# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/301 "2013-05-28T21:33:39Z")
I’m not sure I know how to play, but did you often use silly styrofoam props on your show? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/302 "2013-05-28T22:14:07Z")
**Tex** -I’m treating that as an IQ, and you’ve earned 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 29, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/303 "2013-05-29T01:47:54Z")
IQ - Are you a redheaded former child actor who has had a successful national radio series and numerous legal and romantic entanglements? ---
**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 29, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/304 "2013-05-29T01:55:12Z")
Welcome, **TexCat**! Have a look at the thread from the beginning to see how the game is played. You ask indirect questions (IQs) to try to stump the person in charge of this round (now **etv78** ), and earn direct questions (DQs) which are yes-no questions. We collectively try to figure out who **etv** is thinking of. Whoever guesses correctly is the winner, and starts the next round. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/305 "2013-05-29T03:13:58Z")
IQ are you a 19th century English mathematician? ---
**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 29, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/306 "2013-05-29T03:57:28Z")
I have four (I think) unused DQs, if anyone can think of a good use for them. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/307 "2013-05-29T11:56:06Z")
Has anyone asked about the culinary 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 29, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/308 "2013-05-29T11:56:23Z")
Welcome, **TexCat**! We need all the help we can get. **SCAdian** , I’ve got 3 or 4 myself. We might try to find out what kind of show he was on/hosted, but there’s a lot of possibilities: religious, nature, scientific, vote-off, just general celebrity [think Scott Baio is 45 and Single, but that’s not it], food, sports, and so on. I’m not sure what to ask. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/309 "2013-05-29T19:30:44Z")
**Prof** -Not Danny Bonaduce. Needed to stop to think for that one. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/310 "2013-05-29T19:41:19Z")
**Tex** -DQ for the mathematician. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/311 "2013-05-29T21:18:43Z")
Charles Babbage, grandfather of the computer. DQ: Are you involved in the culinary arts? I keep thinking of Alton Brown. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/312 "2013-05-29T21:40:28Z")
Tex-I am indeed Alton Brown! Very nice! ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/313 "2013-05-29T21:49:04Z")
Oh so you did use silly styrofoam props on your show! 🙂 ---
**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 29, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/314 "2013-05-29T23:45:17Z")
Well done, Texcat! I was miles away from that one. ---
**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 30, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/315 "2013-05-30T04:41:56Z")
Way to go **TexCat**! You could start the next round here in the May thread, if you like, or wait until Saturday and start a June thread. Here are our past letters (scroll to the bottom), if you want to pick a letter that hasn’t been done too recently: > **[Botticelli - the letters we've used so far](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663)** > > I had some time on my hands and went back through all of our Botticelli threads since May 2011. To guard against repeating the same letters too soon and thus to keep the game fresher, I thought this record might be helpful. I welcome any... A reminder: Once the new round starts, no use of Google or any other resource UNLESS it’s to make sure that your response to a DQ is a correct one. Again, congrats, and welcome aboard. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/316 "2013-05-30T17:45:42Z")
I am **E**! ---
**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 30, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/317 "2013-05-30T17:49:29Z")
And we’re off! IQs: 1. Were you a Soviet-born photographer whose portraits of Marilyn Monroe are still widely seen? 2. Did you ride a horse named Buttercup? 3. Were you raped by a bull? ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/318 "2013-05-30T17:55:50Z")
Professor, you got me on all 3. ---
**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 30, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/319 "2013-05-30T18:05:37Z")
[Ernest Bachrach](http://www.immortalmarilyn.com/MarilynPhotographerBachrach.html) is the photographer; Dale Evans (wife of Roy Rogers) rode Buttercup; and Europa was raped by Zeus in the form of a bull. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Alive? 3. American? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/320 "2013-05-30T18:06:21Z")
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