# 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:** 13
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/241 "2020-08-13T16:24:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Sioux who hosted _Truth or Consequences_ and other game shows? > IQ2: Did you play Danny Tanner on two TV shows? > IQ3: Did you star in _The Private Navy of Sgt O’Farrell_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Bob Urich, and not Ernest Borgnine. Bob Barker. Bob Saget (_Full House_ and _Fuller House_). Bob Hope. Bob x3! DQ1: American creator(s)? DQ2: European character? DQ3: Created after 1950? Three DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/242 "2020-08-13T16:37:02Z")
IQ1: Did you star in the first two of a trio of films about illegal road races? IQ2: Did you play Chuck Campbell’s father? IQ3: Did Michael Gross play you in six films and a TV series, and your g’grandfather in a seventh film? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/243 "2020-08-13T16:45:28Z")
Didn’t know that about Bob Barker - thanks, **SCA**! **DLR** , there was already a Barack Obama question. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _A Pilgrim’s Progress_? > 2. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in a war with Spain? > 3. Is a South American nation named after you? Not Bunyan, dunno, and not Simon Bolivar. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > IQs: > 1. Were you the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? > 2. Are you Veronica’s perennial rival for Archie’s affections? > 3. Are you another, red-headed rival of Veronica and the above person, introduced in 1982? Not Brigham Young, not Betty Cooper, and dunno. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you star in the first two of a trio of films about illegal road races? > IQ2: Did you play Chuck Campbell’s father? > IQ3: Did Michael Gross play you in six films and a TV series, and your g’grandfather in a seventh film? Not Burt Reynolds, dunno, and dunno. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/244 "2020-08-13T17:06:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **DLR** , there was already a Barack Obama question. Note that mine appears (in post 224) right before the Prof. asked his (in post 225), though we posted at the same time. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Brigham Young, not Betty Cooper, and dunno. 3 was Cheryl Blossom. DQ: main character? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/245 "2020-08-13T17:23:31Z")
All right, take another DQ, then. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 10. not the main character ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/246 "2020-08-13T17:24:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you star in the first two of a trio of films about illegal road races? > IQ2: Did you play Chuck Campbell’s father? > IQ3: Did Michael Gross play you in six films and a TV series, and your g’grandfather in a seventh film? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Burt Reynolds, dunno, and dunno. ✅. Disregard – worded incorrectly. Burt Gummer (_Tremors_, &c). Burt ~~x3~~ x2! DQ1: Created after 2000? DQ2: Human? One DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/247 "2020-08-13T17:25:45Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 10. not the main character 11. created before 2000 12. human ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/248 "2020-08-13T17:31:08Z")
DQ: Also appeared on TV or in a movie? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/249 "2020-08-13T17:36:48Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 10. not the main character 11. created before 2000 12. human 13. did not also appear on TV or in a movie ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/250 "2020-08-13T17:37:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > One DQ reserved. ~~One DQ reserved.~~ Two DQs reserved. _Now_ one 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:** [August 13, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/251 "2020-08-13T17:47:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > All right, take another DQ, then. DQ: first name begins with B? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/252 "2020-08-13T18:05:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you write _A Pilgrim’s Progress_ ? > > > 2. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in a war with Spain? > > > 3. Is a South American nation named after you? > > Not Bunyan, dunno, and not Simon Bolivar. Correct, Frederic Bazille, and Correct. DQ: Created after 1979? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/253 "2020-08-13T18:05:45Z")
DQ: From a mystery or thriller? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/254 "2020-08-13T18:20:37Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 10. not the main character 11. created before 2000 12. human 13. did not also appear on TV or in a movie 14. only name begins with B 15. created before 1979 16. from a mystery or thriller ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/255 "2020-08-13T19:38:16Z")
IQs: 1. Were you last words “God bless Captain Vere.”? 2. Was your catchphrase: “I would prefer not to.”? 3. Are you the fictional captain of a slave ship from a story by the same author as #1 and #2? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/256 "2020-08-13T20:14:22Z")
IQs: 1. Is your house at 239 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA? 2. Do “the ghouls all come from their humble abodes to get a jolt from” your electrodes? 3. Are you a supermodel member of the Great Lakes Avengers? ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/257 "2020-08-13T20:21:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you last words “God bless Captain Vere.”? > 2. Was your catchphrase: “I would prefer not to.”? > 3. Are you the fictional captain of a slave ship from a story by the same author as #1 and #2? Not Billy Budd, the extraordinarily annoying Bartleby the Scrivener (I would just’ve fired his ass after his third refusal), and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Is your house at 239 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA? > 2. Do “the ghouls all come from their humble abodes to get a jolt from” your electrodes? > 3. Are you a supermodel member of the Great Lakes Avengers? Not Benjamin Franklin, Belinda Frankenstein or Captain Babe-alicious. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/258 "2020-08-13T20:34:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Were you last words “God bless Captain Vere.”? > > > 2. Was your catchphrase: “I would prefer not to.”? > > > 3. Are you the fictional captain of a slave ship from a story by the same author as #1 and #2? > > Not Billy Budd, the extraordinarily annoying Bartleby the Scrivener (I would just’ve fired his ass after his third refusal), and dunno. Correct, Correct and Benito Cereno, all by Herman Melville. DQ: Protagonist? ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/259 "2020-08-14T00:37:41Z")
B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not American 4. not alive today 5. kinda sorta known for politics 6. from prose 7. American creator(s) 8. not a European character 9. created after 1950 10. not the main character 11. created before 2000 12. human 13. did not also appear on TV or in a movie 14. only name begins with B 15. created before 1979 16. from a mystery or thriller 17. arguably the protagonist, but mostly not ---
**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:** [August 14, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645/260 "2020-08-14T02:07:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Benjamin Franklin, Belinda Frankenstein or Captain Babe-alicious. 1 was Betsy Ross; 2 was Bobby “Boris” Pickett (in “Monster Mash”); 3 was Big Bertha. DQ: Asian? 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2020/916645.md?page=14)