# Botticelli May 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 8, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571 "2015-05-08T19:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/1 "2015-05-08T19:13:41Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/2 "2015-05-08T19:30:38Z")
The last page of the April thread, with the first few questions of the current game, is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753592&page=12). ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/3 "2015-05-08T19:36:05Z")
IQ1: Did you portray Dorf? IQ2: Were you married to Ike? IQ3: Did you oversee an orphanage in Calcutta? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/4 "2015-05-08T19:54:12Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the name of both a 17th century privateer and a Revolutionary War figure? > IQ2: Is Blackbeard your alias? > IQ3: Did you and Olivier Levasseur capture the most valuable prize in pirate history, a Portuguese ship carrying gold, uncut diamonds and church regalia belonging to the viceroy of Goa? > Not Edward Teach. > > Beyond that… AAAAARGH, take two DQs ye scurvy dog! Thomas Paine, correct, John Taylor holding 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/5 "2015-05-08T20:24:46Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you portray Dorf? > IQ2: Were you married to Ike? > IQ3: Did you oversee an orphanage in Calcutta? Not Tim Conway, Tina Turner, or Mother Theresa ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/6 "2015-05-08T20:54:10Z")
Correct on all three. _cough_ > [@Botticelli April 2015](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/592): > > DQ: Does your last name start with T? > > Holding one DQ. IQ1: Did you play the commander of a space station that was not in the Solar System? IQ2: Was someone hired to injure your principal athletic rival just prior to competition? IQ3: Were you a popular televangelist until a scandal broke? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/7 "2015-05-08T21:12:51Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Last name starts with T ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/8 "2015-05-08T21:18:16Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write The Wonderful O? > 2. Did you compose The Piano Has Been Drinking? > 3. Did you invent the Sentinels to hunt down superpowered mutants? > Take 3 DQs (I hate getting shut out!) #1 was James Thurber. #2 was Tom Waits. #3 was Bolivar Trask. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Known for the Arts? 3. American? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/9 "2015-05-08T21:22:26Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a recently retired SDMB Moderator? 2. Were you a radio and TV commentator known as “the world’s foremost globetrotter”? 3. Are you an accordion-playing comedienne who was married for a time to Emo Phillips? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/10 "2015-05-08T21:26:27Z")
IQ1. Did you invent the world wide web? IQ2. Did you play a sweet transvestite? IQ3. Did you open a doughnut shop on Ottawa Street in Hamilton? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/11 "2015-05-08T22:39:50Z")
IQ1: Was Henry II’s alleged utterance, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” interpreted as a command to have you assassinated? IQ2: Are you a Victorian-age poet who wrote a play about IQ1? IQ3: Are you an American playwright who wrote _Murder in the Cathedral_, inspired by IQ1’s death? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/12 "2015-05-09T00:09:55Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Correct on all three. > > _cough_ > IQ1: Did you play the commander of a space station that was not in the Solar System? > IQ2: Was someone hired to injure your principal athletic rival just prior to competition? > IQ3: Were you a popular televangelist until a scandal broke? Not Tonya Harding or Tammy Bakker. Take a dq for 1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/13 "2015-05-09T00:12:55Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Not in the arts 5. Not American 6. Last name starts with T ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/14 "2015-05-09T00:15:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a recently retired SDMB Moderator? > 2. Were you a radio and TV commentator known as “the world’s foremost globetrotter”? > 3. Are you an accordion-playing comedienne who was married for a time to Emo Phillips? Not…TubaDiva or Judy Tenuta Take a Dq for 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/15 "2015-05-09T00:16:37Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Did you invent the world wide web? > IQ2. Did you play a sweet transvestite? > IQ3. Did you open a doughnut shop on Ottawa Street in Hamilton? Not Tims Berners-Lee, Curry or Horton ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/16 "2015-05-09T00:17:41Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Was Henry II’s alleged utterance, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” interpreted as a command to have you assassinated? > IQ2: Are you a Victorian-age poet who wrote a play about IQ1? > IQ3: Are you an American playwright who wrote _Murder in the Cathedral_, inspired by IQ1’s death? Not Thomas a Becket or TS Eliot Dq for 2 ---
**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:** [May 9, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/17 "2015-05-09T01:16:57Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a recently retired SDMB Moderator? > 2. Were you a radio and TV commentator known as “the world’s foremost globetrotter”? > 3. Are you an accordion-playing comedienne who was married for a time to Emo Phillips? > Not…TubaDiva or Judy Tenuta > > Take a Dq for 2 Correct on TubaDiva and Tenuta. #2 was Lowell Thomas. DQs: 1. European? 2. Known for science? ---
**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:** [May 9, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/18 "2015-05-09T01:22:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the ingenue in _I’ll Take Sweden_? 2. Did Debbie Watson play you in a 1960’s TV series? 3. Did you play Lurch on _The Addams Family_? ---
**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:** [May 9, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/19 "2015-05-09T12:06:26Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Thomas a Becket or TS Eliot > > Dq for 2 Alfred Lord Tennyson holding 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/20 "2015-05-09T15:20:19Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Not in the arts 5. Not American 6. Last name starts with T 1. European 1. Hmmm… not a scientist, but still sort of known for science (big hint) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=2)