# 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:** 8
**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 7, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/141 "2017-05-07T20:20:31Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Monty Python member who directed _12 Monkeys_? > IQ2: Are you a Monty Python member who directed _Life of Brian_? > IQ3: Were you the original lead singer and guitarist for the band _Chicago_ before your death in 1978? 1. I am not Terry Gilliam. 2. I am not Terry Jones. 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 7, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/142 "2017-05-07T20:21:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I confess I should have, but had not, heard of Myles Garrett before. > > IQs: > > Were you buried in your wife’s hometown, in part because your sisters had disowned you? > Did the same actor who played an aspiring king and a British detective also play you in an HBO miniseries? > Are you a scruffy soothsayer in the comic musical _Something Rotten_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/143 "2017-05-07T22:05:57Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Monty Python member who directed 12 Monkeys? > IQ2: Are you a Monty Python member who directed Life of Brian? > IQ3: Were you the original lead singer and guitarist for the band Chicago before your death in 1978? > > 1. I am not Terry Gilliam. > 2. I am not Terry Jones. > Take a DQ for #3. Terry Kath Real? ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/144 "2017-05-07T22:35:02Z")
IQ1: Did Fenrir bite off your hand? IQ2: Were you quoted in Time magazine as saying “I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.”? IQ3: Did you write _The Downing Street Years_ and _The Path to Power_? ---
**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 7, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/145 "2017-05-07T22:39:48Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did Fenrir bite off your hand? > IQ2: Were you quoted in Time magazine as saying “I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.”? > IQ3: Did you write _The Downing Street Years_ and _The Path to Power_? 1. I am not Tyr. 2. I am not Harry Truman (?). If wrong, take a DQ. 3. Take a 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 7, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/146 "2017-05-07T22:40:48Z")
DQs: 1. Real ---
**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 8, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/147 "2017-05-08T00:10:29Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter? > IQ2: Did you write _The Mysterious Stranger_? > IQ3: Did you write the _Marche Slave_? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2. I am not Mark Twain. > #3. I am not Tschaikovsky. > Take a DQ for #1. John Taliaferro Thompson. Correct. Correct. DQ: 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 8, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/148 "2017-05-08T00:53:14Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 8, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/149 "2017-05-08T05:01:00Z")
Previous Qs: Were you buried in your wife’s hometown, in part because your sisters had disowned you? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas - born in Southampton Co., Va., buried in Troy, N.Y. Did the same actor who played an aspiring king and a British detective also play you in an HBO miniseries? - Stephen Dillane was in _Game of Thrones_ and _The Tunnel_, and played Thomas Jefferson in _John Adams_ Are you a scruffy soothsayer in the comic musical _Something Rotten_? - Thomas Nostradamus Thomas x3! DQs: Male? Living? Last name start with T? IQs: Were you a Penna. Congressman and a sworn enemy of Andrew Johnson’s? Did a Q save you during the Civil War? Did you write scathing reviews of children’s Christmas pageants? ---
**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 8, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/150 "2017-05-08T13:59:01Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Not known for the Arts 3. Male 4. Living 5. Last name starts with T ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/151 "2017-05-08T14:00:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a Penna. Congressman and a sworn enemy of Andrew Johnson’s? > Did a Q save you during the Civil War? > Did you write scathing reviews of children’s Christmas pageants? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/152 "2017-05-08T14:31:31Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did Fenrir bite off your hand? > IQ2: Were you quoted in Time magazine as saying “I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.”? > IQ3: Did you write The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power? > > 1. I am not Tyr. > 2. I am not Harry Truman (?). If wrong, take a DQ. > 3. Take a DQ. Margaret Thatcher DQ: 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 8, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/153 "2017-05-08T14:41:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Not known for the Arts 3. Male 4. Living 5. Last name starts with T 6. American ---
**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 8, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/154 "2017-05-08T14:48:44Z")
IQ1: Did you tell the Harlequin to repent in the title of a story by Harlan Ellison? IQ2: Did that story begin with a passage from your work, _Civil Disobedience_? IQ3: Are you a robot Ellison alleges was ripped off from his script for the _Outer Limits_ episode “Soldier”? ---
**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 8, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/155 "2017-05-08T15:01:09Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you tell the Harlequin to repent in the title of a story by Harlan Ellison? > IQ2: Did that story begin with a passage from your work, _Civil Disobedience_? > IQ3: Are you a robot Ellison alleges was ripped off from his script for the _Outer Limits_ episode “Soldier”? 1. I am not the Tik-Tok Man. 2. I am not Henry David Thoreau. Take a DQ for #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 8, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/156 "2017-05-08T16:03:47Z")
The Terminator DQ: Primarily known for politics? ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/157 "2017-05-08T16:16:54Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Penna. Congressman and a sworn enemy of Andrew Johnson’s? - Thaddeus Stevens, one of the leaders of the effort to impeach and remove him from office Did a Q save you during the Civil War? - Thaddeus Riker, mentioned in an episode of _Star Trek: Voyager_ Did you write scathing reviews of children’s Christmas pageants? - Thaddeus Bristol, in a short story by humorist David Sedaris: [Front Row Center With Thaddeus Bristol - David Sedaris - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iherkj4ano) Thaddeus x3! DQs: Born since 1964? Political/military? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you Governor of Illinois in the 1980s? Did you write the hymn “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling”? Did you write _Six Seconds in Dallas_ and _Gumshoe_? ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/158 "2017-05-08T16:17:52Z")
IQ1: Are you an imp that proposed spinning 5 skeins of flax for a peasant girl on the condition that if she couldn’t guess his name by the end of the month, he would carry her off? IQ2: Are you a creature from Japanese folklore that combines the features of a human and a bird of prey? IQ3: Are you an enemy of Robert E. Howard’s King Kull, characterized as having a skull face with fire in your eye sockets? ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/159 "2017-05-08T16:18:24Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Not known for the Arts 3. Male 4. Living 5. Last name starts with T 6. American 7. Known primarily for politics 8. Born before 1964. EH, you get another DQ, since KO already asked about politics. ---
**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 8, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/160 "2017-05-08T16:19:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Governor of Illinois in the 1980s? > Did you write the hymn “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling”? > Did you write _Six Seconds in Dallas_ and _Gumshoe_? #2. I am not Will L. Thompson. Take 2 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=9)