# 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:** 23
**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 27, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/441 "2015-10-27T18:19:53Z")
I am R 1. Real ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/442 "2015-10-27T18:23:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you take a proton energy pill that gave you the strength of 20 atom bombs for a period of 20 seconds? > 2. Did you play Mabel on Broadway? > 3. Did you play the original Napoleon Solo? Ugh. DQx3. ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/443 "2015-10-27T18:35:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you take a proton energy pill that gave you the strength of 20 atom bombs for a period of 20 seconds? > 2. Did you play Mabel on Broadway? > 3. Did you play the original Napoleon Solo? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Ugh. DQx3. #1 was Roger Ramjet. #2 was Linda Ronstadt in _The Pirates of Penzance_. #3 was Robert Vaughn. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Alive? 3. Last name starts with R? ---
**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 27, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/444 "2015-10-27T18:53:04Z")
Previous IQs: Are you the best-known person to hail from Dixon, Ill.? - Ronald Reagan. Are you that person’s spouse? - Nancy Reagan. Are you the son named after the husband of the couple? - Ron Reagan Jr. DQs: American? Born since 1950? Best known for the arts? IQs: Did you hang out at Rhosgobel? Were you one of Bruce and Demi’s kids? Have you been called “the Thurgood Marshall of feminism”? ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/445 "2015-10-27T19:15:40Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Does Dr. Strange invoke your Ruby Rings? > IQ2: Are you a (former) Soviet scientist who can turn intangible at will and leads a squadron of Super-Apes? > IQ3: Did Bradley Cooper voice you in Guardians of the Galaxy? > > I cannot summon who 1 is from the depths of my brain, though I suspect it lurks there just beyond my grasp. > DQ2, and I’m not Rocket Raccoon. Raggador, Red Ghost, correct holding 2 DQs ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/446 "2015-10-27T19:29:31Z")
IQ1: Were you the QB for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969-1979, leading them to 2 Super Bowl victories? IQ2: Were you a pitcher for the NY Yankees, winning 2 World Series titles with them, and who later denied using anabolic steroids before the US Congress? IQ3: Are you known for directing adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories into film and later producing schlock classics like _Carnosaur_, _Dinocroc_, _Dinoshark_, and _Sharktopus_? ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/447 "2015-10-27T19:42:01Z")
I am R 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/448 "2015-10-27T19:45:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you hang out at Rhosgobel? > Were you one of Bruce and Demi’s kids? > Have you been called “the Thurgood Marshall of feminism”? I’m not Radagast, nor Rumor Willis, or… Ruth Bader Ginsberg? ---
**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 27, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/449 "2015-10-27T19:58:25Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Silent Spring_? 2. Are you married to Daniel Craig? 3. Did you play Opie on _The Andy Griffith Show_? ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/450 "2015-10-27T20:07:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you the QB for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969-1979, leading them to 2 Super Bowl victories? > IQ2: Were you a pitcher for the NY Yankees, winning 2 World Series titles with them, and who later denied using anabolic steroids before the US Congress? > IQ3: Are you known for directing adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories into film and later producing schlock classics like _Carnosaur_, _Dinocroc_, _Dinoshark_, and _Sharktopus_? Not Roger Staubach, not Alex Rodriguez?, not Roger Corman ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/451 "2015-10-27T20:11:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Silent Spring_? > 2. Are you married to Daniel Craig? > 3. Did you play Opie on _The Andy Griffith Show_? DQx3 ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/452 "2015-10-27T20:15:30Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write Silent Spring? > 2. Are you married to Daniel Craig? > 3. Did you play Opie on The Andy Griffith Show? > DQx3 #1 was Rachel Carson. #2 is Rachel Weisz. #3 is Ron Howard. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 27, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/453 "2015-10-27T20:47:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Lothar’s brother and Wolfram’s cousin (and more famous than either)? > IQ2: Did you write a poem to the “chieftain of the pudding race”? > IQ3: Were you known as Doctor Mirabilis? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not Hägar the Horrible? and at least two DQs. Manfred von Richthofen. (Lothar and Wolfram were both also WWI fighter pilots; Lothar died in a plane crash in the '20s, but Wolfram served as a Luftwaffe field marshal in WW II.) Robert Burns (“Address to a Haggis”). Roger Bacon. DQ1: Known for sports? Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Was your first name Jim before your guru recommended you change it to something beginning with ‘R’? IQ2: Were police officers in two countries called by nicknames related to your name? IQ3: Are you commonly known as “Firstname the Lastname”? ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/454 "2015-10-27T22:39:22Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports ---
**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 27, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/455 "2015-10-27T22:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you the QB for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969-1979, leading them to 2 Super Bowl victories? > IQ2: Were you a pitcher for the NY Yankees, winning 2 World Series titles with them, and who later denied using anabolic steroids before the US Congress? > IQ3: Are you known for directing adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories into film and later producing schlock classics like Carnosaur, Dinocroc, Dinoshark, and Sharktopus? > > Not Roger Staubach, not Alex Rodriguez?, not Roger Corman Roger Clemens for Roger x3! DQ: Known for politics? holding 2 DQs ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/456 "2015-10-27T23:14:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your first name Jim before your guru recommended you change it to something beginning with ‘R’? > IQ2: Were police officers in two countries called by nicknames related to your name? > IQ3: Are you commonly known as “Firstname the Lastname”? DQx2 and I’m not Robert the Bruce. (and probably a lot of others) ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/457 "2015-10-27T23:15:38Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics ---
**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 27, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/458 "2015-10-27T23:47:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your first name Jim before your guru recommended you change it to something beginning with ‘R’? > IQ2: Were police officers in two countries called by nicknames related to your name? > IQ3: Are you commonly known as “Firstname the Lastname”? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQx2 and I’m not Robert the Bruce. (and probably a lot of others) Roger McGuinn. Sir Robert Peel (“Bobbies” in England and “Peelers” in Ireland). Correct. DQ1: Famous for death? DQ2: Born after 1975? Two DQs 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 28, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/459 "2015-10-28T00:03:25Z")
I am R: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name does not start with R 5. American 6. Born since 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not known for sports 9. Not known for politics 10. Not known for my death 11. Not born since 1975 I’m on a ‘no’ streak. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2015/733156/460 "2015-10-28T02:50:18Z")
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