# 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:** 11
**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, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/201 "2024-07-29T13:28:54Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the author of the Bridgerton books, and other romance novels? 2. Did you rebel against Antiochus? 3. Were you a Doc Savage-esque super-scientist and awful father to Rusty on _The Venture Bros._? ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/202 "2024-07-29T14:48:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you make your entrance on the silver screen stepping off your sinking ship onto the pier? > 2. Did you play #1? > 3. A member of a musical family from Gary, IN, did you pose nude for _Playboy_? I am not Captain Jack Sparrow, the worst pirate I ever heard of; nor am I Johnny Depp; nor am I Janet Jackson. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the author of the Bridgerton books, and other romance novels? > 2. Did you rebel against Antiochus? > 3. Were you a Doc Savage-esque super-scientist and awful father to Rusty on _The Venture Bros._? Take a DQ. I am not… Judas Maccabeus? Take another DQ. ---
**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, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/203 "2024-07-29T14:49:45Z")
DQs: J. 1. Real 2. Female. 3. First name starts with J. ---
**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, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/204 "2024-07-29T15:09:58Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Take a DQ. > I am not… Judas Maccabeus? > Take another DQ. 1 was Julia Quinn; 2 was correct; 3 was Dr. Jonas Venture. DQs: 1. living? 2. American? ---
**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 29, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/205 "2024-07-29T16:35:16Z")
Good guess, **SunUp**! IQs: 1. Were you the short, fatter half of the comic duo that starred in what’s considered the first daily comic strip? 2. Were you famously one of the worst singers to ever perform live, nevertheless earning fans like Cole Porter and Enrico Caruso? 3. Were you the founder of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who gave his people their name? ---
**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, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/206 "2024-07-29T16:52:18Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the short, fatter half of the comic duo that starred in what’s considered the first daily comic strip? > 2. Were you famously one of the worst singers to ever perform live, nevertheless earning fans like Cole Porter and Enrico Caruso? > 3. Were you the founder of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who gave his people their name? Take a DQ. Take another DQ. I am not Judah (ben Jacob). ---
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/207 "2024-07-29T16:53:11Z")
DQs: J. 1. Real 2. Female. 3. First name starts with J. 4. Dead. 5. Not American. ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/208 "2024-07-29T17:34:21Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you make your entrance on the silver screen stepping off your sinking ship onto the pier? > > 2. Did you play #1? > > 3. A member of a musical family from Gary, IN, did you pose nude for _Playboy_? > > I am not Captain Jack Sparrow, the worst pirate I ever heard of; nor am I Johnny Depp; nor am I Janet Jackson. Correct, correct, but it was Latoya Jackson who posed for _Playboy_. DQ: 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 29, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/209 "2024-07-29T17:38:14Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _(What If God Was) One Of Us_? 2. Did you have a hit with _Clouds_? 3. Are you the supreme god in one form of Hinduism whose name, in a commonly altered form, was used for a Marvel comics villain? ---
**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, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/210 "2024-07-29T17:43:00Z")
IQs: 1. Did you say that all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players? 2. Were you chased by the Hovitos in South America, 1936? 3. Did you play Francesca in _The Masque of the Red Death_? ---
**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 29, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/211 "2024-07-29T17:55:11Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you the short, fatter half of the comic duo that starred in what’s considered the first daily comic strip? > > 2. Were you famously one of the worst singers to ever perform live, nevertheless earning fans like Cole Porter and Enrico Caruso? > > 3. Were you the founder of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who gave his people their name? > > Take a DQ. > Take another DQ. > I am not Judah (ben Jacob). The original Mutt-and-Jeff pair was, well, Mutt and Jeff. Jeff was the short one. The famously bad opera singer was Florence Foster Jenkins. Correct on Judah. DQs: 1. Last name begins A - M? 2. European? IQs: 1. Were you a jazzman whose real name was Ferdinand de Menthe? 2. Did alleged mistreatment of you precipitate a war between England and Spain? 3. Have you been played by Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix? ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/212 "2024-07-29T23:41:44Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _(What If God Was) One Of Us_? > 2. Did you have a hit with _Clouds_? > 3. Are you the supreme god in one form of Hinduism whose name, in a commonly altered form, was used for a Marvel comics villain? I am not Joan Osborne. Take 2 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you say that all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players? > 2. Were you chased by the Hovitos in South America, 1936? > 3. Did you play Francesca in _The Masque of the Red Death_? I am not… Juliet Capulet? Take 2 DQs. (Probably 3) > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a jazzman whose real name was Ferdinand de Menthe? > 2. Did alleged mistreatment of you precipitate a war between England and Spain? > 3. Have you been played by Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix? Take a DQ. I am not Jenkins (or his ear). Take another DQ. ---
**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, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/213 "2024-07-29T23:42:59Z")
J. 1. Real 2. Female. 3. First name starts with J. 4. Dead. 5. Not American. 6. Not know for the Arts. 7. Last name begins A-M. 8. European. ---
**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 30, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/214 "2024-07-30T00:07:45Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not… Juliet Capulet? > Take 2 DQs. (Probably 3) 1 (“All the world’s a stage…”) was Jacques, in _As You Like It_; 2 (Hovitos) was Indiana Jones; 3 (Francesca) was Jane Asher. DQs: 1. died after 1900? 2. known for politics/royalty? 3. from mainland Europe? Saw _As You Like It_ in the park on Thursday. _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ was Friday. _The Masque of the Red Death_ was last night. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/215 "2024-07-30T07:50:19Z")
J. 1. Real 2. Female. 3. First name starts with J. 4. Dead. 5. Not American. 6. Not know for the Arts. 7. Last name begins A-M. 8. European. 9. Died before 1900. 10. Known for politics/royalty. 11. Not from mainland Europe. ---
**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, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/216 "2024-07-30T13:32:01Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a jazzman whose real name was Ferdinand de Menthe? > > 2. Did alleged mistreatment of you precipitate a war between EngJelly Roll Mland and Spain? > > 3. Have you been played by Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix? > > Take a DQ. > I am not Jenkins (or his ear). > Take another DQ Ferdinand de Menthe played jazz piano under the name “ **Jelly Roll Morton** ”. Correct on **Robert Jenkins**. Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix, along with Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger, have all played **the Joker**. DQs: 1. Continental European (as opposed to British or Icelandic)? 2. Politician? IQs: 1. Were you the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? 2. Are you the subject of a children’s song, whose name is my name, too? 3. Were you the star of an 80s sitcom, who raised awareness by waging a very public fight against your breast cancer, including a biopic filmed both before and after your double mastectomy? ---
**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 30, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/217 "2024-07-30T14:24:27Z")
IQs: 1. Was your friend Leroy Smith chosen for your high school varsity basketball team over you, which led you to train more and, well, do better? 2. Did you voice Dipper in _Gravity Falls_? 3. Were you a former child star noted for singing “I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy”? ---
**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, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/218 "2024-07-30T14:25:29Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _(What If God Was) One Of Us_? > > 2. Did you have a hit with _Clouds_? > > 3. Are you the supreme god in one form of Hinduism whose name, in a commonly altered form, was used for a Marvel comics villain? > > I am not Joan Osborne. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on Joan. #2 was Judy Collins. #3 is Jagganatha (aka Juggernaut). DQ: Died before 1800? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/219 "2024-07-30T17:39:29Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? > 2. Are you the subject of a children’s song, whose name is my name, too? > 3. Were you the star of an 80s sitcom, who raised awareness by waging a very public fight against your breast cancer, including a biopic filmed both before and after your double mastectomy? I am not John Jay. I am not John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt. I am not Ann Jillian. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Was your friend Leroy Smith chosen for your high school varsity basketball team over you, which led you to train more and, well, do better? > 2. Did you voice Dipper in _Gravity Falls_? > 3. Were you a former child star noted for singing “I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy”? Take 2 DQs. I am not… Jackie Cooper? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634/220 "2024-07-30T17:41:00Z")
J. 1. Real 2. Female. 3. First name starts with J. 4. Dead. 5. Not American. 6. Not know for the Arts. 7. Last name begins A-M. 8. European. 9. Died before 1900. 10. Known for politics/royalty. 11. Not from mainland/continental Europe. 12. Not a poltician. 13. Died before 1800. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634.md?page=12)