# Botticelli - May, 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 2, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330 "2013-05-02T17:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 18, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/201 "2013-05-18T02:59:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you provide a voice in two animated movies, but were replaced by a soundalike in a third? > Did you offer your Emmy to Jack Lemmon? > Was your father a Baltimore newspaper reader? Jim Varney in the _Toy Story_ movies. Ving Rhames. Virginia O’Hanlon, of “Yes, Virginia” fame (the subject of an earlier Botticelli round). DQs: American? Living? Involved in the creative arts, broadly defined? IQs: Were you a character in the play in which Andy Griffith first broke into acting? Was your real job leaked by the number two guy in a Federal agency? Unlike in real life, were you an alien in a short story by Neil Gaiman? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/202 "2013-05-18T03:42:00Z")
IQ: Did the A-Rod people like fix you up with your current girlfriend? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/203 "2013-05-18T03:44:32Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1) Are you the Ankh Warrior that replaced the Space Ace? > IQ2) Are you a martyr associated with cheap chalky candy? > IQ3) Did you know what a Quarter Pounder is called in France? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #1’s from Kiss, but I don’t recall the name. #2 is probably one of the many St. John’s but I don’t know which. #3 is Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega. > > Take 2 DQs 1 was indeed Vinnie Vincent, who replaced Ace Frehley in Kiss. 2 is St.Valentine ETA: Didn’t see this thread had gone to a fifth page. I asked the same DQs as Elendil. Let me think of some more. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/204 "2013-05-18T14:25:38Z")
DQ1. Male DQ2. Real DQ3. American DQ4. Dead DQ5. Not involved in the creative arts ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/205 "2013-05-18T14:26:41Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did Conan O’Brien set you free from a cage on his show? Take a 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:** [May 18, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/206 "2013-05-18T14:27:48Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did the A-Rod people like fix you up with your current girlfriend? Take another 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:** [May 18, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/207 "2013-05-18T14:29:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > J > > IQs: > > Were you a character in the play in which Andy Griffith first broke into acting? > Was your real job leaked by the number two guy in a Federal agency? > Unlike in real life, were you an alien in a short story by Neil Gaiman? Wow. Just wow. Take 3 DQs, ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/208 "2013-05-18T18:27:09Z")
Mine were: 1)Abe Vigoda 2)Fernando Verdasco DQ: 1)Politician? 2)Died after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/209 "2013-05-18T18:37:52Z")
IQ: Was a rule named after to you designed to avoid a repeat of the financial meltdown? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/210 "2013-05-18T19:01:43Z")
DQ1. Male DQ2. Real DQ3. American DQ4. Dead DQ5. Not involved in the creative arts DQ6. Politician DQ7. Died before 1900 ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/211 "2013-05-18T19:03:06Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Was a rule named after to you designed to avoid a repeat of the financial meltdown? I am not Volcker. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/212 "2013-05-18T19:08:06Z")
IQ: Are you the only POTUS whose 1st language was not English? ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/213 "2013-05-18T19:15:09Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you the only POTUS whose 1st language was not English? Well, THAT, was a quick round. O.K., I am the Little Magician, the Fox of Kinderhook, the 8th President of the U.S., Martin Van Buren.. Good job, etv78! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/214 "2013-05-18T19:29:37Z")
He was the only “V” 19th c. American Politician I could think of. OK, your new letter is **B** ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/215 "2013-05-18T23:10:55Z")
IQ1: Was your Medal of Honor revoked shortly after your death, but then restored 70-odd years later? IQ2: Are you a novelist whom a long-barrelled revolver was named after? IQ3: Were you known as a gunfighter, lawman, gambler, sportswriter and newspaper editor? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/216 "2013-05-18T23:14:03Z")
**SCA** -Not Bat Masterson or Clara Barton DQ (and DQs if either guess is wrong) ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/217 "2013-05-18T23:39:09Z")
IQs 1. Did you introduce Popeye as an animated cartoon character? 2. Were you one of the artists who frescoed the walls of the Sistine Chapel? 3. Are you one of the surviving BeeGees? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/218 "2013-05-18T23:40:38Z")
\*\*Prof-\*\*Not Boticelli or Barry Gibb Definitely DQ for Popeye. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/219 "2013-05-18T23:43:18Z")
Betty Boop was King Features big draw, so having her introduce Popeye helped insure his success. DQ: Male? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/220 "2013-05-18T23:45:57Z")
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