# 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:** 21
**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 25, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/401 "2015-05-25T01:36:30Z")
IQs: 1. Did you ask if Spider-Man was a threat or a menace? 2. Did you win this year’s Indianapolis 500? 3. Is today (May 24th) your Feast Day? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/402 "2015-05-25T01:39:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you claim to be a grand duchess whose fate was uncertain? > [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. I don’t remember this story, but… > IQ2. I am not Anastasia Romanov. Anna [Anderson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Anderson). Correct on Anastasia Nikolaevna. ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/403 "2015-05-25T01:42:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you ask if Spider-Man was a threat or a menace? > 2. Did you win this year’s Indianapolis 500? > 3. Is today (May 24th) your Feast Day? Not Jolly Jonah Jameson. DQ. DQ. ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/404 "2015-05-25T01:52:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you ask if Spider-Man was a threat or a menace? > 2. Did you win this year’s Indianapolis 500? > 3. Is today (May 24th) your Feast Day? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Jolly Jonah Jameson. > DQ. > DQ. Correct on #1, of course. #2 is Juan Pablo Montoya. #3 is St. Joanna. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/405 "2015-05-25T02:11:44Z")
IQ1. Did you marry the heiress to the South Fork Ranch? IQ2. Are you the Dear Leader? IQ3. Yo bitch, were you known for using chili peppers as a secret ingredient? ---
**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 25, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/406 "2015-05-25T02:17:42Z")
IQs: 1. Are you responsible for the deaths of Hans Gruber and his brother? 2. Were you “the All-American Boy” on old-time radio? 3. Were you born Frances Gumm? ---
**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 25, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/407 "2015-05-25T04:12:13Z")
Congrats, **SCAdian**! Never heard of that lady. Previous IQs: Are you inaccurately credited by some with inventing baseball? - Yes, Abner Doubleday. Did you mention baseball just once in all of your written works? - Jane Austen, in _Northanger Abbey_. Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer? - Col. Adelbert Ames of the 20th Maine, later a Carpetbagger governor. On to J. IQs: Did you talk by phone to a time-traveling teacher from Maine in a recent novel? Were you that person’s spouse, who did the same? Did you play Bruce Willis’s younger self in _Looper_? ---
**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 25, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/408 "2015-05-25T10:40:45Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Did you marry the heiress to the South Fork Ranch? > IQ2. Are you the Dear Leader? > IQ3. Yo bitch, were you known for using chili peppers as a secret ingredient? DQ. (_Dallas_, right?) Not Kim Jong Il. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you responsible for the deaths of Hans Gruber and his brother? > 2. Were you “the All-American Boy” on old-time radio? > 3. Were you born Frances Gumm? Not John McClane. DQ. (Jack Somebodyorother, I think…) Not … Joan Crawford? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you talk by phone to a time-traveling teacher from Maine in a recent novel? > Were you that person’s spouse, who did the same? > Did you play Bruce Willis’s younger self in _Looper_? Not … Jack Kennedy? Not … Jackie Kennedy? DQ. **J** 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 25, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/409 "2015-05-25T12:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you responsible for the deaths of Hans Gruber and his brother? > 2. Were you “the All-American Boy” on old-time radio? > 3. Were you born Frances Gumm? > Not John McClane. > DQ. (Jack Somebodyorother, I think…) > Not … Joan Crawford? #1 is correct. Yippee-ki-yay. #2 was Jack Armstrong, brought to you by Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions! #3 was Judy Garland. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. 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 25, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/410 "2015-05-25T13:01:22Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Sorcerer_? 2. Were you the Dog-Faced Boy in a song performed by Annette Funicello? 3. Are you the comic book writer and artist who created Booster Gold? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/411 "2015-05-25T13:08:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Sorcerer_? > 2. Were you the Dog-Faced Boy in a song performed by Annette Funicello? > 3. Are you the comic book writer and artist who created Booster Gold? Not John Wellington Wells. DQ. Not … Jack Kirby? **J** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American, but known for work in America ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/412 "2015-05-25T13:27:10Z")
IQ1: Is your birth name Marion Mitchell Morrison? IQ2: Is your birth name Eric Bishop? IQ3: Is your birth name Jay Scott Greenspan? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/413 "2015-05-25T13:27:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Sorcerer_? > 2. Were you the Dog-Faced Boy in a song performed by Annette Funicello? > 3. Are you the comic book writer and artist who created Booster Gold? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not John Wellington Wells. > DQ. > Not … Jack Kirby? Correct on #1. #2 was Jo-Jo. #3 is Dan Jurgens. DQs: 1. Died after 2000? 2. Known for the Arts? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/414 "2015-05-25T13:28:07Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Did you marry the heiress to the South Fork Ranch? > IQ2. Are you the Dear Leader? > IQ3. Yo bitch, were you known for using chili peppers as a secret ingredient? 1. From _Dallas_, yes: John Ross “Jock” Ewing (aka JR’s dad). 2. Kim Jong-il is correct. 3. Jesse Pinkman, from _Breaking Bad_. – Witholding DQs… I’ve been ninjad! – IQ1: Did you play a blind lawyer, a vice-president, and a neurotic copyeditor? IQ2: Did you play an apiform college graduate, a , and a neurotic stand-up comedian? IQ3: Did you play an evil HR director, a private duck, and a neurotic man who can’t keep a job? ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/415 "2015-05-25T13:34:34Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a 1st Century Roman satirist? 2. Are you the head of the maids at the palace at the Emerald City? 3. Are you Johnny Chambers’ alter ego? ---
**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 25, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/416 "2015-05-25T20:47:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Is your birth name Marion Mitchell Morrison? > IQ2: Is your birth name Eric Bishop? > IQ3: Is your birth name Jay Scott Greenspan? Not John Wayne. DQ. DQ. > [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a blind lawyer, a vice-president, and a neurotic copyeditor? > IQ2: Did you play an apiform college graduate, a , and a neurotic stand-up comedian? > IQ3: Did you play an evil HR director, a private duck, and a neurotic man who can’t keep a job? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 1st Century Roman satirist? > 2. Are you the head of the maids at the palace at the Emerald City? > 3. Are you Johnny Chambers’ alter ego? Not Juvenal. DQ. DQ. **J** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American, for certain values of “American” 5. Did not die after 2000 6. Not known for the Arts **ZUI the modified answer for #4.** ---
**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 25, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/417 "2015-05-25T21:38:22Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Is your birth name Marion Mitchell Morrison? > IQ2: Is your birth name Eric Bishop? > IQ3: Is your birth name Jay Scott Greenspan? > > Not John Wayne. > DQ. > DQ. correct, Jamie Foxx, Jason Alexander DQ: North American? DQ: Have you ever killed anyone? ---
**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 25, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/418 "2015-05-25T21:45:32Z")
IQ1: Are you the fourth king of Judea, named after a valley? IQ2: Did gospel writer Mark attribute this description of you: “clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey?” IQ3: Did Matthias replace you as one of the Twelve Apostles? ---
**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 25, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/419 "2015-05-25T22:19:21Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the fourth king of Judea, named after a valley? > IQ2: Did gospel writer Mark attribute this description of you: “clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey?” > IQ3: Did Matthias replace you as one of the Twelve Apostles? DQ. Not John the Baptist. Not Judas Iscariot. **J** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American, for certain values of “American” 5. Did not die after 2000 6. Not known for the Arts 7. North American 8. Have undoubtedly killed at least one person **Re #4 and #7:** Born in the Americas according to some sources, born elsewhere according to others; best known for activities in North America. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/420 "2015-05-25T23:53:09Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a blind lawyer, a vice-president, and a neurotic copyeditor? > IQ2: Did you play an apiform college graduate, a , and a neurotic stand-up comedian? > IQ3: Did you play an evil HR director, a private duck, and a neurotic man who can’t keep a job? IQ1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. IQ2. Jerry Seinfeld. IQ3. Jason Alexander (who I now see has already been named…) Which (counting two from my previous post and two from this post) gives me 4 DQs… DQ1. Born before 1800? DQ2. Criminal? DQ3. Of British descent? DQ4 reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=22)