# Botticelli - July 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 4, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270 "2015-07-04T20:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/281 "2015-07-21T23:46:08Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you flee from Ireland after being tricked into thinking you’d shot your beloved’s fiancé? > > IQ2) Are you an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who scored one (and only one) pop hit as a singer in 1982, at the ripe old age of 39? > > IQ3) Did you play the organ for a band founded as a “songwriters’ collective” by students at the Charterhouse School in Smithfield, England? dunno, not Laurie Brannigan(?), dunno ---
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/282 "2015-07-21T23:47:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ’s: > > 1. Did you write _Bring 'Em Back Alive_? > 2. Are you aka Daniel Patrick Cassidy? > 3. Were you known as “The Great Profile”? take 3 DQs ---
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/283 "2015-07-21T23:52:29Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > IQ’s: > > 1. Did you write a mystery series about a burglar who owned a bookstore? > 2. Are you that burglar? > 3. Are you an Astro’s catcher and 2nd baseman in the hall of fame? Here’s 3 DQs as a welcome back gift. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/284 "2015-07-21T23:55:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you called The Vamp? > IQ2: Were you called The It Girl? > IQ3: Were you John and Lionel’s sister? dunno, not Clara Barton(?), not Ethel Barrymore ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/285 "2015-07-22T00:07:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you called The Vamp? > IQ2: Were you called The It Girl? > IQ3: Were you John and Lionel’s sister? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunno, not Clara Barton(?), not Ethel Barrymore Theda Bara. Clara Bow. Correct. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/286 "2015-07-22T00:17:39Z")
IQ1: Did you drive your brand-new Corvette into a lake? IQ2: Did you cause #1 to do that? IQ3: Were you called Ferret Face? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/287 "2015-07-22T02:11:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ’s: > > 1. Did you write _Bring 'Em Back Alive_? > 2. Are you aka Daniel Patrick Cassidy? > 3. Were you known as “The Great Profile”? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > take 3 DQs You didn’t look at astorian’s post saying you won? #1 was Frank Buck. I’m not taking a DQ for that one. #2 is Blue Devil. #3 was John Barrymore. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/288 "2015-07-22T02:27:58Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Female ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/289 "2015-07-22T02:30:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you drive your brand-new Corvette into a lake? > IQ2: Did you cause #1 to do that? > IQ3: Were you called Ferret Face? dunnox2, not Frank Burns ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/290 "2015-07-22T02:52:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you drive your brand-new Corvette into a lake? > IQ2: Did you cause #1 to do that? > IQ3: Were you called Ferret Face? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunnox2, not Frank Burns Bernard Posner. Billy Jack. Correct. DQ1: Living? DQ2: Known for the Arts? IQ1: Did you play Ann Romano’s daughter? IQ2: Did you play Fanny Brice and Dolly Levi? IQ3: Did you play a woman who fed a crocodile? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/291 "2015-07-22T03:29:34Z")
All right, **Knowed Out**! My last IQs from the previous round: Were you a high-achieving kid who briefly went through a Goth phase? - Frederick Crane, on _Frasier_. Were you either of a pair of tailors in _Oscar_? - The Fanuccis. Did you get very bad news in 1781, sink into a chair and moan, “Oh, God, it’s all over”? - Frederick, Lord North, the British PM, after receiving word of Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown. On to B. IQs: Did you protect black servants threatened during the New York City Draft Riots? Were you Dr. Johnson’s biographer and boon companion? Were you a U.S. senator who went a little crazy during his reelection campaign? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/292 "2015-07-22T12:07:42Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Known for the arts, but not most famous for it ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/293 "2015-07-22T12:09:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play Ann Romano’s daughter? > IQ2: Did you play Fanny Brice and Dolly Levi? > IQ3: Did you play a woman who fed a crocodile? not Valerie Bertinelli, not Barbra Streisand(?), dunno ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/294 "2015-07-22T12:14:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you protect black servants threatened during the New York City Draft Riots? > Were you Dr. Johnson’s biographer and boon companion? > Were you a U.S. senator who went a little crazy during his reelection campaign? don’t remember, dunno, not Michelle Bachmann(?) ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/295 "2015-07-22T12:49:43Z")
DQs: 1. American? 2. Died after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/296 "2015-07-22T15:42:27Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Did you flee from Ireland after being tricked into thinking you’d shot your beloved’s fiancé? > > IQ2) Are you an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who scored one (and only one) pop hit as a singer in 1982, at the ripe old age of 39? > > IQ3) Did you play the organ for a band founded as a “songwriters’ collective” by students at the Charterhouse School in Smithfield, England? Barry Lyndon (aka Redmond Barry), Toni Basil (“Oh Mickey, you’re so fine…”), and Tony Banks of Genesis (founded by Old Carthusians Banks, Mike Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Anthony Philips). DQ) Last Name start with “B”? Will save two DQs ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/297 "2015-07-22T15:50:00Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Known for the arts, but not most famous for it 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Last names starts with B ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/298 "2015-07-22T16:24:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _I Can’t Smile Without You_? 2. Did you have a hit with _The Wind Beneath My Wings_? 3. Are you aka Erica Abi Wright? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/299 "2015-07-22T16:26:47Z")
DQ) Born in or after 1900? DQ2) Involved in politics? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270/300 "2015-07-22T18:09:04Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Female 3. Dead 4. Known for the arts, but not most famous for it 5. American 6. Died after 1900 7. Last names starts with B 8. Born in or after 1900 9. Not involved in politics [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2015/724270.md?page=16)