# Botticelli - Dec 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225 "2020-12-04T19:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/141 "2020-12-09T23:02:51Z")
**I am E** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Deceased 4. American 5. Last name does not start with E 6. Was in the entertainment industry 7. Somewhat known for a political occurrence 8. Not known for sports 9. Died after 2000 10. Has acted, but not primarily known for acting. Well, for me, at least. 11. First name begins with E 12. Known for music 13. Has been in movies and TV ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/142 "2020-12-09T23:08:46Z")
IQ1: Are you one of three Catwomen, whose US career screeched to a halt after making unfavorable comments about the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/143 "2020-12-09T23:18:10Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Are you the artist also known as Romain de Tirtoff? > > > > > - Are you the famous world-class idiot on the highly esteemed 1950’s BBC all-leather radio series _The Goon Show_ ? > > > - Did you possess Bruce Gordon using a mystic black diamond? > > I am not Erte > DQ > DQ Correct on Erte. #2 was the famous Eccles. #3 was Eclipso. DQ: Known for music? 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:** [December 9, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/144 "2020-12-09T23:22:00Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known as the Queen of Jazz? 2. Did you host _Star Search_? 3. Were you a clumsy researcher who bought a rogue’s release from the gallows, and, accompanied by him and your alcoholic brother, released an ancient curse that was afraid of cats? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/145 "2020-12-09T23:30:28Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > > > > IQ1: Are you an American big band leader known for _It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)_ ? > > > IQ2: Did you write the theme music for _The Simpsons_ ? > > > IQ3: Are you a prog rock keyboardist who died of suicide in 2016? > > I am not Duke Ellington > DQ > I am not Keith Emerson Danny Elfman DQ: Vocalist? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/146 "2020-12-09T23:36:21Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of three Catwomen, whose US career screeched to a halt after making unfavorable comments about the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon? **YES, I am Eartha Kitt** [I want to be evil!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SS02GeKuWQ4) Terrific, @ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness! ---
**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:** [December 9, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/147 "2020-12-09T23:37:05Z")
Good job, **Chock**! Wow, the rounds are going quickly. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/148 "2020-12-10T01:51:06Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Is your favorite expression “Dammit, Hardison!”? > 2. Are you Sara Crewe’s best friend among her schoolmates? > 3. Did you play the title character in the USA Network’s 1995 movie **My Antonia**? > > And congrats! Late, but Elliot Spencer, Ermengarde and Elina Lowensohn ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/149 "2020-12-10T02:15:34Z")
Next up… **O** ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/150 "2020-12-10T03:39:28Z")
IQs 1. Did you dress Jackie Kennedy? 2. Are you in prison for mistaking your girlfriend for an intruder? 3. Did you say “Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much”? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/151 "2020-12-10T04:32:13Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > - Did you dress Jackie Kennedy? > - Are you in prison for mistaking your girlfriend for an intruder? > - Did you say “Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much”? Not Oscar de la Renta? - Only fashion designer with an O that comes to mind. DQ if I’m wrong. Take a DQ Not Oscar Wilde ---
**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:** [December 10, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/152 "2020-12-10T05:22:16Z")
Wow, I missed a whole round! Good job, **MissTake** and **CFOHG**. Previous IQs: Was your mansion, in the garden of which you were later buried, known as Hyde Park? - FDR Were you a handsome man from New Hampshire who saw your son die before your very eyes in a tragic railroad accident? - Franklin Pierce Were you the first black kid to appear in _Peanuts_? - Franklin Franklin x3! On to O… IQs: Were you a British Army officer who became an early hero of Israel? Were there those who also called you Tharkun? Did you have a dog named Arrow who went with you everywhere? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/153 "2020-12-10T06:38:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a British Army officer who became an early hero of Israel? > Were there those who also called you Tharkun? > Did you have a dog named Arrow who went with you everywhere? Take 2 DQs Not Obleo (sp? - the round headed kid from The Point) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/154 "2020-12-10T09:10:58Z")
Congrats! 1. Did _Saturday Night Live_ do a skit - complete with singing - about you, calling you “The Mute Marine”? 2. Are you and your husband Frank Butler buried in Greenville, Ohio? 3. Were you the main character of a 1960s sitcom starring Eddie Albert? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/155 "2020-12-10T13:22:06Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Oscar de la Renta? - Only fashion designer with an O that comes to mind. DQ if I’m wrong. > Take a DQ > Not Oscar Wilde Yes, Oscar Pistorius, Yes DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/156 "2020-12-10T13:28:30Z")
IQs 1. Were you an Academy Award winning actress whose feud with your sister (also an Academy Award winning actress) spanned decades? 2. Are you an actress who has played Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth in the past three years? 3. Are you an actress mostly known for playing a high school girl when you were 29? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/157 "2020-12-10T13:29:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphosis_? 2. Were you Philemon’s slave? 3. Are you, at the present moment, in the comic books, the owner of The Daily Planet? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/158 "2020-12-10T14:34:13Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you one of the original “Siamese Twins”? > 2. Did you write _Is Sex Necessary?_ (a departure from the kind of literature you’re now best known for)? > 3. Speaking of Mike Nichols, does Benjamin Braddock yell your name at the climactic moment in _The Graduate_ ? > [@MissTake](#): > > I am not Eng > DQ > DQ 2 was E.B. White; 3 was Elaine. IQs: 1. Did you write that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker? 2. Were you a spooky side character who appeared in _Nancy_? 3. Are you and your brother best known for an event that happened at Kitty Hawk in 1903? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/159 "2020-12-10T16:06:54Z")
1. Are you head coach of the LSU Tigers? 2. Are aka The Penguin? 3. Did you direct _Natural Born Killers_? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/160 "2020-12-10T17:28:58Z")
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