# Botticelli - July 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634 "2024-07-02T14:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 26, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/181 "2024-07-26T14:31:38Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you and H.I. steal a quintuplet in _Raising Arizona_? > 2. Did you, Pete, and Delmar go an odyssey in _O Brother, Where Art Thou_? > 3. Are you one of the links between and the obvious person to ask about after mentioning the above movies? > [@kitap](#): > > I am not Edwina, then take 2 DQs. 2 was Ulysses Everett McGill; the links between _Raising Arizona_ and _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_ are their directors, the Coen brothers, so 3 was Ethan Coen. DQs: 1. last name begins with E? (Might as well confirm it.) 2. won any awards? ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/182 "2024-07-26T14:52:38Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Dorothy Gale’s pet kitten, who somehow turned pink? > > 2. Did you create a popular plan for speed reading? > > 3. Are you Dagwood Bumstead’s neighbor, a sometimes annoying little boy? > > I am not Eureka, take a DQ, I am not Elmo. Correct, Evelyn Woods, correct. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/183 "2024-07-27T02:14:51Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you an expatriate American-English poet who apparently didn’t like April? > 2. Were you a contemporary of 1, who published his most celebrated work while incarcerated in a mental hospital after being judged unfit to stand trial for treason? > 3. Were you an influential Victorian poet of sonnets, whose reputation was, until the 70s and 80s, overshadowed by that of your husband? Take 2 DQs and I am not Elizaberh Barret Browning. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/184 "2024-07-27T02:19:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with E. 4. American 5. living 6. Best known for the Arts 7. Born before 1964 8. Not known for literature. 9. Known for the Performing Arts. 10. Born after 1945. 11. Actor 12. Known for filmed work 13. Last name begins with E 14. Has won awards ---
**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 27, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/185 "2024-07-27T02:41:30Z")
Previous IQs: Were you an opinionated but hard-of-hearing woman played by Gilda Radner? - Yes, Emily Litella Were you Alice Roosevelt’s pet snake? - Emily Spinach Did Julie Harris famously play you in a one-woman show? - Emily Dickinson Emily x3! DQs: Has won an Oscar? Considered handsome? White? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor? Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986? Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/186 "2024-07-27T05:29:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor? > Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986? > Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/187 "2024-07-27T05:32:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name does not begin with E. 4. American 5. living 6. Best known for the Arts 7. Born before 1964 8. Not known for literature. 9. Known for the Performing Arts. 10. Born after 1945. 11. Actor 12. Known for filmed work 13. Last name begins with E 14. Has won awards 15. Has,not won an Oscar 16. Not considered,handsome 17. White. ---
**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 27, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/188 "2024-07-27T09:48:05Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you an expatriate American-English poet who apparently didn’t like April? > 2. Were you a contemporary of 1, who published his most celebrated work while incarcerated in a mental hospital after being judged unfit to stand trial for treason? > 3. Were you an influential Victorian poet of sonnets, whose reputation was, until the 70s and 80s, overshadowed by that of your husband? 1. “April is the cruelest month”, according to T.S. Eliot, whose work was first published by 2., Ezra Pound, whose own _Pisan Cantos_ came out while he was incarcerated for making propaganda broadcasts for Fascist Italy during World War II. Correct on Browning. DQs: 1. Character actor? 2. First name begins N - Z? 3. Primarily known for 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 27, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/189 "2024-07-27T14:01:15Z")
IQs: 1. Do you play guitar in U2, and did your bandmate appear as Dr. Robert in _Across the Universe_? 2. Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna, man you should have seen them kicking [you]? 3. Are you you? (ooh) Are they they? (ooh) Are you the walrus? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/190 "2024-07-27T15:44:14Z")
IQs: 1. Are you famous for playing an undead serial killer in a fedora? 2. Do you sing half the duet on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”? 3. Are you a new centenarian famous for being a “Hitchcock blonde”? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/191 "2024-07-27T17:05:20Z")
Don’t know 2 oe 3 but yes!! I am **Robert Englund**!!! Freddy Krueger himself! Good job!! ---
**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 27, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/192 "2024-07-27T17:59:13Z")
Well done, **SunUp!** ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/193 "2024-07-28T09:15:46Z")
Thanks! I was just thinking up stock IQs and after I came to that thought “Hmm, maybe it’s him?” The other two IQs were Ellen Foley and Eva Marie Saint, respectively. On to the next round: I am # J (I’ve updated the “letters used” thread.) ---
**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 28, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/194 "2024-07-28T20:38:12Z")
Bravo, **SunUp**! Previous IQs: Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor? - Albert Einstein became Albert Brooks Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986? - Bob Edgar Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR? - Elihu Root On to J. Was your dad going to Berlin in Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_? Were you Person #1’s wife? Were you their son? ---
**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 28, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/195 "2024-07-28T20:51:32Z")
IQs: 1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious? 2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement? 3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock? ---
**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 28, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/196 "2024-07-28T21:18:39Z")
Congrats, SunUp! IQs: 1. Did you wish to be preserved as an “auto-icon”? 2. Are you half of _Saturday Night Live_’s Weekend Update team? 3. Are you the above person’s spouse? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/197 "2024-07-29T05:35:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was your dad going to Berlin in Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_? > Were you Person #1’s wife? > Were you their son? I am not… Alfred Jodl, Frau Jodl, or Alfred Jodl Jr.? Probable 3 DQs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious? > 2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement? > 3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock? I am not Carl Jung. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you wish to be preserved as an “auto-icon”? > 2. Are you half of _Saturday Night Live_’s Weekend Update team? > 3. Are you the above person’s spouse? Take a DQ. I am not Colin Jost. I am not Scarlett Johansson. ---
**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 29, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/198 "2024-07-29T12:36:15Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Take a DQ. > I am not Colin Jost. > I am not Scarlett Johansson. 1 was philosopher Jeremy Bentham. DQ: real? ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/199 "2024-07-29T13:19:53Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious? > > 2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement? > > 3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock? > > I am not Carl Jung. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on Jung. #2 was Jasper Johns. #3 was the Roman goddess Juno. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with J? ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/200 "2024-07-29T13:22:02Z")
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