# Botticelli - June 2017

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [June 5, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187 "2017-06-05T17:19:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 19

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**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 28, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/361 "2017-06-28T22:30:19Z")

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IQ1: Were you Princess Vespa in _Spaceballs_?  
IQ2: Are you an Irken who attempts to invade Earth with your malfunctioning robot servant GIR?  
IQ3: Did you play Sylar on the TV series _Heroes_?

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**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:** [June 28, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/362 "2017-06-28T23:04:10Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a founding member of the Walden Commune?  
> IQ2: Were you JJ’s second husband, and Alex’s stepfather?  
> IQ3: Were you an American explorer captured by the Spanish whilst exploring the Red River?

1. I am not Zonker Harris.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Zebulon Pike.

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**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:** [June 28, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/363 "2017-06-28T23:05:13Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Were you Princess Vespa in _Spaceballs_?  
> IQ2: Are you an Irken who attempts to invade Earth with your malfunctioning robot servant GIR?  
> IQ3: Did you play Sylar on the TV series _Heroes_?

1. I am not Daphne Zuniga.  
Take 2 DQs.

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**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 28, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/364 "2017-06-28T23:40:21Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you a founding member of the Walden Commune?  
> IQ2: Were you JJ’s second husband, and Alex’s stepfather?  
> IQ3: Were you an American explorer captured by the Spanish whilst exploring the Red River?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not Zonker Harris.
> 2. Take a DQ.
> 3. I am not Zebulon Pike.

Correct.  
Zeke Brenner. (JJ’s first husband – and Alex’s father, of course – was Mike Doonesbury.)  
Correct.  
DQ: Real?

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**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:** [June 28, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/365 "2017-06-28T23:46:19Z")

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DQs:

1. Real

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**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 29, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/366 "2017-06-29T00:38:23Z")

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IQ1: Did you write a novel featuring a relative’s bravery during an Indian attack?  
IQ2: Were you that relative?  
IQ3: Were you a Russian who became famous because of film you shot in Texas?

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**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:** [June 29, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/367 "2017-06-29T00:51:44Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you write a novel featuring a relative’s bravery during an Indian attack?  
> IQ2: Were you that relative?  
> IQ3: Were you a Russian who became famous because of film you shot in Texas?

1. I am not Zane Grey. (??)
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Zapruder.

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**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 29, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/368 "2017-06-29T01:24:43Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you write a novel featuring a relative’s bravery during an Indian attack?  
> IQ2: Were you that relative?  
> IQ3: Were you a Russian who became famous because of film you shot in Texas?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not Zane Grey. (??)
> 2. Take a DQ.
> 3. I am not Zapruder.

Correct.  
Betty Zane.  
Correct.  
DQ: Known for the Arts?  
Yes, I like to get that question out of the way early.

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**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 29, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/369 "2017-06-29T01:59:08Z")

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Previous IQs:

Were you a freedom fighter with a very sharp sword? - Zorro  
Did you play the moms of two doomed young women? - Grace Zabriskie (my mystery person in our last Z round) on _Twin Peaks_ and _Seinfeld_  
Were you Spock’s sweetie in prehistoric Sarpeidon? - Zarabeth, she of the fur bikini

DQs:

Male?  
Living?  
Last name starts with Z?

IQs:

Was music about you prominently featured in a Stanley Kubrick movie?  
Were you the subject of a movie about a Greek military coup?  
Were you the subject of a movie about a guy who became very much like the people around him?

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**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:** [June 29, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/370 "2017-06-29T11:13:14Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Known for the Arts
3. Male
4. Deceased
5. First name starts with Z

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**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:** [June 29, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/371 "2017-06-29T11:14:15Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Was music about you prominently featured in a Stanley Kubrick movie?  
> Were you the subject of a movie about a Greek military coup?  
> Were you the subject of a movie about a guy who became very much like the people around him?

1. I am not Zarathustra.
2. I am not Z (?)
3. I am not Zelig.

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**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 29, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/372 "2017-06-29T12:23:55Z")

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IQ: Did you play the main character in the original Broadway production of _Fiddler on the Roof_?

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**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 29, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/373 "2017-06-29T13:05:35Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQ1: Were you Princess Vespa in Spaceballs?  
> IQ2: Are you an Irken who attempts to invade Earth with your malfunctioning robot servant GIR?  
> IQ3: Did you play Sylar on the TV series Heroes?
> 
> 1. I am not Daphne Zuniga.  
> Take 2 DQs.

correct, Invader Zim, Zachary Quinto

DQ: American?  
DQ: Known for the performing arts?

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**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 29, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/374 "2017-06-29T13:09:00Z")

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IQ2: Were you a Jewish actor I once used as the subject of one of these games?  
IQ3: Were you an ancient Persian prophet, as known to the Greeks?

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**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:** [June 29, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/375 "2017-06-29T13:28:04Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ: Did you play the main character in the original Broadway production of _Fiddler on the Roof_?

I said it would be a short game.

Yes, I am Zero Mostel!

Good job, SCA!

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**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 29, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/376 "2017-06-29T14:32:36Z")

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**Prof. P.** swept my IQs.

Good job indeed, **SCA**!

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**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 29, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/377 "2017-06-29T19:35:49Z")

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Deceased male, known for the Arts, first name starts with Z – that was certainly the only answer I could think of! 😃  
I am **G**.

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**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 29, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/378 "2017-06-29T21:04:42Z")

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IQs:

Was a military spaceship named after you mentioned in a recent Joe Haldeman sf novel?  
Did your monarch complain, “He addresses me as if I were a public meeting”?  
Were you a noted German tank commander?

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**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 29, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/379 "2017-06-29T21:16:03Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Was a military spaceship named after you mentioned in a recent Joe Haldeman sf novel?  
> Did your monarch complain, “He addresses me as if I were a public meeting”?  
> Were you a noted German tank commander?

DQ.  
DQ.  
Not Heinz Guderian.

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**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 29, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/380 "2017-06-29T22:34:45Z")

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I just did G, but ok…

IQ1: Are you the founder of the Mongolian Empire?  
IQ2: Did you compose the Chattanoogah Choo-Choo?  
IQ3: Were you Agent Mulder in _The X-Files_?

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