# Botticelli - September 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762 "2018-09-04T20:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/61 "2018-09-13T12:46:51Z")
Are you John McCain? ---
**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 13, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/62 "2018-09-13T13:45:19Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Are you John McCain? Yes, I am. Good job, KO! ---
**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, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/63 "2018-09-13T15:34:14Z")
RIP Senator McCain Let’s do N. ---
**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 13, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/64 "2018-09-13T18:14:54Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_? 2. Is your battle cry “Tyrannus Rex!”? 3. Are you one of the original members of The Doom Patrol? ---
**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, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/65 "2018-09-13T19:27:56Z")
:: headsmack x5 :: How could I not get Sen. John McCain? Good one! IQs: Did you marry Sen. Howard Baker? Was Sluggo your best friend? Did you costar in _Hellcats of the Navy_? ---
**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 13, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/66 "2018-09-13T22:24:26Z")
Belated IQ round-up: #1. MacHeath (of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil’s _The Threepenny Opera_) #2. Mac Tonight (the 1980s McDonald’s advertising character, named after MacHeath by way of “Mack the Knife”) #3. Marvin Berry (Chuck Berry’s cousin in _Back to the Future_) IQs: 1. Are you the Greek goddess of victory? 2. Were you denied a trip to Disneyland while on a state visit to the US in 1959? 3. Did you title yourself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico? ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/67 "2018-09-14T02:28:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_? > 2. Is your battle cry “Tyrannus Rex!”? > 3. Are you one of the original members of The Doom Patrol? take 3 DQs (I only remember the Grant Morrison era) ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/68 "2018-09-14T02:29:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you marry Sen. Howard Baker? > Was Sluggo your best friend? > Did you costar in _Hellcats of the Navy_? DQ, not Nancy, 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 14, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/69 "2018-09-14T02:30:53Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Greek goddess of victory? > 2. Were you denied a trip to Disneyland while on a state visit to the US in 1959? > 3. Did you title yourself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico? not Nike, not Nikita Kruschev, not Joshua Norton ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/70 "2018-09-14T13:40:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_? > 2. Is your battle cry “Tyrannus Rex!”? > 3. Are you one of the original members of The Doom Patrol? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > take 3 DQs (I only remember the Grant Morrison era) #1 was Noel Neill. #2 is Prince Namor, the Mighty Sub-Mariner! #3 was Negative Man. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with N? ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/71 "2018-09-14T13:52:57Z")
A HA! Sub-Mariner’s cry was “Imperius Rex!” He didn’t shout the name of a dinosaur! Giving you 2 DQs. 🙂 DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Female ---
**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 15, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/72 "2018-09-15T13:00:37Z")
IQs: 1. Did you appear on a _Sesame Street_ special to sing “A consumer advocate is someone in your neighborhood”? 2. Were you going to leave your job on a TV show until Martin Luther King convinced you not to? 3. Did you call television a “vast wasteland”? ---
**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 15, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/73 "2018-09-15T14:58:34Z")
Oops, you’re right. My bad. IQs: 1. Are you probably the best known girl detective in all fiction? 2. Did you hang around with Boris Badenov? 3. Were you a female member of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol? ---
**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 15, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/74 "2018-09-15T15:25:31Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you appear on a _Sesame Street_ special to sing “A consumer advocate is someone in your neighborhood”? > 2. Were you going to leave your job on a TV show until Martin Luther King convinced you not to? > 3. Did you call television a “vast wasteland”? DQ, not Nichelle Nichols, 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 15, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/75 "2018-09-15T15:34:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Oops, you’re right. My bad. > > IQs: > > 1. Are you probably the best known girl detective in all fiction? > 2. Did you hang around with Boris Badenov? > 3. Were you a female member of Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol? not Nancy Drew, not Natasha Fatale If you’re thinking of Negative Woman, I don’t recall Morrison using her. I think she was written out before he took over. Rebis was androgynous, but s/he’s not N. ---
**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 15, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/76 "2018-09-15T17:28:26Z")
Swept me. I thought Negative Woman was one of Grant’s. IQs: 1. Were you the lead singer of Herman’s Hermits? 2. Did you have a submarine called the Nautilus? 3. Are you one of the lead actors in _Vox Lux_? ---
**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 15, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/77 "2018-09-15T19:26:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the lead singer of Herman’s Hermits? > 2. Did you have a submarine called the Nautilus? > 3. Are you one of the lead actors in _Vox Lux_? DQ, not Captain Nemo, 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 15, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/78 "2018-09-15T19:55:05Z")
Previous IQs: Did you marry Sen. Howard Baker? - Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas (Baker was from Tennessee) Was Sluggo your best friend? - Yes, Nancy Did you costar in _Hellcats of the Navy_? - The future Nancy Reagan Nancy x3! DQs: Last name start with N? First appeared since 1950? IQs: Did you get a happy-birthday call from JFK just hours before he died? Did you play Sgt. Carter’s nemesis? Was your only nephew named Frederick? ---
**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 15, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/79 "2018-09-15T21:16:37Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Last name does not start with N 4. First appeared since 1950 ---
**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 15, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/80 "2018-09-15T21:18:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you get a happy-birthday call from JFK just hours before he died? > Did you play Sgt. Carter’s nemesis? > Was your only nephew named Frederick? not Nikita Kruschev? not Jim Nabors, DQ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762.md?page=5)