# Botticelli - Aug. 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 2, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881 "2021-08-02T17:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 2, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/1 "2021-08-02T17:36:31Z")
Last month’s thread: [Botticelli - July 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874) Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #83 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/83) And our new letter is ## F ---
**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 2, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/2 "2021-08-02T18:14:33Z")
Good one, EH! IQs: 1. Were you fabulous and furry and did you own a cat? 2. Did you keep Paul in custody at Caesarea? 3. Did you send Paul to Rome to stand judgment? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/3 "2021-08-02T18:26:01Z")
IQs: 1. Could your most famous movie basically be broken down into one week of a good life? 2. Are you an old man who lives with your nephew, the “dummy”? 3. Did your son play a role in the _Scooby Doo_ movies? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/4 "2021-08-02T18:49:40Z")
IQ1: Were you often directed to pluck your magic twanger? IQ2: I say, I say, were some of your speech mannerisms patterned on the fictional Senator Claghorn radio character? IQ3: Are you a superhero parody popularized by Howard Stern? ---
**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 2, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/5 "2021-08-02T19:33:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you fabulous and furry and did you own a cat? > 2. Did you keep Paul in custody at Caesarea? > 3. Did you send Paul to Rome to stand judgment? I was not Fat Freddy Phreak, not Felonius Maximus and not that other unpleasant Roman, either. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Could your most famous movie basically be broken down into one week of a good life? > 2. Are you an old man who lives with your nephew, the “dummy”? > 3. Did your son play a role in the _Scooby Doo_ movies? Not Fellini, not Redd Foxx and not Freddie Prinz. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you often directed to pluck your magic twanger? > IQ2: I say, I say, were some of your speech mannerisms patterned on the fictional Senator Claghorn radio character? > IQ3: Are you a superhero parody popularized by Howard Stern? Dunno, not Foghorn “That boy’s about as sharp as a pound of wet liver” Leghorn and not Fartman. ---
**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 2, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/6 "2021-08-02T19:49:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Were you fabulous and furry and did you own a cat? > > > 2. Did you keep Paul in custody at Caesarea? > > > 3. Did you send Paul to Rome to stand judgment? > > I was not Fat Freddy Phreak, not Felonius Maximus and not that other unpleasant Roman, either. Correct on Fat Freddy. The others were Felix and Festus. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 3, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/7 "2021-08-03T01:47:11Z")
F. 1. real 2. male ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/8 "2021-08-03T01:47:24Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you play Corky Sherwood Forrest? 2. Were you the subject of a song (later covered by Reba McEntire) by Bobbie Gentry? 3. Were you probably Joe Regalbuto’s most famous role? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/9 "2021-08-03T02:55:50Z")
Correct on all of mine (although I was thinking Fred Sanford, not Redd Fox. Same difference) DQs 1. Were you a mononymed Austrian musician, most famous in the 80’s? 2. Are you the singer in a band that had a hit in 1979, which came back into play in the past 16 months? 3. Are you a model famous for getting a bird to the face? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/10 "2021-08-03T03:01:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Were you often directed to pluck your magic twanger? > > > IQ2: I say, I say, were some of your speech mannerisms patterned on the fictional Senator Claghorn radio character? > > > IQ3: Are you a superhero parody popularized by Howard Stern? > > Dunno, not Foghorn “That boy’s about as sharp as a pound of wet liver” Leghorn and not Fartman. Froggie the Gremlin, Yes, Yes DQ: Alive? ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/11 "2021-08-03T05:15:39Z")
IQ1: Would you rather sniff flowers than challenge matadors? IQ2: There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright? IQ3: Did your assassination trigger the first World War? ---
**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 3, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/12 "2021-08-03T12:27:57Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a French Rococo painter whose work was parodied in the movie _Frozen_? 2. Were you the founder of German Idealism? 3. Were you a puppet on Soupy Sales’s kid show? ---
**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 3, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/13 "2021-08-03T13:20:10Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you play Corky Sherwood Forrest? > 2. Were you the subject of a song (later covered by Reba McEntire) by Bobbie Gentry? > 3. Were you probably Joe Regalbuto’s most famous role? Not Faith Ford, not Billie Joe McCafferty Fsomething, and not Frank Fontana. > [@MissTake](#): > > DQs [sic] > > 1. Were you a mononymed Austrian musician, most famous in the 80’s? > 2. Are you the singer in a band that had a hit in 1979, which came back into play in the past 16 months? > 3. Are you a model famous for getting a bird to the face? Not Falco, dunno and not Fabio. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Would you rather sniff flowers than challenge matadors? > IQ2: There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright? > IQ3: Did your assassination trigger the first World War? Not Ferdinand the Bull, not Fernando from the ABBA song, and not Archduke Franz Ferdinand. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Rococo painter whose work was parodied in the movie _Frozen_? > 2. Were you the founder of German Idealism? > 3. Were you a puppet on Soupy Sales’s kid show? Dunno x3. F. 1. real 2. male 3. alive ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/14 "2021-08-03T14:03:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@MissTake](#): > > > > > 1. Were you a mononymed Austrian musician, most famous in the 80’s? > > > 2. Are you the singer in a band that had a hit in 1979, which came back into play in the past 16 months? > > > 3. Are you a model famous for getting a bird to the face? > > Not Falco, dunno and not Fabio. Yeah, I erred in saying DQ. Oops. Yes, Doug Fieger (The Knack, _My Sharona_), Yes My actual DQ: Born after 1970? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/15 "2021-08-03T14:14:47Z")
IQs 1. Have you played everything from a royal to a widower with a stange nanny to a lovestruck author poorly learning Portuguese? 2. Are you one of the few people to have a Corvette named in your honor? 3. In character, did you say: “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” ---
**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 3, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/16 "2021-08-03T14:34:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Rococo painter whose work was parodied in the movie _Frozen_ ? > 2. Were you the founder of German Idealism? > 3. Were you a puppet on Soupy Sales’s kid show? #1 was Jean Fragonard. #2 was Johann Fichte. #3 was White Fang. DQs: 1. American? 2. Known from the Arts? 1 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 3, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/17 "2021-08-03T15:25:26Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Have you played everything from a royal to a widower with a stange nanny to a lovestruck author poorly learning Portuguese? > 2. Are you one of the few people to have a Corvette named in your honor? > 3. In character, did you say: “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” Not Colin Firth, not Frank Gorshin and not Al Franken. F. 1. real 2. male 3. alive 4. born before 1970 5. not American 6. not known from the Arts ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/18 "2021-08-03T15:28:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Colin Firth, not Frank Gorshin and not Al Franken Yes, Emerson Fittipaldi, Yes DQ: Known from politics or military? ---
**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 3, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/19 "2021-08-03T15:36:37Z")
F. 1. real 2. male 3. alive 4. born before 1970 5. not American 6. not known from the Arts 7. not known from politics or the military ---
**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 3, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/20 "2021-08-03T17:06:07Z")
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