# Botticelli March 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525 "2023-03-01T03:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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 22, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/441 "2023-03-22T18:25:43Z")
DQs: 1. living? 2. 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 22, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/442 "2023-03-22T18:42:41Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Were you answering me or De\_La\_Rue? 😆 +1 😃 ---
**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 22, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/443 "2023-03-22T19:23:27Z")
# DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American Why, I was obviously answering Buck’s, since he was first. And I obviously missed the duplication the first time around. đŸ«€ ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/444 "2023-03-22T19:57:34Z")
As further evidence your answers matched my capitalization rather than De\_La Rue’s. Now back to wracking my brain for people whose names begins with X. ---
**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 22, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/445 "2023-03-22T20:46:46Z")
IQs: 1. Do you appear in the _Nip/Tuck_ episode “Willy Ward” in a hallucination, when Kimber is questioning having joined Scientology, depicted as a stereotypical “grey alien” wearing a Ming the Merciless-style cape and collar? 2. Speaking of aliens, are you that deity Starfire is always invoking? 3. Were you born with the last name “Little”, but changed it to reflect your unknown ancestor? ---
**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 22, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/446 "2023-03-22T21:36:36Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Do you appear in the _Nip/Tuck_ episode “Willy Ward” in a hallucination, when Kimber is questioning having joined Scientology, depicted as a stereotypical “grey alien” wearing a Ming the Merciless-style cape and collar? > 2. Speaking of aliens, are you that deity Starfire is always invoking? > 3. Were you born with the last name “Little”, but changed it to reflect your unknown ancestor? 1. I am not Malcolm X. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 22, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/447 "2023-03-22T21:58:02Z")
Swept me IQ1: Did you host MTV’s _Pimp My Ride_? IQ2: Were you a co-founder of the Jesuit order who is also the namesake of a Jesuit university in Ohio? IQ3: Were you the sent down girl? ---
**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 22, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/448 "2023-03-22T21:59:06Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you host MTV’s _Pimp My Ride_? > IQ2: Were you a co-founder of the Jesuit order who is also the namesake of a Jesuit university in Ohio? > IQ3: Were you the sent down girl? #2. I am not St. Francis Xavier. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/449 "2023-03-22T22:01:47Z")
Rapper Xzibit Correct Xiu Xiu, from the film of the same name Died after 1900? Asian? ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/450 "2023-03-22T22:09:15Z")
# DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. Not American 5. Died after 1900 6. Not Asian ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/451 "2023-03-22T22:25:32Z")
IQ1: Were you - very briefly - king of Persia and pharaoh of Egypt? IQ2: Were you a 20th-century Spanish bandleader? ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/452 "2023-03-22T22:28:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you - very briefly - king of Persia and paraoh of Egypt? > IQ2: Were you a 20th-century Spanish bandleader? 1. Take a DQ. Better yet, don’t. #2. Yes, I am # Xavier Cugat! [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.2RAughvpBBjwSDYK3d1f_gHaJt?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.2RAughvpBBjwSDYK3d1f_gHaJt?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) Who I always thought was Cuban until I researched for this round. And I learned he was born an January 1, 1900, starting off the 1900s if not the century. Well done, **SCA!** ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/453 "2023-03-22T22:59:43Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you - very briefly - king of Persia and pharaoh of Egypt? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. Xerxes II. Having looked over EH’s list, I am [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/UnifrakturMaguntia_G.svg/595px-UnifrakturMaguntia_G.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/UnifrakturMaguntia_G.svg/595px-UnifrakturMaguntia_G.svg.png) Back in a few hours after I decide _which_ ‘G’ I am. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/454 "2023-03-23T00:55:33Z")
1. DId you write the music for the musical “Strike up the band” which was a satire of world war 1? 2. Speaking of musical,s were you the subject of a musical about your innovative post-impressionistic art style? 3. Speaking of artists, are you known for among other things your landscape paintings of Ghost Ranch New Mexico. ---
**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, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/455 "2023-03-23T03:15:03Z")
Congrats, SCAdian! Question wrap-up: > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Malcolm X. > Take 2 DQs. 1 (alien from _Nip/Tuck_) was Xenu, of Scientology lore; 2 (Starfire’s deity) was X’hal. IQs: 1. Did you write _A Game of Thrones_? 2. Were you Tommy Lee Jones’ college roommate? 3. Are you a red-haired comedienne with a _Life on the D-List_? ---
**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 23, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/456 "2023-03-23T12:52:00Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the woman whose portrait is known as the Mona Lisa? 2. Were you a MLB catcher who went on to a successful career in sports broadcasting? 3. Were you an Ohio Senator whose journey around the world was legendary? ---
**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 23, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/457 "2023-03-23T13:52:09Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. DId you write the music for the musical “Strike up the band” which was a satire of world war 1? > 2. Speaking of musical,s were you the subject of a musical about your innovative post-impressionistic art style? > 3. Speaking of artists, are you known for among other things your landscape paintings of Ghost Ranch New Mexico. DQ DQ Not Georgia O’Keefe > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _A Game of Thrones_? > 2. Were you Tommy Lee Jones’ college roommate? > 3. Are you a red-haired comedienne with a _Life on the D-List_? Not George R R Martin Not George Bush DQ > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you the woman whose portrait is known as the Mona Lisa? > 2. Were you a MLB catcher who went on to a successful career in sports broadcasting? > 3. Were you an Ohio Senator whose journey around the world was legendary? Not la Gioconda DQ 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 23, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/458 "2023-03-23T13:53:31Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you the woman whose portrait is known as the Mona Lisa? > > 2. Were you a MLB catcher who went on to a successful career in sports broadcasting? > > 3. Were you an Ohio Senator whose journey around the world was legendary? > > Not La Gioconda > DQ > DQ Correct on Lisa del Giocondo. #2 was Joe Garagiola. #3 was John Glenn. DQs: 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 23, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/459 "2023-03-23T14:12:16Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you write _A Game of Thrones_? > 2. Were you Tommy Lee Jones’ college roommate? > 3. Are you a red-haired comedienne with a _Life on the D-List_? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Not George R R Martin > Not George Bush > DQ 2 was Al Gore; 3 was Kathy Griffin. DQ: last name begins with G? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 23, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/460 "2023-03-23T14:53:20Z")
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