# Botticelli - September 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516 "2017-09-04T22:27:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 17, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/101 "2017-09-17T03:23:22Z")
Sorry. Didn’t show up in my queue. > [@SCAdian](#): > > … > > IQ1: Were you a Bulgarian army officer who was not a “chocolate-cream soldier”?? > IQ2: Were you Iolanthe’s son? Dunno x2. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ3: Were you the jailer who claimed to have shot Col Fairfax? Also dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your feast day on July 15th? > 2. Is your feast day on December 26th? > 3. Did Roger Moore play you in a TV series? Dunno, not St. Stephen (my Episcopal home parish was St. Stephen’s!), and not the Saint. S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with S 4. not created by an American author or authors 5. not originally from a work of prose fiction 6. not created after 1900 7. created after 1800 8. not from a song or poem 9. from a work by a European creator 10. from a work written originally in English 11. not the protagonist 12. British character 13. from a play or opera ---
**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 17, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/102 "2017-09-17T03:30:19Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your feast day on July 15th? > 2. Is your feast day on December 26th? > 3. Did Roger Moore play you in a TV series? > Dunno, not St. Stephen (my Episcopal home parish was St. Stephen’s!), and not the Saint. #1 was St. Swithin. DQs: 1. From a play? 2. Antagonist? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 17, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/103 "2017-09-17T13:51:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Bulgarian army officer who was not a “chocolate-cream soldier”?? > IQ2: Were you Iolanthe’s son? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x2. Sergius Saranoff (_Arms and the Man_). Strephon (_Iolanthe_). > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ3: Were you the jailer who claimed to have shot Col Fairfax? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Also dunno. Wilfred Shadbolt (_The Yeoman of the Guard_). Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/104 "2017-09-18T03:31:00Z")
I once knew a man named Swithin, as it happens. S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with S 4. not created by an American author or authors 5. not originally from a work of prose fiction 6. not created after 1900 7. created after 1800 8. not from a song or poem 9. from a work by a European creator 10. from a work written originally in English 11. not the protagonist 12. British character 13. from a play or opera 14. not from a play 15. not antagonist ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/105 "2017-09-18T03:48:01Z")
IQ: Could you hum a fugue of which you’d heard the music’s din afore,? ---
**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, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/106 "2017-09-18T11:28:20Z")
Why, SCA! That is the very model of a modern Botticelli question! ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/107 "2017-09-18T15:07:33Z")
Dingdingding! Yes, I am the very model of a modern major-general, Major-General Stanley of Gilbert & Sullivan’s _The Pirates of Penzance_ (I don’t think we’re ever told his first name): [The Pirates of Penzance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance) Well done, **SCAdian**! ---
**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, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/108 "2017-09-18T17:55:10Z")
For he is the Botticelli King! He is the Botticelli King! ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/109 "2017-09-18T22:57:25Z")
And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Botticelli King! I am **T**. ---
**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, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/110 "2017-09-18T23:13:21Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the hymn _Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me_? 2. Did you hang around with Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog? 3. Did you write _Penrod and Sam_? ---
**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, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/111 "2017-09-19T04:31:03Z")
IQs: Did your several nicknames include “Old Slow-Trot”? Were you a senior Starfleet officer who said not a word in your only on-screen appearance? Did you put together your own Bible that mostly focused on Jesus’s words of wisdom? ---
**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, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/112 "2017-09-19T12:29:04Z")
IQ1: Did your confederacy of tribes ally with the British during the War of 1812? IQ2: Are you a Native American chief who fought against Hernando do Soto and for whom a city in Alabama is named? IQ3: Did you play Hiro Nakamura’s father in _Heroes_? ---
**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, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/113 "2017-09-19T22:30:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the hymn _Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me_? > 2. Did you hang around with Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog? > 3. Did you write _Penrod and Sam_? DQ. DQ. Not … Mark Twain? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your several nicknames include “Old Slow-Trot”? > Were you a senior Starfleet officer who said not a word in your only on-screen appearance? > Did you put together your own Bible that mostly focused on Jesus’s words of wisdom? Not Gen George Thomas. DQ. Not … William Tyndale? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did your confederacy of tribes ally with the British during the War of 1812? > IQ2: Are you a Native American chief who fought against Hernando do Soto and for whom a city in Alabama is named? > IQ3: Did you play Hiro Nakamura’s father in _Heroes_? Not Tecumseh. Not … Tuscaloosa? 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 19, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/114 "2017-09-19T22:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the hymn Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me? > 2. Did you hang around with Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog? > 3. Did you write Penrod and Sam? > DQ. > DQ. > Not … Mark Twain? #1 was Augustus Toplady. #2 was Tom Terrific. #3 was Booth Tarkington. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with T? ---
**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, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/115 "2017-09-19T22:55:08Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Alvin and Simon’s brother? 2. Did you write _Fathers and Sons_? 3. Did you often use the phrase “bless your pea-pickin’ heart”? ---
**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, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/116 "2017-09-20T21:58:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Alvin and Simon’s brother? > 2. Did you write _Fathers and Sons_? > 3. Did you often use the phrase “bless your pea-pickin’ heart”? Not Theodore. DQ. DQ. **T** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with T ---
**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, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/117 "2017-09-20T22:02:48Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Alvin and Simon’s brother? > 2. Did you write Fathers and Sons? > 3. Did you often use the phrase “bless your pea-pickin’ heart”? > Not Theodore. > DQ. > DQ. Correct on Alvin. #2 was Ivan Turgenev. #3 was Tennessee Ernie Ford. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. American? ---
**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, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/118 "2017-09-20T22:07:13Z")
IQs: 1. Were you assassinated with an axe in Mexico? 2. Did the Disney Studios make a movie about your three lives? 3. Did the old hootie-owl hootie-hoo to the dove about your love-life? ---
**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, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/119 "2017-09-20T23:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did your confederacy of tribes ally with the British during the War of 1812? > IQ2: Are you a Native American chief who fought against Hernando do Soto and for whom a city in Alabama is named? > IQ3: Did you play Hiro Nakamura’s father in Heroes? > > Not Tecumseh. > Not … Tuscaloosa? > DQ. George Takei holding 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 20, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2017/795516/120 "2017-09-20T23:37:04Z")
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