# 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:** 17
**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 22, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/321 "2023-08-22T19:22:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Trump’s first SECDEF? > Were you a Foundation “merchant prince” in Asimov’s writings? > Were you a bootlegger with occult interests? 1. Ah, jeez, that’s right on the tip of my mind…I am not Mark Meadows? Pretty sure that’s not it, but when you post it, I’m gonna facepalm. 2. DQ. 3. DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you ask “What’s Going On?” > 2. Did you refuse to endorse Beanee Weenee(s)? > 3. Barbara Bush doesn’t read her letter on the DVD–instead, do you, which makes a sort of sense, since you were the longtime voice of a female authority figure on the show as Mrs. Krabappel? 1. I am not Marvin Gaye. 2. DQ. 3. DQ. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > In your original appearance did you co-star with a giant ape, and then later with your brother, but now have a primary franchise all on your own? > Do you Transform into a gun? > Are you a tomboy video game aficionado, whose life was saved by her love of Kate Bush songs? 3 DQs. ---
**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 22, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/322 "2023-08-22T19:26:14Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with _“M”_ 4. Not known for the arts @De_La_Rue, remember that you have one extra DQ, since you asked a repeat of one of **EH** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/323 "2023-08-22T19:30:23Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > In your original appearance did you co-star with a giant ape, and then later with your brother, but now have a primary franchise all on your own? > > Do you Transform into a gun? > > Are you a tomboy video game aficionado, whose life was saved by her love of Kate Bush songs? > > 3 DQs. 1. Mario, first appeared in Donkey Kong, then Mario brothers, now Mario everything. 2. Megatron the arch enemy of the Transformers 3. Max from Stranger things. DQs 1. Alive? 2. American? 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 22, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/324 "2023-08-22T19:31:05Z")
IQs: 1. Were you one of the leading singing stars of the 1910’s? 2. Did you write Broadway songs popularized by #1 above? 3. Did Tina Fey play a tv producer on your Christmas special? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/325 "2023-08-22T21:49:46Z")
1. In the movie “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”, did you create an army of evil boy and girl scouts? 2. Were you the Actor who played that role? 3. Could your failure to dry clean your stained dress have led to the Iraqi war? (Yeah I’m speculating a fair amount on this one but I believe its true). ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/326 "2023-08-22T22:57:42Z")
1. Did you write the non-fiction books **Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs** and **Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt**? 2. Were you writer #1’s pen name for Gothic Mysteries written in the 1960s, including **Ammie, Come Home**? 3. Were you a female white captive who was adopted into the Seneca tribe who was a negotiator for the Senecas at the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree? ---
**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 22, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/327 "2023-08-22T23:02:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > DQs > > 1. Alive? > 2. American? Elendil’s Heir already asked these, which haven’t been answered yet. ---
**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 23, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/328 "2023-08-23T00:59:08Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Trump’s first SECDEF? - James Mattis Were you a Foundation “merchant prince” in Asimov’s writings? - Hober Mallow Were you a bootlegger with occult interests? - Hubie Marsten, in Stephen King’s _’Salem’s Lot_ Three DQs reserved. IQs: Do you play a fictional version of yourself in _Jury Duty_? Did Commodus demand you identify yourself? Were you “only pawn in game of life”? ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/329 "2023-08-23T02:08:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you one of the leading singing stars of the 1910’s? > 2. Did you write Broadway songs popularized by #1 above? > 3. Did Tina Fey play a tv producer on your Christmas special? 1. DQ. 2. DQ. 3. I am not Bill Murray, in _Scrooged._ > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. In the movie “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”, did you create an army of evil boy and girl scouts? > 2. Were you the Actor who played that role? > 3. Could your failure to dry clean your stained dress have led to the Iraqi war? (Yeah I’m speculating a fair amount on this one but I believe its true). 1. DQ. Never saw it. 2. DQ, for same reason. 3. I am not Monica Lewinsky. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you write the non-fiction books **Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs** and **Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt**? > 2. Were you writer #1’s pen name for Gothic Mysteries written in the 1960s, including **Ammie, Come Home**? > 3. Were you a female white captive who was adopted into the Seneca tribe who was a negotiator for the Senecas at the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree? 1. DQ. 2. DQ. 3. I feel like it’s Mary Something or other, but I can’t remember. DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Do you play a fictional version of yourself in _Jury Duty_? > Did Commodus demand you identify yourself? > Were you “only pawn in game of life”? 1. I am not James Marsden (who was hilarious in that show). 2. I am not Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. 3. I am not Mongo. (Santamaria!) ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/330 "2023-08-23T02:10:35Z")
Swept me! ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/331 "2023-08-23T02:12:05Z")
Sorry I missed your DQs, @Elendil_s_Heir. @Buck_Godot, re-ask your last two. DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with _“M”_ 4. Not known for the arts 5. Dead 6. Not American ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/332 "2023-08-23T02:17:39Z")
DQs: European? Political/military? Died since 1950? IQs: Did you head the DM Scranton office? Were you a presidential candidate with the middle name Stanley? Did you build a replica of the starship _Protector_? ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/333 "2023-08-23T02:33:22Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not Marvin Gaye. > 2. DQ. > 3. DQ. 2 (Beanee Weenee) was Michael Jordan; 3 (Krabappel) was Marcia Wallace. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > @De_La_Rue, remember that you have one extra DQ, since you asked a repeat of one of **EH** ’s. I’ve been including that and by my count I have the two from before plus the two above. DQ: last name starts from A-M? Three DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/334 "2023-08-23T03:11:31Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you write the non-fiction books **Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs** and **Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt**? > 2. Were you writer #1’s pen name for Gothic Mysteries written in the 1960s, including **Ammie, Come Home**? > 3. Were you a female white captive who was adopted into the Seneca tribe who was a negotiator for the Senecas at the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree? Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels, Mary Jemison. You got Mary right, so I’ll give it to you. 2 DQs held ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/335 "2023-08-23T05:31:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. In the movie “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”, did you create an army of evil boy and girl scouts? > > 2. Were you the Actor who played that role? > > 3. Could your failure to dry clean your stained dress have led to the Iraqi war? (Yeah I’m speculating a fair amount on this one but I believe its true). > > 1. DQ. Never saw it. > 2. DQ, for same reason. > 3. I am not Monica Lewinsky. 1. Maxwell Edison majoring in Medicine 2. Played by [Steve Martin](https://www.facebook.com/TheSingleHilarity/videos/maxwells-silver-hammer-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-1978/1007710576352932/) If you had seen it you would have not been able to erase if from your memory no matter how hard you tried 3. Yes. I figure that Clinton avoiding the Lewsinski scandal probably could have shifted enough votes in Florida to prevent Bush/Cheney from taking the white house and starting the war. DQ: 1. Died before 1900 2. Known for politics/miliitary ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/336 "2023-08-23T11:12:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you head the DM Scranton office? > Were you a presidential candidate with the middle name Stanley? > Did you build a replica of the starship _Protector_? 1. I am not Michael Scott. 2. DQ. 3. DQ. But I’m guessing it’s the Justin Long character from _Galaxy Quest_ ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/337 "2023-08-23T11:19:03Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with _“M”_ 4. Not known for the arts 5. Dead 6. Not American 7. Not European 8. Not primarily known for politics/military, though they impinged on his field 9. Died before 1950 10. No surname _per se_, but the nearest equivalent begins A - M 11. Died before 1900 @Buck_Godot, **EH** already asked the “politics/military” question, so ask another. ---
**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 23, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/338 "2023-08-23T12:54:00Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you one of the leading singing stars of the 1910’s? > > 2. Did you write Broadway songs popularized by #1 above? > > 3. Did Tina Fey play a tv producer on your Christmas special? > > 1. DQ. > 2. DQ. > 3. I am not Bill Murray, in _Scrooged._ #1 was Billy Murray. #2 was George **M.** Cohen. #3 was Bill Murray, but in _A Very Murray Christmas_ on Netflix. DQs: 1. Asian? 2. Died before 1500? ---
**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 23, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/339 "2023-08-23T12:56:35Z")
IQs: 1. Did Edwin Arlington Robinson call you a “child of scorn”? 2. Did A. E. Housman say of you, “he died old”? 3. Did Richard Dreyfuss play you in _The Big Fix_? ---
**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 23, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/340 "2023-08-23T13:07:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Edwin Arlington Robinson call you a “child of scorn”? > 2. Did A. E. Housman say of you, “he died old”? > 3. Did Richard Dreyfuss play you in _The Big Fix_? 1. DQ. 2. I am not… Methuselah? 3. DQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=18)