# 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:** 14
**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 27, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/261 "2021-03-27T15:54:02Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a fictional thief who would only steal worthless things? > 2. Are you the character better known as Chef in **Galavant**? > 3. Were you the heroine of Agatha Christie’s **They Came to Baghdad**? Thanks! Dunno x3. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you a bespectacled teen who drives around in a van solving mysteries with three friends and a dog? > IQ2: Are you a Romanian ruler sometimes cited as the real-life inspiration for Dracula? > IQ3: Did you direct the top two movies at the box office in 1939? Not Velma, Vlad the Impaler or King Vidor. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 20th Century Italian fashion designer with links to the music world? > 2. Did you star opposite Bill Bixby in the PBS-televised version of _Steambath_? > 3. Did you and your brother Dino try to coerce the military into paying protection (Not a single armored division will get done over for, say, fifteen bob a week)? Not Valentino, dunno, and not Victor Vercocci (I forget which is the clumsy one). > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a Christian saint whose day is likely the best-known? > 2. Was a recent feature-length painted animated film based on your life (though it’s set after you died)? > 3. Did you write _The Wordy Shipmates_ (among others)? Not St. Valentine, Van Gogh or Sarah Vowell. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/262 "2021-03-27T17:23:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not St. Valentine, Van Gogh or Sarah Vowell. A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Do you have a small but consequential role in the Purim story? 2. Do you currently play Big Bird? 3. In a performance in late November, 1963, did Lenny Bruce (reportedly) come out on stage, sigh, and say “Poor [you]”? ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/263 "2021-03-27T17:34:51Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > IQs: > 1. Do you have a small but consequential role in the Purim story? > 2. Do you currently play Big Bird? > 3. In a performance in late November, 1963, did Lenny Bruce (reportedly) come out on stage, sigh, and say “Poor [you]”? Dunno, dunno, and not Vaughn Meader. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you a 20th Century Italian fashion designer with links to the music world? > > 2. Did you star opposite Bill Bixby in the PBS-televised version of _Steambath_? > > 3. Did you and your brother Dino try to coerce the military into paying protection (Not a single armored division will get done over for, say, fifteen bob a week)? > > Not Valentino, dunno, and not Victor Vercocci (I forget which is the clumsy one)… The third is corrected, upon further consideration: no, I am not Luigi Vercotti. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/264 "2021-03-27T17:37:15Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:263, topic:933991, full:true”] > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > > IQs: > > > > > > > 1. Were you a 20th Century Italian fashion designer with links to the music world? > > > > 2. Did you star opposite Bill Bixby in the PBS-televised version of _Steambath_ ? > > > > 3. Did you and your brother Dino try to coerce the military into paying protection (Not a single armored division will get done over for, say, fifteen bob a week)? > > > > [/quote] > > > > > > Not Valentino, dunno, and not Victor Vercocci (I forget which is the clumsy one)… > > The third is corrected, upon further consideration: no, I am not Luigi Vercotti. #1 was Versace. #2 was Valerie Perrine. Correct on Luigi. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/265 "2021-03-27T17:50:19Z")
V. 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:** [March 27, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/266 "2021-03-27T17:53:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno, and not Vaughn Meader. 1 was Vashti; 2 was Matt Vogel. DQs: 1. living? 2. first name begins with V? ---
**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 27, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/267 "2021-03-27T18:02:05Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _(Ghost) Riders in the Sky_? 2. Were you a Peruvian painter of pin-up girls? 3. Did you write _Chariots of the Gods_? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/268 "2021-03-27T18:48:11Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a fictional thief who would only steal worthless things? > 2. Are you the character better known as Chef in **Galavant**? > 3. Were you the heroine of Agatha Christie’s **They Came to Baghdad**? Nick Velvet, Vincenzo, Victoria Jones. DQs: 1. Known for the arts? 2. Caucasian? 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:** [March 27, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/269 "2021-03-27T20:24:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Are you a bespectacled teen who drives around in a van solving mysteries with three friends and a dog? > > > IQ2: Are you a Romanian ruler sometimes cited as the real-life inspiration for Dracula? > > > IQ3: Did you direct the top two movies at the box office in 1939? > > Not Velma, Vlad the Impaler or King Vidor. Yes Yes Victor Fleming - director of _Gone With The Wind_ and _The Wizard of Oz_. However, you reminded me that King Vidor did direct (uncredited) most of the wraparound Kansas scenes after Fleming replaced George Cukor on GWTW. (MGM was releasing both, so director shuffling was possible) - Vidor was not involved with GWTW. Holding one DQ. ---
**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 27, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/270 "2021-03-27T21:08:36Z")
IQ1: Does nobody step on a church in your town? IQ2: Were you a general during the Mexican Revolution? IQ3: Were you an actress known as the Mexican Spitfire? ---
**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 27, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/271 "2021-03-27T21:31:10Z")
IQ1: Did Jeanne Calment claim to have met you when she was a girl? IQ2: Are a style of beard and a style of collar named after you? IQ3: Did you paint _The Milkmaid_? ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/272 "2021-03-28T03:58:25Z")
IQs: 1. Does a photo on your Wikipedia page depict your “gracious smile”, in contrast to a supposed quote of yours? 2. Did you write _The SCUM Manifesto_? 3. Did you drive Don Shirley around? ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/273 "2021-03-28T15:19:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _(Ghost) Riders in the Sky_? > 2. Were you a Peruvian painter of pin-up girls? > 3. Did you write _Chariots of the Gods_? Dunno, not Vargas and not Erik von Dannikin (sp?). > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Does nobody step on a church in your town? > IQ2: Were you a general during the Mexican Revolution? > IQ3: Were you an actress known as the Mexican Spitfire? Not Dr. Peter “Nice shootin’, Tex!” Venkman, not Pancho Villa and dunno. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Jeanne Calment claim to have met you when she was a girl? > IQ2: Are a style of beard and a style of collar named after you? > IQ3: Did you paint _The Milkmaid_? Dunno, not Van Dyke and not Vermeer. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Does a photo on your Wikipedia page depict your “gracious smile”, in contrast to a supposed quote of yours? > 2. Did you write _The SCUM Manifesto_? > 3. Did you drive Don Shirley around? Dunno x3. V. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. first name began with V 5. not known for the Arts 6. Caucasian ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/274 "2021-03-28T16:58:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did Jeanne Calment claim to have met you when she was a girl? > > > > > IQ2: Are a style of beard and a style of collar named after you? > > > IQ3: Did you paint _The Milkmaid_ ? > > Dunno, not Van Dyke and not Vermeer. Van Gogh. ✅ ✅ DQ: Military/political? ---
**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 28, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/275 "2021-03-28T17:51:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _(Ghost) Riders in the Sky_ ? > > > 2. Were you a Peruvian painter of pin-up girls? > > > 3. Did you write _Chariots of the Gods_ ? > > Dunno, not Vargas and not Erik von Dannikin (sp?). #1 was Vaughn Monroe. Correct on Vargan and von Daniken. DQ: 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:** [March 28, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/276 "2021-03-28T20:28:17Z")
V. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. first name began with V 5. not known for the Arts 6. Caucasian 7. military/political, but not best known for that 8. not American ---
**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 28, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/277 "2021-03-28T20:40:25Z")
IQ1: Were you the first vampire described as having teeth like fangs? IQ2: Was a common rum drink named for you? IQ3: Did you paint _Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild_? ---
**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 28, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/278 "2021-03-28T20:43:58Z")
IQs: 1. Were you an Arverni tribal chieftain? 2. Are you the title character of a satire by Ben Jonson? 3. Did you write _Candide_? ---
**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 29, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/279 "2021-03-29T01:29:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. 1 (depicted as smiling in a photo on Wikipedia, in contrast to quote) was Queen Victoria; 2 (wrote SCUM manifesto) was Valarie Solanas; 3 (drove Don Shirley around) was Tony Vallelonga. DQs: 1. from the British Isles? 2. died before 1900? 3. known for science? ---
**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 29, 2021, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991/280 "2021-03-29T02:44:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first vampire described as having teeth like fangs? > IQ2: Was a common rum drink named for you? > IQ3: Did you paint _Syndics of the Drapers’ Guild_? Not Vlad Dracul, not Vesper Lynd, and not Vermeer. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an Arverni tribal chieftain? > 2. Are you the title character of a satire by Ben Jonson? > 3. Did you write _Candide_? Not Vortigern, dunno, and not Voltaire. V. 1. real 2. male 3. dead 4. first name began with V 5. not known for the Arts 6. Caucasian 7. military/political, but not best known for that 8. not American 9. not from the British Isles 10. died before 1900 11. not known for science [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-mar-2021/933991.md?page=15)