# 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:** 2
**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, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/21 "2008-08-19T00:28:30Z")
[QUOTE=ErinPuff] 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? [/QUOTE] Alas, no. **SUMMARY:** Real person Dead American citizen, but not American by birth ---
**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, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/22 "2008-08-19T00:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Did you pen Dave Brubeck’s biggest hit? [/QUOTE] Not saxophonist Paul Desmond, who wrote “Take 5” ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/23 "2008-08-19T00:30:22Z")
Did your term as French President end over charges of madness? ---
**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, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/24 "2008-08-19T00:30:55Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] Did Elton John re-record one of his songs and dedicate it to you? [/QUOTE] “Princess Diana” is pushing the “PD” definition. But no, I’m not her. ---
**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, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/25 "2008-08-19T00:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Did your term as French President end over charges of madness? [/QUOTE] This is a French President I don’t know. Ask a DQ ---
**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, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/26 "2008-08-19T00:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Penelope Daniel. DQ: Are you an entertainer (books, movies, art, music, etc.)? IQ: Are you a Kildare footballer? [/QUOTE] I’ve written books, but I am not regarded as an entertainer. As for the IQ… you’d have to go back to the mid-Seventies if you wanted me to get an Irish football question right! And even then, it was “Up Kerry!” for me, not Kildare. Ask another DQ. **SUMMARY:** Real person Dead A U.S. citizen, but not American by birth Not an entertainer (but have written books) ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/27 "2008-08-19T00:38:05Z")
Paul Deschanel DQ: Were you alive at any point of the 20th century? IQ: Did you and your brother win 49 games in one season? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/28 "2008-08-19T00:57:00Z")
Did you shoot yourself while starring in a television Western? ---
**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, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/29 "2008-08-19T02:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Paul Deschanel DQ: Were you alive at any point of the 20th century? IQ: Did you and your brother win 49 games in one season? [/QUOTE] Yes, I was alive in the 20th century No, I am not Paul “Daffy” Dean, Dizzy’s brother **SUMMARY:** Real person Dead American citizen, not American by birth Was alive in the 20th century Not an entertainer, but have written books ---
**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, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/30 "2008-08-19T02:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] Did you shoot yourself while starring in a television Western? [/QUOTE] Not Pete Duel of “Alias Smith and Jones” ---
**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 19, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/31 "2008-08-19T03:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] …IQ: Are you a Kildare footballer? [/QUOTE] Paul Donnelly. DQ: Are you male? ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/32 "2008-08-19T03:36:18Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Paul Donnelly. DQ: Are you male? [/QUOTE] Yes **SUMMARY:** Real person Male Dead American citizen, not American by birth Was alive in the 20th century Not an entertainer, but have written books ---
**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 19, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/33 "2008-08-19T08:57:49Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] 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? [/QUOTE] These are [Peter Dickinson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dickinson) and [Paul Daniels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Daniels), the English magician whose famous catchphrase was “You’ll like this… not a lot, but you’ll like it.” DQs: Did you die before 1950? Have you ever appeared on TV? IQs: Did you play Patty O’Brien in _Austin Powers_? Are you the UK tabloids’ second-favourite drug-addict? Are you an American actor whose middle name is the same as someone whose profession was the same as your current role? ---
**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, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/34 "2008-08-19T11:29:25Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] DQs: Did you die before 1950? Have you ever appeared on TV? [/QUOTE] No, I did not die before 1950 Yes, I have appeared on television, though it’s not something I’m well known for **SUMMARY:** Real person Male Dead Was alive after 1950 American citizen, not American by birth Was alive in the 20th century Not an entertainer, but have written books Have appeared on television, though it’s not what I’m best known for ---
**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, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/35 "2008-08-19T11:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] IQs: Did you play Patty O’Brien in _Austin Powers_? Are you the UK tabloids’ second-favourite drug-addict? Are you an American actor whose middle name is the same as someone whose profession was the same as your current role? [/QUOTE] I remember the scene well (“Always after me lucky charms…”), but don’t know the actor. I don’t read any UK tabloids And the 3rd question is too clever for me. Sigh… ask 3 DQs ---
**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 19, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/36 "2008-08-19T12:54:37Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] I remember the scene well (“Always after me lucky charms…”), but don’t know the actor. I don’t read any UK tabloids And the 3rd question is too clever for me. Sigh… ask 3 DQs [/QUOTE] Heh, this is exactly how I feel when I’m the game host and you ask IQs! The actor is [Paul Dillon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dillon), [Pete Doherty](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Doherty), British lead singer of _Babyshambles_, could legitimately be described as the tabloids’ second-favourite drug-addict (Amy Winehouse gets top spot here), and [Patrick Galen Dempsey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dempsey)’s middle name was a Greek doctor - Dempsey plays a Doctor in _Grey’s Anatomy_. DQs: Are you famous as a businessman? Did you die between 1950 and 1980 (inclusive)? Were you involved in politics? IQs: Were you _Iron Maiden_’s original lead singer? Have you used the pen names Richard Phillips, Jack Dowland, and Horselover Fat? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/37 "2008-08-19T13:02:49Z")
Before making it big, did you own your own restaurant in Savannah, GA? ---
**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 19, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/38 "2008-08-19T13:47:36Z")
Did you serve in the California legislature after the death of your husband, the incumbent? ---
**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, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/39 "2008-08-19T18:03:33Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] DQs: Are you famous as a businessman? Did you die between 1950 and 1980 (inclusive)? Were you involved in politics? [/QUOTE] Yes, I’d say I’m famous as a businessman No, I did not die between 1950 and 1980 I wasn’t active in politics **SUMMARY:** Real person Male Dead Was alive after 1950 Did not die between 1950 and 1980 American citizen, not American by birth Was alive in the 20th century Not an entertainer, but have written books Have appeared on television, though it’s not what I’m best known for Known as a businessman Not involved in politics ---
**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, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372/40 "2008-08-19T18:05:03Z")
[QUOTE=TommyTutone] Before making it big, did you own your own restaurant in Savannah, GA? [/QUOTE] Not Paula Deen? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-game-42/460372.md?page=3)