# Botticelli April 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845 "2015-04-04T23:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/1 "2015-04-04T23:29:55Z")
Okay, a new month and a new topic. Let’s go with… V ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/2 "2015-04-05T01:57:16Z")
Edmund Pettus? Never heard of him… IQ1: Did you write _Dreamsnake_ and _Barbary_? IQ2: Did your grandfather invent baking powder? IQ3: Were you a writer who had an affair with Vita Sackville-West? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/3 "2015-04-05T03:58:26Z")
wtg, astorian. IQ1: Were you US Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter? IQ2: Did you write _The Dying Earth_ series? IQ3: Did you frequently play Lucille Ball’s best friend? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/4 "2015-04-05T04:42:00Z")
Last month’s thread: [Botticelli - March 2015 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=750586) IQs: Were you assured that Santa Claus existed? Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? Did you play Princess Irulan? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/5 "2015-04-05T12:00:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Edmund Pettus? Never heard of him… > IQ1: Did you write _Dreamsnake_ and _Barbary_? > IQ2: Did your grandfather invent baking powder? > IQ3: Were you a writer who had an affair with Vita Sackville-West? Not Virginia Woolf Take a DQ for 1 and 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/6 "2015-04-05T12:01:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > wtg, astorian. > > IQ1: Were you US Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter? > IQ2: Did you write _The Dying Earth_ series? > IQ3: Did you frequently play Lucille Ball’s best friend? Not Cyrus Vance or Vivian Vance Take a DQ for 2, which is probably some other Vance. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/7 "2015-04-05T12:02:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you assured that Santa Claus existed? > Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? > Did you play Princess Irulan? Not Virginia O’Hanlon (I did that one last Xmas) or Virginia Dare. Take a DQ for 3 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/8 "2015-04-05T12:31:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Dreamsnake_ and _Barbary_? > IQ2: Did your grandfather invent baking powder? > IQ3: Were you a writer who had an affair with Vita Sackville-West? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Virginia Woolf > Take a DQ for 1 and 2 Vonda McIntyre. Vincent Price. Correct. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/9 "2015-04-05T12:38:15Z")
Previous IQs: Were you assured that Santa Claus existed? - “Yes, Virginia” O’Hanlon indeed. Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? - Yes, Virginia Dare. Did you play Princess Irulan? - Virginia Madsen, in David Lynch’s _Dune_. Virginia x3! DQ: Last name start with V? IQs: Do you have your own website devoted to the question of whether or not you’re still alive? Did you sing about injustice, adultery and murder in Georgia? Were you Tom Riddle? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/10 "2015-04-05T14:58:19Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with V ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/11 "2015-04-05T14:59:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Do you have your own website devoted to the question of whether or not you’re still alive? > Did you sing about injustice, adultery and murder in Georgia? > Were you Tom Riddle? Not Vicki Lawrence or Lord Voldemort Take a DQ for #1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/12 "2015-04-05T15:46:41Z")
Brief sidebar: I know little or nothing about Edmund Pettus per se. But since the making of the movie _ **Selma** _, and the recent re-enactment of the march to Montgomery, I heard a lot about the bridge. And I also read a few articles calling for the bridge to be renamed, due to Pettus being a pretty horrible man. A year ago, I wouldn’t have known who Edmund Pettus was. But in the past year, I’ve heard his name just often enough to figure it out. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/13 "2015-04-05T18:17:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Cyrus Vance or Vivian Vance > Take a DQ for 2, which is probably some other Vance. Jack Vance 🙂 DQ: Alive? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/14 "2015-04-05T18:35:18Z")
IQ1: Are you a NYG wide receiver who wrote Sandy Hook victim Jack Pinto’s name on his cleats and gloves? IQ2: Did you direct _The Wizard of Oz_ and _Gone With The Wind_? IQ3: Were you king of Sardinia–Piedmont and made the first king of a united Italy in 1861? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/15 "2015-04-05T18:44:02Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with V 4. Dead ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/16 "2015-04-05T18:45:11Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a NYG wide receiver who wrote Sandy Hook victim Jack Pinto’s name on his cleats and gloves? > IQ2: Did you direct _The Wizard of Oz_ and _Gone With The Wind_? > IQ3: Were you king of Sardinia–Piedmont and made the first king of a united Italy in 1861? Not Victor Cruz, Victor Fleming or Victor Emmanuel I. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/17 "2015-04-05T21:41:29Z")
IQ1: Did you play one of the Magnificent Seven? IQ2: Did you write _Babes in Toyland_? IQ3: Did you play a tubercular dentist and a Biblical hero? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/18 "2015-04-05T21:53:00Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play King Tut on _Batman_? 2. Did you play a caricature of your perceived star-self in _After The Fox_? 3. Did you play yourself in _Variety Girl_? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/19 "2015-04-05T23:19:19Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Victor Cruz, Victor Fleming or Victor Emmanuel I. Actually, Victor Emmanuel II, but what’s an I among friends? IQ1: Are you a Texan pianist who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958? IQ2: Are an Irish recording artist known for the hit _Tupelo Honey_? IQ3: Did you play Valene “Val” Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on _Dallas_ and _Knots Landing_? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/20 "2015-04-06T02:38:00Z")
Previous IQs: Do you have your own website devoted to the question of whether or not you’re still alive? - Abe Vigoda: [http://www.abevigoda.com/](http://www.abevigoda.com/) Did you sing about injustice, adultery and murder in Georgia? - Yes, Vicki Lawrence. Were you Tom Riddle? - Yes, Lord Voldemort. DQ: American? IQs: Were you an avuncular guy in a Russian play? Were you a hotshot Latino lawyer on TV? Married to a former ambassador, did you find yourself unexpectedly in the news? > [@astorian](#): > > …I also read a few articles calling for the bridge to be renamed, due to Pettus being a pretty horrible man… As awful as he was, I can’t imagine renaming the bridge. It’s iconic now, and under that name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845.md?page=2)