# \[ GAME \] Botticelli - Nov. 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138>\
**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\
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**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, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/261 "2014-11-19T13:08:45Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name does not start with G

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**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, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/262 "2014-11-19T13:10:02Z")

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DQ: Alive?

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**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, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/263 "2014-11-19T13:10:50Z")

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> [@fanganga](#):
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> IQ1: Will you survive?  
> IQ2: Did you insist that the Earth moves?  
> IQ3: Were you a Green Lantern?

Not Gloria Gaynor, “I feel the earth movin’ under my feet, tumblin’ down, a-tumblin’ down” Remember the song but not the artist, not Guy Gardner

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**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, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/264 "2014-11-19T13:11:56Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you Prime Minister of Israel?
2. Were you perpetually bothered by Tyrone F. Horneigh?
3. Are you aka Prince Brian of Markovia?

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**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, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/265 "2014-11-19T13:13:58Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> 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?

Gosh, the first one sounds like something Howard Cosell said, but I don’t remember who he was referring to

take 3 DQs

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**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, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/266 "2014-11-19T13:16:52Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> 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”?

Military history questions ftl

I want to say George Lindsay for the 3rd, but he was “Goober.”

take 3 DQs

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**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, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/267 "2014-11-19T13:18:51Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you Prime Minister of Israel?
> 2. Were you perpetually bothered by Tyrone F. Horneigh?
> 3. Are you aka Prince Brian of Markovia?

Not Golda Meyer (sp?), dunno x2

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**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, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/268 "2014-11-19T13:20:12Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name does not start with G
4. Alive

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**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, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/269 "2014-11-19T13:21:44Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you Prime Minister of Israel?
> 2. Were you perpetually bothered by Tyrone F. Horneigh?
> 3. Are you aka Prince Brian of Markovia?
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> Not Golda Meyer (sp?), dunno x2

Correct on Golda Meir.  
#2 was Gladys Ormphby, as portrayed by Ruth Buzzi on _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-IN_.  
#3 is Geo-Force, from the DC comics series _The Outsiders_.

DQs:

1. Known for involvement in politics or military ?
2. Born after 1970?

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**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, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/270 "2014-11-19T13:30:12Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you a member of Justice League Antarctica?
2. Are you Captain Cold’s sister?
3. Did you sing a prayer to St. Genevieve?

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**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, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/271 "2014-11-19T15:15:57Z")

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> [@fanganga](#):
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> IQ1: Will you survive?  
> IQ2: Did you insist that the Earth moves?  
> IQ3: Were you a Green Lantern?

As you said, Gloria Gaynor.  
I was actually thinking of **Galileo Galilei** , who was famously quoted as saying “and yet it moves” after being convicted of heresy, referring to the Copernican model of the solar system, in which the Earth revolves about the Sun.  
As you said, Guy Gardner.

DQ: Are you known for political or military endeavours?

IQ1: Are you a member of the Conservative party who was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer?  
IQ2: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father?  
IQ3: Did your son succeed the man who succeeded you?

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**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/272 "2014-11-19T16:12:44Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name does not start with G
4. Alive
5. Has been involved in politics, but is not famous for it
6. Born before 1970

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**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/273 "2014-11-19T16:14:58Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> #2 was Gladys Ormphby, as portrayed by Ruth Buzzi on _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-IN_.

OK, I remember now, Arte Johnson played the dirty old man who was constantly coming on to her and she’d whip him with her purse.

OOOooooohhhh plop

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**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, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/274 "2014-11-19T16:19:18Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you a member of Justice League Antarctica?
> 2. Are you Captain Cold’s sister?
> 3. Did you sing a prayer to St. Genevieve?

Your knowledge of all things DC Comics is unmatched. Take 3 DQs.

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**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, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/275 "2014-11-19T16:20:21Z")

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> [@fanganga](#):
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> IQ1: Are you a member of the Conservative party who was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer?  
> IQ2: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father?  
> IQ3: Did your son succeed the man who succeeded you?

Wow, you guys are brutal. Take 3 DQs.

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**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, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/276 "2014-11-19T16:49:27Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> 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”?

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Military history questions ftl
> 
> I want to say George Lindsay for the 3rd, but he was “Goober.”
> 
> take 3 DQs

Georges Guynemer.  
Gilligan.  
George Jones.  
Three DQs reserved.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/277 "2014-11-19T17:08:17Z")

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IQ1) Did you play for the winning side in the first Super Bowl and later coach a team in the Super Bowl?

IQ2) Did Stuttering John from the Howard Stern show end your press conference by asking whether Bill Clinton wore a condom?

IQ3) Did William F. Buckley call you a “queer” on live TV at the 1968 Democratic convention?

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**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/278 "2014-11-19T19:10:28Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you a member of Justice League Antarctica?
> 2. Are you Captain Cold’s sister?
> 3. Did you sing a prayer to St. Genevieve?
> 
> Your knowledge of all things DC Comics is unmatched. Take 3 DQs.

1. G’Nort, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, and comical dupe.
2. Golden Glider
3. Guenivere, in the musical _Camelot_

3 DQs reserved.

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**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, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/279 "2014-11-19T20:15:42Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did you play for the winning side in the first Super Bowl and later coach a team in the Super Bowl?
> 
> IQ2) Did Stuttering John from the Howard Stern show end your press conference by asking whether Bill Clinton wore a condom?
> 
> IQ3) Did William F. Buckley call you a “queer” on live TV at the 1968 Democratic convention?

not Roman Gabriel(?), not Gennifer Flowers, not George McGovern maybe?

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**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-nov-2014/703138/280 "2014-11-19T21:32:56Z")

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DQs:

1. Known for the Performing Arts?
2. Do you have a common first name (George, Gregory, etc.)?

1 DQ remaining.

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