# Botticelli March 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512 "2016-02-29T16:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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 12, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/161 "2016-03-12T00:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Was your 1988 presidential run disrupted by your affair with Donna Rice? > IQ2: Did you portray Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump? > IQ3: In Taco’s version of Puttin’ On the Ritz, is the singer dressed up like a million-dollar trooper, tryin’ hard to look like you? > > Not Gary Hart. > Not Gary Sinise (who came down for a tour of the boat while we were deployed in '03). > DQ for this probable Gary. Gary Cooper (super duper) DQ: known for sitcoms? ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/162 "2016-03-12T01:30:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dressed up like a million-dollar trooper > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Gary Cooper (super duper) Sounds more like a trouper than a trooper… **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms ---
**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 12, 2016, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/163 "2016-03-12T05:21:55Z")
My favorite bit about “Puttin’ on the Ritz”: [Puttin' on the Ritz - Bertie Wooster - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO9axGrzDE0) Previous IQs: Are you SpongeBob’s pet? - Yes, Gary the Snail. Did Donald Trump famously fire you? - Gary Busey. Were you accidentally injected on live TV with a needle that someone else had already used? - Talk-show host Gary Collins, in a segment on vaccinations. Gary x3! DQs: First appeared on TV after 1960? British? IQs: Was your show adapted for American TV as _All in the Family_? Did you make special notations in your diaries that, at least one biographer believes, indicate when you whipped yourself? Were you the firebrand editor of _The Liberator_? ---
**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 12, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/164 "2016-03-12T11:45:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Gary x3! Gary x6 - KO also had three of them. 😃 > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your show adapted for American TV as _All in the Family_? > Did you make special notations in your diaries that, at least one biographer believes, indicate when you whipped yourself? > Were you the firebrand editor of _The Liberator_? Three DQs. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American\*\*, but created by an American\*\* 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms 11. First appeared on TV after 1960 12. Not British Note the slight addition to #6. ---
**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 12, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/165 "2016-03-12T13:33:30Z")
IQ1: Are you a surly TV news show manager who went on to become a surly newspaper editor-in-chief? IQ2: Did Andy Kaufman play you in _Taxi_? IQ3: Were you nicknamed “New Dwight” in the final season of the US version of _The Office_? ---
**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 12, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/166 "2016-03-12T20:39:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a surly TV news show manager who went on to become a surly newspaper editor-in-chief? > IQ2: Did Andy Kaufman play you in _Taxi_? > IQ3: Were you nicknamed “New Dwight” in the final season of the US version of _The Office_? Not … Lou Grant? Not Latka Gravas. DQ. ---
**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 12, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/167 "2016-03-12T23:53:11Z")
correct x2, Clark Green I thought Latka would be it DQ: Sitcom from the 80s? ---
**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 13, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/168 "2016-03-13T00:17:24Z")
**G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American\*\*, but created by an American\*\* 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms 11. First appeared on TV after 1960 12. Not British 13. Sitcom not from the '80s Note the slight addition to #6. ---
**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 13, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/169 "2016-03-13T04:00:07Z")
Previous IQs: Was your show adapted for American TV as _All in the Family_? - The BBC’s Alf Garnett of '_Til Death Us Do Part_ became Archie Bunker. Did you make special notations in your diaries that, at least one biographer believes, indicate when you whipped yourself? - William Gladstone. Were you the firebrand editor of _The Liberator_? - Ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. DQs: Lead character? Appeared in a sitcom set in America? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you work as a taxi mechanic? Were you “the Welsh Wizard”? Were you originally described as buck-toothed and frizzy-haired? ---
**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 13, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/170 "2016-03-13T12:14:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you work as a taxi mechanic? > Were you “the Welsh Wizard”? > Were you originally described as buck-toothed and frizzy-haired? Still not Latka Gravas. Not … David Lloyd George? Not Hermione Granger. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American, but created by an American 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms 11. First appeared on TV after 1960 12. Not British 13. Sitcom not from the '80s 14. Not a lead character 15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America ---
**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 13, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/171 "2016-03-13T14:24:14Z")
I’ve been away because of computer troubles. Let’s see now… IQs: 1. Did you paint _Blue Boy_? 2. Did you write _The Bab Ballads_? 3. Were you the wife of the prophet Hosea? ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/172 "2016-03-13T15:04:33Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you paint _Blue Boy_? > 2. Did you write _The Bab Ballads_? > 3. Were you the wife of the prophet Hosea? Welcome back! Not Thomas Gainsborough. Not W S Gilbert. DQ. ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/173 "2016-03-13T15:07:00Z")
Thanks! Correct, correct, and Gomer. DQ: Sitcom from the 1970’s? ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/174 "2016-03-13T15:16:55Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _Ninotchka_? 2. Did you star in _Meet Me In St. Louis_? 3. Did you and your friend Jacques help Cinderella in the Disney cartoon version? ---
**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 13, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/175 "2016-03-13T16:51:12Z")
IQ1: Are you an ex-soldier who permanently resides in Fawlty Towers? IQ2: Are you a castaway played by Bob Denver? IQ3: Did Hugh Laurie play two versions of you in _Black Adder_? ---
**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 13, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/176 "2016-03-13T16:58:46Z")
You swept mine. Thought for sure it was Latka - and had overlooked the earlier not-Latka answer! I hang my head in Botticellean shame. I have a feeling I’m not going to recognize our mystery person’s name when it’s revealed. IQs: Was the museum named after you in Boston notoriously robbed? Did you play a lawyer and an ambassador? Were you Mr. Darcy’s young, naive sister? ---
**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 13, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/177 "2016-03-13T17:03:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in _Ninotchka_? > 2. Did you star in _Meet Me In St. Louis_? > 3. Did you and your friend Jacques help Cinderella in the Disney cartoon version? DQ. Not Judy Garland. Not … Gus? **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. **Name** starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American, but created by an American 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms 11. First appeared on TV after 1960 12. Not British 13. Sitcom not from the '80s 14. Not a lead character 15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America 16. Sitcom not from the '70s I’ve decided to modify my answer to #3. I considered both forms of the answer before providing the first one, but I now think it would be better to say that it’s a one-word name that is always preceded by a title or honorific. ---
**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 13, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/178 "2016-03-13T18:06:25Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you star in Ninotchka? > 2. Did you star in Meet Me In St. Louis? > 3. Did you and your friend Jacques help Cinderella in the Disney cartoon version? > DQ. > Not Judy Garland. > Not … Gus? #1 was Greta Garbo. #2 was correct. #3 is either Gus or Gus-Gus, depending on your source, so, correct. DQ: European? ---
**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 14, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/179 "2016-03-14T04:22:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > … > > IQs: > > Was the museum named after you in Boston notoriously robbed? > Did you play a lawyer and an ambassador? > Were you Mr. Darcy’s young, naive sister? Ahem. ---
**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 14, 2016, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/180 "2016-03-14T11:28:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ahem. Sorry - didn’t realise you and KO had posted while I was answering PP. :o > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you an ex-soldier who permanently resides in Fawlty Towers? > IQ2: Are you a castaway played by Bob Denver? > IQ3: Did Hugh Laurie play two versions of you in _Black Adder_? DQ. Not Gilligan. Not Prince George. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was the museum named after you in Boston notoriously robbed? > Did you play a lawyer and an ambassador? > Were you Mr. Darcy’s young, naive sister? Three DQs. **G** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. **Name** starts with G 4. Would not be alive today if real 5. Not from literature 6. Not American, but created by an American 7. Not best known for movie(s) 8. Not from advertising 9. Best known from TV 10. Known for sitcoms 11. First appeared on TV after 1960 12. Not British 13. Sitcom not from the '80s 14. Not a lead character 15. Did not appear in a sitcom set in America 16. Sitcom not from the '70s 17. Not European I’ve decided to modify my answer to #3. I considered both forms of the answer before providing the first one, but I now think it would be better to say that it’s a one-word name that is always preceded by a title or honorific. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=10)