# 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:** 24
**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 28, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/461 "2015-05-28T03:08:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a bounty hunter with a musical pocket watch? > IQ2: Were you a bucktoothed dummy? > IQ3: Were you Minnie’s cattle-raising uncle? Take a DQ for #1. (I’m pretty sure it’s Mortimer Something, though.) I am not Mortimer Snerd. I am not Mortimer Mouse. ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/462 "2015-05-28T03:17:46Z")
Previous IQs: Were you blamed for JFK’s death but were (you said) trying to save him? - Magneto, in the latest X-Men movie. Does your painting hang in a fancy dining room along with someone whose last name starts with the same initial? - William Marbury, in the SCOTUS courthouse. Are you that other person? - James Madison. DQs: Died since 1900? Won a top award in her field? Actress? IQs: Were you a noted early American financier? Were you one of the last two survivors (maybe) of U.S. Antarctic Research Station 31? Were you the heroine of _The Pirates of Penzance_? ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/463 "2015-05-28T04:21:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a bounty hunter with a musical pocket watch? > IQ2: Were you a bucktoothed dummy? > IQ3: Were you Minnie’s cattle-raising uncle? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. (I’m pretty sure it’s Mortimer Something, though.) > I am not Mortimer Snerd. > I am not Mortimer Mouse. Something Mortimer, actually - Col Douglas Mortimer (_For a Few Dollars More_). Correct. Correct. One DQ reserved. IQ: Did you sing “Pata Pata”?? ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/464 "2015-05-28T04:45:35Z")
IQ2: Did you try to kill a well-known consulting detective with an air rifle? IQ3: Were you that person’s employer? ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/465 "2015-05-28T12:10:47Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with M 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Known for the Arts 7. Not European 8. Known for the performing arts 9. Not from the Americas 10. Died since 1900 11. Received many honors, but no awards as such 12. Not an actress ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/466 "2015-05-28T12:11:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted early American financier? > Were you one of the last two survivors (maybe) of U.S. Antarctic Research Station 31? > Were you the heroine of _The Pirates of Penzance_? Take 2 DQs. I am not Mabel. ---
**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 28, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/467 "2015-05-28T12:12:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Did you sing “Pata Pata”?? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ2: Did you try to kill a well-known consulting detective with an air rifle? > IQ3: Were you that person’s employer? Take 2 DQs. I am not Prof. Moriarty. ---
**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 28, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/468 "2015-05-28T13:42:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Did you sing “Pata Pata”?? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ2: Did you try to kill a well-known consulting detective with an air rifle? > IQ3: Were you that person’s employer? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs. I am not Prof. Moriarty. South African singer Miriam Makeba. Col Sebastian Moran. Correct. DQ1: Asian? DQ2: Known for music? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/469 "2015-05-28T14:29:13Z")
IQ1) Are you an Aussie singer who adapted your home town into your stage name (and had a famous dessert named for you)? IQ2) Did you compose the opera “Boris Godunov”? IQ3) Did the speaking chimp in “Madagascar” sound a lot like you? ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/470 "2015-05-28T14:42:25Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a noted early American financier? - Robert Morris. Were you one of the last two survivors (maybe) of U.S. Antarctic Research Station 31? - MacReady (Kurt Russell), in _The Thing_. Were you the heroine of _The Pirates of Penzance_? - Yes, Mabel. DQs: Died since 1950? Considered a beauty? IQs: You married a famous fictional person, but no one knows for sure when, or how long you then lived, or how many other wives your husband had. Who are you? Were two of your sisters Elizabeth and Jane? Did you play Insp. Dalglish many times? ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/471 "2015-05-28T14:43:36Z")
IQ1: Do you ride around time and space in your Mobius Chair? IQ2: Did you subject Batman to a drug to make him afraid of anything bat-shaped? IQ3: Are you a Hawkman foe who employs the use of eyewear that kills? ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/472 "2015-05-28T15:54:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Are you an Aussie singer who adapted your home town into your stage name (and had a famous dessert named for you)? Yes, I am Dame Nellie Melba. Well done again, astorian! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/473 "2015-05-28T16:11:35Z")
Cool… so my turn again. I go with P ---
**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 28, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/474 "2015-05-28T17:26:36Z")
Ah, and Dame Nellie was on my mind not long ago due to her fictionalized appearance on _Downton Abbey_. Well done, **astorian**. Previous IQs: You married a famous fictional person, but no one knows for sure when, or how long you then lived, or how many other wives your husband had. Who are you? - Mary Morstan, wife of Dr. John H. Watson. Were two of your sisters Elizabeth and Jane? - Mary Bennet, in _Pride and Prejudice_. Did you play Insp. Dalglish many times? - British actor Roy Marsden. On to P. IQs: Were you a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam? Were you Brett’s buddy on the USCSS _Nostromo_? Were you Hercules’s coach and trainer? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/475 "2015-05-28T17:36:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam? > Were you Brett’s buddy on the USCSS _Nostromo_? > Were you Hercules’s coach and trainer? Not Phil Garner or Philoctetes (these sound very familiar). Take a DQ for 2 (which I assume is from _ **Alien** _) ---
**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 28, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/476 "2015-05-28T17:38:26Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the founder of toxicology? 2. Did you paint _Guernica_? 3. Were you aka Saloth Sar? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/477 "2015-05-28T18:10:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the founder of toxicology? > 2. Did you paint _Guernica_? > 3. Were you aka Saloth Sar? Not Pablo Picasso Take DQs for 1 and 3 ---
**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 28, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/478 "2015-05-28T18:31:30Z")
grats astorian (again) IQ1: Did you invent the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system? IQ2: Is a method of reducing pathogens in food named after you? IQ3: Did you co-found Google Inc. with Sergey Brin? ---
**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 28, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/479 "2015-05-28T18:36:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the founder of toxicology? > 2. Did you paint _Guernica_? > 3. Were you aka Saloth Sar? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Pablo Picasso > > Take DQs for 1 and 3 #1 is Paracelsus. #3 is Pol Pot (Saloth Sar was his name before he changed it.) DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 28, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/480 "2015-05-28T18:44:21Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam? - Yes, Phil Garner (it’s funny how few new “P” questions come to mind!) again. Were you Brett’s buddy on the USCSS _Nostromo_? - Parker (Yaphet Kotto), in _Alien_. Were you Hercules’s coach and trainer? - Yes, Philoctetes. DQ: Last name start with P? IQs: Were you a U.S. Attorney General with the same last name as a noted general? Although a famous warrior, did you die as a result of common car accident? Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=25)