# Botticelli - July 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 7, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722 "2017-07-07T21:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 21, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/201 "2017-07-21T21:06:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’ll go right to it: Are you Angela Davis? Oh, good, you remember her. Yes, I am Angela Davis! 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 23, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/202 "2017-07-23T04:19:58Z")
Thanks! The data points that she was black, a communist and had been prosecuted are what made her name pop into my mind. Continuing our march through the alphabet, our next letter is E ---
**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 23, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/203 "2017-07-23T04:26:10Z")
And here’s an update to our Botticelli letters-so-far list, BTW: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663) ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/204 "2017-07-23T14:02:33Z")
Thank you for the update. IQs: 1. Are you Star-Lord’s father in the movies? 2. Were you a reporter who was also the template for Max Headroom? 3. Did you write _Medea_ and _The Trojan Women_? ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/205 "2017-07-23T14:04:28Z")
IQ1: Are you known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”? IQ2: Are you a Running Back for the Green Bay Packers? IQ3: Did you play Andy Bernard in _The Office_? ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/206 "2017-07-23T21:30:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Are you Star-Lord’s father in the movies? > 2. Were you a reporter who was also the template for Max Headroom? > 3. Did you write _Medea_ and _The Trojan Women_? Dunno, dunno, and not… Eratosthenes? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”? > IQ2: Are you a Running Back for the Green Bay Packers? > IQ3: Did you play Andy Bernard in _The Office_? Not Edward Teller, dunno, and not Ed Helms. ---
**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 23, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/207 "2017-07-23T22:23:55Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”? > IQ2: Are you a Running Back for the Green Bay Packers? > IQ3: Did you play Andy Bernard in The Office? > Not Edward Teller, dunno, and not Ed Helms. Ed Lacey 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 23, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/208 "2017-07-23T22:30:23Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Star-Lord’s father in the movies? > 2. Were you a reporter who was also the template for Max Headroom? > 3. Did you write Medea and The Trojan Women? > Dunno, dunno, and not… Eratosthenes? #1 is Ego the Living Planet. #2 was Edison Carter. #3 was Euripides. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with E? 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:** [July 24, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/209 "2017-07-24T01:12:26Z")
E. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with E ---
**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 24, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/210 "2017-07-24T01:57:36Z")
DQ: Living? IQs: 1. Were you the helpful dragonfly in _The Rescuers_? 2. Did you play Joanie in _Joanie Loves Chachi_? 3. Were you Austin Powers’s archenemy? ---
**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 24, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/211 "2017-07-24T13:15:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Were you the helpful dragonfly in _The Rescuers_? > 2. Did you play Joanie in _Joanie Loves Chachi_? > 3. Were you Austin Powers’s archenemy? Dunno, not Erin Whatserlastname, and not Dr. Evil. E. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with E 4. living ---
**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 24, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/212 "2017-07-24T13:51:21Z")
IQ1: Was your entire command massacred during the British retreat from Kabul during January 1842? IQ2: Are you the protagonist of an 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte? IQ3: Were you counsel to President Nixon and convicted in the Watergate scandal? ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/213 "2017-07-24T14:54:18Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Was your entire command massacred during the British retreat from Kabul during January 1842? > IQ2: Are you the protagonist of an 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte? > IQ3: Were you counsel to President Nixon and convicted in the Watergate scandal? Not Edward Corningstone (?), Edward Heathcliff or John Ehrlichman. ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/214 "2017-07-24T15:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Were you the helpful dragonfly in The Rescuers? > 2. Did you play Joanie in Joanie Loves Chachi? > 3. Were you Austin Powers’s archenemy? > Dunno, not Erin Whatserlastname, and not Dr. Evil. #1 was Evinrude. #2 was Erin Moran. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Born after 1960? 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:** [July 24, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/215 "2017-07-24T15:09:27Z")
IQs: 1. Was your character tempted by the god Pan in _The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao_? 2. Did Spike Milligan voice your character on the BBC’s highly acclaimed _Goon Show_? 3. Are you a donkey in dire need of Prozac? ---
**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 24, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/216 "2017-07-24T18:28:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1 was Evinrude. > #2 was Erin Moran. > Correct on #3. > > DQs: > > 1. Born after 1960? > 2. American? I had the “E” name correct for the _Happy Days_ costar, so aren’t you entitled to just one DQ? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your character tempted by the god Pan in _The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao_? > 2. Did Spike Milligan voice your character on the BBC’s highly acclaimed _Goon Show_? > 3. Are you a donkey in dire need of Prozac? Dunno x2; not Eeyore. ---
**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 24, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/217 "2017-07-24T19:17:27Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Was your entire command massacred during the British retreat from Kabul during January 1842? > IQ2: Are you the protagonist of an 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte? > IQ3: Were you counsel to President Nixon and convicted in the Watergate scandal? > > Not Edward Corningstone (?), Edward Heathcliff or John Ehrlichman. George Elphinstone, Jane Eyre, correct DQ: Politician? holding 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:** [July 24, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/218 "2017-07-24T22:24:39Z")
> [@](#): > > #1 was Evinrude. > #2 was Erin Moran. > Correct on #3. > > DQs: > > 1. Born after 1960? > 2. American? > I had the “E” name correct for the Happy Days costar, so aren’t you entitled to just one DQ? > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Prof. Pepperwinkle View Post > IQs: > > 1. Was your character tempted by the god Pan in The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao? > 2. Did Spike Milligan voice your character on the BBC’s highly acclaimed Goon Show? > 3. Are you a donkey in dire need of Prozac? > Dunno x2; not Eeyore. Whether a half-name counts or not is the Host’s call. Since you dispute it, and you are hosting, it’s out. #1 was Barbara Eden. #2 was the amazing Eccles. Correct on the poor jackass. NOW, DQs: 1. Born after 1960? 2. American? and 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:** [July 25, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/219 "2017-07-25T13:49:51Z")
My understanding has always been that, if you know the name that starts with the same letter that’s in play, the guesser hasn’t earned a DQ. But I’m willing to be outvoted. E. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with E 4. living 5. not a politician 6. born after 1960 7. not 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 25, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2017/790722/220 "2017-07-25T13:52:41Z")
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