# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/41 "2023-01-02T18:32:20Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I am not Alanis Morrisette. Take 2 DQs. 2 was Art Metrano; 3 was Allen Iverson. DQs: 1. living? 2. known for the arts? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/42 "2023-01-02T19:01:11Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. First name begins with A. 3. Female 4. Not alive. 5. Known for the Arts. ---
**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 2, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/43 "2023-01-02T19:39:03Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the love of Nick Chopper’s wife? > > 2. Are you the Royal Army of Oz? > > 3. Are you a rag doll in _Kapumbo in Oz_? > > I am not Nimmie Aree. I hope I got that right. > Take 2 DQs; I can’t remember.Or 3 if I got Nimmie Aree wrong. The love of Nick Chopper’s life was Nimmie Amee. Close enough. #2 was Oombie Ambie, the guardian with the green whiskers. #3 was Peg Amy. DQs: 1. Known for the performing arts? 2. Died since 1950? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/44 "2023-01-02T20:17:37Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. First name begins with A. 3. Female 4. Not alive. 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Not known for the performing arts. 7. Died since 1950. ---
**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 3, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/45 "2023-01-03T15:38:25Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Count Petofi’s right hand man on _Dark Shadows_? 2. Are you a typewriting poetical cockroach? 3. Were you a leader in the American Transcendentalist movement, whose daughter was a noted author? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/46 "2023-01-03T16:24:15Z")
IQs: 1. Does the tagline for a 1994 comedy describe you as the best there is…in fact, given your unique profession, the _only_ one there is? 2. Did REM ask if you were goofing on Elvis? 3. Does a small museum located in the Northern Ireland community of Culmore, just north of Derry, commemorate you—a Kansas-born pioneer, civil rights supporter, and charter member of The 99s, who died around 1937 (the exact date is unknown)? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/47 "2023-01-03T20:59:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Count Petofi’s right hand man on _Dark Shadows_? > 2. Are you a typewriting poetical cockroach? > 3. Were you a leader in the American Transcendentalist movement, whose daughter was a noted author? Take a DQ, I am not archie (or was it archy?), I am not Bronson (?) Alcott. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Does the tagline for a 1994 comedy describe you as the best there is…in fact, given your unique profession, the _only_ one there is? > 2. Did REM ask if you were goofing on Elvis? > 3. Does a small museum located in the Northern Ireland community of Culmore, just north of Derry, commemorate you—a Kansas-born pioneer, civil rights supporter, and charter member of The 99s, who died around 1937 (the exact date is unknown)? Take a DQ, I am not Andy, take a DQ. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/48 "2023-01-03T21:04:25Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Take a DQ, I am not Andy, take a DQ. 1 was Ace Ventura, pet detective; 2 was indeed Andy Kaufman; 3 was Amelia Earhart. DQs: 1. known for writing? 2. American? ---
**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 3, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/49 "2023-01-03T21:20:10Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Count Petofi’s right hand man on _Dark Shadows_? > > 2. Are you a typewriting poetical cockroach? > > 3. Were you a leader in the American Transcendentalist movement, whose daughter was a noted author? > > Take a DQ, I am not archie (or was it archy?), I am not Bronson (?) Alcott. #1 was Aristide. #2. archy is correct. #3 Amos Bronson Alcott is correct. DQ: Died since 2000? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/50 "2023-01-03T21:38:49Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. First name begins with A. 3. Female 4. Not alive. 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Not known for the performing arts. 7. Died since 1950. 8. Known for writing. 9. American 10. Died since 2000. ---
**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 3, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/51 "2023-01-03T23:13:28Z")
Previous IQs: Did you command the Battlestar _Galactica_? - Yes, Cmdr. Adama Were you mocked as “His Rotundity”? - John Adams Were you the first US ambassador to Prussia? - his son, John Quincy Adams DQs: Best known for novels? Won a top award in her field? IQs: Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives? Did you write _Breathing Lessons_? Did you write _Interview with the Vampire_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/52 "2023-01-04T02:00:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives? > Did you write _Breathing Lessons_? > Did you write _Interview with the Vampire_? I am not Anne Boleyn, I am not Anne Tyler or take a DQ, I am not Anne Rice. DQs: 1. Real 2. First name begins with A. 3. Female 4. Not alive. 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Not known for the performing arts. 7. Died since 1950. 8. American 9. Died since 2000. 10. Best known for novels. 11.Won a top award in her field. 11. Known for writing. ---
**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 4, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/53 "2023-01-04T13:15:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you resign the Vice Presidency? 2. Are you the first name in 20th Century Danish furniture design? 3. Did you come to bury Caesar? ---
**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:** [January 4, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/54 "2023-01-04T15:34:24Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in your husband’s film _S.O.B._ (a more adult turn than the family-friendly fare you’d become known for)? 2. Did multiple women claim to be you, although you most likely died with the rest of your family in 1918? 3. Do you reside in the House of Secrets, in the Dreaming? ---
**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 4, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/55 "2023-01-04T18:36:46Z")
Swept me! Anne x3. You have two DQ #11 answers, BTW. IQs: Were you the first commanding officer of the 20th Maine, and later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi? Did you have the first name (almost) of a sandwich and ran for President? Were you AKA MYCROFT? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/56 "2023-01-05T01:11:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you resign the Vice Presidency? > 2. Are you the first name in 20th Century Danish furniture design? > 3. Did you come to bury Caesar? I am not Spiro Agnew, take a DQ, I am not Marc Antony, or take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you star in your husband’s film _S.O.B._ (a more adult turn than the family-friendly fare you’d become known for)? > 2. Did multiple women claim to be you, although you most likely died with the rest of your family in 1918? > 3. Do you reside in the House of Secrets, in the Dreaming? I am not Julie Andrews, I am not Anastasia, take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Swept me! Anne x3. > > You have two DQ #11 answers, BTW. > > IQs: > > Were you the first commanding officer of the 20th Maine, and later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi? > Did you have the first name (almost) of a sandwich and ran for President? > Were you AKA MYCROFT? Take 3 DQs. My kindle got cranky and insisted it had let me edit and make the second 11 into a 12. It lied. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/57 "2023-01-05T01:30:28Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I am not Julie Andrews, I am not Anastasia, take a DQ. 3 was Abel, in DC Comics. DQ: known for writing novels in a specific genre? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/58 "2023-01-05T01:53:02Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. First name begins with A. 3. Female 4. Not alive. 5. Known for the Arts. 6. Not known for the performing arts. 7. Died since 1950. 8. American 9. Died since 2000. 10. Best known for novels. 11.Won a top award in her field. 11. Known for writing. 12. Known for writing novels in a specific genre. The last is actually #13. ---
**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, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/59 "2023-01-05T03:25:07Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the first commanding officer of the 20th Maine, and later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi? - Adelbert Ames Did you have the first name (almost) of a sandwich and ran for President? - Rubin Askew Were you AKA MYCROFT? - Adam Selene, an AI in Heinlein’s _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ DQs: Best known for sf/fantasy? Top award was a Pulitzer? Greatest popularity before 2000? IQs: Were you a black feminist author? Did a snarky servant respond to a declaration of yours, “I shall alert the media”? Were you one of three leading Organians? ---
**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:** [January 5, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/60 "2023-01-05T03:41:33Z")
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