# \[GAME\] 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:** 33
**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 29, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/641 "2014-09-29T01:55:33Z")
The \*Bones \*psychologist is Lancelot Sweets. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. European? 3. Known for the Arts? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/642 "2014-09-29T02:01:43Z")
**L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name doesn’t start with L 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. European 7. Not known for the Arts KO has four DQs. astorian has three. Prof P has one. EH has none. etv has none. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/643 "2014-09-29T02:19:21Z")
DQ: Known for politics? IQs: 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s self-referential noir detective? 2. Are you the mother of twins Jaina and Jacen? 3. Are you a main character in _The Impertinent Curiosity_? ---
**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 29, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/644 "2014-09-29T03:02:17Z")
Correct on all three of my previous IQs (the Jeffersons and LBJ). IQs: Did Keira Knightley play you in a remake of a classic Sixties movie? Did you praise the “head full of brains” of an ally? Was your last statement to your husband a joke? ---
**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 29, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/645 "2014-09-29T12:15:35Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a heavyweight boxer nicknamed The Easton Assassin? > IQ2: Are you boxing’s most recent undisputed world heavyweight champion? > IQ3: Do the Detroit Redwings play in an arena named after you? Larry Holmes, Lennox Lewis, Joe Louis DQ: Born west of the Rhine river? (We use the Mississippi river for the US, so why not?) DQ: Died before 1900? DQ: Military? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/646 "2014-09-29T12:29:33Z")
IQ: Did you write one of the Gospels? ---
**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 29, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/647 "2014-09-29T12:46:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s self-referential noir detective? > 2. Are you the mother of twins Jaina and Jacen? > 3. Are you a main character in _The Impertinent Curiosity_? Three DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Keira Knightley play you in a remake of a classic Sixties movie? > Did you praise the “head full of brains” of an ally? > Was your last statement to your husband a joke? Three DQs. > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you write one of the Gospels? Not Luke. **L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name doesn’t start with L 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. European 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Associated with government, but not really known for politics 9. Born west of the Rhine river 10: Did not die before 1900 11: Military (Yes, we usually use the Rhine for an east-west divider. I think Vienna has been the most common for north-south.) astorian has three DQs. Prof P has three. EH has three. KO has one. etv has none. ---
**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 29, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/648 "2014-09-29T12:53:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. Born in a border state- I can’t quite make out which side of Mason-Dixon line his hometown was on I use Wikipedia for cases like this. According to it, Kimmel was born in Henderson KY. The article on Henderson says it’s at 37°50′8″N. The article on the Mason Dixon line says it has “an approximate mean latitude of 39°43′20″ N.” So for Kimmel, the answer would be “South.” ---
**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 29, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/649 "2014-09-29T13:24:24Z")
Previous IQs: Did Keira Knightley play you in a remake of a classic Sixties movie? - She played Lara in the TV remake of _Dr. Zhivago_ Did you praise the “head full of brains” of an ally? - Abraham Lincoln said this of a former governor of Ohio Was your last statement to your husband a joke? - At Ford’s Theatre, Mary Todd Lincoln asked her husband (paraphrase), “What will our guests think of me hanging all over you?” DQs: French? Royalty? Battlefield commander? IQs: Did the same man who played you also play a cancer patient, a police officer and an alien? Are you that actor? Were you Clinton’s first Secretary of the Treasury? ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/650 "2014-09-29T14:01:32Z")
IQ1: Are you a philosopher who was the first to postulate that at birth, the mind was a blank slate or _tabula rasa_? IQ2: Are you a French general who commanded a large allied army during WW1 that collapsed the Southern front and contributed to the armistice? IQ3: Are you a WWII French general who died in a plane crash in Algeria in 1947? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/651 "2014-09-29T14:06:30Z")
IQ: Are you heard singing on the 1st Monday in April, at about 11 PM? ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/652 "2014-09-29T14:25:29Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Robert Rankin’s self-referential noir detective? > 2. Are you the mother of twins Jaina and Jacen? > 3. Are you a main character in The Impertinent Curiosity? > > Three DQs. 1 is Laszlo Woodbine. 2. is Princess Leia Organa Solo (from the books) 3 _The Impertinent Curiosity_ is a noted tale-within-a-tale of _Don Quixote_: the character is Lothario. 3 DQs reserved, pending the answers to above DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/653 "2014-09-29T14:45:22Z")
DQ1) Are you best known for activities during WW1? DQ2) Were you on the winning side of the war you’re best known for? DQ3) Were you in a land-based military branch? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/654 "2014-09-29T14:47:30Z")
IQ1) Did you fall in love with a studious, feminist girl but marry her more feminine sister? IQ2) Did you create the guy in IQ #1? IQ3) Were you roundly mocked for wining and dining the Black Panthers in Tom Wolfe’s famous article “Radical Chic”? ---
**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 29, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/655 "2014-09-29T16:00:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did the same man who played you also play a cancer patient, a police officer and an alien? > Are you that actor? > Were you Clinton’s first Secretary of the Treasury? Three DQs. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a philosopher who was the first to postulate that at birth, the mind was a blank slate or _tabula rasa_? > IQ2: Are you a French general who commanded a large allied army during WW1 that collapsed the Southern front and contributed to the armistice? > IQ3: Are you a WWII French general who died in a plane crash in Algeria in 1947? DQ. DQ. Not … Leclerc? > [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you heard singing on the 1st Monday in April, at about 11 PM? DQ. > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you fall in love with a studious, feminist girl but marry her more feminine sister? > IQ2) Did you create the guy in IQ #1? > IQ3) Were you roundly mocked for wining and dining the Black Panthers in Tom Wolfe’s famous article “Radical Chic”? Three DQs. **L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name doesn’t start with L 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. European 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Associated with government, but not really known for politics 9. Born west of the Rhine river 10: Did not die before 1900 11: Military 10. Not French 11. Not royalty 12. Commanded in battle 13. Not best known for activities during WW1 14. Was you on the winning side of the war I’m best known for 15. Was not in a land-based military branch KO has three DQs (or perhaps four). astorian has three. Prof P has three. EH has three. etv has one. My, that’s a lot of unused DQs… ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/656 "2014-09-29T16:06:32Z")
That was Luther Vandross. DQ: Survived the war? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/657 "2014-09-29T16:07:58Z")
Theodore “Laurie” Laurence fell in love with Jo in _ **Little Women** _, but married her sister. Louisa May Alcott wrote the book. Conductor Leonard Bernstein hosted a cocktail party for the Black Panthers. as shown in “Radical Chic.” ---
**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 29, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/658 "2014-09-29T16:08:34Z")
**L** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name doesn’t start with L 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. European 7. Not known for the Arts 8. Associated with government, but not really known for politics 9. Born west of the Rhine river 10: Did not die before 1900 11: Military 10. Not French 11. Not royalty 12. Commanded in battle 13. Not best known for activities during WW1 14. Was on the winning side of the war I’m best known for 15. Was not in a land-based military branch 16. Survived the war KO has three DQs (or perhaps four). astorian has three. Prof P has three. EH has three. etv has none. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/659 "2014-09-29T16:10:07Z")
Please clarify- were you on the winning or losing side? Never mind- you DID clarify! DQ) Did you fight for the UK? DQ2) Were you a naval officer? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/660 "2014-09-29T16:15:39Z")
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