# 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:** 8
**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 16, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/141 "2013-10-16T21:04:45Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you absolve yourself of responsibility by washing your hands? > IQ2: Is your name used for regular solids, such as the cube and the tetrahedron? > IQ3: Did you paint Guernica? Not Pontius Pilate. Still not Pythagoras (post 138). Not Pablo Picasso. **P** 1. Real 2. Male I really ought to get around to reading Dickens someday… ---
**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 16, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/142 "2013-10-16T22:16:54Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: In the series ‘Rome’, are you the cause of the end of the republic? > IQ2: Are you one of the world’s most renowned bandoneon players? > IQ3: Are you the title character of a Miyazaki film? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Pompey. > DQ. (What the heck is a bandoneon??) > DQ. Hmm. It’s a good guess, though Pompey was the one trying to save the republic. I’ll save the fellow I was after for another IQ. #2 was **Astor Piazzolla** , the Argentine tango virtuoso, and the man most closely associated with the Bandoneon. It’s very much like an accordion, but using exclusively buttons rather than a keyboard. Here’s a lovely example of Piazzolla’s playing - [Milonga del Angel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVF9eB3RGN8) #3 is the delightful **Ponyo**. DQ1: Alive? DQ2: American? ---
**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 16, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/143 "2013-10-16T22:41:39Z")
IQs: 1. Did you found the Academy in Athens? 2. Did you compose _Madame Butterfly_? 3. Were you Candide’s tutor? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/144 "2013-10-17T00:29:30Z")
That was Adm. John Poindexter DQ: Politician? ---
**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 17, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/145 "2013-10-17T02:24:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you found the Academy in Athens? > 2. Did you compose _Madame Butterfly_? > 3. Were you Candide’s tutor? Not Plato. Not Pucchini. Not … Pangloss? **P** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not a politician ---
**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 17, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/146 "2013-10-17T12:17:05Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Are you a detective in the novels of S. S. van Dine? 2. Do you try to see the good in everyone and everything? 3. Are you the protagonist of the most performed Norwegian play? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/147 "2013-10-17T17:29:30Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you absolve yourself of responsibility by washing your hands? > IQ2: Is your name used for regular solids, such as the cube and the tetrahedron? > IQ3: Did you paint Guernica? Yes for Pontius Pilate and Pablo Picasso. Although there are scholars who credit Pythagoras with discovering the regular solids, they’re referred to as the Platonic solids. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/148 "2013-10-17T17:31:07Z")
IQ: Were you a major WWI general? ---
**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 17, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/149 "2013-10-17T18:36:28Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > Yes for Pontius Pilate and Pablo Picasso. Although there are scholars who credit Pythagoras with discovering the regular solids, they’re referred to as the Platonic solids. Interesting - I’ve always known them as Pythagorean solids. Google gives plenty of hits for both terms, though. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a detective in the novels of S. S. van Dine? > 2. Do you try to see the good in everyone and everything? > 3. Are you the protagonist of the most performed Norwegian play? I should know this, but I’ve never read any of them. DQ. Not … Pat Boone? Not Peer Gynt. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a major WWI general? Not Black Jack Pershing. ---
**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 17, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/150 "2013-10-17T20:28:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a detective in the novels of S. S. van Dine? > 2. Do you try to see the good in everyone and everything? > 3. Are you the protagonist of the most performed Norwegian play? I should know this, but I’ve never read any of them. DQ. Not … Pat Boone? Not Peer Gynt. [/QUOTE] 1. Philo Vance 2. No… Pollyanna. (Given your familiarity with children’s lit I though that one would be easy.) 3. Yep, PG. I’ll save my DQs 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:** [October 17, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/151 "2013-10-17T21:38:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Pollyanna. (Given your familiarity with children’s lit I though that one would be easy.) Aargh. I have read that, but it was fifty years ago and it’s not a book I’ve ever been tempted to reread… ---
**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 17, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/152 "2013-10-17T22:04:52Z")
DQs: 1. First name starts with P? 2. Known for the Arts? ---
**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 17, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/153 "2013-10-17T23:19:40Z")
Previous IQs: Did all of your living relatives have British accents, despite being putatively French? - Jean-Luc Picard, in ST:TNG “Family.” Were you a well-connected French courtesan? Yes, Madame de Pompadour. Were you Brett’s best buddy belowdecks? - Parker, in _Alien_. DQs: Died before 1900? Best known for military role? IQs: Did you play a turncoat scientist, a Nazi bigwig, and the President of the United States? Were you a head of government assassinated since 1970? Did you once live on Caladan? ---
**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 17, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/154 "2013-10-17T23:38:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you play a turncoat scientist, a Nazi bigwig, and the President of the United States? > Were you a head of government assassinated since 1970? > Did you once live on Caladan? Three DQs. **P** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not a politician 6. First name does not start with P 7. Known for the Arts 8. Did not die before 1900 9. Associated with the military, but not best known for military role ---
**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 18, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/155 "2013-10-18T12:00:49Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Earth 2’s version of Supergirl? 2. Were you an illusion-casting member of the Legion of Superheroes? 3. Were you the Lois Lane to Underdog’s Superman? ---
**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 18, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/156 "2013-10-18T16:19:46Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play a turncoat scientist, a Nazi bigwig, and the President of the United States? - Donald Pleasence played a scientist in _Fantastic Voyage_, Himmler in _The Eagle Has Landed_, and the President in _Escape from New York_. Were you a head of government assassinated since 1970? - Olof Palme, late Prime Minister of Sweden, slain in 1986. Did you once live on Caladan? - Paul Atreides, in _Dune_. DQs: Died since 1950? Born east of the Mississippi River? Best-known for a single incident or act? IQs: Did Jack Bauer do his best to protect you? Are you the dog of a boy in a series of kids’ books? Did you create an illustration of a notorious bloodletting? ---
**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 18, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/157 "2013-10-18T22:47:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Earth 2’s version of Supergirl? > 2. Were you an illusion-casting member of the Legion of Superheroes? > 3. Were you the Lois Lane to Underdog’s Superman? DQ. DQ (though I should know this…). Not Sweet Polly Purebred. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Jack Bauer do his best to protect you? > Are you the dog of a boy in a series of kids’ books? > Did you create an illustration of a notorious bloodletting? DQ. DQ. Not … Howard Pyle? **P** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not a politician 6. First name does not start with P 7. Known for the Arts 8. Did not die before 1900 9. Associated with the military, but not best known for military role 10. Did not die since 1950 11. Born east of the Mississippi River 12. Not best-known for a single incident or act ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/158 "2013-10-18T22:51:30Z")
IQ: Did you create a comic starring a military figure? ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/159 "2013-10-19T00:21:52Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you create a comic starring a military figure? DQ. ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411/160 "2013-10-19T00:41:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Earth 2’s version of Supergirl? > 2. Were you an illusion-casting member of the Legion of Superheroes? > 3. Were you the Lois Lane to Underdog’s Superman? [/QUOTE] 1. Power Girl 2. Princess Projectra and, of course, you are right about Sweet Polly Purebred. DQ: Author? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2013/670411.md?page=9)