# Botticelli, May 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 22, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753 "2011-05-22T04:09:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/221 "2011-05-31T04:13:36Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > … > DQ:Are you female? 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character 3. Human 4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that 5. Male ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/222 "2011-05-31T04:41:16Z")
IQ: Are your surviving children named Athena and Apollo (your younger son and your wife having been killed)? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/223 "2011-05-31T04:52:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > IQ: Are your surviving children named Athena and Apollo (your younger son and your wife having been killed)? No, I’m not Adama (Lorne Greene) from the original _Battlestar Galactica_. Here’s a great early picture of him, BTW: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Lorne\_Greene.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Lorne_Greene.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/224 "2011-05-31T04:57:58Z")
IQ: Were you knighted after becoming a police commissioner? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/225 "2011-05-31T06:20:40Z")
IQ: Do you have a Boomstick? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/226 "2011-05-31T13:11:23Z")
Dunno about either of those. Ask your DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/227 "2011-05-31T13:33:22Z")
Sir John Appleby. DQ: Is your character set in the 20th or 21st Century? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/228 "2011-05-31T14:20:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Sir John Appleby. > > DQ: Is your character set in the 20th or 21st Century? 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character 3. Human 4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that 5. Male 6. 20th Century ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/229 "2011-05-31T17:45:22Z")
You’re not Ash from Housewares. DQ: Are you involved in law enforcement? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/230 "2011-05-31T18:35:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > …DQ: Are you involved in law enforcement? 1. Last name starts with A 2. Fictional character 3. Human 4. Has appeared in comics, but isn’t best known for that 5. Male 6. 20th Century 7. Involved in law enforcement, but isn’t best known for that ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/231 "2011-05-31T19:10:30Z")
This has two possible answers in order to specify the question, but obviously you only need to know one name. (Although both X1 and X2 have A-names, I think it fair that if you can somehow think of another movie that fits the question without both being A-names you get it right). IQ:Are you either: A famous actor (call them “X1”) who became a game show host, or the actor (“X2”) who played the host of the same game show in an Oscar-winning movie? (Furthermore, X2 was not portraying X1, but X1 was portrayed by someone else in the movie.) ---
**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:** [May 31, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/232 "2011-05-31T19:22:18Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > This has two possible answers in order to specify the question, but obviously you only need to know one name. (Although both X1 and X2 have A-names, I think it fair that if you can somehow think of another movie that fits the question without both being A-names you get it right). > > IQ:Are you either: > A famous actor (call them “X1”) who became a game show host, or the actor (“X2”) who played the host of the same game show in an Oscar-winning movie? (Furthermore, X2 was not portraying X1, but X1 was portrayed by someone else in the movie.) I think I understood that. No, I’m not Art Fleming. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/233 "2011-05-31T19:37:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I think I understood that. No, I’m not Art Fleming. Incorrect, unless you can point out an Oscar-winning movie that portrayed Art Fleming - was he in _Network_? I was thinking of _Slumdog Millionaire_. Amitabh Bachchan was[is?] the host of the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. In the movie, Anil Kapoor plays the host of the show. The first question has the flashback in which another actor plays a young Bachchan signing autographs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/234 "2011-05-31T19:48:56Z")
IQ: Does ‘The “d” [make] the difference’? fnord ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/235 "2011-05-31T22:16:48Z")
IQ: Were you the longtime manager of the Dodgers? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/236 "2011-05-31T22:46:04Z")
IQ: Are you the dead partner of another more famous private eye? ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/237 "2011-06-01T00:12:34Z")
IQ: Has your girlfriend ever killed the undead? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/238 "2011-06-01T01:22:32Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > Incorrect, unless you can point out an Oscar-winning movie that portrayed Art Fleming - was he in _Network_? > > I was thinking of _Slumdog Millionaire_. Amitabh Bachchan was[is?] the host of the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. In the movie, Anil Kapoor plays the host of the show. The first question has the flashback in which another actor plays a young Bachchan signing autographs. OK, you got me. Ask a DQ. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/239 "2011-06-01T01:23:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > IQ: Does ‘The “d” [make] the difference’?.. No, I’m not Armand Hammer (“Arm and hammer”). ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753/240 "2011-06-01T01:24:50Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you the longtime manager of the Dodgers? Ooo, the guy who did the Weight Watchers ad, right? Al somebody. You got me. Ask a DQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2011/582753.md?page=13)