# Botticelli - August 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104 "2019-08-03T05:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/61 "2019-08-13T04:52:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a foppish baronet in a novel based on a stage play written by the same person? > IQ2: Were you an upholsterer in 18th-century Philadelphia? > IQ3: Did you have 500 hats? Dunno, dunno, and not Bartholomew Cubbins. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Captain Jack Harkness on _Doctor Who_? > 2. Were you known as “the It Girl”? > 3. Are you an adopted caveboy who grew up to marry your next door neighbor? Dunno, not Theda Bara, and not Bam-Bam Rubble. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a one-eared cartoon rabbit? > 2. Do you play the titular Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? > 3. Were you Secretary-General of the UN in the 2000s? Not Matt Groening’s Bongo, dunno, and not Boutros-Boutros Ghali. B. 1. fictional 2. male ---
**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 13, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/62 "2019-08-13T12:07:46Z")
IQ1: Are you QB for the Cleveland Browns? IQ2: Were you released by the Jacksonville Jaguars and now signed up to be backup QB to Jared Goff for the LA Rams? IQ3: Are you QB for the New Orleans Saints? ---
**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, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/63 "2019-08-13T12:19:45Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who? 2. Were you known as “the It Girl”? 3. Are you an adopted caveboy who grew up to marry your next door neighbor? Dunno, not Theda Bara, and not Bam-Bam Rubble. #1 was John Barrowman. #2 was Clara Bow. Theda was “the Vamp”. #3 is, indeed, Bamm-Bamm. DQs: 1. Created after 1900? 2. Created by an American or Americans? ---
**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, 2019, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/64 "2019-08-13T12:23:37Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Pilgrim’s Progress_? 2. Did you compose _White Christmas_? 3. Did Alex Trebek recently state he thought you were his likely successor as host of _Jeopardy_? ---
**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, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/65 "2019-08-13T14:25:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you QB for the Cleveland Browns? > IQ2: Were you released by the Jacksonville Jaguars and now signed up to be backup QB to Jared Goff for the LA Rams? > IQ3: Are you QB for the New Orleans Saints? Dunno x3. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Pilgrim’s Progress_? > 2. Did you compose _White Christmas_? > 3. Did Alex Trebek recently state he thought you were his likely successor as host of _Jeopardy_? Not Bunyan, Berlin or… Bob Hoskins? (wildass guess). B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created after 1900 4. created by an American or Americans ---
**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, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/66 "2019-08-13T14:31:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write The Pilgrim’s Progress? 2. Did you compose White Christmas? 3. Did Alex Trebek recently state he thought you were his likely successor as host of Jeopardy? Not Bunyan, Berlin or… Bob Hoskins? (wildass guess). Correct on 1 and 2. Alex said the person following him would have to be, in these days, a smart, witty, young woman, so it’d have to be… Betty White. DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/67 "2019-08-13T14:32:15Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 2 (Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend) was Booga; 3 (the producer of _Car Talk_) was Doug “Bongo Boy” Berman. > > (…) That’s Doug “Bongo Boy, the Subway Fugitive, _Not_ A Slave To Fashion” Berman, if you please. 😃 ---
**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, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/68 "2019-08-13T14:53:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Matt Groening’s Bongo, dunno, and not Boutros-Boutros Ghali. 2 was Rachel Brosnahan; 3 was Ban Ki-moon (Boutros Boutros-Ghali was in office until the end of 1996). DQs: 1. first name starts with B? 2. created before 1960? IQs: 3. Do all the downtown ladies call you “treetop lover”, and all the men just call you “sir”? 4. Are you a ten-year-old detective from Idaville? 5. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans? ---
**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, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/69 "2019-08-13T15:07:43Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Kitchen Confidential_? 2. Are you a cartoon bear who rode a unicycle? 3. Were you Attorney General under Pres. Lincoln? ---
**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 13, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/70 "2019-08-13T15:53:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you QB for the Cleveland Browns? > IQ2: Were you released by the Jacksonville Jaguars and now signed up to be backup QB to Jared Goff for the LA Rams? > IQ3: Are you QB for the New Orleans Saints? > > Dunno x3. Baker Mayfield, Blake Bortles, Drew Brees DQ: Originally from a novel? holding 2 DQs ---
**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, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/71 "2019-08-13T19:02:07Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Do all the downtown ladies call you “treetop lover”, and all the men just call you “sir”? > 2. Are you a ten-year-old detective from Idaville? > 3. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans? Not Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Encyclopedia Brown or Boadicea Brown. Er, just Boadicea. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Kitchen Confidential_? > 2. Are you a cartoon bear who rode a unicycle? > 3. Were you Attorney General under Pres. Lincoln? Not Anthony Bourdain, Yogi Bear (probably wrong) or Edward Bates. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created after 1900 4. created by an American or Americans 5. originally from a work of prose fiction 6. last name starts with B 7. created after 1960 8. originally from a novel ---
**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 13, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/72 "2019-08-13T19:24:46Z")
DQ: Adapted to TV/streaming? holding a 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:** [August 13, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/73 "2019-08-13T19:37:30Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write Kitchen Confidential? 2. Are you a cartoon bear who rode a unicycle? 3. Were you Attorney General under Pres. Lincoln? Not Anthony Bourdain, Yogi Bear (probably wrong) or Edward Bates. #1 and 3 are correct. #2 was Disney’s Bongo. DQ: Protagonist? ---
**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, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/74 "2019-08-13T19:42:15Z")
A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Do you perform in the concert film _Never Say Never_? 2. Are you the protagonist of a series of novels by Robert Ludlum? 3. Does a comedy routine of yours distinguish between “Jewish” and “goyish”? ---
**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, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/75 "2019-08-13T19:46:18Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Do you perform in the concert film _Never Say Never_? > 2. Are you the protagonist of a series of novels by Robert Ludlum? > 3. Does a comedy routine of yours distinguish between “Jewish” and “goyish”? Dunno, not Jason Bourne, and dunno. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created after 1900 4. created by an American or Americans 5. originally from a work of prose fiction 6. last name starts with B 7. created after 1960 8. originally from a novel 9. not adapted to TV/streaming 10. not the protagonist ---
**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, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/76 "2019-08-13T22:37:05Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a blue cat who hangs around with Top Cat? 2. Before you married were you known as Elizabeth McBricker? 3. Did you play Cinnamon Carter on _Mission: Impossible_? ---
**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 13, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/77 "2019-08-13T23:17:52Z")
IQ1: Are you a former UN Secretary General from South Korea? IQ2: Are you a former UN Secretary General from Egypt? IQ3: Are you a rapper who covered “(You) Got What I Need” in 1990? DQ: Adapted to film? ---
**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, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/78 "2019-08-14T01:10:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Jason Bourne, and dunno. 1 was Justin Bieber; 3 was Lenny Bruce. DQs: 1. novel written before 1990? 2. antagonist? IQs: 3. Did you star as Liz in the radio show _My Favorite Husband_? 4. Were you mentor and inspiration to a Scottish doctor-turned-author? 5. Did you play Ambassador de Sadesky in _Dr. Strangelove_? ---
**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, 2019, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/79 "2019-08-14T03:50:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a blue cat who hangs around with Top Cat? > 2. Before you married were you known as Elizabeth McBricker? > 3. Did you play Cinnamon Carter on _Mission: Impossible_? Not Blue Cat, dunno, and not Barbara Bain. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former UN Secretary General from South Korea? > IQ2: Are you a former UN Secretary General from Egypt? > IQ3: Are you a rapper who covered “(You) Got What I Need” in 1990?.. Still not Ban Ki-Moon or Boutros Boutros Gali; dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star as Liz in the radio show _My Favorite Husband_? > 2. Were you mentor and inspiration to a Scottish doctor-turned-author? > 3. Did you play Ambassador de Sadesky in _Dr. Strangelove_? Dunno, not Dr. Joseph Bell, and dunno. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. created after 1900 4. created by an American or Americans 5. originally from a work of prose fiction 6. last name starts with B 7. created after 1960 8. originally from a novel 9. not adapted to TV/streaming 10. not the protagonist 11. adapted to film 12. novel written before 1990 13. an, but not the sole, antagonist ---
**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 14, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/80 "2019-08-14T12:07:34Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former UN Secretary General from South Korea? > IQ2: Are you a former UN Secretary General from Egypt? > IQ3: Are you a rapper who covered “(You) Got What I Need” in 1990?.. > > Still not Ban Ki-Moon or Boutros Boutros Gali; dunno. Biz Markie DQ: Thriller genre? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=5)