# Botticelli - September 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916 "2015-09-04T17:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [September 11, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/261 "2015-09-11T21:32:02Z")
IQ1: Were you the protagonist of a Bobbie Gentry song later covered by Reba McEntire? IQ2: Were you the butler for a NYC civil engineer? IQ3: Did you work with Bjorn, Anni-Frid, and Benny? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/262 "2015-09-11T21:33:06Z")
IQ1) Before your voice got raspy, did you record a sweet cover of a song co-written by your then boyfriend, a huge English rock star? IQ2) Are you a former topless model who told us that naughty girls need love, too? ---
**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 11, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/263 "2015-09-11T21:35:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Polish composer known for writing mazurkas? > IQ2: Are you a Hungarian pianist who was so popular with the ladies, they fought over the silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves you threw to them after your performances? > IQ3: Are you a German composer who wrote your Second Symphony (Hymn of Praise) in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press? Great questions. No DQs though. ---
**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 11, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/264 "2015-09-11T21:36:12Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > DQs: > > From a country that speaks a Germanic or Scandinavian language? > Primarily known as a singer? > Born before 1950? > > 2 DQs reserved. English singer, born before 1950. But you didn’t guess as fast as astorian, sorry. ---
**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 11, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/265 "2015-09-11T21:37:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the protagonist of a Bobbie Gentry song later covered by Reba McEntire? > IQ2: Were you the butler for a NYC civil engineer? > IQ3: Did you work with Bjorn, Anni-Frid, and Benny? Not Fancy. Don’t know #2 and forget #3. But no DQs. ---
**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 11, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/266 "2015-09-11T21:38:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Before your voice got raspy, did you record a sweet cover of a song co-written by your then boyfriend, a huge English rock star? > > IQ2) Are you a former topless model who told us that naughty girls need love, too? I am not Samantha Fox. However, I am Marianne Faithfull., astorian is psychic. Congrats again!!! ---
**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:** [September 11, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/267 "2015-09-11T21:51:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the protagonist of a Bobbie Gentry song later covered by Reba McEntire? > IQ2: Were you the butler for a NYC civil engineer? > IQ3: Did you work with Bjorn, Anni-Frid, and Benny? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Not Fancy. Don’t know #2 and forget #3. But no DQs. Correct. Giles French. Agnetha Faltskog, who I was hoping would turn out to be your latest secret identity. ☹ ---
**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 12, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/268 "2015-09-12T02:42:19Z")
Yet again you amaze us, **astorian**. Well done! Previous IQs: Did Churchill, not a fan of yours, joke about your last name? - Churchill said of Ike’s dogmatic SecState, John Foster Dulles, “Dull, duller, Dulles.” Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of you? - Charles Foster Kane: [https://behindtheseens.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/citizen-kaneposter.jpg](https://behindtheseens.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/citizen-kaneposter.jpg) Were you Arthur’s tomboy galpal? - Francine, in the books and the PBS series _Arthur_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/269 "2015-09-12T14:48:47Z")
Wow, seems like only yesterday… wait, it was. Okay, I have one. I’ll use the underutilized letter I. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/270 "2015-09-12T15:24:42Z")
Thankfully the reply box uses a serif font so I could see whether that was an L or an i after pasting it there. Sans-serif fonts I have a general dislike of due to this problem, and how it makes the beginnings of words like Illinois look. ETA: I see lower case Ls actually have some curl to them, and I could have noticed this if I was paying attention. Still can’t tell if the letter is by itself though. IQs: Are you a Jesuit with many schools named after you? Did you think that your boss must have had a different definition of a word he constantly used? Are you the title character of a comic strip drawn by someone who also drew a strip featuring a character named Peter? ---
**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 12, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/271 "2015-09-12T15:31:05Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a SDMB member whose tag reads: “Fluorescent Pudding-Brain”? 2. Were you a 20th Century Greek metaclassical composer who taught briefly at Indiana University? 3. Did you throw bricks at a kat? ---
**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:** [September 12, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/272 "2015-09-12T16:05:31Z")
IQ1: Did you have an eidetic memory chip implanted in your brain? IQ2: Was your mutant power to summon stepping discs to and from Limbo? IQ3: Were you a live action television superhero in the '70s? ---
**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:** [September 12, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/273 "2015-09-12T18:02:38Z")
IQ1: Are you a former rhythm guitarist for _Guns ‘n’ Roses_ who now fronts the _Ju Ju Hounds_? IQ2: Are you the leader of the band \*Anthrax \*and son-in-law of Meat Loaf? IQ3: Are you a former bassist for Ozzy Osbourne who replaced Mike Starr in _Alice in Chains_? ---
**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:** [September 12, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/274 "2015-09-12T18:50:10Z")
IQ1: Whilst on a shopping trip, did your aunt rescue infant you and your mother from assassins? IQ2: Were you the antagonist in a book about kids in Missouri? IQ3: Were you a Russian aircraft and helicopter designer? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/275 "2015-09-12T22:54:41Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Thankfully the reply box uses a serif font so I could see whether that was an L or an i after pasting it there. Sans-serif fonts I have a general dislike of due to this problem, and how it makes the beginnings of words like Illinois look. ETA: I see lower case Ls actually have some curl to them, and I could have noticed this if I was paying attention. Still can’t tell if the letter is by itself though. > > IQs: > > Are you a Jesuit with many schools named after you? > Did you think that your boss must have had a different definition of a word he constantly used? > Are you the title character of a comic strip drawn by someone who also drew a strip featuring a character named Peter? Not Ignatius Loyola or Inivo Montoya DQ for 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/276 "2015-09-12T22:55:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a SDMB member whose tag reads: “Fluorescent Pudding-Brain”? > 2. Were you a 20th Century Greek metaclassical composer who taught briefly at Indiana University? > 3. Did you throw bricks at a kat? Not Ignatz the mouse DQs for the other two ---
**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 12, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/277 "2015-09-12T23:28:06Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a SDMB member whose tag reads: “Fluorescent Pudding-Brain”? > 2. Were you a 20th Century Greek metaclassical composer who taught briefly at Indiana University? > 3. Did you throw bricks at a kat? > Not Ignatz the mouse > > DQs for the other two #1 is Infovore. #2 was Iannis Xenakis. Correct on the mouse. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 13, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/278 "2015-09-13T03:22:34Z")
IQs: Was Richard Lugar partly to blame for your husband’s losing office? Did your creator, as a babe in arms, allegedly meet the VIP after whom he was named? Were you the young servant of Miss Trixie Delight? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/279 "2015-09-13T14:42:17Z")
Take 2 > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former rhythm guitarist for _Guns ‘n’ Roses_ who now fronts the _Ju Ju Hounds_? > IQ2: Are you the leader of the band \*Anthrax \*and son-in-law of Meat Loaf? > IQ3: Are you a former bassist for Ozzy Osbourne who replaced Mike Starr in _Alice in Chains_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/280 "2015-09-13T17:56:40Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you have an eidetic memory chip implanted in your brain? > IQ2: Was your mutant power to summon stepping discs to and from Limbo? > IQ3: Were you a live action television superhero in the '70s? No idea on any of these- take 3 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=15)