# Botticelli Game #36

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 30, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289 "2008-07-30T22:15:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/21 "2008-07-31T13:17:30Z")

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Have you appeared on a Beatles album?

Are you a former presidential candidate?

Are you a dadaist?

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/22 "2008-07-31T14:10:31Z")

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Were you the least successful Tar Heel basketball coach in the last 50 years? (Men’s division.)

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/23 "2008-07-31T14:22:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Dead Cat]  
Have you appeared on a Beatles album?

Are you a former presidential candidate?

Are you a dadaist?  
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1. Not Marlene Dietrich.

2. Not Michael Dukakis.

3. **YES!!!**

I am **Marcel Duchamp** , the papa of dada!

Well done, **Dead Cat**! Your turn!

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/24 "2008-07-31T16:21:17Z")

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Also: sorry, **Astorian, Kid\_A,** & **Wargamer** ; I didn’t know any of your answers.

I’m surprised nobody asked if I was kind of blue.

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/25 "2008-07-31T16:30:19Z")

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My word - I never thought I’d actually win one of these! And I didn’t even get to use Maragaret Drabble or Matt Dawson.

Looking at previous threads, I can’t see a JM, so you can start preparing your questions for the new thread which I’ll start shortly. Like the last one, it’s not going to be difficult to stump me!

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**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/26 "2008-07-31T17:16:42Z")

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Mike Ditka (from Saturday Night Live; Da Bears!!!)

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-36/458289/27 "2008-08-01T03:09:33Z")

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[QUOTE=astorian]  
Have you written a best seller wondering if we males serve any useful purpose?  
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This was Maureen Dowd, NY Times columnist and author of “Are Men NEcessary?”

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