# Botticelli, Nov. 2022

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093>\
**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:** 16

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**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 28, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/301 "2022-11-28T23:19:01Z")

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Next… I am **W**  
[![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkbLT4wlPTBwJPHJTpZB6nWGD-hWcYmZt1_Q&usqp=CAU) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkbLT4wlPTBwJPHJTpZB6nWGD-hWcYmZt1_Q&usqp=CAU)

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**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 29, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/302 "2022-11-29T01:15:51Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you and an American novelist agree you would use your middle initial for your writing?  
2. Were you that American novelist?  
3. Did you voice the Queen of Fables on _Harley Quinn_?

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**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:** [November 29, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/303 "2022-11-29T01:15:58Z")

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IQ1. Do Americans look for you in crowds?  
IQ2. Do Brits look for you in crowds?  
IQ3: Do you run through the town in your nightgown?

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**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 29, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/304 "2022-11-29T02:03:08Z")

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> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. Did you and an American novelist agree you would use your middle initial for your writing?
> 2. Were you that American novelist?
> 3. Did you voice the Queen of Fables on _Harley Quinn_?

2 DQs  
Not Wanda Sykes

> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1 Do Americans look for you in crowds?  
> IQ2. Do Brits look for you in crowds?  
> IQ3: Do you run through the town in your nightgown?

Not Waldo, not Wally  
Not Wee Willie Winkie

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**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 29, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/305 "2022-11-29T02:04:44Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> 2 DQs  
> Not Wanda Sykes

1 was Winston S. Churchill; 2 was Winston Churchill.

DQs:  
1. real?  
2. female?

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**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 29, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/306 "2022-11-29T02:09:38Z")

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**W**

1. Real
2. Male

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/307 "2022-11-29T02:54:12Z")

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Congrats!

IQs:

1. Are you perhaps best known for playing Thea Queen on **Arrow**?
2. Did you wake up in your wife’s body in the book **Turnabout**?
3. Did you wake up in your husband’s body in the book **Turnabout**?

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**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 29, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/308 "2022-11-29T03:37:00Z")

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IQs:  
1. “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships and clippers at sea”?  
2. “And that’s the way it is”?  
3. Are you an African-American artist known for your silhouettes, as well as a giant sugar sculpture?

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**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:** [November 29, 2022, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/309 "2022-11-29T04:05:48Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@SCAdian](#):
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> > IQ1 Do Americans look for you in crowds?  
> > IQ2. Do Brits look for you in crowds?  
> > IQ3: Do you run through the town in your nightgown?
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> Not Waldo, not Wally  
> Not Wee Willie Winkie

correct x3

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**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 29, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/310 "2022-11-29T07:44:12Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Are you perhaps best known for playing Thea Queen on **Arrow**?
> 2. Did you wake up in your wife’s body in the book **Turnabout**?
> 3. Did you wake up in your husband’s body in the book **Turnabout**?

3 DQs

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships and clippers at sea”?
> 2. “And that’s the way it is”?
> 3. Are you an African-American artist known for your silhouettes, as well as a giant sugar sculpture?

DQ  
Not Walter Cronkite  
DQ

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**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 29, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/311 "2022-11-29T13:39:26Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you write the hymn _Joy to the World_?
2. Did you battle Aleister Crowley at Blythe Road?
3. Are you Jeff Dunham’s crabbiest puppet?

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**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 29, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/312 "2022-11-29T15:29:42Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> DQ  
> Not Walter Cronkite  
> DQ

1 was Walter Winchell; 3 was Kara Walker.

DQs:  
1. living?  
2. first name begins with W?

IQs:  
1. Are you the natural _Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_ cast member to ask about, today?  
2. In a Jonathan Coulton song, did you come first and you were perfect?  
3. Did you use the alias “Carlos Danger”?

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**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:** [November 29, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/313 "2022-11-29T16:17:42Z")

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IQ1: Were you Old Fuss and Feathers?  
IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?  
IQ3: Did you keep us out of war, Thomas?

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**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/314 "2022-11-29T17:22:15Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> Congrats!
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you perhaps best known for playing Thea Queen on **Arrow**?
> 2. Did you wake up in your wife’s body in the book **Turnabout**?
> 3. Did you wake up in your husband’s body in the book **Turnabout**?

Willa Holland, Tim Willows, Sally Willows.

3 DQs reserved

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**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 29, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/315 "2022-11-29T18:01:32Z")

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**W**

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with W

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**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 29, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/316 "2022-11-29T18:03:55Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. Did you write the hymn _Joy to the World_?
> 2. Did you battle Aleister Crowley at Blythe Road?
> 3. Are you Jeff Dunham’s crabbiest puppet?

Not Woyt Waxton?  
DQ  
Not Walter

> [@De\_La\_Rue](#):
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> 1. Are you the natural _Many Loves of Dobie Gillis_ cast member to ask about, today?
> 2. In a Jonathan Coulton song, did you come first and you were perfect?
> 3. Did you use the alias “Carlos Danger”?

Not Tuesday Weld  
DQ  
Not Anthony Wiener

> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Were you Old Fuss and Feathers?  
> IQ2: Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm?  
> IQ3: Did you keep us out of war, Thomas?

Take 3 DQs

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**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 29, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/317 "2022-11-29T18:07:46Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Not Tuesday Weld  
> DQ  
> Not Anthony Wiener

2 was George Washington.

DQ: died after 1900?

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**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 29, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/318 "2022-11-29T18:16:25Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > 1. Did you write the hymn _Joy to the World_?
> > 2. Did you battle Aleister Crowley at Blythe Road?
> > 3. Are you Jeff Dunham’s crabbiest puppet?
> 
> DQs:
> 
> 1. American?
> 2. Known for the Arts?  
> Not Woyt Waxton?  
> DQ  
> Not Walter

#1 was Isaac Watts.  
#2 was William Butler Years.  
Correct on Walter.

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**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 29, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/319 "2022-11-29T18:20:14Z")

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IQs:

1. In _A Wrinkle In Time_ do you say “Wild nights are my glory”?
2. Does Jenna Ortega play you in a new Netflix series?
3. Were you a ventriloquist who invented the first artificial heart?

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**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 29, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-nov-2022/974093/320 "2022-11-29T18:42:58Z")

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**W**

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with W
5. Died after 1900
6. American
7. Not known for the Arts

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