# 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:** 7
### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/121 "2012-05-29T00:28:48Z")
Yes! The recent movie was “John Carter,” based on the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nice work, **EH** - take us away with another round when you’re ready!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/122 "2012-05-29T01:33:01Z")
Thanks! We haven’t done “F” since July of last year, so…
F
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/123 "2012-05-29T02:30:16Z")
IQ: Were you the singer and primary songwriter for an acclaimed alternative rock band from the late '80s and early '90s?
IQ: Were you sometimes called “the little flower”?
IQ: Did you “help” your home run stay in fair territory in Game 6?
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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 29, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/124 "2012-05-29T02:38:46Z")
Well done, **Elendil’s Heir**! I have no idea why, but I always think of Edgar Rice Burroughs as being British!
IQ1: Are you a private informer working in Rome in the time of the Emperor Vespasian?
IQ2: Did you collaborate with Pierre Boulez on ‘The Perfect Stranger’?
IQ3: Are you the title character of a hagiographic opera by Olivier Messiaen?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/125 "2012-05-29T04:45:09Z")
About the last game: my question refered to “John Carter”. Couldn’t think of the movie’s name/appropriate IQ.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/126 "2012-05-29T07:01:44Z")
IQ1: Do you power your car with your feet?
IQ2: Do your friends hang out in your basement, occasionally smoking something that may not have been legal?
IQ3: Did you write a cookbook?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/127 "2012-05-29T07:33:03Z")
Are you a poker player who’s accused of running a Ponzi scheme?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/128 "2012-05-29T17:22:48Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
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> IQ: Were you the singer and primary songwriter for an acclaimed alternative rock band from the late '80s and early '90s?
> IQ: Were you sometimes called “the little flower”?
> IQ: Did you “help” your home run stay in fair territory in Game 6?
The second is Fiorello LaGuardia, who I am not; dunno about the others. Take two DQs.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/129 "2012-05-29T17:23:52Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> …IQ1: Are you a private informer working in Rome in the time of the Emperor Vespasian?
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> IQ2: Did you collaborate with Pierre Boulez on ‘The Perfect Stranger’?
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> IQ3: Are you the title character of a hagiographic opera by Olivier Messiaen?
For the first, no, I am not… Falco? Dunno about the other two - two DQs (and maybe three).
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/130 "2012-05-29T17:24:56Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: Do you power your car with your feet?
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> IQ2: Do your friends hang out in your basement, occasionally smoking something that may not have been legal?
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> IQ3: Did you write a cookbook?
No, I’m not Fred Flintstone or Fannie Farmer. Dunno about the second - one DQ.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/131 "2012-05-29T17:25:59Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Are you a poker player who’s accused of running a Ponzi scheme?
You got me. Take a DQ.
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/132 "2012-05-29T17:36:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> No, I’m not Fred Flintstone or Fannie Farmer. Dunno about the second - one DQ.
The second was the character Eric Forman, on “That 70s Show.”
DQ: Are you alive?
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/133 "2012-05-29T17:48:19Z")
DQ:Are you American? (My IQ refered to Chris Ferguson)
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/134 "2012-05-29T18:22:48Z")
IQ1: In 1963, did you write a book about wolves in the arctic, which was subsequently made into a movie in 1983?
IQ2: Did you and your friends follow a night at the opera with a day at the races?
IQ3: Did you ever manage to achieve your dream of waking up in the city that never sleeps?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/135 "2012-05-29T18:58:11Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: In 1963, did you write a book about wolves in the arctic, which was subsequently made into a movie in 1983?
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> IQ2: Did you and your friends follow a night at the opera with a day at the races?
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> IQ3: Did you ever manage to achieve your dream of waking up in the city that never sleeps?
Dunno who this is. DQ for you.
Not… Friedo Marx?
Not Frank Sinatra.
F.
1. Not alive
2. Not American
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/136 "2012-05-29T19:07:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> IQ1: In 1963, did you write a book about wolves in the arctic, which was subsequently made into a movie in 1983?
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> IQ2: Did you and your friends follow a night at the opera with a day at the races?
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Dunno who this is. DQ for you.
> Not… Friedo Marx?
> Not Frank Sinatra.
Correct on Sinatra.
IQ1 was looking for Farley Mowat, author of _Never Cry Wolf_, which was made into a 1983 movie of the same name, and starring Charles Martin Smith.
IQ2 was looking for Freddie Mercury of Queen. As you may recall, Queen released the album _A Night at the Opera_ in 1975, followed by _A Day at the Races_ in 1976.
DQ: Are you fictional?
DQ: Are you male?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/137 "2012-05-29T19:25:50Z")
F.
1. Not alive
2. Not American
3. Fictional
4. Male
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/138 "2012-05-29T19:48:43Z")
nothing to see
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/139 "2012-05-29T19:54:17Z")
Did you get married in a famous opera?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-part-whatever/622653/140 "2012-05-29T20:18:37Z")
> [@etv78](#):
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> Did you get married in a famous opera?
No, I’m not Figaro.
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