# Botticelli - March 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 27, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978 "2017-02-27T20:47:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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 15, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/241 "2017-03-15T16:46:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was “Leo Walsh” a fake name you once used? > Were you a supersmart computer about which David Gerrold wrote? > Was Trooper, a World War I veteran down on his luck, cut from a script you wrote? 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 15, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/242 "2017-03-15T16:48:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Curse my obsession with themes. > > IQ1: Were you and G. Gordon Liddy the chief operatives behind the Watergate break-in? > IQ2: Were you the White House Chief of Staff during Watergate? > IQ3: Were you the Senate investigation committee member who asked “What did the President know and when did he know it?” 1. I am not E. Howard Hunt. 2. I am not H. R. Haldeman. 3. I am not Sen. Howard Baker. ---
**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 15, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/243 "2017-03-15T17:26:20Z")
IQ1: Are you a German physicist who developed the implosion method used in the Fat Man bombs? IQ2: Did you write children’s stories like _The Little Mermaid_ and _The Ugly Ducking_? IQ3: Did you compose the film scores for the _Pirate of the Caribbean_ movies? ---
**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 15, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/244 "2017-03-15T17:33:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a German physicist who developed the implosion method used in the Fat Man bombs? > IQ2: Did you write children’s stories like _The Little Mermaid_ and _The Ugly Ducking_? > IQ3: Did you compose the film scores for the _Pirate of the Caribbean_ movies? #2. I am not Hans Christian Andersen. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 15, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/245 "2017-03-15T19:28:12Z")
Hans Bethel, correct, Hans Zimmer Hans x 3! DQ: Died before 1950? holding 1 DQ ---
**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 15, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/246 "2017-03-15T20:06:41Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with H 6. Born before 1964 7. Not known for the Arts 8. European 9. Not known for politics/royalty 10. British, but not from birth 11. Scientist/inventor 12. Born north of Munich 13. Born west of Munich 14. Not from a medical field 15. Native speaker of a Germanic language 16. Died before 1950 ---
**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 16, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/247 "2017-03-16T01:41:12Z")
IQ1: Is _American Splendor_ your autobiographical comic? IQ2: Did you play Mr. Wolf in _Pulp Fiction_? IQ3: Was your killer noted for using the “Twinkie Defense” during his trial? ---
**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 16, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/248 "2017-03-16T01:43:24Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Is _American Splendor_ your autobiographical comic? > IQ2: Did you play Mr. Wolf in _Pulp Fiction_? > IQ3: Was your killer noted for using the “Twinkie Defense” during his trial? 1. I am not Harvey Pekar. 2. I am not Harvey Keitel. 3. I am not Harvey Korman. Okay, kidding. Take 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 16, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/249 "2017-03-16T03:50:21Z")
IQ: Does a joke have you and a colleague getting lost whilst driving around New Mexico? ---
**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 16, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/250 "2017-03-16T04:11:03Z")
Previous IQs: Was “Leo Walsh” a fake name you once used? - Harcourt Fenton Mudd, in ST:TOS Were you a supersmart computer about which David Gerrold wrote? - HARLIE Was Trooper, a World War I veteran down on his luck, cut from a script you wrote? - Harlan Ellison, in the first draft of his ST:TOS “City on the Edge of Forever” script DQs: Born in Germany? Won a Nobel Prize? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did a meth-lab tycoon use your name as a pseudonym? Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer? Were you the boy hero of _The Iron Giant_? ---
**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 16, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/251 "2017-03-16T10:57:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Does a joke have you and a colleague getting lost whilst driving around New Mexico? I am not Heisenberg. ---
**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 16, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/252 "2017-03-16T10:59:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with H 6. Born before 1964 7. Not known for the Arts 8. European 9. Not known for politics/royalty 10. British, but not from birth 11. Scientist/inventor 12. Born north of Munich 13. Born west of Munich 14. Not from a medical field 15. Native speaker of a Germanic language 16. Died before 1950 17. Born in what would later be Germany 18. Didn’t win a Nobel Prize ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/253 "2017-03-16T11:00:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a meth-lab tycoon use your name as a pseudonym? > Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer? > Were you the boy hero of _The Iron Giant_? #3. I am not Hogarth Hughes. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 16, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/254 "2017-03-16T11:36:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Harvey Pekar. > 2. I am not Harvey Keitel. > 3. I am not Harvey Korman. Okay, kidding. Take a DQ. Harvey Milk Harvey x you know… 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 16, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/255 "2017-03-16T12:36:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Does a joke have you and a colleague getting lost whilst driving around New Mexico? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Heisenberg. Correct. ---
**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 16, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/256 "2017-03-16T13:41:23Z")
Previous IQs: Did a meth-lab tycoon use your name as a pseudonym? - Also Heisenberg Were you Stonewall Jackson’s cartographer? - Jebediah Hotchkiss, famous in Civil War circles for his maps Were you the boy hero of _The Iron Giant_? - Yes, Hogarth Hughes DQ: Greatest fame before 1900? IQs: Were you a noted 18th C. German astronomer? Did one of your best-known works premiere on Fishamble Lane in Dublin? Did you star in _Corvette Summer_? ---
**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 16, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/257 "2017-03-16T13:45:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted 18th C. German astronomer? Ja, ich bin William Herschel, discover of infrared radiation and George’s Planet, aka Herschel, aka Uranus. Well done, EH! That took longer than I thought, but that’s 'cause everyone was fixated on the 20th Century. ---
**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 17, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/258 "2017-03-17T02:49:48Z")
Woohoo - thanks! Good one, **Prof. P.** Don’t know why I started thinking about astronomy. Hmm. Why don’t we make our next letter C ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/259 "2017-03-17T10:44:00Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a “sea-sick sea serpent”? 2. Were you also known as Khufu? 3. Did you write _The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody_? ---
**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 17, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2017/780978/260 "2017-03-17T12:28:24Z")
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