# Botticelli August 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985 "2023-08-03T02:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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 20, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/281 "2023-08-20T00:59:07Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick Were you, too? - Bill Cowher Were you the Steelers’ star QB in the early Eighties? - Not Brett Favre, but Terry Bradshaw Three DQs reserved. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/282 "2023-08-20T01:05:13Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > : > > > > 1. Were you a prominent French-American neo-expressionist painter, before dying of a heroin overdose at the age of 28? > > 2. Did you rig one of your paintings with a hidden shredder, that you activated when it sold for $1.4 million, destroying half the piece? > > 3. Are you one half of a pair of stock figures in jokes about Cajuns, equivalent to Ole and Lena for Scandinavians and Pat and Mike for Irish? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Banksy. > 3. I am not Bernard? 1. was Jean-Michel Basquiat. Correct on 2. 3. is Boudreaux, who, with his partner Thibodeaux is the hero of the Cajun version of Pat and Mike jokes. 2 DQs 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 20, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/283 "2023-08-20T01:08:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick Now wait a minute. Belichick has coached the Patriots, but never the Steelers. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/284 "2023-08-20T01:13:20Z")
Oops, thought he had. Sorry. One DQ withdrawn. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/285 "2023-08-20T01:16:02Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Were you a winning coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers? - Bill Belichick > > Now wait a minute. Belichick has coached the Patriots, but never the Steelers. Belichick coached the Browns (but wasn’t successful, because, the Browns). Maybe that’s who you were thinking of, @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 20, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/286 "2023-08-20T01:25:20Z")
Yeah, could be. 🤔 ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/287 "2023-08-20T12:43:09Z")
IQs: 1. Are you married to Ned Leeds? 2. Are you Gen. Thunderbolt Ross’s daughter? 3. Were you married to Hawkeye? ---
**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, 2023, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/288 "2023-08-20T13:09:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you marry the former Miss Boopadoop? > IQ2: Was your husband, a comic-strip character, disinherited by his wealthy parents for marrying beneath his class? > IQ3: Were you originally known as Baby Dumpling? IQ1: I am not Dagwood Bumstead. IQ2: I am not Blondie. IQ3: I am not Alexander Bumstead. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you married to Ned Leeds? > 2. Are you Gen. Thunderbolt Ross’s daughter? > 3. Were you married to Hawkeye? 1. I am not Betty Brant. 2. I am not Betty Ross. 3. I am not Bobbi Morse. ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/289 "2023-08-20T15:11:50Z")
Not surprised you swept me. IQs: 1. Were you Howard the Duck’s girlfriend? 2. Should your hero-name by Mrs. Miracle? 3. Did you write _Pilgrim’s Progress_? ---
**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 20, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/290 "2023-08-20T18:59:05Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations? 2. Do you have dominion over flies? 3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting? ---
**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 20, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/291 "2023-08-20T18:59:55Z")
#2 should be “Should your hero-name **be** Mrs. Miracle?” ---
**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, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/292 "2023-08-20T19:08:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Howard the Duck’s girlfriend? > 2. Should your hero-name by Mrs. Miracle? > 3. Did you write _Pilgrim’s Progress_? 1. I am not Beverly Switzler. 2. I am not Big Barda. 3. I am not John Bunyan. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations? > 2. Do you have dominion over flies? > 3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting? 1. I am not Steve Buscemi. 2. I am not Beelzebub. 3. I remember this guy’s name being something like Boudrillion. If you don’t think that’s close enough, take a DQ. ---
**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 20, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/293 "2023-08-20T19:14:21Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a firefighter-turned-actor who quietly rejoined the NYFD for a few months after 9/11, to assist rescue operations? > > 2. Do you have dominion over flies? > > 3. Did you create a system of criminal identification using photographs and bodily measurements that was used by many police departments, until surpassed by fingerprinting? > > 1. I am not Steve Buscemi. > 2. I am not Beelzebub. > 3. I remember this guy’s name being something like Boudrillion. If you don’t think that’s close enough, take a DQ. No. 3 was Alphonse Bertillon, but I think you were close enough, yes. ---
**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 20, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/294 "2023-08-20T20:52:34Z")
DQs: Portrayed by a live actress in Disney film, not just a voice part? Disney movie won a non-technical Oscar? ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/295 "2023-08-20T22:05:38Z")
Swept me again. IQs: 1. Did you write _Sonnets from the Portuguese_? 2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus? 3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s _Neutron Star_? ---
**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 20, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/296 "2023-08-20T22:16:21Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle? 2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf? 3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack? ---
**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, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/297 "2023-08-20T23:31:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Sonnets from the Portuguese_? > 2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus? > 3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s _Neutron Star_? 1. I am not Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. 2. I am not Bill Oddie? 3. Take a DQ. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle? > 2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf? > 3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack? 1. I am not Mel Brooks, saved by Miracle the horse, in _History of the World Part 1_. 2. I am not Brian Boru. 3. I am not Cate Blanchett? DQs: 1. fictional 2. female 3. created after 1950 4. has appeared in but not originally from TV and movies 5. has been a protagonist 6. good character 7. first name (which is single name the character is best known by) starts with B 8. has appeared in genre fiction (Western, SF, detective, fantasy, etc.) 9. not originally an SF/fantasy character but has sort of appeared in fantasy 10. considered pretty 11. rarely-used last name begins from N-Z 12. created before 1980 13. has appeared on (streaming) TV 14. has appeared in a Disney-owned film 15. appeared in Disney-owned films after 1990 16. appeared in animated films 17. in one Disney-owned movie that won a non-technical Oscar ---
**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 21, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/298 "2023-08-21T00:23:18Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you write _Sonnets from the Portuguese_? > > 2. Were you a comedy writer and producer for the BBC who had a decades-long writing partnership with Marty Feldman, and who gathered the various comic talents together who became Monty Python’s Flying Circus? > > 3. Are you the reluctant hero of Larry Niven’s _Neutron Star_? > > 1. I am not Elizabeth Barrett-Browning. > 2. I am not Bill Oddie? > 3. Take a DQ. 1 is Correct. 2 was Barry Took. 3 is Beowulf Schaffer. DQs: 1. From a Pixar movie? 2. Human? IQs: 1. Did Eva Gabor provide the voice for you, a pretty mouse? 2. Are you a shepherdess beloved by a cartoon cowboy? 3. In a recent hit Disney song, do we not talk about you? ---
**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 21, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/299 "2023-08-21T02:01:27Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you play a character who was waiting for a miracle? > > 2. Were you a medieval High King of Ireland, who died at the battle of Clontarf? > > 3. Are you an actor whose most famous role was in a fantasy epic for which you additionally wrote and sang two songs on the soundtrack? > > 1. I am not Mel Brooks, saved by Miracle the horse, in _History of the World Part 1_. > 2. I am not Brian Boru. > 3. I am not Cate Blanchett? 1. was Stephanie Beátriz, who sang “Waiting For A Miracle” while voicing Mirabel Madrigal in _Encanto._ Correct on 2. 3. was Billy Boyd, who played Pippin Took in Peter Jackson’s _Lord of the Rings_, and whose song “The Last Goodbye” is played over the ending credits of _The Return of the King._ DQs: 1. Caucasian/white? 2. Originally a toy? IQs: 1. Were you once married to Loni Anderson? 2. Were you a wildly prolific songwriter, with your partner Hal David, known for soft, jazz-inflected pop songs? 3. Do you have a pink Corvette and a boyfriend with no genitals? ---
**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 21, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/300 "2023-08-21T02:21:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Eva Gabor provide the voice for you, a pretty mouse? > 2. Are you a shepherdess beloved by a cartoon cowboy? > 3. In a recent hit Disney song, do we not talk about you? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you once married to Loni Anderson? > 2. Were you a wildly prolific songwriter, with your partner Hal David, known for soft, jazz-inflected pop songs? > 3. Do you have a pink Corvette and a boyfriend with no genitals? I am not Miss Bianca, Little Bo Peep, Bruno, Burt Reynolds, or Burt Bacharach, but I am indeed Barbie! Next game goes to **Slow Moving Vehicle**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=16)