# 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:** 27
**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 29, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/521 "2015-05-29T18:41:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you and Bruce Woodley write “Red Rubber Ball”? > IQ2: Were you a fictional RCMP officer portrayed on TV by Richard Simmons? > IQ3: One of the Diadochi, were you especially associated with Egypt? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Paul Simon or Sergeant Preston > > Take a DQ for 3 Correct. Correct. Ptolemy. DQ: Born west of Delhi? IQ1: Are you the patron saint of all works of charity? IQ2: Did you write about Asher Lev? IQ3: Are you a former obstetrician who has thrice run for POTUS? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/522 "2015-05-29T19:08:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did no one fool you? > 2. Are you a hyperactive and excitable "My Little Pony’ character? > 3. Are you an Apostolic Father of the early church who Eusebius basically called a moron? Take 3 DQs (I hate it when this happens!) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/523 "2015-05-29T19:09:12Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with P 4. Dead 5. Not American by birth, but became a US citizen late in life 6. Born before 1950 7. Not a soldier or politician of any kind… but had some relevance to political and military history 8. Not European 9. Died after year 2000 10. Not exactly famous for one specific “event”… but widely known for one accomplishment 11. Not from the Americas 12. Not directly involved in the arts… but has a strong (though indirect) connection to one of the arts. 13. Not known as any kind of businessman 14. Born in Asia, and spent most of life there 15. Born well to the East of Delhi ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/524 "2015-05-29T19:10:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you the patron saint of all works of charity? > IQ2: Did you write about Asher Lev? > IQ3: Are you a former obstetrician who has thrice run for POTUS? Not… St. Vincent De Paul or Ron Paul Take a DQ for #2 ---
**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 29, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/525 "2015-05-29T19:33:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you the patron saint of all works of charity? > IQ2: Did you write about Asher Lev? > IQ3: Are you a former obstetrician who has thrice run for POTUS? > [@astorian](#): > > Not… St. Vincent De Paul or Ron Paul > > Take a DQ for #2 Correct. Chaim Potok. Correct. One DQ reserved. ---
**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 29, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/526 "2015-05-29T19:38:53Z")
Previous IQs: Are you currently the top-ranked British Royal Navy officer? - Prince Philip is now the Lord High Admiral. Is your owner’s sister named D.W.? - Yes, Pal, from the kids’ show _Arthur_. Were you a top British suffragist? - Emmeline Pankhurst. DQs: Born in or south of Ulan Bator? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? Did you call a young male doctor a different girl’s name every day for years? Did you command both the \*Niagara \*and the _Lawrence_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/527 "2015-05-29T19:43:32Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with P 4. Dead 5. Not American by birth, but became a US citizen late in life 6. Born before 1950 7. Not a soldier or politician of any kind… but had some relevance to political and military history 8. Not European 9. Died after year 2000 10. Not exactly famous for one specific “event”… but widely known for one accomplishment 11. Not from the Americas 12. Not directly involved in the arts… but has a strong (though indirect) connection to one of the arts. 13. Not known as any kind of businessman 14. Born in Asia, and spent most of life there 15. Born well to the East of Delhi 16. Born well South of Ulan Bator 17. Generally considered a good, even heroic person ---
**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 29, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/528 "2015-05-29T19:49:28Z")
DQ: Born on the Asian mainland? ---
**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 29, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/529 "2015-05-29T20:03:48Z")
IQ1: Are you the architect who designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? IQ2: Are you a Philippine-American artist who co-founded \*Image \*comics? IQ3: Are you a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide, on which the movie _The Killing Fields_ was based? ---
**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 29, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/530 "2015-05-29T20:15:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did no one fool you? > 2. Are you a hyperactive and excitable "My Little Pony’ character? > 3. Are you an Apostolic Father of the early church who Eusebius basically called a moron? > [@astorian](#): > > Take 3 DQs (I hate it when this happens!) #1 was the cyclops Polyphemus, who was fooled (and blinded) by Ulysses who called himself “Nemo” (meaning “no one”). #2 is Pinky Pie. My daughter’s a fan. #3 was Papias, whose writings only exist today as quotes from Eusebius’s History. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/531 "2015-05-29T20:21:38Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ3: Are you a survivor of the Cambodian Genocide, on which the movie _The Killing Fields_ was based? YESSSSSS! I am Cambodian photojournalist DITH PRAN, best known for surviving arrest and interment in Pol Pot’s death camps. My story was adapted into the movie _ **The Killing Fields** _, in which Dr. Haing S. Ngor played me, and won an Oscar. ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/532 "2015-05-30T00:04:26Z")
I was actually sure you’d be I M Pei, but I’ll take what I can get. 🙂 I am F. ---
**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 30, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/533 "2015-05-30T01:34:53Z")
Oh, good choice, astorian, and great guess, KO! IQs: 1. Did you read the funnies to the kids over the radio? 2. Did you and your twin sister share a superheroine’s outfit and codename? 3. Ate you half crocodile and half wild horse? ---
**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 30, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/534 "2015-05-30T03:47:13Z")
Very well done, **Knowed Out**! Previous IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? - Bishop Philander Knox. Did you call a young male doctor a different girl’s name every day for years? - Dr. Perry Cox, on _Scrubs_. Did you command both the _Niagara_ and the _Lawrence_? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, at the Battle of Lake Erie. New IQs: Were you a famous black Scottie dog? Were you his owner? Did your future wife first lay eyes on you as you walked down the street, eating a loaf of bread? ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/535 "2015-05-30T12:11:35Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > YESSSSSS!DITH PRAN Never heard of him. IQ1: Were you a Mexican War general better known for politics? IQ2: Were you a pseudonym used by the authors of one of Stratemeyer’s most popular series? IQ3: Were you the reptilian star of a series of kids’ books that were turned into a TV show? ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/536 "2015-05-30T12:43:21Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Oh, good choice, astorian, and great guess, KO! > > IQs: > > 1. Did you read the funnies to the kids over the radio? > 2. Did you and your twin sister share a superheroine’s outfit and codename? > 3. Ate you half crocodile and half wild horse? Not Franklin Delano Roosevelt (?), dunno, I never ate it but I don’t know what it is 🙂 ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/537 "2015-05-30T12:51:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a famous black Scottie dog? > Were you his owner? > Did your future wife first lay eyes on you as you walked down the street, eating a loaf of bread? dunno x3, as I can’t think of anything else but Greyfriar’s Bobby, the legend of the Scottie that never left his master’s grave, which I saw in Edinburgh years ago ---
**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 30, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/538 "2015-05-30T12:55:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Never heard of him. > IQ1: Were you a Mexican War general better known for politics? > IQ2: Were you a pseudonym used by the authors of one of Stratemeyer’s most popular series? > IQ3: Were you the reptilian star of a series of kids’ books that were turned into a TV show? not Franklin Pierce, dunno x2 ---
**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 30, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/539 "2015-05-30T13:20:10Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you read the funnies to the kids over the radio? > 2. Did you and your twin sister share a superheroine’s outfit and codename? > 3. Ate you half crocodile and half wild horse? > Not Franklin Delano Roosevelt (?), dunno, I never ate it but I don’t know what it is 🙂 #1 was Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, during a New York City newspaper strike. #2 was the Crimson Fox (identical twin sisters both took turns being the Fox). #3 was Mike Fink, “King of the River”. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Real? 3. Last name starts with F? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/540 "2015-05-30T14:50:59Z")
IQ1. Are you the inspiration for a character whose career was boosted thanks to an offer that couldn’t be refused? IQ2. Was your middle name McFeely? IQ3. Are you a lead singer of an experimental band who is never seen in public without his oversized papier-mache head? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=28)