# \[GAME\] 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:** 37
**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, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/721 "2014-10-21T14:12:45Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the arts 6. Not a military figure 7. Died after 1900 8. First name starts with A 9. Born after 1850 ---
**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, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/722 "2014-10-21T14:14:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? Not Arwen Evenstar Take a DQ for #2 and #3 ---
**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, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/723 "2014-10-21T14:22:30Z")
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”? ---
**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, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/724 "2014-10-21T14:35:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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”? Not Andy Hardy Not Henryyyyyyy! Henry Aldrich (“Coming, Mother!”) Not Arthur Murray ---
**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, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/725 "2014-10-21T15:16:37Z")
> [@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? > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ for #1 and #2 > > Not Fred Astaire Andre Norton. Andrew North. (Actually, “Andre” was itself a pen name - her real name was Alice.) Correct. DQ1: Born east of the Mississippi? DQ2: Known for work in science? IQ1: Are you Pod and Homily’s daughter? IQ2: Were you CinC in the Middle East at the beginning of WW II? IQ3: Did you take over that job from #1? ---
**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, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/726 "2014-10-21T15:18:08Z")
> [@](#): > > 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!) correct, Alfred Knopf. Alfred x3! DQ: Political figure? holding 2 DQs ---
**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, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/727 "2014-10-21T15:25:05Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the arts 6. Not a military figure 7. Died after 1900 8. First name starts with A 9. Born after 1850 10. Born East of the Mississippi 11. Not involved in science 12. Not involved in politics ---
**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, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/728 "2014-10-21T15:27:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Pod and Homily’s daughter? > IQ2: Were you CinC in the Middle East at the beginning of WW II? > IQ3: Did you take over that job from #1? No idea on any of these- take 3 DQs ---
**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, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/729 "2014-10-21T15:33:11Z")
IQ1: Did the Copperheads of mid 19th century America consider you their greatest enemy? IQ2: Are you a psychologist who created the theory of “hierarchy of needs” named after himself? IQ3: Are you the first practicing Jew to be elected Mayor of New York City? ---
**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, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/730 "2014-10-21T15:38:54Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did the Copperheads of mid 19th century America consider you their greatest enemy? > IQ2: Are you a psychologist who created the theory of “hierarchy of needs” named after himself? > IQ3: Are you the first practicing Jew to be elected Mayor of New York City? Not Abraham Lincoln Not Abraham Maslow Not… Abe Beame? (I grew up in New York, but didn’t know he was the first Jewish mayor; he sure wasn’t the last!) ---
**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, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/731 "2014-10-21T15:50:23Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Were you one of the first ancient Greek playwrights whose works are still performed? 2. In memoriam of etv78: Are you the NY Yankee third baseman? 3. Are you aka Will Everett? ---
**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, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/732 "2014-10-21T15:54:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of the first ancient Greek playwrights whose works are still performed? > 2. In memoriam of etv78: Are you the NY Yankee third baseman? > 3. Are you aka Will Everett? Not Aristophanes or Aeschylus Not A-Rod No idea on WIll Everett- ask 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 21, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/733 "2014-10-21T15:57:52Z")
Will Everett was Amazing Man. DQ: Died after 1980? ---
**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, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/734 "2014-10-21T16:04:14Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you Pod and Homily’s daughter? > IQ2: Were you CinC in the Middle East at the beginning of WW II? > IQ3: Did you take over that job from #1? > [@astorian](#): > > No idea on any of these- take 3 DQs Arrietty (from the “Borrowers” kids’ books by Mary Norton). Archibald Wavell. Claude Auchinleck (“the Auk”). DQ1: Sports figure? DQ2: Died after 1960? One DQ reserved. IQ1: Did Patton call you the “world champion” tank commander? IQ2: Were you an overweight actor named Roscoe? IQ3: Was your head caught in a tree branch while you were fleeing from a battle? ---
**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, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/735 "2014-10-21T16:07:38Z")
Previous IQs: Were you also known as Undomiel? - Yes, Arwen, Elrond’s daughter. Was your mom buried in one place in a book, and in another place in a movie? - Aragorn’s mom Gilraen was, in Tolkien’s LOTR books, said to be buried in Annuminas (sp?), while in the DVD extras from the Peter Jackson movies, we see her grave in Rivendell. Were you a maid and cook who misunderstood just about every order she was ever given? - Amelia Bedelia, from the kids’ books. DQs: Businessman/inventor? Best known for a single incident? IQs: Did you eject just moments before your ride crashed? Were you J.L. Chamberlain’s superior officer, and later a Carpetbagger governor? Did you celebrate Communion in a unique place? ---
**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, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/736 "2014-10-21T16:08:26Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a cockroach who typed in lower case? 2. Were you one of the stars in _We’re No Angels_? 3. Were you a Serbian king who was assassinate by your palace guard, and whose naked and mutilated corpse was thrown from the palace window to the cheers of the crowd? ---
**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, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/737 "2014-10-21T17:05:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Abraham Lincoln > > Not Abraham Maslow > > Not… Abe Beame? (I grew up in New York, but didn’t know he was the first Jewish mayor; he sure wasn’t the last!) correct x3 Don’t know why the bio said “first practicing Jew,” which implies there may have been Jewish mayors before him who didn’t attend synagogue. /shrug IQ1: In honor of **etv78** , are you the A-Rod everybody likes? IQ2: Did Bill Hader play you as an undercover agent in _Men in Black III_? IQ3: Are you considered the pioneer of motion-capture acting? ---
**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, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/738 "2014-10-21T17:30:34Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Not involved in the arts 6. Not a military figure 7. Died after 1900 8. First name starts with A 9. Born after 1850 10. Born East of the Mississippi 11. Not involved in science 12. Not involved in politics 13. Died before 1960 14. Best known for involvement in sports 15. A “businessman” of sorts, not an inventor 16. Best known for one particular incident ---
**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, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/739 "2014-10-21T17:32:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Patton call you the “world champion” tank commander? > IQ2: Were you an overweight actor named Roscoe? > IQ3: Was your head caught in a tree branch while you were fleeing from a battle? Not Fatty Arbuckle or Absalom Take a DQ for #1 ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/740 "2014-10-21T17:33:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you eject just moments before your ride crashed? > Were you J.L. Chamberlain’s superior officer, and later a Carpetbagger governor? > Did you celebrate Communion in a unique place? No idea on any of these- ask 3 DQs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044.md?page=38)