# \[GAME\] Botticelli - Sep 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353 "2014-09-03T12:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/201 "2014-09-10T18:30:16Z")
I figured pre-1900 English literature was likely either Dickens or Shakespeare. Not a beauty or a romantic character indicated a villain. And Madame P., who sews, had just run across a book yesterday called _What Would Madame DeFarge Knit?_ So, I am E. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/202 "2014-09-10T18:55:39Z")
All right, **Prof. P**.! Previous IQs: Is your tale seen by some as an allegory of Progressivism? - Yes, Dorothy Gale in _The Wizard of Oz_: [Is The Wizard of Oz a satire of the French Revolution? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/362/is-em-the-wizard-of-oz-em-a-satire-of-the-french-revolution) Do you get some of the credit for the extra red brake light added to American-made cars in the 1980s? - Then-Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole Was the first line of your memoir that you had “always had a particular idea” of your country? - Charles De Gaulle On to E… IQs: Do you not bite people on the neck as you might otherwise be expected to? Did you play Harry Harbord Morant? Did you reign in 1936, and only in 1936? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/203 "2014-09-10T19:06:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > On to E… > > IQs: > > Do you not bite people on the neck as you might otherwise be expected to? > Did you play Harry Harbord Morant? > Did you reign in 1936, and only in 1936? Can’t think of a vampire with an E. Take two DQs. I am not Edward VIII. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/204 "2014-09-10T19:58:20Z")
IQ1) Are you an architecture professor who got rich selling a doohickey you’d invented to Ideal Toys? IQ2) Are you a FInnish architect whose name appears about once a week in daily newspaper crossword puzzles? IQ3) Do you help your police Inspector Dad and his assistant, Sgt. Velie, to solve crimes? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/205 "2014-09-10T20:16:26Z")
I was so sure I nailed it with Mrs. Danvers. I had my E name ready. /calls CIA to send a laser beam down from their satellite to read \*\*Pepperwinkle’s \*\*mind IQ1: Did Johnny Depp play you in a film about an artificial man taken in by a suburban family? IQ2: Are you currently presiding in Russia after leaking NSA info? IQ3: Are you a cosmic entity from Marvel Comics charged with protecting the Celestial Axis? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/206 "2014-09-10T20:39:33Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Are you an architecture professor who got rich selling a doohickey you’d invented to Ideal Toys? > IQ2) Are you a FInnish architect whose name appears about once a week in daily newspaper crossword puzzles? > IQ3) Do you help your police Inspector Dad and his assistant, Sgt. Velie, to solve crimes? Take 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:** [September 10, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/207 "2014-09-10T20:40:48Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I was so sure I nailed it with Mrs. Danvers. I had my E name ready. > > /calls CIA to send a laser beam down from their satellite to read \*\*Pepperwinkle’s \*\*mind > > IQ1: Did Johnny Depp play you in a film about an artificial man taken in by a suburban family? > IQ2: Are you currently presiding in Russia after leaking NSA info? > IQ3: Are you a cosmic entity from Marvel Comics charged with protecting the Celestial Axis? Pish-tosh. The tinfoil hat works just fine, thanks. I am not Edward Scissorhands. I am not Edward Snowden. I am not Eternity. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/208 "2014-09-10T21:14:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a spy for Cardinal Richelieu? > IQ2: Did Ed Ames play your Indian companion? > IQ3: Did you play the CO of the British I Airbourne Corps in _A Bridge Too Far_? > [@astorian](#): > > Not … D’artagnan? > Not Daniel Boone > No idea on #3 Milady de Winter. Correct. Dirk Bogarde. **E…** IQ1: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? IQ2: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? IQ3: Was Frederic Dannay half of you? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/209 "2014-09-10T21:22:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > **E…** > > IQ1: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? > IQ2: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? > IQ3: Was Frederic Dannay half of you? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/210 "2014-09-10T21:36:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? > IQ2: Were you a Marine Raider CO in WW II? > IQ3: Was Frederic Dannay half of you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Evans Carlson and Merritt Edson were the two jarheads; Dannay was one of the two authors who co-wrote as Ellery Queen. This was a test to see if you’re any better than I am at remembering the answers to frequently asked questions. 🙂 May as well begin with the usual three… DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: American? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/211 "2014-09-10T21:42:08Z")
IQ1: Were you the Ricardos’ landlady? IQ2: Were you Arthur’s foster father? IQ3: Did someone keep hollering for you not to look? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/212 "2014-09-10T22:03:48Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not 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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/213 "2014-09-10T22:04:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Ricardos’ landlady? > IQ2: Were you Arthur’s foster father? > IQ3: Did someone keep hollering for you not to look? 1. I am not Ethel Mertz. 2. Take a DQ. 3. That’s from Ray Stevens’ _The Streak_. Unless it’s Ethel, take a DQ. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/214 "2014-09-10T22:40:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Ricardos’ landlady? > IQ2: Were you Arthur’s foster father? > IQ3: Did someone keep hollering for you not to look? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Ethel Mertz. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. That’s from Ray Stevens’ _The Streak_. Unless it’s Ethel, take a DQ. Correct. Sir Ector. Correct. DQ: European? IQ1: Did you escape from prison disguised as a dead priest? IQ2: Are you the hero of a kids’ mystery story written in German? IQ3: Are you the victim in an unfinished mystery novel? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/215 "2014-09-10T22:53:18Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American 4. 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:** [September 10, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/216 "2014-09-10T22:54:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you escape from prison disguised as a dead priest? > IQ2: Are you the hero of a kids’ mystery story written in German? > IQ3: Are you the victim in an unfinished mystery novel? I am not Edmond Dantes. I am not Emil (of Emil and the Detectives, or The Headless Horse). I am not Edwin Drood. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/217 "2014-09-10T23:15:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Pish-tosh. The tinfoil hat works just fine, thanks. > > I am not Edward Scissorhands. > I am not Edward Snowden. > I am not Eternity. correct, correct, Eon DQ: From literature? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/218 "2014-09-10T23:21:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you escape from prison disguised as a dead priest? > IQ2: Are you the hero of a kids’ mystery story written in German? > IQ3: Are you the victim in an unfinished mystery novel? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Edmond Dantes. > I am not Emil (of Emil and the Detectives, or The Headless Horse). > I am not Edwin Drood. Correct on all three. (_Emil und die Detektive_\*\*\*\*\* was the first book we read in third-year German, but I’m not familiar with The Headless Horse - the closest I can come to that is a French book called _The Horse Without a Head_.) - _Emil_ was written by Erich Kästner, who also wrote _Das doppelte Lottchen_ - the book The Parent Trap was based on. IQ1: Did you write _Die drei Kameraden_ (_The Three Comrades_)? IQ2: Were you the owner of Thornfield Hall? IQ3: Were you the youngest of the four Pevensie children? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/219 "2014-09-10T23:27:18Z")
IQ1: Did you star with Tom Cruise in the film adaptation of the Japanese novel _All You Need Is Kill_? IQ2: Did you write _Less Than Zero_? IQ3: Are you the main protagonist in said novel? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/220 "2014-09-10T23:39:39Z")
Erno Rubik was the architecture professor who got rich selling a doohickey called the Rubik’s Cube. Finnish architect EERO Saarinen appears constantly in crossword puzzles Ellery Queen solves cases with his Dad and Sgt. velie. DQ1) Last name start with E? DQ2) Primarily known as a movie character? DQ3) Are you a hero/good guy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=12)