# 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:** 5
**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 5, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/81 "2016-03-05T00:30:57Z")
IQ1: Did a fictionalized version of you marry the tenth Doctor Who? IQ2: Did Madonna play you in a biographical film? IQ3: Did you marry the man for whom you had been nominally working as his private secretary, and then both commit suicide only a few days later? ---
**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 5, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/82 "2016-03-05T01:24:15Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did a fictionalized version of you marry the tenth Doctor Who? > IQ2: Did Madonna play you in a biographical film? > IQ3: Did you marry the man for whom you had been nominally working as his private secretary, and then both commit suicide only a few days later? DQ. DQ. Not Eva Braun. **E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 5, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/83 "2016-03-05T02:03:56Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did a fictionalized version of you marry the tenth Doctor Who? > IQ2: Did Madonna play you in a biographical film? > IQ3: Did you marry the man for whom you had been nominally working as his private secretary, and then both commit suicide only a few days later? Queen Elizabeth I, Eva Peron (_Evita_), and you were correct on Eva Braun. DQ1: born before 1900? DQ2: American? Holding 1 DQ. ---
**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 5, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/84 "2016-03-05T02:43:38Z")
IQ1: Did your uncle, the sitting President of the United States, formally give you away at your wedding, as your father was dead? IQ2: Were you a queen after whom a book of the Bible is named? IQ3: Is a prominent substance abuse facility named in your honor? ---
**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 5, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/85 "2016-03-05T03:46:58Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did your uncle, the sitting President of the United States, formally give you away at your wedding, as your father was dead? > IQ2: Were you a queen after whom a book of the Bible is named? > IQ3: Is a prominent substance abuse facility named in your honor? DQ. Not Esther. Not Elizabeth “Betty” Ford. **E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not born before 1900 7. American ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/86 "2016-03-05T04:58:48Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did your uncle, the sitting President of the United States, formally give you away at your wedding, as your father was dead? > IQ2: Were you a queen after whom a book of the Bible is named? > IQ3: Is a prominent substance abuse facility named in your honor? Teddy gave away his niece Eleanor Roosevelt to (future president and distant cousin) FDR. Correct on the last two. ---
**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 5, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/87 "2016-03-05T05:05:49Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? - Close enough - it was Edwin, not Edward, Stanton. Were you a king again in Robert Harris’s alt-history novel _Fatherland_? - Yes, Edward VIII of Great Britain. Did you play Capt. Bryant in _Blade Runner_? - Noted character actor M. Emmet Walsh. DQs: Political/military? Born since 1964? IQs: Did you end up marrying a guy with the first name FitzWilliam? Was your husband born on Corfu? Do some credit you with requiring a new automotive-safety feature? ---
**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 5, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/88 "2016-03-05T11:56:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you end up marrying a guy with the first name FitzWilliam? > Was your husband born on Corfu? > Do some credit you with requiring a new automotive-safety feature? Not … Jane Eyre? (I’ve no idea what book Fitzwilliam Darcy was in.) Not Elizabeth II. DQ. **E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not born before 1900 7. American 8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations) 9. Not born after 1964 ---
**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 5, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/89 "2016-03-05T14:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a film critic who lost the use of your lower jaw the last 10 years of your life? > IQ2: Did you have a “really big shoo” that was originally named The Toast of the Town? > IQ3: Are you the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast in the U.S. since Connie Chung? > Not … Roger Ebert? > Not Ed Sullivan. > DQ. Elizabeth Vargas DQ: Known for business? ---
**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 5, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/90 "2016-03-05T14:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you and your brother kick David Lee Roth out of your band? > 2. Were you lead vocalist for Pearl Jam? > 3. Did you make the first known sound recording? > DQ. > DQ. > Not Thomas Edison. #1 was Eddie van Halen. #2 was Eddie Vedder. Correct on Eddie-son. 🙂 2 DQs 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 5, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/91 "2016-03-05T20:59:20Z")
IQ1: Were you the female companion of both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? IQ2: Did you kill Robert Ford, slayer of Jess James? IQ3: Were you the only one of three brothers to die at the OK Corral gunfight in 1881? ---
**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 5, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/92 "2016-03-05T21:55:19Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the female companion of both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? > IQ2: Did you kill Robert Ford, slayer of Jess James? > IQ3: Were you the only one of three brothers to die at the OK Corral gunfight in 1881? DQ. DQ. (I really should know both of these. :mad:) As I recall, the only ones killed in that fight were Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury. DQ if you know of somebody else. **E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not born before 1900 7. American 8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations) 9. Not born after 1964 10. Not known for business ---
**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 5, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/93 "2016-03-05T23:32:19Z")
Previous IQs: Did you end up marrying a guy with the first name FitzWilliam? - Yes, she married Mr. Darcy, but that was Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen’s _Pride and Prejudice._ Was your husband born on Corfu? - Yes, Queen Elizabeth II. Do some credit you with requiring a new automotive-safety feature? - The third brake light was required on new U.S. cars during Elizabeth Dole’s service as U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Elizabeth x3! DQs: Best known for her work for a particular social reform? Born east of the Miss. River? IQs: Were you a noted American suffragette? Were you another noted American suffragette? Were you a noted female American advocate of temperance? ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/94 "2016-03-06T01:32:29Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you the female companion of both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? > IQ2: Did you kill Robert Ford, slayer of Jess James? > IQ3: Were you the only one of three brothers to die at the OK Corral gunfight in 1881? > > DQ. > DQ. (I really should know both of these. ) > As I recall, the only ones killed in that fight were Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury. DQ if you know of somebody else. Etta Place, Edward O’Kelley Toss #3. I thought Morgan Earp died too, but it was a year later. DQ: Born north of the Mason Dixon line? holding a DQ ---
**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 6, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/95 "2016-03-06T02:35:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted American suffragette? > Were you another noted American suffragette? > Were you a noted female American advocate of temperance? Drawing a blank here - the only ‘E’ I can think of is Emmeline Pankhurst, and she was English. Two DQs for the suffragettes. DQ for the temperance lady, too. [Away, away with rum, by gum!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Pl4hVmZjs) **E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not born before 1900 7. American 8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations) 9. Not born after 1964 10. Not known for business 11. Not best known for work for a particular social reform 12. Born east of the Miss. River 13. Born north of the Mason Dixon line ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/96 "2016-03-06T13:55:44Z")
IQ1: Are you a Melnibonean who wields Stormbringer? IQ2: Are you the daughter of King Verence II and Queen Magrat of Discworld, whose name includes “Note Spelling” because the Queen didn’t want the priest conducting the naming ceremony to misspell your middle name? IQ3: Are you a 5 time cover model for Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issues and portrayer of Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend in _Batman and Robin_? ---
**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 6, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/97 "2016-03-06T14:55:45Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a noted American suffragette? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Were you another noted American suffragette? - Emma Goldman Were you a noted female American advocate of temperance? - Withdrawn; I was thinking of someone else. Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 6, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/98 "2016-03-06T22:28:26Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Melnibonean who wields Stormbringer? > IQ2: Are you the daughter of King Verence II and Queen Magrat of Discworld, whose name includes “Note Spelling” because the Queen didn’t want the priest conducting the naming ceremony to misspell your middle name? > IQ3: Are you a 5 time cover model for Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issues and portrayer of Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend in _Batman and Robin_? Not Elric. DQ. 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 7, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/99 "2016-03-07T01:37:39Z")
correct, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre (just Esmerelda would have counted), Elle McPherson DQ: Athlete? holding 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, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/100 "2016-03-07T02:08:50Z")
**E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with E 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Not born before 1900 7. American 8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations) 9. Not born after 1964 10. Not known for business 11. Not best known for work for a particular social reform 12. Born east of the Miss. River 13. Born north of the Mason Dixon line 14. Not an athlete [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=6)