# December Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 30, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169 "2013-11-30T23:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**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:** [December 17, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/342 "2013-12-17T23:33:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a gangster known as “Creepy”? > IQ2: Were you a 19th-century German mystery boy? > IQ3: Were you a fictional British secret agent in Afghanistan in the early 20th century? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Not Al Karpis (I visited Alcatraz last winter) > Take 2 DQs Correct on Alvin Karpis. Kaspar Hauser. Athelstan King, the hero of Talbot Mundy’s _King of the Khyber Rifles_. IQ1: British (English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish/Manx)? IQ2: Musician (singer/songwriter/conductor/instrumentalist/&c)? IQ1: Are you best known for playing a WWII Air Force officer? IQ2: Did you play a starship navigator? IQ3: Did you write a short story about an alien cookbook? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/343 "2013-12-17T23:40:43Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Were you the commander of a WWII POW camp, perpetually exasperated by your incompetent subordinates? > IQ2: Are you the leader of the Brotherhood of NOD? > IQ3: Is your catchphrase “It’s so unfair!”? 1: As you say, **Colonel Klink** 2: **Kane** , from the Command and Conquer series 3: Harry Enfield’s sketch character **Kevin the Teenager** ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/344 "2013-12-18T01:01:21Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did Wayne Campbell tortuously quote your philosophy to girlfriend Cassandra? Not Immanuel Kant? > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: British (English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish/Manx)? > IQ2: Musician (singer/songwriter/conductor/instrumentalist/&c)? Yes No > [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you best known for playing a WWII Air Force officer? > IQ2: Did you play a starship navigator? > IQ3: Did you write a short story about an alien cookbook? 1: DQ 2: Not Walter “Chekov” Koenig 3: Not Damon “To Serve Man” Knight Recap: K 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. Last name starts with K 5. Not American 6. European 7. Died after 1900 8. In the arts 9. British 10. Not a musician ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/345 "2013-12-18T01:03:45Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a jazz band leader played by Jack Webb? 2. Are you the divine personification of the DC Universe? 3. Did you clown around with Betty Boop? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/346 "2013-12-18T01:13:20Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > DQ reserved, pending answers to the above DQs. I’ll bring this one forward now. DQ: An author? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/347 "2013-12-18T01:35:03Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you best known for playing a WWII Air Force officer? > IQ2: Did you play a starship navigator? > IQ3: Did you write a short story about an alien cookbook? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 1: DQ > 2: Not Walter “Chekov” Koenig > 3: Not Damon “To Serve Man” Knight Werner Klemperer, who played the above-mentioned Colonel Klink. Correct on Koenig and Knight. I’ll hold my DQ pending the answer to Spoons’s. IQ1: Did you refer to the Royal Marines as “soldier an’ sailor too”? IQ2: Did your shipyard set records during WW II? IQ3: Were you an Air Force field marshal during WW II? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/348 "2013-12-18T02:05:36Z")
That was Soren Kierkegaard DQ: Died after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/349 "2013-12-18T03:42:00Z")
IQ1: Were you a pro wrestler who also played Peggy Bundy’s uncle? IQ2: Did you play goal for the Montreal Canadiens before being elected to the Canadian Parliament? IQ3: Did you invent a “suicide machine”? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/350 "2013-12-18T04:15:01Z")
Previous IQs: Did Mr. Spock torture you? - Chief Kyle (who wasn’t just in the Mirror Universe). Did you play a captain and marry an Ohio politician? - Yes, Kate “Captain Janeway” Mulgrew, who married Tim Hagan, once a candidate for Governor of Ohio. Did you say of faculty politics, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”? - 'Twas Henry Kissinger. DQs: Died after 1975? Ever knighted? IQs: Were you noted for your cartoons of cats? Did you keep a coconut on your desk? Did you appear in a movie in which the narrator asked us to look closely at a car? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/351 "2013-12-18T09:37:50Z")
IQ: Did you describe how a man could have the world, and all that’s in it? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/352 "2013-12-18T18:00:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a jazz band leader played by Jack Webb? > 2. Are you the divine personification of the DC Universe? > 3. Did you clown around with Betty Boop? 3: Not Koko the Clown. Take DQs for the other 2 > [@Spoons](#): > > DQ: An author? No > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you refer to the Royal Marines as “soldier an’ sailor too”? > IQ2: Did your shipyard set records during WW II? > IQ3: Were you an Air Force field marshal during WW II? 3 DQs for you > [@etv78](#): > > DQ: Died after 1950? Yes > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Were you a pro wrestler who also played Peggy Bundy’s uncle? > IQ2: Did you play goal for the Montreal Canadiens before being elected to the Canadian Parliament? > IQ3: Did you invent a “suicide machine”? 1: Not King Kong Bundy 2: Take a DQ 3: Not Dr. Jack Kevorkian > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Died after 1975? > Ever knighted? No and no > [@](#): > > Were you noted for your cartoons of cats? > Did you keep a coconut on your desk? > Did you appear in a movie in which the narrator asked us to look closely at a car? 1: Not B. Kliban Take DQs for the other 2 > [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Did you describe how a man could have the world, and all that’s in it? Not Rudyard Kipling? Recap: K 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. Last name starts with K 5. Not American 6. European 7. Died after 1900 8. In the arts 9. British 10. Not a musician 11. Not an author 12. Died after 1950 13. Died before 1975 14. Never knighted ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/353 "2013-12-18T18:24:41Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Did you describe how a man could have the world, and all that’s in it? Was indeed Rudyard Kipling: “If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs… …then yours is the world, and all that’s in it. And what is more, You shall be a man, my son.” ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/354 "2013-12-18T18:29:56Z")
Quote: > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Prof. Pepperwinkle > IQs: > > 1. Were you a jazz band leader played by Jack Webb? > 2. Are you the divine personification of the DC Universe? > 3. Did you clown around with Betty Boop? > > 3: Not Koko the Clown. Take DQs for the other 2 Pete Kelly in _Pete Kelly’s Blues_, and Karma. and I’ll think a bit before I ask my DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/355 "2013-12-18T18:39:49Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 1: Not King Kong Bundy > 2: Take a DQ > 3: Not Dr. Jack Kevorkian Correct on King Kong Bundy and Dr. Kevorkian. The hockey-playing member of Parliament was Ken Dryden. DQ: Known for your work in film? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/356 "2013-12-18T19:31:07Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > DQ: Known for your work in film? Yes Recap: K 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. Last name starts with K 5. Not American 6. European 7. Died after 1900 8. In the arts 9. British 10. Not a musician 11. Not an author 12. Died after 1950 13. Died before 1975 14. Never knighted 15. Known for work in film ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/357 "2013-12-18T19:33:55Z")
DQ: Actor? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/358 "2013-12-18T19:59:29Z")
IQ1: Have you played a Jewish clerk and an Indian liberator? IQ2: Do you play a wannabe-actress whose friends include a microbiologist, a neuroscientist, and an astrophysicist? IQ3: Were you the first American Idol? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/359 "2013-12-18T20:40:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Actor? Yes > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Have you played a Jewish clerk and an Indian liberator? > IQ2: Do you play a wannabe-actress whose friends include a microbiologist, a neuroscientist, and an astrophysicist? > IQ3: Were you the first American Idol? 1: Not Ben Kingsley 2: Not Kaley Cuoco 3: Not Kelly Clarkson Recap: K 1. Real 2. Male 3. Not living 4. Last name starts with K 5. Not American 6. European 7. Died after 1900 8. In the arts 9. British 10. Not a musician 11. Not an author 12. Died after 1950 13. Died before 1975 14. Never knighted 15. Known for work in film 16. Actor ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/360 "2013-12-18T20:44:02Z")
So, a British film actor who died between 1950 and 1975, whose last name starts with K, and wasn’t knighted. Thinking… ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/361 "2013-12-18T21:22:52Z")
Previous IQs: Were you noted for your cartoons of cats? - Yes, B. Kliban. Did you keep a coconut on your desk? - John F. Kennedy: [World War II | JFK Library](http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Ey5l6Vagyk2dwA6BTctDZg.aspx) Did you appear in a movie in which the narrator asked us to look closely at a car? - “King” Kaiser, in _My Favorite Year_. DQs: Ever won an Oscar? Best known for serious roles? IQs: Were you Mrs. Lincoln’s seamstress and confidante? Did President Obama mention you in a limo-backseat interview with Brian Williams? Were you a potential First Lady of the past 50 years? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=19)