# Botticelli - February 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441 "2020-02-03T20:14:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 28, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/201 "2020-02-28T18:40:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you wipe Jesus’s face on the way to the Crucifixion? > 2. Were you an American Impressionist artist from Greenfield, IN? > 3. Are you the Roman equivalent of Hephaestos? Not Veronica, not Vought (?), and not Vulcan. ---
**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 28, 2020, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/202 "2020-02-28T19:13:53Z")
Swept me. #2 was Will Vawter, but close enough. IQs: 1. Were you a science fiction author whose father was a noted Indianapolis architect? 2. Did Swinburne call you “our sad mad glad bad brother”? 3. Are you also known as Posh Spice? ---
**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 29, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/203 "2020-02-29T05:29:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Swept me. #2 was Will Vawter, but close enough. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a science fiction author whose father was a noted Indianapolis architect? > 2. Did Swinburne call you “our sad mad glad bad brother”? > 3. Are you also known as Posh Spice? No, go ahead and take a DQ for Vawter, please. I wasn’t _that_ close. I’m not A.E. Van Vogt, dunno, and not Victoria Beckham. ---
**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 29, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/204 "2020-02-29T11:31:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Swept me. #2 was Will Vawter, but close enough. > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a science fiction author whose father was a noted Indianapolis architect? > 2. Did Swinburne call you “our sad mad glad bad brother”? > 3. Are you also known as Posh Spice? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No, go ahead and take a DQ for Vawter, please. I wasn’t _that_ close. > > I’m not A.E. Van Vogt, dunno, and not Victoria Beckham. #1 was Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. #2 was Francois Villon. Correct on Victoria. DQs: 1. Is her name in the song title? 2. From a love song? 3. From an R&B/Jazz song? ---
**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 29, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/205 "2020-02-29T22:50:44Z")
Huh. Didn’t know that about Vonnegut’s dad. V. 1. fictional 2. female 3. first name starts with V 4. not from books 5. created after 1900 6. by an American creator or creators 7. not from TV or movies 8. race unknown 9. from song 10. created after 1959 11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song 12. created before 1979 13. created after 1969 14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) 15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40 16. her name is not in the song title 17. from a love song, of sorts 18. not from an R&B/Jazz song ---
**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:** [March 1, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/206 "2020-03-01T12:14:54Z")
Where’d everybody go? IQs: 1. Were you there the night they drove Old Dixie down? 2. Are you SCAdian’s favorite painter? 3. Did you portray Napoleon Solo? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/207 "2020-03-01T12:18:12Z")
I only have intermittent internet access. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/208 "2020-03-02T03:55:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Were you there the night they drove Old Dixie down? > 2. Are you SCAdian’s favorite painter? > 3. Did you portray Napoleon Solo? Not Virgil Caine (one of my Botticelli subjects in an earlier round!), dunno, and not Robert Vaughn. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/209 "2020-03-02T12:30:54Z")
Correct, Jan Vermeer, correct. DQ: Sung by a female singer? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/210 "2020-03-02T21:38:14Z")
V. 1. fictional 2. female 3. first name starts with V 4. not from books 5. created after 1900 6. by an American creator or creators 7. not from TV or movies 8. race unknown 9. from song 10. created after 1959 11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song 12. created before 1979 13. created after 1969 14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) 15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40 16. her name is not in the song title 17. from a love song, of sorts 18. not from an R&B/Jazz song 19. not sung by a female singer I will answer the next three IQs that I don’t know. First come, first served. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/211 "2020-03-02T22:37:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with the instrumental _Chariots of Fire_? 2. Are you a Hindu god of oceans? 3. Are you a Bulgarian Quidditch star? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/212 "2020-03-03T04:57:00Z")
Not Vangelis, Vishnu or Viktor Krumm. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/213 "2020-03-03T07:25:45Z")
1. Were you an alliterative victim of the Son of Sam? 2. Are you the title person in a song covered by Bananarama? 3. Did you play Pamela Barnes on Dallas? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/214 "2020-03-03T12:00:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with the instrumental _Chariots of Fire_? > 2. Are you a Hindu god of oceans? > 3. Are you a Bulgarian Quidditch star? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Vangelis, Vishnu or Viktor Krumm. Correct, Varuna, correct. 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:** [March 3, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/215 "2020-03-03T14:45:41Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you an alliterative victim of the Son of Sam? > 2. Are you the title person in a song covered by Bananarama? > 3. Did you play Pamela Barnes on Dallas? Dunno, not Venus and not Victoria Principal. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/216 "2020-03-03T14:49:07Z")
1. Was Virginia Voskerichian. DQ: Was it sung by a group? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/217 "2020-03-03T16:04:05Z")
V. 1. fictional 2. female 3. first name starts with V 4. not from books 5. created after 1900 6. by an American creator or creators 7. not from TV or movies 8. race unknown 9. from song 10. created after 1959 11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song 12. created before 1979 13. created after 1969 14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) 15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40 16. her name is not in the song title 17. from a love song, of sorts 18. not from an R&B/Jazz song 19. not sung by a female singer 20. not sung by a group ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/218 "2020-03-03T18:31:12Z")
DQ: Country & Western song? ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/219 "2020-03-03T19:28:03Z")
V. 1. fictional 2. female 3. first name starts with V 4. not from books 5. created after 1900 6. by an American creator or creators 7. not from TV or movies 8. race unknown 9. from song 10. created after 1959 11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song 12. created before 1979 13. created after 1969 14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) 15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40 16. her name is not in the song title 17. from a love song, of sorts 18. not from an R&B/Jazz song 19. not sung by a female singer 20. not sung by a group 21. not a country western song ---
**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:** [March 4, 2020, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2020/847441/220 "2020-03-04T11:53:42Z")
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