# Botticelli Game #42 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 18, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372 "2008-08-18T04:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/1 "2008-08-18T04:00:59Z")
**PD** Good luck! ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/2 "2008-08-18T04:08:21Z")
Are you a Birmingham-born conductor? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/3 "2008-08-18T04:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Are you a Birmingham-born conductor? [/QUOTE] Nope, and I’m stumped. Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/4 "2008-08-18T10:07:15Z")
Are you a dreamy doctor in a TV-show? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/5 "2008-08-18T11:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] Are you a dreamy doctor in a TV-show? [/QUOTE] Not Patrick Dempsey ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/6 "2008-08-18T12:24:46Z")
Did you supply the soundtrack for a mystical Mickey Mouse adventure? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/7 "2008-08-18T12:33:04Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] **PD** Good luck! [/QUOTE] We’ll need it, going by previous experiences! Are you an English author, chiefly of children’s books and detective stories? Will we like you, not a lot, but we’ll like you? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/8 "2008-08-18T14:56:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Are you a Birmingham-born conductor? [/QUOTE] Paul Daniel. DQ: Are you a real person (and not a fictional character)? IQ: Are you a Greek author of tween books? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/9 "2008-08-18T16:41:51Z")
Are you half of a same-sex celebrity couple? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/10 "2008-08-18T16:51:14Z")
Did you use to be a talk-show host? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/11 "2008-08-18T17:06:20Z")
Did your real-life daughter recently play the daughter of the most recent incarnation of a character you played in the early 1980s? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/12 "2008-08-18T17:37:36Z")
Can you remember it for me wholesale? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/13 "2008-08-18T18:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=WormTheRed] Did you use to be a talk-show host? [/QUOTE] Not Phil Donahue [QUOTE=Biffy] Are you half of a same-sex celebrity couple? [/QUOTE] Not Mrs. Ellen DeGeneres, Portia DeRossi [QUOTE=Biffy] Can you remember it for me wholesale? [/QUOTE] Not Phillip Dick 1 DQ for ErinPuff 1 DQ for Biffy 2 DQs for Dead Cat ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/14 "2008-08-18T18:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Paul Daniel. DQ: Are you a real person (and not a fictional character)? IQ: Are you a Greek author of tween books? [/QUOTE] Yes, I’m a real person. I don’t know the Greek author- take another DQ ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/15 "2008-08-18T18:50:59Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Did you supply the soundtrack for a mystical Mickey Mouse adventure? [/QUOTE] Paul Dukas, composer of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” used for the Mickey segment of _Fantasia_. DQ: Are you American? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/16 "2008-08-18T18:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=ErinPuff] Did your real-life daughter recently play the daughter of the most recent incarnation of a character you played in the early 1980s? [/QUOTE] Peter Davison. His daughter, Georgia Moffett, played the title role in the recent Doctor Who episode “The Doctor’s Daughter”; Peter Davison played the Doctor from 1981-1984. DQ: Are you still alive? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/17 "2008-08-18T19:32:04Z")
Did you pen Dave Brubeck’s biggest hit? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/18 "2008-08-18T19:40:30Z")
Did Elton John re-record one of his songs and dedicate it to you? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/19 "2008-08-18T20:19:48Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] …IQ: Are you a Greek author of tween books? [/QUOTE] Penelope Daniel. DQ: Are you an entertainer (books, movies, art, music, etc.)? IQ: Are you a Kildare footballer? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/20 "2008-08-19T00:27:16Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Paul Dukas, composer of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” used for the Mickey segment of _Fantasia_. DQ: Are you American? [/QUOTE] Yes and no. I’m a U.S. citizen, but I was not born in the U.S. Summary: Real person American citizen, not American by birth [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372.md?page=2)