# Botticelli - July 2022
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [July 5, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465 "2022-07-05T17:40:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/1 "2022-07-05T17:40:04Z")
I am **P**
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/2 "2022-07-05T18:27:07Z")
IQs:
Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did Andre Braugher play you on _Homicide: Life on the Street_?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/3 "2022-07-05T18:28:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
> Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
> Did Andre Braugher play you on _Homicide: Life on the Street_?
Not Preem Palver
2 DQs
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/4 "2022-07-05T18:34:16Z")
Yes, and Gen. Pemberton and Det. Pembleton.
May I ask you to provide a link to the June thread, please? Can’t do it on my phone. Thanks.
DQs:
Real?
Male?
IQs:
Was Sherry your doughty companion on the road in a book by Robert Lawson?
Were you the tall, oversexed son in the early _Taboo_ movies?
Are you the long-serving and recently-retired chief librarian of the Vermont Historical Society?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/5 "2022-07-05T18:53:08Z")
June thread [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/194)
**P**
1. Fictional
2. Male
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/6 "2022-07-05T18:58:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> Was Sherry your doughty companion on the road in a book by Robert Lawson?
> Were you the tall, oversexed son in the early _Taboo_ movies?
> Are you the long-serving and recently-retired chief librarian of the Vermont Historical Society?
Not Paul Revere - I read that one after seeing the animated _Ben and Me_ in elementary school history class.
DQ - Kay **P** arker played the mom, don’t remember the son’s name. In the dorms we were thrilled that he wore a UCLA sweatshirt when clothed.
DQ
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/7 "2022-07-05T19:43:45Z")
IQs:
1. Were you described as having “a little round button on top”?
2. Did you have a hit with _Don’t Let Me Get Me_?
3. Did you say “It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/8 "2022-07-05T20:03:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> 1. Were you described as having “a little round button on top”?
> 2. Did you have a hit with _Don’t Let Me Get Me_?
> 3. Did you say “It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”?
DQ
Not Pink
Not Jackson Pollock?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/9 "2022-07-05T20:06:55Z")
#1 was The Grand Panjandrum, himself.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Pablo Picasso.
DQs:
1. Last name starts with P?
2. Originally from a work of prose fiction?
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/10 "2022-07-05T20:08:47Z")
IQs:
1. Did you possibly do it in the Library with the rope?
2. Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with the revolver?
3. Were you a French painter who affected to royalty or high society by inserting an apostrophe in the middle of his last name?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/11 "2022-07-05T20:19:25Z")
**P**
1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name starts with P
4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/12 "2022-07-05T20:20:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> 1. Did you possibly do it in the Library with the rope?
> 2. Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with the revolver?
> 3. Were you a French painter who affected to royalty or high society by inserting an apostrophe in the middle of his last name?
Neither Professor Plum nor Mrs. Peacock
DQ
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### Author:  [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/13 "2022-07-05T21:57:22Z")
1. Did you have a good Republican cloth coat?
2. Did you co-create Mad Libs?
3. Did you appear in _Dummy_ as the lawyer defending a deaf and mute black man accused of murder?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/14 "2022-07-05T22:11:05Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> 1. Did you have a good Republican cloth coat?
> 2. Did you co-create Mad Libs?
> 3. Did you appear in _Dummy_ as the lawyer defending a deaf and mute black man accused of murder?
Not Pat Nixon
2 DQs
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### Author:  [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/15 "2022-07-05T22:24:33Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Not Pat Nixon
> 2 DQs
2 was Roger Price; 3 was Paul Sorvino.
DQs:
1. created by an American author?
2. first appeared after 1900?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/16 "2022-07-05T22:32:36Z")
**P**
1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name starts with P
4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created by an American author
6. First appeared after 1900
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/17 "2022-07-05T22:54:02Z")
Thanks for the link to the June thread!
Previous IQs:
Was Sherry your doughty companion on the road in a book by Robert Lawson? - Yes, Paul Revere, in his wonderfully-illustrated _Mr. Revere and I_ - worth looking up!
Were you the tall, oversexed son in the early _Taboo_ movies? - Paul
Are you the long-serving and recently-retired chief librarian of the Vermont Historical Society? - Paul Carnahan
Paul x3!
DQs:
American character?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Were you arguably the best-known native of Corfu?
Were you an Indian chief after whom a war was named?
Did you play a phlegmatic campaign manager in _The Ides of March_?
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/18 "2022-07-06T01:21:45Z")
**P**
1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name starts with P
4. Originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created by an American author
6. First appeared after 1900
7. Non-American character
8. Could be alive today, if real
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### Author:  [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/19 "2022-07-06T01:22:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> Were you arguably the best-known native of Corfu?
> Were you an Indian chief after whom a war was named?
> Did you play a phlegmatic campaign manager in _The Ides of March_?
Not Prince Philip
Not Powhatan?
DQ
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2022, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/20 "2022-07-06T03:23:43Z")
Yes, the late Prince Philip, and King Philip and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Philip x3!
DQs:
First appeared since 1950?
Human?
IQs:
Were you Sacajawea’s eldest son?
Did the same actor who played your character’s prisoner also play your friend from the big city?
Did you have a hit with “What About Us”?
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