# 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:** 2
**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 5, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/21 "2015-09-05T21:09:38Z")
IQ: Were you a prolific 18th/19th-century English painter known for landscapes? ---
**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 5, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/22 "2015-09-05T22:07:23Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the first Mister Miracle, succeeded after your murder by Scott Free? > IQ2: Are you a Sam Spade knockoff comrade of Wonder Woman who carried a single gun you lovingly referred to as “Lulu”? > IQ3: Are you the thug who tampered with the Haly’s Circus trapeze ropes, causing Dick Grayson’s parents to fall to their deaths? I am not Thaddeus Brown. Take a DQ for #2. I am not Tony Zucco. ---
**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 5, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/23 "2015-09-05T22:08:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Were you a prolific 18th/19th-century English painter known for landscapes? I am not J. M. W. Turner. ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/24 "2015-09-05T23:00:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not J. M. W. Turner. First person that came to mind when I saw “European” and “painter.” I didn’t think it would really be that easy. 🙂 ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/25 "2015-09-05T23:13:16Z")
IQ1: Is a shade of red named for you? IQ2: Are you best known by a nickname that is a diminutive of the Italian word for dyer? IQ2: Were you an 18th-century Venetian painter? ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/26 "2015-09-05T23:17:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is a shade of red named for you? > IQ2: Are you best known by a nickname that is a diminutive of the Italian word for dyer? > IQ2: Were you an 18th-century Venetian painter? I am not Titian. I am not Tintoretto. Take a DQ for the 3rd. ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/27 "2015-09-05T23:27:42Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is a shade of red named for you? > IQ2: Are you best known by a nickname that is a diminutive of the Italian word for dyer? > IQ2: Were you an 18th-century Venetian painter? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Titian. I am not Tintoretto. Take a DQ for the 3rd. Correct. Correct. Tiepolo. DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language? ---
**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 5, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/28 "2015-09-05T23:43:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with T 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Known for the Arts 7. European 8. Known for the visual arts 9. Painter 10. Native speaker of a Romance language ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/29 "2015-09-06T01:07:34Z")
IQ1) Have both Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo played you in movies? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/30 "2015-09-06T02:33:56Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Have both Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo played you in movies? Take a DQ. ---
**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 6, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/31 "2015-09-06T04:06:12Z")
Previous IQs: Did Burt Young play your best-known-character’s brother? - Talia Shire played Adrian in the _Rocky_ movies. Did you play Jesse Stone? - Tom Selleck. Were you played by the nephew of the actor who played you as an older man? - Tom Riddle. DQs: Born in or east of Paris? Died since 1900? Successful during his own lifetime? IQs: Did a top American general have your name as his middle name? A leader, did you order a writer protected even though he was very critical of you? Were you a snappish top aide to that leader? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/32 "2015-09-06T05:05:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ. Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo both played Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in different movies called \*\*\*Moulin Rouge. * * * DQ) French? ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/33 "2015-09-06T12:48:14Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the first Mister Miracle, succeeded after your murder by Scott Free? > IQ2: Are you a Sam Spade knockoff comrade of Wonder Woman who carried a single gun you lovingly referred to as “Lulu”? > IQ3: Are you the thug who tampered with the Haly’s Circus trapeze ropes, causing Dick Grayson’s parents to fall to their deaths? > > I am not Thaddeus Brown. > Take a DQ for #2. > I am not Tony Zucco. Tim Trench the sharks are circling the waters as I hold a DQ ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/34 "2015-09-06T13:21:36Z")
IQ1: Are you a French artist who sketched portraits of fellow POWs when you were taken prisoner by the Germans in WWII, then went on to paint Moroccan landscapes after the war, and then moved to Hollywood to paint portraits of celebrities? IQ2: Are you a French artist commissioned to do surrealist paintings by Andre Breton? IQ3: Are you a Venician painter and printmaker who painted ceiling frescoes in the Royal Palace of Madrid? ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/35 "2015-09-06T15:11:14Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with T 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Known for the Arts 7. European 8. Known for the visual arts 9. Painter 10. Native speaker of a Romance language 11. French, born in the port of Nantes 12. Died after 1900 13. Successful in his own lifetime Astorian, take another DQ ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/36 "2015-09-06T15:12:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a top American general have your name as his middle name? > A leader, did you order a writer protected even though he was very critical of you? > Were you a snappish top aide to that leader? I am not Tecumseh. Take 2 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 6, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/37 "2015-09-06T15:13:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a French artist who sketched portraits of fellow POWs when you were taken prisoner by the Germans in WWII, then went on to paint Moroccan landscapes after the war, and then moved to Hollywood to paint portraits of celebrities? > IQ2: Are you a French artist commissioned to do surrealist paintings by Andre Breton? > IQ3: Are you a Venician painter and printmaker who painted ceiling frescoes in the Royal Palace of Madrid? Non, take three DQs, s’il vous plait. ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/38 "2015-09-06T15:56:57Z")
Jean Tabaud, Yves Tanguy, Givanni Tiepolo DQ: Known for surrealism? holding 3 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 6, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/39 "2015-09-06T16:02:32Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Jean Tabaud, Yves Tanguy, Givanni Tiepolo > > DQ: Known for surrealism? > > holding 3 DQs Tanguy I should have guessed. SCAdian already guessed Tiepolo, so that one’s out. ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/40 "2015-09-06T19:25:47Z")
Previous IQs: Did a top American general have your name as his middle name? - Yes, Tecumseh, of William T. Sherman later middle-name fame. A leader, did you order a writer protected even though he was very critical of you? - Margaret Thatcher ordered Salman Rushdie’s Special Branch police protection after the Ayatollah Khomeini’s _Satanic Verses fatwa_. Were you a snappish top aide to that leader? - Norman Tebbit. DQs: Died after 1950? Best known for landscapes? IQs: Were you a Norwegian diplomat who won a top international post? Were you often shown in your book-jacket portraits wearing a Marine Corps hat? Did you follow another candidate of the same ethnic background and from the same state four years later, seeking the same post? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=3)