# Botticelli - January 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285 "2017-01-04T00:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/21 "2017-01-05T10:07:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you play multiple female roles in _Cloud Atlas_? > Did you play an Esther Williams-type swimming starlet in _Hail, Caesar_? > Are you a U.S. senator from Maine? #1. I am not Susan Sarandon. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/22 "2017-01-05T14:13:12Z")
IQ1: Do we do as you say? IQ2: Were you the only American to be elected governor of two states? IQ3: Did an author who also wrote books about a pig and a swan write about 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:** [January 5, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/23 "2017-01-05T14:22:58Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play multiple female roles in _Cloud Atlas_? - Yes, Susan Sarandon Did you play an Esther Williams-type swimming starlet in _Hail, Caesar_? - Scarlett Johanssen Are you a U.S. senator from Maine? - Susan Collins DQs: Actress? Considered a beauty? IQs: Are you another female U.S. senator from Maine? Were you one of Charlie’s Angels after the original three? Did you write in your autobiography that you never saw a Turkish rug until you went to college? ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/24 "2017-01-05T14:34:56Z")
Prev IQ: Are you the justice who as a district court judge made the ruling which ended the baseball strike in the 1990’s? Sonia Sotomayor [del]DQ: Best known for the musical arts?[/del] Pedit: DQ reserved IQs: Are you the singer/songwriter who was married to James Taylor? Were you the whistleblower who worked at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Oklahoma? Did you play the above whistleblower in the movie? OoGQ: When will we get role PMs?! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/25 "2017-01-05T17:11:39Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do we do as you say? > IQ2: Were you the only American to be elected governor of two states? > IQ3: Did an author who also wrote books about a pig and a swan write about you? 1. I am not Simon. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/26 "2017-01-05T17:12:39Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with S 5. American 6. Born before 1964 7. Best known for the Arts 8. Actress 9. Beautiful, but not known as a “beauty” as such ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/27 "2017-01-05T17:13:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you another female U.S. senator from Maine? > Were you one of Charlie’s Angels after the original three? > Did you write in your autobiography that you never saw a Turkish rug until you went to college? #2. I am not Shelley Hack. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/28 "2017-01-05T17:15:03Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > IQs: Are you the singer/songwriter who was married to James Taylor? > Were you the whistleblower who worked at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Oklahoma? > Did you play the above whistleblower in the movie? > > OoGQ: When will we get role PMs?! 1. I am not Carly Simon. 2. I misremember. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Meryl Streep. I have my role PM now. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/29 "2017-01-05T21:56:30Z")
IQs: Are you the singer/songwriter who was married to James Taylor? Were you the whistleblower who worked at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant in Oklahoma? Did you play the above whistleblower in the movie? OoGQ: When will we get role PMs?! Carly Simon, correct. Karen Silkwood Meryl Streep, correct. DQ: Primarily a film actress? (As opposed to stage or TV.) OoG: Me too! Yay! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/30 "2017-01-05T23:19:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Do we do as you say? > IQ2: Were you the only American to be elected governor of two states? > IQ3: Did an author who also wrote books about a pig and a swan write about you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Simon. > Take 2 DQs. Correct. Sam Houston (TN and TX). Stuart Little. DQ1: Best known as a blonde? DQ2: Best known for comedies? ---
**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:** [January 5, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/31 "2017-01-05T23:38:30Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with S 5. American 6. Born before 1964 7. Best known for the Arts 8. Actress 9. Beautiful, but not known as a “beauty” as such 10. Best known for TV 11. Best known as a blonde 12. Best known for one particular comedy series ---
**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:** [January 6, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/32 "2017-01-06T21:01:50Z")
IQ: On a long-running TV show, did you play an Army nurse stationed in Korea in the early 1950s? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/33 "2017-01-06T21:12:08Z")
Previous IQs: Are you another female U.S. senator from Maine? - Olympia Snowe Were you one of Charlie’s Angels after the original three? - Yes, Shelly Hack Did you write in your autobiography that you never saw a Turkish rug until you went to college? - Sonia Sotomayor DQs: Greatest fame before 1980? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you play the dumb blonde on _Three’s Company_? Were your brothers Robert and Renly? Were you JFK’s de facto White House chief of staff? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/34 "2017-01-06T22:33:58Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: On a long-running TV show, did you play an Army nurse stationed in Korea in the early 1950s? Yes, indeed. I am Loretta Swit, from _M_A_S_H\*. Well done, SCAdian! ---
**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:** [January 7, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/35 "2017-01-07T01:07:15Z")
The only beautiful TV blonde I could think of. 🙂 I am **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:** [January 7, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/36 "2017-01-07T02:33:55Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose _St. Louis Blues_? 2. Were you Secretary General of the UN in the 1950’s? 3. Did you star in Disney’s _Pollyanna_? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/37 "2017-01-07T02:39:58Z")
All right, **SCAdian**! I figured you and I had an equal shot at it in the endgame. Previous IQs: Did you play the dumb blonde on _Three’s Company_? - Suzanne Somers Were your brothers Robert and Renly? - Stannis Baratheon, on _Game of Thrones_ Were you JFK’s de facto White House chief of staff? - Theodore Sorensen On to H. IQs: Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? Were you his immediate boss? Were you _that_ person’s immediate boss? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/38 "2017-01-07T12:24:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose _St. Louis Blues_? > 2. Were you Secretary General of the UN in the 1950’s? > 3. Did you star in Disney’s _Pollyanna_? DQ. Not Dag Hammerskjold. Not Hayley Mills. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? > Were you his immediate boss? > Were you _that_ person’s immediate boss? Not Heydrich, Himmler, or Hitler. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/39 "2017-01-07T15:01:21Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose St. Louis Blues? > 2. Were you Secretary General of the UN in the 1950’s? > 3. Did you star in Disney’s Pollyanna? > DQ. > Not Dag Hammerskjold. > Not Hayley Mills. #1 was W. C. Handy. Correct on the others. DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [January 7, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2017/776285/40 "2017-01-07T15:05:31Z")
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