# Botticelli - May 2021

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098 "2021-04-30T14:06:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**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 1, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/41 "2021-05-01T20:47:58Z")

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# DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Known for the Arts
4. American creators
5. Not originally from prose fiction
6. Created before 1980
7. Originally from movie or television
8. Created after 1900
9. First name starts with F
10. Known as a performer
11. Would be alive today, if real
12. American character
13. Not best known as an actor
14. Not Caucasian, but has Caucasian traits
15. Originally from TV
16. Not a musician (sings occasionally, but that’s not his focus)
17. Created after 1965
18. Not usually the protagonist
19. Not human
20. Not originally animated, or best known to be animated, but has been animated.
21. Has appeared in a number of movies, some on the big screen, some made for TV, along with at least four TV series

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**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 1, 2021, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/42 "2021-05-01T23:40:12Z")

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I don’t have any outstanding DQs, so I’m going straight to: Are you Fozzie Bear?

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**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 2, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/43 "2021-05-02T00:18:04Z")

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# Wokka! Wokka!

[![](https://media.wgrz.com/assets/WGRZ/images/26369ff3-16f1-445e-95d8-e8b0815101e8/26369ff3-16f1-445e-95d8-e8b0815101e8_1920x1080.jpg) ](https://media.wgrz.com/assets/WGRZ/images/26369ff3-16f1-445e-95d8-e8b0815101e8/26369ff3-16f1-445e-95d8-e8b0815101e8_1920x1080.jpg)

Nice job, **Chock**!

The Caucasian traits I mentioned are his clothes, and the fact that he was named for and somewhat modeled after Muppet puppeteer/engineer Franz “Faz” Fazakis.

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**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 2, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/44 "2021-05-02T04:05:02Z")

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Wokka!! Wokka!!

I am **W**

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**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 2, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/45 "2021-05-02T18:11:11Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you compose _Classical Gas_?
2. Were you half of a comedy doubles act that was only beaten out at the Box Office during the Depression by Laurel & Hardy?
3. Were you the other half of that act?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/46 "2021-05-02T21:21:57Z")

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IQs

1. Are you considered the father of free verse?
2. Were you the veep under President Peanut?
3. Did you win your third Oscar for your role as Judge Roy Bean?

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**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 2, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/47 "2021-05-02T21:49:00Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. Did you compose _Classical Gas_ ?
> 2. Were you half of a comedy doubles act that was only beaten out at the Box Office during the Depression by Laurel & Hardy?
> 3. Were you the other half of that act?

Not Mason Williams  
Take 2 DQs

> [@MissTake](#):
>
> 1. Are you considered the father of free verse?
> 2. Were you the veep under President Peanut?
> 3. Did you win your third Oscar for your role as Judge Roy Bean?

Take a DQ  
Not Walter Mondale  
Take a DQ - only Judge Roy Bean movie I’ve seen is the one with Paul Newman

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**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 2, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/48 "2021-05-02T21:54:38Z")

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IQ1: In a TV appearance, did you recite a poem suggesting that people should enlist in the Marine Corps?  
IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?  
IQ3: Do Brits look for you in crowd scenes?

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**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 2, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/49 "2021-05-02T22:40:40Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > 1. Did you compose _Classical Gas_ ?
> > 
> > > 1. Were you half of a comedy doubles act that was only beaten out at the Box Office during the Depression by Laurel & Hardy?
> > > 2. Were you the other half of that act?
> 
> Not Mason Williams  
> Take 2 DQs

Correct on Mason.  
The comedy team was Wheeler & Woolsey.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Last name starts with W?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/50 "2021-05-02T22:53:34Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@MissTake](#):
> >
> > > 1. Are you considered the father of free verse?
> > > 2. Were you the veep under President Peanut?
> > > 3. Did you win your third Oscar for your role as Judge Roy Bean?
> 
> Take a DQ  
> Not Walter Mondale  
> Take a DQ - only Judge Roy Bean movie I’ve seen is the one with Paul Newman

Walt Whitman  
Yes  
Walter Brennan in “The Westerner”

DQs

1. Male?

Holding one DQ

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**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 2, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/51 "2021-05-02T23:05:32Z")

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Good job, **CFOHG**!

Previous IQs:

Were you a prominent roboticist and political leader on Aurora? - Dr. Han Fostolfe, in Asimov’s _The Robots of Dawn_  
Did Don Vito Corleone take an interest in your Hollywood career? - Johnny Fontane, in _The Godfather_  
Did you play an unimpressed waitress in _Mystery Men_ ? - Claire Forlani

On to W.

IQs:

Did the Pope give you a special flag for your big venture?  
Did Dr. Maturin tend to you while you were still a royal duke?  
A living person now, is your youngest child (of three) named Louis?

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**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 2, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/52 "2021-05-02T23:43:04Z")

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DQs:  
**W**

1. Real
2. Last name starts with W
3. Male

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**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 2, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/53 "2021-05-02T23:47:16Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: In a TV appearance, did you recite a poem suggesting that people should enlist in the Marine Corps?  
> IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?  
> IQ3: Do Brits look for you in crowd scenes?

Not John Wayne  
Take a DQ  
Not Wally, renamed Waldo in the US

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Did the Pope give you a special flag for your big venture?  
> Did Dr. Maturin tend to you while you were still a royal duke?  
> A living person now, is your youngest child (of three) named Louis?

Not William the Conqueror?  
Take 2 DQs

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**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 2, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/54 "2021-05-02T23:55:32Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
> >
> > IQ1: In a TV appearance, did you recite a poem suggesting that people should enlist in the Marine Corps?  
> > IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?  
> > IQ3: Do Brits look for you in crowd scenes?
> 
> Not John Wayne  
> Take a DQ  
> Not Wally, renamed Waldo in the US

✅   
Kaiser Wilhelm II.  
 ✅

DQ: Living?

IQ1: Were you Clarence’s friend and Theodore’s brother?  
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?  
IQ3: Did you hold conversations with an animal voiced by Rocky Lane?

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**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 2, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/55 "2021-05-02T23:59:37Z")

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DQs:  
**W**

1. Real
2. Last name starts with W
3. Male
4. Living

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**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 3, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/56 "2021-05-03T00:00:32Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you Clarence’s friend and Theodore’s brother?  
> IQ2: Were you #1’s father?  
> IQ3: Did you hold conversations with an animal voiced by Rocky Lane?

Take 2 DQs  
Not Wilbur

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**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 3, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/57 "2021-05-03T00:19:40Z")

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Wally Cleaver.  
Ward Cleaver.  
 ✅

DQ1: Known for the Arts?  
DQ2: American?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/58 "2021-05-03T00:22:09Z")

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My other DQ:  
Born after 1970?

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**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 3, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/59 "2021-05-03T00:27:40Z")

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IQ1: Did you and your dog have a Grand Day Out?  
IQ2: Was your dog a sheep rustler?  
IQ3: Were you the last king of England?

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/60 "2021-05-03T00:32:11Z")

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IQs

1. Did you rep NAPA before becoming a commentator?
2. Did you play a character who left your wife for Martin Sheen?
3. Are you a musician who has to fight to use your stage name after someone tried blackmailing you under a different pseudonym?

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