# \[ GAME \] Botticelli - Nov. 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 31, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138 "2014-10-31T16:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/221 "2014-11-17T04:33:07Z")
Previous IQs: Were you one of the Pink Ladies? - Yes, Frenchie Were you an early pioneer of TV research? - Yes, Philo Farnsworth Did you carve the sculpture of the President in the Lincoln Memorial? - Daniel Chester French DQ: Born before 1800? IQs: Were you the tough-guy field reporter on _FYI_? Did you star in _$ky Heist_? Were you GHWB’s White House press secretary? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/222 "2014-11-17T11:52:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all 3. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of the founders of German idealism? > 2. Did Umberto Eco write about your pendulum? > 3. Were you an SNL alumni of the early 1990s? Not Foucault or Chris Farley Take a DQ for #1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/223 "2014-11-17T11:53:08Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with F 5. Not American 6. Born before 1950 7. Born before 1900 8. European 9. Not known for any of the arts 10. Born West of the Rhine 11. Not known for military exploits 12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/224 "2014-11-17T11:54:40Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did Chevy Chase frequently start Weekend Update reporting that you were still dead? > IQ2; Are you a German philosopher who said that lackadaisical people killed you with their false values? > IQ3: Did you write a story about a man who could never find the reason he was arrested? Not Francisco Franco or Franz Kafka For #2… not Friedrich Nietzsche? If that’s wrong, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/225 "2014-11-17T11:56:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > F > IQ1: Do you play bass with the Electric Mayhem? > IQ2: Was your nickname a reference to your youthful looks? > IQ3: Did you play a Korean War army officer? Not Floyd Not Pretty Boy Floyd Can’t think of #3- take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/226 "2014-11-17T11:57:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the tough-guy field reporter on _FYI_? > Did you star in _$ky Heist_? > Were you GHWB’s White House press secretary? Not Frank Fontana or Ari Fleischer Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/227 "2014-11-17T12:07:53Z")
IQ1: Did you work with somebody reputed to abominate gravy? IQ2: Does your basilica have frescoes by Giotto? IQ3: Did you invent a means of simplifying calculations involving sinusoidal waves? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/228 "2014-11-17T13:07:07Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with F 5. Not American 6. Born before 1950 7. Born before 1900 8. European 9. Not known for any of the arts 10. Born West of the Rhine 11. Not known for military exploits 12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin 13. Born before 1800 ---
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/229 "2014-11-17T13:09:42Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do you play bass with the Electric Mayhem? > IQ2: Was your nickname a reference to your youthful looks? > IQ3: Did you play a Korean War army officer? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Floyd > > Not Pretty Boy Floyd > > Can’t think of #3- take a DQ Correct on the two Floyds. Mike Farrell (B J Hunnicutt on _MASH_). DQ: English? IQ1: Did you discover penicillin? IQ2: Did you write about Kickaha? IQ3: Did you collaborate on several works with Cyril M Kornbluth? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/230 "2014-11-17T14:03:21Z")
IQ1: Are you a Scottish serial killer originally named Archibald Hall, who changed your name after seeing an Alfred Hitchcock film? IQ2: Did you write about Horatio Hornblower? IQ3: Are you a licensed pirate who upon trying to find a northwest passage to the Orient, discovered Labrador? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/231 "2014-11-17T14:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of the founders of German idealism? > 2. Did Umberto Eco write about your pendulum? > 3. Were you an SNL alumni of the early 1990s? > > Not Foucault or Chris Farley > > Take a DQ for #1 #1 was Johann Fichte. DQ: Known for Science? ---
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/232 "2014-11-17T14:40:59Z")
IQs: 1. Were you one of Top Cat’s gang? 2. Did you start your career as a burlesque and vaudeville juggler? 3. Did Bob Hope play you in a movie in which you received the Father of the Year award? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/233 "2014-11-17T15:39:48Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with F 5. Not American 6. Born before 1950 7. Born before 1900 8. European 9. Not known for any of the arts 10. Born West of the Rhine 11. Had a military career, but that’s not what I’m best known for 12. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin 13. Born before 1800 14. English 15. Not involved in science ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/234 "2014-11-18T02:33:06Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Did you work with somebody reputed to abominate gravy? > IQ2: Does your basilica have frescoes by Giotto? > IQ3: Did you invent a means of simplifying calculations involving sinusoidal waves? I don’t know any of these- 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/235 "2014-11-18T02:34:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you discover penicillin? > IQ2: Did you write about Kickaha? > IQ3: Did you collaborate on several works with Cyril M Kornbluth? Not Alexander Fleming Take DQs for the other 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/236 "2014-11-18T02:35:30Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Scottish serial killer originally named Archibald Hall, who changed your name after seeing an Alfred Hitchcock film? > IQ2: Did you write about Horatio Hornblower? > IQ3: Are you a licensed pirate who upon trying to find a northwest passage to the Orient, discovered Labrador? Not CS Forrester Take a DQ for #1 and #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/237 "2014-11-18T02:36:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of Top Cat’s gang? > 2. Did you start your career as a burlesque and vaudeville juggler? > 3. Did Bob Hope play you in a movie in which you received the Father of the Year award? Not WC Fields or Eddie Foy Take a DQ for #1 ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/238 "2014-11-18T03:06:15Z")
Fancy Fancy was in the gang. DQ: Known for politics/government? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/239 "2014-11-18T03:10:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you name your ship the North River Steamboat? 2. Did you steal the identity of one of Kurt Vonnegut’s characters? 3. Were you president of Mexico fairly recently? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/240 "2014-11-18T03:48:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you discover penicillin? > IQ2: Did you write about Kickaha? > IQ3: Did you collaborate on several works with Cyril M Kornbluth? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Alexander Fleming > > Take DQs for the other 2 Correct. Philip Jose Farmer. Frederick Pohl. Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Is it claimed that you were an alchemist who discovered the Philosopher’s stone? IQ2: Are you an apparently boneless cat? IQ3: Were you the first Astronomer Royal of England? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=13)