# Botticelli - January 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 31, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412 "2022-12-31T12:35:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/261 "2023-02-01T23:43:21Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the Beaver? > > 2. Are you the head of a family known for their “curse” at the Indy 500? > > 3. Did you write _Angels From The Realms Of Glory_? > > 1. I am not Jerry Mathers. > 2. I am not Mario Andretti? > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, Correct, and James Montgomery. DQ: Born after 1960? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/262 "2023-02-01T23:46:28Z")
IQs: 1. Did Alan Rickman play you in _Dogma_? 2. Does Eddie Izzard usually do an impression of your voice when he’s talking for God in his stage show? 3. Are you Maxwell Crandall’s latest superhero handle? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/263 "2023-02-02T00:34:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Alan Rickman play you in _Dogma_? > 2. Does Eddie Izzard usually do an impression of your voice when he’s talking for God in his stage show? > 3. Are you Maxwell Crandall’s latest superhero handle? 1. I am not the Metatron. 2. I am not James Mason. 3. I am not Max Mercury. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. first name starts with M 4. living 5. known from the arts 6. known for the performing arts 7. known partly for acting 8. American 9. Caucasian 10. worked in TV, not best known from it 11. spouse was famous also 12. born before 1960 ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/264 "2023-02-02T02:11:27Z")
1. Are you “of Chincoteague”? 2. Did you play Castiel on **Supernatural**? 3. Were you a writer who best known pseudonym was Elizabeth Peters? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/265 "2023-02-02T02:17:43Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you “of Chincoteague”? > 2. Did you play Castiel on **Supernatural**? > 3. Were you a writer who best known pseudonym was Elizabeth Peters? 1. I am not Misty. 2. I am not Mischa Collins. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/266 "2023-02-02T02:21:41Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you “of Chincoteague”? > 2. Did you play Castiel on **Supernatural**? > 3. Were you a writer who best known pseudonym was Elizabeth Peters? Correct, correct, Barbara Mertz (who also wrote as Barbara Michaels) - she wrote, as Mertz, a pair of non-fiction books on Ancient Egypt (she had a PhD in Egyptology). ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/267 "2023-02-02T16:12:22Z")
Swept yet again! 🫢 IQs: 1. Did Tommy Kirk play you in a Disney movie about your misadventures? 2. Did Claude Monet basically force the Musee d’Orsay to buy your works at very high prices from your widow? 3. Did you have hits on records with a number of songs by George M. Cohan? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/268 "2023-02-02T17:44:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Tommy Kirk play you in a Disney movie about your misadventures? > 2. Did Claude Monet basically force the Musee d’Orsay to buy your works at very high prices from your widow? > 3. Did you have hits on records with a number of songs by George M. Cohan? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Edouard Manet. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/269 "2023-02-02T18:18:26Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did Tommy Kirk play you in a Disney movie about your misadventures? > > 2. Did Claude Monet basically force the Musee d’Orsay to buy your works at very high prices from your widow? > > 3. Did you have hits on records with a number of songs by George M. Cohan? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Edouard Manet. > 3. Take a DQ. #1 was Merlin Jones. #2 is correct. #3 was Billy Murray. DQs: 1. Born before 1950? 2. Known as a singer or musician? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/270 "2023-02-02T20:54:57Z")
Swept me IQ1: Were you frequently disappointed by the lack of an Earth-shattering Ka-boom? IQ2: Are you a paranoid android? IQ3: Did you wonder what’s going on? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/271 "2023-02-02T22:54:28Z")
IQ1: Were you Trixie Belden’s “almost-twin” brother? IQ2: Were you 86? IQ3: Are you Marmaduke Mason’s girlfriend? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/272 "2023-02-02T23:03:56Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _The Twelfth of Never_? 2. Were you Moses’s sister? 3. Did you create the periodic table of the elements? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/273 "2023-02-02T23:50:57Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you frequently disappointed by the lack of an Earth-shattering Ka-boom? > IQ2: Are you a paranoid android? > IQ3: Did you wonder what’s going on? IQ1: I am not Marvin the Martian. IQ2: I am not Marvin (from _Hitchhiker’s Guide_). IQ3: I am not Marvin Gaye. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Trixie Belden’s “almost-twin” brother? > IQ2: Were you 86? > IQ3: Are you Marmaduke Mason’s girlfriend? IQ1: Take a DQ. IQ2: I am not Maxwell Smart. IQ3: I am not Midge. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with The Twelfth of Never? > 2. Were you Moses’s sister? > 3. Did you create the periodic table of the elements? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Miriam. 3. I am not Dmitri Mendeleev. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. first name starts with M 4. living 5. known from the arts 6. known for the performing arts 7. known partly for acting 8. American 9. Caucasian 10. worked in TV, not best known from it 11. spouse was famous also 12. born before 1960 13. born before 1950 14. has written songs ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/274 "2023-02-03T01:11:09Z")
Ah. The penny dropped. IQ: Did you sing the title song to _High Anxiety_, was married to Anne Bancroft, have a hit with _The Producers_ twice, and are currently working on _The History of the World, Part II_? Johnny Mathis performed _The Twelfth of Never_, so 1 DQ reserved if I’m wrong on Mel. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/275 "2023-02-03T01:19:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Did you sing the title song to _High Anxiety_, was married to Anne Bancroft, have a hit with _The Producers_ twice, and are currently working on _The History of the World, Part II_? I am indeed the one…the only… **Mel Brooks**! Next game and thread go to the Prof. (It’s _good_ to be the Prof.) ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/276 "2023-02-03T03:23:49Z")
Pfui. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/277 "2023-02-03T14:16:13Z")
Sorry, SCA! Here’s the link to February: [Botticelli - February 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2023/979259) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412.md?page=13)