# Botticelli - February 2023

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259 "2023-02-03T14:15:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 6

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**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 14, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/101 "2023-02-14T23:31:09Z")

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Not Adam Schiff, dunno, and not Simon Pegg.

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**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 14, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/102 "2023-02-14T23:41:50Z")

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#2 was Sheryl Lee Ralph. Correct on the others.

DQ: Real?

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**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 14, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/103 "2023-02-14T23:44:21Z")

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IQs:

1. Have you played a businessman’s alienated young wife, a secret agent and a zoo owner?
2. Are you the Patchwork Girl of Oz?
3. Are you the Chat GPT’s “secret” alias?

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**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 15, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/104 "2023-02-15T01:18:15Z")

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IQ1: Did you portray a SLUT!!! over at the Frankenstein place?  
IQ2: Are you doomed to roll a boulder up a hill for all eternity?  
IQ3: Would you simply not take the garbage out?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/105 "2023-02-15T02:28:24Z")

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Congrats!

1. Does Christine Lahti play you on **Evil**?
2. Are you best known for playing Bailey Quarters on **WKRP in Cincinnati**?
3. Did you play Les Nessman, 5 time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award on **WKRP**?

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**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 16, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/106 "2023-02-16T14:01:52Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Have you played a businessman’s alienated young wife, a secret agent and a zoo owner?
> 2. Are you the Patchwork Girl of Oz?
> 3. Are you the Chat GPT’s “secret” alias?

Not Scarlett Johannsen (sp?), dunno and dunno.

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Did you portray a SLUT!!! over at the Frankenstein place?  
> IQ2: Are you doomed to roll a boulder up a hill for all eternity?  
> IQ3: Would you simply not take the garbage out?

Not Susan Sarandon, not Sisyphus and dunno.

> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Does Christine Lahti play you on **Evil**?
> 2. Are you best known for playing Bailey Quarters on **WKRP in Cincinnati**?
> 3. Did you play Les Nessman, 5 time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award on **WKRP**?

Dunno x3.

S.

1. fictional

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**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 16, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/107 "2023-02-16T15:14:11Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > 1. Have you played a businessman’s alienated young wife, a secret agent and a zoo owner?
> > 2. Are you the Patchwork Girl of Oz?
> > 3. Are you the Chat GPT’s “secret” alias?
> 
> Not Scarlett Johannsen (sp?), dunno and dunno.

Correct on Scarlett.  
#2 is Scraps.  
#3 is Sydney.

DQs:

1. Male?
2. Last name starts with S?

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**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 16, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/108 "2023-02-16T15:15:55Z")

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IQs:

1. Did your stage musical, _The Capeman_, flop?
2. Did you write _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_?
3. Did Harvey Keitel play you in a movie with Bill Cosby and Raquel Welch?

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**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 16, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/109 "2023-02-16T18:07:36Z")

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IQ1: Were you also called Peter?  
IQ2: Were you perhaps the best known person from Tarsus?  
IQ3: Were you a weaver who adopted a little girl?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/110 "2023-02-16T21:27:09Z")

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A[quote=“kitap, post:105, topic:979259, full:true”]  
Congrats!

1. Does Christine Lahti play you on **Evil**?
2. Are you best known for playing Bailey Quarters on **WKRP in Cincinnati**?
3. Did you play Les Nessman, 5 time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award on **WKRP**?  
[/quote]

Sheryl, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders.

3DQs resetved

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**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 17, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/111 "2023-02-17T00:03:36Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > IQ1: Did you portray a SLUT!!! over at the Frankenstein place?  
> > IQ2: Are you doomed to roll a boulder up a hill for all eternity?  
> > IQ3: Would you simply not take the garbage out?
> 
> Not Susan Sarandon, not Sisyphus and dunno.

Yes, Yes, Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout - from the Shel Silverstein poem of the same name

DQ: Would be alive today, if real?

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**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 17, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/112 "2023-02-17T00:23:40Z")

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IQ1: Were you an overly obsessed fan in a song whose name has become a slang term for an overly obsessed fan?  
IQ2: Were you a donkey-riding squire?  
IQ3: Were you created by Doctor Finklestein?

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**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 17, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/113 "2023-02-17T21:57:42Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did your stage musical, _The Capeman_, flop?
> 2. Did you write _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_?
> 3. Did Harvey Keitel play you in a movie with Bill Cosby and Raquel Welch?

Dunno, not Stieg Larssen (sp?), and not Speed (by process of elimination, since it starts with an S and I’m pretty sure he would be neither Mother nor Jugs).

> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you also called Peter?  
> IQ2: Were you perhaps the best known person from Tarsus?  
> IQ3: Were you a weaver who adopted a little girl?

Not Simon, not Saul and dunno.

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Were you an overly obsessed fan in a song whose name has become a slang term for an overly obsessed fan?  
> IQ2: Were you a donkey-riding squire?  
> IQ3: Were you created by Doctor Finklestein?

Dunno, not Sancho Panza and dunno.

S.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with S
4. would almost certainly be dead today, if real

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**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 17, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/114 "2023-02-17T22:09:50Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > 1. Did your stage musical, _The Capeman_, flop?
> > 2. Did you write _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_?
> > 3. Did Harvey Keitel play you in a movie with Bill Cosby and Raquel Welch?
> 
> Dunno, not Stieg Larssen (sp?), and not Speed (by process of elimination, since it starts with an S and I’m pretty sure he would be neither Mother nor Jugs).

#1 was Paul Simon. Correct on the others.

DQ: Originally from a work of prose?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/115 "2023-02-17T22:15:40Z")

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1. Are you the protagonist of the Finishing Svchool.quartet by Gail Carriger?
2. Are you her friend who wants to become a werewolf?
3. Are you courting character #1?

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**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 18, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/116 "2023-02-18T02:09:00Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
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> > IQ1: Were you also called Peter?  
> > IQ2: Were you perhaps the best known person from Tarsus?  
> > IQ3: Were you a weaver who adopted a little girl?
> 
> Not Simon, not Saul and dunno.

correct  
correct  
Silas Marner

DQ: American creator(s)?

IQ1: Did _The Mad Goblin_ feature a character based on you?  
IQ2: Were you and Porky Rivers working with the main character of _The Mad Goblin_?  
IQ3: Were you also known as Linda Danvers?

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**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 18, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/117 "2023-02-18T02:13:13Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> Gail Carriger

I love her books!

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**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 18, 2023, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/118 "2023-02-18T08:23:53Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > IQ1: Were you an overly obsessed fan in a song whose name has become a slang term for an overly obsessed fan?  
> > IQ2: Were you a donkey-riding squire?  
> > IQ3: Were you created by Doctor Finklestein?
> 
> Dunno, not Sancho Panza and dunno.

Stan - from the Eminem song of the same name  
Correct  
Sally - from _The Nightmare Before Christmas_

Holding 2 DQs

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**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 18, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/119 "2023-02-18T13:17:24Z")

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IQs:

1. Will you be guest starring on next season’s _Only Murders In The Building_?
2. Did you star opposite Jerry Lewis in _The Nutty Professor_?
3. Did your father advise George Orwell when he was in India?

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**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 19, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259/120 "2023-02-19T02:12:18Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Are you the protagonist of the Finishing Svchool.quartet by Gail Carriger?
> 2. Are you her friend who wants to become a werewolf?
> 3. Are you courting character #1?

Dunno x3

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