# 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:** 5
**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, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/81 "2020-06-11T12:47:20Z")
All righty, then, all DQs are closed. Please ask your final DQ in the form of “Are you FirstName LastName?” by 8 a.m. EDT tomorrow. ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/82 "2020-06-11T19:41:05Z")
No idea. (Was going to say “Haven’t a clue”, but that would be incorrect since I have 21 of them. :)) ---
**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 11, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/83 "2020-06-11T19:49:55Z")
I’m drawing a blank; can’t come up with an actress who fits all these clues. Think think think… ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/84 "2020-06-11T23:57:35Z")
Are you Catherine O’Hara, star of _Beetlejuice_, _Home Alone_, and _Schitt’s Creek_? ---
**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 12, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/85 "2020-06-12T01:05:45Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Are you Catherine O’Hara, star of _Beetlejuice_, _Home Alone_, and _Schitt’s Creek_? as well as SCTV and a number of Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries. Yes! Well done, De La Rue! ---
**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 12, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/86 "2020-06-12T03:48:55Z")
:: headsmack :: Oh, of course. Good one. Well done indeed, **DLR**! ---
**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 12, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/87 "2020-06-12T15:49:47Z")
I am K. ---
**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 12, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/88 "2020-06-12T17:08:58Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_? 2. Are you regarded to have been the first Abstract painter? 3. Did Ruby Rose recently quit playing you on TV? ---
**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 12, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/89 "2020-06-12T17:31:31Z")
Never heard of her. (Not strictly true, as I have seen three of the movies listed in her Wikipedia filmography, but I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the credits.) IQ1: Did you think that there is fascination frantic in a ruin that’s romantic? IQ2: Did your oldest son when a flying bomb went off prematurely? IQ3: Was your youngest son (in)famously involved in an auto accident in the late '60s? ---
**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 12, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/90 "2020-06-12T18:21:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Critique of Pure Reason_? > 2. Are you regarded to have been the first Abstract painter? > 3. Did Ruby Rose recently quit playing you on TV? 1. I am not Immanuel Kant. 2. I am not Kandinsky. 3. I am not Kate Kane. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you think that there is fascination frantic in a ruin that’s romantic? > IQ2: Did your oldest son when a flying bomb went off prematurely? > IQ3: Was your youngest son (in)famously involved in an auto accident in the late '60s? IQ1: Take a DQ. IQ2: Take a DQ. IQ3: I am not Joseph Kennedy. ---
**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 12, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/91 "2020-06-12T18:26:13Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Did you paint the metallic painting known as _The Kiss_? 2. Did you appear as a regular panelist on the radio and later TV quiz show _Information Please?_ 3. Did a surrealist mouse throw bricks at you? ---
**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 12, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/92 "2020-06-12T19:20:27Z")
IQs: Did you own the _Victura_, which has been preserved since your death? Were you that person’s spouse? Were you their son? ---
**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 12, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/93 "2020-06-12T20:44:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you paint the metallic painting known as _The Kiss_? > 2. Did you appear as a regular panelist on the radio and later TV quiz show _Information Please?_ > 3. Did a surrealist mouse throw bricks at you? 1. I am not Gustav Klimt. 2. I am not Kay Kyser? Kay Francis? If not someone named Kay, take a DQ. 3. I am not Krazy Kat. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you own the _Victura_, which has been preserved since your death? > Were you that person’s spouse? > Were you their son? We’ve already had the father, so this must be the son. Respectively: I am not John F. Kennedy. I am not Jackie Kennedy. I am not John F. Kennedy, Jr. ---
**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 12, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/94 "2020-06-12T21:55:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you think that there is fascination frantic in a ruin that’s romantic? > IQ2: Did your oldest son when a flying bomb went off prematurely? > IQ3: Was your youngest son (in)famously involved in an auto accident in the late '60s? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQ1: Take a DQ. > IQ2: Take a DQ. > IQ3: I am not Joseph Kennedy. Ko-Ko (The Mikado) The other two were Joe and Rose Kennedy. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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 12, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/95 "2020-06-12T22:12:40Z")
IQ1: Did a childhood illness render you deaf and blind? IQ2: Were you a Marvel hunter? IQ3: Did Rosey Grier help apprehend your killer? ---
**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 13, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/96 "2020-06-13T00:01:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did a childhood illness render you deaf and blind? > IQ2: Were you a Marvel hunter? > IQ3: Did Rosey Grier help apprehend your killer? IQ1: I am not Helen Keller. IQ2: I am not Kraven. IQ3: I am not Bobby Kennedy. 1. fictional 2. male ---
**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 13, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/97 "2020-06-13T00:40:01Z")
I suppose the name Andrew Jackson Kirksey means nothing to y’all… IQ1: Did you play a civil engineer, a US president, and a New England police chief? IQ2: Did you make frequent use of Del Floria’s Tailor Shop? IQ3: Were you alarming but disarming, and a really very charming modern girl? ---
**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 13, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/98 "2020-06-13T10:31:43Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Did you paint the metallic painting known as The Kiss? > > 2. Did you appear as a regular panelist on the radio and later TV quiz show Information Please? > > 3. Did a surrealist mouse throw bricks at you? > > 4. I am not Gustav Klimt. > > 5. I am not Kay Kyser? Kay Francis? If not someone named Kay, take a DQ. > > 6. I am not Krazy Kat. Correct, John Kieran, Correct. DQ: Last name starts with K? ---
**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 13, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/99 "2020-06-13T11:30:16Z")
IQs: 1. Did you and Bia chain Prometheus for Zeus? 2. Did you write _Odd Thomas_? 3. Did you appear in a silent biographical movie about yourself? ---
**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 13, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923/100 "2020-06-13T13:02:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a civil engineer, a US president, and a New England police chief? > IQ2: Did you make frequent use of Del Floria’s Tailor Shop? > IQ3: Were you alarming but disarming, and a really very charming modern girl? IQ1: Kevin Kline? Take a DQ. IQ2: I am not Ilya Kuryakin. IQ3: Take a DQ. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you and Bia chain Prometheus for Zeus? > 2. Did you write _Odd Thomas_? > 3. Did you appear in a silent biographical movie about yourself? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Dean Koontz. 3. Take a DQ. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with K [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2020/854923.md?page=6)