# Botticelli - September 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600 "2019-09-02T20:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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 12, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/241 "2019-09-12T14:29:47Z")
I feel like I have to clarify Political/Military - L was not an elected official or an official military officer, but was a major impact in both. ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/242 "2019-09-12T14:31:46Z")
> [@atimnie](#): > > IQ1: Did you sing about a road trip with a dog in the 70s under this name? > IQ2: Are you the person who wrote the song under your real name? > IQ3: Are you the lead singer for “Last Song” group, Edward Bear? I think you’re talking about “Me and you and a dog named Boo,” but I don’t remember the artist. 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 12, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/243 "2019-09-12T14:33:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Lady Is A Tramp_? > 2. Did you write _Solaris_? > 3. Did you work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine? DQ, not Stanislaw Lem, not Ms. Lovelace, whose first name I don’t recall ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/244 "2019-09-12T14:34:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Lady Is A Tramp_? > 2. Did you write _Solaris_? > 3. Did you work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, not Stanislaw Lem, not Ms. Lovelace, whose first name I don’t recall #1 was Lorenz Hart. Correct on Stanislaw Lem. Correct on Ada Lovelace. DQ: Asian? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/245 "2019-09-12T14:45:43Z")
_Originally Posted by atimnie View Post IQ1: Did you sing about a road trip with a dog in the 70s under this name? IQ2: Are you the person who wrote the song under your real name? IQ3: Are you the lead singer for “Last Song” group, Edward Bear? I think you’re talking about “Me and you and a dog named Boo,” but I don’t remember the artist. Take 3 DQs._ Right on the song, sung by Lobo, nom de tune of Kent Lavoie. Edward Bear’s lead singer was Larry Evoy. DQ1: Australian? DQ2: Popular? DQ3: Over 50 when he died? ---
**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 12, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/246 "2019-09-12T15:20:39Z")
Previous IQs: Did you sometimes act as bodyguard to President Lincoln? - Ward Hill Lamon, U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia, who sometimes slept outside Lincoln’s White House door, heavily armed and wrapped in a blanket Did you run for reelection to the U.S. Senate and also for VPOTUS in 1988? - Lloyd Bentsen of Texas Did you famously draw an economic projection on a cocktail napkin? - Arthur Laffer DQ: Appointed national official? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary? Were you one of the Mod Squad (character name)? Were you another (actual name)? ---
**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 12, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/247 "2019-09-12T17:08:44Z")
DQ Cauldron 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with L 4. Political/Military 5. Dead 6. Not an elected official, but has had major political impact 7. Not American 8. Greatest fame since 1950 9. Not European 10. Died after 1980 11. Asian 12. Not Australian 13. Not popular in the US 14. Over 50 when he died 15. Not appointed to national office ---
**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 12, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/248 "2019-09-12T17:11:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you run for reelection to the U.S. Senate and also for VPOTUS in 1988? - Lloyd Bentsen of Texas /slap I remember watching him debate Dan Quayle. “I knew Jack Kennedy, and you sir, are no Jack Kennedy!” > [@](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary? > Were you one of the Mod Squad (character name)? > Were you another (actual name)? 3 DQs ---
**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 12, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/249 "2019-09-12T18:19:29Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Jackie Kennedy’s social secretary? - Letitia Baldridge Were you one of the Mod Squad (character name)? - Linc Were you another (actual name)? - Peggy Lipton DQs: Was a foe of the US? Had eyes with epicanthic folds? Best known for a single incident? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you nearly disemboweled by cannonfire during the American Civil War? Were you Emperor of Humanity in Niven and Pournelle’s sf novel _The Mote in God’s Eye_? Did you lead the army destroyed despite its valiant stand at Thermopylae? ---
**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 12, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/250 "2019-09-12T19:07:43Z")
IQs: 1. Did you hang around with a cartoon hyena named Hardy Har-Har? 2. Were you referenced in a song by Blessid Union of Souls? (sic) 3. Were you known as “the man of a thousand faces”? ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/251 "2019-09-12T21:55:48Z")
DQ Cauldron 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with L 4. Political/Military 5. Dead 6. Not an elected official, but has had major political impact 7. Not American 8. Greatest fame since 1950 9. Not European 10. Died after 1980 11. Asian 12. Not Australian 13. Not popular in the US 14. Over 50 when he died 15. Not appointed to national office 16. Foe of USA 17. Not East Asian (is that what you meant?) 18. Best known for a single incident 3… 2… 1… ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/252 "2019-09-12T21:56:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you nearly disemboweled by cannonfire during the American Civil War? > Were you Emperor of Humanity in Niven and Pournelle’s sf novel _The Mote in God’s Eye_? > Did you lead the army destroyed despite its valiant stand at Thermopylae? DQ, DQ, not Leonidas? ---
**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 12, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/253 "2019-09-12T21:57:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with a cartoon hyena named Hardy Har-Har? > 2. Were you referenced in a song by Blessid Union of Souls? (sic) > 3. Were you known as “the man of a thousand faces”? DQ, DQ, not Lon Chaney ---
**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 12, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/254 "2019-09-12T23:08:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you hang around with a cartoon hyena named Hardy Har-Har? 2. Were you referenced in a song by Blessid Union of Souls? (sic) 3. Were you known as “the man of a thousand faces”? DQ, DQ, not Lon Chaney Lippy the Lion; Leonardo de Caprio (“Hey, Leonardo, She Likes Me For Me”), and correct. 2 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 13, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/255 "2019-09-13T17:56:59Z")
Previous IQs: Were you nearly disemboweled by cannonfire during the American Civil War? - Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk Were you Emperor of Humanity in Niven and Pournelle’s sf novel _The Mote in God’s Eye_? - Leonidas XI Did you lead the army destroyed despite its valiant stand at Thermopylae? - Yes, the older Leonidas Leonidas x3! Four DQs reserved. IQs: Were you the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks? Did you produce the original _Battlestar Galactica_? Was a fort in Pennsylvania named after you? ---
**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, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/256 "2019-09-13T22:48:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks? Yes, I am Osama bin Ladin. I thought you guys would get this sooner given the date. ---
**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, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/257 "2019-09-14T02:40:01Z")
Well played, 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 14, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/258 "2019-09-14T04:44:25Z")
Thanks! Good one, **KO**. The possible 9-11 connection just occurred to me today. Our next letter is T ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2019, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/259 "2019-09-14T06:42:36Z")
IQ1: Are you Stephen King’s wife? IQ2: Did Billy Clyde Tuggle try to kill you on All My Children? IQ3: Are you a gospel singer, member of the Imperials but better known as a solo artist? ---
**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, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/260 "2019-09-14T12:35:04Z")
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