# 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:** 9
**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 17, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/161 "2020-07-17T18:13:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you battle Flash Gordon? 2. Did you work for Hedley Lamarr? 3. Did you create the Metal Men? ---
**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 17, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/162 "2020-07-17T19:04:31Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a traveling fortune-teller who visited Kansas? 2. Do your more recent works include _Providence_, _Nemo: River of Ghosts_, and _Cinema Purgatorio_? 3. In a classic story by the above person, is it said of you that you don’t socialize? ---
**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 18, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/163 "2020-07-18T03:08:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > …Would you like to try that again, using the right letter, or shall I just take the three DQs? 😃 **SCAdian** , pardon me while I headsmack myself. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a traveling fortune-teller who visited Kansas? > … Dingdingding! Yes, I am # Professor Marvel Played by the inimitable Frank Morgan in the 1939 movie _The Wizard of Oz_: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJaxd1BQr9g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJaxd1BQr9g) Impressive, **DLR** - well done! ---
**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 18, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/164 "2020-07-18T12:32:47Z")
Great job, DLR! ---
**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 18, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/165 "2020-07-18T13:20:00Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **SCAdian** , pardon me while I headsmack myself. Need help with that? 😃 Bravo, DLR. I wondered if your question might have something to do with that movie, but I had no idea what the man’s name was. Standing by… ---
**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 18, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/166 "2020-07-18T13:37:43Z")
Since we haven’t done it in a year… I am **X**. ---
**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 18, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/167 "2020-07-18T14:08:41Z")
IQ1: Did you write the _Anabasis_? IQ2: Were you an Achaemenid king called “the Great”? IQ3: Were you a Catalan violinist who was raised in Cuba? ---
**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 18, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/168 "2020-07-18T15:55:15Z")
IQs: Were you the skinny, multiply-pierced bad guy in _300_? Were you a noted Greek cavalryman? Would you have been Spock’s successor aboard the USS _Enterprise_? ---
**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 18, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/169 "2020-07-18T16:04:02Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the _Anabasis_? > IQ2: Were you an Achaemenid king called “the Great”? > IQ3: Were you a Catalan violinist who was raised in Cuba? IQ1: I am not Xenophon. IQ2: I am not Xerxes. IQ3: I am not Xavier Cugat. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the skinny, multiply-pierced bad guy in _300_? > Were you a noted Greek cavalryman? > Would you have been Spock’s successor aboard the USS _Enterprise_? Respectively: I am not Xerxes. Take a DQ. I am not Xon. ---
**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 18, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/170 "2020-07-18T16:08:36Z")
Correct as to 1 and 3; 2 was also Xenophon, so I withdraw it. IQs: Were you Luna Lovegood’s wacky dad? Were you commander of Hill Street Station? Were you Commandant of the US Marine Corps during the Reagan Administration? We have, in the past, allowed people whose middle names began with X, given the paucity of people whose first names begin with the letter. ---
**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 18, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/171 "2020-07-18T16:22:52Z")
IQs: 1. In Marvel Comics are you Cable’s sort-of-a brother? 2. In DC Comics did you have a love affair with the Spectre? 3. Were you Socrates’ wife? ---
**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 18, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/172 "2020-07-18T16:42:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Luna Lovegood’s wacky dad? > Were you commander of Hill Street Station? > Were you Commandant of the US Marine Corps during the Reagan Administration? Respectively: I am not lover-of-the-strange Xenophilius Lovegood. Take a DQ. Take a DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In Marvel Comics are you Cable’s sort-of-a brother? > 2. In DC Comics did you have a love affair with the Spectre? > 3. Were you Socrates’ wife? 1. I am not X-man, I think? X-men continuity and the Summers/Grey family tree is complicated. 2. I am not Madam Xanadu. 3. I am not Xanthippe. ---
**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 18, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/173 "2020-07-18T17:31:48Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Are you the Aztec god of games and dance? 2. Are you the current president of China? 3. Were you shot by Talmadge Hayer and others? ---
**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 18, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/174 "2020-07-18T17:34:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write the _Anabasis_ ? > IQ2: Were you an Achaemenid king called “the Great”? > IQ3: Were you a Catalan violinist who was raised in Cuba? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQ1: I am not Xenophon. > IQ2: I am not Xerxes. > IQ3: I am not Xavier Cugat. Correct on all three. ---
**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 18, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/175 "2020-07-18T20:13:43Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Luna Lovegood’s wacky dad? - Yes, Xenophilius Lovegood Were you commander of Hill Street Station? - Frank X. Furillo, on _Hill Street Blues_ Were you Commandant of the US Marine Corps during the Reagan Administration? - Gen. Paul X. Kelley DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Was the Federal Building in Boston named after you? 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? Were you played by the same actor who also played a U.S. Army Ranger in _Saving Private Ryan_? ---
**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 18, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/176 "2020-07-18T20:20:39Z")
IQ1: Was Cain Marko your stepbrother? IQ2: Are you the nickname by which #1 is most commonly known? ---
**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 18, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/177 "2020-07-18T22:38:04Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Aztec god of games and dance? > 2. Are you the current president of China? > 3. Were you shot by Talmadge Hayer and others? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Xi Jinping. 3. I am not Malcolm X. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was the Federal Building in Boston named after you? > 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? > Were you played by the same actor who also played a U.S. Army Ranger in _Saving Private Ryan_? Respectively: Take a DQ. I am not Charles Xavier. Take a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was Cain Marko your stepbrother? > IQ2: Are you the nickname by which #1 is most commonly known? IQ1: I am not Charles Xavier. IQ2: I am not Professor X. DQs: 1. real 2. male ---
**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, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/178 "2020-07-19T00:49:23Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you the Aztec god of games and dance? > > > 2. Are you the current president of China? > > > 3. Were you shot by Talmadge Hayer and others? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Xi Jinping. > 3. I am not Malcolm X. #1 is Xochipilli. Correct on the others. DQ: Living? ---
**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, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/179 "2020-07-19T00:51:49Z")
IQs: 1. Were you married to Charo? 2. Are you a Brazilian TV host? 3. Are you aka Alvin Jones? ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2020/914747/180 "2020-07-19T03:36:59Z")
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