# 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:** 19
**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, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/362 "2013-12-18T22:19:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > Ever won an Oscar? > Best known for serious roles? No If you mean “serious” as opposed to comic, then yes. > [@](#): > > 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? And another 3 DQs. 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 17. Never won an Oscar 18. Best known for serious (non-comic) roles ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/363 "2013-12-19T00:04:40Z")
> [@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? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 3 DQs for you Rudyard [Kipling](http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1860.html). Henry Kaiser. Albert Kesselring. DQs later, maybe… IQs later, too… ---
**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 19, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/364 "2013-12-19T01:56:55Z")
IQ1: Did you look through a Rear Window, and did you Dial M for Murder? IQ2: In your first film role, did you play a character named Chip Diller? IQ3: Did you record songs such as “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” and “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems”? ---
**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 19, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/365 "2013-12-19T02:34:58Z")
IQ1: Did you play an architect, the father of twins, and a New England police chief? IQ2: Did Brendan Fraser star in a remake of one of your films? IQ3: Did you eat Michael Palin’s goldfish? ---
**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 19, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/366 "2013-12-19T02:39:54Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did you look through a Rear Window, and did you Dial M for Murder? > IQ2: In your first film role, did you play a character named Chip Diller? > IQ3: Did you record songs such as “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” and “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems”? 1: Not Grace Kelly 2: Not Kevin “thank you sir may I have another” Bacon 3: I don’t know, but hold on… > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play an architect, the father of twins, and a New England police chief? > IQ2: Did Brendan Fraser star in a remake of one of your films? > IQ3: Did you eat Michael Palin’s goldfish? 1: Don’t know 3: Not Kevin Kline 2: Yes, I am Boris Karloff(The Mummy, in your IQ) Good job!! ---
**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 19, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/367 "2013-12-19T03:02:51Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 1: Not Grace Kelly > 2: Not Kevin “thank you sir may I have another” Bacon > 3: I don’t know, but hold on… Correct on Grace Kelly and Kevin Bacon. The songs are by country artist Kenny Chesney. Well done, **SCAdian**! Looking forward to the next round. ---
**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 19, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/368 "2013-12-19T03:51:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play an architect, the father of twins, and a New England police chief? > IQ2: Did Brendan Fraser star in a remake of one of your films? > IQ3: Did you eat Michael Palin’s goldfish? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 1: Don’t know > 3: Not Kevin Kline > 2: Yes, I am Boris Karloff(The Mummy, in your IQ) \ Boris Karloff was British?? Correct on Kevin Kline. #1 was Brian Keith (_Family Affair_, _The Parent Trap_, and _The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming_). Where were we? Rachmaninoff, Quantrill, Poul, Ozma… I am **N**. ---
**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 19, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/369 "2013-12-19T04:33:11Z")
IQ1: Did you sing about a certain number of red balloons? IQ2: When you walk into your favourite watering hole, are you greeted by name by everybody? IQ3: Do you run the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York? ---
**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 19, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/370 "2013-12-19T04:46:24Z")
Dammit, and I was just thinking of Karloff today because of his narration of _How the Grinch Stole Christmas!_ I didn’t know he was British, either. Good job, **SCAdian**. IQs: Were you Mrs. Lincoln’s seamstress and confidante? - Elizabeth Keckley (she appears in the recent _Lincoln_ movie). Did President Obama mention you in a limo-backseat interview with Brian Williams? - Keith Olbermann. Were you a potential First Lady of the past 50 years? - Kitty Dukakis. On to N… IQs: Did you stand in for your spouse at the 1985 Boy Scout Jamboree? Did you quotably deprecate the job you held? Was your caregiver quite sad when you had to leave home while still quite young? ---
**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 19, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/371 "2013-12-19T04:55:26Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did you sing about a certain number of red balloons? > IQ2: When you walk into your favourite watering hole, are you greeted by name by everybody? > IQ3: Do you run the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York? Not Nena Kerner. DQ. Not good old reliable Nathan, Nathan, Nathan, Nathan Detroit. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you stand in for your spouse at the 1985 Boy Scout Jamboree? > Did you quotably deprecate the job you held? > Was your caregiver quite sad when you had to leave home while still quite young? \ Three DQs, unless #2 was Richard Nixon. ---
**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 19, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/372 "2013-12-19T05:01:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not Nena Kerner. > DQ. > Not good old reliable Nathan, Nathan, Nathan, Nathan Detroit. Correct on Nena and good old reliable Nathan Detroit. Number 2 was looking for Norm, from “Cheers.” DQ: Are you real? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/373 "2013-12-19T09:56:33Z")
IQ1: Are you a Babylonian king afforded the same honour as Jereboam? IQ2: Did you and Zadok anoint a king? IQ3: Did you fiddle while Rome burned? ---
**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 19, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/374 "2013-12-19T11:57:01Z")
Yeah, I woke up this morning and thought of Boris. Good job, SCAdian! IQs: 1. Were you a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agent with a real identity problem? 2. Did you write _Lolita_? 3. Were you, for a time, Daredevil’s lover? ---
**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 19, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/375 "2013-12-19T12:35:29Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Babylonian king afforded the same honour as Jereboam? > IQ2: Did you and Zadok anoint a king? > IQ3: Did you fiddle while Rome burned? Not Nebuchadnezzar. (They both have oversized wine bottles named for them.) Not … Nathaniel? Not Nero. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agent with a real identity problem? > 2. Did you write _Lolita_? > 3. Were you, for a time, Daredevil’s lover? DQ. Not Vladimir Nabokov. Not … the Black Widow? But I don’t remember her name, so have a DQ. **N** 1. Fictional ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/376 "2013-12-19T12:59:47Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Babylonian king afforded the same honour as Jereboam? > IQ2: Did you and Zadok anoint a king? > IQ3: Did you fiddle while Rome burned? 1: As you said, **Nebuchadnezzar** , and for the reason you said. 2: Zadok the Priest, and **Nathan the Prophet** , anointed Solomon king. I’ll have to check if Nathan the Prophet is also known as Nathaniel. 3: As you said, Nero. IQ: Did you reputedly resurrect three children who had been killed to be butchered and sold in a famine-stricken region? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/377 "2013-12-19T13:03:09Z")
All I can find on Nathan who anointed Solomon indicates he was just called Nathan, and the biblical Nathaniel was one of the twelve apostles, so… DQ: Are you male? ---
**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 19, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/378 "2013-12-19T14:08:42Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Did you reputedly resurrect three children who had been killed to be butchered and sold in a famine-stricken region? Not … St Nicholas? **N** 1. Fictional 2. Male ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/379 "2013-12-19T14:13:34Z")
IQ1: Are you the boyfriend of a famous girl detective? IQ2: Were you beheaded for treason while your daughters watched? IQ3: Do you have a dog named Asta? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/380 "2013-12-19T14:29:32Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ: Did you reputedly resurrect three children who had been killed to be butchered and sold in a famine-stricken region? 1: You are correct, I couldn’t let an N go by at this time of year without throwing in **Saint Nicholas** , and I’d learned of that particular story very recently. ---
**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 19, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/381 "2013-12-19T15:05:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agent with a real identity problem? > 2. Did you write _Lolita_? > 3. Were you, for a time, Daredevil’s lover? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ. > Not Vladimir Nabokov. > Not … the Black Widow? But I don’t remember her name, so have a DQ. #1 was No-Man, a scientist who had died, but whose intellect was preserved and transferred among a host of android bodies. #3 was, indeed, Natalie Romanoff, the Black Widow. DQs: 1. Protagonist? 2. From the movies? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169.md?page=20)