# \[GAME\] 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:** 23
**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 22, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/441 "2014-09-22T11:44:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Did you write _The American Language_? I am not H. L. Mencken. ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/442 "2014-09-22T13:06:59Z")
IQ1: Did you run for Congress in 1930 on the Socialist ticket with the slogan “I’d rather be right than Roosevelt?” IQ2: Did you fund the printing of _The Protocols of the Elders of Zion_ in the US? IQ3: Are you that political columnist who died before 1960 and had an award named after him even though he never earned an award? Never mind that… that’s the sound of a mind draining ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/443 "2014-09-22T14:40:22Z")
Did Garry Trudeau base the character of Raoul Duke on 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 22, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/444 "2014-09-22T14:44:13Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you run for Congress in 1930 on the Socialist ticket with the slogan “I’d rather be right than Roosevelt?” Yes! I am noted journalist, sportswriter, drama critic and member of the Alquonquin Round Table, Heywood Broun. (Rhymes with “goon”.) Congrats, KO! You have “I”, ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/445 "2014-09-22T14:46:30Z")
Did you win multiple Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartoons? ---
**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 22, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/446 "2014-09-22T14:52:30Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Did Garry Trudeau base the character of Raoul Duke on you? > [@astorian](#): > > Did you win multiple Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartoons? I am not Hunter S. Thompson. I am not Herblock. See above. ---
**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 22, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/447 "2014-09-22T17:30:29Z")
Yippee. This shouldn’t take long. I am I. ---
**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 22, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/448 "2014-09-22T18:12:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did you throw bricks at a kat? 2. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? 3. Were you the Flash’s wife? ---
**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 22, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/449 "2014-09-22T18:42:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you throw bricks at a kat? > 2. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? > 3. Were you the Flash’s wife? Not Ignatz, DQ x 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/450 "2014-09-22T18:57:07Z")
IQ1) Did your music spark riots in Paris in 1913? IQ2) Were you a real life musician included as a character in the movie “Gosford Park”? IQ3) Was your daughter Pia Lindstrom a newscaster in New York City? ---
**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 22, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/451 "2014-09-22T19:36:16Z")
IQ1: Were you the author of _Lecherous Limericks_? IQ2: Were you the first tsar of all the Russias? IQ3: Were you one of the Twelve? ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/452 "2014-09-22T20:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you throw bricks at a kat? > 2. Did you have a hit with At Seventeen? > 3. Were you the Flash’s wife? > > Not Ignatz, DQ x 2 #2 was Janis Ian. #3 is Iris West Allen. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with I? ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/453 "2014-09-22T20:23:01Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did your music spark riots in Paris in 1913? > > IQ2) Were you a real life musician included as a character in the movie “Gosford Park”? > > IQ3) Was your daughter Pia Lindstrom a newscaster in New York City? Not Igor Stravinsky, dunno x 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/454 "2014-09-22T20:25:39Z")
Stravinsky’s\*\*\* Rite of Spring \*\*\*did spark ritos when it debuted in Paris Pianist Ivor Novello wasa character in\*\*\* Gosford Park.\*\*\* Pia Lindstrom is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman. DQ) Male? DQ) North American? ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/455 "2014-09-22T20:25:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the author of _Lecherous Limericks_? > IQ2: Were you the first tsar of all the Russias? > IQ3: Were you one of the Twelve? Not Isaac Asimov (I just read a \*Cracked \*article that said he wrote dirty limericks) Not Ivan Not the character from BSG whose name I can’t remember ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/456 "2014-09-22T20:27:24Z")
DQ roundup 1. Real 2. First name starts with I 3. Female 4. North American ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/457 "2014-09-22T20:30:26Z")
IQ1) Were you the leader of The Jaggerz, who sang “The Rapper”? IQ2) Did you win a Nobel Prize for works like \*\*\*Invisible Cities \*\*\*and the _ **Our** _ \*\*\*Ancestors \*\*\*trilogy? IQ3) Are you an actress whose grandfather won two Oscars as Best Supporting Actor in the Sixties and Seventies? ---
**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 22, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/458 "2014-09-22T20:32:46Z")
IQs: 1. Was your first album _Acoustic Soul_? 2. Did you team up with Sid Caesar on _Your Show of Shows_? 3. Are you the Teutonic goddess of youth? ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/459 "2014-09-22T21:10:14Z")
All right, **KO**! Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first Vice President? - Yes, Hannibal Hamlin Did a cartoonist show you with a hat that was 'way too big for you? - Yes, Benjamin Harrison (the implication being that he was a lesser man than his grandfather, William Henry Harrison) Did you first win military glory at Yorktown in 1781? - Alexander Hamilton, who commanded an infantry regiment and seized a British fort > [@astorian](#): > > Stravinsky’s\*\*\* Rite of Spring \*\*\*did spark ritos when it debuted in Paris… Did they have Fritos at the ritos? IQs: Are you a female novelist with Latin American political connections? Was a major university named after you? Were you a noted Texas socialite? ---
**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 23, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/460 "2014-09-23T03:11:51Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you the leader of The Jaggerz, who sang “The Rapper”? > > IQ2) Did you win a Nobel Prize for works like \*\*\*Invisible Cities \*\*\*and the _ **Our** _ \*\*\*Ancestors \*\*\*trilogy? > > IQ3) Are you an actress whose grandfather won two Oscars as Best Supporting Actor in the Sixties and Seventies? 3 DQs 4 U [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=24)