# Botticelli - April 2021

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348>\
**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:** 9

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/161 "2021-04-19T17:11:06Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you run Stalag 13 on _Hogan’s Heroes_?
2. Did Jaclyn Smith play you on _Charlie’s Angels_?
3. Did you develop a particular vivid shade of blue which you used in “painting” large pictures by having nude women roll in the paint, and then roll on a canvas at your direction, all while a paying audience of art patrons watched?

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**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 19, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/162 "2021-04-19T17:46:18Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Not Kubla Khan  
> Not Charles Foster Kane  
> Take a DQ

3 was Laurie King.

IQs:  
1. Did you say that “a specter is haunting Europe”?  
2. Haave you voiced Maabel Pines on _Graavity Faalls_, Louise Belcher on _Bob’s Burgers_, aand Saaraah Lynn on _BoJaack Horsemaan_?  
3. Did you play with the Rock Bottom Remainders along with Dave Barry and Amy Tan?

DQ: from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/163 "2021-04-19T18:57:14Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Were you first officer of the USCSS _Nostromo_ ?  
> Have you played a soccer player, a codebreaker, a bounty hunter and a whistleblower?  
> Were you (perhaps unfairly) the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_ ?

Not Kane  
Not Kiera Knightly  
Take a DQ

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> - Did you run Stalag 13 on _Hogan’s Heroes_ ?
> - Did Jaclyn Smith play you on _Charlie’s Angels_ ?
> - Did you develop a particular vivid shade of blue which you used in “painting” large pictures by having nude women roll in the paint, and then roll on a canvas at your direction, all while a paying audience of art patrons watched?

Not Colonel Klink  
Not Kelly  
Take a DQ

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you say that “a specter is haunting Europe”?
> 2. Haave you voiced Maabel Pines on _Graavity Faalls_ , Louise Belcher on _Bob’s Burgers_ , aand Saaraah Lynn on _BoJaack Horsemaan_ ?
> 3. Did you play with the Rock Bottom Remainders along with Dave Barry and Amy Tan?

Take a DQ  
Not Kristen Schaal (thanks for all the double As to remind me two As, one L, instead of the opposite, which feels more natural)  
Not Stephen King

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/164 "2021-04-19T18:58:09Z")

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**K**

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with K
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/165 "2021-04-19T19:45:45Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you first officer of the USCSS _Nostromo_? - Yes, Kane, in _Alien_  
Have you played a soccer player, a codebreaker, a bounty hunter and a whistleblower? - Yes, Keira Knightley, in _Bend It Like Beckham, The Imitation Game, Domino_ and _Official Secrets_  
Were you (perhaps unfairly) the bad guy in _Breaker Morant_? - Lord Kitchener

DQ:

Character is American?

IQs:

Were you mentioned in Queen’s “Killer Queen”?  
Were you, too?  
Are you the less-well-known spouse of one of them?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/166 "2021-04-19T20:47:22Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > - Did you run Stalag 13 on _Hogan’s Heroes_ ?
> > 
> > > - Did Jaclyn Smith play you on _Charlie’s Angels_ ?
> > > - Did you develop a particular vivid shade of blue which you used in “painting” large pictures by having nude women roll in the paint, and then roll on a canvas at your direction, all while a paying audience of art patrons watched?
> 
> Not Colonel Klink  
> Not Kelly  
> Take a DQ

Correct x2,. #3 was Yves Klein.

DQ: Created after 1980?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/167 "2021-04-19T21:18:55Z")

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**K**

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with K
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
6. Character is American
7. Not created after 1980

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/168 "2021-04-19T21:21:16Z")

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IQs:

1)Did you create the comic strip _Pogo_?  
2) Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_?  
3) Did you create the character Weary Willie?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/169 "2021-04-19T21:21:18Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Were you mentioned in Queen’s “Killer Queen”?  
> Were you, too?  
> Are you the less-well-known spouse of one of them?

Not Khrushchev  
Not Kennedy  
Take a DQ - I assume you mean maiden name and not Mrs. Krushchev/Kennedy

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/170 "2021-04-19T21:23:34Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> - Did you bang your shoe on a podium and, another time, was denied entrance to Disneyland?
> - Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_ ?
> - Did you create the character Weary Willie?

Not Khrushchev  
EDIT: Ninja’d by your change. - Not Walt Kelly  
Take a DQ  
Not Emmett Kelly

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/171 "2021-04-19T21:25:00Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > - Did you bang your shoe on a podium and, another time, was denied entrance to Disneyland?
> > 
> > > - Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_ ?
> > > - Did you create the character Weary Willie?
> 
> Not Khrushchev  
> Take a DQ  
> Not Emmett Kelly

Correct. (I changed it after I posted, 'cause I saw EH had just asked about Khrushchev.  
#2 was Immanuel Kant.  
Correct.

DQ: Created after 1960?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/172 "2021-04-19T21:28:59Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you and your husband haunt Cosmo Topper?
2. Did you write _Either/Or_ and _Fear and Trembling_?
3. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 2013?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/173 "2021-04-19T21:29:38Z")

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**K**

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with K
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
6. Character is American
7. Not created after 1980
8. Not created after 1960

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**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 19, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/174 "2021-04-19T21:52:10Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
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> > IQ1: Did your family call you “Kick”?  
> > IQ2: Were you Kick’s youngest brother?  
> > IQ3: Did you order the German surrender in WW II?
> 
> Take 3 DQs

Kathleen Kennedy.  
Teddy Kennedy.  
Karl Dönitz.

DQ1: From a movie?  
DQ2: Created after 1940?  
One DQ reserved.

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**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 19, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/175 "2021-04-19T21:57:58Z")

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IQ1: Were you a columnist for the Des Moines _Register_ for over 30 years?  
IQ2: Were you CNO during most of WW II?  
IQ3: Were you played by Ivan Dixon?

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**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 19, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/176 "2021-04-19T22:15:00Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Take a DQ  
> Not Kristen Schaal (thanks for all the double As to remind me two As, one L, instead of the opposite, which feels more natural)  
> Not Stephen King

1 (“a specter is haunting Europe…”) was Karl Marx.

IQs:  
1. Did you recently move into Number One Observatory Circle?  
2. Was one of your characters stuck in the body of a red-tailed hawk?  
3. Aside from your television work, did you animate music videos for Bjork and Weird Al?

DQ: main character?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/177 "2021-04-19T23:20:11Z")

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**K**

1. Not real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with K
4. Created by an American or Americans
5. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
6. Character is American
7. Not created after 1980
8. Not created after 1960
9. From a movie
10. Created after 1940
11. Not main character

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/178 "2021-04-19T23:22:59Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
>
> IQ1: Were you a columnist for the Des Moines _Register_ for over 30 years?  
> IQ2: Were you CNO during most of WW II?  
> IQ3: Were you played by Ivan Dixon?

Take another 3 DQs

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. Did you recently move into Number One Observatory Circle?
> 2. Was one of your characters stuck in the body of a red-tailed hawk?
> 3. Aside from your television work, did you animate music videos for Bjork and Weird Al?

Not Kamala Harris  
Take a DQ  
Not John K. - the Ren & Stimpy guy, who name I can’t spell - Kricaflusi?

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/179 "2021-04-19T23:26:03Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. Did you and your husband haunt Cosmo Topper?
> 2. Did you write _Either/Or_ and _Fear and Trembling_ ?
> 3. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 2013

Take 3 DQs

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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:** [April 19, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2021/939348/180 "2021-04-19T23:42:22Z")

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#1 was Miriam Kerby.  
#2 was Soren Kierkegaard.  
#3 was Tony Kanaan.

DQ: From a comedy?

2 DQs reserved.

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