# 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:** 7
**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 9, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/121 "2013-12-09T00:17:09Z")
IQ1: Are you known for “The Night Watch,” among other works? IQ2: Are you John McClane’s pseudonym? IQ3: Are you a faithful handyman, who’s a little brought down because when you knocked, he thought you were the candyman? ---
**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 9, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/122 "2013-12-09T00:58:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Henry and Eleanor’s son? > IQ2: Was your body found under a car park last year? > IQ3: Were you allegedly poisoned, shot, and clubbed before being thrown into a river? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I’m not Richard. #3. I’m not Rasputin. > Take a DQ for 2. Correct on Richard I. Richard III. Correct on Rasputin. DQ: Died since 1800? IQ1: Were you an Alsatian rescued from a WWI battlefield? IQ2: Did you have a nightclub in Morocco? IQ3: Did you perform an important service one foggy night? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/123 "2013-12-09T01:12:23Z")
IQ1: Is your legacy celebrated a month after Christmas? IQ2: Did you create the Thinker? IQ3: Did you write Land of Hope and Glory? ---
**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 9, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/125 "2013-12-09T03:36:10Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Are you known for “The Night Watch,” among other works? > IQ2: Are you John McClane’s pseudonym? > IQ3: Are you a faithful handyman, who’s a little brought down because when you knocked, he thought you were the candyman? I’m not Rembrandt. I’m not Riff-Raff. Take a DQ for #2. ---
**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 9, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/126 "2013-12-09T03:37:39Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an Alsatian rescued from a WWI battlefield? > IQ2: Did you have a nightclub in Morocco? > IQ3: Did you perform an important service one foggy night? #2. I’m not Rick. Take 2 more DQs. ---
**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 9, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/127 "2013-12-09T03:38:49Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Is your legacy celebrated a month after Christmas? > IQ2: Did you create the Thinker? > IQ3: Did you write Land of Hope and Glory? Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Rodin. I thought Hope and Glory was by Edward Elgar. If I’m wrong, take a DQ. ---
**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 9, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/128 "2013-12-09T03:39:52Z")
> [@apple6](#): > > Stephen Grover Cleveland is a G or a C, _ **spam link removed** _ not an S. Thomas Woodrow Wilson is a W, Welcome to the game, apple6! \*\*\* Moderator Note - Spam link removed (the spam post that this refers to was also removed) \*\*\* ---
**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 9, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/129 "2013-12-09T03:41:35Z")
DQs: 1. Male 2. Not American 3. Real 4. Dead 5. European 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died since 1800 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/130 "2013-12-09T03:52:01Z")
IQ: Do you share your name with former BAU unit chief? ---
**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 9, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/131 "2013-12-09T04:37:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an Alsatian rescued from a WWI battlefield? > IQ2: Did you have a nightclub in Morocco? > IQ3: Did you perform an important service one foggy night? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2. I’m not Rick. Take 2 more DQs. The original Rin Tin Tin. Correct on Rick, whatever his surname might have been. (I’ve never seen it.) Rudolph. DQ1: Died after 1900? DQ2: Native speaker of English? IQ1: Did you devise extremely complex methods of accomplishing tasks? IQ2: Did you commemorate your victories with engraved silver cups? IQ3: Did you go home last night and put a bullet through your head? ---
**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 9, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/132 "2013-12-09T05:16:04Z")
Rick Blaine ran that little nightclub in Casablanca. Previous IQs: Were you an early baseball great who had the same last name as a later pop music star? - Rogers Hornsby/Bruce Hornsby (of The Range). Did you serve as a young aide to Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant? - Yes, Robert Todd Lincoln. Did you and one other music-mad colleague, although amateur actors, appear in a crowd scene of a professionally-staged opera? - Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, better known for their day jobs at the U.S. Supreme Court. DQs: British? Last name start with R? IQs: Were you a fat, dissolute king of a make-believe realm? Were you this monarch’s probably-gay brother? Were you shown in a recent movie with bird poop in your hair? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/133 "2013-12-09T08:26:14Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Is your legacy celebrated a month after Christmas? > IQ2: Did you create the Thinker? > IQ3: Did you write Land of Hope and Glory? 1: **Rabbie Burns** 2: Was **Rodin** , as you said 3: I think you’re right about Elgar. I was thinking of **Ralph Vaughan Williams** ---
**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 9, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/134 "2013-12-09T12:11:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m not Rembrandt. I’m not Riff-Raff. > Take a DQ for #2. Correct on Rembrandt and Riff-Raff. John McClane’s pseudonym was Roy Rogers. DQ: Known for your work in literature? ---
**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 9, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/135 "2013-12-09T12:22:19Z")
_Pomp and Circumstance March Number 1_ is by Elgar. According to Wikipedia, the song _Land of Hope and Glory_ was written by someone named Benson. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/136 "2013-12-09T12:59:43Z")
I think I’ve worked out what it was that was sending my train of thought down the wrong track Although he wrote neither the music nor the lyrics for “I Vow to Thee My Country”, Vaughan Williams was a close friend of Holst and widely believed to have encouraged its creation. So I had the wrong patriotic song and the wrong connection - sorry. ---
**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 9, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/137 "2013-12-09T13:02:40Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Do you share your name with former BAU unit chief? Take a DQ. ---
**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 9, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/138 "2013-12-09T13:03:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you devise extremely complex methods of accomplishing tasks? > IQ2: Did you commemorate your victories with engraved silver cups? > IQ3: Did you go home last night and put a bullet through your head? I am not Rube Goldberg. I am not Paul Revere. I am not Richard Cory. ---
**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 9, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/139 "2013-12-09T13:05:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a fat, dissolute king of a make-believe realm? > Were you this monarch’s probably-gay brother? > Were you shown in a recent movie with bird poop in your hair? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 9, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/140 "2013-12-09T13:08:37Z")
DQs: 1. Male 2. Not American 3. Real 4. Dead 5. European 6. Known for the Arts 7. Died after 1800 8. Died after 1900 9. Not a native speaker of English 10. Not British 11. Last name starts with R ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/141 "2013-12-09T14:25:48Z")
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