# Botticelli - May 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 30, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367 "2023-04-30T13:08:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/241 "2023-05-18T17:44:10Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with B 4. Known for the Arts 5. Known for the performing arts 6. Dead 7. American 8. Known for acting 9. Best known for movies 10. Considered a beauty 11. White 12. Did not win an Oscar 13. Died before 2000 14. Died 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 18, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/242 "2023-05-18T17:50:40Z")
Previous IQs: Did a novelist suggest a well-known character of yours later died in a plane crash along with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold? - Ingrid Bergman’s _Casablanca_ character Ilsa Lund Were you a noted feminist Congresswoman? - Yes, Bella Abzug Are you one of several members of the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolamaloo? - You’ve got your choice of Bruces, mate: [HELLO BRUCE !!! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ojhtq51Ya8) DQs: Best known as a leading actress? Famous husband? IQs: Were you a young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle’s mentor? Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration? Did you try to help the wounded President James A. Garfield, but failed, probably through no fault of your own? ---
**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, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/243 "2023-05-18T18:09:34Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a gay former congressman from Massachusetts? 2. Have you played Veronica Mars and Eleanor Shellstrop? 3. Is the Good Smile Company selling an articulated figure based on one of your most famous paintings, complete with a backdrop and clamshell for her to stand on? ---
**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 18, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/244 "2023-05-18T18:39:44Z")
IQ1: Were you a silent-film actress who starred as Cleopatra? IQ2: Did you play the mother in the original _Yours, Mine and Ours_? IQ3: Were you the mother whose family that film was based on? ---
**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, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/245 "2023-05-18T19:49:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a silent-film actress who starred as Cleopatra? Yes, I am # **Theda Bara, “The Vamp!”** [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.zebblhemgM5CknOsLftawwHaK6?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.zebblhemgM5CknOsLftawwHaK6?pid=ImgDet&rs=1) Despite being best known for playing Cleopatra, there are no known copies of the movie, just stills. There are actually only a handful of her movies that have survived to this day. You have done well yet again, **SCAdian!** ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/246 "2023-05-19T01:52:40Z")
Wow that was fast. Over before I even got off work enough to submit my first IQs. Congrats SCAdian. ---
**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 19, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/247 "2023-05-19T13:54:09Z")
My turn in the barrel again, eh? I am [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/UnifrakturMaguntia_y.svg/988px-UnifrakturMaguntia_y.svg.png) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/UnifrakturMaguntia_y.svg/988px-UnifrakturMaguntia_y.svg.png) ‘Y’. ---
**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, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/248 "2023-05-19T15:20:52Z")
Congrats, **SCAdian**! Previous IQs: Were you a young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle’s mentor? - Dr. Joseph Bell, whose acute powers of observation helped inspire Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration? - Griffin Bell Did you try to help the wounded President James A. Garfield, but failed, probably through no fault of your own? - Alexander Graham Bell, who invented an early metal detector but was unable to locate the bullet which had wounded Garfield, perhaps because his doctors refused to move him from a metal-framed bed Bell x3! Hmm, that’s an odd-looking Y. Here we go: IQs: Did Chandler and Joey really enjoy watching you on TV in slo-mo? Did you star in _Witchblade_? Was a catchphrase of yours, “I love this country”? ---
**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, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/249 "2023-05-19T15:43:51Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Rizzo’s girlfriend in _The Muppets Take Manhattan_? 2. Were you the artist son of Victor Vasarely? 3. Are you one of three little maids from school? ---
**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, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/250 "2023-05-19T15:48:09Z")
Congrats, SCAdian! IQs: 1. Did you play for the Yankees? 2. Were you Maid Marian in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_? 3. Take your wife…_please_? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/251 "2023-05-19T16:07:59Z")
IQ: 1. Are you a rabbit samurai? 2. Are you a Warner Brother with a sister named Dot? 3. Were you also Giantman, Antman, and Goliath? ---
**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 19, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/252 "2023-05-19T17:17:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Chandler and Joey really enjoy watching you on TV in slo-mo? > Did you star in _Witchblade_? > Was a catchphrase of yours, “I love this country”? Take three. (Chandler and Joey - _Friends_?) > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you Rizzo’s girlfriend in _The Muppets Take Manhattan_? > 2. Were you the artist son of Victor Vasarely? > 3. Are you one of three little maids from school? DQ DQ Not Yum Yum > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you play for the Yankees? > 2. Were you Maid Marian in _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_? > 3. Take your wife…_please_? Not … Cy Young? DQ Not Henny Youngman. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Are you a rabbit samurai? > 2. Are you a Warner Brother with a sister named Dot? > 3. Were you also Giantman, Antman, and Goliath? DQ Not Yakko. Not Yellowjacket. ---
**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, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/253 "2023-05-19T17:33:36Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Not … Cy Young? > DQ > Not Henny Youngman. 1 was Yogi Berra; 2 was Amy Yasbeck. DQs: 1. real? 2. last name starts with Y? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/254 "2023-05-19T17:42:42Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Are you a rabbit samurai? > > 2. Are you a Warner Brother with a sister named Dot? > > 3. Were you also Giantman, Antman, and Goliath? > > DQ > Not Yakko. > Not Yellowjacket. 1. I was thinking of [Usagi Yojimbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usagi_Yojimbo), but as I just now glanced at the linked wikipedia page I was going to reference see that while the comic goes by that name the character is Miyamoto Usagi, with Yojimbo, meaning bodyguard, being a descriptor. So this IQ is withdrawn. 2 and 3 correct. ---
**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, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/255 "2023-05-19T18:01:26Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you Rizzo’s girlfriend in _The Muppets Take Manhattan_? > > 2. Were you the artist son of Victor Vasarely? > > 3. Are you one of three little maids from school? > > DQ > DQ > Not Yum Yum #1 was Yolanda. #2 was Yvaral. Correct on the bride Yum-Yum. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/256 "2023-05-19T18:17:38Z")
IQ: 1.Were you Steve Dallas’ prom date? 2. Did you have a spectacular concert at the Acropolis in Athens? 3. Is there a statue of you in Salt Lake city with your back to the church and your hand held out to a bank? ---
**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, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/257 "2023-05-19T19:00:10Z")
IQ1: _You_ know the gate. _You_ are the gate. _You_ are the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in _you_? IQ2: Did you cross-dress in order to study the Talmud? IQ3: Did you direct half of the Harry Potter films? ---
**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, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/258 "2023-05-19T19:04:40Z")
IQs: 1. Were you 1960s TV’s Batgirl? 2. Did you co-found Yahoo!? 3. Are you a green dinosaur in the Mario Bros. video games? ---
**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, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/259 "2023-05-19T20:49:58Z")
Previous IQs: Did Chandler and Joey really enjoy watching you on TV in slo-mo? - Yasmine Bleeth on _Baywatch_ (yes, that’s C&J of _Friends_) Did you star in _Witchblade_? - Yancy Butler Was a catchphrase of yours, “I love this country”? - Yakov Smirnov DQs: American? Last name start with Y? One DQ reserved. IQs: Does the Planetary Society celebrate you yearly? Were you a fellow of infinite jest? Were you part of a famous folk music trio? ---
**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, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/260 "2023-05-19T21:27:35Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Tea For Two_? 2. Do you frequently get upset with Hathor and Cthulhu forget your birthday? 3. Did you appear in the first newspaper comic strip? (Actually, just one panel) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=14)