# \[GAME\] 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:** 18\ **Page:** 35
**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, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/681 "2014-09-30T16:07:35Z")
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? Lynch Maydon DQ: 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 30, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/682 "2014-09-30T16:16:50Z")
IQ1: Did you marry Daniel Parke Custis at age 18, become widowed at 25, then marry your much more famous husband two years later? IQ2: Did you die in 1962 from an alleged overdose of barbiturates? IQ3: Are you IQ2’s third husband? ---
**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, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/683 "2014-09-30T16:55:09Z")
SUMMARY 1. Real Person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with “M” 5. Not American ---
**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, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/684 "2014-09-30T16:56:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you marry Daniel Parke Custis at age 18, become widowed at 25, then marry your much more famous husband two years later? > IQ2: Did you die in 1962 from an alleged overdose of barbiturates? > IQ3: Are you IQ2’s third husband? Not Martha Washington, Marilyn Monroe or Arthur Miller ---
**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, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/685 "2014-09-30T17:10:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did your friends include Heebie & Jeebie, Prof. Weirdo and Count Kook? 2. Were you a registered Animagus at Hogwarts? 3. Did you write “they also serve who only stand and wait”? ---
**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 30, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/686 "2014-09-30T17:12:45Z")
All right, **astorian**! Previous round IQs: Did the same man who played you also play a cancer patient, a police officer and an alien? - Robert Todd Lincoln, in _Lincoln_ Are you that actor? - Joseph Gordon-Levitt; the roles from the first question were in _50/50, The Dark Knight Rises_ and _Third Rock From the Sun_ Were you Clinton’s first Secretary of the Treasury? - Lloyd Bentsen So we’re on to M now… Were you writings on naval power very influential in their day? Did you play Krusty’s dad? Did Kevin Spacey recently say he’s been working on an impersonation of you? ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/687 "2014-09-30T18:28:29Z")
IQ: Are your notebooks STILL radioactive, 100 years after your death? ---
**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 30, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/688 "2014-09-30T18:33:05Z")
IQ1: Were Razzies and Koo-Koos made by a company that bore your name? IQ2: Was “There’s No Business Like Show Business” your theme song? IQ3: Were you a woman who played a flying boy? ---
**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, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/689 "2014-09-30T18:44:48Z")
IQ1: Did you pioneer an educational method based on what you referred to as “scientific pedagogy?” IQ2: Are you anthropologist whose writings about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures shaped the 1960s sexual revolution? IQ3: Are you the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west? ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/690 "2014-09-30T19:10:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did your friends include Heebie & Jeebie, Prof. Weirdo and Count Kook? > 2. Were you a registered Animagus at Hogwarts? > 3. Did you write “they also serve who only stand and wait”? Not Milton the Monster Not Professor McGonagall (a cat) I know the quote well but can’t think of who said it. Take a DQ for #3 ---
**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, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/691 "2014-09-30T19:14:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you writings on naval power very influential in their day? > Did you play Krusty’s dad? > Did Kevin Spacey recently say he’s been working on an impersonation of you? Not Alfred Thayer Mahan or Jackie Mason. I’ve heard Kevin Spacey do a lot of imitations, but nobody I can think of who starts with an M Take a 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, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/692 "2014-09-30T19:15:21Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are your notebooks STILL radioactive, 100 years after your death? No idea- take a 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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/693 "2014-09-30T19:16:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were Razzies and Koo-Koos made by a company that bore your name? > IQ2: Was “There’s No Business Like Show Business” your theme song? > IQ3: Were you a woman who played a flying boy? Not Dolley Madison, Ethel Merman or Mary Martin. ---
**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, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/694 "2014-09-30T19:18:23Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you pioneer an educational method based on what you referred to as “scientific pedagogy?” Well, crud! That was a short game! YESS!!! I am Maria Montessori, educational innovator and founder of schools following my methods all over the world. Congratulations, Knowed Out, and you may select an N candidate now. ---
**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, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/695 "2014-09-30T19:33:23Z")
The person with the radioactive notebooks was Marie Curie. ---
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/696 "2014-09-30T19:57:33Z")
Well done, KO! The “they also serve” quote was from John Milton’s “On His Blindness”. ---
**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 1, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/697 "2014-10-01T00:57:16Z")
Previous IQs: Were you writings on naval power very influential in their day? - Yes, Alfred Thayer Mahan Did you play Krusty’s dad? - Yes, Jackie Mason Did Kevin Spacey recently say he’s been working on an impersonation of you? - Morgan Freeman Way to go, **KO**! I suggest you start an October Botticelli thread next. ---
**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 1, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/698 "2014-10-01T04:37:27Z")
[October thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=735940). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353.md?page=34)