# 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:** 5
**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 13, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/81 "2020-07-13T14:02:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Federation bureaucrat briefly on Space Station K-7? > Were you married to Maris but yearned for Daphne? > Did you play Tommen’s young wife? Three DQs (#1 is _The Trouble with Tribbles_, right?). . **N** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with N 4. Living 5. American 6. Born after 1950 7. Not political/military 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Not born after 1975 10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.) 11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field 12. Known for acting 13. Born after 1960 14. Probably best known from TV 15. Not born after 1970 16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom 17. Considered more or less handsome 18. White . . Okay, that’s 18, with six unasked DQs – no more IQs, please, and ask all remaining DQs by 10 EDT this evening (13 Jul), please. (Damn, I hate it when programmers think they know more about what I want than I do!!) ---
**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, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/82 "2020-07-13T14:14:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you the Darling family’s pet dog? > > > 2. Are you the ancient Greek goddess of the night? > > > 3. Are you the Roman equivalent of #2 above? > > Not Nana. > DQ. > DQ. Correct on Nana. Nyx is the Greek version, Nox the Roman. DQs: 1. Best known for dramatic acting? 2. First name Nick (or a variant thereof)? ---
**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 13, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/83 "2020-07-13T14:22:08Z")
**N** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with N 4. Living 5. American 6. Born after 1950 7. Not political/military 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Not born after 1975 10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.) 11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field 12. Known for acting 13. Born after 1960 14. Probably best known from TV 15. Not born after 1970 16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom 17. Considered more or less handsome 18. White 19. Best known for dramatic acting 20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof) ---
**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 14, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/84 "2020-07-14T01:50:24Z")
Final IQ: has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie? ---
**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 14, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/85 "2020-07-14T12:07:28Z")
Posted last night that I was extending the deadline until 0900 today because neither DLR nor EH had been heard from in the almost 12 hours since I first posted the deadline, but the post doesn’t seem to have showed up… **N** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with N 4. Living 5. American 6. Born after 1950 7. Not political/military 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Not born after 1975 10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.) 11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field 12. Known for acting 13. Born after 1960 14. Probably best known from TV 15. Not born after 1970 16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom 17. Considered more or less handsome 18. White 19. Best known for dramatic acting 20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof) 21. Has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie ---
**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 14, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/86 "2020-07-14T13:08:49Z")
Sorry - this thread didn’t show up for me as having had recent posts. Previous IQs: Were you a Federation bureaucrat briefly on Space Station K-7? - Nilz Baris (yes, from “The Trouble with Tribbles”) Were you married to Maris but yearned for Daphne? - Nr. Niles Crane, on _Frasier_ Did you play Tommen’s young wife? - Natalie Dormer, on _Game of Thrones_ DQs: Had lines in his MCU role? Played a good guy? Role was that of a superhero? ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/87 "2020-07-14T15:31:08Z")
**N** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name begins with N 4. Living 5. American 6. Born after 1950 7. Not political/military 8. Best known for the Arts 9. Not born after 1975 10. Best known for the visual arts (film, stage, TV, painting, photography, etc.) 11. Have won awards, though not a top award, in my field 12. Known for acting 13. Born after 1960 14. Probably best known from TV 15. Not born after 1970 16. Have had a minor role in a sitcom 17. Considered more or less handsome 18. White 19. Best known for dramatic acting 20. First name is not Nick (or a variant thereof) 21. Has appeared in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie 22. Had lines in his MCU role 23. Played a good guy 24. Role was not that of a superhero . “Firstname Lastname” questions by noon Eastern toomorrow, please. ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/88 "2020-07-14T17:08:38Z")
DQ: Are you Neal McDonough? Only name I can come up with. Nathan Lane does comedies, Nick Nolte and Nicolas Cage are Nicks. ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/89 "2020-07-14T17:20:27Z")
Can’t figure out who this is. Hmm… ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/90 "2020-07-14T17:32:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Are you Neal McDonough? Yes! I am **N** eal McDonough, known amongst other things for playing 1st Lt Compton in _Band of Brothers_, David McMorris in _Boomtown_, David Williams in _Desperate Housewives_, and Dum Dum Dugan in the MCU. ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/91 "2020-07-14T17:33:22Z")
Congrats, Prof.! > [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Were you a journalist who made a real-life journey around the world in 72 days and wrote _Ten Days in a Mad-house_ ? > > > 2. Are you Queen Dowager of Jordan? > > > 3. (according to your theme song) Hens love roosters, geese love ganders–does everyone else love you? > > Not Nellie Bly. > Not Queen Noor. > DQ. Belated IQ wrap-up: 3 was Ned Flanders. ---
**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 14, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/92 "2020-07-14T17:45:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > this thread didn’t show up for me as having had recent posts. Check your status at the bottom of the thread – mine somehow got changed from “Watching” to “Tracking” a few days ago. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Oh good, the quoting worked this time. You didn’t have the /quote tag on its own line. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Not Vladimir Nabokov.[/quote] ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/93 "2020-07-14T18:00:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > this thread didn’t show up for me as having had recent posts. > > Check your status at the bottom of the thread – mine somehow got changed from “Watching” to “Tracking” a few days ago… Thanks. It happened to me, too - I’ve fixed it. ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/94 "2020-07-14T18:12:53Z")
And on to… _C!_ ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/95 "2020-07-14T18:48:07Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**! # C it is. IQs: Were you a fire-and-brimstone early president of Oberlin College? Did you get a new assignment against your will because a higher-up owed you money? Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s British political novel _First Among Equals_? ---
**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 14, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/96 "2020-07-14T19:53:39Z")
IQ1: Did you lose your head after losing a top job through a hostile takeover? IQ2: Were you #1’s son, who later held that same job? IQ3: Were you #2’s great-nephew, famous for (amongst other things) escaping from the law? ---
**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 14, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/97 "2020-07-14T21:58:17Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a composer noted for your work in electronic music? 2. Did you discover King Tut’s tomb? 3. Does your last name sound phonetically like the German and Yiddish for “sickness”? ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/98 "2020-07-14T22:05:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a fire-and-brimstone early president of Oberlin College? > Did you get a new assignment against your will because a higher-up owed you money? > Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s British political novel _First Among Equals_ ? Take 3 DQs. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lose your head after losing a top job through a hostile takeover? > IQ2: Were you #1’s son, who later held that same job? > IQ3: Were you #2’s great-nephew, famous for (amongst other things) escaping from the law? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a composer noted for your work in electronic music? > 2. Did you discover King Tut’s tomb? > 3. Does your last name sound phonetically like the German and Yiddish for “sickness”? #1. I am not Wendy Carlos. #2. I am not Howard Carter. #3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/99 "2020-07-14T22:11:23Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you lose your head after losing a top job through a hostile takeover? > IQ2: Were you #1’s son, who later held that same job? > IQ3: Were you #2’s great-nephew, famous for (amongst other things) escaping from the law? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. King Charles I, who quite literally lost his head. King Charles II. Prince Charles Edward, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie. . DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: American? (Or if fictional, American character?) ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/100 "2020-07-14T22:28:53Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a fire-and-brimstone early president of Oberlin College? - Charles Grandison Finney Did you get a new assignment against your will because a higher-up owed you money? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on _MASH_ Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s British political novel _First Among Equals_? - Charles Seymour Like **SCA** , Charles x3! DQs: Last name start with C? Two DQs reserved. IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top in 1863? Were you the best-known Frankish king? Did you say, “How can anyone hope to govern a country with 430 different kinds of cheese”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747.md?page=6)