# Botticelli - July 2021

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874 "2021-07-07T03:09:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/341 "2021-07-31T16:21:54Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> - Did you play the daughter in _The Goodbye Girl_ ?
> - Did you play Benny in _Benny and Joon_ ?
> - Did you play the lead in _Zorba the Greek_ ?

DQ  
I am not Aiden Quinn  
I am not Anthony Quinn

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**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 31, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/342 "2021-07-31T16:38:14Z")

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#1 was Quinn Cummings. Correct on the other Quinns.

DQ: Real?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/343 "2021-07-31T17:14:49Z")

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**I am Q**

1. Fictional

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/344 "2021-07-31T18:19:32Z")

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Great job, Miss Take. Bartok completely slipped my mind

IQ1: Did you share a room with Ishmael before finding work on the Pequod?  
IQ2: Were you unusually angry about your missing strawberries?  
IQ3: Potatoe?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/345 "2021-07-31T19:26:13Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Did you share a room with Ishmael before finding work on the Pequod?  
> IQ2: Were you unusually angry about your missing strawberries?  
> IQ3: Potatoe?

1 and 2 DQ (guessing one is Captain Queeg because it sounds right, but no idea)  
3. I am not Dan Quayle

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**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:** [August 1, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/346 "2021-08-01T00:08:31Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you a Norwegian politician and a Nazi collaborator?
2. Did you edit _The Oxford Book of English Verse_?
3. Were you in charge of the census during the reign of Augustus Caesar?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/347 "2021-08-01T01:33:25Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you a Norwegian politician and a Nazi collaborator?
> 2. Did you edit _The Oxford Book of English Verse_ ?
> 3. Were you in charge of the census during the reign of Augustus Caesar?

Take 3 DQs

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**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/348 "2021-08-01T04:41:04Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > > IQ1: Did you share a room with Ishmael before finding work on the Pequod?  
> > > IQ2: Were you unusually angry about your missing strawberries?  
> > > IQ3: Potatoe?
> 
> 1 and 2 DQ (guessing one is Captain Queeg because it sounds right, but no idea)  
> 3. I am not Dan Quayle

Queequeg from _Moby Dick_  
You guess right on Queeg from _The Caine Mutiny_  
Correct on Quayle

DQ: Male?

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**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:** [August 1, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/349 "2021-08-01T12:38:15Z")

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DQs:

1. Last name starts with Q?
2. From film or TV?
3. Created after 1950?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/350 "2021-08-01T13:05:58Z")

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**I am Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with Q
4. From film or TV
5. Created after 1950

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**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:** [August 1, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/351 "2021-08-01T19:37:56Z")

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Whoever wins, please start an August thread next.

IQs:

Did you often bedevil Capt. Picard?  
Were you played by Corbin Bernsen once and only once?  
Did Anthony Hopkins play you once and only once?

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**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:** [August 1, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/352 "2021-08-01T21:21:31Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you the “rootin’-tootin’est, fastest-shootin’est”?
2. Does the cathedral at Notre Dame ring a bell with you?
3. Do you appear at the beginning and the end of the play _Camino Real_ by Tennessee Williams?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/353 "2021-08-01T21:54:49Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Did you often bedevil Capt. Picard?  
> Were you played by Corbin Bernsen once and only once?  
> Did Anthony Hopkins play you once and only once?

Take 3 DQs

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> - Are you the “rootin’-tootin’est, fastest-shootin’est”?
> - Does the cathedral at Notre Dame ring a bell with you?
> - Do you appear at the beginning and the end of the play _Camino Real_ by Tennessee Williams?

I am not Quickdraw McGraw  
I am not Quasimodo  
DQ

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**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:** [August 1, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/354 "2021-08-01T23:14:45Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > - Are you the “rootin’-tootin’est, fastest-shootin’est”?
> > 
> > > - Does the cathedral at Notre Dame ring a bell with you?
> > > - Do you appear at the beginning and the end of the play _Camino Real_ by Tennessee Williams?
> 
> I am not Quickdraw McGraw  
> I am not Quasimodo  
> DQ

Correct, Correct, and Don Quixote.

DQ: From TV?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/355 "2021-08-01T23:54:38Z")

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**I am Q**

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with Q
4. From film or TV
5. Created after 1950
6. From TV

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**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:** [August 2, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/356 "2021-08-02T16:58:27Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you often bedevil Capt. Picard? - Q, on _ST:TNG_  
Were you played by Corbin Bernsen once and only once? - Q2, ditto  
Did Anthony Hopkins play you once and only once? - John Quincy Adams, in _Amistad_

DQs:

American?  
Would be alive today, if real?  
Lead character?

IQs:

Were you an ME played by Jack Klugman?  
Were you a Caribbean islander who helped 007?  
Were you one of the Rude Mechanicals?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/357 "2021-08-02T17:00:45Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Were you an ME played by Jack Klugman?

**YES, I am Quincy M.E.!**

(no clue on the other two DQs)

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**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:** [August 2, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/358 "2021-08-02T17:17:18Z")

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Thanks! New August thread to come shortly.

Previous IQs:

Were you a Caribbean islander who helped 007? - Quarrel, in _Doctor No_  
Were you one of the Rude Mechanicals? - Peter Quince, in Shakespeare’s _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_

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**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:** [August 2, 2021, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/359 "2021-08-02T17:36:59Z")

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And awaaaaaay we go: [Botticelli - Aug. 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2021/947881)

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