# \[ GAME \] 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:** 13
**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 18, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/241 "2014-11-18T04:19:03Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the tough-guy field reporter on _FYI_? - Yes, Frank Fontana on _Murphy Brown_ Did you star in _$ky Heist_? - Frank Gorshin; it was a TV movie from the Seventies that I still remember. Were you GHWB’s White House press secretary? - Ari Fleischer was GWB’s press secretary; GHWB’s was Marlin Fitzwater. DQs: Generally considered a “good guy” nowadays? Born before 1700? IQs: Did your first name inspire the name of an Eighties pop group? Were you Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, executed in the last days of the Third Reich? Were you one of a pair of criminal twins in _Serenity_? ---
**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 18, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/242 "2014-11-18T13:58:03Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 Ray Fontaine (named himself after Joan Fontaine), correct, Martin Frobisher DQ: Known for exploration/discovery? 1 DQ reserved ---
**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, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/243 "2014-11-18T15:47:32Z")
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 16. Never held a political or governmental title, but still known (sort of) for political reasons 17. Born before 1700 18. Generally (but not universally) considered a bad guy 19. Not known for an exploration or discoveries ---
**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, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/244 "2014-11-18T15:48:32Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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? Not… Robert Fulton? Not Vicente Fox Take a DQ for Vonnegut ---
**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, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/245 "2014-11-18T15:50:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? Not Dumbledore’s friend Nicholas Flamel I remember that cat from\*\*\* Peanuts \*\*\*but forget its name. Take a DQ. I thought Edmund Halley was the first. I’m obviously wrong. Take a DQ for #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, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/246 "2014-11-18T15:54:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your first name inspire the name of an Eighties pop group? > Were you Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, executed in the last days of the Third Reich? > Were you one of a pair of criminal twins in _Serenity_? Not Frankie (Goes to Hollywood) Sinatra or Fanty Take a DQ for #2 ---
**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 18, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/247 "2014-11-18T17:21:28Z")
IQ: On November 5, do the British light bonfires and set off fireworks in your honor? ---
**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, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/248 "2014-11-18T20:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > Not… Robert Fulton? > > Not Vicente Fox > > Take a DQ for Vonnegut Correct on Fulton and Fox. Philip Jose Farmer wrote one book under the nom de plume of Vonnegut’s SF author Kilgore Trout. Since SCAdian already guessed him, I won’t claim the DQ. ---
**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, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/249 "2014-11-18T21:08:50Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ: On November 5, do the British light bonfires and set off fireworks in your honor? YESSSSS! I am GUY FAWKES, the Catholic “mastermind” behind the Gunpowder Plot. I attempted to blow up Britain’s Parliament. Some consider me an early terrorist. Others call me “the only man who has ever entered Parliament with honorable intentions.” Bravo, Knowed Out. ---
**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 18, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/250 "2014-11-18T21:14:26Z")
Hooray! The answer is finally somebody I’ve heard of! Here we go with G ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/251 "2014-11-18T22:56:38Z")
WTG, KO! IQs: 1. Are you the Monarch of Planet X? 2. Were you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? 3. Were you the Catholic mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/252 "2014-11-19T00:22:34Z")
> [@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? 1: Michael Faraday worked with Sir Humphrey Davy, subject of the original Clerihew: “Sir Humphrey Davy, Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium, Of having discovered sodium.” 2: Saint Francis of Assisi 3: I only know **Fourier** ’s last name. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/253 "2014-11-19T00:27:21Z")
IQ1: Were you the best known member of the British political party, Respect? IQ2: Did you write Porgy and Bess? IQ3: Was the actor who played you referred to by your nickname after achieving greater fame in another field? ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/254 "2014-11-19T01:09:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > WTG, KO! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Monarch of Planet X? > 2. Were you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? > 3. Were you the Catholic mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot? dunno, don’t remember, not Guy Fawkes 🙂 ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/255 "2014-11-19T01:13:00Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Were you the best known member of the British political party, Respect? > IQ2: Did you write Porgy and Bess? > IQ3: Was the actor who played you referred to by your nickname after achieving greater fame in another field? dunno, not George Gershwin, dunno ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/256 "2014-11-19T01:21:14Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Were you the best known member of the British political party, Respect? > IQ2: Did you write Porgy and Bess? > IQ3: Was the actor who played you referred to by your nickname after achieving greater fame in another field? 1: George Galloway 2: As you said, George Gershwin. 3: Ronald Reagan’s nickname, the Gipper, arose because he played **George Gipp**. 3xGG, 3xGeorge. DQ1: Are you real? DQ2: Are you male? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/257 "2014-11-19T01:29:29Z")
IQ1: Will you survive? IQ2: Did you insist that the Earth moves? IQ3: Were you a Green Lantern? ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/258 "2014-11-19T02:00:09Z")
All right, **KO**! Previous IQs: Did your first name inspire the name of an Eighties pop group? - Yes, Frank Sinatra and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Were you Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, executed in the last days of the Third Reich? - Fegelin; I forget his first name. He was close to Himmler, and Hitler came to suspect him of conspiring with Himmler to surrender to the Allies. Were you one of a pair of criminal twins in _Serenity_? - Yes, Fanty; his twin was Mingo IIRC. On to the Gs… IQs: Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? Does the best-known bust of you capture your expression, acc. to the sculptor, of the moment when you reacted to a too-high price quoted for a horse? Did you write about radio station WLT? ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/259 "2014-11-19T02:56:39Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Monarch of Planet X? > 2. Were you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? > 3. Were you the Catholic mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot? > > dunno, don’t remember, not Guy Fawkes 🙂 1. Groot, one of the Guardians of the Galaxy. 2. Sir Guy of Gisbourne. 3. Correct. DQ: Last name starts with G? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/260 "2014-11-19T03:16:04Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > GUY FAWKES Bugger. And I was just explaining “penny for the Guy” to someone at work a couple days ago… > [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Dumbledore’s friend Nicholas Flamel > > I remember that cat from\*\*\* Peanuts \*\*\*but forget its name. Take a DQ. > > I thought Edmund Halley was the first. I’m obviously wrong. Take a DQ for #3 Correct on Flamel. Faron. Halley was the second - John Flamsteed was the first. G… IQ1: Were you the first French ace to reach a score of fifty enemy aircraft? IQ2: Were you and Jonas Grumby the crew of a shipwrecked vessel? IQ3: Were you commonly known as “Possum”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138.md?page=14)