# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/121 "2023-07-11T03:29:03Z")
1. Did you write, among other books, **Gone-Away Lake**? 2. Were you a fictional detective played by Jim Hutton in a 1970s TV show? 3. Did you write the book **The Westing Game**? ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/122 "2023-07-11T20:21:46Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Is a mathematical constant named after you? > 2. Are you the most famous person from Metairie, LA? > 3. Did you paint _The Gross Clinic_? Dunno, not Earl Long and not Eakins. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In a classic Christian allegory, are you the Judas character? > 2. Did you play a happily-married, and therefore doomed, naval aviator? > 3. Are you Elendil’s Heir, under one of your names? 😁 Not Edmund, dunno and not Elessar. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you only half a bee? > 2. Was your character nearly seduced by the god Pan in _The Circus of Dr. Lao_? > 3. Were you a very early automobile designer for whom a town in Indiana is named? Not Eric, Erica or Edward Studebaker. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ > > 1. Did you write and illustrate the first graphic novel > 2. Were you illustrations used as the basis for the animated intro of the BBC show “Mystery!”. > 3. Were you the driving force behind Project plowshare Dunno, not Edward Gorey and dunno. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you write, among other books, **Gone-Away Lake**? > 2. Were you a fictional detective played by Jim Hutton in a 1970s TV show? > 3. Did you write the book **The Westing Game**? Dunno x3. E. 1. real 2. female ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/123 "2023-07-11T20:23:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Did you write and illustrate the first graphic novel > > 2. Were you illustrations used as the basis for the animated intro of the BBC show “Mystery!”. > > 3. Were you the driving force behind Project plowshare > > Dunno, not Edward Gorey and dunno. 1. Will Eisner 2. Correct 3. Edward Teller. DQ: 1. First name begins with “E” 2. Known for the arts ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/124 "2023-07-11T20:25:09Z")
E. 1. real 2. female 3. first name begins with E 4. not 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 11, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/125 "2023-07-11T20:50:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you only half a bee? > > 2. Was your character nearly seduced by the god Pan in _The Circus of Dr. Lao_? > > 3. Were you a very early automobile designer for whom a town in Indiana is named? > > Not Eric, Erica or Edward Studebaker. #1 is correct, of course. #2 was Barbara Eden. #3 was Elwood Haynes, for whom Elwood was named. DQs: 1. Known for the performing arts? 2. Alive? ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/126 "2023-07-11T20:53:25Z")
IQs: 1. W-w-were you an investigative reporter who was the main source used in the accidental creation of Max Headroom? 2. Are you the little boy who lives next door to Dagwood & Blondie? 3. Did a Depression-era political cartoon show two men working deep in a coal mine, and one of them telling the other surprisedly, “Hey, look, here comes…” [or words to that effect]? ---
**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 11, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/127 "2023-07-11T20:59:31Z")
Dunno, not Elwood and not Eleanor Roosevelt (and then she did it IRL: [Eleanor Roosevelt In A Coal by Bettmann](https://photos.com/featured/eleanor-roosevelt-in-a-coal-bettmann.html)) E. 1. real 2. female 3. first name begins with E 4. not known for the Arts 5. not known for the performing arts 6. alive ---
**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 11, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/128 "2023-07-11T21:01:18Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. W-w-were you an investigative reporter who was the main source used in the accidental creation of Max Headroom? > 2. Are you the little boy who lives next door to Dagwood & Blondie? > 3. Did a Depression-era political cartoon show two men working deep in a coal mine, and one of them telling the other surprisedly, “Hey, look, here comes…” [or words to that effect]? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Elwood and not Eleanor Roosevelt (and then she did it IRL: [Eleanor Roosevelt In A Coal by Bettmann](https://photos.com/featured/eleanor-roosevelt-in-a-coal-bettmann.html)) #1 was Edison Carter. #2 is Elmo. #3 is correct. DQs: 1. Known for government? 2. Born before 1950? ---
**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 11, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/129 "2023-07-11T21:14:30Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Is a mathematical constant named after you? > 2. Are you the most famous person from Metairie, LA? > 3. Did you paint _The Gross Clinic_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Earl Long and not Eakins. 1 was Leonhard Euler; 2 was Ellen DeGeneres. DQs: 1. American? 2. born before 1960? ---
**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 11, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/130 "2023-07-11T21:14:39Z")
E. 1. real 2. female 3. first name begins with E 4. not known for the Arts 5. not known for the performing arts 6. alive 7. not known for government 8. born after 1950 9. not American 10. born before 1960 ---
**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 11, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/131 "2023-07-11T22:22:15Z")
DQ: Did you have an amazing gift for topiary? Were you a must have Christmas toy’s whose scarcity drove prices to absurd levels in the mid 90’s? Despite a complete lack of political experience were you offered (and declined) the Isreali presidency in the early 50’s? ---
**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 11, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/132 "2023-07-11T22:22:34Z")
IQs: 1. Were you recently portrayed in _History of the World, Part II_ promoting the Bermuda Triangle, a bar for women with your occupation? 2. Did you play the above person? 3. Did you and some other people fly out to Colorado very late at night in 1976 to order some Fool’s Gold loaf sandwiches? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/133 "2023-07-12T01:35:18Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you write, among other books, **Gone-Away Lake**? > 2. Were you a fictional detective played by Jim Hutton in a 1970s TV show? > 3. Did you write the book **The Westing Game**? Elizabeth Enright, Ellery Queen, Ellen Raskin. DQs: 1. White? 2. Known for the sciences? 1 DQ reserved ---
**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 12, 2023, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/134 "2023-07-12T10:22:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. In a classic Christian allegory, are you the Judas character? > > 2. Did you play a happily-married, and therefore doomed, naval aviator? > > 3. Are you Elendil’s Heir, under one of your names? 😁 > > Not Edmund, dunno and not Elessar. IQ 1 correct. IQ 2 - Anthony Edwards, who played Goose in _Top Gun._ IQ 3 - you damned well better have gotten this one right! 😁 I would also have accepted “Elfstone”. DQ: Athlete? ---
**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 12, 2023, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/135 "2023-07-12T12:19:11Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Russian filmmaker, one of who’s films is consistently voted one of the 15 best movies of the 20th century? 2. Were you an accused sex offender, whose jail cell suicide came as a shock to many people, including, so the joke goes, to you yourself? 3. Were you either of a husband-and-wife furniture design team that produced several iconic chairs that now bear your name? ---
**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 12, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/136 "2023-07-12T14:44:11Z")
IQs: 1. Did you win Olympic gold with your husband, and, after his sudden death, on your own? 2. Are you married to Portia de Rossi? 3. Did you play Elton John in _Rocketman_? ---
**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 12, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/137 "2023-07-12T16:52:30Z")
IQ1: Are you the world’s greatest criminal mind, portrayed by Vincent Price? IQ2: Did you recently begin your prison sentence for wire fraud related to a company you founded? IQ3: Did you use a Speak&Spell to phone home? ---
**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 13, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/138 "2023-07-13T03:18:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [IQs]: > Did you have an amazing gift for topiary? > Were you a must have Christmas toy’s whose scarcity drove prices to absurd levels in the mid 90’s? > Despite a complete lack of political experience were you offered (and declined) the Isreali presidency in the early 50’s? Not Edward Scissorhands, Elmo or Albert Einstein. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you recently portrayed in _History of the World, Part II_ promoting the Bermuda Triangle, a bar for women with your occupation? > 2. Did you play the above person? > 3. Did you and some other people fly out to Colorado very late at night in 1976 to order some Fool’s Gold loaf sandwiches? Dunno x3. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Russian filmmaker, one of whose films is consistently voted one of the 15 best movies of the 20th century? > > 2. Were you an accused sex offender, whose jail cell suicide came as a shock to many people, including, so the joke goes, to you yourself? > > 3. Were you either of a husband-and-wife furniture design team that produced several iconic chairs that now bear your name? Not Sergei Eisenstein, Jeffrey Epstein or the multitalented Eameses. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you win Olympic gold with your husband, and, after his sudden death, on your own? > 2. Are you married to Portia de Rossi? > 3. Did you play Elton John in _Rocketman_? Not Ekaterina Witt, Ellen DeGeneres or Egon Whatshisname. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you the world’s greatest criminal mind, portrayed by Vincent Price? > IQ2: Did you recently begin your prison sentence for wire fraud related to a company you founded? > IQ3: Did you use a Speak&Spell to phone home? Dunno, dunno and not ET. E. 1. real 2. female 3. first name begins with E 4. not known for the Arts 5. not known for the performing arts 6. alive 7. not known for government 8. born after 1950 9. not American 10. born before 1960 11. not white 12. not known for the sciences 13. athlete ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/139 "2023-07-13T03:23:54Z")
DQ: Known for a team sport? ---
**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 13, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/140 "2023-07-13T03:35:40Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were you recently portrayed in _History of the World, Part II_ promoting the Bermuda Triangle, a bar for women with your occupation? > 2. Did you play the above person? > 3. Did you and some other people fly out to Colorado very late at night in 1976 to order some Fool’s Gold loaf sandwiches? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. 1 was Amelia Earhart; 2 was Hannah Einbinder; 3 was Elvis Presley. DQ: Australian? 2 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=8)