# Botticelli -- June 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 2, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923 "2020-06-02T13:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/61 "2020-06-09T08:32:12Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you a paleontologist who was one of the three original curators of the Peabody Museum and who did field work in Colorado and Wyoming? > 2. Were you an actor who later became a world class bridge player? > 3. Are you a Rose Princess who is a distant cousin of the ruler of Oz? 1. Othniel Charles Marsh. 2. Correct 3. Ozga. \*\*Tik-Tok of Oz \*\* was one of my favorite books. DQs: 1. Famous for acting? 2. Famous for writing? ---
**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 9, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/62 "2020-06-09T11:11:51Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with O 5. Has dual USA-and-another country citizenship 6. Other citizenship is not in Europe 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born before 1960 9. Famous for acting 10. Not famous for writing ---
**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 9, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/63 "2020-06-09T11:14:13Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a redheaded reporter who wore a green suit and red bow tie? > 2. Were you a redheaded reporter who wore a yellow jumpsuit and white boots? > 3. Are you a hockey player whose last name turns up in crosswords a lot, given its short length? 1. I am not Jimmy Olsen. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Bobby Orr. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > IQs: > > Are you a master wandmaker in Diagon Alley? > Was perhaps your sole redeeming characteristic your rejection of segregation in your hometown? > Were you a moody Russian romantic hero? 1. I am not Ollivander. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/64 "2020-06-09T11:28:31Z")
1. Do you have a dog named Arrow and were you exiled to the Pointless Forest? 2. Were you a character played by Richard Anderson who was in two different but connected TV series simultaneously in the 1970s? 3. Were you an uncredited vocalist on John Denver’s song **Fly Away**? ---
**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 9, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/65 "2020-06-09T13:20:51Z")
Previous IQs: Are you a master wandmaker in Diagon Alley? - Yes, Mr. Ollivander Was perhaps your sole redeeming characteristic your rejection of segregation in your hometown? - Lee Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans. He always made it a point to sit in the back of the bus. Were you a moody Russian romantic hero? - Eugene Onegin DQs: Best known for movies? Asian? IQs: Did you recently play Cleopatra in a NT production? Did your mother die on Sept. 1, 1864, according to her tombstone? Were you Ruby Dee’s husband, also an actor? ---
**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:** [June 9, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/66 "2020-06-09T13:21:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Jimmy Olsen. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Bobby Orr. 2 (redheaded reporter in a yellow jumpsuit) was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ pal April O’Neil. DQs: 1. born after 1950? 2. grew up in other country where she has citizenship? ---
**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 9, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/67 "2020-06-09T13:24:44Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with O 5. Has dual USA-and-another country citizenship 6. Other citizenship is not in Europe 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born before 1960 9. Famous for acting 10. Not famous for writing 11. Equally well known from TV as from movies 12. Not Asian 13. Born after 1950 14. Grew up in other country where she has citizenship ---
**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 9, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/68 "2020-06-09T13:26:48Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Do you have a dog named Arrow and were you exiled to the Pointless Forest? > 2. Were you a character played by Richard Anderson who was in two different but connected TV series simultaneously in the 1970s? > 3. Were you an uncredited vocalist on John Denver’s song **Fly Away**? 1. I am not Oblio. Take 2 DQs. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > IQs: > > Did you recently play Cleopatra in a NT production? > Did your mother die on Sept. 1, 1864, according to her tombstone? > Were you Ruby Dee’s husband, also an actor? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/69 "2020-06-09T13:36:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did you provide a recipe for “glop” to the cookbook _In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy_, as one of the celebrity contributors? 2. Do you play Poe, in the newer Star Wars trilogy? 3. as per a camp song Late last night, when we were all in bed, did you put a lantern in the shed? ---
**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 9, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/70 "2020-06-09T13:40:33Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you provide a recipe for “glop” to the cookbook _In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy_, as one of the celebrity contributors? > 2. Do you play Poe, in the newer Star Wars trilogy? > 3. as per a camp song Late last night, when we were all in bed, did you put a lantern in the shed? #1. I am not Michelle Obama. (???) #2. Take a DQ. #3. I am not Mrs. O’Leary. Take 1 or 2 DQs. ---
**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, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/71 "2020-06-09T13:58:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Not Asian Clarification: By ancestry or by citizenship? ---
**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 9, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/72 "2020-06-09T19:30:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Clarification: By ancestry or by citizenship? Not Asian by ancestry, nor by citizenship. ---
**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 9, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/73 "2020-06-09T19:32:03Z")
In the interests of fairness: DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with O 5. Has dual USA-and-another country citizenship 6. Other citizenship is not in Europe 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born before 1960 9. Famous for acting 10. Not famous for writing 11. Equally well known from TV as from movies 12. Not Asian 13. Born after 1950 14. Grew up in **Canada** where she has citizenship ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/74 "2020-06-10T09:24:22Z")
1. Do you have a dog named Arrow and were you exiled to the Pointless Forest? **Correct** 2. Were you a character played by Richard Anderson who was in two different but connected TV series simultaneously in the 1970s? \*\*Oscar Goldman \*\* on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. 3. Were you an uncredited vocalist on John Denver’s song **Fly Away**** Olivia Newton-John** DQs: Married? With children? ---
**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:** [June 10, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/75 "2020-06-10T13:11:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. I am not Michelle Obama. (???) > #2. Take a DQ. > #3. I am not Mrs. O’Leary. > > Take 1 or 2 DQs. 1 (provided a recipe for “glop” to the cookbook _In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy_) was Frank Oz; 2 (plays Poe in the newer Star Wars trilogy) was Oscar Isaac. DQ: known for comedy? One DQ reserved. ---
**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, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/76 "2020-06-10T14:25:39Z")
Previous IQs: Did you recently play Cleopatra in a NT production? - British actress Sophie Okenedo Did your mother die on Sept. 1, 1864, according to her tombstone? - Scarlett O’Hara, as seen in _Gone with the Wind_ (the same day Atlanta was evacuated) Were you Ruby Dee’s husband, also an actor? - Ossie Davis DQs: Husband or significant other also famous? Considered a beauty? White? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/77 "2020-06-10T15:34:33Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with O 5. Has dual USA-and-another country citizenship 6. Other citizenship is not in Europe 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born before 1960 9. Famous for acting 10. Not famous for writing 11. Equally well known from TV as from movies 12. Not Asian 13. Born after 1950 14. Grew up in Canada where she has citizenship 15. Married 16. Has two sons 17. Known for comedy 18. Husband famous but not as much as she is 19. Beautiful 20. White That’s 20! Ask any remaining DQs by 8 p.m. EDT tonight. ---
**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 11, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/78 "2020-06-11T00:35:12Z")
Okay, let’s make that 8 a.m. EDT tomorrow to ask remaining DQs. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/79 "2020-06-11T02:51:26Z")
Oh, good, I get another chance after missing the deadline. Final DQ: has an apostrophe in last name? ---
**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 11, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/80 "2020-06-11T11:14:49Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Living 4. Last name starts with O 5. Has dual USA-and-another country citizenship 6. Other citizenship is not in Europe 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born before 1960 9. Famous for acting 10. Not famous for writing 11. Equally well known from TV as from movies 12. Not Asian 13. Born after 1950 14. Grew up in Canada where she has citizenship 15. Married 16. Has two sons 17. Known for comedy 18. Husband famous but not as much as she is 19. Beautiful 20. White 21. Has an apostrophe in last name [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923.md?page=5)