# Botticelli - May 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 3, 2019, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407 "2019-05-03T03:22:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/141 "2019-05-16T20:06:16Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Did a man give a girl a coin, for bringing him water when he was thirsty and in a cage? Jaqen H’ghar, the Faceless Man. IQ2: Do you know nothing? Correct, Jon Snow IQ3: Have fans of your show, noting your hopeless longing for your boss, nicknamed you “Lord Friendzone”? Ser Jorah Mormont. A _Game of Thrones_ trifecta! Which I think is pretty good, as I’ve never actually seen an episode of the show… > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2. I am not Jon Snow. > Take 2 DQs. IQ1: Are you a stereotypical cigar-chomping, fast-talking, hard-bitten city newspaper editor who employs a photographer with unusual skills? IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed IQ1? IQ3: Are you a best-selling Scottish author who has something in common onomastically with IQ2? DQ1: Painter? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 16, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/142 "2019-05-16T20:24:07Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Human 5. Not American 6. Known for the Arts 7. First name starts with J 8. Born before 1900 9. Known for the Visual Arts 10. European 11. Painter ---
**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 16, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/143 "2019-05-16T20:25:30Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Are you a stereotypical cigar-chomping, fast-talking, hard-bitten city newspaper editor who employs a photographer with unusual skills? > > IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed IQ1? > > IQ3: Are you a best-selling Scottish author who has something in common onomastically with IQ2? 1. I am not J. Jonah Jameson. 2. I am not J. K. Simmons. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/144 "2019-05-16T20:30:16Z")
My reserved DQ: Are you French? ---
**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 16, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/145 "2019-05-16T20:54:39Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Human 5. Not American 6. Known for the Arts 7. First name starts with J 8. Born before 1900 9. Known for the Visual Arts 10. European 11. Painter 12. Not French ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/146 "2019-05-16T21:09:57Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Are you a stereotypical cigar-chomping, fast-talking, hard-bitten city newspaper editor who employs a photographer with unusual skills? Correct, J. Jonah Jameson. IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed IQ1? Correct, J.K. Simmons IQ3: Are you a best-selling Scottish author who has something in common onomastically with IQ2? You might kick yourself the way I did with Ian Malcolm; the answer is J.K. Rowling. DQ1: Painter? One DQ reserved. [/QUOTE] > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not J. Jonah Jameson. > 2. I am not J. K. Simmons. > 3. Take a DQ. DQ1: European? DQ2: Born after 1600? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/147 "2019-05-16T21:47:03Z")
IQ1: Did your frequent collaborations with Yun-fat Chow almost single-handedly create the genre of “heroic bloodshed” action movie? IQ2: Did Forrest Gump teach you how to dangle? IQ3: Are you the “Whitechapel Murderer”? ---
**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 17, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/148 "2019-05-17T00:00:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Ahem. > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1-3: Were you a regular on a show with Ruth Buzzi and Henry Gibson? > > DQ: European? > One DQ reserved. Well, if you don’t want to answer those three: IQ1: Did you paint _Girl with a Pearl Earring_? ---
**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 17, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/149 "2019-05-17T00:25:39Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Well, if you don’t want to answer those three: > > IQ1: Did you paint _Girl with a Pearl Earring_? I dunno how I managed to miss those previous questions. Sorry. But, on the bright side, Yes, I am Johannes “Jan” Vermeer! Take it away, SCA! ---
**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 17, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/150 "2019-05-17T04:26:57Z")
Great googly moogly, I missed the whole round! Good job, **SCA** (and **Prof. P.** before that). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/151 "2019-05-17T13:38:09Z")
Aw, man! I had a clever series of IQs about James I set up, too. Congratulations, **SCAdian**! And good choice, **Prof. Pepperwinkle**! (I didn’t know that “Jan” was a nickname for Vermeer; more ignorance fought.) I had wondered where you went, **Elendil’s Heir**. Welcome back! Now, on to K! ---
**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 17, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/152 "2019-05-17T17:26:28Z")
The proper announcement, I suppose is: I am K > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I didn’t know that “Jan” was a nickname for Vermeer; more ignorance fought. I first heard of him as Jan, and it was actually a few decades before I realised that wasn’t his real name. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/153 "2019-05-17T17:32:55Z")
IQ1: Are you the flute-playing god of childbirth to the Hopi and Zuni? IQ2: Were you played by Tommy Lee Jones, opposite Will Smith? IQ3: Were you the philosopher that the Pythons called “a real pissant who was very rarely stable”? ---
**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 17, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/154 "2019-05-17T18:20:30Z")
IQs: Did Jim Lehrer write a recent novel about someone assigned to protect you? Were you the wife of the person being protected? Were you the daughter? ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/155 "2019-05-17T19:17:05Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Are you the flute-playing god of childbirth to the Hopi and Zuni? > > IQ2: Were you played by Tommy Lee Jones, opposite Will Smith? > > IQ3: Were you the philosopher that the Pythons called “a real pissant who was very rarely stable”? Not Kokopelli. Not Agent K. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Jim Lehrer write a recent novel about someone assigned to protect you? > Were you the wife of the person being protected? > Were you the daughter? Three 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 17, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/156 "2019-05-17T19:37:29Z")
Previous IQs: Did Jim Lehrer write a recent novel about someone assigned to protect you? - JFK; _Top Down_ is about a retired Secret Service agent tormented by his failure in Dallas Were you the wife of the person being protected? - Jackie Kennedy Were you the daughter? - Caroline Kennedy DQs: Real? Male? First name start with K? IQs: Was your best friend a one-time astronaut? Were you based on William Randolph Hearst? Is your sister the former US ambassador to Japan? ---
**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 17, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/157 "2019-05-17T20:25:51Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the Nancy Drew mysteries? 2. Are you the son of Clark Kent & Lois Lane-Kent? 3. Are you usually credited with being the first Abstract painter? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/158 "2019-05-17T21:18:40Z")
Previous IQs: IQ1: Are you the flute-playing god of childbirth to the Hopi and Zuni? Correct, Kokopelli. IQ2: Were you played by Tommy Lee Jones, opposite Will Smith? Correct, but I was hoping you’d say “I am not K”. Since this round started with you saying “I am K”. 😃 IQ3: Were you the philosopher that the Pythons called “a real pissant who was very rarely stable”? Immanuel Kant, in the “Philosopher’s Song”. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Kokopelli. > Not Agent K. > DQ. IQ1: Are you the Marquess of Ailsa, and chief of your clan? (Surname is acceptable). IQ2: Are you the hugely influential economist who, among other ideas, argued against the gold standard, calling it “a barbarous relic”? IQ3: Are you a singer-songwriter who left your husband and writing partner, and recorded what was for a time the top-selling album in history? DQ reserved. ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/159 "2019-05-18T15:38:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your best friend a one-time astronaut? > Were you based on William Randolph Hearst? > Is your sister the former US ambassador to Japan? Three DQs. (Stop that!! :)) > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the Nancy Drew mysteries? > 2. Are you the son of Clark Kent & Lois Lane-Kent? > 3. Are you usually credited with being the first Abstract painter? Not “Carolyn Keene”. DQ. Not … Klimt? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Are you the Marquess of Ailsa, and chief of your clan? (Surname is acceptable). > > IQ2: Are you the hugely influential economist who, among other ideas, argued against the gold standard, calling it “a barbarous relic”? > > IQ3: Are you a singer-songwriter who left your husband and writing partner, and recorded what was for a time the top-selling album in history? Not Kennedy. (When I was in Scotland we steamed past Ailsa Craig every time we left port or returned.) DQ. DQ. K 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with K > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I was hoping you’d say “I am not K”. Since this round started with you saying “I am K”. 😃 😃 ---
**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 18, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407/160 "2019-05-18T15:41:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you the son of Clark Kent & Lois Lane-Kent? Ever read “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”? I highly recommend it if you haven’t… ETA Wikipedia quote: It was republished in the 1978 anthology _SuperHeroes_ edited by Michel Parry and noted with a starburst on the cover: _“SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE! Intimate details of Superman’s sex life revealed!”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2019/833407.md?page=9)