# 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:** 7
**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 15, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/121 "2024-04-15T14:33:29Z")
I bow to your and the **Prof** ’s Botticelli kickassery. IQs: 1. Did you win an Oscar for your role in a movie opposite Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berrigan, and Jeffrey Jones? 2. Did one of your roommates call you “Ferret Face”? 3. Your most famous role notwithstanding, do you _not_ normally speak with a braying “Lo-awn Guyland” accent? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/122 "2024-04-15T14:43:01Z")
Third-question guess. Awesome. IQs: 1. Were you the title star of a “comic book inside the strip” in _Lil’ Abner_? 2. Did you draw the “What’s New With Phil & Dixie” comic strip in _Dragon_ magazine in the 1980s? 3. Did you lead a guerrilla band in the southern theater of the American Revolution? ---
**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 15, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/123 "2024-04-15T15:23:55Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a former Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, the creator of TV shows like _30 Rock_ and _Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt_, and author of the memoir _Bossypants_? 2. Did you crack safes and ask for “a map of the cat”? 3. Were you the leather-jacketed breakout character of _Happy Days_? ---
**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 15, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/124 "2024-04-15T16:07:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Second time I’ve done that – third IQ in the first set asked during a game. I believe Prof P actually managed it once with the very first IQ of a game. Yeah, I did, but to be fair, it was the first question in a round in December when everyone was doing Christmas-related people, and I guessed Tiny Tim. So, it wasn’t completely an out-of-the-blue guess. ---
**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 15, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/125 "2024-04-15T16:09:59Z")
IQs: 1. Were you born Leslie King, Jr.? 2. Are you Pearl Slaghoople’s son-in-law? 3. Did you play Dr. Bombay on _Bewitched_? ---
**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 15, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/126 "2024-04-15T17:30:17Z")
Great job, **SCA** - impressive! F it is. IQs: Were you a movie character named after an American car? Were you a radio, book and movie character named after a British car? Were you regarded as something like a demigod in Aldous Huxley’s sf novel _Brave New World_? ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/127 "2024-04-15T23:08:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win an Oscar for your role in a movie opposite Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berrigan, and Jeffrey Jones? > 2. Did one of your roommates call you “Ferret Face”? > 3. Your most famous role notwithstanding, do you _not_ normally speak with a braying “Lo-awn Guyland” accent? 1, DQ 2. Not Frank Burns 3. Not Fran Whatshername the comedian (Drescher?) > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the title star of a “comic book inside the strip” in _Lil’ Abner_? > 2. Did you draw the “What’s New With Phil & Dixie” comic strip in _Dragon_ magazine in the 1980s? > 3. Did you lead a guerrilla band in the southern theater of the American Revolution? 1. Not Fearless Fosdick 2. Not Phil Foglio 3. Not Francis Marion > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a former Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, the creator of TV shows like _30 Rock_ and _Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt_, and author of the memoir _Bossypants_? > 2. Did you crack safes and ask for “a map of the cat”? > 3. Were you the leather-jacketed breakout character of _Happy Days_? 1. DQ 2. DQ 3. Not Arthur Fonzarelli > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you born Leslie King, Jr.? > 2. Are you Pearl Slaghoople’s son-in-law? > 3. Did you play Dr. Bombay on _Bewitched_? DQ x3 > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a movie character named after an American car? > Were you a radio, book and movie character named after a British car? > Were you regarded as something like a demigod in Aldous Huxley’s sf novel _Brave New World_? 1. Not Ford Fairlane 2. Not Ford Prefect 3. DQ ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/128 "2024-04-15T23:15:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you win an Oscar for your role in a movie opposite Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berrigan, and Jeffrey Jones? > > 2. Did one of your roommates call you “Ferret Face”? > > 3. Your most famous role notwithstanding, do you _not_ normally speak with a braying “Lo-awn Guyland” accent? > > 1, DQ > 2. Not Frank Burns > 3. Not Fran Whatshername the comedian (Drescher?) Correct on Frank Burns and Fran Drescher. 1 was F. Murray Abraham, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Salieri in _Amadeus_. DQ: Real? ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/129 "2024-04-15T23:18:21Z")
**F** 1. Real ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/130 "2024-04-16T01:18:41Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you born Leslie King, Jr.? > > 2. Are you Pearl Slaghoople’s son-in-law? > > 3. Did you play Dr. Bombay on _Bewitched_? > > DQ x3 #1 was Pres. Gerald R. Ford. #2 is Fred Flintstone. #3 was Bernard Fox. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Living? 3. American? ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/131 "2024-04-16T01:41:19Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a former Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, the creator of TV shows like _30 Rock_ and _Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt_, and author of the memoir _Bossypants_? > 2. Did you crack safes and ask for “a map of the cat”? > 3. Were you the leather-jacketed breakout character of _Happy Days_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > 1. DQ > 2. DQ > 3. Not Arthur Fonzarelli 1 was Tina Fey; 2 was Richard Feynman. DQs: 1. known from the arts? 2. first name begins with F? ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/132 "2024-04-16T01:48:50Z")
**F** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Known from the arts 6. Last name begins with F ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/133 "2024-04-16T02:25:30Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Never saw the movie. > > 1. Are you played by Shia LeBoeuf in **Holes**? > 2. Did Eartha Kitt voice you in **The Emperor’s New Groove**? > 3. Did Colleen Camp play you in **Clue**? For the record: Stanley Yelnats, Yzma and Yvette. IQs: 1. Did you Impress Mnementh in the Pern books? 2. Did you Impress Canth in the Pern books? 3. Did you write, among other books, **Midworld**? ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/134 "2024-04-16T03:04:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Your most famous role notwithstanding, do you _not_ normally speak with a braying “Lo-awn Guyland” accent? Here’s Fran Fine trying wasabi and sounding quite a bit different: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YLkLOYrswU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YLkLOYrswU) IQs: 1. Were you a pizza delivery boy who got cryogenically frozen December 31st, 1999 only to wake up a thousand years later in the WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW on _Futurama_? 2. Were you a First Lady of the US who founded a center named after you? 3. Did you tell us to not turn around, because the Kommissar’s in town? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/135 "2024-04-16T03:46:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you the title star of a “comic book inside the strip” in _Lil’ Abner_? > > 2. Did you draw the “What’s New With Phil & Dixie” comic strip in _Dragon_ magazine in the 1980s? > > 3. Did you lead a guerrilla band in the southern theater of the American Revolution? > > 1. Not Fearless Fosdick > 2. Not Phil Foglio > 3. Not Francis Marion Swept me! IQs: 1. Did you play the owner of A-1 Sporting Goods on Sixteen Mile Road? 2. Did you write _Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe_? 3. Did you preach the sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/136 "2024-04-16T12:29:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did you die in the Battle of Hogwarts? 2. Were you known as the Queen of Jazz? 3. Did Michael Douglas play you in a very recent TV mini-series? ---
**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 16, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/137 "2024-04-16T12:49:38Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a structural engineer who built an eponymous machine, after being tasked to come up with a marvel for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago that would beat Gustave Eiffel’s recently opened Tower in Paris? 2. Did you write _Tender Is The Night_? 3. Were you a Jewish factory supervisor, wrongfully convicted of and lynched for the murder of a 13 year-old Irish girl in Atlanta? ---
**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 16, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/138 "2024-04-16T14:41:11Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you Impress Mnementh in the Pern books? > 2. Did you Impress Canth in the Pern books? > 3. Did you write, among other books, **Midworld**? 1. Not F’Lar 2. Not F’nor 3. Not Alan Dean Foster > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a pizza delivery boy who got cryogenically frozen December 31st, 1999 only to wake up a thousand years later in the WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW on _Futurama_? > 2. Were you a First Lady of the US who founded a center named after you? > 3. Did you tell us to not turn around, because the Kommissar’s in town? 1. Not Fry 2. Not Betty Ford 3. DQ > [@SunUp](#): > > Swept me! This should make up for it: > [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the owner of A-1 Sporting Goods on Sixteen Mile Road? > 2. Did you write _Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe_? > 3. Did you preach the sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” DQ x3 > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you die in the Battle of Hogwarts? > 2. Were you known as the Queen of Jazz? > 3. Did Michael Douglas play you in a very recent TV mini-series? DQ x3 > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a structural engineer who built an eponymous machine, after being tasked to come up with a marvel for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago that would beat Gustave Eiffel’s recently opened Tower in Paris? > 2. Did you write _Tender Is The Night_? > 3. Were you a Jewish factory supervisor, wrongfully convicted of and lynched for the murder of a 13 year-old Irish girl in Atlanta? 1. Not Mr Ferris 2. DQ 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 16, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/139 "2024-04-16T15:15:22Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a pizza delivery boy who got cryogenically frozen December 31st, 1999 only to wake up a thousand years later in the WOOOOOORLD OF TOMORROW on _Futurama_? > 2. Were you a First Lady of the US who founded a center named after you? > 3. Did you tell us to not turn around, because the Kommissar’s in town? > [@SCAdian](#): > > 1. Not Fry > 2. Not Betty Ford > 3. DQ 3 was Falco. DQ: died after 1960? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756/140 "2024-04-16T15:17:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Did you play the owner of A-1 Sporting Goods on Sixteen Mile Road? > > 2. Did you write _Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe_? > > 3. Did you preach the sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” > > DQ x3 The late Joe Flaherty (as Harold Weir in _Freaks and Geeks_), Fannie Flagg, and Harry Emerson Fosdick. DQ: Known from TV or movies? 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2024/999756.md?page=8)