# \[GAME\] Botticelli Oct 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 1, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044 "2014-10-01T01:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/301 "2014-10-08T02:48:54Z")
Edward Teller John Tower Paul Tsongas DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: Living? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/302 "2014-10-08T02:51:06Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/303 "2014-10-08T02:54:58Z")
IQ: Was your memorial dedicated on the bicentennial of your birth? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/304 "2014-10-08T03:00:53Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Was your memorial dedicated on the bicentennial of your birth? And another DQ for you, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/305 "2014-10-08T03:04:56Z")
Thomas Jefferson DQ: American? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/306 "2014-10-08T03:07:02Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/307 "2014-10-08T03:23:05Z")
IQ: Did the country you were dictator of descend into civil war about 15 years after your death? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/308 "2014-10-08T03:44:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did the country you were dictator of descend into civil war about 15 years after your death? I am not Tito. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/309 "2014-10-08T03:54:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the Æsir? > IQ2: Did you tell a story about two “Siamese twin” elephants joined at the trunk? > IQ3: Were you the security chief in an SF show? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I’m not Tyr/Tyw/Tiw. > I am not Tim Conway. > Take a DQ for #3. Not whom I had in mind, but he’ll do. Correct. Tasha Yar (_Star Trek: TNG_). DQ: European? IQ1: Were you Chief Ordnance Officer for the Cuban campaign during the Spanish-American War? IQ2: Were you Juliet’s cousin? IQ3: Are you a comic-strip sportscaster? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/310 "2014-10-08T11:57:00Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. European ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/311 "2014-10-08T11:58:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Chief Ordnance Officer for the Cuban campaign during the Spanish-American War? > IQ2: Were you Juliet’s cousin? > IQ3: Are you a comic-strip sportscaster? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Tybalt. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/312 "2014-10-08T12:27:55Z")
IQ1: Were you Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until your murder in 1170? IQ2: Were you instrumental in the American and French Revolutions, then ostracized because of your ridicule of Christianity? IQ3: Were you preceded as US Secretary of State by John Jay? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/313 "2014-10-08T12:33:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Chief Ordnance Officer for the Cuban campaign during the Spanish-American War? > IQ2: Were you Juliet’s cousin? > IQ3: Are you a comic-strip sportscaster? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. > I am not Tybalt. > Take a DQ for #3. John Taliaferro Thompson. Correct. Tank McNamara. DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language? DQ2: Born west of the Rhine? IQ1: Were you called Doctor Angelicus? IQ2: Were you murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? IQ3: Did you write _Utopia_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/314 "2014-10-08T14:09:37Z")
IQ1) Did you share lead guitar duties with KK Downing? IQ2) Did you write the novel _ **Can You Forgive Her?** _ IQ3) Did you make up a dream in order to call off your daughter’s wedding? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/315 "2014-10-08T14:28:11Z")
IQ: Did you suffer the all-time “cover your eyes if you’re squeamish” injury? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/316 "2014-10-08T14:35:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until your murder in 1170? > IQ2: Were you instrumental in the American and French Revolutions, then ostracized because of your ridicule of Christianity? > IQ3: Were you preceded as US Secretary of State by John Jay? I am not Thomas a Becket. Take a DQ. I am not Thomas Jefferson. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/317 "2014-10-08T14:36:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > J > > IQ1: Were you called Doctor Angelicus? > IQ2: Were you murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? > IQ3: Did you write _Utopia_? I am not Thomas Aquinas. I am still not Thomas a Becket. I am not Thomas More. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/318 "2014-10-08T14:37:47Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you share lead guitar duties with KK Downing? > > IQ2) Did you write the novel _ **Can You Forgive Her?** _ > > IQ3) Did you make up a dream in order to call off your daughter’s wedding? I am not Tevye. Take 2 DQs for the first two. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/319 "2014-10-08T14:38:59Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you suffer the all-time “cover your eyes if you’re squeamish” injury? 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:** [October 8, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/320 "2014-10-08T14:40:01Z")
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