# Botticelli, July 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 1, 2023, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407 "2023-07-01T15:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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 18, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/221 "2023-07-18T00:39:22Z")
Congrats, Chock! IQs: 1. Did you dupe suckers with a sign saying “This way to the Egress”, which turned out not to be an exhibit but an exit? 2. Were you the first female member of a US presidential cabinet? 3. Did you and your partner write _Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends_, _How to Play with Your Food_, and _How to Play in Traffic_? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/222 "2023-07-18T01:24:27Z")
Congratz Chock IQ: 1. Are you a video game character who crushes his opponents between sliding blocks of ice? 2. Did you confine your spouse within the husk of a vegetable that you were known for eating? 3. Were you a cartoon racecar driver who constantly found herself in perilous situations? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/223 "2023-07-18T04:34:26Z")
Congrats! 1. Are you one of the daughters of the Rainbow in the Oz books? 2. Did you play Sam Winchester for 15 years? 3. Were you and your cousin Julian the main characters in the book **Gone-Away Lake**? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/224 "2023-07-18T11:08:31Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Are you a horny pipe-player? > > 2. Are you a pipe-player with a fondness for chiles and a bent for agricultural work? > > 3. Are you J.M. Barrie’s most famous creation? > > Not Pan > DQ > Not Peter Pan > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > how were you able to embed the image of the fancy-dan letter? > > In Firefox, I right clicked on the image I wanted and selected “Copy Image Link” > I then pasted the link into my reply and Discourse did the rest. This was on a desktop - not sure if I could do it on my phone. Correct on IQs1 and 3. IQ2 was Peter Piper, who picked a peck of pickled peppers. DQ: Real? IQs: 1. Did T.S. Eliot write a love song about you? 2. Were you Katniss Everdeen’s sister? 3. Were you the philosopher who first discovered the mathematical basis of music? Hmm. Whenever I try to embed an image that way, Discourse tells me I can’t. ---
**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, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/225 "2023-07-18T12:53:16Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you me? > > 2. Did you play me on TV? > > 3. Were you one of the creators of Firesign Theatre? > > Not Prof. Pepperwinkle > Take 2 DQs #1 is correct. #2 was the incomparable Phil Tead. #3 was Phil Proctor. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with P? IQs: 1. Are you a confused pilot on _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_? 2. Did you have a hit with _Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Dragged In)_? 3. Did you do a full frontal nude scene in _Catch-22_? ---
**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 18, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/226 "2023-07-18T17:08:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you dupe suckers with a sign saying “This way to the Egress”, which turned out not to be an exhibit but an exit? > 2. Were you the first female member of a US presidential cabinet? > 3. Did you and your partner write _Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends_, _How to Play with Your Food_, and _How to Play in Traffic_? 2 DQs Not Penn Jillette > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Are you a video game character who crushes his opponents between sliding blocks of ice? > 2. Did you confine your spouse within the husk of a vegetable that you were known for eating? > 3. Were you a cartoon racecar driver who constantly found herself in perilous situations? DQ Not Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Not Penelope Pitstop > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you one of the daughters of the Rainbow in the Oz books? > 2. Did you play Sam Winchester for 15 years? > 3. Were you and your cousin Julian the main characters in the book **Gone-Away Lake**? 3 DQs for you > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Did T.S. Eliot write a love song about you? > 2. Were you Katniss Everdeen’s sister? > 3. Were you the philosopher who first discovered the mathematical basis of music? Not J. Alfred Prufrock Not Primrose Everdeen Not Pythagoras? Total guess so take a DQ if that’s wrong > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you a confused pilot on _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_? > 2. Did you have a hit with _Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Dragged In)_? > 3. Did you do a full frontal nude scene in _Catch-22_? Not Peter “Wrongway” Peachfuzz Take 2 DQs ---
**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 18, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/227 "2023-07-18T17:10:02Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with P ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/228 "2023-07-18T17:20:41Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Are you a video game character who crushes his opponents between sliding blocks of ice? > > 2. Did you confine your spouse within the husk of a vegetable that you were known for eating? > > 3. Were you a cartoon racecar driver who constantly found herself in perilous situations? > > DQ > Not Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater > Not Penelope Pitstop 1. [Pengo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengo_(video_game)) DQ: Known for the arts? IQ: 1. Are you the host of Wait Wait Don’t tell me? 2. Were you friends with an invisible dragon in a movie? 3. Were you friends with a dragon in a folk song? ---
**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 18, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/229 "2023-07-18T17:26:24Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you dupe suckers with a sign saying “This way to the Egress”, which turned out not to be an exhibit but an exit? > 2. Were you the first female member of a US presidential cabinet? > 3. Did you and your partner write _Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends_, _How to Play with Your Food_, and _How to Play in Traffic_? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 2 DQs > Not Penn Jillette 1 was P.T. Barnum; 2 was Frances Perkins. DQs: 1. living? 2. American? IQs: 1. Did you survive a nasty brain injury from an iron rod? 2. Did you recently write the memoir _Pageboy_? 3. Were you played by the above person? ---
**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 18, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/230 "2023-07-18T18:58:17Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with P 4. Known for the arts 5. Dead 6. American (immigrated as a child) ---
**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 18, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/231 "2023-07-18T18:58:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you survive a nasty brain injury from an iron rod? > 2. Did you recently write the memoir _Pageboy_? > 3. Were you played by the above person? Sounds familiar, but take a DQ Not Elliot Page Not Kitty Pryde ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/232 "2023-07-18T19:12:01Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Sounds familiar, but take a DQ > Not Elliot Page > Not Kitty Pryde 1 was Phineas Gage. DQ: known for acting? ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/233 "2023-07-18T19:13:21Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with P 4. Known for the arts 5. Dead 6. American (immigrated as a child) 7. Known for acting ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/234 "2023-07-18T19:22:54Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Did T.S. Eliot write a love song about you? > > 2. Were you Katniss Everdeen’s sister? > > 3. Were you the philosopher who first discovered the mathematical basis of music? > > Not J. Alfred Prufrock > Not Primrose Everdeen > Not Pythagoras? Total guess so take a DQ if that’s wrong Nope, you got all three. IQs: 1. Did you travel around the world in eighty days? 2. Are you the first marathoner? 3. Did you play a Russian assassin, the wife of King Robert Bruce, and Amy March? ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/235 "2023-07-18T19:33:04Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Did you travel around the world in eighty days? > 2. Are you the first marathoner? > 3. Did you play a Russian assassin, the wife of King Robert Bruce, and Amy March? Not Phileas Fogg Not Philippedes Take a DQ Why is autocorrect suggesting “Pedophiles” for “Philippedes”? ---
**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, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/236 "2023-07-18T19:41:23Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you a confused pilot on _The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle_? > > 2. Did you have a hit with _Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Dragged In)_? > > 3. Did you do a full frontal nude scene in _Catch-22_? > > Not Peter “Wrongway” Peachfuzz > Take 2 DQs #1 is Correct. #2 is Michael Penn. #3 is Paula Prentiss. DQs: 1. Died before 1980? 2. Known from movies? ---
**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, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/237 "2023-07-18T19:43:48Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a swindling, cheating thief of a slave who serves as the narrator in _A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum_? 2. Was your last film _The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu_? 3. Did you play Dr. Jane Foster in a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies? ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/238 "2023-07-18T19:47:59Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the Master in _The Curse of Fatal Death_? 2. Did you direct _The Master_? 3. Are you William’s sister-in-law? You seem to have overlooked [Buck’s questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/228). ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/239 "2023-07-18T19:51:42Z")
Good catch! I did in fact miss these. Strange, because I answered the DQ from the same post. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Are you the host of Wait Wait Don’t tell me? > 2. Were you friends with an invisible dragon in a movie? > 3. Were you friends with a dragon in a folk song? Not Paula Poundstone Not Pete from _Pete’s Dragon_ Not Jackie Paper from _Puff the Magic Dragon_ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you a swindling, cheating thief of a slave who serves as the narrator in _A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum_? > 2. Was your last film _The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu_? > 3. Did you play Dr. Jane Foster in a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies? DQ Not Peter Sellars Not Natalie Portman > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you play the Master in _The Curse of Fatal Death_? > 2. Did you direct _The Master_? > 3. Are you William’s sister-in-law? 3 DQs ---
**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 18, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/240 "2023-07-18T19:54:41Z")
**P** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with P 4. Known for the arts 5. Dead 6. American (immigrated as a child) 7. Known for acting 8. Died after 1980 9. Not known from movies, although did appear in a few [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=13)