# Botticelli - April 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 2, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756 "2024-04-02T20:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/61 "2024-04-06T21:02:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you the running mate of a Mexican War hero? > > 2 .Did you have a cameo role in Ratt’s “Round and Round” music video? > > 2. Did you play Max Headroom on the eponymous TV movie and show? > > Not Miller, the other Miller or yet another Miller. Millard Filmore, Milton Berle and Matt Frewer. DQ: From a book, originally? 2 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, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/62 "2024-04-06T21:11:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you star opposite Bob Hope in _The Lemon Drop Kid_? > > 2. Did you star in _Wholly Moses_? > > 3. Did you star in _In God We Tru$t_? > > Dunno x3. 1 was Marilyn Maxwell. 2 was Dudley Moore. 3 was Marty Feldman. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 6, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/63 "2024-04-06T22:08:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the human lead in _The Happytime Murders_? 2. Did your college roommate think there were “still a few bugs in the system”? 3. Do you get a mention in the end credits of the movie _Rock and the Alien_? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/64 "2024-04-06T22:10:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you an English queen who introduced Roman and European forms of Catholicism to Scotland in the eleventh century? > > 2. Were you one of a notorious couple of cats, as knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians, tightrope walkers and acrobats? > > 3. Are you the leader of the hosts of Heaven? > > … > > Not Mary Queen of Scots, dunno and not the Archangel Michael. Michael is correct; 1 was Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of King Malcolm Canmore. 2 was Mungojerrie, partner of Rumpleteazer, from _Cats_. DQs: 1. From a work of art created in the 20th century? 2. From literature? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/65 "2024-04-06T23:40:32Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Were you one of the original judges on **The Great British Bake Off**? > 2. Are you a witch with 9 cats in Patricia Wrede’s _Enchanted Forest Chronicles_? > 3. Did you Impress the green dragon Path in the Pern series? Correct: Mary Berry, Morwen and Mirrim. 2 DQs reserved. 1. Did you play Ham Tyler on **V**? 2. Did you disguise yourself as Mademoiselle Geraldine when you recruited Sophronia Temminick in **Etiquette and Espionage**? 3. Did you write a book about your 9 months in a TB Sanatorium, among other books? ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/66 "2024-04-07T03:13:06Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you play the human lead in _The Happytime Murders_? > 2. Did your college roommate think there were “still a few bugs in the system”? > 3. Do you get a mention in the end credits of the movie _Rock and the Alien_? Not Megan Mullaney, not Michael Doonesbury and dunno. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you play Ham Tyler on **V**? > 2. Did you disguise yourself as Mademoiselle Geraldine when you recruited Sophronia Temminick in **Etiquette and Espionage**? > 3. Did you write a book about your 9 months in a TB Sanatorium, among other books? Dunno x3. M. 1. fictional 2. male 3. only name begins with M 4. not from a book, originally 5. from a work of art created in the 20th century 6. not from literature ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/67 "2024-04-07T03:13:41Z")
DQ: Created for TV or movies? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 7, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/68 "2024-04-07T03:20:51Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you play the human lead in _The Happytime Murders_? > 2. Did your college roommate think there were “still a few bugs in the system”? > 3. Do you get a mention in the end credits of the movie _Rock and the Alien_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Megan Mullaney, not Michael Doonesbury and dunno. 1 was Melissa McCarthy; for 3… [![](https://i.imgur.com/1jGJHjt.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/1jGJHjt.png) DQs: 1. created after 1950? 2. created by American(s)? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/69 "2024-04-07T03:35:28Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@kitap](#): > > > > Congrats! > > > > 1. Were you one of the original judges on **The Great British Bake Off**? > > 2. Are you a witch with 9 cats in Patricia Wrede’s _Enchanted Forest Chronicles_? > > 3. Did you Impress the green dragon Path in the Pern series? > > Correct: Mary Berry, Morwen and Mirrim. > > 2 DQs reserved. > > 1. Did you play Ham Tyler on **V**? > 2. Did you disguise yourself as Mademoiselle Geraldine when you recruited Sophronia Temminick in **Etiquette and Espionage**? > 3. Did you write a book about your 9 months in a TB Sanatorium, among other books? Michael Ironside, Monique de Pelouse, Betty MacDonald ( **The Plague and I** ). DQ: 1. Caucasian? ---
**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 7, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/70 "2024-04-07T18:00:25Z")
I had no idea the Dukakis campaign got a movie credit. Wiki has no entry for _Rock and the Alien_, however. M. 1. fictional 2. male 3. only name begins with M 4. not from a book, originally 5. from a work of art created in the 20th century 6. not from literature 7. created for TV or movies 8. created after 1950 9. created by American(s) 10. Caucasian ---
**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 7, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/71 "2024-04-07T20:49:12Z")
DQs: 1. Created for a movie? 2. Protagonist? ---
**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 7, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/72 "2024-04-07T20:50:36Z")
IMDB does, though: [Rock and the Alien (1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261242/) ---
**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 7, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/73 "2024-04-07T21:04:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Wiki has no entry for _Rock and the Alien_, however. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IMDB does, though: [Rock and the Alien (1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261242/) Also [Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/film/rock-and-the-alien/) and [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rock_and_the_alien), and [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mysn5EIA_UM). “DO! YOU! HEAR THE SOUND OF PEACE!? DO! YOU! HEAR THE SOUND OF PEACE!?” (…That’s one of the rock songs from the movie that save the world or something. I couldn’t resist.) ---
**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 8, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/74 "2024-04-08T13:05:43Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the most recent POTUS whose first name begins with M? 2. Are you the most recent POTUS whose middle name begins with M? 3. Are you the most recent POTUS whose last name begins with M? ---
**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 8, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/75 "2024-04-08T13:20:40Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Man, and a Cardinal? 2. Did you also have a (human) role in _The Happytime Murders_? 3. Are you a Pokemon? ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/76 "2024-04-08T16:27:00Z")
Thanks for the _Rock and the Alien_ info. Never heard of it before. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the most recent POTUS whose first name begins with M? > 2. Are you the most recent POTUS whose middle name begins with M? > 3. Are you the most recent POTUS whose last name begins with M? _This_ took some thinking. Not… Millard Fillmore, Richard Milhous Nixon or William McKinley? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you the Man, and a Cardinal? > 2. Did you also have a (human) role in _The Happytime Murders_? > 3. Are you a Pokemon? Not Thomas More, dunno and not Mrowr (sp?). M. 1. fictional 2. male 3. only name begins with M 4. not from a book, originally 5. from a work of art created in the 20th century 6. not from literature 7. created for TV or movies 8. created after 1950 9. created by American(s) 10. Caucasian 11. created for a movie 12. not a protagonist ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/77 "2024-04-08T16:46:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Thomas More, dunno and not Mrowr (sp?). 1 was Stan Musial; 2 was Maya Rudolph; 3 was Meowth. DQs: 1. Actually appears in movie, isn’t an unseen character or alias of another character or something else like that? 2. created after 1980? 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 8, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/78 "2024-04-08T18:24:21Z")
Correct on all three! ---
**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 9, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/79 "2024-04-09T15:57:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did Nimue imprison you in a tree? 2. Did you write _Autumn Leaves_? 3. Did your movie’s tagline quote you as saying “Pathetic Earthlings, who can save you now?” ---
**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 9, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/80 "2024-04-09T16:26:29Z")
Not Merlin, E.M. Forster or Ming of Mongo. **Prof. P.** , woohoo! M. 1. fictional 2. male 3. only name begins with M 4. not from a book, originally 5. from a work of art created in the 20th century 6. not from literature 7. created for TV or movies 8. created after 1950 9. created by American(s) 10. Caucasian 11. created for a movie 12. not a protagonist 13. actually appears in movie; isn’t an unseen character or alias of another character or something else like that 14. created before 1980 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756.md?page=5)