# Botticelli November 2021

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [November 1, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596 "2021-11-01T01:35:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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 10, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/101 "2021-11-10T21:38:05Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you work around William Rogers at the request of your boss? - Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s national security advisor, as to the opening to China (Rogers was SECSTATE)  
Were you a trusty Irish sergeant in the movie _Gettysburg_? - Buster Kilrain  
Did you play a buffoonish TV news anchor? - Yes, Ted Knight

DQs:

Real?  
Male?

IQs:

Were you asked not to use a phone you had every right to use?  
Were you that person’s also-famous later spouse?  
Were you their eldest child?

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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 10, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/102 "2021-11-10T21:39:11Z")

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IQs:

Were you asked not to use a phone you had every right to use?  
Were you that person’s also-famous later spouse?  
Were you their eldest child?  
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1. I am not John F. Kennedy.
2. I am not Jacqueline Kennedy.
3. I am not JFK, Jr.

or take 3 DQs.

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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 10, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/103 "2021-11-10T21:39:31Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Female

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**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 10, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/104 "2021-11-10T21:43:24Z")

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Correct as to the first two (a very young-looking Congressman Kennedy was once told by a Capitol Police officer, “Those phones are just for congressmen, son”). Their eldest child was Caroline Kennedy, however.

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Are you the most famous fictional person from Toledo, Ohio?  
Were you the villain, perhaps unfairly, in _Breaker Morant_?  
Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?

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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 10, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/105 "2021-11-10T22:28:49Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Have you played both Count Dracula and his toady Renfield (in different films)?  
> IQ2: Did you famously pose nude with a boa constrictor?  
> IQ3: Did you create Batman?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> #1. I am not Boris Karloff (??).  
> #2. Take a DQ.  
> #3. I am not Bob Kane.

Klaus Kinski  
Natassja Kinski  
Correct

DQ: American?  
DQ: Known for the arts?

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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 10, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/106 "2021-11-10T22:29:42Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not American
5. Known for the Arts

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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 10, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/107 "2021-11-10T22:30:20Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> s:
> 
> Are you the most famous fictional person from Toledo, Ohio?  
> Were you the villain, perhaps unfairly, in _Breaker Morant_ ?  
> Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?

Take 3 DQs.

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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 10, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/108 "2021-11-10T23:39:54Z")

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1. Are you an actor probably best known for playing McCall’s sidekick on the 1980s series **The Equalizer**?
2. Are you that sidekick?
3. Are you an evil royal advisor’s dimwitted but kind sidekick whose real love is cooking and who can speak fluent chipmunk in an animated movie?

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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 11, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/109 "2021-11-11T01:19:49Z")

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IQ1: Did you have over two dozen hits in your native UK, but in the US had only one hit with _Running Up That Hill_?  
IQ2: Was your only hit a duet with Elton John?  
IQ3: Did you think you could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas,later Vegas, with the contents of your survival kit?

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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 11, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/110 "2021-11-11T01:26:43Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> - Are you an actor probably best known for playing McCall’s sidekick on the 1980s series **The Equalizer**?
> - Are you that sidekick?
> - Are you an evil royal advisor’s dimwitted but kind sidekick whose real love is cooking and who can speak fluent chipmunk in an animated movie?

Take 2 DQs.  
#3. I am not Kronk.

> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> IQ1: Did you have over two dozen hits in your native UK, but in the US had only one hit with _Running Up That Hill_ ?  
> IQ2: Was your only hit a duet with Elton John?  
> IQ3: Did you think you could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas,later Vegas, with the contents of your survival kit?

#1. Take a DQ.  
#2. I am not Kiki Dee.  
#3. Take a DQ.

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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 11, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/111 "2021-11-11T02:00:36Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> > > IQ1: Did you have over two dozen hits in your native UK, but in the US had only one hit with _Running Up That Hill_ ?  
> > > IQ2: Was your only hit a duet with Elton John?  
> > > IQ3: Did you think you could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas,later Vegas, with the contents of your survival kit?
> 
> #1. Take a DQ.  
> #2. I am not Kiki Dee.  
> #3. Take a DQ.

Kate Bush  
Correct  
Major T.J. “King” Kong, from _Dr. Strangelove_

DQ: First name starts with K?  
DQ: Born before 1960?

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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 11, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/112 "2021-11-11T02:01:06Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> 1. Are you an actor probably best known for playing McCall’s sidekick on the 1980s series **The Equalizer**?
> 2. Are you that sidekick?
> 3. Are you an evil royal advisor’s dimwitted but kind sidekick whose real love is cooking and who can speak fluent chipmunk in an animated movie?

Keith Szarabajka, Mickey Kostmayer, correct.

DQs:

1. European?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

1. Were you one of the stars of the TV show **Hardcastle & McCormick**?
2. Were you the other?
3. Did you play Lloyd in **The Ref**?

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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 11, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/113 "2021-11-11T02:17:38Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not American
5. Known for the Arts
6. First name starts with K
7. Born after 1960
8. European

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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 11, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/114 "2021-11-11T02:18:04Z")

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> [@kitap](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Were you one of the stars of the TV show **Hardcastle & McCormick**?
> 2. Were you the other?
> 3. Did you play Lloyd in **The Ref**?

#1. I am not Brian Keith.  
Take 2 DQs.

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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 11, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/115 "2021-11-11T05:12:11Z")

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> [@"kitap](#):
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> IQs:
> 
> 1. Were you one of the stars of the TV show **Hardcastle & McCormick**?
> 2. Were you the other?
> 3. Did you play Lloyd in **The Ref**?

Correct, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Kevin Spacey.

DQs:

1. Known for the performing arts?
2. From the UK or Ireland?

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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 11, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/116 "2021-11-11T13:17:07Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not American
5. Known for the Arts
6. First name starts with K
7. Born after 1960
8. European
9. Known for the performing arts
10. From the UK or Ireland

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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 11, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/117 "2021-11-11T18:23:03Z")

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IQ1: Did you play a vampire multiple times in one franchise and a vampire killer once in another aborted franchise?  
IQ2: Did you play the 11th Doctor’s companion?  
IQ3: Did you play Harry Potter’s first love interest?

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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 11, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/118 "2021-11-11T18:26:58Z")

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> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
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> Q1: Did you play a vampire multiple times in one franchise and a vampire killer once in another aborted franchise?  
> IQ2: Did you play the 11th Doctor’s companion?  
> IQ3: Did you play Harry Potter’s first love interest?

#1. I am not Kate Beckinsale.  
#2. I am not Karen Gillian.  
Take a DQ.

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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 11, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/119 "2021-11-11T18:40:56Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#):
> >
> > > IQ1: Did you play a vampire multiple times in one franchise and a vampire killer once in another aborted franchise?  
> > > IQ2: Did you play the 11th Doctor’s companion?  
> > > IQ3: Did you play Harry Potter’s first love interest?
> 
> #1. I am not Kate Beckinsale.  
> #2. I am not Karen Gillian.  
> Take a DQ.

Yes, Yes (it’s Gillan), Katie Leung

DQ: Actress?

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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 11, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2021/953596/120 "2021-11-11T20:25:04Z")

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### DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. Not American
5. Known for the Arts
6. First name starts with K
7. Born after 1960
8. European
9. Known for the performing arts
10. From the UK or Ireland
11. Actress

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