# Botticelli - August 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 5, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053 "2015-08-05T12:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**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 31, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/461 "2015-08-31T19:37:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct all around. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes_? > 2. Did you have a hit with _Sunglasses At Night_? > 3. Were you a Texas aviator known for your poor directional sense? > [@astorian](#): > > Take a DQ for #1 > > Not Corey Hart or Wrong Way Corrigan Correct on 2 and 3. #1 was Will Cuppy. DQ: Died after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/462 "2015-08-31T20:39:58Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 ---
**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 31, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/463 "2015-08-31T20:58:37Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _This Ole House_? 2. Were you a heard but not seen character on _Rhoda_? 3. Were you the best known cartoon character created using Synchro-Vox? ---
**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 31, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/464 "2015-08-31T21:54:40Z")
IQ1: Were you a country bumpkin upstaged by a cow taking a dump on TV?? IQ2: Were you the female lead in another Synchro-Voxed show? IQ3: Speaking of country bumpkins, was your song about one a #1 hit? > [@astorian](#): > > [SIZE=“1”]Shoot, I haven’t been swept in a while, but I don’t know any of these. Take 2 DQs. Must be getting awful dusty, then… 😃 [/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/465 "2015-08-31T23:19:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a current NASCAR driver who owns the record label Back40 Records, named after the way you do a back flip when you win races? > IQ2: Are you a Puerto Rican boxer who won titles in 7 weight divisions and also sang and played flamenco guitar? > IQ3: When you played for the LA Lakers, did you build a million-dollar mansion you called the “Ursa Major” where you kept your bongo drums, as a play on your nickname “The Big Dipper?” > > Not Hector (Macho) Camacho or Wilt Chamberlain. > > DQ for 1 Carl Edwards DQ: Known for the arts? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/466 "2015-09-01T00:04:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _This Ole House_? > 2. Were you a heard but not seen character on _Rhoda_? > 3. Were you the best known cartoon character created using Synchro-Vox? Not Carlton the doorman. Takes DQs for the other two ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/467 "2015-09-01T00:05:27Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/468 "2015-09-01T00:51:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _This Ole House_? > 2. Were you a heard but not seen character on _Rhoda_? > 3. Were you the best known cartoon character created using Synchro-Vox? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Carlton the doorman. > > Takes DQs for the other two #1 was Rosemary Clooney. Correct on Carlton. #3 was the abysmal Clutch Cargo. DQs: 1. Died after 2000? 2. Known for politics? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/469 "2015-09-01T01:08:23Z")
Hispanic athletes IQ1: Are you a Cuban-American MLB outfielder who wrote a tell-all book about steroid use in baseball in 2005? IQ2: Are you a Puerto Rican professional golfer whose name Les Nessman horribly mispronounced on _WKRP in Cincinnati_?" IQ3: After defeating Hector “Macho” Camacho in 1992, did the president of Mexico arrange to have you picked up in the Popemobile? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/470 "2015-09-01T01:40:50Z")
Previous IQs: Did you give a campaign speech in front of a giant poster of yourself? - Charles Foster Kane: [http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture\_test/Citizen%20Kane\_post.jpg](http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture_test/Citizen%20Kane_post.jpg) Were you the Tory heavy in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? - Charles Seymour. Did you dictate letters to your sister back in Boston? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on _M_A_S_H\*. Charles x3! DQs: American? Considered a “good guy”? One DQ reserved. IQs: Are you Duke of Rothesay? Did you marry your first cousin, who worried about your soul? Were you an already-famous person who survived a terrible trainwreck? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/471 "2015-09-01T13:15:52Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the Joker on TV’s _Batman_? 2. Did you play Batman in the recent movie trilogy? 3. Are you married to Rachel Weisz? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/472 "2015-09-01T15:06:18Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _This Ole House_? > 2. Were you a heard but not seen character on _Rhoda_? > 3. Were you the best known cartoon character created using Synchro-Vox? Not Carlton your doorman. Take DQs for the other two ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/473 "2015-09-01T15:07:30Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a country bumpkin upstaged by a cow taking a dump on TV?? > IQ2: Were you the female lead in another Synchro-Voxed show? > IQ3: Speaking of country bumpkins, was your song about one a #1 hit? > [/SIZE] Swept again. This is depressing. Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/474 "2015-09-01T15:08:30Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts 7. Died before 2000 8. Not involved in politics ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/475 "2015-09-01T15:09:33Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Hispanic athletes > > IQ1: Are you a Cuban-American MLB outfielder who wrote a tell-all book about steroid use in baseball in 2005? > IQ2: Are you a Puerto Rican professional golfer whose name Les Nessman horribly mispronounced on _WKRP in Cincinnati_?" > IQ3: After defeating Hector “Macho” Camacho in 1992, did the president of Mexico arrange to have you picked up in the Popemobile? Not Jose Canseco, Chi Chi Rodriguez or… Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/476 "2015-09-01T15:10:34Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts 7. Died before 2000 8. Not involved in politics 9. An American citizen, but born and raised elsewhere 10. Had a popular image as a good guy (SEEMED okay in real life, but who knows?) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/477 "2015-09-01T15:13:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you Duke of Rothesay? > Did you marry your first cousin, who worried about your soul? > Were you an already-famous person who survived a terrible trainwreck? Not Charles Windsor/Prince Charles or Charles Darwin Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/478 "2015-09-01T15:14:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the Joker on TV’s _Batman_? > 2. Did you play Batman in the recent movie trilogy? > 3. Are you married to Rachel Weisz? Not Cesar Romero or Christian Bale Take a DQ for #3 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/479 "2015-09-01T15:20:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the Joker on TV’s _Batman_? > 2. Did you play Batman in the recent movie trilogy? > 3. Are you married to Rachel Weisz? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Cesar Romero or Christian Bale > Take a DQ for #3 Correct, Correct and Daniel Craig. DQ: Common first name? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/480 "2015-09-01T15:34:04Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts (though I’m best known to fans of one particular art form) 7. Died before 2000 8. Not involved in politics 9. An American citizen, but born and raised elsewhere 10. Had a popular image as a good guy (SEEMED like a good guy in real life, but who knows?) 11. Common first name [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053.md?page=25)