# 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:** 6
**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, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/101 "2015-03-07T16:54:39Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 1. Billy Gilbert was a character actor known for his comic sneezing. He voiced Sneezy in Disney’s Snow White. 2. Shel Silverstein wrote and recorded a comic poem: “[Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELwnPE8WlM8)”. DQ: Died after 1900? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/102 "2015-03-07T22:23:27Z")
Previous IQs: Did Sam Kinnison joke that you were obsessed with fellatio? - Richard Simmons Were you the top drillmaster of George Washington’s troops? - Yes, von Steuben Are you arguably the second-best-known person to come from the town named after him? - Dean Martin is the best-known, you’re right; Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SecWar, is arguably the second. Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you the female lead of Thornton Wilder’s _The Skin of Our Teeth_? Did you write _Travels with Charley_? Did Sherlock Holmes pretend to be this Scandinavian explorer? ---
**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 8, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/103 "2015-03-08T03:26:25Z")
You answered my DQs (9 and 10), but not my IQs: > [@SCAdian](#): > > 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:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/104 "2015-03-08T16:26:41Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 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_? Not Levi Strauss or Max Shreck. Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/105 "2015-03-08T16:27:41Z")
# 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 11. Not known for science or technology 12. Died after 1900 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/106 "2015-03-08T16:28:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the female lead of Thornton Wilder’s _The Skin of Our Teeth_? > Did you write _Travels with Charley_? > Did Sherlock Holmes pretend to be this Scandinavian explorer? Not Sabina or John Steinbeck. I SHOULD know Holmes trivia, but don’t remember this alias (I will as soon as you tell me). 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 8, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/107 "2015-03-08T16:29:53Z")
Originally Posted by SCAdian 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? Not Oskar Schindler? Not Bonny Prince Charlie Stuart Not Jonathan Swift ---
**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 8, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/108 "2015-03-08T17:01:22Z")
IQs: 1. Have you been a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Justice Society of America and the Knights of the Round Table? 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick? 3. Were you a Kirby superhero, aka Garrett Sanford? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/109 "2015-03-08T17:24:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Have you been a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Justice Society of America and the Knights of the Round Table? > 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick? > 3. Were you a Kirby superhero, aka Garrett Sanford? Not Stripesy. Take a DQ for 1 and 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 8, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/110 "2015-03-08T19:57:09Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the female lead of Thornton Wilder’s _The Skin of Our Teeth_? - Yes, Sabina Did you write _Travels with Charley_? - Yes, John Steinbeck Did Sherlock Holmes pretend to be this Scandinavian explorer? - Sigerson, during the “Great Hiatus” (while Holmes was thought to have been killed by Moriarty). DQs: Born in or east of Vienna? Born in or south of Vienna? Best known as a businessman/tycoon? IQs: Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III? Were you the Tory hero of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? Are you a newscaster with a hard first name? ---
**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 8, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/111 "2015-03-08T20:38:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Have you been a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Justice Society of America and the Knights of the Round Table? > 2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick? > 3. Were you a Kirby superhero, aka Garrett Sanford? > > Not Stripesy. > > Take a DQ for 1 and 3 #1 was the Shining Knight. Correct on Stripesy. #3 was a laughably bad character called the Sandman. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/112 "2015-03-08T21:37:49Z")
# 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 11. Not known for science or technology 12. Died after 1900 13. Not a businessman 14. Born far west and well north of Vienna ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/113 "2015-03-08T21:39:51Z")
Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III? Were you the Tory hero of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? Are you a newscaster with a hard first name? Take 3 DQs ---
**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 8, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/114 "2015-03-08T22:07:19Z")
DQs: 1. Last name starts with SA-to-SK? 2. Known for military reasons? ---
**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 9, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/115 "2015-03-09T00:25:15Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > > Not Levi Strauss or Max Shreck. Arthur Schopenhauer holding a DQ IQ1: Were you executed at Nuremberg for performing harmful experiments on human subjects at Dachau? IQ2: Are you a gay call-in show DJ in Doonesbury? IQ3: Did you win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for your philosophy of _Reverence for Life_? ---
**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 9, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/116 "2015-03-09T01:26:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Oskar Schindler? > Not Bonny Prince Charlie Stuart > > Not Jonathan Swift Correct on all three. IQ1: Did you report having found channels on Mars? IQ2: Were you a noted Arctic explorer from Canada? IQ3: Were you one of the designers of the Great Panjandrum? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/117 "2015-03-09T02:22:48Z")
# 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 11. Not known for science or technology 12. Died after 1900 13. Not a businessman 14. Born far west and well north of Vienna 15. Last name starts with SO-SZ 16. Not a military figure ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/118 "2015-03-09T02:24:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Arthur Schopenhauer > > holding a DQ > > IQ1: Were you executed at Nuremberg for performing harmful experiments on human subjects at Dachau? > IQ2: Are you a gay call-in show DJ in Doonesbury? > IQ3: Did you win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for your philosophy of _Reverence for Life_? Not Mark Slackmeyer 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 9, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/119 "2015-03-09T02:25:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on all three. > IQ1: Did you report having found channels on Mars? > IQ2: Were you a noted Arctic explorer from Canada? > IQ3: Were you one of the designers of the Great Panjandrum? Three DQs for you ---
**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 9, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/120 "2015-03-09T02:45:38Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the character that promoted Julie Newmar to stardom? 2. Did Cliff Robertson portray you on _Batman_? 3. Were you co-creator of Captain America with Jack Kirby? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=7)