nazi Party member who was financially supported by Jews after WW II? IQ2: Were you the Young Pretender? IQ3: Did you write about the Houyhnhnms? ---
**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 7, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/89 "2015-03-07T13:12:29Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an ex-Puritan created by Robert E. Howard? > 2. Did you appear in over 50 movies, usually playing “the laziest man in the world”? > 3. Were you a member of Top Cat’s gang? > Not Solomon Kane or Stepin Fetchit > > Take a DQ for #3 Correct on Solomon and Stepin. #3 was Spooky (or, sometimes, “the Spook”). DQ: Known for politics? ---
**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 7, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/90 "2015-03-07T13:55:59Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a cartoon character voiced by Billy Gilbert? 2. Did you refuse to take… the garbage out? 3. Did you write “A Boy Named Sue”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/91 "2015-03-07T14:57:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Correct on all three of mine, too. > > IQs: > > Did Sam Kinnison joke that you were obsessed with fellatio? > Were you the top drillmaster of George Washington’s troops? > Are you arguably the second-best-known person to come from the town named after him? No idea on #1- take a DQ Not Frederick von Steuben Only person I know from Steubenville Ohio is Dean Martin, so take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/92 "2015-03-07T14:58:53Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with S 6. European 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Not involved in politics ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/93 "2015-03-07T14:59:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a cartoon character voiced by Billy Gilbert? > 2. Did you refuse to take… the garbage out? > 3. Did you write “A Boy Named Sue”? Not Shel Silverstein Take DQs for #1 and #2 ---
**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 7, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/94 "2015-03-07T15:02:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play _Pygmalion_? > IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White? > IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area? yoo hoo ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/95 "2015-03-07T15:02:26Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with S 6. European 7. Not involved in the arts 8. Not involved in politics 9. Died well after 1700 10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/96 "2015-03-07T15:25:51Z")
Originally Posted by Knowed Out IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play Pygmalion? IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White? IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area? Not George Bernard Shaw or Stuart Little Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/97 "2015-03-07T15:38:49Z")
IQ1: Was a biographical movie made about you that was in black and white except for a single item? IQ2: Were you IQ1’s accountant? IQ3: Are you the currently the prime minister of a constitutional monarchy? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/98 "2015-03-07T15:56:11Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Was a biographical movie made about you that was in black and white except for a single item? > IQ2: Were you IQ1’s accountant? > IQ3: Are you the currently the prime minister of a constitutional monarchy? Not Oskar Schindler or Stephen Harper Take a DQ for #2 ---
**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 7, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/99 "2015-03-07T16:33:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you win an Oscar in 1938 for the screenplay adaption of your play Pygmalion? > IQ2: Did Michael J. Fox provide your voice in the movie adaptation of a book by E.B. White? > IQ3: Did you write the screenplay for the above movie and become noted for directing movies with plot twists that take place in the Philadelphia area? > > Not George Bernard Shaw or Stuart Little M. Night Shamalyan DQ: Known for scientific achievement? ---
**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 7, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/100 "2015-03-07T16:53:29Z")
IQ1: Are you a German immigrant to America who designed heavy-duty work clothes that continue to use your name as its brand? IQ2: Are you a German-Polish philosopher who wrote _The World as Will and Representation_? IQ3: Are you a German actor who portrayed a vampire in the 1922 film _Nosferatu_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=6)