# Botticelli, July 2023

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407>\
**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\
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**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 29, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/461 "2023-07-29T23:21:59Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies

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**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 30, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/462 "2023-07-30T00:16:34Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> DQ: From originally from movies or TV?
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> IQ:
> 
> 1. Did you invent a tabular representation of binomial coefficients where each row is based on a sum of elements of the previous row?
> 2. Were you the first person to hunt bugs bunny ?
> 3. Were you the first of the Doctor’s Companions from America?

1. Blaise Pascal of Pascal’s triangle
2. Porky Pig
3. Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown played by a British Actress who had, IMHO, an awful whiny fake American accent. But apparently it was good enough that producers of the show were surprised to learn that she wasn’t actually American.

DQ:  
From Movies?

2DQ reserved

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**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 30, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/463 "2023-07-30T02:27:36Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies
6. not from movies, although later appeared in one

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**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 30, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/464 "2023-07-30T02:27:44Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> > IQs:
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> > 1. Were you the only female member of the Them, and the opponent of War?
> > 
> > 2. Are you the CEO of Stark Industries?
> > 
> > 3. Did your buttocks briefly have their own fan club?
> 
> Dunno, not Pepper and dunno.

IQ1 was Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, i.e. “Pepper”, from _Good Omens_. IQ3 was Pippa Middleton.

DQs reserved, pending answers to the previous ones.

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/465 "2023-07-30T04:25:18Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Do you host **The Amazing Race**?
> 2. Did you play the female lead in the _Naked Gun_ movies?
> 3. Is your most famous role AJ Simon on the TV show **Simon and Simon**?

Phil Keoghan, correct, Jameson Parker.

And it was the Beach Boys version.

DQ: Caucasian?

1 DQ reserved

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**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 30, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/466 "2023-07-30T04:39:08Z")

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DQ:  
First appeared before 1990?  
Main character?

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/467 "2023-07-30T11:11:46Z")

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IQ1: Were you Bud and Kelly’s mother?  
IQ2: Were you the Banks family’s nanny?  
IQ3: Did you sing “The One I Loved Back Then”?

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**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 30, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/468 "2023-07-30T14:24:43Z")

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Dunno x3.

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**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 30, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/469 "2023-07-30T14:26:28Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies
6. not from movies, although later appeared in one
7. not Caucasian
8. first appeared before 1990
9. not main character

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/470 "2023-07-30T15:44:28Z")

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DQ: From a genre show?

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**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 30, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/471 "2023-07-30T16:04:47Z")

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IQs:

1. Did Mary Tyler Moore play you on _The Dick van Dyke Show_?
2. Did you play Sybil on _Fawlty Towers_?
3. Were you Sybil’s counterpart on the American version of _Fawlty Towers_?

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**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 30, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/472 "2023-07-30T16:15:53Z")

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IQ:

1. Was your eponymous sequel the highest rated movie on rotten tomatoes receiving a %100 freshenss score?
2. Did you have a radio show canonicalizing your attempts to bring law and order to the Yukon territory.
3. Were you a popular British and later American novelist who was strongly criticized for making radio shows for the Nazis while in occupied France?

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**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 30, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/473 "2023-07-30T20:30:01Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did Mary Tyler Moore play you on _The Dick van Dyke Show_?
> 2. Did you play Sybil on _Fawlty Towers_?
> 3. Were you Sybil’s counterpart on the American version of _Fawlty Towers_?

Not Laura Petrie, not Prunella Scales and dunno.

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**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 30, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/474 "2023-07-30T20:31:02Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> IQ:
> 
> 1. Was your eponymous sequel the highest rated movie on rotten tomatoes receiving a %100 freshenss score?
> 2. Did you have a radio show canonicalizing your attempts to bring law and order to the Yukon territory.
> 3. Were you a popular British and later American novelist who was strongly criticized for making radio shows for the Nazis while in occupied France?

Dunno, dunno and not P.G. Wodehouse.

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**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 30, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/475 "2023-07-30T20:32:32Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies
6. not from movies, although later appeared in one
7. not Caucasian
8. first appeared before 1990
9. not main character
10. not, I would say, from a genre show

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**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 30, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/476 "2023-07-30T21:41:24Z")

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Reserved DQs:

1. Sympathetic character?
2. Romantic character?

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**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 30, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/477 "2023-07-30T21:45:36Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies
6. not from movies, although later appeared in one
7. not Caucasian
8. first appeared before 1990
9. not main character
10. not, I would say, from a genre show
11. arguably a sympathetic character, but YMMV
12. not a romantic character

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**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 30, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/478 "2023-07-30T21:58:31Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> > [@Buck\_Godot](#):
> >
> > 1. Was your eponymous sequel the highest rated movie on rotten tomatoes receiving a %100 freshenss score?
> > 2. Did you have a radio show canonicalizing your attempts to bring law and order to the Yukon territory.
> > 3. Were you a popular British and later American novelist who was strongly criticized for making radio shows for the Nazis while in occupied France?
> 
> Dunno, dunno and not P.G. Wodehouse.

1. Paddington Bear, with the movie being Paddington 2 which which [much hoopla in 2021](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-02/paddington-2-citizen-kane-as-best-film-of-all-time/100109944) beat Citizen Kane it terms of freshness rating, but which since then has [fallen to a mere 99% freshness](https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63311633/).
2. Sargent Preston of the Mounties
3. Correct.

DQ: From a primarily Comedy show?  
1DQ reserved

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**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 30, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/479 "2023-07-30T22:02:44Z")

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P.

1. fictional
2. female
3. last name starts with P
4. not an American creator or creators
5. from TV or movies
6. not from movies, although later appeared in one
7. not Caucasian
8. first appeared before 1990
9. not main character
10. not, I would say, from a genre show
11. arguably a sympathetic character, but YMMV
12. not a romantic character
13. from a primarily comedy show

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**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 30, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/480 "2023-07-30T22:13:29Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
> >
> > IQs:
> > 
> > 1. Did Mary Tyler Moore play you on _The Dick van Dyke Show_?
> > 2. Did you play Sybil on _Fawlty Towers_?
> > 3. Were you Sybil’s counterpart on the American version of _Fawlty Towers_?
> 
> Not Laura Petrie, not Prunella Scales and dunno.

Correct, Correct, and Constance Payne (wife of Royal Payne, on the show _Payne_).

DQ: First appeared after 1970?

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