# 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:** 12
**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, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/221 "2024-05-28T20:10:14Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American ---
**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, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/222 "2024-05-28T20:13:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you choreograph a still-popular verison of Tchaikovsky’s _Nutcracker_? > Did you lose horribly at the Battle of Fredericksburg? > Did you sing about geometric shapes in granular media? 1. I am not Balanchine (?) 2. Take a DQ. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/223 "2024-05-28T20:14:54Z")
Boy, you go away for a weekend 'round these parts and you miss an entire Botticelli! Good call, **Prof\_P**! IQs: 1. Were you the original choice to play the Tin Man in _The Wizard of Oz_? 2. Are you a private investigator played on TV by #1? 3. Were you the first to consider escaped slaves as “enemy contraband” during the Civil War? ---
**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, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/224 "2024-05-28T20:18:53Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the original choice to play the Tin Man in _The Wizard of Oz_? > 2. Are you a private investigator played on TV by #1? > 3. Were you the first to consider escaped slaves as “enemy contraband” during the Civil War? 1. I am not Buddy Ebsen. 2. I am not Barnaby Jones. 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/225 "2024-05-28T20:18:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Are you the most famous professional golfer from the Navajo Nation? > > 2. Have you played a medical genius, a cryptological genius, a sociopathic genius, and a dragon, who was certainly intelligent, if not a genius? > > 3. In addition to your most famous role in a fantasy series, have you also played a Scottish slaveowner in colonial North Carolina, and a Royal Navy sailor on a Napoleonic warship? > > 1. I am not Benedict Cumberbatch. > Take 2 DQs. 1 was Notah Begay III. Correct on Cumberbatch. 3 was Billy Boyd; he’s most famous for playing Pippin in the _Lord of the Rings_ movies, but he’s also played Gerald Forbes in _Outlander_ and Barrett Bonden in _Master and Commander: Far Side of the World_. DQ: 1. Known for the arts? One 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 28, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/226 "2024-05-28T20:19:22Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:221, topic:1001159, full:true”] DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American 5. Known for the arts ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/227 "2024-05-28T20:24:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you the original choice to play the Tin Man in _The Wizard of Oz_? > > 2. Are you a private investigator played on TV by #1? > > 3. Were you the first to consider escaped slaves as “enemy contraband” during the Civil War? > > 1. I am not Buddy Ebsen. > 2. I am not Barnaby Jones. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct on #1 and #2, #3 was Benjamin Butler, MGen, USAV. DQ: Living? ---
**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, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/228 "2024-05-28T21:00:47Z")
IQs: 1. Did you begin your professional music career by releasing on Soundcloud a song you and your brother wrote for your high school music class project? 2. Did former Doper **Oakminster** commemorate you with a thread every year on June 3rd? 3. Did you write a song about your desire to sleep through the month of August, which was the month your father died? DQ: Known for the literary arts? ---
**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, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/229 "2024-05-28T22:28:19Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American 5. Known for the arts 6. Dead 7. Known for the literary arts ---
**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, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/230 "2024-05-28T22:29:09Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you begin your professional music career by releasing on Soundcloud a song you and your brother wrote for your high school music class project? > 2. Did former Doper **Oakminster** commemorate you with a thread every year on June 3rd? > 3. Did you write a song about your desire to sleep through the month of August, which was the month your father died? #3. I am not Billie Joe Armstrong. Take 2 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 29, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/231 "2024-05-29T00:59:33Z")
DQ: known for writing novels? IQs: 1. You know that show Catherine Tate was on? Yeah. Were you on it, for the first two seasons of the 2005 reboot (in fact, the first episode of the reboot is named after your character) and then sporadically afterwards, like in the 2013 50th anniversary special? 2. Were you Artemis Fowl’s butler? 3. Were you a catcher for the Yankees? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/232 "2024-05-29T01:57:48Z")
Congrats! 1. Did you play Jodie Dallas on **Soap**? 2. Did Robert Guillaume play you on **Soap**? 3. Were you half of a ventriloquism team on **Soap**? ---
**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 29, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/233 "2024-05-29T04:06:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you begin your professional music career by releasing on Soundcloud a song you and your brother wrote for your high school music class project? > > 2. Did former Doper **Oakminster** commemorate you with a thread every year on June 3rd? > > 3. Did you write a song about your desire to sleep through the month of August, which was the month your father died? > > #3. I am not Billie Joe Armstrong. Take 2 DQs. 1 is Billie Eilish. 2 is Billie Joe McAllister, who on the 3rd of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day, jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Correct on the author of “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, though I got the month wrong. Billie times three! Two DQs 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 29, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/234 "2024-05-29T14:18:30Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American 5. Known for the arts 6. Dead 7. Known for the literary arts 8. Known for writing novels ---
**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, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/235 "2024-05-29T14:19:17Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. You know that show Catherine Tate was on? Yeah. Were you on it, for the first two seasons of the 2005 reboot (in fact, the first episode of the reboot is named after your character) and then sporadically afterwards, like in the 2013 50th anniversary special? > 2. Were you Artemis Fowl’s butler? > 3. Were you a catcher for the Yankees? 1. I am not Billie Piper. Take 2 DQs. > [@kitap](#): > > - Did you play Jodie Dallas on **Soap**? > - Did Robert Guillaume play you on **Soap**? > - Were you half of a ventriloquism team on **Soap**? #2. I am not Benson. Take 2 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 29, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/236 "2024-05-29T14:35:42Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Billie Piper. > Take 2 DQs. 2 was Butler; 3 was Yogi Berra. DQs: 1. died after 1960? 2. won any awards? ---
**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, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/237 "2024-05-29T14:38:42Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American 5. Known for the arts 6. Dead 7. Known for the literary arts 8. Known for writing novels 9. Died before 1960. 10. Did not win any awards ---
**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 29, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/238 "2024-05-29T14:58:59Z")
DQs: 1. Genre writer? 2. Work taught in schools? IQs: 1. Does your filmography include roles as a murderous monk, a drunken author, a naval surgeon-slash-naturalist-slash-spy, an AI, and a delusion? 2. Were you a Georgia-born comedian and actor, or an identically-named centerfielder for the Braves and Royals? 3. Were you “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”? ---
**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 29, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/239 "2024-05-29T15:11:06Z")
IQs: 1. and 2. Did Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day play people who looked coincidentally like the two of you in a recent _SNL_ sketch with Heidi Gardner, who couldn’t help herself and cracked up once she saw Day in makeup and prosthetics? 3. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans? ---
**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, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159/240 "2024-05-29T15:41:58Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with B 4. American 5. Known for the arts 6. Dead 7. Known for the literary arts 8. Known for writing novels 9. Died before 1960. 10. Did not win any awards 11. Genre writer 12. Not usually taught in schools [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2024/1001159.md?page=13)