# Botticelli July 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 8, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747 "2020-07-08T16:04:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/181 "2020-07-19T03:42:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you married to Charo? > 2. Are you a Brazilian TV host? > 3. Are you aka Alvin Jones? 1. I am not Xavier Cugat. 2. I am not Xuxa. 3. Take a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a co-founder of the Society of Jesus? > IQ2: Were you a noted NYC madam? IQ1: I’m betting this is another Xavier, but take a DQ. IQ2: I am not Xaviera Hollander. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. dead ---
**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 19, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/182 "2020-07-19T12:46:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a co-founder of the Society of Jesus? > IQ2: Were you a noted NYC madam? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQ1: I’m betting this is another Xavier, but take a DQ. > IQ2: I am not Xaviera Hollander. St Francis Xavier. Correct. . DQ: European? ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/183 "2020-07-19T14:45:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Were you married to Charo? > > > 2. Are you a Brazilian TV host? > > > 3. Are you aka Alvin Jones? > > 1. I am not Xavier Cugat. > 2. I am not Xuxa. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, Correct and the rapper Xzibit. DQ: Died after 1899? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/184 "2020-07-19T14:51:53Z")
DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not European 5. died after 1899 > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct, Correct and the rapper Xzibit. I thought he was Alvin Joiner. ---
**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 19, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/185 "2020-07-19T14:57:23Z")
IQ: Are you an unidentified person? ---
**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 19, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/186 "2020-07-19T15:39:04Z")
Well, that’s the problem sometimes with only working from memory. It turns out, you’re right, so I owe you one DQ - take away one of future DQs, please. IQs: 1. Were you a 20th Century Greek classical composer who taught at Indiana University for a number of years? 2. Are you a Marvel character who escaped from a prison planet on a supply ship? 3. Did you play Red John on _The Mentalist_? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/187 "2020-07-19T16:02:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 20th Century Greek classical composer who taught at Indiana University for a number of years? > 2. Are you a Marvel character who escaped from a prison planet on a supply ship? > 3. Did you play Red John on _The Mentalist_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Xemnu the Titan (most recently seen rewriting the memories of the entire world to believe that he’s always been beloved hero the Incredible Hulk). 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not European 5. died after 1899 6. not an unidentified person ---
**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 19, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/188 "2020-07-19T16:04:14Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. not an unidentified person That wasn’t a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Are you an unidentified person? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/189 "2020-07-19T16:08:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > > 1. not an unidentified person > > That was an IQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Are you an unidentified person? …I am not X, from the movie _JFK_? DQs: 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. not European 5. died after 1899 ---
**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 19, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/190 "2020-07-19T16:48:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ: Are you an unidentified person? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > …I am not X, from the movie _JFK_ ? I was thinking the generic (Mr) X, not a specific one, but that’ll do. I can’t think of any more candidates – wake me up when the next game starts… ---
**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 19, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/191 "2020-07-19T19:48:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Were you a 20th Century Greek classical composer who taught at Indiana University for a number of years? > > > 2. Are you a Marvel character who escaped from a prison planet on a supply ship? > > > 3. Did you play Red John on _The Mentalist_ ? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Xemnu the Titan (most recently seen rewriting the memories of the entire world to believe that he’s always been beloved hero the Incredible Hulk). > 3. Take a DQ. #1 was Iannis Xenakis. #2 is correct. #3 was Xander Berkeley. DQs: 1. American? 2. Died after 1969? ---
**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 19, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/192 "2020-07-19T19:52:40Z")
IQs: 1. Did you hang around with Buffy and Willow? 2. Did Ray Milland play you as the title character in a 1960’s B-Movie directed by Roger Corman? 3. Were you an ancient Greek philosopher best known for disagreeing with Aristotle? ---
**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 20, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/193 "2020-07-20T02:47:46Z")
Previous IQs: Was the Federal Building in Boston named after you? - Francis X. Morrissey Have you been played in the last twenty years by two British actors, one of whom played a soldier who died at Dunkirk in an unrelated movie? - Yes, Prof. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, the latter of whom costarred as a doomed soldier in _Atonement_) Were you played by the same actor who also played a U.S. Army Ranger in _Saving Private Ryan_? - Xxx, played by Vin Diesel DQs: Political/military? Best known for a single incident? IQs: Were you the Chinese Communist tyrant responsible for perhaps more mass murder than any other human being ever? Were you blamed by many for the brutal suppression of protestors on Tiananmen Square? Are you a more recent Chinese Communist leader? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/194 "2020-07-20T03:21:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Buffy and Willow? > 2. Did Ray Milland play you as the title character in a 1960’s B-Movie directed by Roger Corman? > 3. Were you an ancient Greek philosopher best known for disagreeing with Aristotle? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the Chinese Communist tyrant responsible for perhaps more mass murder than any other human being ever? > Were you blamed by many for the brutal suppression of protestors on Tiananmen Square? > Are you a more recent Chinese Communist leader? I am not Xander, X–the Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Xenocrates, or Xi Jinping, but I am indeed **Deng Xiaoping**! Next game goes back to **Elendil’s Heir**. ---
**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 20, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/195 "2020-07-20T16:45:01Z")
Thanks, **DLR**! Having run out of alternatives, it suddenly occurred to me that there were quite a few Chinese folks with names starting with X. Our next letter is # K ---
**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 20, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/196 "2020-07-20T17:51:39Z")
Great job, EH! I don’t remember Deng at all. DLR, correct on Xander and X-the Man, but the 3rd one was Xenarchus. IQs: 1. Were you also known as Cheops? 2. Does the Epistle of Jude speak of your rebellion? 3. Is June 11th a holiday named for you in just one of the 50 states? ---
**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 20, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/197 "2020-07-20T19:12:53Z")
Deng Xiaoping is the only post-Mao leader I do remember. IQ1: Werre you John and Caroline’s brother? IQ2: Were you a politician’s sister who underwent a lobotomy? IQ3: Were you a Navy officer killed by the premature explosion of a flying bomb? ---
**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 20, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/198 "2020-07-20T21:48:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Were you also known as Cheops? > 2. Does the Epistle of Jude speak of your rebellion? > 3. Is June 11th a holiday named for you in just one of the 50 states? Not Kitap, Kagol or Martin Luther King Jr. (all guesses) > [@SCAdian](#): > > … > IQ1: Werre you John and Caroline’s brother? > IQ2: Were you a politician’s sister who underwent a lobotomy? > IQ3: Were you a Navy officer killed by the premature explosion of a flying bomb? Not Patrick Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy or Joseph Kennedy Jr. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/199 "2020-07-20T22:44:24Z")
IQs: 1. Were you animated by Willis O’Brien? 2. Were your last words “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough”? 3. Have you appeared in _Misery_, _Titanic_, and the TV show _Feud_? ---
**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 20, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/200 "2020-07-20T22:46:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Werre you John and Caroline’s brother? > IQ2: Were you a politician’s sister who underwent a lobotomy? > IQ3: Were you a Navy officer killed by the premature explosion of a flying bomb? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Patrick Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy or Joseph Kennedy Jr. Correct on all three. . IQ1: Were you Detroit’s star right fielder in the '60s? IQ2: Did you play a civil engineer, the father of twins, and a diver? IQ3: Were you (usually) really Mildred Wirt or her daughter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=11)