# Botticelli - Feb. 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 1, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859 "2016-02-01T17:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/41 "2016-02-05T12:17:41Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you and your husband have a hit with Love Will Keep Us Together? > 2. Did you and your husband have a hit with Proud Mary? > 3. Did Leo G. Carroll play you in a TV series? > > Not Toni Tenille or Tina Turner; dunno the third. Correct on the ladies. Leo G. Carroll took over Roland Young’s role from the movie series in playing Cosmo Topper on _Topper_ . 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/42 "2016-02-05T13:21:17Z")
IQ1: Are you a former NY Giants linebacker who ended the career of Joe Theisman? IQ2: Are you a former NY Giants running back who has a twin brother named Ronde? IQ3: Are you a corner for the Carolina Panthers who played 12 seasons for the Chicago Bears and was nicknamed “Peanut” by one of your aunts? ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/43 "2016-02-05T14:58:30Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former NY Giants linebacker who ended the career of Joe Theisman? > IQ2: Are you a former NY Giants running back who has a twin brother named Ronde? > IQ3: Are you a corner for the Carolina Panthers who played 12 seasons for the Chicago Bears and was nicknamed “Peanut” by one of your aunts? You know sports are my weak spot. Take three DQs. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/44 "2016-02-05T20:07:22Z")
I’m the same way about Civil War era history. 🙂 Lawrence Taylor, Tiki Barber and Charles Tillman DQ: Has the film won any major awards? holding 3 DQs ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/45 "2016-02-05T22:23:11Z")
DQ: Fantasy rather than sci-fi? ---
**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:** [February 5, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/46 "2016-02-05T22:28:03Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an actor-turned-writer who wrote _Harvest Home_? 2. Are you the current Secretary of Agriculture? 3. Did your cartoons appear on the _George of the Jungle_ show, along with George and Super-Chicken? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/47 "2016-02-06T04:44:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an actor-turned-writer who wrote _Harvest Home_? > 2. Are you the current Secretary of Agriculture? > 3. Did your cartoons appear on the _George of the Jungle_ show, along with George and Super-Chicken? Dunno, not Tom Vilsack (who went to my prep school!) and dunno. T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with T 4. not from literature 5. from film 6. appeared in only one film 7. from an American film 8. film made after 1980 9. a protagonist 10. from a science fiction or fantasy movie 11. film not made after 1999 12. human 13. film not made in the 1980s 14. kinda sorta a military-themed movie 15. film has not won any major awards 16. sci-fi and not fantasy ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/48 "2016-02-06T12:53:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Prof. Pepperwinkle View Post > IQs: > > 1. Were you an actor-turned-writer who wrote Harvest Home? > 2. Are you the current Secretary of Agriculture? > 3. Did your cartoons appear on the George of the Jungle show, along with George and Super-Chicken? > > Dunno, not Tom Vilsack (who went to my prep school!) and dunno. #1 was Tom Tryon. #2 is correct. #3 is Tom Slick. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/49 "2016-02-06T13:24:34Z")
DQ: Was the film an original screenplay (not based on a novel, comic book, etc)? 2 DQs remaining ---
**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:** [February 6, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/50 "2016-02-06T13:33:27Z")
DQ: Set on Earth? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/51 "2016-02-07T00:32:36Z")
T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with T 4. not from literature 5. from film 6. appeared in only one film 7. from an American film 8. film made after 1980 9. a protagonist 10. from a science fiction or fantasy movie 11. film not made after 1999 12. human 13. film not made in the 1980s 14. kinda sorta a military-themed movie 15. film has not won any major awards 16. sci-fi and not fantasy 17. based on an original screenplay 18. partly set on Earth ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/52 "2016-02-07T00:52:33Z")
DQ: Does the film involve time travel? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/53 "2016-02-07T00:54:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did Romeo slay you in revenge for your killing Mercutio\> 2. Did you hang around with Bambi and Flower? 3. Did you have a hit with _Black Horse and the Cherry Tree_? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/54 "2016-02-07T17:51:23Z")
IQ1: Are you an outlaw from the 1880s in _Back to the Future Part III_ portrayed by the same actor who played your great-grandson in the other BTTF films? IQ2: Did both John Travolta and Nicholas Cage play you in a 1997 film? IQ3: Did Jim Carrey play you as a man whose entire entire life was captured in a TV series? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/55 "2016-02-07T20:35:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Romeo slay you in revenge for your killing Mercutio\> > 2. Did you hang around with Bambi and Flower? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Black Horse and the Cherry Tree_? Not Tybalt or Thumper; dunno the third. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an outlaw from the 1880s in _Back to the Future Part III_ portrayed by the same actor who played your great-grandson in the other BTTF films? > IQ2: Did both John Travolta and Nicholas Cage play you in a 1997 film? > IQ3: Did Jim Carrey play you as a man whose entire entire life was captured in a TV series? Not the frontier Tannen (“Mad Dog”?), dunno (in _Face/Off_) or Truman Burbank. T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with T 4. not from literature 5. from film 6. appeared in only one film 7. from an American film 8. film made after 1980 9. a protagonist 10. from a science fiction or fantasy movie 11. film not made after 1999 12. human 13. film not made in the 1980s 14. kinda sorta a military-themed movie 15. film has not won any major awards 16. sci-fi and not fantasy 17. based on an original screenplay 18. partly set on Earth 19. involves time travel ---
**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:** [February 8, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/56 "2016-02-08T03:32:45Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Romeo slay you in revenge for your killing Mercutio\> > 2. Did you hang around with Bambi and Flower? > 3. Did you have a hit with Black Horse and the Cherry Tree? > > Not Tybalt or Thumper; dunno the third. Correct on the first 2. The last was by [K. T. Tunstall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmDUEv939A). 1 DQ reserved. Hmm, all I’m coming up with is “Timecop” and that’s not Van Damme’s character’s name… Pondering. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/57 "2016-02-08T13:04:50Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you an outlaw from the 1880s in Back to the Future Part III portrayed by the same actor who played your great-grandson in the other BTTF films? > IQ2: Did both John Travolta and Nicholas Cage play you in a 1997 film? > IQ3: Did Jim Carrey play you as a man whose entire entire life was captured in a TV series? > > Not the frontier Tannen (“Mad Dog”?), dunno (in Face/Off) or Truman Burbank. Castor Troy holding 3 DQs ---
**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:** [February 8, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/58 "2016-02-08T15:42:24Z")
We’re already at 19 DQs now. Let’s say, next two DQs asked are the last for this round. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/59 "2016-02-08T15:49:35Z")
DQ: Animated film? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859/60 "2016-02-08T16:15:07Z")
T. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with T 4. not from literature 5. from film 6. appeared in only one film 7. from an American film 8. film made after 1980 9. a protagonist 10. from a science fiction or fantasy movie 11. film not made after 1999 12. human 13. film not made in the 1980s 14. kinda sorta a military-themed movie 15. film has not won any major awards 16. sci-fi and not fantasy 17. based on an original screenplay 18. partly set on Earth 19. involves time travel 20. not an animated film [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-feb-2016/744859.md?page=4)