# Botticelli - November 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 2, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440 "2015-11-02T17:55:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/121 "2015-11-11T21:31:40Z")
Previous IQs: Do you play a senior FBI agent on the TV show _Limitless_? - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Were you the lead character of the movie _Limitless_? - Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper). Did you write the official U.S. Navy history of WWII? - Yes, Samuel Eliot Morison. DQs: Actress? British? IQs: Are you playing a suffragette in an upcoming movie? Were you a serial killer’s girlfriend in the first season of _Prime Suspect_? Did the same actress who played you also play a prostitute and an interior designer? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/122 "2015-11-11T21:51:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you playing a suffragette in an upcoming movie? > Were you a serial killer’s girlfriend in the first season of _Prime Suspect_? > Did the same actress who played you also play a prostitute and an interior designer? Three DQs. **M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. 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:** [November 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/123 "2015-11-11T21:56:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the lead singer for the Fifth Dimension? > 2. Did everybody think Lady Gaga ripped off one of your songs with her Born That Way? > 3. Could you “turn the world on with your smile”? > Three DQs. #1 was Marilyn McCoo. #2 was Madonna. #3 was Mary Richards/Mary Tyler Moore. DQs: 1. Born after 1970? 2. European? 3. Singer or musician? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/124 "2015-11-11T22:02:18Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an ancient king who ate poisons to build up a resistance to assassination, and was mentioned in a poem by A. E. Housman? 2. Were you the high priest from whom Jesus’s early priestly authority was claimed? 3. Were you a Scottish engineer for whom a type of road construction is named? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/125 "2015-11-11T22:43:27Z")
Previous IQs: Are you playing a suffragette in an upcoming movie? - Meryl Streep. Were you a serial killer’s girlfriend in the first season of _Prime Suspect_? - Moira. Did the same actress who played you also play a prostitute and an interior designer? - Madison in _Splash_ was played by Darryl Hannah, who also played a “pleasure model” replicant in _Blade Runner_ and an interior designer in _Wall Street_. Three DQs reserved. IQs: Were you the only leader of your country to have your house set afire by the enemy? Did you write about overpopulation’s toll on human society? Did you star in the TV version of _Logan’s Run_? ---
**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:** [November 11, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/126 "2015-11-11T23:40:20Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Does Odin use your decapitated head for advice? > IQ2: Are you the Roman version of the Greek goddess Athena? > IQ3: Are you a Persian war deity adopted by Roman military culture? > > DQ. > Not Minerva. > Not Mithras. Mimir holding a DQ ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/127 "2015-11-12T01:38:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an ancient king who ate poisons to build up a resistance to assassination, and was mentioned in a poem by A. E. Housman? > 2. Were you the high priest from whom Jesus’s early priestly authority was claimed? > 3. Were you a Scottish engineer for whom a type of road construction is named? DQ. Not … Moses? Not John McAdam. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the only leader of your country to have your house set afire by the enemy? > Did you write about overpopulation’s toll on human society? > Did you star in the TV version of _Logan’s Run_? Not James Madison. Not Malthus. DQ. **M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. Not British 9. Not born after 1970 10. European 11. Singer or musician ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/128 "2015-11-12T02:02:01Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an ancient king who ate poisons to build up a resistance to assassination, and was mentioned in a poem by A. E. Housman? > 2. Were you the high priest from whom Jesus’s early priestly authority was claimed? > 3. Were you a Scottish engineer for whom a type of road construction is named? > DQ. > Not … Moses? > Not John McAdam. #1. There was a king reigned in the East: There, when kings will sit to feast, 60 They get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He gathered all that springs to birth From the many-venomed earth; First a little, thence to more, 65 He sampled all her killing store; And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; 70 They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up: They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt: Them it was their poison hurt. —I tell the tale that I heard told. 75 **Mithridates** , he died old. #2. Hebrews 5.5: And he says in another place, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” Correct on McAdam. DQs: 1. French? 2. Known for classical music or opera? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/129 "2015-11-12T02:07:52Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. Not British 9. Not born after 1970 10. European 11. Singer or musician 12. Not French 13. Not known for classical music or opera ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/130 "2015-11-12T02:26:23Z")
IQ1: Did you compose A Chorus Line in 1975? IQ2: Are you a Motown recording artist who was shot to death by his dad in 1984? IQ3: Are you middleweight boxing champion who legally changed your first name to Marvelous? DQ: Pop genre? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/131 "2015-11-12T03:26:59Z")
IQs: 1. Are you an Irish singer whose hits include _Fat Valley of Pain_? 2. Are you known as the First Lady of Celtic Music? 3. Were you one of the Three Kings who brought gifts to the infant Jesus? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/132 "2015-11-12T04:27:20Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose A Chorus Line in 1975? > IQ2: Are you a Motown recording artist who was shot to death by his dad in 1984? > IQ3: Are you middleweight boxing champion who legally changed your first name to Marvelous? DQ. Not Marvin Gaye. DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an Irish singer whose hits include _Fat Valley of Pain_? > 2. Are you known as the First Lady of Celtic Music? > 3. Were you one of the Three Kings who brought gifts to the infant Jesus? DQ. DQ. Not Melchior. **M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. Not British 9. Not born after 1970 10. European 11. Singer or musician 12. Not French 13. Not known for classical music or opera 14. Pop genre ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/133 "2015-11-12T12:43:58Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you an Irish singer whose hits include Fat Valley of Pain? > 2. Are you known as the First Lady of Celtic Music? > 3. Were you one of the Three Kings who brought gifts to the infant Jesus? > DQ. > DQ. > Not Melchior. #1. Mary Black. #2. Moya Brennan. Correct on Melchior. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/134 "2015-11-12T14:24:39Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose A Chorus Line in 1975? > IQ2: Are you a Motown recording artist who was shot to death by his dad in 1984? > IQ3: Are you middleweight boxing champion who legally changed your first name to Marvelous? > > DQ. > Not Marvin Gaye. > DQ. Marvin Hamlisch, correct, Marvin Hagler Marvin Trifecta! DQ: Born west of the Rhine? 1 DQ left ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/135 "2015-11-12T14:44:20Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. Not British 9. Not born after 1970 10. European 11. Singer or musician 12. Not French 13. Not known for classical music or opera 14. Pop genre 15. Born west of the Rhine ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/136 "2015-11-12T14:52:46Z")
DQ: Best known as a solo artist? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/137 "2015-11-12T14:54:50Z")
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**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:** [November 12, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/138 "2015-11-12T16:28:49Z")
**M** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. First name starts with M 5. Not American 6. Best known for the arts 7. Not an actress 8. Not British 9. Not born after 1970 10. European 11. Singer or musician 12. Not French 13. Not known for classical music or opera 14. Pop genre 15. Born west of the Rhine 16. Not best known as a solo artist ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/139 "2015-11-12T23:02:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _Brand New Key_? 2. Were you known as the Velvet Fog? 3. Were you one of the judges on last season’s _America’s Got Talent_? ---
**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:** [November 12, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2015/736440/140 "2015-11-12T23:10:00Z")
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