# Botticelli June 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445 "2015-06-02T15:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/521 "2015-06-30T20:45:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Marjorie H. Buell’s best known creation? > 2. Did you die avenging your father’s death in a Shakespearean tragedy? > 3. Did Rosemary Benet write a poem beginning with you coming back as a ghost? Not Little Lulu or Laertes. Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/522 "2015-06-30T21:47:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you work with Goose Tatum? > IQ2: Are you really Daniel Whitney? > IQ3: Did you sing “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Meadowlark Lemon or Larry the Cable Guy > > Take a DQ for 3 Correct. Correct. Loretta Lynn (with Conway Twitty). DQ: Known for science? IQ1: Was your TV show cancelled because its characters were featured in advertisements that aired during the show? IQ2: Were you a Hungarian actor who starred in a play based on a book, and then in the movie version of the story? IQ3: Were you named after a duck’s dork? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/523 "2015-06-30T22:22:22Z")
IQ1: Were you an actress who was discovered in 1937 by a reporter as you sipped a soda in a Hollywood ice cream parlor? IQ2: Are you the stepson of swimming film star Esther Williams and known for playing Lance Cumson on the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest? IQ3: Were you a motivational speaker and PBS star known as Dr Love? ---
**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 1, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/524 "2015-07-01T00:48:06Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (always used his middle name). Were you Clinton’s first SecTreas? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen. Were you a member of the band pretty much only because of who you married? - Yes, Linda McCartney. DQ: Born east of Miss. River? IQs: Did Lincoln appoint you U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia? Are you a noted American liberal legal scholar? Were you the first head of the Grand Army of the Republic? ---
**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 1, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/525 "2015-07-01T02:06:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Marjorie H. Buell’s best known creation? > 2. Did you die avenging your father’s death in a Shakespearean tragedy? > 3. Did Rosemary Benet write a poem beginning with you coming back as a ghost? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Little Lulu or Laertes. > > Take a DQ for #3 correct, correct, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. (“If Nancy Hanks came back as a ghost…”) 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/526 "2015-07-01T15:47:59Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American 5. Died after 1950 6. Last name(s) started with L 7. Not known for the arts 8. Died after 2000 9. Not involved in science 10. Born very slightly West of the Mississippi ---
**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 1, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/527 "2015-07-01T15:50:04Z")
DQ: Known for politics? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/528 "2015-07-01T15:50:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your TV show cancelled because its characters were featured in advertisements that aired during the show? > IQ2: Were you a Hungarian actor who starred in a play based on a book, and then in the movie version of the story? > IQ3: Were you named after a duck’s dork? No idea on #1- take a DQ Not Bela Lugosi For #3… you’re not thinking of Long Duck Dong from the movie _ **16 Candles,** _ are you?? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/529 "2015-07-01T15:52:37Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Were you an actress who was discovered in 1937 by a reporter as you sipped a soda in a Hollywood ice cream parlor? > IQ2: Are you the stepson of swimming film star Esther Williams and known for playing Lance Cumson on the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest? > IQ3: Were you a motivational speaker and PBS star known as Dr Love? Not Lana Turner or… Lorenzo Lamas? Take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/530 "2015-07-01T15:53:39Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American 5. Died after 1950 6. Last name(s) started with L 7. Not known for the arts 8. Died after 2000 9. Not involved in science 10. Born very slightly West of the Mississippi 11. Not a political figure ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/531 "2015-07-01T15:55:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Lincoln appoint you U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia? > Are you a noted American liberal legal scholar? > Were you the first head of the Grand Army of the Republic? Not Lawrence Tribe Take DQs for 1 and 3 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/532 "2015-07-01T19:16:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your TV show cancelled because its characters were featured in advertisements that aired during the show? > IQ2: Were you a Hungarian actor who starred in a play based on a book, and then in the movie version of the story? > IQ3: Were you named after a duck’s dork? > [@astorian](#): > > No idea on #1- take a DQ > > Not Bela Lugosi > > For #3… you’re not thinking of Long Duck Dong from the movie _ **16 Candles,** _ are you?? Linus the Lionhearted. Linus, Sugar Bear, and other characters from the show were featured in commercials for, and on the packaging of, Post cereals. Correct. Correct. “What the hell are you bitchin’ about? I gotta sleep under some Chinaman named after a duck’s dork.” DQ: Known for sports? ---
**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 1, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/533 "2015-07-01T19:22:21Z")
Previous IQs: Did Lincoln appoint you U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia? - Ward Hill Lamon (who sometimes functioned as Lincoln’s bodyguard, too, although not at Ford’s Theatre, alas). Are you a noted American liberal legal scholar? - Yes, Laurence Tribe. Were you the first head of the Grand Army of the Republic? - Gen. John Logan. Two DQs reserved. IQs: Did you create the original _Battlestar Galactica_? Did you like to draw mischievous cows and women with beehive hairdos? Was a Pennsylvania fort named after you? ---
**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 1, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/534 "2015-07-01T20:23:36Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a whip-wielding actor in old Hollywood westerns? 2. Did you create _Miss Peach_? 3. Did you host a body-building/exercise show in the 1960’s? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/535 "2015-07-01T21:03:16Z")
IQ1: Did you write _Blue Highways_? IQ2: Did you write _Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself_? IQ3: Did you write _The Word for World is Forest_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/536 "2015-07-02T11:44:19Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Female 3. Dead 4. American 5. Died after 1950 6. Last name(s) started with L 7. Not known for the arts 8. Died after 2000 9. Not involved in science 10. Born very slightly West of the Mississippi 11. Not a political figure 12. Not connected to sports ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/537 "2015-07-02T11:45:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > P > > IQs: > > Did you create the original _Battlestar Galactica_? > Did you like to draw mischievous cows and women with beehive hairdos? > Was a Pennsylvania fort named after you? Not Glen A. Larson or Gary Larson Take a DQ for 3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/538 "2015-07-02T11:46:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a whip-wielding actor in old Hollywood westerns? > 2. Did you create _Miss Peach_? > 3. Did you host a body-building/exercise show in the 1960’s? Not Lash LaRue or Jack LaLanne Take a DQ for 2 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/539 "2015-07-02T11:47:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Blue Highways_? > IQ2: Did you write _Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself_? > IQ3: Did you write _The Word for World is Forest_? Not Lewis Grizzard Take DQs for 1 and 3 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/540 "2015-07-02T12:44:49Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you write _Blue Highways_? > IQ2: Did you write _Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself_? > IQ3: Did you write _The Word for World is Forest_? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Lewis Grizzard > > Take DQs for 1 and 3 William Least Heat-Moon. Correct. Ursula K LeGuin. DQ: Best known for a single incident? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=28)