# 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:** 9
**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, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/161 "2021-07-20T19:03:21Z")
Congrats, Chock! IQs: 1. Were you caricatured by your round glasses, big mustache, and toothy grin? 2. Was Mickey so fine he blew your mind? 3. Were you the author of _Nightlife of the Gods_ and other works of comic fantasy? ---
**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 20, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/162 "2021-07-20T19:06:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did U.S. Grant almost relieve you of duty just before one of your greatest triumphs? > Were you a Starfleet admiral who said not a word in the only _ST:TNG_ episode in which you appeared? > Was the Fat Controller rather fond of you? Not William Tecumsah Sherman? Take a DQ Not Thomas the Tank Engine > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you caricatured by your round glasses, big mustache, and toothy grin? > 2. Was Mickey so fine he blew your mind? > 3. Were you the author of _Nightlife of the Gods_ and other works of comic fantasy? Not Teddy Roosevelt? Not Toni Basil Not Terry Pratchett? ---
**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, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/163 "2021-07-20T19:13:58Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Teddy Roosevelt? > Not Toni Basil > Not Terry Pratchett? 1 is correct; 2 is correct; good guess for 3, but it was in fact Thorne Smith. DQ: female? ---
**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, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/164 "2021-07-20T19:14:50Z")
Previous IQs: Did U.S. Grant almost relieve you of duty just before one of your greatest triumphs? - Not Sherman, but Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, just before the Battle of Nashville, when Grant thought he wasn’t moving aggressively enough Were you a Starfleet admiral who said not a word in the only _ST:TNG_ episode in which you appeared? - Adm. Thomas Henry, “The Drumhead” Was the Fat Controller rather fond of you? - Yes, Thomas the Tank Engine Thomas x3! DQs: Male? Last name start with T? IQs: Were you a murdered archbishop? Did your son not attend your funeral even though he might have done so relatively easily? Did McGovern drop you from the ticket after earlier indicating he still supported you “1000%”? ---
**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 20, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/165 "2021-07-20T19:18:08Z")
**T** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Last name starts with T EH, ask another DQ, as De\_La\_Rue already asked about gender. ---
**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 20, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/166 "2021-07-20T19:19:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a murdered archbishop? > Did your son not attend your funeral even though he might have done so relatively easily? > Did McGovern drop you from the ticket after earlier indicating he still supported you “1000%”? Not Thomas Beckett Not Thomas Ihatemydad Not Thomas Eagleton ---
**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, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/167 "2021-07-20T19:45:48Z")
Thanks, **CFOHG**. Previous IQs: Were you a murdered archbishop? - Yes, Thomas Becket (one “t”) Did your son not attend your funeral even though he might have done so relatively easily? - Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, from whom he was estranged Did McGovern drop you from the ticket after earlier indicating he still supported you “1000%”? - Yes, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, during the 1972 presidential campaign Thomas x3 redux! DQs: American? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Did you play the head of the MIB? Were you Satan’s child in a Seventies movie? Did you epically rant in a comedy about the American obsession with bosoms? ---
**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, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/168 "2021-07-20T20:29:27Z")
IQs: 1. Are you known as the Mother of Dragons? 2. Are you Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend? 3. Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? ---
**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 20, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/169 "2021-07-20T20:47:26Z")
**T** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Last name starts with T 4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American 5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive” ---
**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 20, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/170 "2021-07-20T20:49:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you play the head of the MIB? > Were you Satan’s child in a Seventies movie? > Did you epically rant in a comedy about the American obsession with bosoms? Not Rip Torn Not Damien Thorn Take a DQ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Are you known as the Mother of Dragons? > - Are you Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend? > - Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? Take a DQ - I know it’s from _Game of Thrones_ Not Becky Thatcher Not Tess Trueheart ---
**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, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/171 "2021-07-20T21:18:44Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play the head of the MIB? - Yes, Rip Torn Were you Satan’s child in a Seventies movie? - Yes, Damien Thorn, in _The Omen_ Did you epically rant in a comedy about the American obsession with bosoms? - Terry-Thomas: [It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - Preoccupation With Bosoms Scene (2/10) | Movieclips - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hln19l9RtWg) DQ: First appeared since 1950? IQs: Did you study at Oberlin College but graduate elsewhere? Were you a wartime Governor of Ohio? Were you an odd, large-headed man who appeared several times in the early run of David Letterman’s first talk show? ---
**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, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/172 "2021-07-20T21:21:48Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Are you known as the Mother of Dragons? > > > > > - Are you Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend? > > > - Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? > > Take a DQ - I know it’s from _Game of Thrones_ > Not Becky Thatcher > Not Tess Trueheart #1 was Daenerys Targaryen. Correct on the others. DQ: From film or TV? ---
**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, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/173 "2021-07-20T21:25:02Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Opie’s stepmother? 2. Did you hire beautiful young women to act as your private investigators? 3. Did Helen Mirren play you on _Prime Suspect_? ---
**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, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/174 "2021-07-20T23:34:26Z")
IQs: IQ1: Do you have “a long list of ex-lovers”, who’ll tell us that you’re insane? IQ2: Were you an ill-tempered baseball player nicknamed the Georgia Peach? IQ3: Did you go to every inhabited continent (and even the Moon), except Australia (though an adventure of yours is titled _Flight 714 to Sydney_)? ---
**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 20, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/175 "2021-07-20T23:58:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you Opie’s stepmother? > 2. Did you hire beautiful young women to act as your private investigators? > 3. Did Helen Mirren play you on _Prime Suspect_ ? Take a DQ Not Charlie Townsend from _Charlie’s Angels_ Not Inspector Tennyson > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you study at Oberlin College but graduate elsewhere? > Were you a wartime Governor of Ohio? > Were you an odd, large-headed man who appeared several times in the early run of David Letterman’s first talk show? Take 3 DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQ1: Do you have “a long list of ex-lovers”, who’ll tell us that you’re insane? > IQ2: Were you an ill-tempered baseball player nicknamed the Georgia Peach? > IQ3: Did you go to every inhabited continent (and even the Moon), except Australia (though an adventure of yours is titled _Flight 714 to Sydney_ )? Not Taylor Swift Not Ty Cobb? Take a DQ ---
**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 21, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/176 "2021-07-21T00:00:24Z")
**T** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Last name starts with T 4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American 5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive” 6. First appeared since 1950 7. From film or TV ---
**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 21, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/177 "2021-07-21T00:03:32Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you Opie’s stepmother? > > > > > 1. Did you hire beautiful young women to act as your private investigators? > > > 2. Did Helen Mirren play you on _Prime Suspect_ ? > > Take a DQ > Not Charlie Townsend from _Charlie’s Angels_ > Not Inspector Tennyson #1 was Helen Taylor, nee Crump. Correct on the others. DQ: From film? ---
**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 21, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/178 "2021-07-21T00:04:47Z")
**T** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Last name starts with T 4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American 5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive” 6. First appeared since 1950 7. From film or TV 8. Not from film ---
**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 21, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/179 "2021-07-21T01:11:01Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Taylor Swift > Not Ty Cobb? > Take a DQ 3 (went to every inhabited continent except Australia) was Tintin. Correct on Cobb. DQ: first appeared before 1980? ---
**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 21, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2021/945874/180 "2021-07-21T01:14:51Z")
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