# Botticelli, May 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 22, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753 "2011-05-22T04:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/201 "2011-05-30T02:28:40Z")
IQ: Did you have a “feud” with Jack Benny? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/202 "2011-05-30T02:35:11Z")
IQ: Do you repeat yourself when you’re distressed? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/203 "2011-05-30T17:47:20Z")
**Sternvogel** and **Le Ministre** , you got me. Ask one DQ each. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Aaron Spelling. Roone Arledge produced a sports show, but I don’t know/think he produced series. > > DQ: Is ‘A’ the initial of your surname? OK. You’re probably right. 1. Last name starts with A ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/204 "2011-05-30T19:12:15Z")
IQ: Are you a musician who played jazz, and who has a ‘painful’ last name that is not a form of ‘pain’ (e.g., ‘Payne’, ‘Pain’, ‘Pane’)? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/205 "2011-05-30T19:45:55Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Do you repeat yourself when you’re distressed? Then you’re not Adrian Belew, guitarist, singer and lyricist for King Crimson. In the song ‘Indiscipline’ from the album ‘Discipline’, he had a great moment where he frantically repeated the line “I repeat myself when I’m distressed!”. I hope that isn’t too obscure an allusion for the rules of the game. (I’m not used to playing this version where the reference to the person for an IQ is made as obscure as possible - we simply used to bombard the chooser with the sheer weight of our knowledge of trivia. “OK, you knew that poet, but how about this poet? and this poet? and this poet? How about jazz musicians?” This version is much more fun!) I digress. DQ: Are you a fictional character? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/206 "2011-05-30T20:48:57Z")
IQ: Are you a heterosexual who has a programming language named after you? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/207 "2011-05-31T00:46:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > IQ: Are you a musician who played jazz, and who has a ‘painful’ last name that is not a form of ‘pain’ (e.g., ‘Payne’, ‘Pain’, ‘Pane’)? No, I’m not Al Hirt. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/208 "2011-05-31T00:47:06Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > …DQ: Are you a fictional character? 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/209 "2011-05-31T00:48:21Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > IQ: Are you a heterosexual who has a programming language named after you? No, I’m not Alan Turing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/210 "2011-05-31T00:53:20Z")
Did Charles Schulz satirize your detractors in a 1973 _Peanuts_ comic strip in which Snoopy attempts to break a sporting record? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/211 "2011-05-31T00:59:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No, I’m not Alan Turing. Alan Turing was not a heterosexual. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/212 "2011-05-31T01:10:38Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Did Charles Schulz satirize your detractors in a 1973 _Peanuts_ comic strip in which Snoopy attempts to break a sporting record? Dunno as to this, or as to **Tom Scud** ’s re: the computer language (I misread it). Ask your DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/213 "2011-05-31T01:14:26Z")
That was panamajack’s question (and thus DQ), not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/214 "2011-05-31T01:17:44Z")
IQ: Did you search for some holes in the ground? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/215 "2011-05-31T01:24:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno as to this… Ask your DQs. Charles Schulz took jabs at the critics of Hank Aaron, in his _Peanuts_ strip of 11 August 1973. DQ: You are a fictional character. Are you human? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/216 "2011-05-31T02:35:20Z")
Fred Allen and Jack Benny carried on a fake feud during their respective shows in the golden days of radio. DQ: Are you a character in a comic strip? IQ: Do you hang around Pop’s Chok’lit Shoppe? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/217 "2011-05-31T02:50:56Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Alan Turing was not a heterosexual. Indeed. **Ada Lovelace** (daughter of Lord Byron) more or less invented computer programming (she didn’t write the language Ada though, it’s just in her honor). (As for the heterosexual part, she was married - happily, as far as I know). DQ:Are you female? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/218 "2011-05-31T04:03:09Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > IQ: Did you search for some holes in the ground? No, I’m not Alan Quartermain. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/219 "2011-05-31T04:11:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Charles Schulz took jabs at the critics of Hank Aaron, in his _Peanuts_ strip of 11 August 1973. > > DQ: You are a fictional character. Are you human? 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character 3. Human ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/220 "2011-05-31T04:12:35Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > … > DQ: Are you a character in a comic strip? > > IQ: Do you hang around Pop’s Chok’lit Shoppe? No, I’m not Archie. 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character 3. Human 4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=12)