# 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:** 3
**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 10, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/41 "2015-05-10T17:12:58Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/42 "2015-05-10T17:42:02Z")
DQ3: Living? IQ1: Were you the original star of a book series, later stories in which mostly revolved around a girl? IQ2: Were you killed in a plane crash in Tennessee in 1963? IQ3: Was La Malinche your mistress? ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/43 "2015-05-10T17:49:13Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/44 "2015-05-10T17:51:16Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ3: Living? > IQ1: Were you the original star of a book series, later stories in which mostly revolved around a girl? > IQ2: Were you killed in a plane crash in Tennessee in 1963? > IQ3: Was La Malinche your mistress? Take 3 DQs. I’m pretty sure #2 has to do with the crash that killed Patsy Cline, but I don’t recall who was with her. ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/45 "2015-05-10T17:59:46Z")
IQ1: Are you the real name of Green Arrow’s sidekick, Speedy? IQ2: Are you a police officer from Sleepyside who writes an ongoing rhyming dictionary? IQ3: Are you an immobile Green Lantern foe with an oversized head and psionic powers? ---
**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 10, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/46 "2015-05-10T18:09:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the original star of a book series, later stories in which mostly revolved around a girl? > IQ2: Were you killed in a plane crash in Tennessee in 1963? > IQ3: Was La Malinche your mistress? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. I’m pretty sure #2 has to do with the crash that killed Patsy Cline, but I don’t recall who was with her. Henry Huggins, in the books by Beverly Cleary. Hawkshaw Hawkins. (Cowboy Copas and the pilot were also killed in the crash.) Hernan Cortes. DQ1: American? DQ2: Known for the Arts? One DQ reerved. ---
**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 10, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/47 "2015-05-10T18:44:06Z")
IQ1: Is a Monty Python song named for you? IQ2: Did you play the role of Egon? IQ3: Did you bear a grudge because of your father’s humiliation in Sicily? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/48 "2015-05-10T19:03:18Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Are you the source of the first immortal cell line? > IQ2. Were you parodied by _The Simpsons_ in an episode where Mr. Burns became a germophobic shut-in? > IQ3. Was your middle name just S? 1. Henrietta Lacks, whose cervical cancer became the source of the HeLa cell line when it was discovered these cells could grow outside of a human. 2. Howard Hughes, famous reclusive germophobe. 3. Indeed, Harry S Truman. Awaiting answers to previous DQs… ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/49 "2015-05-10T19:42:36Z")
A clean sweep of my questions - well done. IQs: Was your autograph painted across the stern of a warship named after you? Were you Shakespeare’s little-known wife? Are you a contemporary actress with the same name? ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/50 "2015-05-10T19:55:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the real name of Green Arrow’s sidekick, Speedy? > IQ2: Are you a police officer from Sleepyside who writes an ongoing rhyming dictionary? > IQ3: Are you an immobile Green Lantern foe with an oversized head and psionic powers? I am not Roy Harper. Take a DQ for #2. I am not Hector Hammond. ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/51 "2015-05-10T19:56:21Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. 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 10, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/52 "2015-05-10T19:57:39Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Is a Monty Python song named for you? > IQ2: Did you play the role of Egon? > IQ3: Did you bear a grudge because of your father’s humiliation in Sicily? I am not Eric the Half-a-Bee. I am not Harold Ramis. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 10, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/53 "2015-05-10T19:58:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your autograph painted across the stern of a warship named after you? > Were you Shakespeare’s little-known wife? > Are you a contemporary actress with the same name? Take a DQ for #1. I am neither Anne Hathaway. ---
**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 10, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/54 "2015-05-10T20:23:09Z")
Previous IQs: Was your autograph painted across the stern of a warship named after you? - John Hancock: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/USS\_John\_Hancock\_Stern.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/USS_John_Hancock_Stern.jpg) Were you Shakespeare’s little-known wife? - Yes, Anne Hathaway. Are you a contemporary actress with the same name? - Ditto. DQ: Last name start with H? IQs: Were you a title character in a Woody Allen film? Were you the young title character in a recent spy thriller? Were you a DA who lost his bid for reelection early in the Scott Turow novel _Presumed Innocent?_ ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/55 "2015-05-10T20:30:54Z")
DQ: European? DQ: Known for performing 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 10, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/56 "2015-05-10T20:44:42Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Known for the Arts 6. Last name starts with H 7. European 8. Not known for the performing 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 10, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/57 "2015-05-10T20:46:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a title character in a Woody Allen film? > Were you the young title character in a recent spy thriller? > Were you a DA who lost his bid for reelection early in the Scott Turow novel _Presumed Innocent?_ I am not Hannah (nor her sisters). Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 10, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/58 "2015-05-10T20:49:40Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Is a Monty Python song named for you? > IQ2: Did you play the role of Egon? > IQ3: Did you bear a grudge because of your father’s humiliation in Sicily? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Eric the Half-a-Bee. > I am not Harold Ramis. > Take a DQ for #3. on 1 I’m not sure that half was part of the name, but anyhow that wasn’t who I was thinking of and will rephrase. 2 is correct, 3 was Hannibal, who really hated those Romans. Holding one DQ. IQ1: Were you a specific real person whose name was used as the title of a Monty Python song? IQ2: Did you write _The Planets?_ IQ3: Does one of the two works you’re primarily known for star Achilles? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/59 "2015-05-10T20:58:21Z")
IQ: Were you a paleontologist and geologist who was the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain? IQ: Did you invent a “cover-up method” for finding partial fraction coefficients? IQ: Are you often, but erroneously, credited with the composition of _Greensleeves_? ---
**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 10, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/60 "2015-05-10T21:21:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Roy Harper. > Take a DQ for #2. > I am not Hector Hammond. Hayfoot Henry DQ: Composer? IQ1: Are you Roderick Rose, an entomologist who can transform into a superpowered grasshopper? IQ2: Are you an old west bounty hunter with a hideously scarred face? IQ3: Are you the lupine member of the Marvel family? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=4)