# \[GAME\] 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:** 17
**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, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/321 "2014-10-08T14:47:35Z")
That was Joe Theismann DQ: Royalty? ---
**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, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/322 "2014-10-08T14:57:22Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. European 6. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language 7. Born East of the Rhine 8. Not royalty ---
**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, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/323 "2014-10-08T15:31:31Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Thomas Paine. Thomas x3! DQ: Last name start with T? ---
**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, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/324 "2014-10-08T15:34:44Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. European 6. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language 7. Born East of the Rhine 8. Not royalty 9. Known for the performing arts ---
**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, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/325 "2014-10-08T15:46:24Z")
IQ: Did you commit suicide to avoid being “outed”? ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/326 "2014-10-08T16:05:03Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you commit suicide to avoid being “outed”? Take a DQ. ---
**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, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/327 "2014-10-08T16:06:47Z")
IQ1: Did you write a book about an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society, and of a philosophical landowner who seeks to reform the lives of peasants? IQ2: Is a geometric theorem named after you, which states that a triangle inscribed within a circle that uses the circle’s diameter as a side and has the third point anywhere on the perimeter is a right triangle? IQ3: Are you an Italian conductor who was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra? ---
**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, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/328 "2014-10-08T16:08:52Z")
Whoops, you caught my DQ before I edited it. Therefore, change mine to “Known for the performing arts” and leave “last name starts with T” unasked. ---
**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, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/329 "2014-10-08T16:11:04Z")
Okay I’ll ask it. 😃 DQ: Last name starts “T”? I was going for Tchaikovsky. ---
**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, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/330 "2014-10-08T16:22:54Z")
Glen Tipton shared lead guitar duties with KK Downing in Judas Priest Anthony Trollope wrote “Can You Forgive Her?” DQ) An actor? DQ) Of Slavic ancestry? ---
**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, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/331 "2014-10-08T16:31:30Z")
IQ: Are you a former WR whose 1st name sounds like a high-end fashion label? ---
**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, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/332 "2014-10-08T16:31:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a book about an adulterous woman trapped by the conventions and falsities of society, and of a philosophical landowner who seeks to reform the lives of peasants? > IQ2: Is a geometric theorem named after you, which states that a triangle inscribed within a circle that uses the circle’s diameter as a side and has the third point anywhere on the perimeter is a right triangle? > IQ3: Are you an Italian conductor who was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra? If the first one is Turgenev, take 2 DQs. Otherwise, 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:** [October 8, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/333 "2014-10-08T16:33:01Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you a former WR whose 1st name sounds like a high-end fashion label? 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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/334 "2014-10-08T16:35:04Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. European 6. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language 7. Born East of the Rhine 8. Not royalty 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Actor 11. Not of Slavic ancestry 12. Only name starts with T ---
**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, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/335 "2014-10-08T16:37:32Z")
That was Amani Toomer. DQ: Died before 1900? ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/336 "2014-10-08T16:38:49Z")
IQ: Did Dan Akroyd famously mispronounce your name on SNL? ---
**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, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/337 "2014-10-08T16:39:25Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. European 6. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language 7. Born East of the Rhine 8. Not royalty 9. Known for the performing arts 10. Actor 11. Not of Slavic ancestry 12. Only name starts with T 13. Died before 1900 ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/338 "2014-10-08T16:40:46Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did Dan Akroyd famously mispronounce your name on SNL? Must’ve missed that one. 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:** [October 8, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/339 "2014-10-08T16:44:23Z")
Was a fancy, highfalutin’ English word for “actor” derived from your name? ---
**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, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/340 "2014-10-08T16:46:06Z")
That’s Tit-Ian. (Titian) DQ: Native of a former empire (I.e. Ottoman, A-H)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=18)