# Botticelli - December 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496 "2021-12-04T14:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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 17, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/121 "2021-12-17T15:40:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Michael Jordan, Jessica (those who’ve played Doctor Who?) or Joyce Kilmer. 2 was Jodie Whittaker (and yes, beginning with the TV movie). DQ: real? ---
**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 17, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/122 "2021-12-17T15:48:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you play Morticia opposite John Astin’s Gomez? > > > 2. Are you Mary’s husband Joseph’s father in the gospel of Matthew? > > > 3. Were you Jesus’s best known brother? > > Dunno, not Jabez and not John. #1 was Carolyn Jones. #2 was Jacob (but Luke says it was Eli). #3 was James. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Lame name starts with J? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/123 "2021-12-17T18:00:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Whenever you go out, do people always shout “there goes [you]”? > > > IQ2: Were you one of the original MTV VJs? > > > IQ3: Whenever someone says your name, is it greeted by a crowd calling you a slut? > > Not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Downtown Julie Brown, or Janet from _RHPS_ . Correct I’ll rephrase to eliminate ambiguity - Brown was a VJ by 1986, but wasn’t around at the very start. Correct IQ1: Were you one of the original 5 MTV VJs who appeared on day one of that channel? IQ2: Did Cambridge University allow you to enter the PhD program despite not having a Bachelor’s degree, due to your work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania? IQ3: Are you an artist who guest-voiced a kleptomaniac version of himself on _The Simpsons_? ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/124 "2021-12-17T18:20:46Z")
IQs: 1. Are you another basketball player, aside from Jordan, with uniform number 23? 2. Did you caricature a “co-worker” as Funky Flashman? 3. At 6’2’’, were you too tall to enlist in the WACs during World War II and so joined the OSS, where your activities as a researcher included cooking up a recipe for shark repellent? ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/125 "2021-12-17T18:58:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Lame name starts with J? I’ll have you know he has a very nice name! 😒 J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you one of the original 5 MTV VJs who appeared on day one of that channel? > IQ2: Did Cambridge University allow you to enter the PhD program despite not having a Bachelor’s degree, due to your work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania? > IQ3: Are you an artist who guest-voiced a kleptomaniac version of himself on _The Simpsons_? Dunno, not Jane Goodall and not Johnny Cash. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you another basketball player, aside from Jordan, with uniform number 23? > 2. Did you caricature a “co-worker” as Funky Flashman? > 3. At 6’2’', were you too tall to enlist in the WACs during World War II and so joined the OSS, where your activities as a researcher included cooking up a recipe for shark repellent? Dunno, dunno and not Julia Child. ---
**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 17, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/126 "2021-12-17T20:15:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Were you one of the original 5 MTV VJs who appeared on day one of that channel? > > > IQ2: Did Cambridge University allow you to enter the PhD program despite not having a Bachelor’s degree, due to your work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania? > > > IQ3: Are you an artist who guest-voiced a kleptomaniac version of himself on _The Simpsons_ ? > > Dunno, not Jane Goodall and not Johnny Cash. JJ Jackson Correct Jasper Johns - Cash was Homer’s coyote spirit guide in the chili pepper episode. DQ: Alive? 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:** [December 17, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/127 "2021-12-17T20:25:34Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you another basketball player, aside from Jordan, with uniform number 23? > 2. Did you caricature a “co-worker” as Funky Flashman? > 3. At 6’2’’, were you too tall to enlist in the WACs during World War II and so joined the OSS, where your activities as a researcher included cooking up a recipe for shark repellent? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno and not Julia Child. 1 was LeBron James; 2 was Jack Kirby. DQ: known from the arts? 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 17, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/128 "2021-12-17T20:56:39Z")
J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J 4. dead 5. not American 6. 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:** [December 17, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/129 "2021-12-17T21:51:06Z")
DQ: Died before 1900? ---
**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 17, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/130 "2021-12-17T21:52:47Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a 2nd Century satirist? 2. In Marvel comics, are you aka the Wasp? 3. Did you “die with a hammer in your hands”? ---
**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 17, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/131 "2021-12-17T22:07:25Z")
IQs: 1. Do you currently draw _Nancy_? 2. Were you Prime Minister of the UK after Thatcher and before Blair? 3. As seen in the concert film _Urgh! A Music War_, does a song by new wave punks Spizzenergi ask where you are? ---
**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 18, 2021, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/132 "2021-12-18T08:15:20Z")
IQ1: Was your Oscar nomination of Best Supporting **Actor** of 1993 considered a spoiler for your film? IQ2: Were you assassinated by the coward Robert Ford? IQ3: Were you the source material for a galaxy spanning army? ---
**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 18, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/133 "2021-12-18T17:15:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a 2nd Century satirist? > 2. In Marvel comics, are you aka the Wasp? > 3. Did you “die with a hammer in your hands”? Not Juvenal, Jill Jasmine or John Henry. ---
**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 18, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/134 "2021-12-18T17:15:44Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Do you currently draw _Nancy_? > 2. Were you Prime Minister of the UK after Thatcher and before Blair? > 3. As seen in the concert film _Urgh! A Music War_, does a song by new wave punks Spizzenergi ask where you are? Dunno, not John Major and dunno. ---
**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 18, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/135 "2021-12-18T17:17:00Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Was your Oscar nomination of Best Supporting **Actor** of 1993 considered a spoiler for your film? > IQ2: Were you assassinated by the coward Robert Ford? > IQ3: Were you the source material for a galaxy spanning army? Not Jaye Davidson, not Jesse James and not Janiss. ---
**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 18, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/136 "2021-12-18T17:17:48Z")
J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J 4. dead 5. not American 6. known from the Arts 7. died before 1900 ---
**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 18, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/137 "2021-12-18T18:49:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you a 2nd Century satirist? > > > 2. In Marvel comics, are you aka the Wasp? > > > 3. Did you “die with a hammer in your hands”? > > Not Juvenal, Jill Jasmine or John Henry. Correct, Janet van Dyne Pym, correct. DQ: Died before 1700? ---
**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 18, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/138 "2021-12-18T19:36:54Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Do you currently draw _Nancy_? > 2. Were you Prime Minister of the UK after Thatcher and before Blair? > 3. As seen in the concert film _Urgh! A Music War_, does a song by new wave punks Spizzenergi ask where you are? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not John Major and dunno. 1 was Olivia Jaimes; 3 was [Captain James Kirk](https://www.discogs.com/release/457514-Spizzenergi-Wheres-Captain-Kirk). DQs: 1. European? 2. known from writing? 1 DQ reserved from before. ---
**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 18, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/139 "2021-12-18T20:59:43Z")
J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J 4. dead 5. not American 6. known from the Arts 7. died before 1900 8. died after 1700 9. European 10. known, in part, from writing ---
**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 18, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/140 "2021-12-18T21:49:26Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a notable student of Freud who split from him 'cause you thought Sigmund needed to be analyzed himself? 2. Did the peacock come complaining to you because he could not sing? 3. Are you Ebenezer Scrooge’s sole living relative at the start of the story? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496.md?page=8)