# 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:** 7
**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 6, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/121 "2014-08-06T01:14:34Z")
IQ1: Did you comment about your nine marriages “I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”? IQ2: Do you star _The New Girl_? IQ3: Did you win a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for the film _Butterfly_? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2014, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/122 "2014-08-06T02:26:42Z")
Well done, yet again, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Were you a symbol of rich Colombian coffee? - Juan Valdez. Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? - Virginia Dare Did you first meet Jean-Luc Picard on Risa? - The beautiful con artist/criminal Vash. On to Z… IQs: Did you play the mom of two dead daughters on two different hit TV shows? Were you a White House spokesman in the Seventies? Are you Princess Anne’s daughter? ---
**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 6, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/123 "2014-08-06T02:43:28Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you comment about your nine marriages “I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”? > IQ2: Do you star _The New Girl_? > IQ3: Did you win a Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year and the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for the film _Butterfly_? I am not Zsa Zsa Gabor. I am not Zooey Deschanel. I am not Pia Zadora. ---
**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 6, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/124 "2014-08-06T02:44:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > W > > IQs: > > Did you play the mom of two dead daughters on two different hit TV shows? > Were you a White House spokesman in the Seventies? > Are you Princess Anne’s daughter? I am not Ron Ziegler. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/125 "2014-08-06T02:46:17Z")
Were you China’s president when Hong Kong became part of China? Are you the captain of the Swedish national football team? Were you a Pakistanese leader who fought in the British Indian Army during WWII? ---
**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 6, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/126 "2014-08-06T02:51:54Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > Were you China’s president when Hong Kong became part of China? > Are you the captain of the Swedish national football team? > Were you a Pakistanese leader who fought in the British Indian Army during WWII? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/127 "2014-08-06T02:54:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Jiang Zemin, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq respectively. DQ1: Born after 1950? DQ2: Last name starts with Z? DQ3: American? ---
**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 6, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/128 "2014-08-06T03:06:12Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. In the Arts 5. Born after 1950 6. First name starts with Z 7. 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:** [August 6, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/129 "2014-08-06T12:13:20Z")
IQ1: Did you play worried, fretful spinster roles in the 1930s and end your career as a switchboard operator in _It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World_? IQ2: Are you Lt. Uhura in _Star Trek Into Darkness_? IQ3: Are you the author of the _Chronicles of Amber_ series? ---
**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 6, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/130 "2014-08-06T14:17:22Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you play worried, fretful spinster roles in the 1930s and end your career as a switchboard operator in _It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World_? > IQ2: Are you Lt. Uhura in _Star Trek Into Darkness_? > IQ3: Are you the author of the _Chronicles of Amber_ series? I am not Zasu Pitts. I am not Roger Zelazney. I’m surprised this one’s over this quick: I am Zoe Saldana, star of Avatar, two Star Trek movies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Guardians of the Galaxy. Congratulations again, KO! ---
**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:** [August 6, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/131 "2014-08-06T14:24:09Z")
Damn, I’m late again! Good job, **Knowed Out**. Previous IQs: Did you play the mom of two dead daughters on two different hit TV shows? - Grace Zabriskie played the mom of doomed cheerleader Laura Palmer on _Twin Peaks_, and later of Susan, George’s fiancee, on _Seinfeld_ Were you a White House spokesman in the Seventies? - Yes, Ron Ziegler, who was Nixon’s loyal flack. Are you Princess Anne’s daughter? - Zara Phillips ---
**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 6, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/132 "2014-08-06T14:26:31Z")
**Prof** , letters like Z and X have fewer names. J on the other hand, begins a lot of names. Anyhoo, the next letter is C C C C ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/133 "2014-08-06T15:13:44Z")
IQ: Were you an Italian adventurer who grossly underestimated the circumference on the earth? IQ2: Are you a filmmaker best known for the Home Alone movies and Harry Potter? ---
**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 6, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/134 "2014-08-06T15:54:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in a movie with Elendil’s Heir? 2. Are you one of the stars of _The Big Bang Theory_? 3. Is one of your quotes: “Big book, big evil”? ---
**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 6, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/135 "2014-08-06T16:06:24Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you an Italian adventurer who grossly underestimated the circumference on the earth? > > IQ2: Are you a filmmaker best known for the Home Alone movies and Harry Potter? Not Christopher Columbus dunno ---
**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 6, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/136 "2014-08-06T16:09:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in a movie with Elendil’s Heir? > 2. Are you one of the stars of _The Big Bang Theory_? > 3. Is one of your quotes: “Big book, big evil”? He was in a movie? Wow, touch you, EH! 😃 1, Not Christopher Lee 2. Not Kelly Cuoco 3. dunno ---
**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 6, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/137 "2014-08-06T16:10:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in a movie with Elendil’s Heir? > 2. Are you one of the stars of _The Big Bang Theory_? > 3. Is one of your quotes: “Big book, big evil”? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > He was in a movie? Wow, touch you, EH! 😃 > > 1, Not Christopher Lee > 2. Not Kelly Cuoco > 3. dunno 1, EH was in _The Avengers_ with Chris Evans (Capt. America). 2. Cuoco is correct-o. 3. The ancient librarian/scholar Callimachus. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/138 "2014-08-06T16:11:41Z")
His name is Chris Columbus. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/139 "2014-08-06T16:45:32Z")
IQ: Did you title your debut album after your childhood nickname, Coco? ---
**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 6, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690/140 "2014-08-06T17:16:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1, EH was in _The Avengers_ with Chris Evans (Capt. America). OK, I thought you meant Elendil’s Heir as Aragorn, not the Doper. I did not know EH the Doper was in movies. Care to link your IMDB page, El? DQ roundup 1. Real [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/august-2014-botticelli/694690.md?page=8)