# Botticelli - May 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 5, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159 "2024-05-05T15:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 24, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/181 "2024-05-24T18:30:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the personification of Ireland, the Irish equivalent of Uncle Sam or John Bull? > > 2. Are you a former mayor of San Antonio, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? > > 3. Were you one of the Nixon Administration’s Plumbers? > > #3. I am not Charles Colson. > Take 2 DQs. Correct on 3. 1 is Caithlín ní Houlihan. 2 is Henry Cisneros. DQs: Last name starts N - Z? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 24, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/182 "2024-05-24T18:33:30Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with C 4. Not American 5. Living 6. European 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born since 1964 9. Known for the performing arts 10. From UK/Ireland 11. Known for acting 12. From the U.K. 13. Born before 1988 14. Comic actor 15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither _QI_ nor _Would I Lie To You?_ - has been on _Never Mind The Buzzcocks_, _Duck Quacks Don’t Echo_ and _8 Out Of 10 Cats_, though not best known from them. 16. Last name starts with N-Z ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/183 "2024-05-24T19:06:27Z")
IQs: 1. Before you assumed your current superhero title, were you a skinny kid from Brooklyn? 2. Are you the actor most famous for playing 1? 3. Are you a British TV personality, known for your erudition and wit, one of whom’s first works was a pornographic film you co-wrote (but did not appear in) after being disappointed by the poor quality of pornos you reviewed for the _Erotic Review_? ---
**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 24, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/184 "2024-05-24T19:16:46Z")
1. I am not Captain America 🇺🇸 2. I am not Chris Evans. 3. Take a 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 24, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/185 "2024-05-24T20:20:34Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you and your son play the same role in _The Ten Commandments_? > 2. Did you defend John Scopes? > 3. Were you Mabel’s shorter, bespectacled friend on _Gravity Falls_? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > #2 I am not Clarence Darrow. > Take 2 DQs. 1 was Charlton Heston (his son played the infant Moses); 3 was Candy Chiu. DQ: known for TV? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 24, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/186 "2024-05-24T20:24:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Captain America 🇺🇸 > 2. I am not Chris Evans. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct and correct. 3 was - brace yourself, if you’re familiar with her - Victoria Coren Mitchell. DQs: 1. Has appeared on _Taskmaster_? 2. Black? 3. RADA-trained? ---
**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 24, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/187 "2024-05-24T21:54:15Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with C 4. Not American 5. Living 6. European 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born since 1964 9. Known for the performing arts 10. From UK/Ireland 11. Known for acting 12. From the U.K. 13. Born before 1988 14. Comic actor 15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither _QI_ nor _Would I Lie To You?_ - has been on _Never Mind The Buzzcocks_, _Duck Quacks Don’t Echo_ and _8 Out Of 10 Cats_, though not best known from them. 16. Last name starts with N-Z 17. Best known from TV 18. Hasn’t appeared on _Taskmaster_ 19. Not Black 20. Not RADA-trained (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). That’s 20. No new IQs please. Please ask all remaining DQs by 6pm EST tomorrow. ---
**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 25, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/188 "2024-05-25T13:35:22Z")
Final DQ: first name is Catherine, Cathy, Cat, Cate, or some variation? ---
**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 25, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/189 "2024-05-25T14:24:35Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name begins with C 4. Not American 5. Living 6. European 7. Known for the Arts 8. Born since 1964 9. Known for the performing arts 10. From UK/Ireland 11. Known for acting 12. From the U.K. 13. Born before 1988 14. Comic actor 15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither _QI_ nor _Would I Lie To You?_ - has been on _Never Mind The Buzzcocks_, _Duck Quacks Don’t Echo_ and _8 Out Of 10 Cats_, though not best known from them. 16. Last name starts with N-Z 17. Best known from TV 18. Hasn’t appeared on _Taskmaster_ 19. Not Black 20. Not RADA-trained (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). 21. First name is Catherine or some form of that name ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/190 "2024-05-25T15:47:26Z")
Given that my knowledge of British comic actresses begins with French and ends with Saunders, I’d better bow out of this now. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/191 "2024-05-25T19:04:15Z")
Are you Catherine Tate? ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/192 "2024-05-25T19:57:50Z")
I wonder if anyone would be bovvered to answer. 🤪 Yes, I am Donna Noble! Er, that is, Catherine Tate, comedian and one of David Tennant’s Doctor’s companions. [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hzXCcj_8JTCQauiWT9Ju6wHaFj?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hzXCcj_8JTCQauiWT9Ju6wHaFj?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain) Well done, **SMV!** ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/193 "2024-05-26T02:58:14Z")
Never heard of her. ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/194 "2024-05-26T03:46:50Z")
I have, but didn’t remember her in time, and probably never would have. Previous IQs: Was it said that you resembled a rotten mackerel by moonlight? - Henry Clay, “because he both stank and shined” (i.e. personally corrupt but politically impressive) Did Tommy Lee Jones play you in _JFK_? - Clay Shaw Were you the clever young criminal behind the Red-Headed League con? - Yes, John Clay Clay x3! ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/195 "2024-05-26T14:50:31Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Never heard of her. Do you disrespect the house of Cooper, sir? My lord, I am not bovvered. (Inside joke that apparently only the **Prof** and I will get.) ---
**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 27, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/196 "2024-05-27T14:00:27Z")
Good one, @Prof.Pepperwinkle - Donna Noble is the companion that everyone hates on first watching, then comes to realize is possibly the best one of NuWho. Plus of course she had the sweetest grandpa on TV. Okay, new round! (Promise I didn’t pick anyone as obscure as last time). I am **Z** Incidentally, I have updated the “Letters Used” thread as of May 27, as well. ---
**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 27, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/197 "2024-05-27T14:57:01Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Don Diego de la Vega? 2. Did you start the restoration of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity? 3. Were you a Dutch printmaker remembered for your “breastscapes”? ---
**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 27, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/198 "2024-05-27T16:08:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you Don Diego de la Vega? > 2. Did you start the restoration of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity? > 3. Were you a Dutch printmaker remembered for your “breastscapes”? 1. Yo no soy Zorro. 2. I am not Zechariah. 3. Take a 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 27, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/199 "2024-05-27T16:11:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yes, I am Donna Noble! Er, that is, Catherine Tate Hey, I’ve met her! She was at a comics convention I went to in 2018, and I got to tell her how much my friend Yvonne liked her on _Doctor Who_ and _DuckTales_. ZQs: 1. Did you write _White Teeth_? 2. Did you attempt to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt? 3. Did Athena spring from your forehead? ---
**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 27, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/200 "2024-05-27T16:21:17Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > - Yo no soy Zorro. > - I am not Zechariah. > - Take a DQ. 1. Correct on Zorro. #2 was Zerubbabel. #3 was Anders Zorn. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=11)