# Botticelli, June 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 5, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366 "2011-06-05T04:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [June 7, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/101 "2011-06-07T20:06:14Z")
IQ: Does the number of exposed boobs in a movie influence your rating of that movie? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/102 "2011-06-07T20:20:01Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Were you known by a nickname that was not based on your given first name? > > IQ: Are you famous for whining your sister’s name thrice in rapid succession? Yes, I am known by my nickname that is not based on my given first name. No, I am not Jan Brady. > [@divemaster](#): > > IQ: Were you a famous film choreographer well-known for groups performing kaleidoscopic-type arrangements? No, and I don’t know who you mean. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Does the number of exposed boobs in a movie influence your rating of that movie? No, I am not Joe Bob Briggs. 1. I am female. 2. I am not fictional. 3. I am American. 4. I am not an actress. 5. I am not a musician. 6. I am not a writer. 7. I was born in the 20th Century. 8. I am dead. 9. My surname starts with ‘B’. 10. I was alive in 1950. 11. I am not a politician. 12. I am not an athlete. 13. Not married to a famous person 14. I am better known by my nickname than my given name. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/103 "2011-06-07T20:21:55Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ: Were you a famous film choreographer well-known for groups performing kaleidoscopic-type arrangements? Busby Berkeley I’ll hold off on a DQ, 'cause I’m thinking \*\*Sternvogel \*\*has it nailed. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/104 "2011-06-07T20:26:18Z")
Please add “Not a scientist/inventor” to the list of DQs already answered. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …IQ: Did you blank on your name when first asked by your future wife? Bill Clinton, according to his 1992 DNC bio film, saw Hillary Rodham from across the room in the Yale library when both were students there. She walked right up to him and asked him his name, and he blanked. DQ: Alive in 1975? IQ: Were you a serious actor with a distinct accent, and were played by another noted actor in a comedy set late in your career? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/105 "2011-06-07T20:34:30Z")
IQ: Were you one of a three-generation family of Major League Baseball players? (In other words, a man, his son, and that guy’s son all played in the bigs.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/106 "2011-06-07T20:38:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Please add “Not a scientist/inventor” to the list of DQs already answered. I thought I’d missed one! 1. I am female. 2. I am not fictional. 3. I am American. 4. I am not an actress. 5. I am not a musician. 6. I am not a writer. 7. I was born in the 20th Century. 8. I am dead. 9. My surname starts with ‘B’. 10. I was alive in 1950. 11. I am not a politician. 12. I am not an athlete. 13. Not married to a famous person 14. I am better known by my nickname than my given name. 15. Not a scientist or inventor. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/107 "2011-06-07T20:46:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQ: Alive in 1975? > > IQ: Were you a serious actor with a distinct accent, and were played by another noted actor in a comedy set late in your career? Yes, I was alive in 1975. No, I am not… Charles Boyer? > [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you one of a three-generation family of Major League Baseball players? (In other words, a man, his son, and that guy’s son all played in the bigs.) No, I am not Ray Boone. 1. I am female. 2. I am not fictional. 3. I am American. 4. I am not an actress. 5. I am not a musician. 6. I am not a writer. 7. I was born in the 20th Century. 8. I am dead. 9. My surname starts with ‘B’. 10. I was alive in 1950. 11. I am not a politician. 12. I am not an athlete. 13. Not married to a famous person 14. I am better known by my nickname than my given name. 15. Not a scientist or inventor. 16. I was alive in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/108 "2011-06-07T20:50:37Z")
IQ: Are you a member of a three-generation Major League Baseball family whose last name is **not** Boone? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/109 "2011-06-07T21:01:53Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Are you a member of a three-generation Major League Baseball family whose last name is **not** Boone? 😃 No, I am not David Bell. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/110 "2011-06-07T21:16:08Z")
IQ: Are you known for singing the theme songs to movies about an oversexed British agent? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/111 "2011-06-07T21:19:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Are you known for singing the theme songs to movies about an oversexed British agent? No, I am not Shirley Bassey. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/112 "2011-06-07T21:50:43Z")
IQ: Were you a self-styled African emperor? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/113 "2011-06-07T22:07:23Z")
**Sternvogel** , I’m pretty sure you can ask after a particular person by name even if you don’t have a DQ, at least by the rules from the other thread. If I knew who you had in mind before, I’d ask it. IQ: Are you either of the two people referred to in this quote : “The two funniest people I know are ? and a twelve-year-old kid named Albert Einstein”? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/114 "2011-06-07T22:15:51Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you a self-styled African emperor? No, I am not Jean-Bédel Bokassa. > [@panamajack](#): > > **Sternvogel** , I’m pretty sure you can ask after a particular person by name even if you don’t have a DQ, at least by the rules from the other thread. If I knew who you had in mind before, I’d ask it. > > IQ: Are you either of the two people referred to in this quote : “The two funniest people I know are ? and a twelve-year-old kid named Albert Einstein”? I would consider asking a particular name a DQ. I don’t know to whom you are referring. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/115 "2011-06-07T22:20:52Z")
IQ: Were you played by Valerie Bertinelli (one of my earlier IQ subjects) on screen? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/116 "2011-06-07T22:26:23Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > DQ: Were you known by a nickname that was not based on your given first name? > [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you played by Valerie Bertinelli (one of my earlier IQ subjects) on screen? Yes, I am Florence Leontine Lowe ‘Pancho’ Barnes. Well done! 🙂 You get to start the next round. . ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/117 "2011-06-07T23:17:31Z")
Okay, the initial to get you started is L. Go. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/118 "2011-06-07T23:40:11Z")
IQ: are you famous for your feud with Andy Kaufman? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/119 "2011-06-07T23:57:50Z")
No, I am not David Letterman. Nor Jerry Lawler. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2011/584366/120 "2011-06-08T00:15:35Z")
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