# Botticelli - March 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955 "2015-03-01T21:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/61 "2015-03-06T17:30:55Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person ---
**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 6, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/62 "2015-03-06T17:55:23Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a villain Peter Dinklage played in a fairly recent kids’ movie? 2. Were you known as El Libertador? 3. Did you battle bad guys opposite Emma Peel? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/63 "2015-03-06T18:20:21Z")
IQ1: Are you noted for screaming for your wife Stella? IQ2: Were you the leader of the street gang the Crips and portrayed in film by Jamie Foxx? IQ3: Are you a jazz tenor saxophonist who had Mr. T and The Sugar Man as nicknames? ---
**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 6, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/64 "2015-03-06T19:44:04Z")
IQs: Was your mother’s maiden name Grayson? Were you delighted by the discovery of floor pie? Is your best friend’s middle name Mussolini? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/65 "2015-03-06T20:04:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a villain Peter Dinklage played in a fairly recent kids’ movie? > 2. Were you known as El Libertador? > 3. Did you battle bad guys opposite Emma Peel? Not Simon Bollivar or John Steed. I’ve SEEN all the\*\*\* Ice Age _ **movies, but don’t remember Dinklage’s character name in** _ Continental Drift \*\*\*(he was an ape pirate, I remember), so take a DQ for #1 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/66 "2015-03-06T20:06:06Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you noted for screaming for your wife Stella? > IQ2: Were you the leader of the street gang the Crips and portrayed in film by Jamie Foxx? > IQ3: Are you a jazz tenor saxophonist who had Mr. T and The Sugar Man as nicknames? Not Stanley Kowalski or Stanley “Tookie” Williams. No idea on the jazz man- take a DQ for #3 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/67 "2015-03-06T20:08:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your mother’s maiden name Grayson? > Were you delighted by the discovery of floor pie? > Is your best friend’s middle name Mussolini? Not Mr. Spock Take DQs for #2 and #3 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/68 "2015-03-06T20:11:22Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not Stanley Kowalski or Stanley “Tookie” Williams. > > No idea on the jazz man- take a DQ for #3 Stanley Turrentine DQ: Alive? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/69 "2015-03-06T20:17:22Z")
IQ1: Did you play the vampire in the original _Fright Night_? IQ2: Are you the pre-op transexual IQ1 played in _Dog Day Afternoon_? IQ3: Did Al Pacino play you in _Dog Day Afternoon_? ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/70 "2015-03-06T20:23:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a villain Peter Dinklage played in a fairly recent kids’ movie? > 2. Were you known as El Libertador? > 3. Did you battle bad guys opposite Emma Peel? > [@astorian](#): > > Not Simon Bollivar or John Steed. > I’ve SEEN all the\*\*\* Ice Age _ **movies, but don’t remember Dinklage’s character name in** _ Continental Drift \*\*\*(he was an ape pirate, I remember), so take a DQ for #1 Correct on Simon and Steed. #1 was a really bad movie, a live-action version of Underdog, with the estimable Mr. Dinklage reduced to playing the role of Simon bar Sinister. DQ: Male? ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/71 "2015-03-06T20:26:20Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a noted American jazz saxophone player? 2. Did you play Hazel in the eponymous TV series? 3. Were you known as “The Old Perfesser”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/72 "2015-03-06T20:34:21Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/73 "2015-03-06T20:35:51Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you play the vampire in the original _Fright Night_? > IQ2: Are you the pre-op transexual IQ1 played in _Dog Day Afternoon_? > IQ3: Did Al Pacino play you in _Dog Day Afternoon_? Not Chris Sarandon Don’t know the real people who pullred off the robbery, though I remember Pacino was Sonny something. Take two DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/74 "2015-03-06T20:36:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a noted American jazz saxophone player? > 2. Did you play Hazel in the eponymous TV series? > 3. Were you known as “The Old Perfesser”? Not Sonny Rollins, Shirley Booth or Casey Stengel ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/75 "2015-03-06T20:55:26Z")
Previous IQs: Was your mother’s maiden name Grayson? - Yes, the former Amanda Grayson was Spock’s mom. Were you delighted by the discovery of floor pie? - Homer Simpson: [mmmm, floor pie! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WsDtn-feuI) Is your best friend’s middle name Mussolini? - Bart Simpson’s buddy is Millhouse. DQs: American? Last name start with S? IQs: Did you play a rapist/murderer in _The Lovely Bones_? Did you issue the first greenbacks? Were you Mozart’s nemesis in _Amadeus_? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/76 "2015-03-06T22:19:24Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real person 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Last name starts with S ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/77 "2015-03-06T22:20:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you play a rapist/murderer in _The Lovely Bones_? > Did you issue the first greenbacks? > Were you Mozart’s nemesis in _Amadeus_? Not Stanley Tucci, Salmon P. Chase or Antonio Salieri ---
**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 6, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/78 "2015-03-06T23:06:23Z")
Correct on all 3. IQs: 1. Were you an ex-Puritan created by Robert E. Howard? 2. Did you appear in over 50 movies, usually playing “the laziest man in the world”? 3. Were you a member of Top Cat’s gang? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/79 "2015-03-06T23:08:09Z")
All correct! IQ1: Did you write _Antigone_? IQ2: Did you write _The First Circle_? IQ3: Did you write _The Wealth of Nations_? ---
**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 7, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955/80 "2015-03-07T00:28:59Z")
IQ1: Were you an Italian luthier who is considered to have been the best in your field? IQ2: Did you write _The Carnival of the Animals_? IQ3: Did you write the Nantucket trilogy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2015/713955.md?page=5)