# Mid-July Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 14, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447 "2013-07-14T02:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/1 "2013-07-14T02:37:40Z")
Your letter is S ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/2 "2013-07-14T14:56:16Z")
IQ1: Is your character Harriet Vane a thinly veiled self-portrait? IQ2: Are you a mystery writer whose tales are set in republican Rome? IQ3: Are you a Canadian science fiction writer? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/3 "2013-07-14T15:13:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you and your partner basically pioneer catalogue sales? 2. Are you the author of _Ozymandias_? 3. Did you play Gloria on _All in the Family_? ---
**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:** [July 14, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/4 "2013-07-14T16:39:18Z")
IQs: Were you FDR’s Secretary of War? Were you a master violinist and composer referred to in the Sherlock Holmes stories? Was it revealed, long after your death, that you might have had a fling with a diplomat from a hostile country? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/5 "2013-07-14T20:41:06Z")
**Ministre** -3 DQs **Prof** -Not Sally Struthers, 2 DQs **EH** -Not Stinson, 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/6 "2013-07-14T23:16:12Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Is your character Harriet Vane a thinly veiled self-portrait? > IQ2: Are you a mystery writer whose tales are set in republican Rome? > IQ3: Are you a Canadian science fiction writer? > [@etv78](#): > > **Ministre** -3 DQs #1. is **Dorothy L. Sayers**. Her detective Lord Peter Wimsey became romantically involved with the mystery writer Harriet Vane starting with the novel _Strong Poison_. #2. is **Steven Saylor** , whose novels and short stories feature the character Gordianus the Finder, set in the time of Sulla. #3. is **Spider Robinson** (though there are at least two other Canadian Science Fiction writers who would qualify). Best known for the Callahan series of books. DQ1. Are you real? DQ2. Are you male? DQ3. Is ‘S’ the initial of your last name? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/7 "2013-07-15T00:49:02Z")
1.Fictional Character 2.Male 3.S is my 1st initial ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/8 "2013-07-15T01:19:20Z")
DQs: 1. From a work by an American author or authors? I’ll save the other for now. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/9 "2013-07-15T01:54:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you FDR’s Secretary of War? > Were you a master violinist and composer referred to in the Sherlock Holmes stories? > Was it revealed, long after your death, that you might have had a fling with a diplomat from a hostile country? > [@etv78](#): > > … **EH** -Not Stinson, 2 DQs It was Stimson, but close enough. Pablo Sarasate. Wallis Simpson, wife of the Duke of Windsor, had an, er, close relationship with von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister. DQs: Would be alive now, if were real? American? IQs: Are you a ladies’ man played by someone who is anything but? Did your teacup break just before an emergency? Did you give your spy delicious pastries? ---
**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:** [July 15, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/10 "2013-07-15T11:56:13Z")
BTW, mine were Richard Sears (of Sears & Roebuck, now Sears Dept. Store), and Percy Blysshe Shelley. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/11 "2013-07-15T17:32:25Z")
IQ1: Are you a Roman historian? IQ2: Did you seek the Lost Chord? IQ3: Are you a prog rock lyricist? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/12 "2013-07-15T22:45:42Z")
**Ministre-** Not Solon DQ Not Steven Sills ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/13 "2013-07-15T22:46:51Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 1.Fictional Character > 2.Male > 3.S is my 1st initial > 4.Living > 5.Yank > 6.Not from Literature Up-to-date DQ answers ---
**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:** [July 16, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/14 "2013-07-16T11:50:16Z")
DQ: Are you best known from a TV show or series? IQs: 1. Did you anoint the first king of Israel? 2. Did you attempt to eat a yellow cartoon bird? 3. Are you the wife of Thor? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/15 "2013-07-16T15:39:50Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Roman historian? > IQ2: Did you seek the Lost Chord? > IQ3: Are you a prog rock lyricist? > [@etv78](#): > > **Ministre-** > > Not Solon > DQ > Not Steven Sills #3. Well, Steven Stills is a lyricist, so I guess I’ll take that. (Though I’ve never heard anything he’s done described as ‘prog rock’…) #1. Solon is Greek, and not an historian. I was after **Suetonius** , who is best known for his work _The Twelve Caesars_. #2. is **Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan** - best known for his comic operettas written in collaboration with W. S. Gilbert. ‘The Lost Chord’ is the title of a famous religious song composed by Sullivan. DQ1 - The ‘work’ that you come from, whatever it may be - was it created before 1900 AD? I’ll reserve a DQ, if I may… ---
**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:** [July 16, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/16 "2013-07-16T16:15:54Z")
Ahem. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a ladies’ man played by someone who is anything but? > Did your teacup break just before an emergency? > Did you give your spy delicious pastries? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/17 "2013-07-16T19:29:03Z")
Sorry EH. :o 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/18 "2013-07-16T19:33:17Z")
**Prof** : Not Sylvester the Cat. (Tweety Bird’s arch-nemesis) 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/19 "2013-07-16T19:34:22Z")
DQ info 1.Fictional Character 2.1st initial is “S” 3.Yank 4.Not from Literature 5.Created by Yanks 6.Created after 1900 7.From TV ---
**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:** [July 16, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447/20 "2013-07-16T19:40:28Z")
Samuel anointed King Saul; Sif was Thor’s wife. DQs: 1. Is the show currently running? 2. Is the show a sitcom? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mid-july-botticelli/663447.md?page=2)