# 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:** 9
**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 23, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/161 "2018-09-23T18:12:28Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Male 3. American 4. Last name starts with K 5. Living 6. Born after 1950 7. Not known for the arts 8. Political/military 9. Born before 1990 10. Currently holds a federal level position ---
**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 23, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/162 "2018-09-23T19:24:58Z")
IQs: 1. Are you generally accepted as the world’s first abstract artist? 2. Are you aka Wilson Fisk? 3. Are you aka Batwoman? ---
**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 24, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/163 "2018-09-24T00:12:51Z")
Previous IQs: Was Icheb’s report about you? - James T. Kirk Did you create a famous illustrated edition of Melville’s _Moby-Dick_? - Rockwell Kent: [https://carolwallace.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/picture-13-e1265817195431-11.png](https://carolwallace.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/picture-13-e1265817195431-11.png) Was your German-born wife named Christiane? - Stanley Kubrick DQs: Currently holds Federal elective office? Democrat? Born east of the Miss. River? IQs: Are you now a U.S. senator from Maine? Are you now a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee? Are you a once and future U.S. senator from Arizona? ---
**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 24, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/164 "2018-09-24T03:44:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you now a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee? Yes, I am Brett Kavanaugh, currently in consideration for the US Supreme Court. Congrats EH! ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/165 "2018-09-24T14:42:46Z")
Thanks, **KO** , but actually, Judge Kavanaugh isn’t a member of the committee. I was thinking of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), but would’ve worked my way 'round to the nominee sooner or later, I’m sure! Other previous IQs: Are you now a U.S. senator from Maine? - Angus King Are you a once and future U.S. senator from Arizona? - Jon Kyl I’ll start the next round tonight. ---
**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 24, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/166 "2018-09-24T16:29:19Z")
OK, I confused the committees. That was the organization that confirmed him, not the one in which he served. That’s why I have to research sometimes. 🙂 ---
**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 24, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/167 "2018-09-24T20:25:24Z")
He was never a senator, so he couldn’t have been a \*member \*of the committee in any event. And the question was phrased in the present tense. Anyway… Here’s the updated letters-we’ve-used-so-far thread: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663) Our next letter, which I see we haven’t done in awhile, will be I Have at you! ---
**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 24, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/168 "2018-09-24T20:45:45Z")
IQs: 1. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat? 2. Did you play the lead in the fairly recent movie _Mr. Holmes_? 3. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? ---
**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 25, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/169 "2018-09-25T01:45:23Z")
Belated previous IQ wrap-up: #1 was Charles Foster Kane (named his estate Xanadu) #2 was Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage in _Adaptation_) #3 was Boris Karloff (voiced the Grinch). IQs: 1. Were you _the_ woman? 2. Was it said of you, when walking on a windy day, “one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”? 3. Did you pen the above description? ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/170 "2018-09-25T03:04:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat? > 2. Did you play the lead in the fairly recent movie _Mr. Holmes_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? Not Ignatz, Sir Ian McKellen or… Janis Ian? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Were you _the_ woman? > 2. Was it said of you, when walking on a windy day, “one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”? > 3. Did you pen the above description? Not Irene Adler, Ichabod Crane or Washington Irving. ---
**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 25, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/171 "2018-09-25T11:30:06Z")
Correct x3. IQs: 1. Did you write _The Road to Mars_? 2. Did Aleksandr Solzhentisyn write a book about a day in your life? 3. Are you the Flash’s wife? ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/172 "2018-09-25T14:06:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Road to Mars_? > 2. Did Aleksandr Solzhentisyn write a book about a day in your life? > 3. Are you the Flash’s wife? Not Isaac Asimov, Ivan Denisovich (sp?) and dunno. ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/173 "2018-09-25T15:24:27Z")
A clean sweep! 1. Were you appointed Chief Engineer of Britain’s Great Western Railway? 2. Are you the son of the superhero Omni-Man? 3. Did you preside over the OJ Simpson trial? ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/174 "2018-09-25T16:27:30Z")
IQ1: Did you compose _God Bless America_? IQ2: Were you a bowtie-wearing correspondent for NBC news for 45 years? IQ3: Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes? ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/175 "2018-09-25T16:56:00Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > 1. Were you appointed Chief Engineer of Britain’s Great Western Railway? > 2. Are you the son of the superhero Omni-Man? > 3. Did you preside over the OJ Simpson trial? Not one of my all-time favorite Brits (and subject of an earlier Botticelli round) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, dunno, and not Judge Lance Ito. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose _God Bless America_? > IQ2: Were you a bowtie-wearing correspondent for NBC news for 45 years? > IQ3: Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes? Not Irving Berlin, dunno, and not… David Irving? ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/176 "2018-09-26T12:13:06Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose God Bless America? > IQ2: Were you a bowtie-wearing correspondent for NBC news for 45 years? > IQ3: Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes? > > Not Irving Berlin, dunno, and not… David Irving? correct, Irving R. Levine, Clifford Irving Irving x 3! DQ: Real? DQ: First name start with I? ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/177 "2018-09-26T12:18:08Z")
IQ1: Are you a Swedish filmmaker who directed _The Seventh Seal_? IQ2: Are you the female lead of Casablanca, and not related to IQ1? IQ3: Are you aka God of Arda? ---
**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 26, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/178 "2018-09-26T16:33:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct x3. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Road to Mars_? > 2. Did Aleksandr Solzhentisyn write a book about a day in your life? > 3. Are you the Flash’s wife? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Isaac Asimov, Ivan Denisovich (sp?) and dunno. #1 was Eric Idle. Correct on Ivan. #3 is Iris West Allen. DQ: Male? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 26, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/179 "2018-09-26T16:58:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not one of my all-time favorite Brits (and subject of an earlier Botticelli round) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, dunno, and not Judge Lance Ito. 1. (the son of Omni-Man) is Invincible, from the comic of the same name. DQ: American? IQs: 1. Did you write and perform on the album _Straight Outta Compton_? 2. Aside from a rap career, do you have a long-running role on _Law and Order: Special Victims Unit_? 3. Does your most famous song incorporate the baseline of Queen’s “Under Pressure” ? ---
**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 27, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762/180 "2018-09-27T02:30:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Swedish filmmaker who directed _The Seventh Seal_? > IQ2: Are you the female lead of Casablanca, and not related to IQ1? > IQ3: Are you aka God of Arda? Not Ingmar Bergmann, Ingrid Bergmann or Eru Iluvatar. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write and perform on the album _Straight Outta Compton_? > 2. Aside from a rap career, do you have a long-running role on _Law and Order: Special Victims Unit_? > 3. Does your most famous song incorporate the baseline of Queen’s “Under Pressure” ? Dunno, not Ice-T, and not Vanilla Ice. I. 1. real 2. last name starts with I 3. male 4. American I’m going out of town tomorrow morning and may have iffy Internet access until late Sunday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2018/820762.md?page=10)