# 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:** 7

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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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/121 "2022-03-18T19:40:05Z")

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Swept again!

IQs:

1. Did you host the TV series _Night Gallery_?
2. Are you an Old Testament woman considered a saint although she was a prostitute?
3. Are you Kim Possible’s boyfriend?

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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 19, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/122 "2022-03-19T07:58:35Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > > 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.

Correct  
Rimsky-Korsakov  
I’ll rephrase - snopes doesn’t list either of them for that legend, although it does list about a dozen people it has been associated with. Gere was the gerbil stuffing story

DQ: Known for the arts?

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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 19, 2022, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/123 "2022-03-19T08:12:15Z")

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IQ1: Are you a rock star who was the subject of a 1970s urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?  
IQ2: Are you a clown who had a cameo in a notoriously bad _E.T._ rip-off?  
IQ3: Are you a hunchbacked court jester?

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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 20, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/124 "2022-03-20T02:57:36Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Swept again!
> 
> IQs:
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> 1. Did you host the TV series _Night Gallery_?
> 2. Are you an Old Testament woman considered a saint although she was a prostitute?
> 3. Are you Kim Possible’s boyfriend?

Not Rod Serling, Rebecca or Robby.

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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 20, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/125 "2022-03-20T03:00:30Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Are you a rock star who was the subject of a 1970s urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?  
> IQ2: Are you a clown who had a cameo in a notoriously bad _E.T._ rip-off?  
> IQ3: Are you a hunchbacked court jester?

Not Keith Richards, dunno and dunno.

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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 20, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/126 "2022-03-20T03:01:12Z")

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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
9. not known for the Arts

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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 20, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/127 "2022-03-20T07:37:40Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > > IQ1: Are you a rock star who was the subject of a 1970s urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?  
> > > IQ2: Are you a clown who had a cameo in a notoriously bad _E.T._ rip-off?  
> > > IQ3: Are you a hunchbacked court jester?
> 
> Not Keith Richards, dunno and dunno.

Rod Stewart  
Ronald McDonald, in perhaps the most blatant instance of product placement in cinema history in _Mac and Me_  
Rigoletto, from Verdi’s opera of the same name.

DQ1: Political/military figure?  
DQ2: Died after 1800?

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 20, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/128 "2022-03-20T13:31:16Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > > 1. Did you host the TV series _Night Gallery_ ?
> > > 2. Are you an Old Testament woman considered a saint although she was a prostitute?
> > > 3. Are you Kim Possible’s boyfriend?
> 
> Not Rod Serling, Rebecca or Robby.

#1 is indeed Rod.  
#2 was Rahab.  
#3 is Ron Stoppable.

DQ: From Continental Europe?

1 DQ reserved.

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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 20, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/129 "2022-03-20T20:39:06Z")

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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
9. not known for the Arts
10. not a political/military figure
11. died after 1800
12. originally from Continental Europe

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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 20, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/130 "2022-03-20T20:41:44Z")

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DQ: Originally from a Romance language speaking nation?

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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 20, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/131 "2022-03-20T23:19:22Z")

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DQs:

1. Known for the Sciences?
2. Died after 1850?

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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 21, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/132 "2022-03-21T12:56:52Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you the Nome King in the Oz books?
2. Did Dick van Dyke play you on _The Dick van Dyke Show_?
3. On _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ was your name used in a running gag along with the words “Do the name … ring a bell?”

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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 21, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/133 "2022-03-21T17:39:50Z")

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Dunno, not Rob Petry and dunno.

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
9. not known for the Arts
10. not a political/military figure
11. died after 1800
12. originally from Continental Europe
13. not originally from a Romance-language-speaking nation
14. not known for the Sciences
15. died after 1850

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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 21, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/134 "2022-03-21T18:21:38Z")

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Held DQ:  
Known for business?

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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 21, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/135 "2022-03-21T19:22:22Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Are you the Nome King in the Oz books?
> 2. Did Dick van Dyke play you on _The Dick van Dyke Show_ ?
> 3. On _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_ was your name used in a running gag along with the words “Do the name … ring a bell?”

#1 was Ruggedo (or Ruggiero in some books).  
#2 is Rob Petry, correct.  
#3 was Ruby Begonia.

DQs:

1. From a nation bordering on the Atlantic?

1 DQ 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 21, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/136 "2022-03-21T19:25:48Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you the Jewish founder of a notable banking family in Europe?
2. Are you a baseball player also known by the sobriquet “Charlie Hustle”?
3. Did you talk about two seagulls named Gertrude and Heathcliff?

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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 22, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/137 "2022-03-22T16:40:21Z")

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Not Rothschild, not Pete Rose and dunno.

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
9. not known for the Arts
10. not a political/military figure
11. died after 1800
12. originally from Continental Europe
13. not originally from a Romance-language-speaking nation
14. not known for the Sciences
15. died after 1850
16. known for business
17. not originally from a nation bordering on the Atlantic

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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 22, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/138 "2022-03-22T18:06:52Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Were you the Jewish founder of a notable banking family in Europe?
> 2. Are you a baseball player also known by the sobriquet “Charlie Hustle”?
> 3. Did you talk about two seagulls named Gertrude and Heathcliff?

Correct, correct, and Red Skelton.

DQ: Known for a physical product rather than a service?

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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 22, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/139 "2022-03-22T18:29:59Z")

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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
9. not known for the Arts
10. not a political/military figure
11. died after 1800
12. originally from Continental Europe
13. not originally from a Romance-language-speaking nation
14. not known for the Sciences
15. died after 1850
16. known for business
17. not originally from a nation bordering on the Atlantic
18. not known for a physical product rather than a service

Just one more set of three IQs, please, as there are still some reserved 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 22, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boticelli-march-2022/960243/140 "2022-03-22T19:24:02Z")

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IQ1: Did you found a news reporting agency that still bears your name?  
IQ2: Were you the first pilot to cross the English Channel both ways without stopping to refuel?  
IQ3: Did you envision your mother-in-law as a running hippo?

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