# \[GAME\] 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:** 34
**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, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/661 "2014-09-29T17:55:13Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? John Locke, Louis Franchet d’Espery, keerect DQ limit has been reached, so guessing time ---
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/662 "2014-09-29T18:11:57Z")
IQ: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history? ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/663 "2014-09-29T23:57:57Z")
**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 17. Fought for the UK 18. Naval officer > [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Were you murdered by the IRA? Yes! I am the Queen’s cousin and Prince Philip’s uncle, Admiral of the Fleet **Louis Mountbatten** , 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS. On to **M**? ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/664 "2014-09-30T00:06:32Z")
Well done, astorian! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/665 "2014-09-30T11:08:07Z")
Okay, I have an M person- have at it, gang! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/666 "2014-09-30T11:40:46Z")
IQ: Are youb a model whose gone from Victoria’s Secret to SI to other stuff? IQ2: Were you apocryphally decapited in a car wreck? IQ3: Were you #2’s daughter, who survived the accident, because you were in the back seat? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/667 "2014-09-30T11:57:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you a model whose gone from Victoria’s Secret to SI to other stuff? > IQ2: Were you apocryphally decapited in a car wreck? > IQ3: Were you #2’s daughter, who survived the accident, because you were in the back seat? Not Jayne Mansfield or Mariska Hargitay. I give up o #1- take a DQ ---
**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 30, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/668 "2014-09-30T12:18:38Z")
IQ1: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history? (Yes, I asked it for L, but it works for M too) IQ2: Are you an imp from the 5th dimension who enjoys tormenting Superman? IQ3: Does the New Testament portray you as the personification of material wealth and greed? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/669 "2014-09-30T12:29:36Z")
That’s Jarah Mariano. DQ: Real? IQ:.Are you top selling artist of the 90s? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/670 "2014-09-30T13:02:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you ill The Day The Earth Stood Still? 2. Were you a French artist known for overly elongated forms? 3. Are you Eddie Izzard’s go-to impression when he’s pretending to be God in his stand up routines? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/671 "2014-09-30T13:23:29Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: In 1944, did you sink a Japanese cargo ship and kill over 5500 slave laborers, resulting in the biggest single action friendly loss of life in history? (Yes, I asked it for L, but it works for M too) > IQ2: Are you an imp from the 5th dimension who enjoys tormenting Superman? > IQ3: Does the New Testament portray you as the personification of material wealth and greed? DOn’t know #1. Not Mr. Mxyzptlk I did know this one, but freely admit I had to look up the spelling!!!) Not Mammon So, take one DQ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/672 "2014-09-30T13:24:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > That’s Jarah Mariano. > IQ:.Are you top selling artist of the 90s? That has to be either Madonna or MAriah Carey… Not Mariah Carey? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/673 "2014-09-30T13:26:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you ill The Day The Earth Stood Still? > 2. Were you a French artist known for overly elongated forms? > 3. Are you Eddie Izzard’s go-to impression when he’s pretending to be God in his stand up routines? Not Michael Rennie? Not Modigliani? (He was Italian, though, not French…) Not idea on Eddie Izzard- take the appropriate number of 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 30, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/674 "2014-09-30T13:38:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you ill The Day The Earth Stood Still? > 2. Were you a French artist known for overly elongated forms? > 3. Are you Eddie Izzard’s go-to impression when he’s pretending to be God in his stand up routines? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Michael Rennie? > > Not Modigliani? (He was Italian, though, not French…) > > Not idea on Eddie Izzard- take the appropriate number of DQs. Correct on Michael Rennie. Despite the name and Italian birth, Modigliani moved to France and was a French citizen. Eddie Izzard does a good James Mason impression. DQ: Male? ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/675 "2014-09-30T13:42:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you bill yourself as “the Human Joke Machine”? 2. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick? 3. Were you a successful Anglo-Italian conductor of the 1950s & 1960s? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/676 "2014-09-30T14:00:12Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Female ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/677 "2014-09-30T14:01:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you bill yourself as “the Human Joke Machine”? > 2. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick? > 3. Were you a successful Anglo-Italian conductor of the 1950s & 1960s? Not Maury Amsterdam or Bullwinkle J. Moose. Not… I dunno the conductor. Take 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:** [September 30, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/678 "2014-09-30T14:05:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you bill yourself as “the Human Joke Machine”? > 2. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick? > 3. Were you a successful Anglo-Italian conductor of the 1950s & 1960s? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Maury Amsterdam or Bullwinkle J. Moose. > > Not… I dunno the conductor. Take a DQ. Correct on Morey (sic) Amsterdam #2 is Morocco Mole. Bullwinkle was with Rocky the Flying Squirrel. #3 was Mantovani. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with M? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/679 "2014-09-30T14:57:09Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with “M” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/680 "2014-09-30T15:56:41Z")
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