# Botticelli - November 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 30, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196 "2017-10-30T00:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 17
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/321 "2017-12-01T17:28:06Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you once run for governor of New York with the promise that you would fix all the roads and then resign? > IQ2: Are you a former governor of Vermont, and DNC chairman from 2005-2009? > IQ3: Do you play Lucious Lyon in the TV series _Empire_? 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:** [December 1, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/322 "2017-12-01T19:11:06Z")
Howard Stern, Howard Dean, Terrence Howard Howard x 3! DQ: Known for the Arts? DQ: From the UK? holding 2 DQs ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/323 "2017-12-01T19:13:42Z")
DQs: 1. Dead 2. Male 3. Last name begins with H 4. Real 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in politics 7. Born in the Eastern Hemisphere, at least colloquially 8. European 9. Known for the Arts 10. From the U.K. Looking at the article on “Eastern Hemisphere” at Google, it shows that the U.K. is actually part of the Western Hemisphere. But the term is generally used to include all of Europe, hence may above note “at least colloquially”. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/324 "2017-12-01T19:18:13Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the best-known person ever to serve in the Maine militia after 1800? - Hannibal Hamlin, the only Vice President of the U.S. (1861-65) to serve in the military during his term in office Were you the plucky young hero of _The Iron Giant_? - Hogarth Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? - Reinhard Heydrich DQ: Died after 1950? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you McKinley’s and TR’s SECSTATE? Were you Rumpole’s overbearing wife? Were you unable to attend the segregated Atlanta premiere of your best-known movie? ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/325 "2017-12-01T21:18:08Z")
DQs: 1. Dead 2. Male 3. Last name begins with H 4. Real 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in politics 7. Born in the Eastern Hemisphere, at least colloquially 8. European 9. Known for the Arts 10. From the U.K. 11. Died before 1950 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/326 "2017-12-01T21:19:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you McKinley’s and TR’s SECSTATE? > Were you Rumpole’s overbearing wife? > Were you unable to attend the segregated Atlanta premiere of your best-known movie? 1. I am not John Milton Hay. 2. I don’t recall the name of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, so take a DQ. 3. Take another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/327 "2017-12-02T00:49:28Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Correct on all 3, well played. > > IQ1: Do you constantly blame your psychoanalyst mother for your psychological hang-ups, occasionally to your advantage? > IQ2: Were you a chemist whose work helped to dramatically improved worker safety in a common industry of the time? > IQ3: Were you a rock ‘n’ roll star whose band is a play on words in relation to your surname? Correct on Leonard, the others were Sir Humphry Davy, whose Davy lamp reduced the risk of explosions for miners, and Bill Haley (and the Comets). DQ1: A writer? One DQ reserved. IQ1: Did you write a piece of music that became incomplete in your lifetime, but is now complete once again? IQ2: Did you write Brave New World? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/328 "2017-12-02T01:07:26Z")
Previous IQs: Were you McKinley’s and TR’s SECSTATE? - Yes, John M. Hay; years earlier, he had also been one of Lincoln’s two personal aides Were you Rumpole’s overbearing wife? - Hilda, from _Rumpole of the Bailey_, as you surmised Were you unable to attend the segregated Atlanta premiere of your best-known movie? - Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy in _Gone With The Wind_ DQs: Won a top award in his field? English? Greatest fame before 1939? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you command an interstellar mercenary armored regiment? Were you an American businessman with strong business ties to the USSR? Did you play twins in a post-1995 movie? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/329 "2017-12-02T01:56:00Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a piece of music that became incomplete in your lifetime, but is now complete once again? > IQ2: Did you write Brave New World? I am not Aldous Huxley. However, Yes, I am Gustav Holst, composer of _The Planets_. Well done, DC! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/330 "2017-12-02T08:25:25Z")
Wow, amazed I finally got one! I guess it’s time to start a new thread, which I shall do directly. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/331 "2017-12-03T05:17:54Z")
Way to go, **Dead Cat**! Previous IQs: Did you command an interstellar mercenary armored regiment? - The title character of the sf military series _Hammer’s Slammers_ Were you an American businessman with strong business ties to the USSR? - Armand Hammer Did you play twins in a post-1995 movie? - Armie Hammer, in _The Social Network_ Hammer x3! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196/332 "2017-12-03T20:55:47Z")
December thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843551](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843551) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2017/800196.md?page=16)