# 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
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/41 "2012-05-23T15:29:56Z")
I’m not Elmer Fudd. No idea on the other two.
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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 23, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/42 "2012-05-23T15:30:10Z")
IQ1: Did you all but single-handedly revive the artistic form of the woodcut in the early 20th Century?
IQ2: Are you an artist/designer best known by a nickname derived from the French pronunciation of your initials?
IQ3: Are you a jazz musician who made the Cotton Club famous?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/43 "2012-05-23T15:36:24Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Did you all but single-handedly revive the artistic form of the woodcut in the early 20th Century?
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> IQ2: Are you an artist/designer best known by a nickname derived from the French pronunciation of your initials?
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> IQ3: Are you a jazz musician who made the Cotton Club famous?
I’m not M.C. Escher or Duke Ellington (?). Take a DQ for #2, and a second if Ellington isn’t right.
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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 23, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/44 "2012-05-23T16:51:00Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> IQ1: Did you all but single-handedly revive the artistic form of the woodcut in the early 20th Century?
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> IQ2: Are you an artist/designer best known by a nickname derived from the French pronunciation of your initials?
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> IQ3: Are you a jazz musician who made the Cotton Club famous?
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> I’m not M.C. Escher or Duke Ellington (?). Take a DQ for #2, and a second if Ellington isn’t right.
Bang on with Escher and Ellington.
The artist/designer Romain de Tirtoff’s initials, RT, sound like ‘air tay’ in French. He is better known as ‘ **Erté** ’.
So, DQ1: Are you real?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/45 "2012-05-23T17:04:17Z")
I am real.
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### Author:  [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/46 "2012-05-23T17:11:00Z")
IQ1. Are you noted for possessing some unusual digits?
IQ2. Did you win the Triple Crown twice?
IQ3. Did you spend 22 years as a mediocre at best GM after a Hall of Fame career with Minneapolis and Los Angeles?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/47 "2012-05-23T17:17:13Z")
Did your grandson marry your deputy’s daughter?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/48 "2012-05-23T17:27:00Z")
> [@Wargamer](#):
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> IQ1. Are you noted for possessing some unusual digits?
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> IQ2. Did you win the Triple Crown twice?
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> IQ3. Did you spend 22 years as a mediocre at best GM after a Hall of Fame career with Minneapolis and Los Angeles?
I’m not Elgin Baylor. Take DQs for the first two.
> [@etv78](#):
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> Did your grandson marry your deputy’s daughter?
I’m not Dwight Eisenhower? I mean, I’m not, but I don’t know if he’s the person you’re thinking of. If he’s not, take a DQ.
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/49 "2012-05-23T17:28:33Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> I’m not Elmer Fudd. No idea on the other two.
IQ1: Lisa Edelstein, most recently known on _House_, was known at the Risotto Girl on _Seinfield_
IQ2: Director Elia Kazan
DQ1: Are you male?
DQ2: Are you currently living?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/50 "2012-05-23T17:29:22Z")
DQs:
1. I am real.
2. I am male.
3. I am not currently living.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/51 "2012-05-23T17:32:17Z")
I was thinking Ike. (wanted to ask a less obvious IQ)
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/52 "2012-05-23T18:02:21Z")
IQ1: E=mc2?
IQ2: Were you famous for your creepy pen and ink drawings?
IQ3: Were you a famous newsman hailing from South Dakota?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/53 "2012-05-23T18:12:50Z")
Are you a film critic who can no longer speak?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/54 "2012-05-23T18:17:08Z")
I’m not Albert Einstein or Edward Gorey. Take a DQ for your newsman.
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/55 "2012-05-23T18:18:08Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Are you a film critic who can no longer speak?
I’m not Roger Ebert.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/56 "2012-05-23T18:22:05Z")
Were you the mastermind behind the Holocaust?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/57 "2012-05-23T18:28:56Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> I’m not Albert Einstein or Edward Gorey. Take a DQ for your newsman.
The last one was Eric Sevareid.
DQ: Were you known for your contribution to the Arts?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/58 "2012-05-23T18:36:06Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Were you the mastermind behind the Holocaust?
I’m not Adolf Eichmann.
> [@MissTake](#):
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> DQ: Were you known for your contribution to the Arts?
Yes.
DQs:
1. I am real.
2. I am male.
3. I am not currently living.
4. I am known for my contributions to the arts.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/59 "2012-05-23T18:58:50Z")
Did the President order your psychiatrist’s office burgalled?
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### Author:  [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/60 "2012-05-23T19:09:23Z")
IQ1: Were you supposed to be the Tin Man, until allergies forced you to quit?
IQ2: Was your wife the grandmother of a “Princess”?
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