# 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:** 4
**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 23, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/61 "2011-05-23T13:56:48Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ: Were you one of Les Six? Dunno. Ask a DQ. ---
**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 23, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/62 "2011-05-23T13:57:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > IQ: Did you help the CIA to recover a Soviet submarine?.. No, I’m not Howard Hughes. Same answer to **AppallingGael**. ---
**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 23, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/63 "2011-05-23T13:58:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Did you lose half your hand in a pyrotechnic mishap? Dunno. Ask a DQ. ---
**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 23, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/64 "2011-05-23T13:59:59Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > …IQ: Are you an Austrian goalkeeper who has played in the English Premier League?.. Dunno. You get a DQ, too! ---
**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 23, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/65 "2011-05-23T14:18:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Le Ministre de l’au-delà > IQ: Were you one of Les Six? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno. Ask a DQ. So you aren’t Arthur Honneger, composer of Pacific 231 and member of Les Six, the circle of Parisian composers which included Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc. DQ: Were you celebrated for your accomplishments in the arts? (Meant to include visual arts, music, literature, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/66 "2011-05-23T14:35:01Z")
IQ: Did you ever engage in sexual relations in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant (and brag about it later)? ---
**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 23, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/67 "2011-05-23T14:39:39Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > IQ: Did you ever engage in sexual relations in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant (and brag about it later)? Hmm. I should know this; sounds vaguely familiar. Dunno. Ask a DQ. 1. Born after 100 BCE 2. Male 3. Not the leader/monarch of a nation or empire 4. American 5. Dead 6. Not celebrated for accomplishments in the arts (visual arts, music, literature, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/68 "2011-05-23T14:58:10Z")
Did Gil Macdougald bring about the end of your career? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/69 "2011-05-23T15:00:32Z")
Did you inspire the title of your protege Jimmy Carter’s first autobiography? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/70 "2011-05-23T15:01:37Z")
Did Rocco Riccobono once make headlines by claiming he’d slept with you? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/71 "2011-05-23T15:07:15Z")
IQ: Did you survive The Battle of South Mountain? ---
**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 23, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/72 "2011-05-23T15:52:41Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did Gil Macdougald bring about the end of your career? > [@astorian](#): > > Did Rocco Riccobono once make headlines by claiming he’d slept with you? > [@Wargamer](#): > > IQ: Did you survive The Battle of South Mountain? Dunno as to these. Ask DQs. ---
**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 23, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/73 "2011-05-23T15:54:08Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did you inspire the title of your protege Jimmy Carter’s first autobiography? No, I’m not Adm. Hyman “Why not the best?” Rickover. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/74 "2011-05-23T15:54:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. I should know this; sounds vaguely familiar. Dunno. Ask a DQ. Humpty Hump once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. DQ: Are you famous as an athlete? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/75 "2011-05-23T16:20:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno. You get a DQ, too! Actually, I don’t, because on researching my target in order to provide a link, I discovered that [Thomas Hitzlsperger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hitzlsperger) (the name I had in mind) is neither Austrian nor a goalkeeper! So that’s what I get for trying to be too clever! Not even sure who I was confusing him with. Anyway, here’s an IQ: Did a product named after one of your heirs become one of the best-known flops in the history of your industry? ---
**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 23, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/76 "2011-05-23T17:16:11Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > Humpty Hump once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. > > DQ: Are you famous as an athlete? Has anyone else here heard of Humpty Hump? I haven’t. Might fail the as-well-known-as-Botticelli rule. ---
**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 23, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/77 "2011-05-23T17:17:29Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > …Did a product named after one of your heirs become one of the best-known flops in the history of your industry? No, I’m not Henry Ford, whose car company eventually built the Edsel. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/78 "2011-05-23T18:00:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno as to these. Ask DQs. Star pitcher \*\*Herb Score \*\*was never the same after Gil Macdougald hit a baseball into his face. Back when \*\*Jessica Hahn \*\*accused Reverend Jim Bakker of raping her, ex-boyfriend Rocco Riccobono came forward to declare that she was NOT the virginal innocent she pretended to be, and that he’d had sex with her. 1. Were you born in the 20th century? 2. Were you famous in the fields of science or technology? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/79 "2011-05-23T18:03:45Z")
IQ: Did you survive the battle of South Mountain - Rutherford B. Hayes - elected President in 1876. DQ: Did you die between Jan. 1, 1800 and Jan 1, 1900? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/80 "2011-05-23T18:07:05Z")
Are you a member of the Air Supply? Did you ever give SpongeBob Squarepaants and Patrick Star a ride on your back? Were you the bassist of the Future Villain Band in the godawful movie “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”? Did you flirt with Della Street while investigating suspects for Perry Mason? Before becoming a rock star, did you bill yourself as “The Rambling Yodeller”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=5)