# Botticelli - May 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 2, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823 "2022-05-02T17:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/121 "2022-05-18T18:23:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the bad guy in _9 to 5_? 2. Did you play Mumbles in the movie _Dick Tracy_? 3. Did John Malkovich’s character say it made him feel good to kill your character in _RED_? ---
**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, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/122 "2022-05-18T19:01:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you play the bad guy in _9 to 5_ ? > 2. Did you play Mumbles in the movie _Dick Tracy_ ? > 3. Did John Malkovich’s character say it made him feel good to kill your character in _RED_ ? Not Dabny Coleman 2 DQs ---
**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, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/123 "2022-05-18T20:34:26Z")
#1 is correct. #2 was Dustin Hoffman. #3 was Richard Dreyfuss. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? ---
**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, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/124 "2022-05-18T21:17:53Z")
**D** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Living 5. Not American ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/125 "2022-05-18T22:16:16Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a non-Western politician quoted on the back of my _Bartlett’s_ as saying “black cat, white cat—as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat”? 2. Does the name of your band have no definite article, as stated in the title of one of its albums? 3. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong, And you are Marie of Roumania? ---
**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, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/126 "2022-05-18T22:34:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you a non-Western politician quoted on the back of my _Bartlett’s_ as saying “black cat, white cat—as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat”? > 2. Does the name of your band have no definite article, as stated in the title of one of its albums? > 3. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, > A medley of extemporanea; > And love is a thing that can never go wrong, > And you are Marie of Roumania? Not Deng Xiaopeng Not David Bryne (_The Name of This Band is Talking Heads_) DQ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/127 "2022-05-18T23:48:14Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not Deng Xiaopeng > Not David Bryne ( _The Name of This Band is Talking Heads_ ) > DQ 1 was Dorothy Parker. DQ: born after 1970? ---
**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, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/128 "2022-05-18T23:49:19Z")
**D** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Living 5. Not American 6. Born before 1970 ---
**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 19, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/129 "2022-05-19T00:35:07Z")
Congrats, **CFOHG**! Previous IQs: Do you offer people the choice between Cake or Death? - Yes, Eddie Izzard Did one of your two young daughters have an eye operation? - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Did your character jokingly refer to Byron as a minor poet? - Edward Woodward, playing the title character in _Breaker Morant_ Edward x3 redux! On to D…. IQs: Were you in the Army during the Korean War, and your middle name was Stanley? Were you an Oscar-winning cousin of that person? Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists Club? ---
**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 19, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/130 "2022-05-19T01:42:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you in the Army during the Korean War, and your middle name was Stanley? > Were you an Oscar-winning cousin of that person? > Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists Club? 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/131 "2022-05-19T16:58:11Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a Hatian-American novelist who wrote the memoir _Brother, I’m Dying_? 2. Were you told you would become once, twice, thrice Lord Mayor of London? 3. Do you sneeze like a kitten? ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/132 "2022-05-19T17:00:29Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Are you a Hatian-American novelist who wrote the memoir _Brother, I’m Dying_ ? > 2. Were you told you would become once, twice, thrice Lord Mayor of London? > 3. Do you sneeze like a kitten? 2 DQs Not Dipper Pines ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/133 "2022-05-19T17:09:37Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 2 DQs > Not Dipper Pines 1 was Edwidge Danticat; 2 was Dick Whittington. DQs: 1. European? 2. born after 1945? ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/134 "2022-05-19T17:10:37Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose _Th e Sorcerer’s Apprentice_? 2. Did you write “Go and catch a falling star”? 3. Did Allan Sherman write a song asking for your return? ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/135 "2022-05-19T17:50:29Z")
**D** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Living 5. Not American 6. Born before 1970 7. European 8. Born before 1945 ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/136 "2022-05-19T17:52:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you compose _Th e Sorcerer’s Apprentice_ ? > 2. Did you write “Go and catch a falling star”? > 3. Did Allan Sherman write a song asking for your return? Not Dukas 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 19, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/137 "2022-05-19T19:50:46Z")
Previous IQs: Were you in the Army during the Korean War, and your middle name was Stanley? - Michael S. Dukakis Were you an Oscar-winning cousin of that person? - Olympia Dukakis Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists Club? - Mortimer Dalrymple, in the YA stories by Bertrand R. Brinley DQs: From the British Isles? Political/military? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? Were you a monarch and the title character of a Niven and Pournelle sf novel? Did you act in a silent sitcom scene about disastrously ironing your pants? ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/138 "2022-05-19T21:15:31Z")
**D** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name begins with D 4. Living 5. Not American 6. Born before 1970 7. European 8. Born before 1945 9. From the British Isles 10. Not political/military ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/139 "2022-05-19T21:16:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? > Were you a monarch and the title character of a Niven and Pournelle sf novel? > Did you act in a silent sitcom scene about disastrously ironing your pants? DQ Not King David Not Dick Van Dyke? ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823/140 "2022-05-19T21:45:53Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? - David Tod Were you a monarch and the title character of a Niven and Pournelle sf novel? - Yes, from _King David’s Spaceship_ Did you act in a silent sitcom scene about disastrously ironing your pants? - David Hyde Pierce (I should have said “near-wordless”): [Funny Scene From Frasier - Niles Causes Fire "Silent Scene" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpImet3Xwgw) David x3! DQs: Best known for the Arts? English? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you not like people in your workplace whose eyes were too close to their nose? Were you a VIP and a messy eater in a 2002 movie? Were you Spiny Norman’s nemesis? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2022/963823.md?page=8)