# Botticelli - May 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 29, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506 "2017-04-29T16:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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:** [April 30, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/21 "2017-04-30T13:32:05Z")
DQ: Best known for political/military work? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/22 "2017-04-30T14:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the Sundance Kid opposite Paul Newman? > 2. Are you a former news anchor for the CBS Evening News? > 3. Did you play with Dan Hamilton and Joe Frank Carollo? > Not Robert Redford, not Dan Rather, DQ Correct. Correct. #3 is Tommy Reynolds (of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds). DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/23 "2017-04-30T16:23:39Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas and the NFL’s leading rusher in 2002 with the Miami Dolphins? > IQ2: Are you a Country Artist known for 1983’s _Highway 40 Blues_? > IQ3: Are you a British comedian who hosted the Golden Globes from 2010-2012 and is known for laughing hysterically at your own tasteless jokes? Not Tony Romo (?), DQ, not Ricky Gervais 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else 8. European 9. Not best known for political/military work ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/24 "2017-04-30T17:04:46Z")
DQ: British? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/25 "2017-04-30T17:05:32Z")
1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else 8. European 9. Not best known for political/military work 10. Not British ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/26 "2017-04-30T17:07:05Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a French Symbolist painter of the late 19th/early 20th centuries? 2. Was your dog named Bullet? 3. Is your name synonymous with the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/27 "2017-04-30T17:07:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas and the NFL’s leading rusher in 2002 with the Miami Dolphins? > IQ2: Are you a Country Artist known for 1983’s Highway 40 Blues? > IQ3: Are you a British comedian who hosted the Golden Globes from 2010-2012 and is known for laughing hysterically at your own tasteless jokes? > > Not Tony Romo (?), DQ, not Ricky Gervais Ricky Williams, Ricky Skaggs, correct Ricky x 3! DQ: Known primarily for a business or product? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/28 "2017-04-30T19:08:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Symbolist painter of the late 19th/early 20th centuries? > 2. Was your dog named Bullet? > 3. Is your name synonymous with the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror? Not Henri Rousseau (?), not Roy Rogers, not Maximilien de Robespierre 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else 8. European 9. Not best known for political/military work 10. Not British 11. Known primarily for a business or product ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/29 "2017-04-30T20:37:41Z")
IQ1: Were you released by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014 when a video surfaced of you assaulting your fiancee in an elevator? IQ2: Were you keyboardist for _The Doors_? IQ3: Are you a pop/country artist who released “The Streak” in 1974? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/30 "2017-04-30T21:30:52Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Symbolist painter of the late 19th/early 20th centuries? > 2. Was your dog named Bullet? > 3. Is your name synonymous with the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror? > Not Henri Rousseau (?), not Roy Rogers, not Maximilien de Robespierre #1. Nice try, but Rousseau was a Primitivist. Odilon Redon was the Symbolist. Correct on 2 and 3. DQ) Known for Science? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/31 "2017-04-30T21:33:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did Dan Aykroyd play you in _Ghostbusters_? 2. Did you play Egon Spengler in _Ghostbusters?_ 3. Were you a Gallifreyan whose actress was married to the man who played the 4th Doctor? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/32 "2017-04-30T21:47:22Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you released by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014 when a video surfaced of you assaulting your fiancee in an elevator? > IQ2: Were you keyboardist for _The Doors_? > IQ3: Are you a pop/country artist who released “The Streak” in 1974? Not Ray Rice, not Ray Manzarek, not whoever this Ray is so have a DQ 🙂 > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dan Aykroyd play you in _Ghostbusters_? > 2. Did you play Egon Spengler in _Ghostbusters?_ > 3. Were you a Gallifreyan whose actress was married to the man who played the 4th Doctor? Not Ray Stantz, not Harold Ramis, DQ 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else 8. European 9. Not best known for political/military work 10. Not British 11. Known primarily for a business or product 12. Involved in the scientific field, but better known for something else ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/33 "2017-04-30T22:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dan Aykroyd play you in Ghostbusters? > 2. Did you play Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters? > 3. Were you a Gallifreyan whose actress was married to the man who played the 4th Doctor? > Not Ray Stantz, not Harold Ramis, DQ Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was the Lady Romana. DQ: Known for criminal acts or law enforcement? ---
**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 1, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/34 "2017-05-01T01:16:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > …I’ve also wondered why EH chooses 1964, but I assumed it’s his birth year. Correct. An easy way for me to know that “It” is older or younger than me. Previous IQs: Does a lisping Pontius Pilate order your release? - Roderick: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0XDHF3M60](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0XDHF3M60) And yours? - Roger Although famous for something else, did you once appear as an extra in an opera’s party scene with a good friend and colleague? - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Antonin Scalia: [https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016\_07/1417876/160214-ginsburg-scalia-230p\_d8c1506bab17a5efb1e0e2577595d371.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg](https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_07/1417876/160214-ginsburg-scalia-230p_d8c1506bab17a5efb1e0e2577595d371.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg) DQs: Inventor? Born in or east of Vienna? Born in or north of Vienna? IQs: Did you insist on being paid in $1 bills early in your career? Were you featured in a short story originally titled “Odd Playmate”? Were you “the dog that saved Hollywood”? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/35 "2017-05-01T01:53:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you insist on being paid in $1 bills early in your career? > Were you featured in a short story originally titled “Odd Playmate”? > Were you “the dog that saved Hollywood”? Not Ray Charles, DQ, not Rin Tin Tin 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else 8. European 9. Not best known for political/military work 10. Not British 11. Known primarily for a business or product 12. Involved in the scientific field, but better known for something else 13. Not known for criminal acts or law enforcement 14. Inventor 15. Born in or east of Vienna 16. Born in or south of Vienna ---
**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 1, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/36 "2017-05-01T02:04:22Z")
IQ: Did you create a novelty puzzle in the form of a Cube? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/37 "2017-05-01T02:08:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Did you create a novelty puzzle in the form of a Cube? Yes, I am indeed \*\*Ernő Rubik \*\*, the man behind Rubik’s Cube among other puzzles including Rubik’s Magic and Rubik’s Snake! Well done. I am glad this round ended as I was about to go to sleep 🙂 ---
**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 1, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/38 "2017-05-01T10:52:28Z")
So, now I am S! ---
**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 1, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/39 "2017-05-01T11:23:41Z")
IQ1: Do you run a comic book shop in _The Big Bang Theory_? IQ2: Are you a lifestyle guru who served 5 months for insider trading in 2004? IQ3: Are you the drummer for _The Police_? ---
**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 1, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/40 "2017-05-01T12:48:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Do you run a comic book shop in _The Big Bang Theory_? > IQ2: Are you a lifestyle guru who served 5 months for insider trading in 2004? > IQ3: Are you the drummer for _The Police_? 1. I’m not Stuart. Take 2 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=3)