# 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:** 8
**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 13, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/141 "2023-07-13T05:14:43Z")
DQ 1. Are you famous because, of course, no one can talk to someone like you unless that someone happens to be you? 2. Did Vampira and Bela Lugosi star in your most famous movie? 3. Were you sued by Vampira? ---
**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 13, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/142 "2023-07-13T06:27:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@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. Egghead, a villain created for the Adam West _Batman_ series Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy Correct Holding 2 DQs ---
**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 13, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/143 "2023-07-13T10:26:15Z")
IQs: 1. Did you offend your brother by picking him up from prison in a former police car, before going off on a mission from God? 2. Were you a tennis player subject to the racist story that you had a tail? 3. Are you a gloomy hero possessed of a sword that eats souls? ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/144 "2023-07-13T13:38:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@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. #1 was Ekaterina Gordeyeva. #2 is correct. #3 was Taron Egerton. Holding 2 DQs. ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/145 "2023-07-13T16:20:40Z")
I do think SMV probably has this one. ---
**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 13, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/146 "2023-07-13T16:44:06Z")
Yeah, I wondered about an athlete, and when DLR asked if she were Australian, that name popped into my head. Curious to see if my hunch is right. ---
**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, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/147 "2023-07-13T17:00:06Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > … > 2. Were you a tennis player subject to the racist story that you had a tail? > … Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed # Evonne Goolagong Cawley An Australian Aborigine woman and very talented tennis player, subjected to some particularly ugly racism back in the day: [Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evonne_Goolagong_Cawley) Well done, **SMV**! ---
**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 13, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/148 "2023-07-13T17:27:20Z")
Thank you! I kinda feel like I stole it from @De_La_Rue, since their DQ made me think of her. Sorry, **DLR**! The answers to my other IQs, just for the record, were Elwood Blues and Elric of Melniboné. ---
**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 13, 2023, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/149 "2023-07-13T18:03:58Z")
Nice pick, **EH**! ---
**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, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/150 "2023-07-13T18:16:51Z")
Congrats, Vehicle! I first heard of her from [this LearnedLeague question](https://learnedleague.com/question.php?86&8&3), and was going to confirm my suspicion with the Australia question. ---
**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 13, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/151 "2023-07-13T20:33:14Z")
Alright, new round, everyone! Looking through **EH** ’s list of letters, I am… **D** ---
**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 13, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/152 "2023-07-13T21:32:41Z")
IQs: 1. Did you sometimes write under the pseudonum of Boz? 2. In Italian comics, are you the superhero Paperinik? 3. Are you a living gingerbread man in a book by L. Frank Baum? ---
**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 13, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/153 "2023-07-13T21:34:25Z")
1. I am not Charles Dickens. 2. Take a DQ. 3. And then take another. ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/154 "2023-07-14T00:11:54Z")
IQs: Were you the first black President, in the novel and movie _The Man_? Did that guy’s first name come from you? Did Jerry Ford, while in the House, try to get you impeached? ---
**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 14, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/155 "2023-07-14T01:18:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you the first black President, in the novel and movie _The Man_? > Did that guy’s first name come from you? > Did Jerry Ford, while in the House, try to get you impeached? Woof. Three DQs for you. ---
**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 14, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/156 "2023-07-14T02:24:01Z")
IQs: 1. Did you design a keyboard with a non-QWERTY key layout? 2. Did you play the title role in _Philomena_? 3. Did “MacArthur Park” win your column’s Bad Song Survey? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/157 "2023-07-14T02:58:28Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you produce and star in **The China Syndrome**? 2. Did you marry Harold Lloyd? 3. Are you Perry Mason’s secretary? ---
**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 14, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/158 "2023-07-14T11:59:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you sometimes write under the pseudonum of Boz? > 2. In Italian comics, are you the superhero Paperinik? > 3. Are you a living gingerbread man in a book by L. Frank Baum? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > - I am not Charles Dickens. > - Take a DQ. > - And then take another. 1. Correct. 2 is Donald Duck. 3 was John Dough. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with D? ---
**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 14, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/159 "2023-07-14T12:02:38Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother? 2. Did you lie down in front of the yellow bulldozer before it could demolish your home? 3. Are you secretly Wonder Warthog? ---
**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 14, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407/160 "2023-07-14T13:11:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you design a keyboard with a non-QWERTY key layout? > 2. Did you play the title role in _Philomena_? > 3. Did “MacArthur Park” win your column’s Bad Song Survey? 1. I am not…Davis? If not, take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. Take another DQ. > [@kitap](#): > > 1. Did you produce and star in **The China Syndrome**? > 2. Did you marry Harold Lloyd? > 3. Are you Perry Mason’s secretary? 1. Arrgh, I keep getting it tangled with _The Manchurian Candidate._ in my mind. Take a DQ. 2. No idea. Another DQ. 3. I am not Delia Reese (? Not sure of her surname). > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother? > 2. Did you lie down in front of the yellow bulldozer before it could demolish your home? > 3. Are you secretly Wonder Warthog? 1. I am not Brian Doyle Murray. 2. I am not Dent, Arthur Dent. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. Real. 2. Last name starts with _“D”_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2023/986407.md?page=9)