# Botticelli - October 2013

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 5, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411 "2013-10-05T01:50:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 11

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/201 "2013-10-21T18:01:46Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you a baseball player who came 1 HR short of joining an elite fraternity?

And take a DQ.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/202 "2013-10-21T18:10:31Z")

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Al Kaline came 1 HR short of the 400/3000 club

DQ: American?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/203 "2013-10-21T18:15:38Z")

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IQs:

Did you use the title “Ambassador” for many years after you’d actually been one?  
Were you married at Hammersmith Farm?  
Did the President visit you in your hospital room after you’d been injured in a plane crash?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/204 "2013-10-21T18:22:44Z")

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#2: I’m not Jackie Kennedy Onassis. 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:** [October 21, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/205 "2013-10-21T18:23:44Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1900.
5. American

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/206 "2013-10-21T18:54:05Z")

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IQ: Are you a hardnosed gymnastics coached who coached a who’s who of former athletes?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/207 "2013-10-21T19:04:35Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you a hardnosed gymnastics coached who coached a who’s who of former athletes?

I’m not Bela Karolyi.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/208 "2013-10-21T19:08:10Z")

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IQ: Were you the sometime starting QB for the Vikings during the 80s?

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/209 "2013-10-21T19:14:05Z")

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IQ: Are you a lawyer who participated in a controversial trial, and whose daughters became reality TV stars?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/210 "2013-10-21T19:14:53Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you the sometime starting QB for the Vikings during the 80s?

> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you a lawyer who participated in a controversial trial, and whose daughters became reality TV stars?

Take 2 DQs.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/211 "2013-10-21T19:19:11Z")

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Those were:

Tommy Kramer  
Robert Kardashian (he was on OJ’s “Dream Team”)

DQ1: Politician?

DQ2: 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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/212 "2013-10-21T19:28:05Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1900
5. American
6. Not a politician
7. Born east of the Mississippi

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/213 "2013-10-21T19:31:08Z")

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IQ: Did you have “a dream”?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/214 "2013-10-21T19:33:08Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Did you have “a dream”?

I am not Martin Luther King, Jr.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/215 "2013-10-21T19:35:52Z")

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IQ: Are you a heavyweight boxer with a namesake son?

IQ: Are you that son?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/216 "2013-10-21T19:52:39Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you a heavyweight boxer with a namesake son?
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> IQ: Are you that son?

and 2 more DQs.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/217 "2013-10-21T19:56:15Z")

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Those were the Nortons (Ken Sr and Jr)

DQ1: In the Arts, as we’ve come to define it?

DQ2: From North of the Mason-Dixon Line?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/218 "2013-10-21T20:02:36Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after 1900
5. American
6. Not a politician
7. Born east of the Mississippi
8. In the Arts
9. From south of the Mason-Dixon Line

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/219 "2013-10-21T20:06:50Z")

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IQ: Did Jim J Bullock get “too close for comfort”?

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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:** [October 21, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/220 "2013-10-21T22:15:31Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a bushranger who used homemade armour?  
> IQ2: Were you a children’s TV show host who allegedly served at Iwo Jima?  
> IQ3: Were you head of the OKW during WW II?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Take 2 DQs.  
> If #2 isn’t Bob Keeshan, take another DQ.

Ned Kelly.  
Yes, Bob Keeshan - who did enlist near the end of the war, but never went overseas.  
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.  
DQ1: Died after 1975?  
DQ2: Musician (singer/instrumentalist/conductor/composer/songwriter/&c)?  
IQ1: Were you an alleged rival of Edgar Rice Burroughs who also wrote stories set on Mars and Venus?  
IQ2: Were you a fictional British spy in Afghanistan in the early 20th century?  
IQ3: Are you known as the first king of Scotland?

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