# Botticelli - June 2022

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380 "2022-05-30T19:52:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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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 1, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/21 "2022-06-01T17:18:54Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > 1. Did you marry Ruth in the _Book of Ruth_ ?
> > 
> > > 1. Are you one of the legendary three kings who brought gifts to the infant Jesus?
> > > 2. Have you played a master detective, a sorcerer supreme and an intergalactic terrorist?
> 
> DQ  
> Not Balthazar  
> Not Benedict Cumberbatch

#1 was Boaz. Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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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 1, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/22 "2022-06-01T17:27:55Z")

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**B**

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name begins with B
4. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
5. Not created by American(s)
6. First appeared after 1970
7. Not a main character
8. Created by Europeans
9. From film

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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 1, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/23 "2022-06-01T18:06:46Z")

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DQ: First appeared after 1999?

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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 1, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/24 "2022-06-01T20:01:11Z")

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**B**

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name begins with B
4. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
5. Not created by American(s)
6. First appeared after 1970
7. Not a main character
8. Created by Europeans
9. From film
10. First appeared before 1999

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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 2, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/25 "2022-06-02T02:52:21Z")

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IQs:  
1. Did you spend ten days in a mad-house?  
2. Does your 1995 memoir (and thus the audiobook version you narrate) include quotes like “There are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you” and “You ain’t my bitch…Buy your own damn fries!” ?  
3. Do you chase Mindy, while Rita sings a verse?

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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 2, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/26 "2022-06-02T03:18:06Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. Did you spend ten days in a mad-house?
> 2. Does your 1995 memoir (and thus the audiobook version you narrate) include quotes like “There are white folks, and then there are ignorant motherfuckers like you” and “You ain’t my bitch…Buy your own damn fries!” ?
> 3. Do you chase Mindy, while Rita sings a verse?

DQ  
Not Barack Obama  
Not Buttons (why wasn’t he in the Hulu revival?)

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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 2, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/27 "2022-06-02T13:04:46Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
>
> DQ  
> Not Barack Obama  
> Not Buttons (why wasn’t he in the Hulu revival?)

1 was Nellie Bly.

DQ: first appeared after 1985?

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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 2, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/28 "2022-06-02T14:51:26Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you Marcel Marceau’s standard character?
2. Are you the Bacon Brother who isn’t Kevin?
3. In a mockumentary about your musical career, did George Harrison credit you with being the one who introduced him to Ringo, thus starting the Beatles?

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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 2, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/29 "2022-06-02T15:23:20Z")

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IQs:  
1. Have you played a musical extra given a brief highlight, a disgruntled movie-goer, a servant, a chief, a screeching cat, a highly anxious doctor, a philosopher, a conceited actor, a president, a guy who finds excuses to use wine, a bank loan officer, and another doctor?  
2. Were you an accomplished female track and field athlete and golfer?  
3. Are you an animatronic rabbit at Freddy Fazbear’s?

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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 2, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/30 "2022-06-02T17:04:48Z")

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**B**

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name begins with B
4. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
5. Not created by American(s)
6. First appeared after 1970
7. Not a main character
8. Created by Europeans
9. From film
10. First appeared before 1999
11. First appeared before 1985

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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 2, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/31 "2022-06-02T17:06:02Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> 1. Are you Marcel Marceau’s standard character?
> 2. Are you the Bacon Brother who isn’t Kevin?
> 3. In a mockumentary about your musical career, did George

Not Bip  
2 DQs (I’m guessing #3 is a Rutles reference)

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. Have you played a musical extra given a brief highlight, a disgruntled movie-goer, a servant, a chief, a screeching cat, a highly anxious doctor, a philosopher, a conceited actor, a president, a guy who finds excuses to use wine, a bank loan officer, and another doctor?
> 2. Were you an accomplished female track and field athlete and golfer?
> 3. Are you an animatronic rabbit at Freddy Fazbear’s?

Not Billy West?  
DQ  
Not Bonnie Bunny

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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 2, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/32 "2022-06-02T17:26:32Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> IQs:  
> 1. Have you played a musical extra given a brief highlight, a disgruntled movie-goer, a servant, a chief, a screeching cat, a highly anxious doctor, a philosopher, a conceited actor, a president, a guy who finds excuses to use wine, a bank loan officer, and another doctor?  
> 2. Were you an accomplished female track and field athlete and golfer?  
> 3. Are you an animatronic rabbit at Freddy Fazbear’s?

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Not Billy West?  
> DQ  
> Not Bonnie Bunny

1 was Mel Brooks (in _The Producers_, “The Critic”, _The Twelve Chairs_, _Blazing Saddles_, _Young Frankenstein_, _High Anxiety_, _History of the World Part 1_, _To Be or Not to Be_, _Spaceballs_, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_, _The Little Rascals_, and _Dracula: Dead and Loving It_, respectively); 2 was Babe Zaharias.

DQs:  
1. created by English people?  
2. from a comedy?

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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 2, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/33 "2022-06-02T17:41:19Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you try to help his doctors after President James A. Garfield was shot? - Alexander Graham Bell, trying to find the assassin’s bullet with a primitive metal detector of his own design  
Did you play a souvenir salesman on an episode of _Friends_? - Richard Branson  
Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? - John Brough

DQs:

Appeared in only a single movie?  
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

Did your future wife first see you walking down the street munching on a loaf of bread?  
Did you costar in the original _Westworld_?  
Were you depicted in a cartoon wearing your grandfather’s hat, which was much too big for you?

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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 2, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/34 "2022-06-02T17:55:33Z")

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IQs:  
1. Speaking of rabbits, are you Arthur Read’s jokester friend?  
2. Did you draw _Ernie Pook’s Comeek_?  
3. Did you allegedly eat 12 hot dogs (or maybe 14) in between games of a double-header (or before a game) (look, at any rate you had a huge appetite)?

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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 2, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/35 "2022-06-02T18:20:11Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
>
> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
> >
> > 1. Are you Marcel Marceau’s standard character?
> > 
> > > 1. Are you the Bacon Brother who isn’t Kevin?
> > > 2. In a mockumentary about your musical career, did George
> 
> Not Bip  
> 2 DQs (I’m guessing #3 is a Rutles reference)

Correct on Mr. Bip.  
#2 is Michael Bacon.  
#3 was Bruce Willis, aka “Bruno”. He put out two albums and the mockumentary.

2 DQs reserved.

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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 2, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/36 "2022-06-02T20:17:14Z")

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**B**

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name begins with B
4. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
5. Not created by American(s)
6. First appeared after 1970
7. Not a main character
8. Created by Europeans
9. From film
10. First appeared before 1999
11. First appeared before 1985
12. Created by English people
13. From a comedy
14. Appeared in only a single movie
15. Considered a beauty? - unknown - does not appear on-screen; nobody refers to her appearance

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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 2, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/37 "2022-06-02T20:18:44Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Did your future wife first see you walking down the street munching on a loaf of bread?  
> Did you costar in the original _Westworld_ ?  
> Were you depicted in a cartoon wearing your grandfather’s hat, which was much too big for you?

DQ  
Not Yul Bryner  
DQ

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> 1. Speaking of rabbits, are you Arthur Read’s jokester friend?
> 2. Did you draw _Ernie Pook’s Comeek_ ?
> 3. Did you allegedly eat 12 hot dogs (or maybe 14) in between games of a double-header (or before a game) (look, at any rate you had a huge appetite)

DQ  
Not Lynda Barry  
DQ

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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 2, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/38 "2022-06-02T20:26:56Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
>
> DQ  
> Not Lynda Barry  
> DQ

1 was Buster Baxter; 3 was Babe Ruth.

2 DQs reserved.

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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 2, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/39 "2022-06-02T23:28:21Z")

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DQ: From a Monty Python film?

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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 2, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2022/965380/40 "2022-06-02T23:29:33Z")

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**B**

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Last name begins with B
4. From a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)
5. Not created by American(s)
6. First appeared after 1970
7. Not a main character
8. Created by Europeans
9. From film
10. First appeared before 1999
11. First appeared before 1985
12. Created by English people
13. From a comedy
14. Appeared in only a single movie
15. Considered a beauty? - unknown - does not appear on-screen; nobody refers to her appearance
16. From a Monty Python film

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