# 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:** 25
**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, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/481 "2023-03-24T18:20:17Z")
IQ1: Were you the “one” referenced in the Monty Python live show title “One down, five to go”? IQ2: Did you co-create Dungeons & Dragons? IQ3: Are you a former MMA fighter turned actress whose Star Wars spinoff show was cancelled before production began? ---
**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 25, 2023, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/482 "2023-03-25T00:10:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the Harvard U. commencement speaker in 1947? > A Cub Scout, did your mom take you to see JFK in a parade a few days before he died? > Were you that person’s father? A mom who was a Cub Scout? I don’t think I want to know. Three DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a living former boxer? > 2. Did you play rational FBI agent Dana Scully on _The X-Files_? > 3. Have you been Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, Simon Baz, and Jessica Cruz? DQ Not Gillian Whoozis DQ > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you the “one” referenced in the Monty Python live show title “One down, five to go”? > IQ2: Did you co-create Dungeons & Dragons? > IQ3: Are you a former MMA fighter turned actress whose Star Wars spinoff show was cancelled before production began? DQ Not E Gary Gygax DQ **G** 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with G 4. Living 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1970 8. Born after 1990 9. European 10. Known primarily for Acting 11. Not famous before the year 2000 12. From the British Isles 13. Known for television 14. English 15. Best known for movies 16. White The seven DQs I just handed out, along with those reserved, bring us well over 20, so no more IQs. Please ask all earned DQs by 2400 EDT tomorrow, Saturday 25 March. ---
**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, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/483 "2023-03-25T00:33:57Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you a living former boxer? > 2. Did you play rational FBI agent Dana Scully on _The X-Files_? > 3. Have you been Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, Simon Baz, and Jessica Cruz? > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ > Not Gillian Whoozis > DQ 1 was George Foreman; close enough on Gillian Anderson; 3 was Green Lantern. 2 DQs 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 25, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/484 "2023-03-25T00:48:11Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the “one” referenced in the Monty Python live show title “One down, five to go”? > > IQ2: Did you co-create Dungeons & Dragons? > > IQ3: Are you a former MMA fighter turned actress whose Star Wars spinoff show was cancelled before production began? > > DQ > Not E Gary Gygax > DQ Graham Chapman Yes Gina Carano DQ: Famous before 2010? Holding one DQ ---
**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 25, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/485 "2023-03-25T00:59:19Z")
DQ: Primarily known for one single role? ---
**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 25, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/486 "2023-03-25T01:16:28Z")
DQs: 1. First name starts with GA -to- GH? 2. Best known from a series of movies? ---
**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 25, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/487 "2023-03-25T02:50:38Z")
**G** 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with G 4. Living 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1970 8. Born after 1990 9. European 10. Known primarily for Acting 11. Not famous before the year 2000 12. From the British Isles 13. Known for television 14. English 15. Best known for movies 16. White 17. Famous before 2010 18. Primarily known for one single role 19. First name starts with GA -to- GH 20. Best known from a series of movies ---
**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, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/488 "2023-03-25T04:14:21Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the Harvard U. commencement speaker in 1947? - George C. Marshall; he proposed what became the Marshall Plan then A Cub Scout, did your mom take you to see JFK in a parade a few days before he died? - the mom was Barbara Bush, but the person in question, a Cub Scout at the time, was George W. Bush Were you that person’s father? - George H.W. Bush, naturally George x3 redux! IQs: Considered a beauty? Movies in a genre (sf, fantasy, crime, etc.)? Series was American movies? ---
**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, 2023, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/489 "2023-03-25T07:13:25Z")
Hmm… became famous as a teen in the 2000-2009 time frame, series of films…one of the Harry Potter kids? ---
**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 25, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/490 "2023-03-25T12:32:40Z")
Maybe, but Emma Watson was Hermione, and Evanna Lynch was Luna, so it’s not them. ---
**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, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/491 "2023-03-25T14:14:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A Cub Scout, did your mom take you to see JFK in a parade a few days before he died? - the mom was Barbara Bush, but the person in question, a Cub Scout at the time, was George W. Bush …wouldn’t Bush have been 18 in 1963? That’s a bit too old for a Cub Scout. ---
**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, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/492 "2023-03-25T14:51:15Z")
Well, 17. ---
**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 25, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/493 "2023-03-25T16:33:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the Harvard U. commencement speaker in 1947? - George C. Marshall; he proposed what became the Marshall Plan then > A Cub Scout, did your mom take you to see JFK in a parade a few days before he died? - the mom was Barbara Bush, but the person in question, a Cub Scout at the time, was George W. Bush > Were you that person’s father? - George H.W. Bush, naturally > > George x3 redux! I considered Bush and Bush, but I didn’t think he was young enough to have been a Cub Scout in '63. DLR seems to agree. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > …wouldn’t Bush have been 18 in 1963? That’s a bit too old for a Cub Scout. ---
**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 25, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/494 "2023-03-25T16:37:08Z")
**G** 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with G 4. Living 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1970 8. Born after 1990 9. European 10. Known primarily for Acting 11. Not famous before the year 2000 12. From the British Isles 13. Known for television 14. English 15. Best known for movies 16. White 17. Famous before 2010 18. Primarily known for one single role 19. First name starts with GA -to- GH 20. Best known from a series of movies 21. Could be considered a beauty Holding off on answering EH’s “Bush” DQs… ---
**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 25, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/495 "2023-03-25T20:59:35Z")
I got 1 DQ left if anyone has any ideas. My knowledge of young 21st century British actresses begins and ends with Emma Watson. ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/496 "2023-03-25T21:16:51Z")
Asking Buck’s DQ: Main character? [What, you haven’t heard of Millie Bobbie Brown?] ---
**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, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/497 "2023-03-25T21:29:02Z")
I had read awhile back that Dubya was a Cub Scout when he saw JFK. It seems I was misinformed; I agree the age wouldn’t be right. Question withdrawn. ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/498 "2023-03-25T21:32:26Z")
There was the Narnia series, and Hunger Games, and Twilight, and Percy Jackson… ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/499 "2023-03-25T21:37:06Z")
**G** 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with G 4. Living 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1970 8. Born after 1990 9. European 10. Known primarily for Acting 11. Not famous before the year 2000 12. From the British Isles 13. Known for television 14. English 15. Best known for movies 16. White 17. Famous before 2010 18. Primarily known for one single role 19. First name starts with GA -to- GH 20. Best known from a series of movies 21. Could be considered a beauty 22. A main character ---
**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 25, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/500 "2023-03-25T21:41:37Z")
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