# 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:** 4
**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 8, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/61 "2013-05-08T00:16:09Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Were you Umberto II, last king of Italy? I thought you’d never ask! I am indeed **Umberto II** , by the Grace of God King of Italy, King of Sardinia, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Armenia, Duke of Savoy, count of Maurienne, Marquis (of the Holy Roman Empire) in Italy; Prince of Piedmont, Carignano, Oneglia, Poirino, Trino; Prince and Perpetual Vicar of the Holy Roman Empire; Prince of Carmagnola, Montmellian with Arbin and Francin, Prince bailiff of the Duchy of Aosta, Prince of Chieri, Dronero, Crescentino, Riva di Chieri and Banna, Busca, Bene, Bra, Duke of Genoa, Monferrat, Aosta, Duke of Chablais, Genevois, Duke of Piacenza, Marquis of Saluzzo (Saluces), Ivrea, Susa, of Maro, Oristano, Cesana, Savona, Tarantasia, Borgomanero and Cureggio, Caselle, Rivoli, Pianezza, Govone, Salussola, Racconigi over Tegerone, Migliabruna and Motturone, Cavallermaggiore, Marene, Modane and Lanslebourg, Livorno Ferraris, Santhià Agliè, Centallo and Demonte, Desana, Ghemme, Vigone, Count of Barge, Villafranca, Ginevra, Nizza, Tenda, Romont, Asti, Alessandria, of Goceano, Novara, Tortona, Bobbio, Soissons, Sant’Antioco, Pollenzo, Roccabruna, Tricerro, Bairo, Ozegna, delle Apertole, Baron of Vaud and of Faucigni, Lord of Vercelli, Pinerolo, of Lomellina, of Valle Sesia, of the Marquisate of Ceva, Overlord of Monaco, Roccabruna and eleven-twelfths of Menton, Noble Patrician of Venice, Patrician of Ferrara. ---
**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 8, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/62 "2013-05-08T00:19:55Z")
I finally stopped thinking of dictators and switched to royalty. ---
**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 8, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/63 "2013-05-08T01:13:57Z")
Oh - just for the record: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted Scandinavian actress? > Did you star in _Jericho_? > Were you a secondary character who came to dominate the TV show you were on? That would have been three DQs if I hadn’t forgotten to answer… ---
**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 8, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/64 "2013-05-08T01:15:25Z")
\*Okay, an hour’s long enough to think about it. \* I am B! ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/65 "2013-05-08T02:56:18Z")
IQ: Did you martyr the Great Emancipator? ---
**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 8, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/66 "2013-05-08T02:59:18Z")
Way to go, **Professor**! > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a noted Scandinavian actress? > Did you star in _Jericho_? > Were you a secondary character who came to dominate the TV show you were on? Liv Ullmann. Skeet Ulrich. Urkel, on _Family Matters_. B, eh…? IQs: Did your creator once complain that he was having too much sex? Did you write _Enemy Mine_? Were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/67 "2013-05-08T03:18:09Z")
IQ1: Were you hired as a burglar by a group of 13 people? IQ2: Were you the head of a German youth organisation? IQ3: Was a large German cannon allegedly named after you? ---
**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 8, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/68 "2013-05-08T11:46:12Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did you martyr the Great Emancipator? I am not John Wilkes Booth. ---
**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 8, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/69 "2013-05-08T11:48:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your creator once complain that he was having too much sex? > Did you write _Enemy Mine_? > Were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? DQs for the first two. I am NOT… Batman, (Bale/West) ---
**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 8, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/70 "2013-05-08T11:49:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you hired as a burglar by a group of 13 people? > IQ2: Were you the head of a German youth organisation? > IQ3: Was a large German cannon allegedly named after you? DQs for the first two. I am not Bertha Krupp. ---
**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 8, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/71 "2013-05-08T12:03:57Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you hired as a burglar by a group of 13 people? > IQ2: Were you the head of a German youth organisation? > IQ3: Was a large German cannon allegedly named after you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs for the first two. I am not Bertha Krupp. Bilbo Baggins and Baldur von Shirach. Correct on Bertha Krupp. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? IQ1: Are you the best-known employee of Admiral Sir Miles Messervy? IQ2: Do you share a house with your ward, Dick Grayson, and your butler? IQ3: Did your performances include music by Joe Green? ---
**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 8, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/72 "2013-05-08T12:16:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Bilbo Baggins and Baldur von Shirach. > Correct on Bertha Krupp. > DQ1: Real? > DQ2: Male? > IQ1: Are you the best-known employee of Admiral Sir Miles Messervy? > IQ2: Do you share a house with your ward, Dick Grayson, and your butler? > IQ3: Did your performances include music by Joe Green? DQ1: Real DQ2: Male The name’s NOT Bond, James Bond. I am still NOT… Batman! DQ for the third. ---
**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 8, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/73 "2013-05-08T13:30:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your creator once complain that he was having too much sex? > Did you write _Enemy Mine_? > Were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? Charlie Bucket (_Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_)'s creator Roald Dahl was, as a young RAF officer assigned to Washington D.C. during WWII, engaged in a torrid affair with an American woman who, he griped, was wearing him out in bed. Barry Longyear. I’ll rephrase this question. DQs: American? Alive? IQs: Other than Batman, were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? Were you the pooch of a very bad guy? ---
**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 8, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/74 "2013-05-08T13:39:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > American? > Alive? > > IQs: > > Other than Batman, were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? > Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? > Were you the pooch of a very bad guy? DQ1) Real. DQ2) Male. DQ3) American. DQ4) Dead. Not Bette Midler (_Friends_.) Take 2 DQs. ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/75 "2013-05-08T15:15:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Other than Batman, were you played by two actors, each of whom had a last name with four letters? > Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? > Were you the pooch of a very bad guy? Jonathan Frid and Johnny Depp both played the vampire Barnabas Collins of _Dark Shadows_. I’ll rephrase this one, too. Blondi was Hitler’s dog. DQs: Last name start with B? Died since 1900? IQs: You are not Bette Midler. Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland? Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself to win an election? ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/76 "2013-05-08T15:46:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Last name start with B? > Died since 1900? > > IQs: > > You are not Bette Midler. Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? > Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland? > Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself to win an election? DQ1) Real. DQ2) Male. DQ3) American. DQ4) Dead. DQ5) Last name starts with B. DQ6) Died since 1900. [let’s see: Harry Chapin did _Taxi_, Joe Diffie did _Third Rock from the Sun_] Okay, DQs on 1 and 3. Not Bob Hope. ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/77 "2013-05-08T15:52:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > You are not Bette Midler. Did you sing a song with a title that was the same as an unrelated sitcom? > Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland? > Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself to win an election? Belinda Carlisle sang “Mad About You.” Yes, Bob Hope. Bob Roberts, in the movie of the same name. DQs: Best known for the creative arts, as we’ve broadly defined it in the past? Died since 1975? IQs: Were you a British action-comics heroine? Do you occasionally invite people to kiss your shiny metal ass? Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas? ---
**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 8, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/78 "2013-05-08T15:56:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Best known for the creative arts, as we’ve broadly defined it in the past? > Died since 1975? > > IQs: > > Were you a British action-comics heroine? > Do you occasionally invite people to kiss your shiny metal ass? > Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas? DQ1) Real. DQ2) Male. DQ3) American. DQ4) Dead. DQ5) Last name starts with B. DQ6) Died since 1900. DQ7) Best known for the creative arts. DQ8) Died since 1975. Not Modesty Blaise. Not Bender. Not Bob Dole. ---
**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 8, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/79 "2013-05-08T16:22:41Z")
Damn, you’re good! IQs: Did your control use the name “John Anderson”? Did you play a barrel-chested nobleman in _Henry V_? Did you direct that 1989 movie? ---
**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 8, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330/80 "2013-05-08T16:35:56Z")
Not that good. Take 2 DQ’s. I’m not… Batman director Tim Burton. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2013/657330.md?page=5)