# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/381 "2023-05-28T04:49:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Dolly Parton famously sing about you? > Have you played a blue-collar husband, the Speaker of the House and an evangelist? > Were you fooled by the Red-Headed League? 1. Nor Miley Cyrus, either; I am not Jolene. 2. I am not … John Goodman? If I’m wrong, take a DQ. 3. I am not Jabez Wilson. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Congrats, SMV! > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a real-life person and the title character of a 1980 film produced by Mel Brooks? > 2. Do you currently write and draw the comic strip _Nancy_? > 3. Were you the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000? 1. I am not John Merrick, the Elephant Man. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Joseph Lieberman. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQs > > 1. When you got fired from your lucrative career for writing a manifesto, did you take the office fish with you? > 2. Were you Walter Whites main Partner in crime? > 3. Did you change your name to Saul Goodman? Three DQs for youse, and you’ve got me curious about the fishnapper… ---
**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 28, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/382 "2023-05-28T13:10:04Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Sage of Monticello? 2. Did you create the concept of the subjective unconscious? 3. Are you the author of the _A Marginal Jew_ series? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/383 "2023-05-28T14:04:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Sage of Monticello? > 2. Did you create the concept of the subjective unconscious? > 3. Are you the author of the _A Marginal Jew_ series? 1. I am not Thomas Jefferson. 2. I am not Carl Jung. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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 28, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/384 "2023-05-28T14:47:21Z")
Correct, correct and John Meier. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/385 "2023-05-28T15:18:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct, correct and John Meier > > DQ: Real? With Carl Jung, did you mean the “_collective_ unconcious”? DQs: 1. Real. ---
**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 28, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/386 "2023-05-28T15:33:24Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not John Merrick, the Elephant Man. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Joseph Lieberman. 2 (_Nancy_) was Olivia Jaimes. DQ: male? ---
**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 28, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/387 "2023-05-28T16:02:28Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > With Carl Jung, did you mean the “_collective_ unconcious”? Oh. Yeah. My goof. ---
**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 28, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/388 "2023-05-28T16:03:38Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _Me and Bobby McGee_? 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? 3. Did you write the hymn _Amazing Grace_? ---
**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 28, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/389 "2023-05-28T16:38:48Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a Ghostbuster, _Daily Show_ host, and former _Saturday Night Live_ cast member? 2. Are you, like, one-sixth of the Electric Mayhem, fer shure? 3. Were you prime minister of the UK immediately after Margaret Thatcher? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/390 "2023-05-28T17:47:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Me and Bobby McGee_? > 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? > 3. Did you write the hymn _Amazing Grace_? 1. I am not Janis Joplin. 2. I am not Scott Joplin. 3. Take a DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Ghostbuster, _Daily Show_ host, and former _Saturday Night Live_ cast member? > 2. Are you, like, one-sixth of the Electric Mayhem, fer shure? > 3. Were you prime minister of the UK immediately after Margaret Thatcher? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not Janis. 3. I am not John Major. DQs: 1. Real. 2. Female. ---
**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 28, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/391 "2023-05-28T18:10:30Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not Janis. > 3. I am not John Major. 1 was Leslie Jones. DQ: living? IQs: 1. Did you revamp Superman in the comic series _Man of Steel_? 2. Does the name you entered politics under mean “Man of steel”? 3. Did you write _Twilight_ fanfiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon, change the names, and then publish it as a wildly successful original novel? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/392 "2023-05-28T18:25:55Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Take a DQ. > > 2. I am not Janis. > > 3. I am not John Major. > > 1 was Leslie Jones > > DQ: living? > > IQs: > 1. Did you revamp Superman in the comic series _Man of Steel_? > 2. Does the name you entered politics under mean “Man of steel”? > 3. Did you write _Twilight_ fanfiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon, change the names, and then publish it as a wildly successful original novel? IQs: 1. DQ for you, @De_La_Rue (couldn’t resist the rhyme). 2. I am not Iosip Dzughashvili, otherwise known as Joseph Stalin. 3. I have never written bad fanfic on a BlackBerry; I am not P.D. James. DQs: 1. Real. 2. Female. 3. Living. ETA: Okay, I just looked it up to check my memory, and the author of _Fifty Shades of Grey_ is actually _E.L._ James, not P.D. So take another DQ. ---
**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 28, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/393 "2023-05-28T18:38:27Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > Qs > > > > 1. When you got fired from your lucrative career for writing a manifesto, did you take the office fish with you? > > 2. Were you Walter Whites main Partner in crime? > > 3. Did you change your name to Saul Goodman? > > Three DQs for youse, and you’ve got me curious about the fishnapper… 1. Jerry Maguire [(Fish scene)](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=jerry+mcGuire+fish#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f60cd74f,vid:XDBgsxKi4Kg) 2. Jesse Pinkman 3. James “Jimmy” McGill (Just watched Camero on Netflix so I had Breaking bad on my mind for the last two) DQ: 1. Famous before 2000? 2. Known for the arts? 1 DQ reserved IQ: 1. Did you invent the aqualung? 2. Did your mom use lambskin to help you steal your brothers inheritance? 3. Was your Nickname Old Hickory? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/394 "2023-05-28T18:50:01Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > > > Qs > > > > > > 1. When you got fired from your lucrative career for writing a manifesto, did you take the office fish with you? > > > 2. Were you Walter Whites main Partner in crime? > > > 3. Did you change your name to Saul Goodman? > > > > Three DQs for youse, and you’ve got me curious about the fishnapper… > > 1. Jerry Maguire [(Fish scene)](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=jerry+mcGuire+fish#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f60cd74f,vid:XDBgsxKi4Kg) > 2. Jesse Pinkman > 3. James “Jimmy” McGill > > (Just watched Camero on Netflix so had Breaking bad on my mind for the last two) > > DQ: > > 1. Famous before 2000? > 2. Known for the arts? > 1 DQ reserved > > IQ: > > 1. Did you invent the aqualung? > 2. Did your mom use lambskin to help you steal your brothers inheritance? > 3. Was your Nickname Old Hickory? IQs: 1. Take a DQ. (Unless that refers to the Jethro Tull song?) 2. I am not Jacob. 3. I am not Andrew Jackson. DQs: 1. Real. 2. Female. 3. Living. 4. Not famous before 2000. 5. Known for the arts. ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/395 "2023-05-28T19:03:34Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. DQ for you, @De_La_Rue (couldn’t resist the rhyme). > 2. I am not Iosip Dzughashvili, otherwise known as Joseph Stalin. > 3. I have never written bad fanfic on a BlackBerry; I am not P.D. James. 1 (_Man of Steel_) was John Byrne; 3 was indeed E.L. James. DQs: 1. American? 2. first name begins with J? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/396 "2023-05-28T19:16:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Female. 3. Living. 4. Not famous before 2000. 5. Known for the arts. 6. American. 7. Surname begins with _J._ ---
**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 28, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/397 "2023-05-28T19:17:35Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Did you invent the aqualung? > > 2. Did your mom use lambskin to help you steal your brothers inheritance? > > 3. Was your Nickname Old Hickory? > > IQs: > > 1. Take a DQ. (Unless that refers to the Jethro Tull song?) > 2. I am not Jacob. > 3. I am not Andrew Jackson. 1. Jacques Cousteau Other two correct 1 more DQ reserved for a total of 2. ---
**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 28, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/398 "2023-05-28T20:25:50Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Me and Bobby McGee_? > > 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? > > 3. Did you write the hymn _Amazing Grace_? > > 1. I am not Janis Joplin. > 2. I am not Scott Joplin. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, correct, and John Newton. DQ: Known for acting? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/399 "2023-05-28T20:45:41Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > > > IQs: > > > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Me and Bobby McGee_? > > > 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? > > > 3. Did you write the hymn _Amazing Grace_? > > > > 1. I am not Janis Joplin. > > 2. I am not Scott Joplin. > > 3. Take a DQ. > > Correct, correct, and John Newton > > DQ: Known for acting? DQs: 1. Real. 2. Female. 3. Living. 4. Not famous before 2000. 5. Known for the arts. 6. American. 7. Surname begins with _J._ 8. Not known for acting. ---
**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 29, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367/400 "2023-05-29T00:24:56Z")
{Hmm. Maybe a singer, a comic or a model?} IQs: 1. Did you play Morticia on the original _The Addams Family_ TV series? 2. Did you play Wednesday on the Netflix series _Wednesday_? 3. Did you play Gomez in the movie _Addams Family Values_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2023/983367.md?page=21)