# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/41 "2013-10-09T01:16:44Z")
If that’s an offer to perform the Messiah solos professionally in Cleveland, I’d gladly accept! I haven’t sung there since 2003. ---
**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 9, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/42 "2013-10-09T17:36:44Z")
If I could arrange such a thing, I happily would. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/43 "2013-10-09T22:28:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Fuhrer? > 2. Were you #1’s head of the SS? > 3. Were you Lincoln’s first VP? I’m not Adolf Hitler or Heinrich Himmler. Have a DQ for the Vice President > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > DQ: Are you a member of a royal family? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ: Scandinavian? > Two DQs reserved… > IQ1: Were you president of Germany when Hitler became chancellor? > IQ2: Were you a WWI ace who later became Master of the German Forests? > IQ3: Were you head of the US Army Air Forces during WW II? I’m not Paul von Hindenburg or Henry Arnold. Take a DQ for the second one. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the only chubby Elf in the LOTR movies? > Did you watch firefighters put out a Christmas fire in your workplace? > Was one of your most famous tunes a fake folk song? 3 DQs H. 1. Real 2. Not American 3. Not a Yank 4. Dead 5. European 6. Male 7. Died after 1500 8. I was known for my political endeavours 9. Died after 1800 10. Not from the British Isles 11. Native speaker of a Germanic language 12. Last name starts with an H 13. Not a member of a royal family 14. Scandinavian ---
**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 9, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/44 "2013-10-09T22:51:15Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you president of Germany when Hitler became chancellor? > IQ2: Were you a WWI ace who later became Master of the German Forests? > IQ3: Were you head of the US Army Air Forces during WW II? > [@guylevesque](#): > > I’m not Paul von Hindenburg or Henry Arnold. Take a DQ for the second one. Correct on Hindenburg and Arnold. #2 was Hermann Goring. DQ reserved. IQ1: Are you a UN Secretary General who died in a plane crash? IQ2: Are you a professional wrestler who also works as an actor? IQ3: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/45 "2013-10-09T23:09:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on Hindenburg and Arnold. > #2 was Hermann Goring. > DQ reserved. > IQ1: Are you a UN Secretary General who died in a plane crash? > IQ2: Are you a professional wrestler who also works as an actor? > IQ3: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? I don’t know the second and third one and it doesn’t matter because … Yes, I am **Dag Hammarskjöld** , Swedish Nobel laureate, economist and second Secretary-General of the United Nations who died tragically in a plane crash in 1961. > **[Dag Hammarskjöld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld)** > > Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: /ˈhæmərʃʊld/ HAM-ər-shuuld, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Swedish: \[ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld\] ⓘ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in Septem Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/46 "2013-10-10T00:29:54Z")
Great job, **SCAdian**! ---
**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 10, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/47 "2013-10-10T04:33:51Z")
Way to go, **SCAdian**! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the only chubby Elf in the LOTR movies? > Did you watch firefighters put out a Christmas fire in your workplace? > Was one of your most famous tunes a fake folk song? Haldir:[http://images.wikia.com/lotr/images/0/06/Haldir\_in\_Two\_Towers.png](http://images.wikia.com/lotr/images/0/06/Haldir_in_Two_Towers.png). Herbert Hoover; the West Wing caught fire in, I think, 1929. Harry Belafonte and “The Banana Boat Song” ---
**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 10, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/48 "2013-10-10T12:02:07Z")
Good job, **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 10, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/49 "2013-10-10T14:17:37Z")
Thank you, everyone. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a UN Secretary General who died in a plane crash? > IQ2: Are you a professional wrestler who also works as an actor? > IQ3: Did you write _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_? > [@guylevesque](#): > > I don’t know the second and third one and it doesn’t matter because > … > Yes, I am **Dag Hammarskjöld** , Swedish Nobel laureate, economist and second Secretary-General of the United Nations who died tragically in a plane crash in 1961. #2 was Hulk Hogan, and #3 was Harry Harrison. Hammarskjöld was the only Scandinavian politician I could think of with an ‘H’ name, and it’s a good thing DQ14 was _Scandinavian_, not _Swedish_, because I thought he was Norwegian. 🙂 (Though I might have used him as a DQ anyway, having thought of him.) Back with a letter later today, after I can think of someone suitably fiendish… 😃 ---
**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 10, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/50 "2013-10-10T17:20:03Z")
I am **L**. ---
**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 10, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/51 "2013-10-10T17:24:03Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Man of a Thousand Faces? 2. Were you the Beloved Physician? 3. Were you Superman’s Silver Age girlfriend between Lana and Lois? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/52 "2013-10-10T17:50:07Z")
IQ1: Did Dana Carvey mention you, under another name? IQ2: Did you nearly have a fistfight over a missing poker ante? IQ3: Are you closely associated with a vehicle named after a city known for its Redbirds? IQ4: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you writing the DoI? ---
**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 10, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/53 "2013-10-10T18:46:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Man of a Thousand Faces? > 2. Were you the Beloved Physician? > 3. Were you Superman’s Silver Age girlfriend between Lana and Lois? Not … Dr Lao? Not Saint Luke. Not … Lori Lemaris? > [@etv78](#): > > IQ1: Did Dana Carvey mention you, under another name? > IQ2: Did you nearly have a fistfight over a missing poker ante? > IQ3: Are you closely associated with a vehicle named after a city known for its Redbirds? > IQ4: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you writing the DoI? Norm for this game is three IQs at a time, so I’ll answer the first three: DQ. DQ. Not Charles Lindbergh. ---
**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 10, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/54 "2013-10-10T18:51:29Z")
[quote=“SCAdian, post:53, topic:670411”] Not … Dr Lao? Not Saint Luke. Not … Lori Lemaris? QUOTE] Lon Chaney Sr. was billed as The Man of a Thousand Faces, and it was also the title of the 1957 biographical film of his life. You may remember him as the Phantom of the Opera in the best known silent version. Luke and Lori are correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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 10, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/55 "2013-10-10T18:54:24Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Poland’s best known science fiction writer? 2. Are you Rerun’s big sister? 3. Are you a 12th Century French intrusion into a British legendary cycle? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/56 "2013-10-10T19:02:56Z")
Those were Lucifer and Jeff Lisandro. DQ: Alive? DQ2: American? IQ: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you when writing the DoI? ---
**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 10, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/57 "2013-10-10T20:59:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Poland’s best known science fiction writer? > 2. Are you Rerun’s big sister? > 3. Are you a 12th Century French intrusion into a British legendary cycle? Not Stanislaw Lem, Lucy Van Pelt or Launcelot du Lac. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did Jefferson borrow heavily from you when writing the DoI? Not … John Locke? **L** 1. Real 2. Dead 3. American What’s a Dana Carvey, and what name did (s)he use for Lucifer? ---
**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 11, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/58 "2013-10-11T03:58:51Z")
IQs: Did you good-naturedly insult your wife’s family for putting on airs? Did your husband’s aides refer to you behind your back as “the hellcat”? Did your dad say he liked his preachers “to look as if they fighting bees”? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/59 "2013-10-11T09:13:36Z")
**Sca** -You’re obviously not a SNL fan (or are too young to remember Church Lady) He would dress up like like a prissy old lady and ask,“Could it be… Satan!?” BTW, that was indeed Locke. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/60 "2013-10-11T09:16:26Z")
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