# Botticelli - May 2021 **URL:** \ **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:** 8
**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 12, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/142 "2021-05-12T06:07:59Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Are you the captain of NYPD’s 12th Precinct? > > > IQ2: Were you a gambler played by James Garner and Mel Gibson? > > > IQ3: Did Hannibal Lector convince you to choke yourself with your own tongue after you insulted Clarice Starling? > > I am not Frank Malone? Or take a DQ, I am not Bret Maverick, take a DQ. Barney Miller Correct “Multiple” Miggs DQ: TV show has been adapted into feature film? Holding other DQ ---
**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 12, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/143 "2021-05-12T06:19:00Z")
IQ1: Did you often instruct your partner to “Book 'em, Danno”? IQ2: Were you a secret agent who frequently saved the day using whatever resources you had at hand? IQ3: Are you a former Red Sox relief pitcher turned bartender? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/144 "2021-05-12T06:28:38Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1 Did you often instruct your partner to “Book 'em, Danno”? > IQ2: Were you a secret agent who frequently saved the day using whatever resources you had at hand? > IQ3: Are you a former Red Sox relief pitcher turned bartender? I am not Steve McGarrett, MacGyver or Sam Malone. 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not originally from prose 4. Originally from movies or TV 5. Last name starts with M 6. Created by Americans 7. Would be alive if real. 8. Main character 9. First appeared after 1950. 10. Possibly American, possibly presumed but I don’t believe it was ever made clear. 11.First appeared on TV 11. From a genre show 12. First appeared before 1990. 13. Did not win an Emmy for the role 14. White dude. 15. First appeared after 1970. 16. Has been adapted into a feature film. I need to clarify 15: white dude on TV. ---
**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 12, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/145 "2021-05-12T07:11:16Z")
IQ1: Did you refer to yourself as the equalizer? IQ2: Were you a proclaimed insane member of a team of mercenaries framed for a crime they didn’t commit? IQ3: Did you and your family get lost in time on a rafting trip? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/146 "2021-05-12T08:53:01Z")
I am not H M “Howling Mad” Murdock or Marshall but yes!!! **I am ROBERT MCCALL!!!** Lead character on the TV show _The Equalizer_! Played by Edward Woodward. Good job!! ---
**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 12, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/147 "2021-05-12T13:03:42Z")
Good job, **Chock!** ---
**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 12, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/148 "2021-05-12T13:09:28Z")
Well done, **CFOHG**! Previous IQs: Were you a chemist before going into politics? - Margaret Thatcher Were you, too? - Angela Merkel Were you the matchmaker and town drunk in Innisfree? - Michaeleen, in the John Wayne movie _The Quiet Man_ ---
**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 12, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/149 "2021-05-12T20:50:39Z")
Next up… **T** ---
**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 12, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/150 "2021-05-12T20:55:58Z")
IQs 1. Did your partner pen a poem about a particular flower being what it is? 2. Did you voice Ms. Frizzle? 3. Were you considered the Man of a Thousand Faces? ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/151 "2021-05-12T21:02:09Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a chemist before going into politics? 2. Are you a fictional youth whose hand was crippled whilst making a silver dish? 3. Did you write _Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats_? ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/152 "2021-05-12T21:06:12Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > 1. Did your partner pen a poem about a particular flower being what it is? > 2. Did you voice Ms. Frizzle? > 3. Were you considered the Man of a Thousand Faces? Take a DQ Not Lily Tomlin Take a DQ - I associate that with Lon Chaney. Can’t think of a T person. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you a chemist before going into politics? > 2. Are you a fictional youth whose hand was crippled whilst making a silver dish? > 3. Did you write _Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats_ ? Not Margaret Thatcher Not Johnny Tremain - [bartsimpson] - “they should call this book Johnny Deformed” - [/bartsimpson] Not T.S. Eliot ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/153 "2021-05-12T21:17:01Z")
Alice B Toklas (Gertrude Stein’s partner) Correct Fred Travalena, frequent Carson guest DQs 1. Male? 2. Real? ---
**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 12, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/154 "2021-05-12T21:38:13Z")
Swept me. Right down to the Bart impression. IQs: 1. Did you play the heavy in the TV-movie version of _The Perils of Pauline_? 2. Are you a Grammy-winning performer of blues and world music? 3. Did you have a hit with _She Blinded Me With Science_? ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/155 "2021-05-12T22:07:55Z")
DQs: **T** 1. Male 2. Real ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/156 "2021-05-12T22:09:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you play the heavy in the TV-movie version of _The Perils of Pauline_ ? > 2. Are you a Grammy-winning performer of blues and world music? > 3. Did you have a hit with _She Blinded Me With Science_ ? Take a DQ Not Taj Mahal? Not Thomas Dolby ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/157 "2021-05-12T22:23:42Z")
#1 was Terry-Thomas. Correct on the others. DQ: Living? ---
**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 12, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/158 "2021-05-12T22:54:34Z")
IQ1: Were you the hero of a series of books about a young inventor in the nineteen-teens? IQ2: Were you the hero of a similar series from the 1950s? IQ3: Did you write “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava”? ---
**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 12, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/159 "2021-05-12T23:31:54Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a blind oracle of Apollo who spent seven years as a woman? 2. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_? 3. Did you write _The Wonderful O_? ---
**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 12, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/160 "2021-05-12T23:39:55Z")
IQs 1. Was your professional acting job that as a baby double when you were 25? 2. Did you bring sexy back? 3. Are you one of the Kids in the Hall? ---
**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 12, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098/161 "2021-05-12T23:57:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the hero of a series of books about a young inventor in the nineteen-teens? > IQ2: Were you the hero of a similar series from the 1950s? > IQ3: Did you write “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava”? Not Tom Swift Take 2 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you a blind oracle of Apollo who spent seven years as a woman? > 2. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_ ? > 3. Did you write _The Wonderful O_ ? Take a DQ Not Amy Tan Take a DQ > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Was your professional acting job that as a baby double when you were 25? > 2. Did you bring sexy back? > 3. Are you one of the Kids in the Hall? Take a DQ Not Justin Timberlake Take another DQ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2021/941098.md?page=9)