# Botticelli - January 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993 "2018-12-31T17:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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 17, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/141 "2019-01-17T14:32:54Z")
Ah, good one! I was wracking my brains for Westerns actors. Well done, **KO**. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/142 "2019-01-17T15:12:28Z")
I was actually about to post that I was drawing a blank, then Michael Landon popped into my brain. Let’s move on to N! ---
**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 17, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/143 "2019-01-17T15:28:20Z")
IQs: 1. Are you one of the central characters in the 1950’s highly esteemed BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? 2. Were you a deadpan comic featured as a staple character actor in numerous films of the 1920’s and 1930’s? 3. Are you Homer Simpson’s next door neighbor? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/144 "2019-01-17T17:24:14Z")
DQ, DQ, not Ned Flanders ---
**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 17, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/145 "2019-01-17T19:28:22Z")
IQs: Were you Sluggo’s pal? Did you costar in _Hellcats of the Navy_? Did someone very much like you, a TV personality, appear in _Gone Girl_? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/146 "2019-01-17T20:25:51Z")
not Nancy, not Nancy Reagan?, not Nancy Sinatra? ---
**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 17, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/147 "2019-01-17T20:55:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you one of the central characters in the 1950’s highly esteemed BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? > 2. Were you a deadpan comic featured as a staple character actor in numerous films of the 1920’s and 1930’s? > 3. Are you Homer Simpson’s next door neighbor? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, DQ, not Ned Flanders #1 was Neddie Seagoon (I do not wish to know that!). #2 was Ned Sparks. Ned x3! DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 17, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/148 "2019-01-17T21:31:29Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Sluggo’s pal? - Yes, Nancy Did you costar in _Hellcats of the Navy_? - Yes, the future Nancy Reagan Did someone very much like you, a TV personality, appear in _Gone Girl_? - Cable TV law-talkin’ gal Nancy Grace Nancy x3! DQ: First name start with N? IQs: Were you married to the never-seen Maris? Did Jean-Luc Picard play a duet with you? Were you FDR’s first VP? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/149 "2019-01-17T22:19:41Z")
DQ Prospectus 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with N ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/150 "2019-01-17T22:25:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you married to the never-seen Maris? > Did Jean-Luc Picard play a duet with you? > Were you FDR’s first VP? not Norm from Cheers?, DQ, DQ ---
**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 18, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/151 "2019-01-18T05:01:48Z")
Previous IQs: Were you married to the never-seen Maris? - Dr. Niles Crane, on _Frasier_ Did Jean-Luc Picard play a duet with you? - Dr. Nella Darren, on _ST:TNG_ Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner (always used his middle name) DQs: American? Would be alive today, if real? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? Was a very large bearded man sorry you had to go away? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/152 "2019-01-18T13:44:22Z")
DQ Prospectus 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with N 4. Not American 5. Would be alive today if real 6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/153 "2019-01-18T13:49:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? > Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? > Was a very large bearded man sorry you had to go away? take 3 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 18, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/154 "2019-01-18T15:16:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did you invent dynamite? 2. Are you aka The Tin Woodman of Oz? 3. Does Archie Goodwin work for 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 18, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/155 "2019-01-18T15:55:45Z")
Previous IQs: Were you one of George Washington’s top generals? - Nathaniel Greene Does a statue of you stand in Langley, Va.? - Nathan Hale, America’s first martyred spy, on the campus of CIA HQ Was a very large bearded man sorry you had to go away? - Hagrid got a little weepy when his pet dragon Norbert left DQs: European? First appeared in print? First appeared since 1975? IQs: Was your first wife from Leetonia, Ohio, from whom you asked for a divorce while she was receiving cancer treatment? Were you a historic person who played poker on the Holodeck with Lt. Cmdr. Data? Were you the actor who played that person? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/156 "2019-01-18T18:16:07Z")
DQ Prospectus 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with N 4. Not American 5. Would be alive today if real 6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles 7. European 8. Did not first appear in print 9. First appeared since 1975 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/157 "2019-01-18T18:18:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent dynamite? > 2. Are you aka The Tin Woodman of Oz? > 3. Does Archie Goodwin work for you? not Alfred Nobel, DQ, DQ (The Archie Goodwin I know was a writer/editor for Marvel comics) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/158 "2019-01-18T18:21:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was your first wife from Leetonia, Ohio, from whom you asked for a divorce while she was receiving cancer treatment? > Were you a historic person who played poker on the Holodeck with Lt. Cmdr. Data? > Were you the actor who played that person? not Newt Gengrich, not Isaac Newton?, DQ ---
**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 18, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/159 "2019-01-18T22:34:15Z")
Previous IQs: Was your first wife from Leetonia, Ohio, from whom you asked for a divorce while she was receiving cancer treatment? - Newt Gingrich, yes Were you a historic person who played poker on the Holodeck with Lt. Cmdr. Data? - Yes, Sir Isaac Newton Were you the actor who played that person? - British actor John Neville: [Greatest minds in physics playing poker - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg8_cKxJZJY) DQ: British? IQs: Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? Did you play a wizard in a movie opposite your ex-girlfriend, whom you hated? Did MLK encourage you to remain in a TV role? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993/160 "2019-01-19T02:05:29Z")
DQ Prospectus 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. First name starts with N 4. Not American 5. Would be alive today if real 6. Hard to label as “good” or “bad” - story didn’t really have such roles 7. European 8. Did not first appear in print 9. First appeared since 1975 10. British [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2019/826993.md?page=9)