# 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:** 12
**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, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/221 "2024-08-23T15:29:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female ---
**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, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/222 "2024-08-23T15:35:30Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. I am not Martin Van Buren > 2. I am not Vincent D’Onofrio > 3. Take a DQ 3 (“Graduation”) was Vitamin C. DQ: first name begins with V? ---
**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, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/223 "2024-08-23T15:40:33Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with V ---
**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, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/224 "2024-08-23T17:42:08Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@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 Pretty good guess work, then. Correct on Liberty Vallance and Veronica. 1 was Vlad “the Impaler” Dracul, parts of whose story Bram Stoker took to create _Dracula_. DQ: Alive? IQs: Were you the first European person known to be born in North America? Did you write a famous letter to the editor of the New York _Sun_ in 1897? Did you ride on the Danville train, 'til so much cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again? ---
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/225 "2024-08-23T18:11:06Z")
IQs: 1. Were you married to Eddie Van Halen? 2. Did you play Miss Teschmacher in _Superman_? 3. Did you star opposite Danny Kaye in _The Secret Life of Walter Mitty_? ---
**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, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/226 "2024-08-23T19:03:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with V 4. Dead ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/227 "2024-08-23T19:05:46Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > Were you the first European person known to be born in North America? > Did you write a famous letter to the editor of the New York _Sun_ in 1897? > Did you ride on the Danville train, 'til so much cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not the “Yes, Virginia” person 3. I am not Virgil Kane ---
**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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/228 "2024-08-23T19:07:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you married to Eddie Van Halen? > 2. Did you play Miss Teschmacher in _Superman_? > 3. Did you star opposite Danny Kaye in _The Secret Life of Walter Mitty_? 1. I am not Valerie Bertinelli (but would I love to meet her) 2. Take a DQ 3. I am not Virginia Mayo ---
**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, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/229 "2024-08-23T19:39:48Z")
Correct, Valerie Perrine, correct. DQ: American? ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/230 "2024-08-23T20:28:18Z")
IQs: 1. Were you AKA Maila Nurmi? 2. Were you an Atlanta Falcons player busted for dogfighting, who then joined the Philadelphia Eagles? 3. Did Ogden Nash say you needed a kick in the pance? ---
**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, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/231 "2024-08-23T22:06:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you AKA Maila Nurmi? > 2. Were you an Atlanta Falcons player busted for dogfighting, who then joined the Philadelphia Eagles? > 3. Did Ogden Nash say you needed a kick in the pance? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Michael Vick 3. Take a DQ ---
**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, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/232 "2024-08-23T22:07:07Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with V 4. Dead 5. Not American ---
**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, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/233 "2024-08-23T22:34:10Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Take a DQ > 2. I am not Michael Vick > 3. Take a DQ 1 was Vampira; 3 was Philo Vance. DQs: 1. European? 2. died after 1924? ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/234 "2024-08-23T23:47:12Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with V 4. Dead 5. Not American 6. Was European 7. Died after 1924 ---
**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 24, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/235 "2024-08-24T02:49:09Z")
Welcome, **knoodler** , and congrats! Edward Heath actually _was_ known for the Arts as well as for politics - he was a talented classical pianist. Previous IQs: Did President Carter fumble your name at the Democratic National Convention in 1980? - Yes, Hubert Humphrey (Carter referred to him in an introduction, building to a crescendo, as “Hubert Horatio Hornblower!”) Did the same man who wrote about you, also write about a failed German invasion of Great Britain during WWII? - Horatio Hornblower himself; C.S. Forester was the author Did you win at Saratoga but lose at Camden? - Gen. Horatio Gates of the Continental Army Horatio x3! On to V: Did you escape from Larkhill detention center? Were you one of the early ship-kings of Gondor? Were you a friend of “Stinky” Mahmoud? ---
**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 24, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/236 "2024-08-24T13:17:35Z")
IQs: 1. Did you create Philo Vance? 2. Did you refuse to appear nude for Ahasuerus and his guests? 3. Did you name Venezuela? ---
**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 24, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/237 "2024-08-24T14:34:36Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a killer ferret in a short story by Saki? 2. Are you a reformed thief in a short story by O. Henry? 3. Are you “Posh Spice”? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/238 "2024-08-24T15:14:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you escape from Larkhill detention center? > Were you one of the early ship-kings of Gondor? > Were you a friend of “Stinky” Mahmoud? Good lord! Take 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/239 "2024-08-24T15:17:22Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you create Philo Vance? > 2. Did you refuse to appear nude for Ahasuerus and his guests? > 3. Did you name Venezuela? 1. Take a DQ 2. Take a DQ 3. I am not Amerigo Vespucci (?) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/240 "2024-08-24T15:18:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a killer ferret in a short story by Saki? > 2. Are you a reformed thief in a short story by O. Henry? > 3. Are you “Posh Spice”? 1. I am not… Riki Tiki Tavi (?) 2. Take a DQ 3. I am not Victoria Beckham [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=13)