# Botticelli - June 2021

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330>\
**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:** 20

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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 26, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/381 "2021-06-26T20:50:33Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > - Did you play Lois Lane on _The Adventures of Superman_ ?
> > 
> > > - Did you go around the world in 72 days?
> > > - Were you the frontman for Herman’s Hermits?
> 
> DQ  
> I am not Nellie Bly  
> DQ

#1 was Noel Neill.  
#2 is correct.  
#3 was Peter Noone.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Male?

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**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 26, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/382 "2021-06-26T20:51:40Z")

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# I am N

1. Real
2. Male

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/383 "2021-06-26T20:56:21Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> Congrats!
> 
> 1. Were you a fictional housewife who stumbled into murders and solved them with their friend Lt. Weigand in NYC?
> 2. Were you #1’s publisher spouse?
> 3. Are you one of the hosts of NBC’s **Making It**?

Pamela North, Jerry North (the Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries by Richard and Frances Lockridge), correct.

DQs:

1. Still alive?
2. American?

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**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 26, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/384 "2021-06-26T21:00:39Z")

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# I am N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Deceased
4. American

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**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 26, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/385 "2021-06-26T21:26:05Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
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> I’m not Richard Nixon  
> DQ  
> DQ

2 (father hid name in drawings) was Nina Hirschfeld; 3 (played Holmes who consulted Freud) was Nicol Williamson, in _The Seven-Per-Cent Solution_.

DQs:  
1. first name begins with N?  
2. died after 2000?

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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 26, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/386 "2021-06-26T21:28:35Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you sorta kinda win the Battle of Guilford Courthouse? - Gen. Nathanael Greene, during the American Revolution  
Was this your name in a movie, an improvement over the slightly-ridiculous name you had in the original book? - Better Nathanael Poe than Natty Bumppo, I’d say, in _The Last of the Mohicans_  
Did you earn the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? - Gen. Nathanael Banks, after Confederate troops captured a lot of his supplies in a raid during the Civil War

Nathanael x3!

DQs:

Political/military?  
Last name start with N?  
Died since 1950?

IQs:

Was Hagrid very sorry to see you leave, despite the risk you posed to him?  
Were you often Roz Doyle’s witty nemesis?  
Did you unknowingly employ a Klingon aide?

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**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 26, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/387 "2021-06-26T21:33:15Z")

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# I am N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Deceased
4. American
5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
6. Died before 2000
7. Not political/military
8. Died before 1950

@Elendil_s_Heir Since your second DQ was answered in #5, please take another

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**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 26, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/388 "2021-06-26T21:34:04Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Was Hagrid very sorry to see you leave, despite the risk you posed to him?  
> Were you often Roz Doyle’s witty nemesis?  
> Did you unknowingly employ a Klingon aide?

I am not Norbert  
I am not Niles Crane  
DQ

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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 27, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/389 "2021-06-27T00:03:01Z")

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IQs:

1. Do you have a new book coming out titled _Letters to America_?
2. Are you one of the surviving Monkees?
3. Did Stubby Kaye play you on Broadway in the original cast of _Guys and Dolls_?

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**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 27, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/390 "2021-06-27T00:20:54Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Do you have a new book coming out titled _Letters to America_ ?
> 2. Are you one of the surviving Monkees?
> 3. Did Stubby Kaye play you on Broadway in the original cast of _Guys and Dolls_ ?

I am not Willie Nelson  
I am not Michael Nesmith  
DQ

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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 27, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/391 "2021-06-27T00:57:53Z")

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Correct x2!  
#3 was Nicely Nicely Johnson.

DQ: Known from writing?

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**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 27, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/392 "2021-06-27T02:00:33Z")

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# I am N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Deceased
4. American
5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
6. Died before 2000
7. Not political/military
8. Died before 1950
9. Not known for writing

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**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 27, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/393 "2021-06-27T06:09:55Z")

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IQ1: Are you the only female singer to appear on a Van Halen recording?  
IQ2: Do you amps go to 11?  
IQ3: Did Frank Sinatra play you in the film adaptation of _Guys and Dolls_?

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**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 27, 2021, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/394 "2021-06-27T11:18:22Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Are you the only female singer to appear on a Van Halen recording?  
> IQ2: Do you amps go to 11?  
> IQ3: Did Frank Sinatra play you in the film adaptation of _Guys and Dolls_ ?

DQ  
I am not Nigel Tufnel  
DQ

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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 27, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/395 "2021-06-27T15:22:16Z")

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Previous IQs:

Was Hagrid very sorry to see you leave, despite the risk you posed to him? - Yes, Norbert the baby dragon  
Were you often Roz Doyle’s witty nemesis? - Yes, _Dr_. Niles Crane  
Did you unknowingly employ a Klingon aide? - Nilz Baris, the Federation bureaucrat in _ST:TOS_ “The Trouble with Tribbles”

DQ:

Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Were you FDR’s first VP?  
Were you the protagonist of _The Jerk_?  
Were you a musician who caught Capt. Picard’s eye?

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**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 27, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/396 "2021-06-27T16:15:27Z")

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IQs:  
1. Did you write that candy is just great, but liquor is faster?  
2. Are you a former Queen of Jordan?  
3. Were you a bratty rich girl on _Gravity Falls_?

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**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 27, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/397 "2021-06-27T16:17:06Z")

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# I am N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Deceased
4. American
5. Last name, as he is known by, begins with N
6. Died before 2000
7. Not political/military
8. Died before 1950
9. Not known for writing
10. Not known for The Arts

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**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 27, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/398 "2021-06-27T16:18:26Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Were you FDR’s first VP?  
> Were you the protagonist of _The Jerk_ ?  
> Were you a musician who caught Capt. Picard’s eye?

DQ  
I am not Navin Johnson  
DQ

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you write that candy is just great, but liquor is faster?
> 2. Are you a former Queen of Jordan?
> 3. Were you a bratty rich girl on _Gravity Falls_ ?

I am not Noel Coward  
I am not Queen Noor  
DQ

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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 27, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/399 "2021-06-27T19:03:31Z")

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IQs:

1. Have you portrayed an over-the-hill rock star, a cursed sea captain, and a fjord designer?
2. Did you play Sonny Drysdale on _The Beverly Hillbillies_?
3. Is your name forever linked with that of Jeanette MacDonald?

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**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 27, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/400 "2021-06-27T19:15:42Z")

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> [@MissTake](#):
>
> I am not Noel Coward  
> I am not Queen Noor  
> DQ

1 was Ogden Nash; 3 was Pacifica Northwest.

DQs:  
1. known for a single incident?  
2. died after 1920?

IQs:  
1. Did you host the science TV show _The Eyes of_ [you], aimed at an older audience than your previous one?  
2. Did a bust of you inspire the hairdo of [this character](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/240/3189_2.png), in a classic 1935 horror sequel?  
3. Did you say that mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun?

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