# Botticelli - December 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349 "2019-12-04T05:43:10Z")\ **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:** [December 6, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/21 "2019-12-06T11:58:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Joss Whedon gripe about your performance in the movie _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_, saying you were perpetually mixing up your lines and making up stuff? > 2. Did you have a series of hits with chipmunks in the 1950’s? > 3. Were you a sex bomb who came to fame in the early days of TV? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. #1 is Donald Sutherland. #2 was David Seville. #3 was Dagmar. DQs: 1. Died before 1700? 2. British or Irish? 3. Last name starts with D? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/22 "2019-12-06T15:14:00Z")
1. Were you That Girl’s father? 2. Were you an SNL cast member in the 80s, later appearing on the shows Dream On and Night Court? 3. Did Sean Cassidy and Eric Carmen sing about you? ---
**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 7, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/23 "2019-12-07T00:57:09Z")
IQ1: Were you a fictional 19th-century odontocete? IQ2: Were you the only female judge mentioned in the Bible? IQ3: Were you murdered by your Moorish husband? FYI: Open-heart surgery is _ **not** _ something you want to add to your bucket list. ---
**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 7, 2019, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/24 "2019-12-07T05:47:14Z")
> [@atimnie](#): > > 1. Were you That Girl’s father? > 2. Were you an SNL cast member in the 80s, later appearing on the shows Dream On and Night Court? > 3. Did Sean Cassidy and Eric Carmen sing about you? Not Danny Thomas, dunno and dunno. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional 19th-century odontocete? > IQ2: Were you the only female judge mentioned in the Bible? > IQ3: Were you murdered by your Moorish husband?.. Not Dracula, Dinah or Desdemona. D. 1. real 2. male 3. deceased 4. not known for the Arts 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not political 8. not religious 9. European 10. died after 1700 11. not British or Irish 12. last name started with D ---
**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 7, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/25 "2019-12-07T13:50:11Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose the periodic table of the elements? 2. Did you write _The Idiot_? 3. Are you the present POTUS, aka “the Idiot”? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/26 "2019-12-07T16:09:54Z")
_2. Were you an SNL cast member in the 80s, later appearing on the shows Dream On and Night Court? 3. Did Sean Cassidy and Eric Carmen sing about you?_ Denny Dillon, and Deanie (Hey Deanie) 2 DQs reserved ---
**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 7, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/27 "2019-12-07T17:56:29Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a fictional 19th-century odontocete? > IQ2: Were you the only female judge mentioned in the Bible? > IQ3: Were you murdered by your Moorish husband? > > FYI: Open-heart surgery is _ **not** _ something you want to add to your bucket list. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Dracula, Dinah or Desdemona. [Moby Dick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothed_whale). Deborah. Correct. DQ1: Native speaker of a Romance language? DQ2: Born in or north of Vienna? ---
**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 8, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/28 "2019-12-08T04:03:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose the periodic table of the elements? > 2. Did you write _The Idiot_? > 3. Are you the present POTUS, aka “the Idiot”? Dunno, not Dostoevsky, and not Donald John Trump. D. 1. real 2. male 3. deceased 4. not known for the Arts 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not political 8. not religious 9. European 10. died after 1700 11. not British or Irish 12. last name started with D 13. not a native speaker of a Romance language 14. born north of Vienna ---
**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 8, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/29 "2019-12-08T15:06:22Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose the periodic table of the elements? 2. Did you write The Idiot? 3. Are you the present POTUS, aka “the Idiot”? Dunno, not Dostoevsky, and not Donald John Trump. #1 was Dmitri Mendeleyev. Correct on the others. DQ: Died after 1799? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/30 "2019-12-08T15:56:00Z")
Reserved DQs Philosopher? Russian, or surrounding area? ---
**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 8, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/31 "2019-12-08T16:04:55Z")
DQs: 1. Were you the French Impressionist who first incorporated photographic angles into your paintings? 2. Did you sign a urinal and call it art? 3. Did Maureen O’Hara play you in _Miracle on 34th Street_? ---
**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 9, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/32 "2019-12-09T03:29:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Were you the French Impressionist who first incorporated photographic angles into your paintings? > 2. Did you sign a urinal and call it art? > 3. Did Maureen O’Hara play you in _Miracle on 34th Street_? Not Degas, not Dada, and dunno. D. 1. real 2. male 3. deceased 4. not known for the Arts 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not political 8. not religious 9. European 10. died after 1700 11. not British or Irish 12. last name started with D 13. not a native speaker of a Romance language 14. born north of Vienna 15. died after 1799 16. not a philosopher 17. not from Russia or a surrounding area, depending on your definition of the latter ---
**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, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/33 "2019-12-09T12:14:04Z")
> [@](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Were you the French Impressionist who first incorporated photographic angles into your paintings? > 2. Did you sign a urinal and call it art? > 3. Did Maureen O’Hara play you in Miracle on 34th Street? > Not Degas, not Dada, and dunno. Correct on Degas. #2 was Marcel Duchamp. #3 was Doris Walker. DQ: Military? 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:** [December 9, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/34 "2019-12-09T15:21:56Z")
D. 1. real 2. male 3. deceased 4. not known for the Arts 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not political 8. not religious 9. European 10. died after 1700 11. not British or Irish 12. last name started with D 13. not a native speaker of a Romance language 14. born north of Vienna 15. died after 1799 16. not a philosopher 17. not from Russia or a surrounding area, depending on your definition of the latter 18. not military ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/35 "2019-12-09T16:24:35Z")
Not political, military, religious, philosophy, known for the arts… I think we might need an extra clue here, what category does he fit into? If we don’t guess that by the end, maybe throw us a frigging bone here. ---
**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 9, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/36 "2019-12-09T16:43:03Z")
There’s one DQ still reserved, and a few more might still be earned. Let’s see how it goes. ---
**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, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/37 "2019-12-09T17:49:06Z")
There’s still science, exploration, criminal activity and business. DQ: Known for business? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/38 "2019-12-09T17:55:48Z")
It’s not often that we get those categories. ---
**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 9, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/39 "2019-12-09T20:46:01Z")
D. 1. real 2. male 3. deceased 4. not known for the Arts 5. not American 6. died before 1900 7. not political 8. not religious 9. European 10. died after 1700 11. not British or Irish 12. last name started with D 13. not a native speaker of a Romance language 14. born north of Vienna 15. died after 1799 16. not a philosopher 17. not from Russia or a surrounding area, depending on your definition of the latter 18. not military 19. not known for business ---
**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, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2019/844349/40 "2019-12-09T23:43:20Z")
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