# Botticelli, Sept. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 1, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748 "2022-09-01T17:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/141 "2022-09-25T04:44:32Z")
Thanks! #2 was H.M. Howling Mad Murdock. #3 was Hildy (don’t be hasty!) I am… **K** That’s right. **K** ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/142 "2022-09-25T11:03:16Z")
He shoots, he scores! Well done, **kitap.** On to K. IQs: Did you say of faculty politics, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”? Have you played characters named Elizabeth (twice), Cecilia and Domino? Were you a Scottish admiral and a patron and friend of Capt. John “Lucky Jack” Aubrey? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/143 "2022-09-25T12:37:36Z")
IQs: 1. Were you on the cover of the _Sports Illustrated_ swimsuit edition in 2012? 2. Did you have a hit with _When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain_? 3. Did you have a hit with _Jazzman_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/144 "2022-09-25T13:05:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > He shoots, he scores! Well done, **kitap.** > > On to K. > > IQs: > > Did you say of faculty politics, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”? > Have you played characters named Elizabeth (twice), Cecilia and Domino? > Were you a Scottish admiral and a patron and friend of Capt. John “Lucky Jack” Aubrey? Errrrrr… No to all three. Take 3 DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you on the cover of the _Sports Illustrated_ swimsuit edition in 2012? > 2. Did you have a hit with _When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Jazzman_? Take a DQ, take a DQ, I am not Carole King. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/145 "2022-09-25T15:02:41Z")
Previous IQs: Did you say of faculty politics, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”? - Henry Kissinger, from his days at Harvard Have you played characters named Elizabeth (twice), Cecilia and Domino? - Keira Knightley, in _Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, Atonement_ and _Domino_ Were you a Scottish admiral and a patron and friend of Capt. John “Lucky Jack” Aubrey? - Lord Keith, in Patrick O’Brian’s books DQs: Real? Male? American? IQs: Were you Bart’s idol? Were you killed when the warship you were aboard was sunk at sea in WWI? Did Daniel Radcliffe play your son Jack in a movie? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/146 "2022-09-25T15:31:52Z")
IQs: 1. Hey, you know that guy who was president of the US from 1961 to 1963? Are you him? 2. Does your biography on Mental Floss describe you as being on a game show “75 times in a row, so long that your grandma got sick of him”? 3. Have you written _The Beekeeper’s Apprentice_, _A Monstrous Regiment of Women_, and other books in the Mary Russell mystery series? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/147 "2022-09-25T15:51:45Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you on the cover of the _Sports Illustrated_ swimsuit edition in 2012? > > 2. Did you have a hit with _When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain_? > > 3. Did you have a hit with _Jazzman_? > > Take a DQ, take a DQ, I am not Carole King. #1 was Kate Urban. #2 was Kate Smith. Correct on Carole King. DQ: Last name starts with K? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/148 "2022-09-25T16:34:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you Bart’s idol? > Were you killed when the warship you were aboard was sunk at sea in WWI? > Did Daniel Radcliffe play your son Jack in a movie? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Hey, you know that guy who was president of the US from 1961 to 1963? Are you him? > 2. Does your biography on Mental Floss describe you as being on a game show “75 times in a row, so long that your grandma got sick of him”? > 3. Have you written _The Beekeeper’s Apprentice_, _A Monstrous Regiment of Women_, and other books in the Mary Russell mystery series? I am not JFK, But YES!! I am Jeopardy winner **KEN JENNINGS**!!! Well done!! ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/149 "2022-09-25T17:06:46Z")
Wow! Great job, **DLR**! ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/150 "2022-09-25T17:16:12Z")
Well, THAT was fast and a total guess. I am S. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/151 "2022-09-25T17:53:18Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? 2. Did you play the daughter on _All In The Family_? 3. Did Billy Gilbert voice you in _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/152 "2022-09-25T18:33:55Z")
1. Did you play Mickey Kostmyer in the original **The Equalizer**? 2. Were you the first to play Mary Winchester on **Supernatural**? 3. Were you the star of a terrible movie called **Traxx**? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/153 "2022-09-25T18:44:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin_? > 2. Did you play the daughter on _All In The Family_? > 3. Did Billy Gilbert voice you in _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_? 1. I am not Montague Summers. 2. I am not Sally Struthers. 3. I am not Sneezy. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you play Mickey Kostmyer in the original **The Equalizer**? > 2. Were you the first to play Mary Winchester on **Supernatural**? > 3. Were you the star of a terrible movie called **Traxx**? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not William Shatner? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/154 "2022-09-25T19:52:18Z")
Swept me! I) Are you the central character in most episodes of the highly acclaimed all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? 2) Did you write _A Child’s Garden of Verses_? 3) Did you sing _Macavity_ in the movie version of _Cats_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/155 "2022-09-25T20:32:46Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you play Mickey Kostmyer in the original **The Equalizer**? > 2. Were you the first to play Mary Winchester on **Supernatural**? > 3. Were you the star of a terrible movie called **Traxx**? Keith Szarabajka, Samantha Smith and radio DJ Shadoe Stevens (really). DQs: 1. Real? 2. Female? 3. Alive? IQs: 1. Are you the heroine of the book **Howl’s Moving Castle**? 2. Were you an American archaeologist most famous for excavating Shanidar Cave? 3. Are you the heroine of the Finishing School quartet of books by Gail Carriger? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/156 "2022-09-25T21:12:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I) Are you the central character in most episodes of the highly acclaimed all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > 2) Did you write _A Child’s Garden of Verses_? > 3) Did you sing _Macavity_ in the movie version of _Cats_? 1. I am not Sykes. 2. I am not Robert Louis Stevenson. 3. I am not Taylor Swift? > [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the heroine of the book **Howl’s Moving Castle**? > 2. Were you an American archaeologist most famous for excavating Shanidar Cave? > 3. Are you the heroine of the Finishing School quartet of books by Gail Carriger? 1. I am not Sophie. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Sophie Finishing. DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. living at end of story ---
**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:** [September 26, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/157 "2022-09-26T11:17:34Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > I) Are you the central character in most episodes of the highly acclaimed all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > > 2) Did you write _A Child’s Garden of Verses_? > > 3) Did you sing _Macavity_ in the movie version of _Cats_? > > 1. I am not Sykes. > 2. I am not Robert Louis Stevenson. > 3. I am not Taylor Swift? #1 was the robust, orotund, rotund Welshman Neddie Seagoon! (Waits for applause… not a sausage.) The others are correct. DQ: Last name starts with S? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/158 "2022-09-26T17:49:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a couple of hit songs with Lee Hazelwood? 2. Did you invent the alphabet for your people? 3. Were you told to play it again? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/159 "2022-09-26T22:04:47Z")
IQ1: Are you the Queen of the Jungle? IQ2: Do you sport a chain-mail bikini and sometimes cavort with Conan? IQ3: Did you doubt you were the mother of the future considering you can’t even balance your checkbook? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/160 "2022-09-26T22:35:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a couple of hit songs with Lee Hazelwood? > 2. Did you invent the alphabet for your people? > 3. Were you told to play it again? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Sequoyah. 3. I am not Sam. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you the Queen of the Jungle? > IQ2: Do you sport a chain-mail bikini and sometimes cavort with Conan? > IQ3: Did you doubt you were the mother of the future considering you can’t even balance your checkbook? IQ1: I am not Sheena. IQ2: I am not Red Sonja. IQ3: I am not Sarah Connor. DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. living at end of story 4. first part of name begins with S [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748.md?page=9)