# Botticelli March 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512 "2016-02-29T16:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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 28, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/441 "2016-03-28T11:23:04Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Were you a financier involved in the creation of General Electric and US Steel? I am not J. P. Morgan. ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/442 "2016-03-28T11:27:56Z")
DQ: Is a product or service named after you? 1 DQ left ---
**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 28, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/443 "2016-03-28T13:59:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not known for the Arts 5. Last name starts with M 6. American 7. Not known for political/military reasons 8. Born prior to 1900 9. Not known for science 10. Born east of the Mississippi 11. Born after 1800 12. Businessman/entrepreneur/inventor 13. Not an inventor 14. No products or services named after me, but a chain of businesses and an event are ---
**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 28, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/444 "2016-03-28T15:00:59Z")
IQ: Is a Thanksgiving Day parade named after your chain of stores? ---
**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 28, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/445 "2016-03-28T15:08:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ: Is a Thanksgiving Day parade named after your chain of stores? Yes! I am R. H. Macy. Well done, KO! ---
**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 28, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/446 "2016-03-28T16:30:54Z")
Sweet! OK, new letter is N! ---
**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 28, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/447 "2016-03-28T16:40:00Z")
IQs: 1. Did you hang around with Sluggo? 2. Are you aka Valentina Vostok? 3. Are you a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? ---
**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 28, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/448 "2016-03-28T20:09:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Sluggo? > 2. Are you aka Valentina Vostok? > 3. Are you a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? not Nancy, DQ, not Captain Nemo ---
**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 28, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/449 "2016-03-28T21:48:28Z")
McCormick, Mack, and Morgan were my best shots - I never would have thought of Macy. IQ1: Did you lead the first expedition to cross Greenland? IQ2: Were you David and Eric’s mother, and Oswald’s wife? IQ3: Were you a Commando officer who allegedly said that he would rather be “tickling Ginger Rogers’s tits” than serving in the army? ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/450 "2016-03-28T23:22:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Sluggo? > 2. Are you aka Valentina Vostok? > 3. Are you a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Nancy, DQ, not Captain Nemo Correct, Negative Woman (from the _Doom Patrol_), correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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 29, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/451 "2016-03-29T01:50:11Z")
Congrats KO, good guess! IQ1: Are you the real name of a superhero that is a reference to the person in the Old Testament your origin story… took inspiration from? IQ2: Were you a Golden Age character who alternately fought and teamed up with the Human Torch? IQ3: Were you inspired into superheroics by the Golden Age Atom? ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/452 "2016-03-29T02:03:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead the first expedition to cross Greenland? > IQ2: Were you David and Eric’s mother, and Oswald’s wife? > IQ3: Were you a Commando officer who allegedly said that he would rather be “tickling Ginger Rogers’s tits” than serving in the army? 3 DQs for you ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/453 "2016-03-29T02:05:12Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Congrats KO, good guess! > > IQ1: Are you the real name of a superhero that is a reference to the person in the Old Testament your origin story… took inspiration from? > IQ2: Were you a Golden Age character who alternately fought and teamed up with the Human Torch? > IQ3: Were you inspired into superheroics by the Golden Age Atom? DQ, not Namor, DQ ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/454 "2016-03-29T02:07:29Z")
DQ Roundup 1. 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 29, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/455 "2016-03-29T02:16:01Z")
IQs: 1. Did Doctor Who advise you to be interviewed by David Frost? 2. Do you occasionally employ Saul Panzer? 3. Did you write _World of Ptavvs_? ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/456 "2016-03-29T02:30:21Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Congrats KO, good guess! > > IQ1: Are you the real name of a superhero that is a reference to the person in the Old Testament your origin story… took inspiration from? > IQ2: Were you a Golden Age character who alternately fought and teamed up with the Human Torch? > IQ3: Were you inspired into superheroics by the Golden Age Atom? Jo Nah (Ultra Boy) who got his powers by being swallowed by a space whale, correct, and Nuklon from the JSA revival in the 80s. DQ1: Male? DQ2: Alive? ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/457 "2016-03-29T02:44:52Z")
IQ1: Did you take over for Alan Moore in writing Miracleman? IQ2: Are you the host of a show on Chicago public radio, syndicated on NPR? IQ3: Do you run the Hayden Planetarium? ---
**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 29, 2016, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/458 "2016-03-29T03:19:25Z")
Good job, **K.O.**! Previous IQs: Were you a key leader in a lunar rebellion? - Yes, Mannie O’Kelly-Davis, in Heinlein’s _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_. Were you the computer who helped him? - Yes, MYCROFT aka Mike. Did the actor who played you have makeup for a bigger nose and longer hair? - Mithrandir AKA Gandalf, as played by (another M!) Ian McKellen, in the _LOTR_ movies. On to N. IQs: Were you FDR’s first VP? Was Chris Christie, by his own admission, astonished when you encouraged him to run for President? Are you a longtime liberal Congressman from NYC? ---
**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 29, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/459 "2016-03-29T11:15:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lead the first expedition to cross Greenland? > IQ2: Were you David and Eric’s mother, and Oswald’s wife? > IQ3: Were you a Commando officer who allegedly said that he would rather be “tickling Ginger Rogers’s tits” than serving in the army? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 3 DQs for you Fridtjof Nansen. Harriet Nelson. David Niven. DQ1: American? DQ2: Known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/460 "2016-03-29T12:04:12Z")
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