# Botticelli - July 2021 **URL:** \ **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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 8, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/21 "2021-07-08T05:45:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Did Ricky Lee Jones announce you were in love? > > > IQ2: Did you take the title of your breakthrough single from a wall scrawl accusing you of smelling like a deodorant brand? > > > IQ3: Did you pen the hidden track on Guns N’ Roses’ all-covers album _The Spaghetti Incident?_ > > Not Chuckie, dunno and dunno. Correct (nitpick: it’s Chuck E.) Kurt Cobain - a friend wrote “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit” on his wall Charles Manson - for which GnR took a lot of well-deserved shit. DQ1: From movies or television? DQ2: Created after 1960? ---
**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 8, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/22 "2021-07-08T13:00:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Minnie the Moocher_ ? > > > 2. Did a green person in a red coat give you a glass of water and put you to bed? > > > 3. Did you have a rivalry with Bing Crosby as to whom was “King of the Crooners”? > > Not Cab Calloway, not little Cindi Lou Who and dunno Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Russ Columbo, who died early in his career. DQ: Created by an American or Americans? ---
**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 8, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/23 "2021-07-08T13:03:13Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Holly Martins in _The Thin Man_? 2. Did you write _Lord Jim_? 3. Was Pepe LePew’s character based on your movie persona? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/24 "2021-07-08T15:15:34Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you star in a film and its later remake about how to efficiently hold meetings? > 2. Brady : Bryan :: Drummond : you? > 3. Does your name sound like the phrase “shrimp days” en español? Dunno, not Clarence Darrow (in _Inherit the Wind_) and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Holly Martins in _The Thin Man_? > 2. Did you write _Lord Jim_? > 3. Was Pepe LePew’s character based on your movie persona? Not Joseph Cotten (and I think you mean _The Third Man_), not Joseph Conrad and not Maurice Chevalier. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C 4. not from prose 5. not American 6. not from a genre 7. from movies or television 8. created after 1960 9. created by an American or Americans ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/25 "2021-07-08T15:18:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you play Holly Martins in _The Thin Man_ ? > > > 2. Did you write _Lord Jim_ ? > > > 3. Was Pepe LePew’s character based on your movie persona? > > Not Joseph Cotten (and I think you mean _The Third Man_ ), not Joseph Conrad and not Maurice Chevalier. #1 is Correct (and autocorrect changed Third to Thin). #2 is Correct. #3 was Charles Boyer, as he appeared in the movie _Algiers_. DQ: Created after 1990? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/26 "2021-07-08T15:26:23Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C 4. not from prose 5. not American 6. not from a genre 7. from movies or television 8. created after 1960 9. created by an American or Americans 10. created before 1990 ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/27 "2021-07-08T15:26:28Z")
1. Did you marry Xavier Cugat in 1966? 2. Did you play Frederic in the 1982 movie **The Pirate Movie**? 3. Are you a fictional TV ventriloquist who has a dummy named Bob? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/28 "2021-07-08T15:27:23Z")
Dunno, not Rex C. Smith and dunno. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/29 "2021-07-08T15:30:39Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you marry Xavier Cugat in 1966? > 2. Did you play Frederic in the 1982 movie **The Pirate Movie**? > 3. Are you a fictional TV ventriloquist who has a dummy named Bob? Charo, Christopher Atkins, Chuck on _Soap_. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/30 "2021-07-08T15:38:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in a film and its later remake about how to efficiently hold meetings? > 2. Brady : Bryan :: Drummond : you? > 3. Does your name sound like the phrase “shrimp days” en español? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Clarence Darrow (in _Inherit the Wind_) and dunno. 1 was John Cleese (in _Meetings, Bloody Meetings_); 3 was Cameron Diaz. DQs: 1. from movies? 2. created after 1975? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/31 "2021-07-08T15:38:41Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C 4. not from prose 5. not American 6. not from a genre 7. from movies or television 8. created after 1960 9. created by an American or Americans 10. created before 1990 11. not from movies 12. created before 1975 ---
**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 8, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/32 "2021-07-08T17:20:34Z")
IQ1: Do you frequently obtain defective products from the Acme corporation? IQ2: Did you increase your company’s sales to underage smokers by $400 million in 4 years? IQ3: Were you the show-runner for the first two seasons of the original _Star Trek_? ---
**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 8, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/33 "2021-07-08T17:50:58Z")
IQs 1. Were you frequently paired with Deadpool and Domino? 2. Are you #1’s father? 3. Are you an extraordinarily large mutant also having been affiliated with X-Force? ---
**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 8, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/34 "2021-07-08T18:17:33Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a plumber and engineer who invented the floating ballcock and U-bend? 2. Were you the Twelfth Doctor? 3. Was the theme to the gameshow about you sung a capella? ---
**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 8, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/35 "2021-07-08T18:40:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you invent a confection that doubles as a dog whistle? 2. Were you an entertainer known as “Banjo Eyes”? 3. Are you a friend of Donald Duck’s from Brazil? ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/36 "2021-07-08T19:00:45Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Do you frequently obtain defective products from the Acme corporation? > IQ2: Did you increase your company’s sales to underage smokers by $400 million in 4 years? > IQ3: Were you the show-runner for the first two seasons of the original _Star Trek_? Not Wile E. Coyote, dunno and not Gene Coon. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you frequently paired with Deadpool and Domino? > 2. Are you #1’s father? > 3. Are you an extraordinarily large mutant also having been affiliated with X-Force? Not Colossus, dunno and also not Colossus. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you a plumber and engineer who invented the floating ballcock and U-bend? > 2. Were you the Twelfth Doctor? > 3. Was the theme to the gameshow about you sung a capella? Not Crapper, Peter Capaldi and dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent a confection that doubles as a dog whistle? > 2. Were you an entertainer known as “Banjo Eyes”? > 3. Are you a friend of Donald Duck’s from Brazil? Not Caractacus Potts, dunno and dunno. ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/37 "2021-07-08T19:45:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent a confection that doubles as a dog whistle? > 2. Were you an entertainer known as “Banjo Eyes”? > 3. Are you a friend of Donald Duck’s from Brazil? Correct on Mr. Potts. #2 was Eddie Cantor. #3 is Jose Carioca. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 8, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/38 "2021-07-08T20:25:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Do you frequently obtain defective products from the Acme corporation? > > > IQ2: Did you increase your company’s sales to underage smokers by $400 million in 4 years? > > > IQ3: Were you the show-runner for the first two seasons of the original _Star Trek_ ? > > Not Wile E. Coyote, dunno and not Gene Coon. Yes, mascot Joe Camel, yes DQ: From a live-action television series? ---
**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 8, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/39 "2021-07-08T20:55:33Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C 4. not from prose 5. not American 6. not from a genre 7. from movies or television 8. created after 1960 9. created by an American or Americans 10. created before 1990 11. not from movies 12. created before 1975 13. from a live-action television series ---
**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 8, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/40 "2021-07-08T21:18:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Crapper, Peter Capaldi and dunno. Correct on Thomas Crapper and Capaldi; 3 (a capella theme) is Carmen Sandiego. DQ: main character? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874.md?page=3)