# Botticelli, Nov. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 31, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093 "2022-10-31T20:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 13, 2022, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/181 "2022-11-13T03:48:05Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a prominent Kentucky abolitionist? - Cassius Clay Were you a noted Kentucky-born boxer? - Yes, the later, better-known Cassius Clay Were you a noted pre-Civil War Kentucky statesman who lost every time he ran for President? - Henry Clay Clay x3! DQ: Did you eat a “waffer-thin” mint at the repeated urging of the maitre’d? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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 13, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/182 "2022-11-13T08:22:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you eat a “waffer-thin” mint at the repeated urging of the maitre’d? I’m absolutely stuffed. Bugger off! Oh, all right… **YES!!** I am **Mr. Creosote!!** played by Terry Jones in _Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life_ Could be alive today, if real, in the sense that he was a middle aged man in the 1980s and alive at the end of the sketch. On the other hand, if real in the sense of laws of physics apply to him, he would not have survived. ---
**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 13, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/183 "2022-11-13T11:45:20Z")
Good one, EH! ---
**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 13, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/184 "2022-11-13T16:05:05Z")
Thanks! Good one, **CFOHG.** I used Mr. Creosote myself as a Botticelli person a few years back, as it happens. New round starting later today. ---
**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 13, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/185 "2022-11-13T20:08:35Z")
Right, then. Our next letter is # J ---
**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 13, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/186 "2022-11-13T21:22:06Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a member of the band Tenacious D? 2. Were you slain by a vorpal sword? 3. Did you have a hit with the song \*Seasons in the Sun? ---
**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 14, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/187 "2022-11-14T00:14:38Z")
IQ1: Were you an American abolitionist and suffragist who co-edited the _Anti-Slavery Bugle_? IQ2: Were you a British socialite and subject of a song by The Clash? IQ3: Did you play Betty Draper on _Mad Men_? ---
**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 14, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/188 "2022-11-14T01:37:28Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a member of the band Tenacious D? > 2. Were you slain by a vorpal sword? > 3. Did you have a hit with the song \*Seasons in the Sun? Not Jack Black, not the Jabberwock and not John Sebastian. ---
**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 14, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/189 "2022-11-14T01:38:36Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Were you an American abolitionist and suffragist who co-edited the _Anti-Slavery Bugle_? > IQ2: Were you a British socialite and subject of a song by The Clash? > IQ3: Did you play Betty Draper on _Mad Men_? Not John Brown, dunno and not January Jones. ---
**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 14, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/190 "2022-11-14T04:31:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you an American abolitionist and suffragist who co-edited the _Anti-Slavery Bugle_? > > IQ2: Were you a British socialite and subject of a song by The Clash? > > IQ3: Did you play Betty Draper on _Mad Men_? > > Not John Brown, dunno and not January Jones Jane E. Jones Janie Jones yes, January Jones Jan\*\*\* Jones x3 DQ: Real? 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:** [November 14, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/191 "2022-11-14T11:22:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a member of the band Tenacious D? > > 2. Were you slain by a vorpal sword? > > 3. Did you have a hit with the song \*Seasons in the Sun? > > Not Jack Black, not the Jabberwock and not John Sebastian. Correct, Correct, and Terry Jacks. DQ: Last name starts with J? ---
**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 14, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/192 "2022-11-14T13:14:18Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_? 2. Did you originate the role of Desiree on Broadway in _A Little Night Music_? 3. Did you have a hit with _Dirty Diana_? ---
**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 14, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/193 "2022-11-14T14:52:53Z")
Dunno x3 J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J ---
**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 14, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/194 "2022-11-14T15:38:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_? > 2. Did you originate the role of Desiree on Broadway in _A Little Night Music_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _Dirty Diana_? #1 was James Joyce. #2 was Glynis Johns. #3 was Michael Jackson. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? 3. Known for the Arts? ---
**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 14, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/195 "2022-11-14T19:13:16Z")
D’oh! Should have been able to guess at least two of those. J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J 4. deceased 5. naturalized American 6. not known for the 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:** [November 14, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/196 "2022-11-14T19:16:14Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known as “His Rotundancy”? 2. Were you a Spanish painter whose abstracts featured a self-created language of forms? 3. Are you the title character of a book by “Currer Bell”? ---
**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 14, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/197 "2022-11-14T21:13:50Z")
Not John Adams, dunno and dunno. Updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #98 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/98) ---
**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 14, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/198 "2022-11-14T22:39:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as “His Rotundancy”? > 2. Were you a Spanish painter whose abstracts featured a self-created language of forms? > 3. Are you the title character of a book by “Currer Bell”? #1 is correct. #2 was Joan Miro. #3 is Jane Eyre. DQ: 1. Known for politics/government? 2. Died before 1950? ---
**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 15, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/199 "2022-11-15T13:23:40Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a singer also known as Pearl? 2. Did Krysten Ritter play you on TV? 3. Did you marry Maria Eva Duarte? ---
**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 15, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/200 "2022-11-15T17:06:19Z")
Dunno, dunno and not Juan Peron. J. 1. real 2. male 3. last name starts with J 4. deceased 5. naturalized American 6. not known for the Arts 7. not known for politics/government 8. died after 1950 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093.md?page=11)