# Botticelli February 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224 "2021-02-04T23:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/61 "2021-02-08T16:18:27Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a noted Ohio lawyer who didn’t like jurors whose eyes were too close to their noses? - Clarence Darrow Did a musician joke in a song about someone giving you a new musical instrument? - Clarence Clemmons, to whom Saint Nick just might have brought a new saxophone, in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” Did you write a book about preparing to play Shakespeare’s Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow DQ: Generally admired today? Greatest fame before 1945? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a French statesman after whom an aircraft carrier was later named? Did your best friend confess to a TV game-show host that you scared him a little? Were you First Officer of the USS _Voyager_? ---
**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, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/62 "2021-02-08T17:14:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a French statesman after whom an aircraft carrier was later named? Oui! Je suis **Georges Clemenceau**! [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/French_carrier_Clemenceau_%28R98%29_underway_1981.jpg/1280px-French_carrier_Clemenceau_%28R98%29_underway_1981.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/French_carrier_Clemenceau_%28R98%29_underway_1981.jpg/1280px-French_carrier_Clemenceau_%28R98%29_underway_1981.jpg) Take it away, EH! ---
**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, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/63 "2021-02-08T17:27:33Z")
Thanks, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Did your best friend confess to a TV game-show host that you scared him a little? - Cliff Clavin, when Norm Peterson had a chance to speak to Alex Trebek Were you First Officer of the USS _Voyager_? - Cmdr. Chakotay Next letter to follow shortly, I hope. ---
**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, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/64 "2021-02-08T17:54:03Z")
Just updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/) Right. Our next letter is # **H** ---
**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, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/65 "2021-02-08T18:06:21Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a long-running feud with Louella Parsons? 2. Were you a White House Communications Director under Trump? 3. Were you the most honored entertainer in the U.S.A. of the 20th Century? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/66 "2021-02-08T18:54:23Z")
Congrats, EH! IQs: 1. Do you appear in a photo holding up a newspaper with an incorrect headline? 2. Did you play an indecisive Senegalese philosophy professor? 3. Did you perform “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl yesterday? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/67 "2021-02-08T20:05:17Z")
Wrapping up from last time > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ3: Did you almost kick David Letterman in the face on his show? Crispin Glover H… IQ1: Did you provide Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live? IQ2: Did James Bond call your character a woman of many parts? IQ3: Is your mind a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/68 "2021-02-08T20:27:20Z")
IQ1: In a short story, did a recommendation for a medal for you end in your being fined for the loss of your equipment and banished to a frontier outpost? IQ2: Were you a fictional photographer and government assassin? IQ3: Were you Hecuba’s son? ---
**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, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/69 "2021-02-08T20:52:54Z")
For more on Clemenceau: [Georges Clemenceau - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Clemenceau) > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a long-running feud with Louella Parsons? > 2. Were you a White House Communications Director under Trump? > 3. Were you the most honored entertainer in the U.S.A. of the 20th Century? Not Hedda Hopper, dunno, and not Bob Hope. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Do you appear in a photo holding up a newspaper with an incorrect headline? > 2. Did you play an indecisive Senegalese philosophy professor? > 3. Did you perform “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl yesterday? Not one of my favorite POTUSes, Harry S Truman; dunno 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:** [February 8, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/70 "2021-02-08T20:54:52Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > … > H… > > IQ1: Did you provide Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live? > IQ2: Did James Bond call your character a woman of many parts? > IQ3: Is your mind a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives? Not Jack Handey, Halle Berry or… dunno. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: In a short story, did a recommendation for a medal for you end in your being fined for the loss of your equipment and banished to a frontier outpost? > IQ2: Were you a fictional photographer and government assassin? > IQ3: Were you Hecuba’s son? Dunno, dunno and not… Hyperion? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/71 "2021-02-08T21:08:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: In a short story, did a recommendation for a medal for you end in your being fined for the loss of your equipment and banished to a frontier outpost? > > IQ2: Were you a fictional photographer and government assassin? > > IQ3: Were you Hecuba’s son? > > Dunno, dunno and not… Hyperion? Horatius (“[A Medal for Horatius](https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_horatius.asp)”). Matt Helm. Hector. DQ1: Male? DQ2: Real? One 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:** [February 8, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/72 "2021-02-08T21:49:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you have a long-running feud with Louella Parsons? > > > 2. Were you a White House Communications Director under Trump? > > > 3. Were you the most honored entertainer in the U.S.A. of the 20th Century? > > Not Hedda Hopper, dunno, and not Bob Hope. Correct, Hope Hicks, Correct. DQ: Last name starts with H? ---
**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:** [February 8, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/73 "2021-02-08T23:43:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Did you provide Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live? > > > > > IQ2: Did James Bond call your character a woman of many parts? > > > IQ3: Is your mind a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives? > > Not Jack Handey, Halle Berry or… dunno. Correct, Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. “You’re a woman of many parts, Pussy”. Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) from _Blazing Saddles_ Holding 2 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 9, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/74 "2021-02-09T03:05:37Z")
H. 1. male 2. fictional 3. first name starts with H ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/75 "2021-02-09T03:12:10Z")
DQ: American creator(s)? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/76 "2021-02-09T03:15:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Do you appear in a photo holding up a newspaper with an incorrect headline? > 2. Did you play an indecisive Senegalese philosophy professor? > 3. Did you perform “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl yesterday? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not one of my favorite POTUSes, Harry S Truman; dunno and dunno. 2 was William Jackson Harper (on _The Good Place_); 3 was H.E.R. DQs: 1. created before 2000? 2. from TV or movies? ---
**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 9, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/77 "2021-02-09T04:18:25Z")
H. 1. male 2. fictional 3. first name starts with H 4. American creator(s) 5. created before 2000 6. not originally from TV or movies ---
**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 9, 2021, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/78 "2021-02-09T11:06:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you go on adventures with Tom Sawyer? 2. Did your TV show feature Pixie & Dixie & Mr. Jinks as well? 3. Are you comedy writer Jack Douglas’s son known by this nickname? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/79 "2021-02-09T15:03:53Z")
IQs: 1. Do you share a first name with the current Ms. Marvel? 2. Did you found a fast-food restaurant? 3. Did you play a man carrying a double bass, a man walking dogs, and a man failing to get on a bus? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2021/932224/80 "2021-02-09T18:01:19Z")
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