# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/561 "2015-07-03T15:51:11Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a recurring character in books by Robert Heinlein whose birth name was Woodrow Wilson Smith? > IQ2: Did you portray sassy phone operator Ernestine in _Laugh-In_? > IQ3: Are you an Argentinian pianist who composed the theme to _Mission Impossible_ and _Dirty Harry_? > > DQ: Known for a historical event? > > holding a DQ Take a DQ for 1 Not Lily Tomlin or Lalo Schifrin ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/562 "2015-07-03T15:52:17Z")
# 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 13. Not a journalist, exactly, but something akin to a journalist 14. Never won a major award (not sure her profession HAS a top prize), but won all kinds of honorary prizes over career 15. Not known for any historical events 16. Definitely not a critic… SORT of a commentator, but not exactly. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/563 "2015-07-03T15:53:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Late, Great Planet Earth_? > 2. Did you star in _The Parent Trap_ with Jamie Lee Curtis? > 3. Were you Debbie Reynolds’ daughter’s best known role? Not Hal Lindsay or Princess Leia 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 3, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/564 "2015-07-03T15:55:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you play the treasonous Gen. Scott? > Were you a cleric who had a major college named after you? > Were you an Italian who wrote _The Leopard_? Not Burt Lancaster or Ignatius Loyola 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:** [July 3, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/565 "2015-07-03T19:59:48Z")
IQ1: Were you employed by Mongkut? IQ2: Did you and your twin sister Popo write newspaper advice columns? IQ3: Are you #2’s better-known identity? ---
**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 3, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/566 "2015-07-03T20:08:01Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play the treasonous Gen. Scott? - Yes, Burt Lancaster, in _Seven Days in May_. Were you a cleric who had a major college named after you? - Yes, Ignatius Loyola. Were you an Italian who wrote _The Leopard_? - Lampedusa (I forget his first name). DQ: On American TV a lot in past five years? IQs: Were you a key Globetrotter? Are you a fictional punk hacker? Were you known for your purple plastic purse? ---
**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 3, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/567 "2015-07-03T20:25:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Late, Great Planet Earth_? > 2. Did you star in _The Parent Trap_ with Jamie Lee Curtis? > 3. Were you Debbie Reynolds’ daughter’s best known role? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Hal Lindsay or Princess Leia > Take a DQ for 2 Correct, Lindsey Lohan, correct. 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 4, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/568 "2015-07-04T04:51:03Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you employed by Mongkut? > IQ2: Did you and your twin sister Popo write newspaper advice columns? > IQ3: Are you #2’s better-known identity? YESSS! I am EPPIE LEDERER, aka ANN LANDERS, longtime advice columnist!!! Congrats, SCAdian! ---
**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 4, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/569 "2015-07-04T05:05:29Z")
All right, **SCAdian**! Well done. ---
**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 4, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/570 "2015-07-04T10:57:10Z")
Don’t know why I suddenly thought of her. I am **R**. ---
**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 4, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/571 "2015-07-04T13:57:47Z")
Good going, SCAdian! IQs: 1. Did Elton John sing a song about you on his _Goodbye Yellow Brick Road_ album? 2. Are you the protagonist in the first two of C. S. Lewis’s Space trilogy? 3. Were you the protagonist in the TV series _The Greatest American Hero_? ---
**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 4, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/572 "2015-07-04T17:01:18Z")
Before we get too far along here, may I suggest you start a July thread, **SCAdian**? ---
**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 4, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445/573 "2015-07-04T20:38:32Z")
[Done](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18491568#post18491568). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2015/721445.md?page=28)