# Botticelli -- November 2016

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528 "2016-11-03T12:25:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**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 8, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/41 "2016-11-08T16:49:39Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> All right, **Prof. P.**!
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> IQs:
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> Did your son own Hildene?  
> Did your husband joke about your family’s collective ego?  
> Did you last appear in public in 1922?

#1. I am not Abraham Lincoln.  
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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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 8, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/42 "2016-11-08T22:48:49Z")

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IQ1: Did Allan Sherman write a song saying that you went the wrong way?  
IQ2: Were you a British earl with the name of an Asian country in your title?  
IQ3: Were you a British viscount with the name of an African city in your title?

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**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 9, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/43 "2016-11-09T03:30:34Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did your son own Hildene? - Yes, Abraham Lincoln  
Did your husband joke about your family’s collective ego? - Mary Todd Lincoln (“God gets by with one ‘d,’ but the Todds must have two”)  
Did you last appear in public in 1922? - Robert Todd Lincoln, at the dedication of his father’s memorial in Washington

DQs:

Real?  
Male?

IQs:

Did you create the first _Battlestar Galactica_?  
Are you Cersei’s twin brother?  
Are you Tyrion’s dad?

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**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 9, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/44 "2016-11-09T10:28:56Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did Allan Sherman write a song saying that you went the wrong way?  
> IQ2: Were you a British earl with the name of an Asian country in your title?  
> IQ3: Were you a British viscount with the name of an African city in your title?

I am not Uncle Louie.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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 9, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/45 "2016-11-09T10:31:19Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> Did you create the first _Battlestar Galactica_?  
> Are you Cersei’s twin brother?  
> Are you Tyrion’s dad?

Take a DQ for the first one.  
I am neither Jaime nor Tywin Lannister.

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**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 9, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/46 "2016-11-09T10:32:19Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female

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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 9, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/47 "2016-11-09T20:34:05Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Uncle Louie.  
> Take 2 DQs.

King Louis XVI (“You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie”).  
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.  
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.  
DQ1: Living?  
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

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**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 9, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/48 "2016-11-09T21:07:34Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. Known for the Arts

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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 10, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/49 "2016-11-10T03:59:54Z")

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IQ1: Were you the Jersey Lily?  
IQ2: Were you the Swedish Nightingale?  
IQ3: Did you write about the Cuthberts and their red-haired adopted daughter?

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**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 10, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/50 "2016-11-10T05:19:09Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you create the first _Battlestar Galactica_? - Gary Larson  
Are you Cersei’s twin brother? - Yes, Jaime Lannister from _Game of Thrones_  
Are you Tyrion’s dad? - Yes, Tywin Lannister

DQ:

Last name start with L?

IQs:

Did you have a fort named after you in Penna.?  
Were you a Scandinavian punk computer hacker?  
Did you lose a ship in a game of chance?

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**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 10, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/51 "2016-11-10T12:16:10Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you the Jersey Lily?  
> IQ2: Were you the Swedish Nightingale?  
> IQ3: Did you write about the Cuthberts and their red-haired adopted daughter?

I am not Lily Langtry.  
I am not Jenny Lind.  
Take a DQ for #3.

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**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 10, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/52 "2016-11-10T12:17:10Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> Did you have a fort named after you in Penna.?  
> Were you a Scandinavian punk computer hacker?  
> Did you lose a ship in a game of chance?

Take 3 DQs.

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**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 10, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/53 "2016-11-10T12:18:13Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. Known for the Arts
5. Last name starts with L

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**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 10, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/54 "2016-11-10T16:06:18Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you have a fort named after you in Penna.? - Gen. Ligonier  
Were you a Scandinavian punk computer hacker? - Lisbeth Salander, in _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_  
Did you lose a ship in a game of chance? - Lando Calrissian lost the _Millennium Falcon_ to Han Solo that way

DQs:

American?  
Died since 1950?  
Best known for the visual arts (acting, photography, painting, etc.)?

IQs:

Were you “the Knight of Flowers”?  
Were you Clinton’s first SECTREAS?  
Were you “the Welsh Wizard”?

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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 10, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/55 "2016-11-10T21:03:49Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you the Jersey Lily?  
> IQ2: Were you the Swedish Nightingale?  
> IQ3: Did you write about the Cuthberts and their red-haired adopted daughter?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Lily Langtry.  
> I am not Jenny Lind.  
> Take a DQ for #3.

Correct.  
Correct.  
Lucy Maud Montgomery (_Anne of Green Gables_).

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**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 10, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/56 "2016-11-10T21:24:38Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. Known for the Arts
5. Last name starts with L
6. American
7. Died since 1950
8. Best known for the visual arts

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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 11, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/57 "2016-11-11T01:59:22Z")

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DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?

IQ1: Did you star in the _Road to…_ films?  
IQ2: Did you play Mrs Muir?

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**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, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/58 "2016-11-11T03:43:10Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. Known for the Arts
5. Last name starts with L
6. American
7. Died since 1950
8. Best known for the visual arts
9. Born east of the Mississippi

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**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, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/59 "2016-11-11T03:44:16Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you star in the _Road to…_ films?  
> IQ2: Did you play Mrs Muir?

I am not Dorothy Lamour.  
I am not Hope Lange.

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**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, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/60 "2016-11-11T03:45:25Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> Were you “the Knight of Flowers”?  
> Were you Clinton’s first SECTREAS?  
> Were you “the Welsh Wizard”?

#1. I am not Sir Lancelot (??).  
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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