# \[GAME\] 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:** 36
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/701 "2014-10-20T20:07:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you considered the founder of science fiction fandom, credited with originating the term “Sci-fi”? > IQ2: Are you a Canadian sci-fi writer who wrote three books about Null-A, aka non-Aristotelian logic? > IQ3: Did you win the first Hugo Award in 1953 for _The Demolished Man_? Aaargh- you have found one of my glaring weaknesses- a near-total ignorance of sci-fi and fantasy literature! I’ll guess… not Isaac Asimov for #3. Otherwise, I got nothing. Take as many DQ’s as you’ve earned. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/702 "2014-10-20T23:11:46Z")
Oooh, temptation to ask only science fiction questions is rising… Well, maybe not all science fiction but I can’t resist the occasional one. IQ1: Are you a laboratory mouse whose intelligence was greatly enhanced, but later that enhancement deteriorated and then you died? IQ2: Were you granted abilities beyond those of other mortal men when you were dipped into a river as an infant? IQ3: Were your last words incorrect, because the news about your longtime rival hadn’t reached you yet? ---
**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 20, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/703 "2014-10-20T23:42:04Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your name changed by inserting two letters when you were 99? > IQ2: Were you a former Italian 97-pound weakling? > IQ3: Are you a generic British soldier? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Charles (Stop Getting Sand Kicked In Your Face) Atlas or Tommy (“For it’s Tommy This and Tommy That…”) Atkins. > > Take a DQ for #1 Abraham (the Biblical one) was originally Abram. Correct on the other two. DQ: American? IQ1: Did you write a series of stories about Manse Everard? IQ2: Did you play a Russian submariner on a New England island? IQ3: Did your daughter disappear off the Carolina coast? ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/704 "2014-10-21T00:19:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did Mickey Rooney play you in a series of box-office smash hits? 2. Were you the main character in an old time radio series that began with your mother calling your name? 3. Did you teach people to dance “in a hurry”? [All is well. The surgery was textbook. Madame P. is home and is healing ahead of schedule. Thanks to all for your kind thoughts.] ---
**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 21, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/705 "2014-10-21T01:54:19Z")
[Wow. Go away a few days and come back to find etv78 was banned. Adios, my friend.] ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/706 "2014-10-21T02:02:45Z")
What? When did that happen?? ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/707 "2014-10-21T02:08:02Z")
Yesterday. Here’s the thread from ATMB: [Etv78 has been banned. - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=737895) ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/708 "2014-10-21T02:32:58Z")
Well, at least they had the decency to not kill him in the middle of a game… ---
**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 21, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/709 "2014-10-21T03:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you considered the founder of science fiction fandom, credited with originating the term “Sci-fi”? > IQ2: Are you a Canadian sci-fi writer who wrote three books about Null-A, aka non-Aristotelian logic? > IQ3: Did you win the first Hugo Award in 1953 for The Demolished Man? > > Aaargh- you have found one of my glaring weaknesses- a near-total ignorance of sci-fi and fantasy literature! > > I’ll guess… not Isaac Asimov for #3. Otherwise, I got nothing. Take as many DQ’s as you’ve earned. You know as much about the subject as I do about military history then. Forest J. Ackerman, A. E. Van Vogt, Alfred Bester holding 3 DQs Welcome back Prof, glad Mrs. Pepperwinkle is OK. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/710 "2014-10-21T03:33:48Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Oooh, temptation to ask only science fiction questions is rising… > > Well, maybe not all science fiction but I can’t resist the occasional one. > > IQ1: Are you a laboratory mouse whose intelligence was greatly enhanced, but later that enhancement deteriorated and then you died? > IQ2: Were you granted abilities beyond those of other mortal men when you were dipped into a river as an infant? > IQ3: Were your last words incorrect, because the news about your longtime rival hadn’t reached you yet? Not Algernon the mouse, not Achilles and not John Adams ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/711 "2014-10-21T04:37:47Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead Previous IQs: Did you have a brother named Aberforth? - Albus Dumbledore. Did Colin Farrell play you in a widely-panned biopic? - Yes, Alexander the Great. Is one of your works displayed in the Pittsburgh Intl. Airport? - Dunno of any Warhol there; this is Alexander Calder, who has a great mobile on display: [Pittsburgh Lost, and Pittsburgh Found | I finally found it. … | Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/elston/38241312/). DQs: Last name start with A? American? IQs: Did you con people during the Depression? Did you create the Iron Throne? Were you a longtime gossip columnist for _Variety_ magazine? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/712 "2014-10-21T11:03:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a series of stories about Manse Everard? > IQ2: Did you play a Russian submariner on a New England island? > IQ3: Did your daughter disappear off the Carolina coast? Not Alan Arkin (_ **The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!** _) Take DQs 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:** [October 21, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/713 "2014-10-21T11:04:42Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/714 "2014-10-21T11:06:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you con people during the Depression? > Did you create the Iron Throne? > Were you a longtime gossip columnist for _Variety_ magazine? Take a DQ for #1 and #2 #3- Not Army Archerd ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/715 "2014-10-21T12:11:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write a series of stories about Manse Everard? > IQ2: Did you play a Russian submariner on a New England island? > IQ3: Did your daughter disappear off the Carolina coast? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Alan Arkin (_ **The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!** _) > > Take DQs for #1 and #3 Manse was the main character in the Time Patrol stories by Poul Anderson. Correct. Aaron Burr. DQ1: Died after 1900? DQ2: Known for the Arts, as usually defined here? IQ1: Did you write stories set in the Dipple? IQ2: Are you a pen name used by #1? IQ3: Are you really Frederick Austerlitz? ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/716 "2014-10-21T12:14:58Z")
DQ: Military? holding 2 DQs IQ1: Are you a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and currently a running back for the Washington Redskins? IQ2: Were you a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and the author of “The Charge of the Light Brigade”? IQ3: Are you an American publisher who thought _Doctor Zhivago_ “incredibly tedious… If Krushchev had banned it for dullness instead of its political implications, he might have been in the clear.” ---
**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:** [October 21, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/717 "2014-10-21T13:12:16Z")
Previous IQs: Did you con people during the Depression? - Addie Pray, in the book of that name and the movie based on it, _Paper Moon_. Did you create the Iron Throne? - Aegon the Conqueror, in the backstory of _Game of Thrones_. Were you a longtime gossip columnist for _Variety_ magazine? - Yes, Army Archerd. DQs: Last name start with A? Born after 1850? IQs: Were you also known as Undomiel? Was your mom buried in one place in a book, and in another place in a movie? Were you a maid and cook who misunderstood just about every order she was ever given? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/718 "2014-10-21T14:09:14Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the arts 6. Not a military figure 7. Died after 1900 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/719 "2014-10-21T14:10:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write stories set in the Dipple? > IQ2: Are you a pen name used by #1? > IQ3: Are you really Frederick Austerlitz? Take a DQ for #1 and #2 Not Fred Astaire ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/720 "2014-10-21T14:11:42Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ: Military? > > holding 2 DQs > > IQ1: Are you a graduate of Florida Atlantic University and currently a running back for the Washington Redskins? > IQ2: Were you a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and the author of “The Charge of the Light Brigade”? > IQ3: Are you an American publisher who thought _Doctor Zhivago_ “incredibly tedious… If Krushchev had banned it for dullness instead of its political implications, he might have been in the clear.” Not Alfred Morris or Alfred, Lord Tennyson Take a DQ for #3 (who is undoubtedly another Alfred!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=35) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=37)