# 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:** 34
**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 17, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/661 "2013-11-17T22:27:54Z")
IQs 1. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today? 2. Are you the daughter of the Queen of the Amazons? 3. Did you draw a zany cartoon woodpecker? ---
**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 17, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/662 "2013-11-17T23:05:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today? > 2. Are you the daughter of the Queen of the Amazons? > 3. Did you draw a zany cartoon woodpecker? I am neither J Wellington Wimpy, Wonder Woman, nor Walter Lantz. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/663 "2013-11-17T23:42:22Z")
Congratulations SCAdian! IQ1: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father? IQ2: Does a monument in your honour of your victories overlook the river Forth? IQ3: Did you hear the learn’d astronomer? ---
**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 18, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/664 "2013-11-18T00:27:48Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father? > IQ2: Does a monument in your honour of your victories overlook the river Forth? > IQ3: Did you hear the learn’d astronomer? DQ. Not William Wallace. 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 18, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/665 "2013-11-18T00:44:33Z")
Just realised that fanganga’s IQ1 must be George W Bush. Oh, well… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/666 "2013-11-18T02:58:17Z")
Nicely done, **SCAdian**! So we’re on to W? IQ1: Are you one of Robin Hood’s merry men? IQ2: Are you Peter Pan’s gal-pal? IQ3: Did you help create Apple Computers? ---
**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 18, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/667 "2013-11-18T03:09:14Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of Robin Hood’s merry men? > IQ2: Are you Peter Pan’s gal-pal? > IQ3: Did you help create Apple Computers? Neither Will Scarlet, Wendy Darling, nor Steve Wozniak. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/668 "2013-11-18T08:32:50Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > Congratulations SCAdian! > > IQ1: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father? > IQ2: Does a monument in your honour of your victories overlook the river Forth? > IQ3: Did you hear the learn’d astronomer? 1: Was indeed President W 2: Was indeed William Wallace 3: Then you are not Walt Whitman DQ: Are you real? IQ1: Did a Whitman fan call you his “other favorite W.W.”? IQ2: Did Bart Simpson use your name as an alias? IQ3: Are you the corrupt bishop in the Pillars of the Earth? ---
**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 18, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/669 "2013-11-18T11:54:56Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did a Whitman fan call you his “other favorite W.W.”? > IQ2: Did Bart Simpson use your name as an alias? > IQ3: Are you the corrupt bishop in the Pillars of the Earth? Three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/670 "2013-11-18T12:41:00Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > 1: Was indeed President W > 2: Was indeed William Wallace > 3: Then you are not Walt Whitman > > DQ: Are you real? > > IQ1: Did a Whitman fan call you his “other favorite W.W.”? > IQ2: Did Bart Simpson use your name as an alias? > IQ3: Are you the corrupt bishop in the Pillars of the Earth? 1: **Walter White** , noted Albuquerque chemist and businessman - the Whitman fan was his associate Gale Boetticher. 2: Another President W - **Woodrow Wilson** , used when Bart answered Mrs. Krabappel’s Lonely Hearts ad. 3: Bishop **Waleran** ---
**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 18, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/671 "2013-11-18T12:56:43Z")
IQs 1. Were you a civilian who was given a funeral with full police honors? 2. Is your secret identity Philbert Desinex? 3. Did you openly loathe working with Barbra Streisand in _Hello Dolly_? ---
**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 18, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/672 "2013-11-18T15:47:31Z")
Way to go, **SCAdian**! If I’d ever heard of Xanthippe I’d long ago forgotten her. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Well, that was certainly painful… Pain is weakness leaving the body… er, the Botticelli thread. On to W, then. IQs: Did you make money fishing, distilling whiskey and growing hemp, among other things? Did you never again sleep in the room where your husband died? Do you take lots of artsy photos of your dogs? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/673 "2013-11-18T19:12:32Z")
IQ1: Did you command troops in Vietnam? IQ2: Is a beef dish named in your honor? ---
**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 18, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/674 "2013-11-18T21:35:52Z")
Oops - missed fanganga’s DQ this morning. **W** 1. Fictional ---
**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 18, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/675 "2013-11-18T21:47:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you a civilian who was given a funeral with full police honors? > 2. Is your secret identity Philbert Desinex? > 3. Did you openly loathe working with Barbra Streisand in _Hello Dolly_? Three DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you make money fishing, distilling whiskey and growing hemp, among other things? > Did you never again sleep in the room where your husband died? > Do you take lots of artsy photos of your dogs? DQ. Not … Mrs Winchester? Not William Wegman. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ1: Did you command troops in Vietnam? > IQ2: Is a beef dish named in your honor? Neither General Westmoreland nor the Duke of Wellington. ---
**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 18, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/676 "2013-11-18T21:49:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you a civilian who was given a funeral with full police honors? > 2. Is your secret identity Philbert Desinex? > 3. Did you openly loathe working with Barbra Streisand in _Hello Dolly_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Three DQs. #1 was Jack Webb, honored because of the respect police received from the Dragnet series. #2 was underground comix hero Wonder Warthog. #3 was co-star Walter Matthau. 1. Is W the initial of your last name? 2. Male? 3. From literature? ---
**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 18, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/677 "2013-11-18T22:06:45Z")
**W** 1. Fictional 2. W is the initial of my last name 3. Male 4. Not from literature ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/678 "2013-11-18T22:58:33Z")
DQ1: Are you depicted as living on 20th or 21st Century Earth? DQ2: Have you appeared in multiple works? DQ3: reserved for now IQ1: Are you the principal tormentee of Dennis the Menace? IQ2: Are you the principal tormentee of the other Dennis the Menace? IQ3: Are you an important figure within the Umbrella Corporation? ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/679 "2013-11-19T00:08:32Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you the principal tormentee of Dennis the Menace? > IQ2: Are you the principal tormentee of the other Dennis the Menace? > IQ3: Are you an important figure within the Umbrella Corporation? Not George Wilson. DQ. DQ. **W** 1. Fictional 2. W is the initial of my last name 3. Male 4. Not from literature 5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth 6. Have appeared in multiple works fanganga has one reserved DQ. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/680 "2013-11-19T00:16:47Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you the principal tormentee of Dennis the Menace? > IQ2: Are you the principal tormentee of the other Dennis the Menace? > IQ3: Are you an important figure within the Umbrella Corporation? Given my upbringing, I had 1 and 2 in a different order from you. **George Wilson** was indeed one of them, the other was \*\* Walter the Softy\*\*. Number 3 was **Alfred Wesker** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=35)