# Botticelli -- Aug 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 28, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645 "2020-07-28T21:40:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 28, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/1 "2020-07-28T21:40:20Z")
I am **P**. Previous thread: > [@Botticelli July 2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/271): > > I had no idea she did all those things! I just remembered that Steve Irwin had a daughter… Figured I might as well go ahead and start a new thread for August: ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/2 "2020-07-29T00:06:46Z")
IQs: 1. Are you me? 2. Are you the actor who played me? 3. Are you Carlo Collodi’s best known creation? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/3 "2020-07-29T01:02:54Z")
IQs: Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? Did Andre Braugher play you on _Homicide_? Did you found a woolen manufacturing company in Oregon? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/4 "2020-07-29T01:27:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you me? > 2. Are you the actor who played me? > 3. Are you Carlo Collodi’s best known creation? Not Prof. Pepperwinkle. Not that Phil guy whose surname I can never remember. Not Pinocchio. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? > Did Andre Braugher play you on _Homicide_ ? > Did you found a woolen manufacturing company in Oregon? Not … Leonidas Polk? 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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/5 "2020-07-29T02:41:38Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a recent candidate for the US Democratic presidential nomination of Maltese descent? 2. Were you kidnapped by Bowser and had to be rescued by an Italian plumber? 3. Over several weeks from June to July 2001, did you (as “Troy Stevens”) host the TV show version of the computer game _You Don’t Know Jack_? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/6 "2020-07-29T02:48:55Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a recent candidate for the US Democratic presidential nomination of Maltese descent? > 2. Were you kidnapped by Bowser and had to be rescued by an Italian plumber? > 3. Over several weeks from June to July 2001, did you (as “Troy Stevens”) host the TV show version of the computer game _You Don’t Know Jack_ ? Not … Pete Buttigieg? DQ. (“Italian plumber” – Mario?) 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:** [July 29, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/7 "2020-07-29T12:45:19Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you me? > > > 2. Are you the actor who played me? > > > 3. Are you Carlo Collodi’s best known creation? > > Not Prof. Pepperwinkle. > Not that Phil guy whose surname I can never remember. > Not Pinocchio. Correct on me. Correct on Phil (Tead). Correct on Pinocchio. IQs: 1. Were you also known as Saul of Tarsus? 2. Were you married to Pluto? 3. Were you married to Hades? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/8 "2020-07-29T13:27:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not … Pete Buttigieg? > DQ. (“Italian plumber” – Mario?) > DQ. Correct on Mayor Pete. 2 (kidnapped by Bowser and had to be rescued by, yes, Mario) was Princess Peach; 3 (hosted the TV version of _You Don’t Know Jack_) was Paul Reubens. IQs: 1. Are you Paul Reubens’ better-known gray-suited childish alter ego? 2. Did you write _Six Characters in Search of an Author_? 3. Did you found a detective agency with the motto “We never sleep”? DQs: 1. real? 2. first name begins with P? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/9 "2020-07-29T13:47:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you also known as Saul of Tarsus? > 2. Were you married to Pluto? > 3. Were you married to Hades? Not St Paul. Not … Proserpina? Not Persephone. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Paul Reubens’ better-known gray-suited childish alter ego? > 2. Did you write _Six Characters in Search of an Author_ ? > 3. Did you found a detective agency with the motto “We never sleep”? Not PeeWee Herman. DQ. Not Mr Pinkerton. **P** 1 Fictional 2 Last name begins with P ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/10 "2020-07-29T13:54:34Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Did you write the _His Dark Materials_ trilogy? 2. Are you the protagonist of _Great Expectations_? 3. Have you been called “the father of toxicology”? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/11 "2020-07-29T14:18:49Z")
I heard Mayor Pete speak late last year and, when asked about his electability, he said, “I think I have the gay ex-Navy Episcopalian Maltese-American small-town mayor lane all locked up.” Previous IQs: Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? - Not Gen. Polk (good guess), but Gen. Pemberton Did Andre Braugher play you on _Homicide_? - Det. Pembleton Did you found a woolen manufacturing company in Oregon? - Mr. Pendleton P-ton x3! DQs: American? Male? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? Were you Brett’s colleague and Ripley’s subordinate? Were you a Democratic presidential candidate in the first season of _24_? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/12 "2020-07-29T14:20:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the _His Dark Materials_ trilogy? > 2. Are you the protagonist of _Great Expectations_ ? > 3. Have you been called “the father of toxicology”? Not Philip(?) Pullman. Not … Pip? DQ. I think if I’d been five seconds slower in thinking of Proserpina, you would have gotten a DQ for her. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/13 "2020-07-29T14:31:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? > Were you Brett’s colleague and Ripley’s subordinate? > Were you a Democratic presidential candidate in the first season of _24_ ? DQ. (I got sidetracked halfway through the second book and never did finish the series.) DQ. (The “Alien” films?) DQ. **P** 1 Fictional 2 Last name begins with P 3 American 4 Female 5 Would presumably be alive today, if real Too bad Mayor Pete dropped out ☹ – he’s one of the only two Dems I’ve ever seriously considered voting for. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/14 "2020-07-29T14:37:00Z")
I liked Mayor Pete, too. I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of him. Might be a good HUD pick in the Biden Administration (knock on wood). Previous IQs: Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, yes, in Asimov’s _Foundation_ trilogy Were you Brett’s colleague and Ripley’s subordinate? - Parker, yes, in the first _Alien_ movie Were you a Democratic presidential candidate in the first season of _24_? - David Palmer DQs: First appeared before 1950? First appeared in print? Created by an American? IQs: Were you a Laker Girl before you became a singer? Were you the subject of a yearning romantic song with a one-word title? Were you a chipper GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/15 "2020-07-29T15:00:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Laker Girl before you became a singer? > Were you the subject of a yearning romantic song with a one-word title? > Were you a chipper GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties? DQ. Not … Paula? DQ. **P** 1 Fictional 2. Last name begins with P 3. American 4. Female 5. Would presumably be alive today, if real 6. Did not first appear before 1950 7. Did not first appear in print 8. Created by at least one American ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/16 "2020-07-29T15:10:23Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Laker Girl before you became a singer? - Paula Abdul Were you the subject of a yearning romantic song with a one-word title? - Yes, Paula (I see the title was actually “Hey Paula”): [Paul and Paula - Hey Paula - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7w3traHbTU) Were you a chipper GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties? - Paula Hawkins DQs: First appeared in a movie? Considered a beauty? IQs: Did a neighbor knock three times every time he wanted to see you? Are you the best-known fictional person from La Barre, France? Were you his brother? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/17 "2020-07-29T15:45:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not PeeWee Herman. > DQ. > Not Mr Pinkerton. 2 was Luigi Pirandello. IQs: 1. Did Paul Reubens have a cameo in _Batman Returns_ as your father, abandoning you in the sewer? 2. Were you inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, though you have been ruled ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame and banned from the game entirely? 3. Did you appear in _Midnight in Paris_ as Zelda Fitzgerald? DQ: created after 1980? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/18 "2020-07-29T16:55:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you write the _His Dark Materials_ trilogy? > > > 2. Are you the protagonist of _Great Expectations_ ? > > > 3. Have you been called “the father of toxicology”? > > Not Philip(?) Pullman. > Not … Pip? > DQ. Correct on Pullman. Correct on Phillip “Pip” Pirrip. #3 was Paracelsus. 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:** [July 29, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/19 "2020-07-29T19:29:33Z")
IQs: 1. Was one of your catchphrases “Picky, picky, picky”? 2. Did you star opposite Chaplin in _The Great Dictator_? 3. Did you win a Tony for your performance in _Hello, Dolly_? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/20 "2020-07-29T20:34:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Paul Reubens have a cameo in _Batman Returns_ as your father, abandoning you in the sewer? > 2. Were you inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, though you have been ruled ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame and banned from the game entirely? > 3. Did you appear in _Midnight in Paris_ as Zelda Fitzgerald? Three DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was one of your catchphrases “Picky, picky, picky”? > 2. Did you star opposite Chaplin in _The Great Dictator_ ? > 3. Did you win a Tony for your performance in _Hello, Dolly_ ? And three for you as well. \ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Laker Girl before you became a singer? - Paula Abdul > Were you the subject of a yearning romantic song with a one-word title? - Yes, Paula (I see the title was actually “Hey Paula”): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7w3traHbTU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7w3traHbTU) > Were you a chipper GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties? - Paula Hawkins Pssst – You forgot to say “Paula x3!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645.md?page=2)