# Boticelli March 2022

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [February 28, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243 "2022-02-28T17:58:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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:** [March 7, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/61 "2022-03-07T19:10:22Z")

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Go ahead and ask something, EH, you and I are the only players in this round.

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/62 "2022-03-08T05:29:51Z")

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OK, well, make your Firstname Lastname guesses before 6 pm PST tomorrow Tuesday 3/8. You can still ask that last DQ as well. I think if someone asks the right DQ regarding origin, this will be pretty easy.

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**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:** [March 8, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/63 "2022-03-08T16:09:58Z")

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Maybe he’s from a play?

DQ: Are you Willy Loman?

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/64 "2022-03-08T16:54:00Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Are you Willy Loman?

**YES!!** I am **Willy Loman**  
titular salesman from Arthur Miller’s play _Death of a Salesman_

> **[Death of a Salesman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman)**
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> Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into senility. The play addresses a variety of themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth, and in...

Great job in the clutch, Prof!

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**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:** [March 8, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/65 "2022-03-08T17:26:17Z")

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Thanks! I wasn’t sure if that was considered print, and I wasn’t sure that it didn’t come out until the 1950’s, but figured it was my best guess.

Next up:

[![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3193cab6d981d3eb61ddd2d6bc9df75d?rik=1LOY%2bhx9iR2zKw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tutorialsscripts.com%2ffree-icons%2falphabet-characters%2fupper-case-letter%2fC-icon%2fblue-capital-letter-character-C-icon-256-x-256.jpg&ehk=v%2fT%2f5xHf7a75famHJYznGXy05kouAjD05ezvTKWHf9Q%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3193cab6d981d3eb61ddd2d6bc9df75d?rik=1LOY%2bhx9iR2zKw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tutorialsscripts.com%2ffree-icons%2falphabet-characters%2fupper-case-letter%2fC-icon%2fblue-capital-letter-character-C-icon-256-x-256.jpg&ehk=v%2fT%2f5xHf7a75famHJYznGXy05kouAjD05ezvTKWHf9Q%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0&sres=1&sresct=1)

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**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:** [March 8, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/66 "2022-03-08T22:17:38Z")

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From a play, of course! Now why didn’t _I_ think of that? 🙄 Good one, and congrats, **Prof. P.**!

C it is.

IQs:

Were you SECTREAS and then CJUS?  
Were you AKA Anthony Weiner?  
Were you a hero of Little Round Top?

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**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:** [March 8, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/67 "2022-03-08T23:10:54Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Were you SECTREAS and then CJUS?  
> Were you AKA Anthony Weiner?  
> Were you a hero of Little Round Top?

1. I am not Salmon P. Chase.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Gen. George Armstrong Custer (???)

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/68 "2022-03-09T02:19:42Z")

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IQ1: Arr you a talented flamenco guitarist who is unfortunately better known for your catchphrase “cuchi-cuchi”?  
IQ2: Are you a former California senator who got in the most trouble as part of the Keating Five?  
IQ3: Are you a former Ivory Soap girl who later had more “mature” roles as you got older?

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/69 "2022-03-09T03:06:45Z")

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1. I am not Charo.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/70 "2022-03-09T04:30:09Z")

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Correct  
Alan Cranston  
Marilyn Chambers

DQs:  
Real?  
Living?

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/71 "2022-03-09T14:00:31Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Living

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/72 "2022-03-09T18:29:35Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you SECTREAS and then CJUS? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase  
Were you AKA Anthony Weiner? - Carlos Danger  
Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Custer was at Gettysburg, but not on Little Round Top; this was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

DQs:

American?  
Male?

IQs:

Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”?  
Were you that critic?  
Were you that critic’s wife?

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/73 "2022-03-09T18:32:35Z")

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:71, topic:960243”]

### DQs:

1. Real
2. Living
3. American
4. Female

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/74 "2022-03-09T18:32:58Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Did a critic say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”?  
> Were you that critic?  
> Were you that critic’s wife?

Take 3 DQs.

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/75 "2022-03-09T18:46:52Z")

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Neville Chamberlain (who had been mayor of, I think, Birmingham before entering Parliament), Winston Churchill, and Clementine Churchill.

DQs:

Last name start with C?  
Best known for the Arts?  
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Do you not appear and are heard only once, by speakerphone, in the HBO movie _Brexit_?  
Did you star in that movie?  
Were you a master blackmailer murdered in Sherlock Holmes’s presence?

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/76 "2022-03-09T19:39:30Z")

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IQ1: Did you recently win your second Olympic gold medal in the snowboard halfpipe?  
IQ2: Did Voldemort order your death with a callous “kill the spare”?  
IQ3: In college in Ohio, did you play in a band with future Devo members before eventually moving to England and starting your own band?

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/77 "2022-03-09T21:38:17Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Living
3. American
4. Female
5. First name starts with C
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born since 1950

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/78 "2022-03-09T21:40:31Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Do you not appear and are heard only once, by speakerphone, in the HBO movie _Brexit_ ?  
> Did you star in that movie?  
> Were you a master blackmailer murdered in Sherlock Holmes’s presence?

#1. Take a DQ.  
#2. I am not Benedict Cumberbatch.  
#3. Take a DQ.

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Q1: Did you recently win your second Olympic gold medal in the snowboard halfpipe?  
> IQ2: Did Voldemort order your death with a callous “kill the spare”?  
> IQ3: In college in Ohio, did you play in a band with future Devo members before eventually moving to England and starting your own band?

#2. I am not Cedric Diggory.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/79 "2022-03-09T21:57:59Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
> >
> > > IQ1: Did you recently win your second Olympic gold medal in the snowboard halfpipe?  
> > > IQ2: Did Voldemort order your death with a callous “kill the spare”?  
> > > IQ3: In college in Ohio, did you play in a band with future Devo members before eventually moving to England and starting your own band?
> 
> #2. I am not Cedric Diggory.  
> Take 2 DQs

Chloe Kim  
Correct  
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders

DQ: Known for acting?

Holding one DQ

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**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:** [March 9, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/80 "2022-03-09T21:58:47Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Living
3. American
4. Female
5. First name starts with C
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born since 1950
8. Actress

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