# Botticelli - August 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 31, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070 "2024-07-31T19:27:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/201 "2024-08-22T17:37:11Z")
IQs: 1. Were you originally voiced by Arlene Sorkin? 2. Were you the first criminal caught by radio? 3. Were you Saddam in _The Big Lebowski_ (and the _Hot Shots!_ movies, and _Live from Baghdad_)? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/202 "2024-08-22T18:49:39Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Does Honor Raconteur write a series of fantasy books about you titled “The Case Files of [blank blank]”? > 2. Were you Simon Templar’s main girlfriend? > 3. Were you the main character of Thorne Smith’s **The Night Life of The Gods**? Henri Davenforth, Patricia Ho!m, Hunter Hawk. IQs 1. Did Thorne Smith claim in **Turnabout** that the only thing this real person could not escape from was a Church Dinner? 2. Were you a puppynappsr in the animated **101 Dalmatians**? 3. Did you play the male lead in the movie **Show Boat**? 3 DQs 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, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/203 "2024-08-22T20:07:33Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:199, topic:1005070, full:true”] DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with H 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Alive after 1960 7. European ---
**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, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/204 "2024-08-22T20:08:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you originally voiced by Arlene Sorkin? > 2. Were you the first criminal caught by radio? > 3. Were you Saddam in _The Big Lebowski_ (and the _Hot Shots!_ movies, and _Live from Baghdad_)? Take 3 DQs. > [@kitap](#): > > IQs > > 1. Did Thorne Smith claim in **Turnabout** that the only thing this real person could not escape from was a Church Dinner? > 2. Were you a puppynappsr in the animated **101 Dalmatians**? > 3. Did you play the male lead in the movie **Show Boat**? #3. I am not Howard Keel. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/205 "2024-08-22T21:07:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Harley Quinn; 2 was Hawley Crippen; 3 was Jerry Haleva. DQs: 1. died after 1990? 2. from continental Europe? 3. known from 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:** [August 22, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/206 "2024-08-22T21:09:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with H 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Alive after 1960 7. European 8. Died after 1990 9. NOT from Continental Europe 10. Not known from the Arts ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/207 "2024-08-22T23:16:46Z")
Good to have you with us, **knoodler**! IQs: 1. Was your effort to solidly ground the foundations of mathematics undercut by Godel’s incompleteness theorem? 2. Did you own a store on Sesame Street? 3. Were you the best striker in Arsenal history? ---
**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, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/208 "2024-08-22T23:51:09Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create _Gravity Falls_? 2. Did you run against Samuel Tilden? 3. Did Catherine Keener play you in _Capote_, also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman? who was Brandt in _The Big Lebowski_? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/209 "2024-08-23T00:05:29Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a British politician who shares a name with a candy bar? > 2. Did you die in a bunker with your new bride? > 3. Did you lead a military campaign against the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War? repost ---
**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, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/210 "2024-08-23T01:42:00Z")
Mea culpa! I’m sorry I missed your IQs earlier, especially since I’m neither Hitler nor Hannibal, but # Yes! I am former P.M. Edward Heath! Extremely well done, **knoodler!** All hail! ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/211 "2024-08-23T02:49:30Z")
Congrats! > [@kitap](#): > > iPrevious IQs > > 1. Did Thorne Smith claim in **Turnabout** that the only thing this real person could not escape from was a Church Dinner? > 2. Were you a puppynappsr in the animated **101 Dalmatians**? > 3. Did you play the male lead in the movie **Show Boat**? Harry Houdini “his one great failing” and Horace ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/212 "2024-08-23T14:21:17Z")
Thanks @Prof.Pepperwinkle! I feel I got lucky with that guess. Let’s see how well I can stump the lot of you. I am… **V** ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/213 "2024-08-23T14:35:19Z")
Congratulations, **knoodler**! That’s an impressive debut! IQs: 1. Were you the flight engineer on Flight 209 who came down with food poisoning? 2. Are you famous as a “woman of letters”, but not as a writer? 3. Were you the long-reigning “grandmother of Europe?” ---
**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, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/214 "2024-08-23T14:57:36Z")
Congrats, Knoodler! IQs: 1. Were you “Old Kinderhook”? 2. Did you play Orson Welles in _Ed Wood_? 3. Did you sing “Graduation (Friends Forever)”? ---
**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, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/215 "2024-08-23T15:04:05Z")
Well done **knoodler**! First trip to the plate, and the rookie hits it out of the park! Finishing up, > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you three brothers who agreed to a single combat against three brothers from another city, to settle a war? > > 2. According to Monty Python, are you a boozy beggar who can think you under the table? > > 3. Are you famous for your hints? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Martin Heidegger. > 3. I am not Heloise. 1 was the three brothers of the Horatii, in early Roman history. IQs: 1. Were you a Wallachian _voivode_, known for your cruelty? 2. Did Lee Marvin play you, oppisite John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart? 3. Are you an elderly woman in a care home in an Elvis Costello song? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/216 "2024-08-23T15:21:14Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the flight engineer on Flight 209 who came down with food poisoning? > 2. Are you famous as a “woman of letters”, but not as a writer? > 3. Were you the long-reigning “grandmother of Europe?” 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Virginia Woolf 3. I am not Queen Victoria ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/217 "2024-08-23T15:23:02Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Congrats, Knoodler! > > IQs: > > 1. Were you “Old Kinderhook”? > 2. Did you play Orson Welles in _Ed Wood_? > 3. Did you sing “Graduation (Friends Forever)”? 1. I am not Martin Van Buren 2. I am not Vincent D’Onofrio 3. Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/218 "2024-08-23T15:24:04Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the flight engineer on Flight 209 who came down with food poisoning? > > 2. Are you famous as a “woman of letters”, but not as a writer? > > 3. Were you the long-reigning “grandmother of Europe?” > > 1. Take a DQ > 2. I am not Virginia Woolf > 3. I am not Queen Victoria #1 was Victor Basta of the movie “Airplane!” #2 was Vanna White. Correct on #3. DQs: Real? Female? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/219 "2024-08-23T15:27:03Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Well done **knoodler**! First trip to the plate, and the rookie hits it out of the park! > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Wallachian _voivode_, known for your cruelty? > 2. Did Lee Marvin play you, oppisite John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart? > 3. Are you an elderly woman in a care home in an Elvis Costello song? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Liberty Valance\* 3. I am not Veronica (?) \*taking a guess, I think there are multiple movies with these actors ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/220 "2024-08-23T15:28:58Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > > > IQs: > > > > > > 1. Were you the flight engineer on Flight 209 who came down with food poisoning? > > > 2. Are you famous as a “woman of letters”, but not as a writer? > > > 3. Were you the long-reigning “grandmother of Europe?” > > > > 1. Take a DQ > > 2. I am not Virginia Woolf > > 3. I am not Queen Victoria > > #2 was Vanna White. D’oh! I missed the second part of your question! Good one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=12)