# Botticelli -- Mar 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991 "2021-03-01T01:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [March 23, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/221 "2021-03-23T22:25:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Watson ComehereIneedyou. > Take 2 DQs. 1 is correct (turns out his first name was Thomas); 2 (Annie Hall’s brother) was Christopher Walken; 3 (black artist known for silhouettes) is Kara Walker. Two DQs reserved. IQs: 1. Did you write _Tono-Bungay_? 2. Did your lover abdicate for you? 3. Have you been played by Peg Dixon, Katherine Moffat, Jennifer Darling, Stavroula Logothettis, Tara Strong, Susan Roman, Kelly Sheridan, Kate Higgins, Jennifer Hale, and an unknown actress in a 1999 milk ad—and is there a name deliberately missing from this list, who beginning in 2014 has played you in a series of live action movies and a recently-concluded popular 8-episode streaming TV show? (Either name is fine.) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/222 "2021-03-24T00:54:04Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with W 5. Not known for the Arts 6. American 7. Born after 1970 8. Not known for Politics ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/223 "2021-03-24T00:55:13Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Tono-Bungay_ ? > 2. Did your lover abdicate for you? > 3. Have you been played by Peg Dixon, Katherine Moffat, Jennifer Darling, Stavroula Logothettis, Tara Strong, Susan Roman, Kelly Sheridan, Kate Higgins, Jennifer Hale, and an unknown actress in a 1999 milk ad—and is there a name deliberately missing from this list, who beginning in 2014 has played you in a series of live action movies and a recently-concluded popular 8-episode streaming TV show? (Either name is fine.) #1. Take a DQ. #2. I am not Wallis Simpson. #3. I am not Wanda, the Scarlet Witch (??) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/224 "2021-03-24T14:59:33Z")
DQ: Known for sports? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/225 "2021-03-24T15:59:39Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with W 5. Not known for the Arts 6. American 7. Born after 1970 8. Not known for Politics 9. Known for Sports ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/226 "2021-03-24T16:27:49Z")
Probably no one I’ve ever heard of, then. DQ: Olympic medallist? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/227 "2021-03-24T17:15:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Whoopi Goldberg. > Take 2 DQs. Winnie Harlow Winifred Sanderson (from _Hocus Pocus_) DQ 1. Participate(d) in a sport that requires equipment (racquet, ball, etc) 2. Born after 1990? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/228 "2021-03-24T18:03:16Z")
**DQs** 1. Real 2. Female 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with W 5. Not known for the Arts 6. American 7. Born after 1970 8. Not known for Politics 9. Known for Sports 10. Olympic medalist 11. Participates in a sport that requires equipment (racquet, ball, etc.) 12. Born before 1990 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/229 "2021-03-24T19:27:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not Wallis Simpson. > #3. I am not Wanda, the Scarlet Witch (??) 1 (wrote _Tono-Bungay_) was H.G. Wells. Correct on 2 and 3. DQ: participates in a team sport? IQs: 1. Are you “the best there is at what [you] do–but what [you] do best isn’t very nice”? 2. Did you take your uncommon first name from a minor character in _The Great Gatsby_? 3. Were you a four-term segregationist governor of Alabama and third-party presidential candidate? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/230 "2021-03-24T19:42:03Z")
IQ1: Have you won 6 Wimbleton women’s doubles titles with your older sister? IQ2: Have you won 6 Wimbleton women’s doubles titles with your younger sister? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/231 "2021-03-24T19:46:35Z")
Yeah, it could have been either sister, but this time I am **Serena Williams!** [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Serena_Williams_(9630779153).jpg/1200px-Serena_Williams_(9630779153).jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Serena_Williams_(9630779153).jpg/1200px-Serena_Williams_(9630779153).jpg) Good job, **Chock**! ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/232 "2021-03-25T06:08:12Z")
Let’s see what hasn’t been used the longest… X, no… Q… nope… Next up… I am **U** ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/233 "2021-03-25T10:27:01Z")
Congrats! IQs: 1. Are you Ojo’s older male relative in the Oz books? 2. Were you a notably dimwitted helper of The Saint’s? 3. Did you have helpers named Flotsam and Jetsam in a movie? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/234 "2021-03-25T15:04:49Z")
Congrats, Chock! IQs: 1. Is your final resting place the subject of an infamously-easy trivia question? 2. Should we have no fear, because you are here? 3. Did you play Latrine in a Robin Hood movie? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/235 "2021-03-25T15:20:54Z")
Way to go, **CFOHG**! Previous IQs: Were you one of the most prominent British abolitionists? - Not Winston Churchill, but William Wilberforce Do you take artsy pictures of your dogs dressed in outlandish costumes? - William Wegman Did Anthony Lake teach you how to salute? - William J. Clinton, taught by his national security advisor, an Army vet, so he could make a snappier salute to military personnel during his Presidency William x3! On to U: Did you come up with the ansible? Were you Ariel’s nemesis? Were you the heroine of _Life After Life_? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/236 "2021-03-25T17:25:23Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > - Are you Ojo’s older male relative in the Oz books? > - Were you a notably dimwitted helper of The Saint’s? > - Did you have helpers named Flotsam and Jetsam in a movie? Take 2 DQs Not Ursula from Disney’s version of _The Little Mermaid_ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Is your final resting place the subject of an infamously-easy trivia question? > 2. Should we have no fear, because you are here? > 3. Did you play Latrine in a Robin Hood movie? Not Ulysses S. Grant Not Underdog Take a DQ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you come up with the ansible? > Were you Ariel’s nemesis? > Were you the heroine of _Life After Life_ ? Not Ursula K. LeGuin Not Ursula from _The Little Mermaid_ Take a DQ - I’m guessing it’s another Ursula ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/237 "2021-03-25T18:06:39Z")
Previous IQs: Did you come up with the ansible? - Yes, Ursula K. LeGuin Were you Ariel’s nemesis? - Yes, the sea-witch Ursula, in _The Little Mermaid_ Were you the heroine of _Life After Life_? - Yes, another Ursula, in the Kate Atkinson novel Ursula x3! DQ: Real? IQs: Were you a UNSG? Were you an Architect of the Capitol? Were you a particularly smart Italian novelist? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/238 "2021-03-25T18:35:47Z")
DQs: **U** 1. Real ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/239 "2021-03-25T18:36:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a UNSG? > Were you an Architect of the Capitol? > Were you a particularly smart Italian novelist? Take 2 DQs Not Umberto Eco ---
**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:** [March 25, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/240 "2021-03-25T18:57:03Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a UNSG? - U Thant of Burma served as UN Secretary-General in the Sixties Were you an Architect of the Capitol? - Thomas U. Walter (he always used his middle initial) Were you a particularly smart Italian novelist? - Yes, Umberto Eco DQs: Living? Male? IQs: Were you Ygraine’s illicit lover? Are you a widely-loathed action movie director? Did the Grice Patersons have a singular adventure in your island, according to Conan Doyle? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991.md?page=13)