# Botticelli - October 2013 **URL:** \ **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:** 19
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/361 "2013-10-31T12:23:35Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a “Cinderella Man”? I’m sorry, I don’t know to whom you refer > [@Elendil's Scabrous Hair](#): > > IQs: > > Did you have to wear fur in your best-known role? > Were you known for belting out a particular patriotic song? > Were you briefly known as “Mrs. Nesbit”? pass on all 3 > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is a style of women’s drawers known by your name? > IQ2: Did you give your mother forty whacks? > IQ3: Is it said that you waved a US flag to annoy Confederate troops? 1: I am not Bloomer and have to guess at her first name… Amelia? 3: I don’t know to whom you refer But this current display of my ignorance is at an end, for although she was not my mother but my stepmother, she took fewer than forty whacks and there was sufficient doubt as to the question of whether I gave her them that I was aquitted, number 2 does refer to me - I am Lizzie Borden. Congratulations, SCAdian. ---
**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 31, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/362 "2013-10-31T12:31:05Z")
Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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 31, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/363 "2013-10-31T15:27:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is a style of women’s drawers known by your name? > IQ2: Did you give your mother forty whacks? > IQ3: Is it said that you waved a US flag to annoy Confederate troops? > [@fanganga](#): > > 1: I am not Bloomer and have to guess at her first name… Amelia? > 3: I don’t know to whom you refer > > But this current display of my ignorance is at an end, for although she was not my mother but my stepmother, she took fewer than forty whacks and there was sufficient doubt as to the question of whether I gave her them that I was aquitted, number 2 does refer to me - I am Lizzie Borden. Congratulations, SCAdian. If I hadn’t started listening to Chad Mitchell whilst thinking of IQs… 😃 Yes, Amelia Bloomer, and #3 was Barbara Fritchie. I had a good ‘W’ picked out the other day, but I can’t remember who it was. ☹ So let’s go with G ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/364 "2013-10-31T17:24:32Z")
IQ: Were you a “Plumber”? My Previous IQ was James Braddock, BTW ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/365 "2013-10-31T17:31:36Z")
IQ1: Did a singer express a desire to ride in your Cadillac? IQ2: After your husbands death, did you marry his brother who was the likely cause of said death? IQ3: Did your slaying prompt your mother to seek revenge? ---
**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 31, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/366 "2013-10-31T21:27:03Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a “Plumber”? Not G Gordon Liddy. > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did a singer express a desire to ride in your Cadillac? > IQ2: After your husbands death, did you marry his brother who was the likely cause of said death? > IQ3: Did your slaying prompt your mother to seek revenge? Three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/367 "2013-10-31T22:14:29Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did a singer express a desire to ride in your Cadillac? > IQ2: After your husbands death, did you marry his brother who was the likely cause of said death? > IQ3: Did your slaying prompt your mother to seek revenge? 1: Whoah, boys - take me back. I wanna ride in **Geronimo’s** Cadillac. 2: Hamlet’s mother, **Queen Gertrude of Denmark** 3: **Grendel** ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/368 "2013-10-31T22:19:19Z")
IQ: Is your autobiography the gold standard of Presidential memoirs? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/369 "2013-10-31T22:36:34Z")
DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: Reserved for now. ---
**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 1, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/370 "2013-11-01T00:32:50Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Is your autobiography the gold standard of Presidential memoirs? DQ. G 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 1, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/371 "2013-11-01T00:50:03Z")
Way to go, **SCAdian**! Previous round IQs: Did you have to wear fur in your best-known role? - Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in _The Wizard of Oz_. Were you known for belting out a particular patriotic song? - Bessie Smith, known for her full-throated renditions of “God Bless America” Were you briefly known as “Mrs. Nesbit”? - Buzz Lightyear, dispiritedly forced to take part in Sid’s sister’s doll tea parties in _Toy Story_. And now… IQs: Was your best-known battle at Guilford Court House? Were you a head of state indirectly related to an early nautical ally of the U.S.? Did you do early production artwork for a film version of _Dune_ that never got off the, er, sand? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/372 "2013-11-01T01:32:27Z")
That’s US Grant DQ: Living? ---
**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 1, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/373 "2013-11-01T02:16:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did Flip Wilson play you in drag? 2. Were you frequently surrounded with Pips? 3. Did you fire one of your most popular singers on the air? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/374 "2013-11-01T02:35:27Z")
IQ: Did you form a comedy duo with your husband, and predecease him by a couple decades? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/375 "2013-11-01T03:38:22Z")
IQ: Did you have a fairy tale wedding with a prince from a small European nation? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/376 "2013-11-01T03:42:13Z")
IQ: Did you coach the “Over the Hill Gang”? ---
**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 1, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/377 "2013-11-01T13:23:07Z")
> [@Elendil's Scabrous Hair](#): > > IQs: > > Was your best-known battle at Guilford Court House? > Were you a head of state indirectly related to an early nautical ally of the U.S.? > Did you do early production artwork for a film version of _Dune_ that never got off the, er, sand? Not … Nathaniel Greene? DQ. DQ. > [@The Severed Head of Prof. P](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Flip Wilson play you in drag? > 2. Were you frequently surrounded with Pips? > 3. Did you fire one of your most popular singers on the air? Not Geraldine. Not Gladys Knight. DQ. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you form a comedy duo with your husband, and predecease him by a couple decades? > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you have a fairy tale wedding with a prince from a small European nation? > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you coach the “Over the Hill Gang”? Not Gracie Allen. Not Grace Kelly. 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 1, 2013, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/378 "2013-11-01T13:24:18Z")
G 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/379 "2013-11-01T15:25:14Z")
George Allen coached the Washington “football team” 😉 during the 70’s. they were dubbed “The Over the Hill Gang” due to the advanced age of the players DQ: Died after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/380 "2013-11-01T15:27:34Z")
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