# 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:** 9
**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 18, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/161 "2023-01-18T14:33:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Clark Kent; 2 was King Charles III; 3 was Charlaine Harris. DQs: 1. died after 1970? 2. European? 3. known from the performing arts? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/162 "2023-01-18T14:48:42Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you the main character of **From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler**? > 2. Are you the title character of an epistolatary novel written by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer? > 3. Are you the protagonist of **Dealing with Dragons**? Claudia, Cecelia ( **Sorcery & Cecelia** ), Cimorene DQs: 1. Known for the performing arts? 2. Died after 1970? 2 DQs reserved ---
**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, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/163 "2023-01-18T16:22:00Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with C 5. Known from the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1970 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts **kitap** take 2 more guesses. **De\_La\_Rue** already guessed those. ---
**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, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/164 "2023-01-18T17:42:38Z")
Previous IQs: Have you played a President, a dentist, a judge and a high school teacher? - Bryan Cranston, in _All the War, Seinfeld, Your Honor_ and _Breaking Bad_ Were you the first to fly across America, “crash by crash”? - Not “Wrong Way” Corrigan, but this guy: [Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers) Was your middle name Muriel and you weren’t a transpondster? - Chandler Bing, on _Friends_ DQs: Best known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.)? From the British Isles? Died after 2000? IQs: Were you George III’s wife? Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? Did you edit a film while underwater? ---
**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, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/165 "2023-01-18T17:49:32Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with C 5. Known from the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1970 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Known for the visual arts 12. Not British 13. Died before 2000 ---
**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, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/166 "2023-01-18T17:51:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you George III’s wife? > Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? > Did you edit a film while underwater? 1. I am not Charlotte (??) 2. I am not Henry Clinton (??) 3. I am not Jacques Cousteau (??) ---
**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, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/167 "2023-01-18T21:07:00Z")
Previous IQs: Were you George III’s wife? - Yes, Queen Charlotte Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron (about whom it was said he was so corrupt that he _probably_ wouldn’t steal a hot stove) Did you edit a film while underwater? - Cousteau would shoot a film underwater, yes, but not edit it there. This was James Cameron, during the shooting of _The Abyss_; he had an editing booth set up in the decompression chamber to put his time there to better use. DQs: Born in or east of Vienna? Born in or north of Vienna? IQs: Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”? Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own? Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in _Hill Street Blues_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/168 "2023-01-18T21:13:36Z")
DQ retries: 1. Known for painting? 2. Won a major award? ---
**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 18, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/169 "2023-01-18T22:29:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did the CIA come up with multiple plots against you, including drugging you with LSD and making your beard fall out? 2. Do people who put on the Ritz try hard to look like you? 3. Were you Peter Parker’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:** [January 18, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/170 "2023-01-18T22:51:37Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with C 5. Known from the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1970 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Known for the visual arts 12. Not British 13. Died before 2000 14. Born east of Vienna 15. Born north of Vienna 16. Known for painting and other forms of art 17. Won major awards and honors ---
**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, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/171 "2023-01-18T22:53:08Z")
De\_La\_Rue > [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did the CIA come up with multiple plots against you, including drugging you with LSD and making your beard fall out? > 2. Do people who put on the Ritz try hard to look like you? > 3. Were you Peter Parker’s girlfriend? 1. I am not Fidel Castro. 2. I am not Gary Cooper. 3. I am not Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson or Felicia Hardy. Take a DQ for a C. ---
**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 18, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/172 "2023-01-18T23:51:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Fidel Castro. > 2. I am not Gary Cooper. > 3. I am not Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson or Felicia Hardy. Take a DQ for a C. 3 was Carlie Cooper (she worked in forensics for the NYPD). 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/173 "2023-01-19T21:03:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”? > Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own? > Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in _Hill Street Blues_? Ahem. ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/174 "2023-01-19T21:53:44Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a CEO of Hewlett-Packard and US political candidate? 2. Are you an English magician created by fellow English magician Alan Moore solely so Steve Bissette and John Totleben could draw somebody who looked like Sting? 3. Madame DeFarge: “We are so pooerr, we don’t even heff a lenguage! Joost a stupeed accent!” Peasant Man: “She’s right! We all zound lahk” you? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 19, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/175 "2023-01-19T22:31:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”? > > Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own? > > Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in _Hill Street Blues_? > > Ahem. Mea Culpa. 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 19, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/176 "2023-01-19T22:33:27Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a CEO of Hewlett-Packard and US political candidate? > 2. Are you an English magician created by fellow English magician Alan Moore solely so Steve Bissette and John Totleben could draw somebody who looked like Sting? > 3. Madame DeFarge: “We are so pooerr, we don’t even heff a lenguage! Joost a stupeed accent!” > Peasant Man: “She’s right! We all zound lahk” you? #1. Take a DQ. #2. I am not John Constantine. #3. I am not Maurice Chevalier (??) ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/177 "2023-01-20T15:00:41Z")
Previous IQs: Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”? - Grover Cleveland Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own? - Moses Cleaveland, who surveyed the area; the legend is that the full name didn’t fit in a newspaper headline, so an editor dropped the first “a,” and the revised spelling stuck Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in _Hill Street Blues_? - Ozzie Cleveland Cleveland x3! DQs: German/Austrian? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/178 "2023-01-20T16:03:31Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with C 5. Known from the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1970 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Known for the visual arts 12. Not British 13. Died before 2000 14. Born east of Vienna 15. Born north of Vienna 16. Known for painting and other forms of art 17. Won major awards and honors 18. Not German/Austrian ---
**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 22, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/179 "2023-01-22T02:31:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a CEO of Hewlett-Packard and US political candidate? > 2. Are you an English magician created by fellow English magician Alan Moore solely so Steve Bissette and John Totleben could draw somebody who looked like Sting? > 3. Madame DeFarge: “We are so pooerr, we don’t even heff a lenguage! Joost a stupeed accent!” > Peasant Man: “She’s right! We all zound lahk” you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not John Constantine. > #3. I am not Maurice Chevalier (??) 1 was Carly Fiorina; 2 was correct, guv; 3 [was correct](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/History_of_the_World:_Part_I). DQ: born in Russia or former Russian state? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 22, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412/180 "2023-01-22T13:34:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Last name starts with C 5. Known from the Arts 6. Not American 7. Died after 1900 8. Died after 1970 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Known for the visual arts 12. Not British 13. Died before 2000 14. Born east of Vienna 15. Born north of Vienna 16. Known for painting and other forms of art 17. Won major awards and honors 18. Not German/Austrian 19. Born in Russia or former Russian state [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2023/977412.md?page=10)