# 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:** 4
**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 3, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/61 "2021-06-03T16:27:48Z")
Not Lolita, Les Nessman or… Frank Lloyd Wright? ---
**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 3, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/62 "2021-06-03T16:33:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Qs: > > 1. Are you the title character in a book by Vladimir Nabokov? > 2. Did you do the farm reports on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ ? > 3. Did you create a collection of puzzles over a hundred years ago that is still in print today? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Lolita, Les Nessman or… Frank Lloyd Wright? Correct, correct, and Sam Loyd. DQ: Real? ---
**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 3, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/63 "2021-06-03T16:40:31Z")
Don’t think I’d ever heard of Sam Loyd before. Interesting!: [Back from the Klondike - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_from_the_Klondike) L. 1. fictional ---
**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 3, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/64 "2021-06-03T16:42:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Haven’t had a President as a Botticelli subject in quite awhile - and the incumbent, I think, never. Yeah, sometimes you choose somebody obviously well-known. IQs: 1. Did you have an advice column, like your sister? 2. Is your autobiography entitled _“WE”_? 3. Was a website devoted to the belief that you should eat more salsa? ---
**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 3, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/65 "2021-06-03T16:45:15Z")
Not Ann Landers, Charles Lindbergh or Larry “The Salsa Guy” Lopez. ---
**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 3, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/66 "2021-06-03T17:10:16Z")
3 was [Leonard Nimoy](http://web.archive.org/web/20021204204305if_/http://www.lnsemsf.com:80/lowres/menu02.htm). (Unfortunately, the pictures weren’t saved; see [here](https://i.imgur.com/9GdZMXf.jpg) for a glimpse.) DQ: first name begins with L? ---
**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 3, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/67 "2021-06-03T17:30:44Z")
Wow! I checked out a few days and missed 2 entire rounds! IQ1: Did you conduct the score for Disney’s 1940 film _Fantasia_? IQ2: Did you compose the score for _West Side Story_? IQ3: Were you fired from _Rolling Stone_ magazine for giving Canned Heat an extremely negative review? ---
**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 3, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/68 "2021-06-03T20:42:42Z")
Not Leopold "Leopold! _Leopold!"_ Stokowski or Leonard Bernstein, and dunno. L. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with L ---
**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 3, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/69 "2021-06-03T21:24:55Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you conduct the score for Disney’s 1940 film _Fantasia_ ? > IQ2: Did you compose the score for _West Side Story_ ? > IQ3: Were you fired from _Rolling Stone_ magazine for giving Canned Heat an extremely negative review? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Leopold "Leopold! _Leopold!"_ Stokowski or Leonard Bernstein, and dunno. Yes, Yes, Lester Bangs DQ: Male? ---
**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 3, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/70 "2021-06-03T21:33:23Z")
IQ1: Were you the Bluebeard of Gambais? IQ2: Did you rule Beta III, maintaining the purity of The Body? IQ3: Was _Night of the Hunter_ your only directorial effort? ---
**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 3, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/71 "2021-06-03T21:57:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you encourage people to do the Locomotion? 2. Do you get an anachronistic mention in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, when Achoo is calling to Robin’s servant? 3. Do you _also_ get an anachronistic mention in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, in the context of who the regal personage is? ---
**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 3, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/72 "2021-06-03T22:20:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you direct _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_? 2. Are you a celebrity lawyer who died this week? 3. Were you a secret agent chimpanzee on a Saturday morning kid’s show? ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/73 "2021-06-04T04:00:15Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Bluebeard of Gambais? > IQ2: Did you rule Beta III, maintaining the purity of The Body? > IQ3: Was _Night of the Hunter_ your only directorial effort? Dunno, not Landru and not… Burt Lancaster? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you encourage people to do the Locomotion? > 2. Do you get an anachronistic mention in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, when Achoo is calling to Robin’s servant? > 3. Do you _also_ get an anachronistic mention in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, in the context of who the regal personage is? Dunno, not Jean-Luc Picard and also not Jean-Luc Picard. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_? > 2. Are you a celebrity lawyer who died this week? > 3. Were you a secret agent chimpanzee on a Saturday morning kid’s show? Not Ang Lee, F. Lee Bailey or Lulu the Chimp Agent. ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/74 "2021-06-04T04:27:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Were you the Bluebeard of Gambais? > > > IQ2: Did you rule Beta III, maintaining the purity of The Body? > > > IQ3: Was _Night of the Hunter_ your only directorial effort? > > Dunno, not Landru and not… Burt Lancaster? French serial killer Henri Landru Correct on the other Landru Charles Laughton DQ: Would be alive today, if real? Holding second DQ ---
**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 4, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/75 "2021-06-04T04:36:24Z")
L. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with L 3. male 4. would not be alive today, if real ---
**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 4, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/76 "2021-06-04T11:53:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you direct _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon_ ? > > > 2. Are you a celebrity lawyer who died this week? > > > 3. Were you a secret agent chimpanzee on a Saturday morning kid’s show? > > Not Ang Lee, F. Lee Bailey or Lulu the Chimp Agent. Correct, correct, and Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. DQ: Created by an American author or authors? ---
**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 4, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/77 "2021-06-04T11:57:49Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the title character from a work by William Makepeace Thackeray? 2. Did you stab Hamlet with a poisoned sword? 3. Were you the coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s? ---
**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 4, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/78 "2021-06-04T12:51:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Jean-Luc Picard and also not Jean-Luc Picard. 1 was Little Eva; 2 was Abe Lincoln; 3 was Larry King. DQs: 1. created after 1950? 2. main character? 3. from movies/TV? ---
**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 4, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/79 "2021-06-04T13:23:06Z")
I never saw that movie, **DLR** - what was the Lincoln reference, please? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the title character from a work by William Makepeace Thackeray? > 2. Did you stab Hamlet with a poisoned sword? > 3. Were you the coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s? Grrrr I should know this, not Laertes and not Vince Lombardi. L. 1. fictional 2. last name begins with L 3. male 4. would not be alive today, if real 5. not created by an American author or authors 6. created after 1950 7. main character 8. not originally from movies/TV ---
**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 4, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/80 "2021-06-04T13:39:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you the title character from a work by William Makepeace Thackeray? > > > 2. Did you stab Hamlet with a poisoned sword? > > > 3. Were you the coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s? > > Grrrr I should know this, not Laertes and not Vince Lombardi. #1 was Barry Lyndon. Correct on the others. DQ: Originally from a movie or movies? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=5)