# Botticelli - October 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156 "2015-10-01T16:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**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, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/301 "2015-10-19T11:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Prof. Pepperwinkle on The Adventures Of Superman? > 2. Does your neighbor have to knock three times before calling out your name? > 3. Did you write The Rape of the Lock? > DQ. Not Penny from the Big Bang Theory or Alexander Pope. #1 was Phil Tead. Correct on the other two. DQ: Male? ---
**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, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/302 "2015-10-19T11:30:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a bed that gave new meaning to the phrase “One size fits all”? 2. Were you Candide’s learned mentor? 3. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/303 "2015-10-19T13:25:25Z")
IQ1: Do you play bass guitar for the Grateful Dead? IQ2: Do you play bass guitar for Styx? IQ3: Do you play bass guitar for Toto? ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/304 "2015-10-19T16:45:50Z")
Good job, **guy**! Shoulda thought of him. IQs: Did you surrender Vicksburg? Were you a detective in _Homicide_? Were you Truman’s political sponsor? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/305 "2015-10-19T20:29:39Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Paul Atreides in _Dune_, and you got the other two. > > DQ: Real? > > IQ1: Did play a flute to reminisce about things that you never actually did? > IQ2: Were you known as the “Napoleon of the Stump”? > IQ3: Did you receive two unshared Nobel prizes? Yes, I’m real and I am not Linus Pauling. Have 2 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1 was Phil Tead. Correct on the other two. > > DQ: Male? I am male. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a bed that gave new meaning to the phrase “One size fits all”? > 2. Were you Candide’s learned mentor? > 3. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet? I am not Planchet or Procrustes. 1 DQ > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Do you play bass guitar for the Grateful Dead? > IQ2: Do you play bass guitar for Styx? > IQ3: Do you play bass guitar for Toto? I am not Mike Porcaro or Phil Lesh. 1 DQ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Good job, **guy**! Shoulda thought of him. > > IQs: > > Did you surrender Vicksburg? > Were you a detective in _Homicide_? > Were you Truman’s political sponsor? I am not John Pemberton. 2 DQs P 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/306 "2015-10-19T20:35:12Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a bed that gave new meaning to the phrase “One size fits all”? > 2. Were you Candide’s learned mentor? > 3. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet? > I am not Planchet or Procrustes. 1 DQ Correct. Dr. Pangloss. Correct. DQ: Alive? ---
**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, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/307 "2015-10-19T20:39:11Z")
IQs: 1. Do the Frenchies seek you here and there? 2. Are you the protagonist in some stories by P. G. Wodehouse? 3. Were you a martyred disciple of the apostle John? ---
**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, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/308 "2015-10-19T20:44:35Z")
IQ1: Did you play a CIA agent who travelled to Central America with a dentist? IQ2: Did you and Bruce Woodley write “Red Rubber Ball”? IQ3: Did you sing “Hot Diggity”? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/309 "2015-10-19T23:25:53Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did play a flute to reminisce about things that you never actually did? > IQ2: Were you known as the “Napoleon of the Stump”? > IQ3: Did you receive two unshared Nobel prizes? Jean-Luc Picard (ST:TNG), after the Inner Light, and [James K. Polk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9SvJMZs5Rs) You were correct on Pauling, of course. DQ: Known for the Arts? 1 DQ reserved. IQ1: Did you write _Capital in the 21st Century_? IQ2: Does your son lead a major political party in Canada? IQ3: Did you (allegedly) search for the fountain of youth? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/310 "2015-10-19T23:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Do you play bass guitar for the Grateful Dead? > IQ2: Do you play bass guitar for Styx? > IQ3: Do you play bass guitar for Toto? > > I am not Mike Porcaro or Phil Lesh. 1 DQ Chuck Panozzo DQ: Last name start with P? ---
**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 19, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/311 "2015-10-19T23:57:16Z")
Previous IQs: Did you surrender Vicksburg? - Yes, Pemberton. Were you a detective in Homicide? - Pembleton. Were you Truman’s political sponsor? - “Boss” Pendergast. DQs: American? Born since 1950? IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? Were you a U.S. Attorney General of the same first name? Were you a notorious British double agent of the 20th c.? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/312 "2015-10-20T00:02:04Z")
IQ1: Are you a Rastafarian recording artist who was killed in 1987 by a gang demanding money? IQ2: Did you play three different roles in _Dr. Strangelove_? IQ3: Are you one of _The Monkees_? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/313 "2015-10-20T15:22:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do the Frenchies seek you here and there? > 2. Are you the protagonist in some stories by P. G. Wodehouse? > 3. Were you a martyred disciple of the apostle John? I am not Psmith. 2 DQs > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a CIA agent who travelled to Central America with a dentist? > IQ2: Did you and Bruce Woodley write “Red Rubber Ball”? > IQ3: Did you sing “Hot Diggity”? I am not Paul Simon or Peter Falk. 1 DQ. > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > J > DQ: Known for the Arts? > > 1 DQ reserved. > > IQ1: Did you write _Capital in the 21st Century_? > IQ2: Does your son lead a major political party in Canada? > IQ3: Did you (allegedly) search for the fountain of youth? Not known for the arts. I am not Thomas Piketty, Juan Ponce de Leon or Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Have a DQ. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ: Last name start with P? First name starts with P! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > DQs: > > American? > Born since 1950? > > IQs: > > Did you found Kenyon College? > Were you a U.S. Attorney General of the same first name? > Were you a notorious British double agent of the 20th c.? I am American but not from the United States and I was born before 1950. I am not Kim Philby. Don’t know the other two so 2 DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Rastafarian recording artist who was killed in 1987 by a gang demanding money? > IQ2: Did you play three different roles in _Dr. Strangelove_? > IQ3: Are you one of _The Monkees_? I am not Peter Sellers or Peter Tosh. Don’t know the Monkees guy so 1 DQ. P 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not known for the arts 4. First name starts with P 5. American (continent, not country) 6. Born before 1950 ---
**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 20, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/314 "2015-10-20T15:49:11Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do the Frenchies seek you here and there? > 2. Are you the protagonist in some stories by P. G. Wodehouse? > 3. Were you a martyred disciple of the apostle John? > I am not Psmith. 2 DQs Correct on Psmith. #1 "They seek him here, they seek him there, The Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he from Heaven, is he from Hell? That damn’d elusive [Scarlet] Pimpernel? #3 was Polycarp. DQ: Alive? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/315 "2015-10-20T17:06:54Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > Not known for the arts. I am not Thomas Piketty, Juan Ponce de Leon or Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Have a DQ. Correct on all three, though strangely the second two are in reverse order from how I asked them. I did have a DQ in reserve, though, so I’ll spend it: DQ: Known for politics or the military? IQ1: Did you lead Brazil to multiple World Cups? IQ2: Did you lead a major drug cartel? IQ3: Did you write _Tau Zero_? ---
**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 20, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/316 "2015-10-20T17:07:56Z")
Previous IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase. Were you a U.S. Attorney General of the same first name? - Philander Knox. Were you a notorious British double agent of the 20th c.? - Yes, Kim Philby. DQs: U.S. citizen? Political/military? IQs: Did you donate a big New Mexico ranch to the Boy Scouts of America? Did Tom Hanks play you in a recent movie? Are you the best-known living person born on Corfu? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/317 "2015-10-20T18:14:28Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Rastafarian recording artist who was killed in 1987 by a gang demanding money? > IQ2: Did you play three different roles in Dr. Strangelove? > IQ3: Are you one of The Monkees? > > I am not Peter Sellers or Peter Tosh. Don’t know the Monkees guy so 1 DQ. Peter Tork for Peter x3! holding a 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:** [October 20, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/318 "2015-10-20T20:25:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a CIA agent who travelled to Central America with a dentist? > IQ2: Did you and Bruce Woodley write “Red Rubber Ball”? > IQ3: Did you sing “Hot Diggity”? > [@guylevesque](#): > > I am not Paul Simon or Peter Falk. 1 DQ. Correct on Falk. Correct on Simon. Perry Como. Peter, Paul and Perry! 😃 DQ: From North or Central America? IQ1: Was “Theme from _A Summer Place_” one of your best-known recordings? IQ2: Was your husband elected president twice before your death, and once afterward? IQ3: Were you that husband? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/319 "2015-10-20T20:52:57Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Correct on all three, though strangely the second two are in reverse order from how I asked them. I did have a DQ in reserve, though, so I’ll spend it: > > DQ: Known for politics or the military? > > IQ1: Did you lead Brazil to multiple World Cups? > IQ2: Did you lead a major drug cartel? > IQ3: Did you write _Tau Zero_? I am not Pele, I don’t know who the third one is but it doesn’t matter because I am indeed Pablo Escobar, the Colombian king of cocaine! Congratulations… I should have picked a more difficult one. 😛 ---
**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 20, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/320 "2015-10-20T21:30:44Z")
I dunno about that. I’d never have guessed him myself. Good going, Tim! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156.md?page=17)