# 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:** 8
**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 9, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/141 "2021-06-09T18:22:26Z")
**YES!!** I am **Mr. Yuk!!** > **[Mr. Yuk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yuk#/media/File:Poison_Help.svg)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Mr. Yuk is a trademarked graphic image, created by UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and widely employed in the United States in labeling of substances that are poisonous if ingested. > To help children learn to avoid ingesting poisons, Mr. Yuk was conceived by Richard Moriarty, a pediatrician and clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who founded the Pittsburgh Poison Center and the National Poiso... For #14 I was thinking of the televised PSAs, which, while on TV, were not part of what one usually thinks of by “on TV” #7 - Hey, he was poisoned. Did anybody call the number on time? Great job, Prof! ---
**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 9, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/142 "2021-06-09T18:32:07Z")
Thank you! I got a chuckle out of #7 once I thought of him. Next up: I am [![](https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/387/816/original/capital-letter-h-vintage-typography-style-vector.jpg) ](https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/387/816/original/capital-letter-h-vintage-typography-style-vector.jpg) ---
**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 9, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/143 "2021-06-09T19:20:06Z")
Mr. Yuk! I remember him. Good job, **Prof. P.** Previous IQs: Were you a rebel Soviet poet who met with Nixon? - Yevgeny Yevtushenko Did you angrily quit the CPSU despite being allied with Gorbachev? - Boris Yeltsin Were you Andrei Sakharov’s steadfast wife? - Yelena Bonner On to H! IQs: Did Peter O’Toole play you in two movies, the second of which was not a sequel? Were you FDR’s second VP? Was JFK’s favorite Shakespearean passage spoken by your character? ---
**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 9, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/144 "2021-06-09T19:25:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Peter O’Toole play you in two movies, the second of which was not a sequel? > Were you FDR’s second VP? > Was JFK’s favorite Shakespearean passage spoken by your character? 1. I am not Henry II. 2. Take a DQ. It’s the guy before Truman. 3. I am not Hamlet (??) ---
**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 9, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/145 "2021-06-09T19:30:42Z")
Congrats, Prof.! I suspected it was Mr. Yuk, but was thrown off by the answer to #14-- has he “appeared” in prose? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Kristi Yamaguchi? - I think she’s too young for that time frame, but only Y skater I can think of. > Not Yor > Take a DQ 1 was indeed a teenage Yamaguchi; correct on 2; 3 (“Father and I went down to camp…”) was Yankee Doodle. IQs: 1. Were you a campaign rival of Barrack Obama’s who became his Secretary of State? 2. Did you refer to actors as cattle? 3. Did you compose crosswords for _Games_ magazine? ---
**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 9, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/146 "2021-06-09T19:32:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Mr. Yuk! I remember him. Never heard of him. IQ1: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family? IQ2: Were you Quintus Horatius Flaccus? IQ3: Did Virgil write what was more or less a sequel to one of your poems?? ---
**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 9, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/147 "2021-06-09T19:55:38Z")
Previous IQs: Did Peter O’Toole play you in two movies, the second of which was not a sequel? - Yes, Henry II, in both _Becket_ and _The Lion in Winter_ Were you FDR’s second VP? - Henry A. Wallace Was JFK’s favorite Shakespearean passage spoken by your character? - The St. Crispin’s Day speech from _Henry V_; he once asked Basil Rathbone to recite it during a White House visit, and the actor was happy to oblige him Henry x3! DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Did you handwrite an angry letter to a music critic who didn’t care for your daughter’s singing? Did your wife have you wear a hat that was just a little different from the hats everyone else at your birthday party was wearing? Was a fictional oceanographic research ship named after you? ---
**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 9, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/148 "2021-06-09T21:54:55Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a campaign rival of Barrack Obama’s who became his Secretary of State? > 2. Did you refer to actors as cattle? > 3. Did you compose crosswords for _Games_ magazine? 1. I am not Hilary Clinton. 2. I am not Alfred Hitchcock. 3. Take a DQ. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family? > IQ2: Were you Quintus Horatius Flaccus? > IQ3: Did Virgil write what was more or less a sequel to one of your poems?? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Horace (??). 3. I am not Hesiod (??). > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you handwrite an angry letter to a music critic who didn’t care for your daughter’s singing? > Did your wife have you wear a hat that was just a little different from the hats everyone else at your birthday party was wearing? > Was a fictional oceanographic research ship named after you? 1. I am not Harry Truman (??). 2. I am not Harry Houdini (??). 3. I am not Horatio Hornblower (??). **DQs** 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 9, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/149 "2021-06-09T21:57:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Hilary Clinton. > 2. I am not Alfred Hitchcock. > 3. Take a DQ. 3 was Henry Hook. DQ: first name starts with H? ---
**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 9, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/150 "2021-06-09T22:38:12Z")
**DQs:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with H ---
**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 10, 2021, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/151 "2021-06-10T05:37:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > I suspected it was Mr. Yuk, but was thrown off by the answer to #14-- has he “appeared” in prose? I remember some brochures that were distributed with the stickers in elementary school - does that count as prose? I think I was focused on the TV aspect of the question and glossed over the “and”. H: IQ1: Are you the recently deceased singer and namesake of Digital Underground’s biggest hit? IQ2: When you use a word, does it mean just what you choose it to mean—neither more nor less? IQ3: Do you use your tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/152 "2021-06-10T12:10:20Z")
Congrats! 1. Were you played for three seasons by Mads Mikkelson? 2. Are you an actress who played Beverly Katz in the above series? 3. Did you play Will.Graham in the above series? ---
**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 10, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/153 "2021-06-10T12:41:25Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > does that count as prose? Eh, sure. IQs: 1. Were you Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff–and did your husband have an unfortunate name for someone involved in a sex scandal? 2. Are you an SF writer known for your unique spins on history and 20th century pop culture, in stories like “The Ugly Chickens” and “The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)”? 3. Did you create a series of ads for Wilkins Coffee that humorously emphasized the “hard sell”? ---
**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 10, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/154 "2021-06-10T12:47:52Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you the recently deceased singer and namesake of Digital Underground’s biggest hit? > IQ2: When you use a word, does it mean just what you choose it to mean—neither more nor less? > IQ3: Do you use your tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Humpty Dumpty. 3. I am not Hedley Lamar. > [@kitap](#): > > - Were you played for three seasons by Mads Mikkelson? > - Are you an actress who played Beverly Katz in the above series? > - Did you play Will.Graham in the above series? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff–and did your husband have an unfortunate name for someone involved in a sex scandal? > 2. Are you an SF writer known for your unique spins on history and 20th century pop culture, in stories like “The Ugly Chickens” and “The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode In On)”? > 3. Did you create a series of ads for Wilkins Coffee that humorously emphasized the “hard sell”? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Harlan Ellison (??) 3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/155 "2021-06-10T13:20:14Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > 1. Were you played for three seasons by Mads Mikkelson? > 2. Are you an actress who played Beverly Katz in the above series? > 3. Did you play Will.Graham in the above series? Hannibal Lecter, Hettienne Park, Hugh Dancy. DQs: 1. Known for the Arts? 2. Living? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 10, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/156 "2021-06-10T13:22:07Z")
**DQs:** 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with H 4. Known for the Arts 5. Dead ---
**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 10, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/157 "2021-06-10T13:55:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Harlan Ellison (??) > 3. Take a DQ. 1 was Huma Abedin (married to Anthony Weiner); 2 was Howard Waldrop; 3 was Jim Henson. DQs: 1. died after 1900? 2. known for connection with film and/or TV? 3. American? ---
**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 10, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/158 "2021-06-10T14:19:19Z")
**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 ---
**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 10, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/159 "2021-06-10T15:18:31Z")
Previous IQs: Did you handwrite an angry letter to a music critic who didn’t care for your daughter’s singing? - Yes, President Harry Truman Did your wife have you wear a hat that was just a little different from the hats everyone else at your birthday party was wearing? - Leona Helmsley, the New York hotelier, once had “I’m Just Wild About Harry” hats made for everyone except her husband, whose hat read, “I’m Harry” Was a fictional oceanographic research ship named after you? - The _Belafonte_, in _Steve Zissou and The Life Aquatic_, named after Harry Belafonte in reference to his Calypso music career (since Jacques Cousteau’s ship was named the _Calypso_) Harry x3! DQs: European? Best known for the performing arts? IQs: Were you a small, somewhat disabled French painter who liked dancing girls? You were a real person. Was your last name said contemptuously in _The Music Man_? Were you known for your scabrous illustrations of Georgian London society? ---
**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 10, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330/160 "2021-06-10T15:38:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the best-known member of the Barca family? > > > > > IQ2: Were you Quintus Horatius Flaccus? > > > IQ3: Did Virgil write what was more or less a sequel to one of your poems?? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Horace (??). > 3. I am not Hesiod (??). Hannibal. ✅ Homer. DQ: Died after 1950? One DQ reserved. IQ1-2: Are you a conjoined twin from Minnesota? IQ3: Were you the eponymous main character of a book, the sequel to which was _The Long Secret_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2021/943330.md?page=9)