# Botticelli - April 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 3, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348 "2021-04-03T21:37:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/281 "2021-04-25T18:01:40Z")
I am C: 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. I am American 5. I am known for the arts 6. My last name starts with C 7. I did not die before 1950 8. I am known for the performing arts 9. I did not die before 1990 ---
**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 25, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/282 "2021-04-25T19:21:54Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a mustachioed, big-mouthed comic who often appeared with Bob Hope? 2. Were you paired with David Brinkley to bring the evening news on TV? 3. Were you a long-time female panelist on _To Tell The Truth_? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/283 "2021-04-25T21:10:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you a mustachioed, big-mouthed comic who often appeared with Bob Hope? > 2. Were you paired with David Brinkley to bring the evening news on TV? > 3. Were you a long-time female panelist on _To Tell The Truth_? 1. DQ 2. I am not Chet Huntley 3. DQ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/284 "2021-04-25T21:56:12Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you write about the negative environmental effects of pesticides? > 2. Do you wear red-and-white striped headgear, gloves, a bowtie, and nothing else? > 3. Were you the first criminal caught by radio? > [@bordelond](#): > > 1. I am not Rachel Carson > 2. DQ (though I’m kicking myself … this is super-familiar) > 3. I am not Al Capone 2 was the Cat in the Hat; 3 was Hawley Crippen. DQs: 1. known for acting? 2. died after 2000? ---
**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 25, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/285 "2021-04-25T22:42:17Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you a mustachioed, big-mouthed comic who often appeared with Bob Hope? > > > > > 1. Were you paired with David Brinkley to bring the evening news on TV? > > > 2. Were you a long-time female panelist on _To Tell The Truth_ ? > > 1. DQ > 2. I am not Chet Huntley > 3. DQ #1 was Jerry Colonna. Correct on Chet. #3 was Kitty Carlisle. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/286 "2021-04-25T22:42:47Z")
I am C: 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. I am American 5. I am known for the arts 6. My last name starts with C 7. I did not die before 1950 8. I am known for the performing arts 9. I did not die before 1990 10. I am known for acting 11. I did die after 2000 ---
**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 26, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/287 "2021-04-26T12:01:24Z")
DQs: 1. Best known from movies? 2. Best known for comedy? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/288 "2021-04-26T12:19:26Z")
I am C: 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. I am American 5. I am known for the arts 6. My last name starts with C 7. I did not die before 1950 8. I am known for the performing arts 9. I did not die before 1990 10. I am known for acting 11. I did die after 2000 12. I am not best known from movies 13. I am best known for comedy ---
**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 26, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/289 "2021-04-26T14:00:56Z")
Previous IQs: Where you the criminal mastermind behind the Red-Headed League? - The bank robber John Clay, in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story of the same name Were you London’s most notorious blackmailer, killed by one of his victims? - Charles Augustus Milverton, in Conan Doyle’s “The Master Blackmailer” Did you die of a heart attack after seeing a monstrous hound near your estate? - Sir Charles Baskerville, in another Conan Doyle story of some repute DQs: Lead actor in a sitcom? Won an Emmy? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you record “letters” for your sister in Boston? Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? Is your country place called Highgrove? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/290 "2021-04-26T14:29:42Z")
I am C: 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. I am American 5. I am known for the arts 6. My last name starts with C 7. I did not die before 1950 8. I am known for the performing arts 9. I did not die before 1990 10. I am known for acting 11. I did die after 2000 12. I am not best known from movies 13. I am best known for comedy 14. I was the lead actor in a sitcom 15. I have never won an Emmy Award ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/291 "2021-04-26T14:30:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you record “letters” for your sister in Boston? > Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_ ? > Is your country place called Highgrove? DQ DQ DQ ---
**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 26, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/292 "2021-04-26T15:54:43Z")
Previous IQs: Did you record “letters” for your sister in Boston? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on _MASH_ Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? - Charles Seymour Is your country place called Highgrove? - Prince Charles Charles x3! DQs: Sitcom last aired in or before 2000? Sitcom set in NYC or LA? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you also bear the laughable name Teleporno? Were you AKA Sharkey? Was your daughter Elanor the Fair? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/293 "2021-04-26T15:59:54Z")
I am C: 1. I am real 2. I am male 3. I am deceased 4. I am American 5. I am known for the arts 6. My last name starts with C 7. I did not die before 1950 8. I am known for the performing arts 9. I did not die before 1990 10. I am known for acting 11. I did die after 2000 12. I am not best known from movies 13. I am best known for comedy 14. I was the lead actor in a sitcom 15. I have never won an Emmy Award 16. My sitcom last aired before 2000 17. My sitcom was set in NYC ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/294 "2021-04-26T16:00:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you also bear the laughable name Teleporno? > Were you AKA Sharkey? > Was your daughter Elanor the Fair? DQ DQ DQ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/295 "2021-04-26T17:23:13Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play lead guitar for the Grass Roots, and also worked for a paper company in Scranton? 2. Were you CEO of Hewlett-Packard? 3. Did you assassinate William McKinley? ---
**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 26, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/296 "2021-04-26T17:53:43Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a lady cow who appeared in some Mickey Mouse cartoons? 2. Did you ask “Where’s the beef?” in old Wendy’s commercials? 3. Did the narrator of a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson say that he wished you could be you? ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/297 "2021-04-26T18:32:29Z")
Previous IQs: Did you also bear the laughable name Teleporno? - Celeborn, husband of Galadriel, in _LOTR_ Were you AKA Sharkey? - Curunir AKA Saruman, ditto Was your daughter Elanor the Fair? - Rosie Cotton LKA Rosie Gamgee, ditto DQs: Sitcom last aired before 1980? Played a married man? Two DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/298 "2021-04-26T18:38:26Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play lead guitar for the Grass Roots, and also worked for a paper company in Scranton? > 2. Were you CEO of Hewlett-Packard? > 3. Did you assassinate William McKinley? 1. I am not Creed Bratton 2. DQ 3. I am not Leo Czolgoz (sp?) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/299 "2021-04-26T18:38:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Were you a lady cow who appeared in some Mickey Mouse cartoons? > - Did you ask “Where’s the beef?” in old Wendy’s commercials? > - Did the narrator of a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson say that he wished you could be you? 1. I am not Clarabell 2. I am not Clara Peller 3. DQ ---
**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 26, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/300 "2021-04-26T18:41:57Z")
Correct x2, and Richard Cory. 1 DQ reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348.md?page=16)