# Botticelli - June 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2021, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330 "2021-06-01T03:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/181 "2021-06-11T02:21:11Z")
Final DQ: First name starts with Ha-Hi? ---
**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, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/182 "2021-06-11T02:56:50Z")
**DQs:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with H 4. Known for the Arts 5. Dead 6. Died after 1900 7. Not known for film or TV 8. Not American 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Died after 1950 12. Not known for the literary arts, although he did write about his art 13. Not British 14. Known for the visual arts 15. Native speaker of a Romance language 16. French 17. Died before 1980 18. Known for painting (and prints and sculpture) 19. Not an Impressionist 20. Died before 1960 21. First name starts with Ha-Hi ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/183 "2021-06-11T04:49:33Z")
My last DQ: Modernist or considered part of Modernism? ---
**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, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/184 "2021-06-11T10:49:27Z")
**DQs:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with H 4. Known for the Arts 5. Dead 6. Died after 1900 7. Not known for film or TV 8. Not American 9. European 10. Not known for the performing arts 11. Died after 1950 12. Not known for the literary arts, although he did write about his art 13. Not British 14. Known for the visual arts 15. Native speaker of a Romance language 16. French 17. Died before 1980 18. Known for painting (and prints and sculpture) 19. Not an Impressionist 20. Died before 1960 21. First name starts with Ha-Hi 22. Modernist **Please ask all earned DQs by 6 p.m. EDT tonight. Or, if you’ve earned a DQ during the game, you may ask your “Are you Firstname Lastname?” question.** ---
**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, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/185 "2021-06-11T13:31:22Z")
Are you Henri Matisse? ---
**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, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/186 "2021-06-11T13:39:16Z")
Oui! C’est moi, # Henri Matisse! [![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-goA6R6C4pAo/Vzqj_ioIOHI/AAAAAAAAAJs/gcKw-72xCyM_Ie3TVZAnDazUtDoV8QDsQCLcB/s1600/the%2Bpalette%2Bmuse.jpg) ](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-goA6R6C4pAo/Vzqj_ioIOHI/AAAAAAAAAJs/gcKw-72xCyM_Ie3TVZAnDazUtDoV8QDsQCLcB/s1600/the%2Bpalette%2Bmuse.jpg) Take it away, EH! ---
**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, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/187 "2021-06-11T15:58:35Z")
Thanks - good one! _Love_ the guy’s work: [Henri Matisse - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse) Lemme think of our next letter… ---
**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, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/188 "2021-06-11T16:12:11Z")
An update: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #81 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/81) Let’s next go with # E ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/189 "2021-06-11T23:15:14Z")
IQs 1. Are you the titular character of a novel set in Starkfield? 2. Did you irk the Crown with _”Mother Hubberd’s Tale”_? 3. Known for your violet eyes? ---
**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, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/190 "2021-06-11T23:20:40Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Did you write “Demon with a Glass Hand”? 2. Are you the most famous person from Tupelo, Mississippi? 3. Does a small museum located in the Northern Ireland community of Culmore, just north of Derry, commemorate you—a Kansas-born pioneer, civil rights supporter, and charter member of The 99s, who died around 1937? ---
**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, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/191 "2021-06-12T00:15:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you invent a device that killed cockroaches by means of electricity? 2. Did Schopenhauer once say that you, he, and Buddha all taught basically the same thing? 3. Does a sculpture of you sit on a bench in Liverpool? ---
**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, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/192 "2021-06-12T04:21:31Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Are you the titular character of a novel set in Starkfield? > 2. Did you irk the Crown with _”Mother Hubberd’s Tale”_? > 3. Known for your violet eyes? Not Eddard Stark, not Evangeline Uxbridge, and not Eddie the scary little kid with the cornfield. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you write “Demon with a Glass Hand”? > 2. Are you the most famous person from Tupelo, Mississippi? > 3. Does a small museum located in the Northern Ireland community of Culmore, just north of Derry, commemorate you—a Kansas-born pioneer, civil rights supporter, and charter member of The 99s, who died around 1937? Not Harlan Ellison, Elvis Presley or Erwin O’Leary. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you invent a device that killed cockroaches by means of electricity? > 2. Did Schopenhauer once say that you, he, and Buddha all taught basically the same thing? > 3. Does a sculpture of you sit on a bench in Liverpool? Not Thomas Edison, Erasmus or Elizabeth Parker. Got some guesses in there… ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/193 "2021-06-12T11:05:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Eddard Stark, not Evangeline Uxbridge, and not Eddie the scary little kid with the cornfield. Ethan Frome Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Taylor DQs Male? Deceased? Known for The Arts? ---
**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, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/194 "2021-06-12T11:36:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you invent a device that killed cockroaches by means of electricity? > > > 2. Did Schopenhauer once say that you, he, and Buddha all taught basically the same thing? > > > 3. Does a sculpture of you sit on a bench in Liverpool? > > Not Thomas Edison, Erasmus or Elizabeth Parker. Correct on Edison #2 was Meister Eckhart. #3 is Eleanor Rigby. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Last name starts with E? ---
**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, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/195 "2021-06-12T11:38:49Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write a play in which the Greek Furies assault a man during a cocktail party? 2. Did you play Barnaby Jones? 3. In the MCU, are you Star-Lord’s father? ---
**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, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/196 "2021-06-12T12:36:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Harlan Ellison, Elvis Presley or Erwin O’Leary. 3 (museum in Culmore, Northern Ireland) was Amelia Earhart. 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 13, 2021, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/197 "2021-06-13T02:15:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write a play in which the Greek Furies assault a man during a cocktail party? > 2. Did you play Barnaby Jones? > 3. In the MCU, are you Star-Lord’s father? Not Edward Albee, not Buddy Ebsen and dunno. E. 1. male 2. deceased 3. not known for the Arts 4. real 5. first name starts with E ---
**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, 2021, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/198 "2021-06-13T02:24:52Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the most famous person from Metairie, LA? 2. Did you create Spider Jerusalem? 3. Does your voice inform AOL users that they have received communication? DQ: born after 1900? ---
**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, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/199 "2021-06-13T13:09:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you write a play in which the Greek Furies assault a man during a cocktail party? > > > 2. Did you play Barnaby Jones? > > > 3. In the MCU, are you Star-Lord’s father? > > Not Edward Albee, not Buddy Ebsen and dunno. #1 was T. S. Eliot (in _The Cocktail Party_) #2 is Correct. #3 is Ego. DQs: 1. American? 2. Known for politics/military? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/200 "2021-06-13T16:52:37Z")
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