# Botticelli (Part Whatever)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [May 21, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653 "2012-05-21T21:04:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/1 "2012-05-21T21:04:41Z")
As discovered in the [most recent](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650962&page=3) Botticelli thread, Jimmy Hoffa is not dead. Well, not to me, at least.
After reviewing [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663) by **Elendil’s Heir** , I decided there haven’t been nearly enough K’s…
**K**
Go!
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/2 "2012-05-21T21:08:09Z")
Are you in an inter-species marriage with a pig?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/3 "2012-05-21T21:19:17Z")
IQ1: Did you crash your motorcycle at Caesar’s Palace?
IQ2: Were you a professor in the Kollege of Musical Knowledge?
IQ3: Is your best-known record album called “By Request Only”?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/4 "2012-05-21T21:40:54Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Are you in an inter-species marriage with a pig?
I am not Kermit
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: Did you crash your motorcycle at Caesar’s Palace?
> IQ2: Were you a professor in the Kollege of Musical Knowledge?
> IQ3: Is your best-known record album called “By Request Only”?
IQ1: I am not Eval Kenieval (sp?)
IQ2: I am not Kay Kayser
IQ3: No idea
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/5 "2012-05-21T22:05:35Z")
Did you climb up the Empire State Building?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/6 "2012-05-21T22:08:59Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> IQ1: I am not Eval Kenieval (sp?)
> IQ2: I am not Kay Kayser
> IQ3: No idea
Korrect on Knievel and Kyser.
In IQ3, I was looking for Ken Snyder, whose album “By Request Only” has become an Internet meme of sorts–it is always included on the “Worst Album Covers of All Time” lists. You can see the album cover, and read a little about Ken himself, at [this link](http://communistdanceparty.blogspot.ca/2007/09/ken-by-request-only-complete-story.html).
DQ: Are you alive today?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/7 "2012-05-21T22:25:50Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Did you climb up the Empire State Building?
I am not King Kong
> [@Spoons](#):
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> DQ: Are you alive today?
DQ: No, I am not alive today
**k**
1: I am not alive
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/8 "2012-05-21T22:28:03Z")
IQ1: Did you turn your cornfield into a baseball diamond, because a voice told you to?
IQ2: Did you play a character named “Teddy Weizak” in the TV adaptation of your own novel?
IQ3: Did you play a character who dumped all of Humphrey Bogart’s gin overboard?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/9 "2012-05-21T22:41:42Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: Did you turn your cornfield into a baseball diamond, because a voice told you to?
> IQ2: Did you play a character named “Teddy Weizak” in the TV adaptation of your own novel?
> IQ3: Did you play a character who dumped all of Humphrey Bogart’s gin overboard?
IQ1: I am not Kevin Kostner
IQ2: No idea
IQ3: I am not the great Katherine Hepburn
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/10 "2012-05-21T22:50:04Z")
Are you credited with having the largest empire in history?
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/11 "2012-05-21T23:08:17Z")
IQ1: Does Arjuna choose you to be his charioteer?
IQ2: After being scornfully rebuked for your lack of status by the Pandava brothers, do you offer your services to Duryodhana?
IQ3: Are you the ancestor of both the Pandavas and their enemies, the Kauravas?
It’s a Mahabharata three-fer!
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/12 "2012-05-21T23:08:36Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Are you credited with having the largest empire in history?
No idea, take a DQ
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/13 "2012-05-21T23:16:34Z")
I was thinking Genghis Khan
DQ: Were you a head of state?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/14 "2012-05-21T23:23:53Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> IQ1: I am not Kevin Kostner
> IQ2: No idea
> IQ3: I am not the great Katherine Hepburn
Correct on Katherine Hepburn.
As regards IQ1, I was not looking for Kevin Costner, who (to the best of my knowledge) has never owned a cornfield nor heard voices telling him to destroy it. He did, however, play a character that did both: Ray Kinsella, the protagonist in the movie _Field of Dreams_, as well as in its source novel _Shoeless Joe_. Watch my wordings carefully; had I been looking for Kevin Costner, I might have said something like, “Did you play a character who \_\_\_\_\_,” just as I did with the Katherine Hepburn question. I’ll keep this DQ in reserve until I get your go-ahead to use it.
With IQ2, I was looking for Stephen King. The character Teddy Weizak is a minor character in King’s novel _The Stand_, as well as in the 1994 TV miniseries made from it; but in the miniseries, Weizak was played by Stephen King himself, which made the Weizak character a little better known than it might otherwise have been.
DQ: Were you born before 1900?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/15 "2012-05-21T23:48:19Z")
IQ:
_You can talk of lines an’ meter,
And whether iambic is much sweeter,
And memorize your favourites just to quote 'em;
But when it comes to rhymes,
He constructed thousands in his times,
And I 'ope you know the name of 'im what wrote 'em!_
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/16 "2012-05-22T01:27:21Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> DQ: Were you a head of state?
DQ: No, I was not a head of state
> [@Spoons](#):
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> DQ: Were you born before 1900?
You can use your other DQ whenever you want, but for this DQ-
DQ: Yes, I was born before 1900
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Does Arjuna choose you to be his charioteer?
> IQ2: After being scornfully rebuked for your lack of status by the Pandava brothers, do you offer your services to Duryodhana?
> IQ3: Are you the ancestor of both the Pandavas and their enemies, the Kauravas?
> It’s a Mahabharata three-fer!
As I said aloud - A Mahabharata whoota whatta?
Take 3 DQs
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ:
> _You can talk of lines an’ meter,
> And whether iambic is much sweeter,
> And memorize your favourites just to quote 'em;
> But when it comes to rhymes,
> He constructed thousands in his times,
> And I 'ope you know the name of 'im what wrote 'em!_
IQ: I am not John Keats
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/17 "2012-05-22T01:28:24Z")
**K**
1: I am not alive
2. I was not a head of state
3. I was born before 1900
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/18 "2012-05-22T04:18:11Z")
> [@MissTake](#):
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> You can use your other DQ whenever you want…
> [@](#):
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> IQ: I am not John Keats
Incorrect on Keats. I was actually looking for Rudyard Kipling, and constructed my question following the rhythm and meter of his poem, “Gunga Din.” Many of Kipling’s poems are in the first person, and follow colloquial speech patterns. Review the above lines I posted, and compare them to the actual first stanza of Kipling’s “Gunga Din”:
> [@Rudyard Kipling](#):
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> _You may talk o’ gin an’ beer
> When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere,
> An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it;
> But if it comes to slaughter
> You will do your work on water,
> An’ you’ll lick the bloomin’ boots of 'im that’s got it._
So one DQ for Ray Kinsella, and another for Rudyard Kipling. Let’s see…
DQ: Are you best known for your achievements in the arts?
DQ: Are you American?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/19 "2012-05-22T11:24:38Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> DQ: Are you best known for your achievements in the arts?
> DQ: Are you American?
DQ1: No, I am not known for my contribution to the arts
DQ2: No, I am not American
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/20 "2012-05-22T14:40:20Z")
IQ: Did you make headlines in 1985 by throwing a chair onto a basketball court?
IQ: Were you the frontman for the band _The Texas Jewboys_
IQ: Were you the most vocal Toledo Mud Hens fan in Korea?
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