# 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:** 21
**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 18, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/401 "2015-09-18T20:53:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you command one side at the Battle of Guilford Court House? > Were you one of King Lear’s daughters? > Did you write the screenplay for _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ and _All the President’s Men_? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Goneril. I am not William Goldman. ---
**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 18, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/402 "2015-09-18T20:55:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Dead 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born before 1950 8. Not known for the performing arts 9. Best known as a writer 10. European 11. British 12. Born after 1800 13. Born after 1900 14. Writer of Nonfiction 15. Write primarily on history or politics 16. Not closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/403 "2015-09-19T01:43:33Z")
Previous IQs: Did you command one side at the Battle of Guilford Court House? - Nathanael Greene, during the American Revolution. Were you one of King Lear’s daughters? - Yes, Goneril. Did you write the screenplay for _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ and _All the President’s Men_? - Yes, William Goldman (who’s an Oberlin grad like me). DQs: Politically conservative? IQs: Did you give your name to a form of political mischief? Did you write _Aztec_? Did you volunteer to wait to be shot at a street corner? ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/404 "2015-09-19T02:12:57Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Dead 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born before 1950 8. Not known for the performing arts 9. Best known as a writer 10. European 11. British 12. Born after 1800 13. Born after 1900 14. Writer of Nonfiction 15. Write primarily on history or politics 16. Not closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine 17. Politically conservative ---
**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 19, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/405 "2015-09-19T02:14:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you give your name to a form of political mischief? > Did you write _Aztec_? > Did you volunteer to wait to be shot at a street corner? Unless #1 is Guy Fawkes (I’m not him), take 3 DQs. ---
**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 19, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/406 "2015-09-19T17:04:27Z")
IQ1: Are you a British historian who wrote books about Winston Churchill and Jewish history? IQ2: Are you a History Channel participant who specializes in ancient Roman history and the Napoleonic era? IQ3: Did you author the six-volume series _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_? ---
**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 19, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/407 "2015-09-19T17:21:21Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a British historian who wrote books about Winston Churchill and Jewish history? Well done, Knowed Out! I am indeed Sir Martin Gilbert. Pip, pip and all that. ---
**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 19, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/408 "2015-09-19T20:36:55Z")
Whew. OK, the new letter is K. ---
**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 19, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/409 "2015-09-19T20:58:25Z")
IQ1: Do you play 12-string guitar with an Australian group which finished its 50th-anniversary tour last year? IQ2: Did you sing a song about a 99-year war? IQ3: Were you president of Germany for a brief period in the 1940s? ---
**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 19, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/410 "2015-09-19T23:13:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did Mr. Moose drop ping pong balls on you? 2. Were you a 20th Century Austrian Expressionist painter? 3. Are you voiced by Scarlet Johansson in the upcoming movie _The Jungle Book_? ---
**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 20, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/411 "2015-09-20T00:49:28Z")
D’oh! Shoulda got that. I was just reading about Churchill (but not a Gilbert book). Well done, **Knowed Out.** Previous IQs: Did you give your name to a form of political mischief? - Elbridge Gerry. Did you write _Aztec_? - Gary Jennings. Did you volunteer to wait to be shot at a street corner? - G. Gordon Liddy, offering to be executed for letting down Nixon during Watergate. On to K. IQs: Have you played characters named Elizabeth, Cecilia and Domino? Were you (perhaps unfairly) the villain in _Breaker Morant_? Were you the best-known Mudhens fan? ---
**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 20, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/412 "2015-09-20T01:07:59Z")
IQ1: Did you wield the magical baseball bat, Excalibur? IQ2: Did you win a bet against Stephen Hawking? IQ3: Was satire declared dead when you won a prize? ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/413 "2015-09-20T02:24:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do you play 12-string guitar with an Australian group which finished its 50th-anniversary tour last year? > IQ2: Did you sing a song about a 99-year war? > IQ3: Were you president of Germany for a brief period in the 1940s? take 3 DQs ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/414 "2015-09-20T02:26:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Mr. Moose drop ping pong balls on you? > 2. Were you a 20th Century Austrian Expressionist painter? > 3. Are you voiced by Scarlet Johansson in the upcoming movie _The Jungle Book_? not Captain Kangaroo(?), dunno, not Shere Khan(?) ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/415 "2015-09-20T02:28:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Have you played characters named Elizabeth, Cecilia and Domino? > Were you (perhaps unfairly) the villain in _Breaker Morant_? > Were you the best-known Mudhens fan? dunno x2, not Max Klinger ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/416 "2015-09-20T02:32:56Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you wield the magical baseball bat, Excalibur? > IQ2: Did you win a bet against Stephen Hawking? > IQ3: Was satire declared dead when you won a prize? not whoshisface from Mage comics, take 3 DQs ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/417 "2015-09-20T02:40:33Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you wield the magical baseball bat, Excalibur? > IQ2: Did you win a bet against Stephen Hawking? > IQ3: Was satire declared dead when you won a prize? Kevin Matchstick, Kip Thorne, and Henry Kissinger (Nobel Peace Prize, per Tom Lehrer) DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? Holding one DQ. ---
**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 20, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/418 "2015-09-20T03:22:03Z")
IQ1: Are you in a band with Jack Black? IQ2: Are you friends with Stan, and sort of frenemies with Eric? IQ3: Did you play Paul Atreides? ---
**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 20, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/419 "2015-09-20T03:45:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do you play 12-string guitar with an Australian group which finished its 50th-anniversary tour last year? > IQ2: Did you sing a song about a 99-year war? > IQ3: Were you president of Germany for a brief period in the 1940s? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > take 3 DQs Keith Potger (The Seekers). Nena Kerner (“99 Luftballons”). Karl Doenitz. Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 20, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/420 "2015-09-20T12:15:17Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Mr. Moose drop ping pong balls on you? > 2. Were you a 20th Century Austrian Expressionist painter? > 3. Are you voiced by Scarlet Johansson in the upcoming movie The Jungle Book? > not Captain Kangaroo(?), dunno, not Shere Khan(?) 1. Correct. 2. Oscar Kokoschka. 3. Kaa. DQs: 1. Last name starts with K? 2. American? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916.md?page=22)