# Botticelli -- November 2016 **URL:** \ **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:** 8
**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 25, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/141 "2016-11-25T21:41:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write “Wohl mir, dass ich Jesum habe”? > IQ2: Were you #1’s son who was noted for the time he spent in London? > IQ3: Were you #2’s half-brother Carl? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Johann “Johnny Boy” Sebastian Bach. > #2. I am not Johann Christian Bach. > #3. I am not Carl Bach. Correct on JS, JC, and CPE Bach. IQ1: Did you write a tune which Allan Sherman used for a song about food? IQ2: Did you write an opera, a tune from which was used in a kids’ baseball movie? IQ3: Did you write an orchestral piece, meant for children, based on a theme by Purcell? ---
**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 25, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/142 "2016-11-25T22:35:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a tune which Allan Sherman used for a song about food? > IQ2: Did you write an opera, a tune from which was used in a kids’ baseball movie? > IQ3: Did you write an orchestral piece, meant for children, based on a theme by Purcell? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 25, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/143 "2016-11-25T23:25:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a tune which Allan Sherman used for a song about food? > IQ2: Did you write an opera, a tune from which was used in a kids’ baseball movie? > IQ3: Did you write an orchestral piece, meant for children, based on a theme by Purcell? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Brahms (_Hungarian Dance No 5_/“Hungarian Goulash No 5”) Bizet (_Carmen_/_The Bad News Bears_). Britten (_A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra_). DQ1: Best known for music? DQ2: Native speaker of a Romance language? 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:** [November 26, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/144 "2016-11-26T01:53:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with B 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died before 1950 8. European 9. Not known for the visual arts 10. Not political/military 11. Not British 12. Died after 1850 13. Not a writer 14. Died after 1900 15. Best known for music 16. Not a native speaker of a Romance language ---
**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 26, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/145 "2016-11-26T05:18:18Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a noted ornithologist? - James Bond Were you a noted fictional character named after him? - _That_ James Bond Did you help the three Lone Gunmen? - Jimmy Bond Bond x3! DQ: Russian? Composer? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did a bat with your name appear in a cartoon as Rasputin’s sidekick? Did you play Cmdr. Chakotay? Does Amy Adams play you in _Arrival_? ---
**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 26, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/146 "2016-11-26T12:15:03Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with B 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died before 1950 8. European 9. Not known for the visual arts 10. Not political/military 11. Not British 12. Died after 1850 13. Not a writer 14. Died after 1900 15. Best known for music 16. Not a native speaker of a Romance language 17. Not Russian 18. Composer ---
**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 26, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/147 "2016-11-26T12:16:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a bat with your name appear in a cartoon as Rasputin’s sidekick? Yes! I am Bela Bartok! Good job, EH! ---
**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 27, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/148 "2016-11-27T22:25:08Z")
> **[Anastasia (1997 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_(1997_film))** > > Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy drama film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White. The film stars the voices of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, and Angela Lansbury. Based on the legend of Grand Duchess Anastasia, the film follows an eighteen-year-old amnesiac Anastasia "Anya" Romanov who, hoping to fin Anasta... Thanks! Haven’t updated the letters-played list lately, but I think it’s been awhile since we did G ---
**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 27, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/149 "2016-11-27T23:09:39Z")
IQ1: Were you noted for your many loves? IQ2: Were you #1’s beatnik friend? IQ3: Were you a man named Mohandas who was better known by an honorific? ---
**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 28, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/150 "2016-11-28T00:43:30Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the best known character played by SCAdian’s IQ2’s actor? 2. Did the Indigo Girls sing a song about you? 3. Are you a gay talk show host with a long running season on the BBC? ---
**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 28, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/151 "2016-11-28T05:39:45Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you noted for your many loves? > IQ2: Were you #1’s beatnik friend? > IQ3: Were you a man named Mohandas who was better known by an honorific? Not Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. Krebs, or Gandhi. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the best known character played by SCAdian’s IQ2’s actor? > 2. Did the Indigo Girls sing a song about you? > 3. Are you a gay talk show host with a long running season on the BBC? Not Gilligan, dunno, and dunno. ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/152 "2016-11-28T11:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the best known character played by SCAdian’s IQ2’s actor? > 2. Did the Indigo Girls sing a song about you? > 3. Are you a gay talk show host with a long running season on the BBC? > Not Gilligan, dunno, and dunno. #1. Correct. #2. Galileo. #3. Graham Norton. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/153 "2016-11-28T11:40:12Z")
IQs: 1. In the musical _Camelot_, does Guinevere pray to you in song? 2. Are you Lancelot’s illegitimate son? 3. Are you a superintelligent gorilla villain from _The Flash_? ---
**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 28, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/154 "2016-11-28T20:41:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In the musical _Camelot_, does Guinevere pray to you in song? > 2. Are you Lancelot’s illegitimate son? > 3. Are you a superintelligent gorilla villain from _The Flash_? Not God, Galahad or… Gorillaman? G. 1. real 2. male ---
**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 28, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/155 "2016-11-28T20:45:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In the musical _Camelot_, does Guinevere pray to you in song? > 2. Are you Lancelot’s illegitimate son? > 3. Are you a superintelligent gorilla villain from _The Flash_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not God, Galahad or… Gorillaman? #1 is St. Genevieve. (O Genevieve, St. Genevieve, it’s Guinevere, remember me?) #2 is Galahad, correct. #3 is Grodd. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with G? ---
**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 28, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/156 "2016-11-28T20:48:04Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the title character in a two-season live action musical comedy/adventure series produced by Disney? 2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi and mentor? 3. Did you incessantly try to capture or harm the Smurfs? ---
**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 28, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/157 "2016-11-28T22:47:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you noted for your many loves? > IQ2: Were you #1’s beatnik friend? > IQ3: Were you a man named Mohandas who was better known by an honorific? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. Krebs, or Gandhi. Correct on all three. IQ1: Was a version of the M3 medium tank named after you? IQ2: Was the M48 medium tank named after you? IQ3: Were you killed at Khartoum during the Mahdist War? ---
**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 29, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/158 "2016-11-29T04:48:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the title character in a two-season live action musical comedy/adventure series produced by Disney? > 2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi and mentor? > 3. Did you incessantly try to capture or harm the Smurfs? Dunno x3. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on all three. > IQ1: Was a version of the M3 medium tank named after you? > IQ2: Was the M48 medium tank named after you? > IQ3: Were you killed at Khartoum during the Mahdist War? Not U.S. Grant, George Patton (my dad commanded one in West Germany!), and not Gen. George “Chinese” Gordon. G. 1. real 2. male 3. alive 4. last name starts with G ---
**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 29, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/159 "2016-11-29T12:45:23Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the title character in a two-season live action musical comedy/adventure series produced by Disney? > 2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi and mentor? > 3. Did you incessantly try to capture or harm the Smurfs? > Dunno x3. #1 was Galavant. #2 was Gamaliel #3 was Gargamel. DQs: 1. Born after 1970? 2. Known for the Arts? 3. 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:** [November 29, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528/160 "2016-11-29T12:48:11Z")
IQs: 1. Did you paint portraits of Maia clothed and unclothed? 2. Are two of your solo albums titled _Watermark_ and _Angel Clare_? 3. Did you sing _Lydia the Tattooed Lady_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2016/770528.md?page=9)