# Botticelli #31

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181 "2008-07-03T13:16:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/21 "2008-07-04T04:13:33Z")

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Did you end monologues with a trademark golf swing?

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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:** [July 4, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/22 "2008-07-04T04:59:22Z")

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Are you the hero of Little Round Top?

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/23 "2008-07-04T05:13:42Z")

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Did you follow up your hit song with laws to keep the negroes in their place?

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/24 "2008-07-04T10:31:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Kid\_A]  
You got it right. Jackie Chan is Chinese.

IQ: Were you one of OJ Simpson’s lawyers?  
[/QUOTE]  
Is this the guy who came up with the “Chewbacca Argument”? I don’t know it without Googling, so take a DQ.

> [@Biffy](#):
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> DQ: Are you a fictional character?
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> IQ: Did you do a showstopping rendition of a Beatles song at Woodstock?

I am not a fictional character, and I’m going to take a stab at your IQ with Joe Cocker. If not, take another DQ.

> [@Indistinguishable](#):
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> Did you follow up your hit song with laws to keep the negroes in their place?

Jim Crow, I guess.

All other IQs get a DQ each.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/25 "2008-07-04T12:24:43Z")

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Did you marry Waylon Jennings?

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/26 "2008-07-04T12:41:20Z")

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[QUOTE=astorian]  
Did you marry Waylon Jennings?  
[/QUOTE]  
I had to look this up, so take another DQ.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/27 "2008-07-04T13:30:41Z")

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Are you a Bunnyman?

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**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/28 "2008-07-04T13:35:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Kid\_A]  
IQ: Were you one of OJ Simpson’s lawyers?  
[/QUOTE]

Johnnie Cochran

DQ: Are you male?

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/29 "2008-07-04T14:55:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
Are you a Bunnyman?  
[/QUOTE]  
I assume that this refers to _Echo and the Bunnymen_, but again I’d have to look it up to find the answer, so take a DQ.

I am male.

Update:

Male  
Real Person  
Dead

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**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/30 "2008-07-04T15:16:57Z")

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Did you write _Le coq et l’arlequin_?

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/31 "2008-07-04T15:28:38Z")

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I’m not Jean Cocteau.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/32 "2008-07-04T15:47:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Dead Cat]  
I assume that this refers to _Echo and the Bunnymen_, but again I’d have to look it up to find the answer, so take a DQ.  
[/QUOTE]

Never mind; I was confusing E&tB with the closely related band The Teardrop Explodes. :smack: It was the latter that featured Julian Cope.

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**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/33 "2008-07-04T18:03:42Z")

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Are you an American bluesman who’s best-known songs were recorded by Eric Clapton?

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/34 "2008-07-04T18:51:24Z")

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Are your “tracts” frequently commented upon here on the SDMB?

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/35 "2008-07-04T18:52:33Z")

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[QUOTE=Wargamer]  
Are you a former drag-racing first baseman who went belly up financially in the late 80s-early 90s?  
[/QUOTE]

Jack Clark, who famously went bankrupt after his playing days by blowing it all on a failed drag racing team.

DQ: Were you an American?

IQ: Did you author several of novels about Japan?

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/36 "2008-07-04T20:02:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]  
Are you featured in William Faulkner’s _Light in August_?  
[/QUOTE]

[Joe Christmas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Christmas) was the name I was looking for here.

IQ: Are you a New York Yankee second baseman famous for malaprop-laden broadcasts of several baseball teams’ games?

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**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/37 "2008-07-05T01:19:13Z")

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My answer was Jackie Cooper.

DQ: Were you alive at any point during the 20th century?

IQ: Was Ralph Yarborough your chief rival in Texas politics?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/38 "2008-07-05T03:34:26Z")

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Jane Campion directed Holly Hunter in “The Piano”

And country singer Jessi (I’m Not Lisa) Coulter married Waylon Jennings.  
My two DQs:

1. Were you born after 1899?

2. Were you involved in government/politics?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/39 "2008-07-05T03:35:35Z")

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Did you lose your job to the Iron Lady?

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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:** [July 5, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-31/455181/40 "2008-07-05T04:21:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Are you the hero of Little Round Top?  
[/QUOTE]

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. See: [Joshua Chamberlain - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lawrence_Chamberlain)

DQ: Did you ever serve in the military?

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