# 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:** 6
**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 6, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/101 "2021-06-06T23:32:39Z")
IQ1: Were you the eponymous hero of a TV western? IQ2: Were you a rebel lad who got fightin’ mad? IQ3: Did you play a WRAF section officer, a bank employee, and an alien mother? ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/102 "2021-06-07T01:04:26Z")
Congrats, Chock! I was thinking Sergeant Lewis, from the Inspector Morse books/show, but then saw the answer “created _before_ 1970” and got stymied. IQs: 1. Did you direct _Dogtooth_ and _The Lobster_? 2. Are you a recent candidate for US president, though you failed to get your party’s nomination? 3. Did you play Shirley, a student attending a Spanish study group at a _Community_ college? ---
**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 7, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/103 "2021-06-07T02:00:54Z")
Aw, I forgot. A very belated IQ wrap-up: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not the great Tom Lehrer or LeBron James and dunno. 3 (pinup photo used as computer test image) was Lena. ---
**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 7, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/104 "2021-06-07T03:30:16Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the eponymous hero of a TV western? > IQ2: Were you a rebel lad who got fightin’ mad? > IQ3: Did you play a WRAF section officer, a bank employee, and an alien mother? Take a DQ Not Johnny Yuma Take a DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct _Dogtooth_ and _The Lobster_ ? > 2. Are you a recent candidate for US president, though you failed to get your party’s nomination? > 3. Did you play Shirley, a student attending a Spanish study group at a _Community_ college? Take a DQ Not Andrew Yang Take a DQ ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/105 "2021-06-07T16:14:42Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the eponymous hero of a TV western? > > IQ2: Were you a rebel lad who got fightin’ mad? > > IQ3: Did you play a WRAF section officer, a bank employee, and an alien mother? > > Take a DQ > Not Johnny Yuma > Take a DQ Yancy Derringer. ✅ Susannah York (_Battle of Britain_, _The Silent Partner_, and _Superman_ x3) DQ1: Real? DQ2: Female? ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/106 "2021-06-07T16:35:24Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 3 (pinup photo used as computer test image) was Lena. Thanks. Never heard of her before: [Lenna - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna) On to Y! IQs: Was your group mentioned, but not by name, in _Inside Llewyn Davis_? Did you star in _Witchblade_? Are you perhaps the best-known WWII soldier buried in Clyde, Ohio? ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/107 "2021-06-07T16:48:01Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the current Secretary of the Treasury? 2. Are you the artist son of Victor Vasarely, the Father of Op Art? 3. Were you a master of the shin-hanga style of print? ---
**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 7, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/108 "2021-06-07T17:26:41Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you direct _Dogtooth_ and _The Lobster_? > 2. Are you a recent candidate for US president, though you failed to get your party’s nomination? > 3. Did you play Shirley, a student attending a Spanish study group at a _Community_ college? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Take a DQ > Not Andrew Yang > Take a DQ 1 was Yorgos Lanthimos; 3 was Yvette Nicole Brown (on _Community_). IQs: 1. Are you the most famous member of what Wookieepedia once called an “unidentified tridactyl species” (though a juvenile member of the same species has also recently become popular)? 2. Did Thomas Meehan have a weird dream in which he was introducing you at a party? 3. Are you known for the same kind of thing as Casey Stengel and Samuel Goldwyn? DQ: first name starts with Y? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 8, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/109 "2021-06-08T06:36:24Z")
DQs: **Y** 1. Not real 2. Male 3. Only known name starts with Y ---
**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 8, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/110 "2021-06-08T06:38:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was your group mentioned, but not by name, in _Inside Llewyn Davis_ ? > Did you star in _Witchblade_ ? > Are you perhaps the best-known WWII soldier buried in Clyde, Ohio? Take a DQ Not Yancy Butler Take another DQ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the current Secretary of the Treasury? > 2. Are you the artist son of Victor Vasarely, the Father of Op Art? > 3. Were you a master of the shin-hanga style of print? Not Janet Yellin Take 2 DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Are you the most famous member of what Wookieepedia once called an “unidentified tridactyl species” (though a juvenile member of the same species has also recently become popular)? > 2. Did Thomas Meehan have a weird dream in which he was introducing you at a party? > 3. Are you known for the same kind of thing as Casey Stengel and Samuel Goldwyn? Not Yoda Take a DQ Not Yogi Berra? (Malapropisms?) ---
**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 8, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/111 "2021-06-08T13:39:38Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Are you the current Secretary of the Treasury? > > > 2. Are you the artist son of Victor Vasarely, the Father of Op Art? > > > 3. Were you a master of the shin-hanga style of print? > > Not Janet Yellin > Take 2 DQs Correct on Janet. #2 is Yvaral. #3 was Hiroshi Yoshida. DQs: 1. Originally known from movies or TV? 2. Protagonist? ---
**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 8, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/112 "2021-06-08T14:19:02Z")
Previous IQs: Was your group mentioned, but not by name, in _Inside Llewyn Davis_? - Peter Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary Did you star in _Witchblade_? - Yes, Yancy Butler Are you perhaps the best-known WWII soldier buried in Clyde, Ohio? - WWII hero Rodger Young, subject of a popular song and after whom a troopship was later named in Heinlein’s _Starship Troopers_ DQs: American? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Did you kill everyone who was causing problems in a small 1860s Japanese village? Did the same person play you who, in a different movie, played the offspring of a stressed-out judge who eventually ended up in that judge’s courtroom? Were you a (now dead) fellow of (once) infinite jest? ---
**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 8, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/113 "2021-06-08T15:26:15Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Yoda > Take a DQ > Not Yogi Berra? (Malapropisms?) 1 is correct; 2 is Yma Sumac (in the New Yorker humor piece “Yma Dream”); 3 is correct. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 8, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/114 "2021-06-08T17:45:46Z")
DQs: **Y** 1. Not real 2. Male 3. Only known name starts with Y 4. Not originally known from movies or TV 5. Not a protagonist 6. Not explicitly specified, but very likely American 7. Could be alive today, if real, depending on access to medical care ---
**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 8, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/115 "2021-06-08T17:46:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you kill everyone who was causing problems in a small 1860s Japanese village? > Did the same person play you who, in a different movie, played the offspring of a stressed-out judge who eventually ended up in that judge’s courtroom? > Were you a (now dead) fellow of (once) infinite jest? Not Yojimbo Take 2 DQs ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/116 "2021-06-08T19:22:11Z")
Previous IQs: Did you kill everyone who was causing problems in a small 1860s Japanese village? - Yes, the title character from the Kurosawa dark comedy _Yojimbo_ Did the same person play you who, in a different movie, played the offspring of a stressed-out judge who eventually ended up in that judge’s courtroom? - Yentl, played by Barbra Streisand, who was also in _What’s Up, Doc?_ Were you a (now dead) fellow of (once) infinite jest? - Alas, poor Yorick, from Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_ DQs: First appeared since 1950? Created by American(s)? IQs: A beautiful woman, were Joey and Chandler shown to be fans of yours on _Friends_? Did Gary Cooper play you in a B&W movie? Were you the first man in space? ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/117 "2021-06-08T19:40:02Z")
DQs: **Y** 1. Not real 2. Male 3. Only known name starts with Y 4. Not originally known from movies or TV 5. Not a protagonist 6. Not explicitly specified, but very likely American 7. Could be alive today, if real, depending on access to medical care 8. First appeared since 1950 9. Created by American(s) ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/118 "2021-06-08T19:45:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > A beautiful woman, were Joey and Chandler shown to be fans of yours on _Friends_ ? > Did Gary Cooper play you in a B&W movie? > Were you the first man in space? Take a DQ Not Sergeant York Not Yuri Gargarin (sp?) ---
**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 8, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/119 "2021-06-08T19:53:45Z")
Previous IQs: A beautiful woman, were Joey and Chandler shown to be fans of yours on _Friends_? - Yasmin Bleeth, on _Baywatch_ Did Gary Cooper play you in a B&W movie? - Yes, Sgt. York Were you the first man in space? - Yes, Yuri Gagarin DQ: Lead character? IQs: Are you a New Age musician who was particularly popular in the Nineties? Were you Gorbachev’s CPSU patron? Did you know Major Major Major Major? ---
**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 8, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/120 "2021-06-08T20:15:55Z")
IQs: 1. Has your art included such works as _Cut Piece_, _Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting_, and various experimental films? 2. Were you often seen wearing a black-and-white fishnet-patterned keffiyeh, draped over one shoulder? 3. In _Futurama_ were you the titular Beast with a Billion Backs? DQs: 1. originally from prose? 2. first appeared after 1990? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=7)