# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/21 "2015-04-06T02:58:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? Not Robert Vaughn or Victor Herbert or Val Kilmer. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/22 "2015-04-06T03:00:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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_? Not Victor Buono. Take DQs for 2 and 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/23 "2015-04-06T03:03:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 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_? Not Van Cliburn or Van Morrison. DQ for 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/24 "2015-04-06T03:07:54Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with V 4. Dead 5. Not American ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/25 "2015-04-06T05:10:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Robert Vaughn or Victor Herbert or Val Kilmer. Correct. Correct. Not whom I had in mind, but… I’ll rephrase. IQ1: Were you a 15th-century Wallachian prince? IQ2: Were you a Russian-born pianist who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom? IQ3: Did you write a novel about a man travelling around the US with a young girl? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/26 "2015-04-06T11:06:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct. > Correct. > Not whom I had in mind, but… I’ll rephrase. > IQ1: Were you a 15th-century Wallachian prince? > IQ2: Were you a Russian-born pianist who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom? > IQ3: Did you write a novel about a man travelling around the US with a young girl? Not Vlad the Impaler, Vladimir Horowitz or Vladimir Nabokov. ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/27 "2015-04-06T12:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > > Not Van Cliburn or Van Morrison. > > DQ for 3 Joan Van Ark DQ: European? IQ1: Are you a popular character actor known for sad eyes who played the subway ghost who taught Patrick Swayze’s character in _Ghost_ how to move things? IQ2: Are you a NYC-based philanthropist born from wealth who served in the Navy in both World Wars and equipped Earnest Hemingway’s fishing boat with a radio to report U-boat sightings? IQ3: Are you an actor who played Cher’s father in _Moonstruck_ and Archie Bunker’s neighbor? ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/28 "2015-04-06T13:42:23Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > Not Victor Buono. > > Take DQs for 2 and 3 Correct on Mr. Buono. #2 was Victor Mature. #3 was Veronica Lake. DQ: Died before 1900? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 6, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/29 "2015-04-06T13:45:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you propound the theory that man’s civilization was due to alien visitors? 2. Did you play a character whose best remember line was “Boss! De Plane! De Plane!”? 3. Are you the captain of the Flying Dutchman? ---
**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, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/30 "2015-04-06T13:58:41Z")
Ahem. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/31 "2015-04-06T14:46:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a 15th-century Wallachian prince? > IQ2: Were you a Russian-born pianist who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom? > IQ3: Did you write a novel about a man travelling around the US with a young girl? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Vlad the Impaler, Vladimir Horowitz or Vladimir Nabokov. Correct on all three. (Are you trying to be difficult? :)) IQ: Did you play a tubercular dentist and a Biblical hero in films made before Val Kilmer was born? ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/32 "2015-04-06T14:53:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Did you play a tubercular dentist and a Biblical hero in films made before Val Kilmer was born? Ignore that. I see Prof P already asked about him, but it’s too late to edit it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/33 "2015-04-06T17:22:43Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. First name starts with V 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. European ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/34 "2015-04-06T17:24:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 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? > . Not Uncle Vanya or Valerie Plame Take a DQ for #2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/35 "2015-04-06T17:25:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a popular character actor known for sad eyes who played the subway ghost who taught Patrick Swayze’s character in _Ghost_ how to move things? > IQ2: Are you a NYC-based philanthropist born from wealth who served in the Navy in both World Wars and equipped Earnest Hemingway’s fishing boat with a radio to report U-boat sightings? > IQ3: Are you an actor who played Cher’s father in _Moonstruck_ and Archie Bunker’s neighbor? Not Vincent Gardenia Take DQs 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 6, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/36 "2015-04-06T17:26:18Z")
Just for the record, Val Kilmer was a tubercular dentist in\*\*\* Tombstone\*\*\*, and Moses in _ **Prince of Egypt.** _ ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/37 "2015-04-06T17:45:51Z")
Ahem. IQs: 1. Did you propound the theory that man’s civilization was due to alien visitors? 2. Did you play a character whose best remember line was “Boss! De Plane! De Plane!”? 3. Are you the captain of the Flying Dutchman? ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/38 "2015-04-06T20:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a popular character actor known for sad eyes who played the subway ghost who taught Patrick Swayze’s character in Ghost how to move things? > IQ2: Are you a NYC-based philanthropist born from wealth who served in the Navy in both World Wars and equipped Earnest Hemingway’s fishing boat with a radio to report U-boat sightings? > IQ3: Are you an actor who played Cher’s father in Moonstruck and Archie Bunker’s neighbor? > > Not Vincent Gardenia > > Take DQs for 1 and 2 Vincent Schiavelli, Vincent Astor DQ: Known for the arts? DQ: From the UK? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/39 "2015-04-06T22:19:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you propound the theory that man’s civilization was due to alien visitors? > 2. Did you play a character whose best remember line was “Boss! De Plane! De Plane!”? > 3. Are you the captain of the Flying Dutchman? Not Herve Villechaize Take DQs for 1 and 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2015/716845/40 "2015-04-06T22:20:37Z")
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