# 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\
**Page:** 6

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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 12, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/101 "2022-03-12T19:35:17Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Were you the first actor to utter the phrase “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum”?  
> IQ2: Do you not want no short people round here?  
> IQ3: Were you the second host of _Death Valley Days_?

Not Robby Coltrane, Randy Newman or Ronald Reagan.

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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 12, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/102 "2022-03-12T21:04:22Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > > 1. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet who isn’t Robert Frost?
> > > 2. Are you a French Expressionist painter with four consecutive vowels in your last name?
> > > 3. Did you write _Alibi Ike_ ?
> 
> Not Robert Service, not Robert Raeioux and dunno.

#1. I’ll rephrase.  
#2 is Jean Rouault.  
#3 is Ring Lardner.

DQs:

1. Male?
2. Living?

IQs:

1. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet whose last name starts with R?
2. Did you have a band with Hamilton & Joe Frank?
3. Are you the main character in _Crime and Punishment_?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/103 "2022-03-13T11:46:38Z")

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1. Did you play the hero in **Ladyhawke**?
2. Were you the Masterharper of Pern?
3. Are you Talia’s Companion in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?

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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 13, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/104 "2022-03-13T17:37:10Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet whose last name starts with R?
> 2. Did you have a band with Hamilton & Joe Frank?
> 3. Are you the main character in _Crime and Punishment_?

Dunno, dunno and not Raskhalnokov (sp?)

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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 13, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/105 "2022-03-13T17:38:34Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Did you play the hero in **Ladyhawke**?
> 2. Were you the Masterharper of Pern?
> 3. Are you Talia’s Companion in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?

Not Rutger Hauer, dunno and dunno.

R.

1. real
2. male
3. dead

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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 13, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/106 "2022-03-13T18:17:11Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > > 1. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet whose last name starts with R?
> > > 2. Did you have a band with Hamilton & Joe Frank?
> > > 3. Are you the main character in _Crime and Punishment_ ?
> 
> Dunno, dunno and not Raskhalnokov (sp?)

#1 is Theodore Roethke.  
#2 is Reynolds. They had a big hit with “Don’t Pull Your Love” in the early 1970’s.  
#3 is, indeed, Raskolnikov.

DQs:

1. Last name starts with R?
2. Died before 1900?

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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 13, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/107 "2022-03-13T23:30:07Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > > IQ1: Were you the first actor to utter the phrase “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum”?  
> > > IQ2: Do you not want no short people round here?  
> > > IQ3: Were you the second host of _Death Valley Days_ ?
> 
> Not Robby Coltrane, Randy Newman or Ronald Reagan.

Rowdy Roddy Piper, in John Carpenter’s _They Live_  
Correct  
Correct

DQ: American?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/108 "2022-03-14T04:25:51Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Did you play the hero in **Ladyhawke**?
> 2. Were you the Masterharper of Pern?
> 3. Are you Talia’s Companion in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?

Correct, Robinton, Rolan.

Two DQs reserved.

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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 14, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/109 "2022-03-14T12:25:10Z")

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IQs:

1. Did Snoopy curse you?
2. Did you despise the play _Abie’s Irish Rose_ and write harsh critical reviews of it throughout its long run?
3. Did you have a hit with _The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face_?

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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 14, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/110 "2022-03-14T18:59:42Z")

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Not the Red Baron, Roger Ebert or Roberta Flack.

R.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. last name starts with R
5. died before 1900
6. not American

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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 14, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/111 "2022-03-14T19:53:37Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did Snoopy curse you?
> 2. Did you despise the play _Abie’s Irish Rose_ and write harsh critical reviews of it throughout its long run?
> 3. Did you have a hit with _The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face_ ?

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Not the Red Baron, Roger Ebert or Roberta Flack.

Correct, Robert Benchley and Correct.

DQ: European?

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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 14, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/112 "2022-03-14T19:55:04Z")

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R.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. last name starts with R
5. died before 1900
6. not American
7. European

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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 14, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/113 "2022-03-14T20:27:30Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you marry Pocahontas?
2. Were you one of the stars of the TV series _Emergency_?
3. Did you co-write _Blazing Saddles_ with Mel Brooks?

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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 15, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/114 "2022-03-15T18:24:57Z")

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IQ1: Were you nicknamed “the incorruptible” during the French Revolution?  
IQ2: Did you throw a stomping tantrum when someone guessed your name?  
IQ3: Did you take an unexpectedly long nap in the Catskills?

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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 15, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/115 "2022-03-15T21:56:23Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you marry Pocahontas?
> 2. Were you one of the stars of the TV series _Emergency_?
> 3. Did you co-write _Blazing Saddles_ with Mel Brooks?

Not John Rolfe, not Randolph Mantooth and not Rob Reiner.

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Were you nicknamed “the incorruptible” during the French Revolution?  
> IQ2: Did you throw a stomping tantrum when someone guessed your name?  
> IQ3: Did you take an unexpectedly long nap in the Catskills?

Not Robespierre,\* Rumpelstiltskin or Rip Van Winkle.

\*Recently discussed here: [French Revolution: Was Robespierre a tragic figure? A misunderstood figure? A tyrant? Something else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-revolution-was-robespierre-a-tragic-figure-a-misunderstood-figure-a-tyrant-something-else/952511)

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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 16, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/116 "2022-03-16T13:24:12Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
> > 
> > > 1. Did you marry Pocahontas?
> > > 2. Were you one of the stars of the TV series _Emergency_ ?
> > > 3. Did you co-write _Blazing Saddles_ with Mel Brooks?
> 
> Not John Rolfe, not Randolph Mantooth and not Rob Reiner.

Correct, Correct, and Richard Pryor.  
He was supposed to play Bart, but the studios found him too controversial.

DQ: Died before 1700?

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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 16, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/117 "2022-03-16T13:30:04Z")

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R.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. last name starts with R
5. died before 1900
6. not American
7. European
8. died after 1700

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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 17, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/118 "2022-03-17T17:15:26Z")

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Swept me  
IQ1: Did your cartoonishly voluptuous wife marry you because you made her laugh?  
IQ2: Did you compose the _Scheherazade_ suite?  
IQ3: Were you the subject of an urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?

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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 18, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/119 "2022-03-18T15:16:56Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you a pro football player, an actor, and Robert Kennedy’s bodyguard for awhile?
2. Are you Albert’s secretary and girlfriend in _Bye Bye Birdie_?
3. Did you play Capt. Apollo on the original _Battlestar Galactica_?

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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 18, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/120 "2022-03-18T16:48:37Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Swept me  
> IQ1: Did your cartoonishly voluptuous wife marry you because you made her laugh?  
> IQ2: Did you compose the _Scheherazade_ suite?  
> IQ3: Were you the subject of an urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?

Not Roger Rabbit, Rossini or either Richard Simmons/Gere.

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Were you a pro football player, an actor, and Robert Kennedy’s bodyguard for awhile?
> 2. Are you Albert’s secretary and girlfriend in _Bye Bye Birdie_?
> 3. Did you play Capt. Apollo on the original _Battlestar Galactica_?

Not Rosey Grier, Rosie or Richard Hatch.

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