# Botticelli - Nov 2020

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [November 2, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569 "2020-11-02T18:22:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/61 "2020-11-04T23:37:03Z")

</div>

1. Did you play a convict on the TV show **Soap**?
2. Were you the best known of the people who played Munchkins?
3. Are you an actress who married Mike Tyson in 1988?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 4, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/62 "2020-11-04T23:45:49Z")

</div>

Congrats, Knowed Out!

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> IQs:  
> 1. Are you a character in the opening of _The Fifth Element_ asked to provide light?  
> 2. Are you going to voice Lady Whistledown on the Netflix series _Bridgerton_ (adapted from the books by Julia Quinn)?  
> 3. Were you Bill Clinton’s second Secretary of State?

> [@MissTake](#):
>
> Take a DQ  
> Take a DQ  
> I am not Madeline Albright

Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 was Aziz (“Aziz! Light!”); 2 was Julie Andrews.

DQs:  
1. Did you play Tess Ocean?  
2. Were you appointed to the US Supreme Court by George W. Bush?  
3. Are you a triple-named _Doonesbury_ reporter?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/63 "2020-11-05T00:41:24Z")

</div>

IQs:

1. Are you a Canadian who used to be married to Scarlett Johannson?
2. Were you a world famous ballet dancer who defected to the U.S.?
3. Did you play Inspector Henderson on _The Adventures of Superman_?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/64 "2020-11-05T02:47:22Z")

</div>

> [@MissTake](#):
>
> - Is the death of your first wife by drowning _still_ thought by many as murder?
> - Were you an Italian composer known for writing 39 operas, many of which are still performed?
> - Did you spend many years playing one specific red-haired role in a trio, to the detriment of a future career?

not Robert Wagner, not Rossini, DQ

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/65 "2020-11-05T02:51:43Z")

</div>

> [@kitap](#):
>
> - Did you play a convict on the TV show **Soap**?
> - Were you the best known of the people who played Munchkins?
> - Are you an actress who married Mike Tyson in 1988?

DQ, DQ, not Robin Givens

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> 1. Did you play Tess Ocean?
> 2. Were you appointed to the US Supreme Court by George W. Bush?
> 3. Are you a triple-named _Doonesbury_ reporter?

DQ, not John Roberts, not Roland Burton Hedley

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/66 "2020-11-05T02:53:19Z")

</div>

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> - Are you a Canadian who used to be married to Scarlett Johannson?
> - Were you a world famous ballet dancer who defected to the U.S.?
> - Did you play Inspector Henderson on _The Adventures of Superman_ ?

not Ryan Reynolds, DQ, DQ

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/67 "2020-11-05T03:33:54Z")

</div>

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
>
> > [@MissTake](#):
> >
> > - Did you spend many years playing one specific red-haired role in a trio, to the detriment of a future career?
> 
> not Robert Wagner, not Rossini, DQ

Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)

DQ Male?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/68 "2020-11-05T03:33:59Z")

</div>

> [@kitap](#):
>
> 1. Did you play a convict on the TV show **Soap**?
> 2. Were you the best known of the people who played Munchkins?
> 3. Are you an actress who married Mike Tyson in 1988?

Donnelly Rhodes, Meinhardt Raabe [he played the coroner who pronounced the Wicked Witch of the East dead] correct.

DQs

1. Real?
2. Known for the Arts?
3. American?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/69 "2020-11-05T03:54:36Z")

</div>

IQs:

Did you hang out around Rhosgobel?  
Were you very concerned about preserving your precious bodily fluids?  
Were you the first to fly across America, “crash by crash”?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/70 "2020-11-05T04:03:23Z")

</div>

DQ1: Are you sometimes referred to as the Mad Monk?  
DQ2: Are you a French cardinal who was First Minister to King Louis XIII?  
DQ3: Are you the first Pope to resign in almost 600 years?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/71 "2020-11-05T11:57:36Z")

</div>

DQ Summary

1. Male
2. Fictional
3. Not known for the Arts
4. American

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/72 "2020-11-05T12:01:19Z")

</div>

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> Did you hang out around Rhosgobel?  
> Were you very concerned about preserving your precious bodily fluids?  
> Were you the first to fly across America, “crash by crash”?

not Radagast, don’t remember, DQ

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
>
> DQ1: Are you sometimes referred to as the Mad Monk?  
> DQ2: Are you a French cardinal who was First Minister to King Louis XIII?  
> DQ3: Are you the first Pope to resign in almost 600 years?

(These are IQs)  
Not Rasputin, not Cardinal Richilieu, DQ

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/73 "2020-11-05T12:30:55Z")

</div>

1. Did you play Abigail Hobbs on **Hannibal**?
2. Did you have a hit with the song **Seven Year Ache**?
3. Are you the MasterHarper of Pern?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/74 "2020-11-05T16:48:46Z")

</div>

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
>
> DQ, not John Roberts, not Roland Burton Hedley

1 (played Tess Ocean) was Julia Roberts.

DQ: created after 1970?

IQs:  
1. Did the Beach Boys request your aid?  
2. Did you star in _They Live_ and _Hell Comes to Frogtown_?  
3. Did you say “In all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice…I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook”?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/75 "2020-11-05T16:53:28Z")

</div>

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
>
> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
> >
> > - Are you a Canadian who used to be married to Scarlett Johannson?
> > 
> > > - Were you a world famous ballet dancer who defected to the U.S.?
> > > - Did you play Inspector Henderson on _The Adventures of Superman_ ?
> 
> not Ryan Reynolds, DQ, DQ

Correct on Ryan.  
#2 was Rudolph Nureyev.  
#3 was Robert Shayne.

2 DQs reserved

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/76 "2020-11-05T17:48:05Z")

</div>

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
>
> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
> >
> > DQ1: Are you sometimes referred to as the Mad Monk?
> > 
> > > DQ2: Are you a French cardinal who was First Minister to King Louis XIII?  
> > > DQ3: Are you the first Pope to resign in almost 600 years?
> 
> (These are IQs)  
> Not Rasputin, not Cardinal Richilieu, DQ

Whoops. Indirect, direct - you mean it’s not like flammable and inflammable?  
Yes, Yes, Not Joseph Ratzinger, temporarily known as Benedict XVI, who resigned in 2013.

DQ: First appeared in prose fiction?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [November 5, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/77 "2020-11-05T17:53:26Z")

</div>

IQ1: Did you and your wife sing the original version of _Happy Trails?_  
IQ2: Did you and your bandmates sing an a capella cover of _Happy Trails_ on the 1982 album _Diver Down_?  
IQ3: Are you the cartoonist who created Rat Fink?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/78 "2020-11-05T18:05:09Z")

</div>

IQ:

1. Did you write _Gargantua and Pantagruel_?
2. Are you a very wealthy blonde haired child in comic strips?
3. Were you part of the Wolfpack in the Marvel world?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/79 "2020-11-05T18:21:29Z")

</div>

DQ Summary

1. Male
2. Fictional
3. Not known for the Arts
4. American
5. Created after 1970
6. Did not first appear in prose fiction

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569/80 "2020-11-05T18:27:35Z")

</div>

> [@kitap](#):
>
> - Did you play Abigail Hobbs on **Hannibal**?
> - Did you have a hit with the song **Seven Year Ache**?
> - Are you the MasterHarper of Pern?

take 3 DQs

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
>
> 1. Did the Beach Boys request your aid?
> 2. Did you star in _They Live_ and _Hell Comes to Frogtown_ ?
> 3. Did you say “In all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice…I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook”?

not Rhonda, not Rowdy Roddy Piper, not Richard Nixon

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
>
> IQ1: Did you and your wife sing the original version of _Happy Trails?_  
> IQ2: Did you and your bandmates sing an a capella cover of _Happy Trails_ on the 1982 album _Diver Down_ ?  
> IQ3: Are you the cartoonist who created Rat Fink?

not Roy Rogers, not David Lee Roth, not Spain Rodriguez

> [@MissTake](#):
>
> - Did you write _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ ?
> - Are you a very wealthy blonde haired child in comic strips?
> - Were you part of the Wolfpack in the Marvel world?

DQ, not Richie Rich, DQ

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569.md?page=3)

[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2020/924569.md?page=5)
