# 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:** 8
**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 10, 2016, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/141 "2016-03-10T03:08:40Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the grimacing leader of the Howling Commandos? > IQ2: Are you an Austrian archduke a Scottish band named themselves after? > IQ3: Are you a friend of the Tick with the same name as an operetta by Johann Strauss II? I’m neither Nick Fury, Franz Ferdinand, nor Der Fliedermaus. ---
**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 10, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/142 "2016-03-10T03:18:14Z")
IQ1: Did you invent a steamboat propelled by oars? IQ2: Did you design a submarine called the _Nautilus_? IQ3: Did your company build the Dr.I and the D.VII, amongst other things? ---
**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 10, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/143 "2016-03-10T03:46:00Z")
Yes, I designed the Nautilus, I’m Robert Fulton. Congrats, SCAdian! ---
**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 10, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/144 "2016-03-10T04:55:46Z")
Good job, **SCAdian**! Previous IQs: Did Murphy Brown stay at a place named after you? - Betty Ford Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of yourself? - Yes, Charles Foster Kane Did Churchill mock your name? - Churchill once mocked Ike’s SECSTATE, John Foster Dulles, saying “Dull, duller, Dulles.” ---
**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 10, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/145 "2016-03-10T13:37:33Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Yes, I designed the Nautilus, I’m Robert Fulton. Congrats, SCAdian! The combination of DQs 8 and 13 made me think he might actually be the right answer. I am **G**. ---
**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 10, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/146 "2016-03-10T16:41:47Z")
Fulton also designed a surface warship: [United States floating battery Demologos - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_floating_battery_Demologos) On to G… IQs: Did Peter Sellers play you, an unlikely presidential candidate? Did Matthew Broderick play you, a young abolitionist hero? Did you write the Perry Mason stories? ---
**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 10, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/147 "2016-03-10T18:15:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Fulton also designed a surface warship: [United States floating battery Demologos - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_floating_battery_Demologos) I think he’s most famous for a non-military ship - the _Clermont_. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Peter Sellers play you, an unlikely presidential candidate? > Did Matthew Broderick play you, a young abolitionist hero? > Did you write the Perry Mason stories? DQ. DQ. Not Erle Stanley Garner. ---
**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 10, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/148 "2016-03-10T19:59:26Z")
Of course. The _Demologos_ is interesting too, though, I thought. Previous IQs: Did Peter Sellers play you, an unlikely presidential candidate? - Chauncey Gardiner in _Being There_. Did Matthew Broderick play you, a young abolitionist hero? - Robert Gould Shaw (always used his middle name) in _Glory_. Did you write the Perry Mason stories? - It’s “Gardner,” but yes. DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Were you Lancelot’s bastard son in some Arthurian legends? Was your creator never quite sure if you’d been reincarnated? Did some call you Tharkun? ---
**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 10, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/149 "2016-03-10T20:22:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you Lancelot’s bastard son in some Arthurian legends? > Was your creator never quite sure if you’d been reincarnated? > Did some call you Tharkun? DQ. DQ. Not Gandalf. Missed the misspelling of Gardner when I was proofreading. This damn’ keyboard isn’t real good at paying attention - I’m constantly having to go back and insert missing letters. It’s especially bad at double letters - I type two, I hear the keyboard click twice, and then I look at the screen and there’s only one letter there. :mad: **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male ---
**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 10, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/150 "2016-03-10T20:44:41Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lancelot’s bastard son in some Arthurian legends? - Sir Galahad. Was your creator never quite sure if you’d been reincarnated? - The Elf-lord Glorfindel, in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Did some call you Tharkun? - Yes, Gandalf AKA Mithrandir AKA Olorin. DQs: Last name start with G? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Are you a notable autistic American woman and author? Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? Did you and your wife kill all your children before both committing suicide? ---
**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 10, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/151 "2016-03-10T23:58:51Z")
IQ1: Are you a painter recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”? IQ2: In Boston, is November 16 a day named after you, as the last person to be hanged for witchcraft there? IQ3: Did you find a big awful nude painting in the garbage, claim you did it in art class, and convince your friend George Kind to hang it on his wall for two years? ---
**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 11, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/152 "2016-03-11T00:31:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a notable autistic American woman and author? > Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? > Did you and your wife kill all your children before both committing suicide? DQ. DQ. (I’ll practice kicking myself whilst waiting for your return.) Not Joseph Goebbels. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a painter recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”? > IQ2: In Boston, is November 16 a day named after you, as the last person to be hanged for witchcraft there? > IQ3: Did you find a big awful nude painting in the garbage, claim you did it in art class, and convince your friend George Kind to hang it on his wall for two years? Not … Georgia O’Keeffe? Only person I can think of is Giles Corey, who was pressed, not hanged, so DQ. DQ. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real ---
**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 11, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/153 "2016-03-11T02:06:32Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a painter recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”? > IQ2: In Boston, is November 16 a day named after you, as the last person to be hanged for witchcraft there? > IQ3: Did you find a big awful nude painting in the garbage, claim you did it in art class, and convince your friend George Kind to hang it on his wall for two years? > > Not … Georgia O’Keeffe? > Only person I can think of is Giles Corey, who was pressed, not hanged, so DQ. > DQ. correct, Goodwife Ann “Goody” Glover, George Clooney DQ: From literature? 1 DQ in reserve ---
**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 11, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/154 "2016-03-11T02:55:51Z")
**G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature ---
**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 11, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/155 "2016-03-11T05:43:23Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a notable autistic American woman and author? - Temple Grandin Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, one of my Civil War heroes, of course: [George Henry Thomas - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas) Did you and your wife kill all your children before both committing suicide? - Yes, Joseph Goebbels. DQs: American? Best known for movie(s)? IQs: Should you really watch out for that tree? Did your wife call you “Old Man” before 1960? Did your brother have an all-time unique royal title? ---
**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 11, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/156 "2016-03-11T11:41:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Should you really watch out for that tree? > Did your wife call you “Old Man” before 1960? > Did your brother have an all-time unique royal title? Not George of the Jungle. DQ. Not George VI. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American 7. Not best known for movie(s) ---
**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 11, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/157 "2016-03-11T13:40:45Z")
IQ1: Was your 1988 presidential run disrupted by your affair with Donna Rice? IQ2: Did you portray Lieutenant Dan in _Forrest Gump_? IQ3: In Taco’s version of _Puttin’ On the Ritz_, is the singer dressed up like a million-dollar trooper, tryin’ hard to look like you? DQ: From advertising? DQ reserve empty ---
**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 11, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/158 "2016-03-11T19:45:47Z")
Previous IQs: Should you really watch out for that tree? - Yes, George of the Jungle. Did your wife call you “Old Man” before 1960? - George Washington. Did your brother have an all-time unique royal title? - Yes, King George VI, brother of the Duke of Windsor. DQ: Best known from TV? IQs: Are you SpongeBob’s pet? Did Donald Trump famously fire you? Were you accidentally injected on live TV with a needle that someone else had already used? ---
**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 11, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/159 "2016-03-11T22:51:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Was your 1988 presidential run disrupted by your affair with Donna Rice? > IQ2: Did you portray Lieutenant Dan in _Forrest Gump_? > IQ3: In Taco’s version of _Puttin’ On the Ritz_, is the singer dressed up like a million-dollar trooper, tryin’ hard to look like you? Not Gary Hart. Not Gary Sinise (who came down for a tour of the boat while we were deployed in '03). DQ for this probable Gary. 😃 > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you SpongeBob’s pet? > Did Donald Trump famously fire you? > Were you accidentally injected on live TV with a needle that someone else had already used? Not Gary the snail. DQ. DQ. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV ---
**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 11, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/160 "2016-03-11T22:56:21Z")
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