# 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\
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**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 9, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/41 "2017-06-09T18:39:46Z")

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Ok, I’ll try again.

I am **C.**

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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 9, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/42 "2017-06-09T21:56:21Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did Boaz marry your son’s widow?  
> IQ2: Did Peter Ustinov officially work as your servant in the 1940s?  
> IQ3: Were you the CENTCOM commander in 1990?

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Dunno, not David Niven, and not Norman Schwarzkopf

Naomi, from the Old Testament story of Ruth (who was the above-mentioned widow).  
Correct, of course, on the other two.  
IQ1: Did you sing “A Summer Song”?  
IQ2: Did you sing “Yesterday’s Gone”?  
IQ3: Did you sing “Burgers and Fries”?

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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 9, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/43 "2017-06-09T21:56:36Z")

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IQ1: Are you the first ever host of _Saturday Night Live_ and known for “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television”?  
IQ2: Are you a host of _Hee Haw_ and famous for such spoonerisms as the story of RinderCella, who slopped her dripper?  
IQ3: Are you noted for playing a stoner with the line “Dave’s not here man”?

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**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 9, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/44 "2017-06-09T23:25:57Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you sing “A Summer Song”?  
> IQ2: Did you sing “Yesterday’s Gone”?  
> IQ3: Did you sing “Burgers and Fries”?

IQ1: ??  
IQ2: ??  
IQ3: I am not Charlie Pride

2DQs for you (or 3, if I’ve misremembered C. Pride)

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**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 9, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/45 "2017-06-09T23:28:37Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you the first ever host of _Saturday Night Live_ and known for “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television”?  
> IQ2: Are you a host of _Hee Haw_ and famous for such spoonerisms as the story of RinderCella, who slopped her dripper?  
> IQ3: Are you noted for playing a stoner with the line “Dave’s not here man”?

IQ1: I am not George Carlin  
IQ2: I am not Roy Clark (?)  
IQ3: I am not Dana Carvey (???)

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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 10, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/46 "2017-06-10T01:46:14Z")

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correct, Archie Campbell, Tommy Chong

DQ: Real?  
DQ: Last name start with C?

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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 10, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/47 "2017-06-10T02:03:07Z")

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IQ1: Were you an NBA power forward known as “The Round Mound of Rebound”?  
IQ2: Do your tears cure cancer, but it’s too bad because you never cry?  
IQ3: Were you the star of the _Death Wish_ movies?

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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 10, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/48 "2017-06-10T02:11:50Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you sing “A Summer Song”?  
> IQ2: Did you sing “Yesterday’s Gone”?  
> IQ3: Did you sing “Burgers and Fries”?

> [@divemaster](#):
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> IQ1: ??  
> IQ2: ??  
> IQ3: I am not Charlie Pride
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> 2DQs for you (or 3, if I’ve misremembered C. Pride)

Not misremembered, but misspelt – Charley Pride.

1 and 2 were Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde, who (as Chad and Jeremy) sang both of those songs.  
DQ: Male?  
One DQ reserved.

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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 10, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/49 "2017-06-10T02:22:55Z")

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IQ1: Did you carry your master to his meetings with Fatima of the Seven Veils?  
IQ2: Was a little redhead wearing nothing but your hat?  
IQ3: Did you tell a punk that he had forgotten his chair?

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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 10, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/50 "2017-06-10T02:41:11Z")

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IQs:

Did you narrowly lose to Woodrow Wilson in 1916?  
Did you select a Prime Minister at the end of Jeffrey Archer’s _First Among Equals_?  
Were you a Boston Brahmin physician far from home in the 1950s?

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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 10, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/51 "2017-06-10T14:41:38Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl?
2. Did you write under the pen-name Boz?
3. Did Batman propose marriage to you in DC Comics this week?

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**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 10, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/52 "2017-06-10T15:52:10Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Were you an NBA power forward known as “The Round Mound of Rebound”?  
> IQ2: Do your tears cure cancer, but it’s too bad because you never cry?  
> IQ3: Were you the star of the _Death Wish_ movies?

IQ1: I am not Charles Barkley.  
IQ2: I am not Chuck Norris.  
IQ3: I am not Charles Bronson.

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**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 10, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/53 "2017-06-10T15:54:43Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you carry your master to his meetings with Fatima of the Seven Veils?  
> IQ2: Was a little redhead wearing nothing but your hat?  
> IQ3: Did you tell a punk that he had forgotten his chair?

IQ1: I am not Clyde the camel.  
IQ2: ??  
IQ3: I am not…Clint Eastwood (?)

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**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 10, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/54 "2017-06-10T15:59:49Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Did you narrowly lose to Woodrow Wilson in 1916?  
> Did you select a Prime Minister at the end of Jeffrey Archer’s _First Among Equals_?  
> Were you a Boston Brahmin physician far from home in the 1950s?

IQ1: ??  
IQ2: ??  
IQ3: I am not Charles Emerson Winchester III

C.

DQ1: Real  
DQ2: Last name starts with C.  
DQ3: Male

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**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 10, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/55 "2017-06-10T16:02:05Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl?
> 2. Did you write under the pen-name Boz?
> 3. Did Batman propose marriage to you in DC Comics this week?

IQ1: I am not Christie Brinkley.  
IQ2: ??  
IQ3: I am not … Catwoman (???)

C.

DQ1: Real  
DQ2: Last name starts with C.  
DQ3: Male

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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 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/56 "2017-06-10T16:19:44Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl?
> 2. Did you write under the pen-name Boz?
> 3. Did Batman propose marriage to you in DC Comics this week?  
> IQ1: I am not Christie Brinkley.  
> IQ2: ??  
> IQ3: I am not … Catwoman (???)

Correct on Christie.  
#2 is Charles Dickens.  
Correct on Catwoman. She hasn’t answered yet.

DQ: Living?

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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 10, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/57 "2017-06-10T16:42:49Z")

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IQ1: Are you the elusive villain star of a series of educational games?  
IQ2: Are you the fruity hat-wearing samba singer on whom IQ1 is based?  
IQ3: Are you a horror parody star and exotic dancer whose real name is Tara Leigh Patrick?

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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 10, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/58 "2017-06-10T18:22:11Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you W. C. Fields’s fictitious nephew?
2. Were you the “Italian” Marx brother?
3. Did you have a stand -up comedy duo with Dudley Moore?

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**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 10, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/59 "2017-06-10T19:35:08Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Are you the elusive villain star of a series of educational games?  
> IQ2: Are you the fruity hat-wearing samba singer on whom IQ1 is based?  
> IQ3: Are you a horror parody star and exotic dancer whose real name is Tara Leigh Patrick?

IQ1: I am not Carmen Sandiego (?) (If that is correct, it’s only due to IQ2)  
IQ2: I am not Carmen Miranda.  
IQ3: ?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you W. C. Fields’s fictitious nephew?
> 2. Were you the “Italian” Marx brother?
> 3. Did you have a stand -up comedy duo with Dudley Moore?

IQ1: ?  
IQ2: I am not Chico.  
IQ3: ?  
C.

DQ1: Real  
DQ2: Last name starts with C  
DQ3: Male  
DQ4: Living

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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 10, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2017/788187/60 "2017-06-10T20:54:00Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you carry your master to his meetings with Fatima of the Seven Veils?  
> IQ2: Was a little redhead wearing nothing but your hat?  
> IQ3: Did you tell a punk that he had forgotten his chair?

> [@divemaster](#):
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> IQ1: I am not Clyde the camel.  
> IQ2: ??  
> IQ3: I am not…Clint Eastwood (?)

One out of three – not a major Ray Stevens fan, I take it. 😃

Correct on [Clyde](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLB15kBvn_c).  
[Coy Lumpkin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcg4wyFhyV8).  
The [Blue Cyclone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLp9X8rebN4).  
DQ1: American? (Defined by house rules as “from the US”)?  
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

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