# August 2014 Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690 "2014-08-03T00:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**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:** [August 29, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/581 "2014-08-29T20:20:35Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Ben Roethlisberger, not Ben Vereen… take a DQ for the comic strip artist. Bill Watterson, artist of _Calvin and Hobbes_. DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/582 "2014-08-29T21:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Fred Flintstone’s next door neighbor? > 2. Are you a talking hen in the Oz stories? > 3. Were you the prophet Jeremiah’s amanuensis? > > Not Barney Rubble and not Baruch. > > Take a DQ for the hen. Correct on Barney (though Betty or Bam-Bam would have also been correct). Correct on Baruch. Billina the hen shows up first in _The Road to Oz_ and appears occasionally after. DQ: Last name begin with B? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/583 "2014-08-29T21:03:47Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Goldberry’s husband? 2. Did you do the majority of voices for Hanna-Barbera? 3. Were you the main voice talent for Warner Brothers’ cartoons? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/584 "2014-08-29T21:26:19Z")
IQ: Were you the 1st sitting VP elected President? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/585 "2014-08-29T21:27:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Way to go, **astorian**! I, too, knew of the gun but not the man. > > IQs: > > Did your creator say you looked like a famous singer/songwriter? > Did you have an unusual way of eating Jell-O? > Did you play the annoying ex-wife of a police captain? Not James Bond (ho looked like Hoagy Carmichael), not John Blutarsky, and not Barbara Bosson (Furillo’s’s ex on Hil Street Blues) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/586 "2014-08-29T21:28:46Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Goldberry’s husband? > 2. Did you do the majority of voices for Hanna-Barbera? > 3. Were you the main voice talent for Warner Brothers’ cartoons? Not Tom Bombadil, not Mel Blanc, not… Daws Butler? (I know he did Huckleberry Hound). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/587 "2014-08-29T21:31:11Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you the 1st sitting VP elected President? Not… James Buchanan? (Nah, that can’t be right… I just don’t know another “B” president) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/588 "2014-08-29T21:32:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on Barney (though Betty or Bam-Bam would have also been correct). > Correct on Baruch. > Billina the hen shows up first in _The Road to Oz_ and appears occasionally after. > > DQ: Last name begin with B? Yes. Summary: 1. Last Name Begins With “B” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/589 "2014-08-29T21:33:11Z")
Summary: 1. Last Name begins with “B” 2. Real Person ---
**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:** [August 29, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/590 "2014-08-29T21:35:06Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Did you play a psychologist, a psychological patient and a psychedelic psychotic? 2. Were you the queen of the Iceni? 3. Were you duly enshrined in the miserable annals of the earth? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/591 "2014-08-29T21:57:22Z")
That’s Van Buren DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/592 "2014-08-29T22:00:59Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > That’s Van Buren > > DQ: Male? Whooooa… Van Buren is a V!!! (I will give him a DQ if others are on ETV’s side, but as of now, I say no.) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/593 "2014-08-29T22:02:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play a psychologist, a psychological patient and a psychedelic psychotic? > 2. Were you the queen of the Iceni? > 3. Were you duly enshrined in the miserable annals of the earth? I don’t know any of these. I strained my brain on #1 but still couldn’t get it. 3 DQs for 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:** [August 29, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/594 "2014-08-29T22:11:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play a psychologist, a psychological patient and a psychedelic psychotic? > 2. Were you the queen of the Iceni? > 3. Were you duly enshrined in the miserable annals of the earth? > [@astorian](#): > > Whooooa… Van Buren is a V!!! (I will give him a DQ if others are on ETV’s side, but as of now, I say no.) #1 was Bill Murray. (Dr. Peter Venkman in _Ghostbusters_; Bob in _What About Bob?_ and Hunter S. Thompson in _Where The Buffalo Roam_.) #2 was Boadicea. #3 was Buckaroo Banzai, after a line by Dr. Lizardo/John Whorfin. I guessed etv78’s answer was “Bush” myself. We’ve had guesses that were a lot odder than this one, so I have to back him on this (though, yeah, I’d’ve said he was a “V”). 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/595 "2014-08-30T01:22:19Z")
IQ1: Is your biography and accompanying LP called _Lady Sings the Blues_? IQ2: Did you win the World Chess Champion in 1972 in Reykjavík, Iceland? IQ3: Were you his opponent? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/596 "2014-08-30T01:37:02Z")
DQs: 1. Alive? 2. American? 3. Known for the Arts, either creative or performing? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/597 "2014-08-30T01:38:45Z")
IQs: 1. Were you marooned by your crewmates? 2. Did you get the black spot? 3. Did you give #2 the black spot? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2014, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/598 "2014-08-30T02:33:41Z")
IQ1: Do you and the millionaire’s kid next door plan to become detectives when you grow up? IQ2: Are you June’s son Theodore? IQ3: Were you frequently Perry Mason’s opponent? ---
**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:** [August 31, 2014, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/599 "2014-08-31T03:03:41Z")
Dum de dum de dum… ---
**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:** [August 31, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/600 "2014-08-31T03:07:12Z")
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