# 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:** 19
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/361 "2015-05-23T20:26:32Z")
IQ1. Were you found on the streets of Moscow and launched into space? ---
**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 23, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/362 "2015-05-23T20:54:48Z")
Yes, I am Liaka Congrats, Baffle! Our house rule of clarifying that the target has a single name when asked about either the first or last name makes choosing a singularly-named target troublesome, as so much extra information is granted from what would otherwise be a yes-no question. At least it wasn’t immediate, once question 4 was answered I was worried it could be over at any time. ---
**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 23, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/363 "2015-05-23T21:12:59Z")
Good job, Baffle! I wasn’t even headed that way. And Cujos, uh, Kudos to Tim for that choice. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/364 "2015-05-23T21:15:15Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Yes, I am Liaka > Congrats, Baffle! > > Our house rule of clarifying that the target has a single name when asked about either the first or last name makes choosing a singularly-named target troublesome, as so much extra information is granted from what would otherwise be a yes-no question. > > At least it wasn’t immediate, once question 4 was answered I was worried it could be over at any time. Woohoo! It’s true… that plus the date is what gave it to me; there aren’t many single-named people these days. I’ve got the next target… I am A. ---
**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 23, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/365 "2015-05-23T21:27:16Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a one-armed alligator hunter? 2. Are you Eldarion’s grandfather? 3. Are your sisters Rhyme and Reason? ---
**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 23, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/366 "2015-05-23T23:25:01Z")
Grats, Baffle. > [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the daughter of a pope who married three times into power? Lucrezia Borgia On to A IQ1: Are you a black dragon created from the pits of Angbad by Morgoth? IQ2: Are you an Orc chieftain who captured King Thror and beheaded him? IQ3: Are you a ranger known in Bree as Strider? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/367 "2015-05-24T01:09:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a one-armed alligator hunter? > 2. Are you Eldarion’s grandfather? > 3. Are your sisters Rhyme and Reason? 1. I am not Arathorn. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/368 "2015-05-24T01:10:54Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Grats, Baffle. > Lucrezia Borgia > > On to A > > IQ1: Are you a black dragon created from the pits of Angbad by Morgoth? > IQ2: Are you an Orc chieftain who captured King Thror and beheaded him? > IQ3: Are you a ranger known in Bree as Strider? 1. I am not Ancalagon the Black. 2. I am not Azog. 3. I am not Aragorn. (I knew reading the Silmarillion would be useful one day!) ---
**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 24, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/369 "2015-05-24T01:28:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a one-armed alligator hunter? > 2. Are you Eldarion’s grandfather? > 3. Are your sisters Rhyme and Reason? > > 1. I am not Arathorn. > > Take 2 DQs. #1 was Amos Moses (from the song of the same name). Correct on #2. #3 is King Azaz the Unabridged (from the book _The Phantom Tollbooth_). DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 24, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/370 "2015-05-24T01:36:49Z")
My ass got swept. You’re not \*\*astorian \*\*in disguise are you? IQ1: Are you the guitarist for Rush? IQ2: Are you a MLB shortstop with the most home runs of any player of hispanic descent? IQ3: Are you an NFL quarterback who was traded from the SF 49ers to the KC Chiefs in 2013? ---
**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 24, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/371 "2015-05-24T01:57:21Z")
IQ1: Are you known for your televised house parties? IQ2: Were you a child when he was a child, in a kingdom by the sea? IQ3: Did sunshine come along with thee, and swallows in the air? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/372 "2015-05-24T02:43:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Real? > 2. Male? 1. Real. 2. Not male. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > My ass got swept. You’re not \*\*astorian \*\*in disguise are you? > > IQ1: Are you the guitarist for Rush? > IQ2: Are you a MLB shortstop with the most home runs of any player of hispanic descent? > IQ3: Are you an NFL quarterback who was traded from the SF 49ers to the KC Chiefs in 2013? 1. Not Alex Lifeson. 2. Not… Alex Rodriguez? 3. Not a clue. DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you known for your televised house parties? > IQ2: Were you a child when he was a child, in a kingdom by the sea? > IQ3: Did sunshine come along with thee, and swallows in the air? That whooshing sound is the sound of all of those going over my head. 3 DQs for you. ---
**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 24, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/373 "2015-05-24T02:52:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you known for your televised house parties? > IQ2: Were you a child when he was a child, in a kingdom by the sea? > IQ3: Did sunshine come along with thee, and swallows in the air? > [@Baffle](#): > > That whooshing sound is the sound of all of those going over my head. > 3 DQs for you. Art [Linkletter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Party_(radio_and_TV_show)). Annabel Lee, from the poem by Poe. Aura Lea, from the old ballad. DQ1: Living? DQ2: American? DQ3: Known for the Arts? ---
**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 24, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/374 "2015-05-24T03:11:40Z")
IQ1: Did you often perform while dressed as a schoolboy? IQ2: Did you finally complete your contractual obligations with your recent album, your fourteenth? IQ3: Are you and your son’s boss the last two members of your World War 2 unit to survive to this day? ---
**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 24, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/375 "2015-05-24T03:13:06Z")
Good job, **Baffle**. The Soviet space dog was Laika, not Liaka, wasn’t it…? Previous IQs: Was your last major public appearance in 1922? - Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Did the actress who played you in a recent movie have to put on a lot of weight to do so? - Mary Todd Lincoln, played by Sally Field in the Spielberg movie _Lincoln_. Field said in an NPR interview that she had to drink a lot of disgusting high-fat milkshakes. Were you a long-lived Heinlein-created character? - Yes, Lazarus Long. On to A. IQs: Are you inaccurately credited by some with inventing baseball? Did you mention baseball just once in all of your written works? Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/376 "2015-05-24T03:40:35Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you often perform while dressed as a schoolboy? > IQ2: Did you finally complete your contractual obligations with your recent album, your fourteenth? > IQ3: Are you and your son’s boss the last two members of your World War 2 unit to survive to this day? 1. Not Angus Young of AC/DC. 2. DQ. 3. Not Abraham Simpson. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The Soviet space dog was Laika, not Liaka, wasn’t it…? > > IQs: > > Are you inaccurately credited by some with inventing baseball? > Did you mention baseball just once in all of your written works? > Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer? Laika, yes. I think it was a typo. 1. Not Abner Doubleday. 2. DQ. 3. DQ! * * * DQ Summary: 1. Real. 2. Not male. 3. Not living. 4. Not American. 5. Not known for the Arts. ---
**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 24, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/377 "2015-05-24T11:43:32Z")
IQ1: Did you name your horse “Oxhead”? IQ2: Did you and your wife change your names at a very advanced age? IQ3: Were you Lew Alcindor? ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/378 "2015-05-24T12:10:09Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the guitarist for Rush? > IQ2: Are you a MLB shortstop with the most home runs of any player of hispanic descent? > IQ3: Are you an NFL quarterback who was traded from the SF 49ers to the KC Chiefs in 2013? > > 1. Not Alex Lifeson. > 2. Not… Alex Rodriguez? > 3. Not a clue. DQ. Alex Smith, for Alex x3! IQ2 is an homage to a former player who always referred to Alex Rodriguez as “The A-Rod nobody likes.” DQ: European? ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/379 "2015-05-24T12:27:25Z")
IQ1: Are you the A-Rod that everybody likes who’s married to _Sports Illustrated_ swimwear model Brooklyn Decker? IQ2: Did fellow NewsRadio regular Jon Lovitz despise you because you gave cocaine to Phil Hartman’s wife Brynn 6 months before she shot and killed Phil and herself? IQ3: Are you the starting QB for the Cincinnati Bengals? ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/380 "2015-05-24T12:28:35Z")
IQs: 1. Are you best remembered for your _Sabre Dance_? 2. Did you play Endora on _Bewitched_? 3. Were you a WWII aviator in the comic books who served as the inspiration for Alan Moore’s Jetlad? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=20)