# Botticelli - July 2022 **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 6
**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, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/101 "2022-07-17T02:18:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Does your name sound like “shrimp days” in Spanish? > 2. Did you argue one side of the Scopes Monkey Trial? > 3. In the 1978 movie you directed, do characters watch _another_ movie you’d happen to direct a remake of four years later? Take 2 DQs. #2. I am not Clarence Darrow. ---
**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, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/102 "2022-07-17T14:59:18Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 2 DQs. > > #2. I am not Clarence Darrow. 1 was Cameron Diaz; 3 was John Carpenter. DQs: 1. living? 2. female? ---
**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, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/103 "2022-07-17T18:12:15Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male ---
**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 17, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/104 "2022-07-17T20:36:31Z")
Previous IQs: Were you briefly PM in the original _House of Cards_? - Charles Collingridge Did you come close to becoming a Tory PM in _First Among Equals_? - Charles Seymour, in the Jeffrey Archer political thriller Are you the monarch at the end of _First Among Equals_? - King Charles III DQs: American? Last name started with C? Died since 1950? IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top? Did a newspaper say people should vote for you (a) because you were honest, (b) because you were honest, and (c) because you were honest? Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States in late 1864? ---
**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, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/105 "2022-07-17T21:06:10Z")
IQs: 1. Did you say you were known in parts of the world where people had never heard of Jesus Christ? 2. Were you Marsh’s bone-hunting rival? 3. Did you write _The House on Mango Street_? ---
**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, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/106 "2022-07-17T21:17:54Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. American 5. Last name started with C 6. Died after 1950 ---
**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, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/107 "2022-07-17T21:19:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a hero of Little Round Top? > Did a newspaper say people should vote for you (a) because you were honest, (b) because you were honest, and (c) because you were honest? > Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States in late 1864? #3. I am not Salmon P. Chase (??) Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you say you were known in parts of the world where people had never heard of Jesus Christ? > 2. Were you Marsh’s bone-hunting rival? > 3. Did you write _The House on Mango Street_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/108 "2022-07-17T21:29:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was Charlie Chaplin; 2 was paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope; 3 was Sandra Cisneros. DQs: 1. died after 2000? 2. known from the Arts? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/109 "2022-07-18T02:08:56Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. American 5. Last name started with C 6. Died after 1950 7. Died before 2000 8. Known for the Arts ---
**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, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/110 "2022-07-19T17:14:47Z")
bump. ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/111 "2022-07-19T17:59:22Z")
IQs: 1. Was the theme to a 90s game show about you sung _a capella_—and was the theme to an animated series about you based on, of all things, Mozart’s “Singt dem großen Bassa Lieder”? 2. Did you once state to someone who wrote in to you that “if ignorance were cornflakes, you’d be General Mills”? 3. Were you a state supreme court justice best known for vanishing in 1930? DQ: died after 1975? ---
**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, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/112 "2022-07-19T18:52:15Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. American 5. Last name started with C 6. Died after 1950 7. Died before 2000 8. Known for the Arts 9. Died after 1975 ---
**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, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/113 "2022-07-19T18:53:10Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was the theme to a 90s game show about you sung _a capella_—and was the theme to an animated series about you based on, of all things, Mozart’s “Singt dem großen Bassa Lieder”? > 2. Did you once state to someone who wrote in to you that “if ignorance were cornflakes, you’d be General Mills”? > 3. Were you a state supreme court justice best known for vanishing in 1930? > > DQ: died after 1975? #3. I am not Judge Crater. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 19, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/114 "2022-07-19T19:06:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #3. I am not Judge Crater. > Take 2 DQs. 1 was Carmen Sandiego; 2 was Cecil Adams (as mentioned in the Straight Dope FAQ). DQs: 1. died after 1990? 2. known from writing? ---
**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, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/115 "2022-07-19T19:20:27Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. American 5. Last name started with C 6. Died after 1950 7. Died before 2000 8. Known for the Arts 9. Died after 1975 10. Died after 1990 11. Not known from writing ---
**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 19, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/116 "2022-07-19T20:33:36Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, in the Battle of Gettysburg Did a newspaper say people should vote for you (a) because you were honest, (b) because you were honest, and (c) because you were honest? - Grover Cleveland Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States in late 1864? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase; the President shrewdly waited until then to make sure Chase did all he could to get Lincoln reelected that November DQs: Best known for the performing arts? Won a top award in his field? IQs: Did you design a noted line of wooden motorboats? Did Malcolm McDowell play you in a historic porno? Was it said that, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, you both shined and stank? ---
**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, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/117 "2022-07-19T21:07:34Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Dead 3. Male 4. American 5. Last name started with C 6. Died after 1950 7. Died before 2000 8. Known for the Arts 9. Died after 1975 10. Died after 1990 11. Not known from writing 12. Best known for the performing arts 13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field ---
**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, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/118 "2022-07-19T21:08:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you design a noted line of wooden motorboats? > Did Malcolm McDowell play you in a historic porno? > Was it said that, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, you both shined and stank? #2. I am not Caligula. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/119 "2022-07-20T03:33:30Z")
IQs: 1. In _Adventures Comics_ #350, after shapeshifting into a spider to tie up a giant alien snake, do you turn to the reader to say “In case a certain web-headed character thinks I’m stealing his thunder, I’d like to remind him that **I** was changing to all sorts of weird shapes long before he walked up his first wall!” ? 2. Are you a villain in the rogues’ gallery of a certain web-headed character, whose real identity is Dmitri Smerdyakov? 3. Do your _other_ roles include the Mystery Woman pursuing Jake, a nun in _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_, Harry’s friend Marie in _When Harry Met Sally_, and a woman kissing on a bridge in _Hook_? ---
**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, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/120 "2022-07-20T12:48:51Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In _Adventures Comics_ #350, after shapeshifting into a spider to tie up a giant alien snake, do you turn to the reader to say “In case a certain web-headed character thinks I’m stealing his thunder, I’d like to remind him that **I** was changing to all sorts of weird shapes long before he walked up his first wall!” ? > 2. Are you a villain in the rogues’ gallery of a certain web-headed character, whose real identity is Dmitri Smerdyakov? > 3. Do your _other_ roles include the Mystery Woman pursuing Jake, a nun in _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_, Harry’s friend Marie in _When Harry Met Sally_, and a woman kissing on a bridge in _Hook_? #1. I am not Chameleon Boy. #2. I am not The Chameleon. #3. I am not Carrie Fisher. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465.md?page=7)