# Botticelli - June 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 11, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899 "2018-06-11T17:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [July 2, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/261 "2018-07-02T12:13:53Z")
IQ1: Are you Skeletor’s second-in-command? IQ2: Are you one of Thor’s Asgardian enemies in the comics, a seductress who sometimes allies with Loki? IQ3: Are you a dual sai-wielding love interest of Daredevil? ---
**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 2, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/262 "2018-07-02T14:28:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > …3) Were two of your brothers Atlas and Prometheus? So who was this? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you Skeletor’s second-in-command? > IQ2: Are you one of Thor’s Asgardian enemies in the comics, a seductress who sometimes allies with Loki? > IQ3: Are you a dual sai-wielding love interest of Daredevil? Dunno x2; not Elektra. ---
**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:** [July 2, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/263 "2018-07-02T15:30:22Z")
Evil-Lyn, Enchantress, correct DQ: Comedy genre? holding a DQ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/264 "2018-07-02T19:57:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m guessing the first is from _Watership Down_, but I don’t know the name; also dunno, and not Clint Eastwood. Previous IQs: 1. El-ahrairah, indeed from _Watership Down_ (Are you a prince with a thousand enemies, and also a rabbit?) 2. Elvis Costello (Were you born Declan Patrick McManus?) IQs: 1. Did you write the screenplay for and star in the 1995 film of _Sense and Sensibility_? 2. Aside from playing a bookish Hogwarts student, are you a UN Women goodwill ambassador? 3. Were you a humorist with a syndicated newspaper column about suburban family life, and the author of a Cope Book? DQs: From an American film? From a live action film? ---
**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 2, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/265 "2018-07-02T22:06:47Z")
Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Pepperwinkle View Post IQs: …3) Were two of your brothers Atlas and Prometheus? So who was this? Oops. Sorry, life’s gotten busy. Prometheus (Forethought) had a younger brother named Epimetheus (Afterthought), whom the gods cursed with a wife: Pandora. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/266 "2018-07-03T02:38:30Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:255, topic:815899”] I’m not Eliza Doolittle, Esther Williams or Eva Peron. All correct: swept! /QUOTE] ---
**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, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/267 "2018-07-03T02:48:01Z")
Thanks, **Prof. P.** > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Did you write the screenplay for and star in the 1995 film of _Sense and Sensibility_? > 2. Aside from playing a bookish Hogwarts student, are you a UN Women goodwill ambassador? > 3. Were you a humorist with a syndicated newspaper column about suburban family life, and the author of a Cope Book?.. Not the multitalented Emma Thompson, Emma Watson or Erma Bombeck. E. 1. fictional 2. first name starts with E 3. female 4. not originally from literature 5. not from a work originally from the 20th century 6. not a main character 7. originally from film 8. from a film made in the 2000s 9. from a film set in the present time contemporaneous to the release of the film, mostly 10. from a film with some laughs but not an outright comedy 11. from an American film 12. not from a live-action film ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/268 "2018-07-03T12:49:04Z")
IQ1: Were you known as the “Million Dollar Mermaid”? IQ2: Were you the mother of the family in _Good Times_? IQ3: Did you play IQ2? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/269 "2018-07-03T12:50:37Z")
DQ: Was the movie released in or since 2014? 0 DQs left ---
**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, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/270 "2018-07-03T16:06:38Z")
IQ: Are you the most fabulous fashion designer for superhero costumes in the history of forever? ---
**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, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/271 "2018-07-04T00:53:31Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Are you the most fabulous fashion designer for superhero costumes in the history of forever? Dingdingding! Yes, dahling, I am indeed Edna Mode Tiny but imperious, as seen in this now-iconic scene from _The Incredibles_, and in the movie’s more recent sequel: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2aW03pwL0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2aW03pwL0) Well done, **Prof. P.!** ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/272 "2018-07-04T01:05:19Z")
Way to go **EH!** ---
**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, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/273 "2018-07-04T13:31:41Z")
Thanks. Now I am C. ---
**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, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/274 "2018-07-04T14:27:14Z")
IQs: Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? Did you marry your first cousin, who was concerned you might go to Hell? Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? ---
**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, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/275 "2018-07-04T18:17:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? > Did you marry your first cousin, who was concerned you might go to Hell? > Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller _First Among Equals_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/276 "2018-07-04T19:42:49Z")
IQs 1)Did you win an Oscar for _It happened one night_? 2)Did you win an O_scar for It Happened one Night_? 3) _Did you win an O_scar for It Happened one Night\*?\* ---
**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, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/277 "2018-07-04T19:56:29Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > IQs > 1)Did you win an Oscar for _It happened one night_? > 2)Did you win an O_scar for It Happened one Night_? > 3) _Did you win an O_scar for It Happened one Night\*?\* 1. I am not Clark Gable. 2. I am not Claudette Colbert. 3. I am not Frank Capra. If I’m wrong on any of those, take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/278 "2018-07-04T20:25:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Clark Gable. > 2. I am not Claudette Colbert. > 3. I am not Frank Capra. > > If I’m wrong on any of those, take a DQ. NO you’re perfect, I’m swept ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/279 "2018-07-04T21:51:33Z")
post #276 is a mistaken repeat; no DQS ---
**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, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2018/815899/280 "2018-07-04T23:41:55Z")
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