# 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:** 2
**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 1, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/21 "2024-08-01T20:36:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Trump’s first Attorney General? > > 2. Were you Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury? > > 3. Are you one of the female Supreme Court Justices? > > Not Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, not Seth Mnuchin and not Sonia Sotomayor. Correct, except it was Stephen Mnuchin. I’m not taking a DQ there. ---
**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 1, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/22 "2024-08-01T20:38:19Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you direct two movies released in 1982, and two other movies released twenty years later? (Well, okay, the other 1982 film is credited to Tobe Hooper, and you were a producer, but there’s long been suspicion that you actually directed it.) > 2. Did you co-write the Star Trek episode “The Lights of Zetar”, which at one point involves aliens in a way “puppeteering” humans? > 3. Were you “The Man”, and a Cardinal? Not Stephen Spielberg, not Shari Lewis and dunno. ---
**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 1, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/23 "2024-08-01T20:51:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Stephen Spielberg, not Shari Lewis and dunno. 3 was Stan Musial. DQ: died after 1900? ---
**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 1, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/24 "2024-08-01T21:36:29Z")
S. 1. real 2. female 3. last name begins with S 4. dead 5. not known for the Arts 6. American 7. died before 1970 8. died after 1900 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/25 "2024-08-01T22:57:18Z")
IQs: 1. Is your most famous song inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll? 2. Did you appear in the movie version of _Lil’ Abner_ as Appasionata von Climax? 3. Did you write and star in an adaptation of a Cyrano de Bergerac classic? Now if you’ll excuse me I need to bone up on my _Goon Show_ trivia so I can be somewhat competitive around here… ---
**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 2, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/26 "2024-08-02T00:11:36Z")
IQs: 1. Do you voice the parent of your sister’s character on _American Dad_? 2. Did you voice the parent of your sister’s character on _BoJack Horseman_? 3. Are you a current US senator from Maine? ---
**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 2, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/27 "2024-08-02T16:06:19Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose _The Liberty Bell March_? 2. Did you compose _The Carnival of the Animals_? 3. Did you compose _Petrouchka_? ---
**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 2, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/28 "2024-08-02T17:29:10Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Is your most famous song inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll? > 2. Did you appear in the movie version of _Lil’ Abner_ as Appasionata von Climax? > 3. Did you write and star in an adaptation of a Cyrano de Bergerac classic? Dunno, not Susan St. James and not Steve Martin. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Do you voice the parent of your sister’s character on _American Dad_? > 2. Did you voice the parent of your sister’s character on _BoJack Horseman_? > 3. Are you a current US senator from Maine? Dunno, dunno and not Susan Collins. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose _The Liberty Bell March_? > 2. Did you compose _The Carnival of the Animals_? > 3. Did you compose _Petrouchka_? Not Sousa, Saint-Saens (sp?) or Sergei Prokofiev. ---
**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 2, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/29 "2024-08-02T17:38:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno and not Susan Collins. 1 was Seth MacFarlane; 2 was David Sedaris. DQs: 1. died after 1940? 2. known for politics? ---
**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 2, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/30 "2024-08-02T18:04:22Z")
IQs: 1. Were you US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia? 2. Did you write _The Orchid Thief_, and sort-of appear in the sort-of adaptation? 3. Did you visit a starship in the short story “Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited”? ---
**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 2, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/31 "2024-08-02T18:21:13Z")
Dunno, not Susan Orlean, and not William Shatner. I’m a big David Sedaris fan, and had no idea he did a voice for _BoJack Horseman_! Huh. S. 1. real 2. female 3. last name begins with S 4. dead 5. not known for the Arts 6. American 7. died before 1970 8. died after 1900 9. died before 1940 10. not known for politics ---
**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 2, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/32 "2024-08-02T18:26:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Susan Orlean, and not William Shatner. 1 was Shirley Temple Black. DQ: known for something named after her? ---
**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 2, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/33 "2024-08-02T18:35:39Z")
S. 1. real 2. female 3. last name begins with S 4. dead 5. not known for the Arts 6. American 7. died before 1970 8. died after 1900 9. died before 1940 10. not known for politics 11. not known for something named after her ---
**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 2, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/34 "2024-08-02T19:43:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you compose _The Liberty Bell March_? > > 2. Did you compose _The Carnival of the Animals_? > > 3. Did you compose _Petrouchka_? > > Not Sousa, Saint-Saens (sp?) or Sergei Prokofiev. Correct, Correct and Stravinsky. DQ: Known for being part of a movement? IQs: 1. Were you one of the founders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association? 2. Were you an abolitionist, a founder of the _Woman’s Journal_, and another noted American suffragette? 3. Are you Warren Beatty’s sister? ---
**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 2, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/35 "2024-08-02T19:50:13Z")
Not Susan B. Anthony, not Lucy Stone and not Shirley MacLaine. S. 1. real 2. female 3. last name begins with S 4. dead 5. not known for the Arts 6. American 7. died before 1970 8. died after 1900 9. died before 1940 10. not known for politics 11. not known for something named after her 12. kinda sorta known for being part of a movement ---
**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 2, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/36 "2024-08-02T19:54:33Z")
Swept me. IQ: You are not Susan B. Anthony. Are you one of the founders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association? ---
**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 2, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/37 "2024-08-02T19:56:51Z")
Hmm, other than those two, I don’t know of any other such S women. Take 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 2, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/38 "2024-08-02T20:10:55Z")
That was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 2, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/39 "2024-08-02T20:14:46Z")
D’oh, of course! ---
**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 2, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070/40 "2024-08-02T21:13:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Were you one of the original Mercury astronauts, later becoming NASA’s Director of Flight Crew Operations? > > 2. Were you a poet who, after drowning in a sudden squall while sailing off the coast of Italy, was cremated on an Italian beach? > > 3. Have you been played by both Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage? > > Not Scott Carpenter, not P.B. Shelley and dunno. 1 was Deke Slayton. Correct on Shelley. 3 was another Shelly, Sheldon Cooper - Armitage plays him on _Young Sheldon._ DQs: 1. Known for crime? 2. First name starts A - M? IQs: 1. Did you play a mathematician from the planet of Traken on _Doctor Who_? 2. Did you end your days keeping bees on the Sussex Downs? 3. Did a sudden attack of blindness make you change your name and completely alter your life? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2024/1005070.md?page=3)