# Botticelli July 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885 "2016-07-01T19:49:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 11, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/101 "2016-07-11T00:10:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > Were you a Targaryen king known as “the Cruel”? - Maegor. > Were you an interpreter and advisor to the Khaleesi? - Missandei. > Are you the tough-as-nails little girl who heads an ancient noble house of Westeros? - Lady Lyanna Mormont, a new fan favorite (some minor spoilers here): ['Game of Thrones': Bella Ramsey Reacts to Fan Love for Lyanna Mormont | Moviefone](http://www.moviefone.com/2016/07/08/game-of-thrones-bella-ramsey-fans-lyanna-mormont/). > > DQs: > > Actor? > Won a top award? > > Two DQs reserved. > > IQs: > > Did you star in _Let’s Make Love_ with Marilyn Monroe? > Were you a noted French Impressionist? > Were you another noted French Impressionist with a similar last name? No, I’m not Yves Montand, and I’m not Edouart Manet, but… I am Claude Monet… Good job, EH! ---
**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 11, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/102 "2016-07-11T17:51:07Z")
Woohoo! Thanks. Of course our next letter must be N ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/103 "2016-07-11T19:26:14Z")
IQ’s: Are you a fictional sleuth created by Edward Stratemeyer? Are you a pair of fictional sleuths created by Dashiell Hammett? Are you an actor who portrayed a parody of one of the pair of fictional sleuths in #2? ---
**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 11, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/104 "2016-07-11T20:50:05Z")
IQs: 1. Did you famously pound your shoe on a podium? 2. Was your dog named Checkers? 3. Were you the actress who played Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_ who died this last month? ---
**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 11, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/105 "2016-07-11T21:46:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > IQ’s: > > Are you a fictional sleuth created by Edward Stratemeyer? > Are you a pair of fictional sleuths created by Dashiell Hammett? > Are you an actor who portrayed a parody of one of the pair of fictional sleuths in #2? Dunno, not Nick and Nora, and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you famously pound your shoe on a podium? > 2. Was your dog named Checkers? > 3. Were you the actress who played Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_ who died this last month? Not Nikita Khrushchev (it was the table in front of the Soviet delegation in the UN General Assembly hall, and not a podium, though, IIRC), not Richard M. Nixon, and dunno. ---
**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 11, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/106 "2016-07-11T22:42:24Z")
Noel Neill played Lois. DQ: Real? ---
**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 11, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/107 "2016-07-11T22:47:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Uhura on ST:OTS? 2. Was the character you played made to squeal like a piggy in _Deliverance_? 3. Are you a famous girl detective? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/108 "2016-07-12T02:39:22Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > IQ’s: > > Are you a fictional sleuth created by Edward Stratemeyer? > Are you a pair of fictional sleuths created by Dashiell Hammett? > Are you an actor who portrayed a parody of one of the pair of fictional sleuths in #2? Heh just realized there was no #2, but… Nancy Drew. Yes, Nick and Nora Charles. David Niven, who played Dick (of Dick & Dora) Charleston in _Murder by Death_. DQ’s: Male? American? ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/109 "2016-07-12T13:18:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Uhura on ST:[TOS]? > 2. Was the character you played made to squeal like a piggy in _Deliverance_? > 3. Are you a famous girl detective? Not Nichelle Nichols, dunno, and not Nancy Drew. N. 1. fictional 2. male 3. 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:** [July 12, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/110 "2016-07-12T13:21:16Z")
#2 was Ned Beatty. DQ: created after 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:** [July 12, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/111 "2016-07-12T13:23:24Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Xander on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? 2. Did you employ Archie Goodwin? 3. Did you write the poem _The Highwayman_? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/112 "2016-07-12T13:27:31Z")
IQ1) Are you the longtime boyfriend of a famous girl detective? IQ2) Were you the last Hand of a usurper king? IQ3) Do you own a store exclusively for left-handed people? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/113 "2016-07-13T00:02:55Z")
IQ’s: 1. Are you a Hugo- and Nebula-award winning coauthor of _Footfall_? 2. Did you play one of the people originally planning to steal the Pink Panther? 3. Were you a female coworker of Mary Richards? ---
**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 13, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/114 "2016-07-13T02:51:55Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Xander on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? > 2. Did you employ Archie Goodwin? > 3. Did you write the poem _The Highwayman_? Dunno, not Nero Wolfe, and dunno. > [@Draelin](#): > > IQ1) Are you the longtime boyfriend of a famous girl detective? > IQ2) Were you the last Hand of a usurper king? > IQ3) Do you own a store exclusively for left-handed people? Dunno, not Ned Stark, and not Ned “Okeley-Dokely!” Flanders. > [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > IQ’s: > > 1. Are you a Hugo- and Nebula-award winning coauthor of _Footfall_? > 2. Did you play one of the people originally planning to steal the Pink Panther? > 3. Were you a female coworker of Mary Richards? Not Larry Niven, still not David Niven, and not Sue-Anne Nivens. N. 1. fictional 2. male 3. American 4. created after 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:** [July 13, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/115 "2016-07-13T10:28:48Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer? > 2. Did you employ Archie Goodwin? > 3. Did you write the poem The Highwayman? > Dunno, not Nero Wolfe, and dunno. #1 was Nicholas Brendon. Correct on Nero. #3 was Alfred Noyes. DQs: 1. From a work of prose fiction? 2. Last name starts with 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:** [July 13, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/116 "2016-07-13T10:31:06Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a silent screen vampire? 2. Are you the Simpsons’ nextdoor neighbor? 3. Did you star with Eddie Murphy in his first movie? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/117 "2016-07-13T11:54:35Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > IQ1) Are you the longtime boyfriend of a famous girl detective? Ned Nickerson, Nancy Drew’s long-suffering boyfriend. DQ: Best known in television? ---
**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 13, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/118 "2016-07-13T18:27:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a silent screen vampire? > 2. Are you the Simpsons’ nextdoor neighbor? > 3. Did you star with Eddie Murphy in his first movie? Not Nosferatu, still not Ned Flanders, and not Nick Nolte (_48 HRS._). N. 1. fictional 2. male 3. American 4. created after 1950 5. not from a work of prose fiction 6. last name starts with N 7. not best known in television ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/119 "2016-07-13T19:17:35Z")
Are you the new President of _Idiocracy_? Are you Ralph Kramden’s best friend? Were you Ellen Ripley’s de facto ward? ---
**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 13, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885/120 "2016-07-13T21:02:42Z")
Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Did you hang around with Sheen and Carl? 2. Did you pilot the Nautilus? 3. Were you the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2016/758885.md?page=7)