# 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:** 10
**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 17, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/181 "2021-08-17T20:50:50Z")
Correct on the first two; the third is Hagrid, from the _Harry Potter_ series (Norbert was the baby dragon whom he eventually had to send away when the wee nipper got too big and too dangerous). DQ: Best known for orchestral music? IQs: Did you write _The Planets_? Did you make a robot double of your far-distant, unlamented wife Stella? Were you a Civil War general wounded at Gettysburg and called “the Superb,” who narrowly lost the presidential election of 1880? ---
**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 17, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/182 "2021-08-17T22:11:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you write _The Planets_ ? Yes, I am # Gustav Holst! Good job, EH. ---
**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 17, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/183 "2021-08-17T22:13:40Z")
Congratulations @Elendil_s_Heir ! ---
**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 18, 2021, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/184 "2021-08-18T02:53:39Z")
Thanks! Good one, **Prof. P.** I was reading about Holst (a Brit born and raised, despite his name) and listening to that suite just a few days back. My other previous IQs: Did you make a robot double of your far-distant, unlamented wife Stella? - Harcourt Fenton Mudd, on _ST:TOS_ Were you a Civil War general wounded at Gettysburg and called “the Superb,” who narrowly lost the presidential election of 1880? - Winfield Scott Hancock Lemme see about our next letter… ---
**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 18, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/185 "2021-08-18T03:04:28Z")
Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #84 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/84) Our next letter is # W ---
**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 18, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/186 "2021-08-18T12:37:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Baroque-a-Nova_ and the five-part Dada Trilogy? 2. Did you play Sofia in _The Color Purple_? 3. Were you the Matinee Lady on sketches on \*The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson \*? ---
**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 18, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/187 "2021-08-18T12:59:05Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Did you play a high schooler romantically pursued by another high schooler, though your character was only interested in money and guys with it? 2. Did you write the story on which _Field of Dreams_ was based? 3. Did you (allegedly) say that ending a sentence with a preposition was something up with which you would not put? ---
**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 18, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/188 "2021-08-18T19:19:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Baroque-a-Nova_ and the five-part Dada Trilogy? > 2. Did you play Sofia in _The Color Purple_? > 3. Were you the Matinee Lady on sketches on \*The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson \*? Dunno, not Oprah Winfrey and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you play a high schooler romantically pursued by another high schooler, though your character was only interested in money and guys with it? > 2. Did you write the story on which _Field of Dreams_ was based? > 3. Did you (allegedly) say that ending a sentence with a preposition was something up with which you would not put? Dunno, dunno and not the redoubtable Winston Churchill (although as I’ve heard it, he rejected the _rule_ that you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition). ---
**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 18, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/189 "2021-08-18T19:47:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno and not the redoubtable Winston Churchill (although as I’ve heard it, he rejected the _rule_ that you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition). 1 was Tuesday Weld, as Thalia on _The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_; 2 was W.P. Kinsella. DQs: 1. real? 2. first name begins with W? ---
**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 18, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/190 "2021-08-18T19:51:52Z")
IQs 1. When you replaced another actor in a voiceover role for a 2007 movie, did the director not inform you of the change? 2. Were you the replaced actor? 3. Did you produce Nazi uniforms? ---
**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 18, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/191 "2021-08-18T20:08:39Z")
That sounds familiar, but dunno x3. W. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with W ---
**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 18, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/192 "2021-08-18T20:36:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you write _Baroque-a-Nova_ and the five-part Dada Trilogy? > > > 2. Did you play Sofia in _The Color Purple_ ? > > > 3. Were you the Matinee Lady on sketches on \*The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson \*? > > Dunno, not Oprah Winfrey and dunno. #1 was Mason Williams. #3 was Carol Wayne. Correct on Oprah. DQs: 1. Male? 2. From film or TV? ---
**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 18, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/193 "2021-08-18T22:39:04Z")
Ignore the 3rd IQ - it was a wrong query 1. Was Hugo Weaving in _Transformers_ 2. Was Frank Welker DQs 1. If real, would be alive today? 2. Main character? ---
**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 18, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/194 "2021-08-18T23:58:09Z")
IQs: 1. Were you assassinated by Leon Czolgosz? 2. Did you write _The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia_? 3. Did you have a pet black widow spider named Homer? ---
**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 19, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/195 "2021-08-19T18:39:25Z")
Not William McKinley, dunno and dunno. W. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with W 3. male 4. from film or TV 5. would probably be alive today, but that’s just my guess 6. a main character ---
**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 19, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/196 "2021-08-19T18:53:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not William McKinley, dunno and dunno. 2 was Fred Worth; 3 was Wednesday Addams (because yesterday was Wednesday). DQs: 1. first appeared after 1970? 2. from 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 19, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/197 "2021-08-19T18:54:52Z")
W. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with W 3. male 4. from film or TV 5. would probably be alive today, but that’s just my guess 6. a main character 7. first appeared after 1970 8. from film ---
**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 19, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/198 "2021-08-19T20:25:34Z")
IQs: 1. Were you played by Jackie Chan in two movies opposite Owen Wilson? 2. Did you play Mobius M. Mobius on the Disney+ series _Loki_? 3. Did you write the songs for _The Music Man_? ---
**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 20, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/199 "2021-08-20T01:05:06Z")
DQs 1. Have you never eaten a Big Kahuna burger? 2. Did you and your “sister” assist in a diamond heist? 3. Did you originally host a popular pick a letter game show? ---
**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 20, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881/200 "2021-08-20T02:39:40Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a recipe for a very large cake that began “Take 40 eggs…” 2. Were you a news anchorman who told us that was the way it was? 3. At the end of your first appearance, does your commissioner friend recount to you how a masked, mysterious figure solved the Case of the Criminal Syndicate–but is it revealed afterwards that, unbeknownst to him, you are the secret identity of that mysterious figure? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881.md?page=11)