# 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:** 12
**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 18, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/221 "2015-05-18T15:31:16Z")
Good job, SCAdian! ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/222 "2015-05-18T16:28:19Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ2: Were you the ringleader of the players involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal? > > Take a DQ for #2, which I SHOULD know. Chick Gandil Congrats SCAdian! ---
**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 18, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/223 "2015-05-18T19:05:01Z")
Only reason I knew about Gregor was because we read _Die Verwandlung_ in my third-year German class, long, long ago back in high school. I don’t think we’ve done ‘F’ recently, so … I am **F** ---
**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 18, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/224 "2015-05-18T20:05:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > …I don’t think we’ve done ‘F’ recently… When in doubt, check the list: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663) IQs: Did your palace have a French name, even though you weren’t French? Do many people credit you with the invention of television? Did your parents have the same names as a kind of tree and a figure from Jewish mythos? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/225 "2015-05-18T20:06:48Z")
IQ1) Did you almost drown while doing the swimming race on the ABC TV sports show “The Superstars”? IQ2) Was Tom Hanks’ character in “A League of Their Own” based on you, a real-life major league slugger and alcoholic? IQ3) Did you get in a heap of trouble for making fried chicken and watermelon jokes about Tiger Woods? ---
**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 18, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/226 "2015-05-18T20:37:23Z")
IQs: 1. Were you “the bull with the delicate ego”? 2. Did you play Peter Parker’s best friend in the first Spider-Man movie trilogy? 3. Did you make your debut in the pages of _Not Brand Ecch!_ comics? ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/227 "2015-05-18T22:17:16Z")
IQ1: Are you a dwarf from Norse myth whose greed and avarice eventually transformed you into a dragon? IQ2: Are you a gigantic wolf of Norse myth who bit off the right hand of Tyr when the gods tried to bind you? IQ3: Are you a Norse fertility god, fated to be slain by Surtr at Ragnarök? ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/228 "2015-05-19T01:45:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > …I don’t think we’ve done ‘F’ recently… > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > When in doubt, check the list: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663) I did check the list, but it hasn’t been updated for a few weeks - and I forgot that I just did an ‘F’ myself a couple weeks ago. :smack: ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/229 "2015-05-19T01:50:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your palace have a French name, even though you weren’t French? > Do many people credit you with the invention of television? > Did your parents have the same names as a kind of tree and a figure from Jewish mythos? Not Frederick the Great. DQ. DQ. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you almost drown while doing the swimming race on the ABC TV sports show “The Superstars”? > > IQ2) Was Tom Hanks’ character in “A League of Their Own” based on you, a real-life major league slugger and alcoholic? > > IQ3) Did you get in a heap of trouble for making fried chicken and watermelon jokes about Tiger Woods? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you “the bull with the delicate ego”? > 2. Did you play Peter Parker’s best friend in the first Spider-Man movie trilogy? > 3. Did you make your debut in the pages of _Not Brand Ecch!_ comics? Not Ferdinand. DQ. Not Forbush-Man. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a dwarf from Norse myth whose greed and avarice eventually transformed you into a dragon? > IQ2: Are you a gigantic wolf of Norse myth who bit off the right hand of Tyr when the gods tried to bind you? > IQ3: Are you a Norse fertility god, fated to be slain by Surtr at Ragnarök? Not Fafnir, Fenris, or Frey. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/230 "2015-05-19T02:39:31Z")
IQ1. Did you create _Fallingwater_? IQ2. Did you give your name to a word meaning “senselesslly, surreally complex”? IQ3. Did you name yourself after a car, thereby confusing trans-Atlantic audiences? ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/231 "2015-05-19T03:03:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you “the bull with the delicate ego”? > 2. Did you play Peter Parker’s best friend in the first Spider-Man movie trilogy? > 3. Did you make your debut in the pages of Not Brand Ecch! comics? > Not Ferdinand. > DQ. > Not Forbush-Man. Correct, James Franco, correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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 19, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/232 "2015-05-19T03:14:58Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Charlie on _Charlie’s Angels_? 2. Did you play Sgt. O’Rourke on _F Troop_? 3. Were you a jewel thief who occasionally helped out Father Brown? ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/233 "2015-05-19T04:12:47Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Did you create _Fallingwater_? > IQ2. Did you give your name to a word meaning “senselesslly, surreally complex”? > IQ3. Did you name yourself after a car, thereby confusing trans-Atlantic audiences? Not Frank Lloyd Wright. Not Franz Kafka. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Charlie on _Charlie’s Angels_? > 2. Did you play Sgt. O’Rourke on _F Troop_? > 3. Were you a jewel thief who occasionally helped out Father Brown? Three DQs. **F** 1. Real ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/234 "2015-05-19T04:22:02Z")
Previous IQs: Did your palace have a French name, even though you weren’t French? - Yes, Frederick the Great of Prussia, whose palace was Sanssouci. Do many people credit you with the invention of television? - Elon Farnsworth. Did your parents have the same names as a kind of tree and a figure from Jewish mythos? - Frederick Crane, son of Frasier and Lilith Crane. DQs: Male? Last name start with F? IQs: Did you see your guests killed at the Red Wedding? Have you played an aircraft engineer, a rape victim and an FBI special agent? Did you joke that your dog was mad about partisan attacks on you? ---
**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 19, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/235 "2015-05-19T12:43:27Z")
IQ1: Are you a rock bassist who played a nihilist in a Coen Brothers movie? IQ2: Were you once mistaken for Iseek of the Jug? IQ3: Did Patty Hearst claim you were drunk when defending her in court? ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/236 "2015-05-19T13:04:18Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Charlie on Charlie’s Angels? > 2. Did you play Sgt. O’Rourke on F Troop? > 3. Were you a jewel thief who occasionally helped out Father Brown? > Three DQs. #1 was John Forsythe (whose voice was heard on the phone, but was never seen). #2 was Forrest Tucker. #3 was Flambeau, in the stories by G. K. Chesterton. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? 3. Known for the Arts? ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/237 "2015-05-19T13:07:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _Mutiny on the Bounty_ along with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable? 2. Did you direct _The Wizard of Oz_? 3. Did you circumnavigate the globe? ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/238 "2015-05-19T14:05:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you see your guests killed at the Red Wedding? > Have you played an aircraft engineer, a rape victim and an FBI special agent? > Did you joke that your dog was mad about partisan attacks on you? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a rock bassist who played a nihilist in a Coen Brothers movie? > IQ2: Were you once mistaken for Iseek of the Jug? > IQ3: Did Patty Hearst claim you were drunk when defending her in court? DQ. If you mean I **ss** ek of the Jug, I am not Fafhrd. Otherwise, DQ. Not F Lee Bailey - though I almost was! 🙂 > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in _Mutiny on the Bounty_ along with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable? > 2. Did you direct _The Wizard of Oz_? > 3. Did you circumnavigate the globe? DQ. DQ. Not Sir Francis Chichester. **F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with F 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/239 "2015-05-19T14:08:36Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in Mutiny on the Bounty along with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable? > 2. Did you direct The Wizard of Oz? > 3. Did you circumnavigate the globe? > > DQ. > DQ. > Not Sir Francis Chichester. #1 was Franchot Tone. #2 was Victor Fleming. #3 is correct, though I had in mind Ferdinand Magellan. DQs: 1. Born after 1900? 2. Known for politics/military? ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/240 "2015-05-19T14:11:33Z")
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