# Botticelli - November 2024

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 30, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446 "2024-10-30T12:25:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 13

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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 14, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/241 "2024-11-14T21:46:26Z")

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:232, topic:1009446, full:true”]  
DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with F
4. Born after 1900
5. Not known for prose
6. Not American
7. Known for the arts
8. Not known for music
9. First name begins with N to Z

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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 14, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/242 "2024-11-14T21:48:30Z")

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> [@SunUp](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Have you shared six Grammys with your younger sister?
> 2. Were you the “king of the keelboaters” with an eponymous Disney park ride?
> 3. Do you live next door to a nuclear power plant worker?

#1. Take a DQ.  
#2. I am not Mike Fink, King of the River.  
#3. I am not Ned Flanders.

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> Did you praise Washington’s generalship during the 1776-77 New Jersey campaign?  
> Were you the son of two fictional psychiatrists?  
> Were you inaugurated as president of Oberlin College in 1983?

Take 3 DQs.

> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
>
> :
> 
> 1. Were you most famously played by Jackie Coogan and Christopher Lloyd?
> 2. Did you star in a television role that made caps of a certain animal’s fur very popular among young boys?
> 3. Were you a first baseman, nicknamed “Crime Dog”?

1. I am not Uncle Fester.
2. I am not Fess Parker. I can a Davy Crockett hat as a kid.
3. Take a DQ.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/243 "2024-11-14T22:05:51Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> #1. Take a DQ.

No DQ - I had forgotten @Slow_Moving_Vehicle 's Finneas O’Connor post.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/244 "2024-11-14T22:34:58Z")

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DQs:

European?  
Known from stage/TV/movies?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/245 "2024-11-14T22:46:18Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you appear posthumously as The Disappearer?
2. Did your second directorial job win you an Oscar?
3. Do you and Sir Ian McKellen share a common role?

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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 15, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/246 "2024-11-15T16:38:28Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with F
4. Born after 1900
5. Not known for prose
6. Not American
7. Known for the arts
8. Not known for music
9. First name begins with N to Z
10. European
11. Known from Movies and TV

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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 15, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/247 "2024-11-15T16:39:10Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you appear posthumously as The Disappearer?
2. Did your second directorial job win you an Oscar?
3. Do you and Sir Ian McKellen share a common role?  
[/quote]

Take 2 DQs.  
#3. I am not Michael Fassbender.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/248 "2024-11-15T18:43:24Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you appear posthumously as The Disappearer?
> 2. Did your second directorial job win you an Oscar?
> 3. Do you and Sir Ian McKellen share a common role?

Take 2 DQs.  
#3. I am not Michael Fassbender.  
[/quote]

1. Robert Forster (_Better Call Saul_)
2. Milos Forman (_One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_)
3. Correct (Magneto)

2 DQs reserved

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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 16, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/249 "2024-11-16T02:42:27Z")

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Previous IQs:

Did you praise Washington’s generalship during the 1776-77 New Jersey campaign? - Frederick the Great, who said it was “the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military achievements”  
Were you the son of two fictional psychiatrists? - Frederick Crane, son of Frasier and Lilith  
Were you inaugurated as president of Oberlin College in 1983? - S. Frederick Starr

Frederick x3!

DQs:

Living?  
Actor?  
Native English speaker?

IQs:

Are you Dame Judi Dench’s daughter?  
Did you play Howard Beale?  
Were you the RNC chair in the Eighties?

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/250 "2024-11-16T14:30:29Z")

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DQs:

Last name begins with Fa - Fm?  
Known more for TV than movies?

IQs:

1. Did you appear in both _Cargo_ and _Fargo_?
2. Did you create, with the help of your brother, America’s first commercially produced yeast?
3. Were you considered by George Lucas for the voice of C3PO?

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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 16, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/251 "2024-11-16T18:04:11Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> Are you Dame Judi Dench’s daughter?  
> Did you play Howard Beale?  
> Were you the RNC chair in the Eighties?

Take 3 DQs.

> [@knoodler](#):
>
> IQs:
> 
> 1. Did you appear in both _Cargo_ and _Fargo_?
> 2. Did you create, with the help of your brother, America’s first commercially produced yeast?
> 3. Were you considered by George Lucas for the voice of C3PO?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Mr. Fleishchman.
3. Take a 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 16, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/252 "2024-11-16T18:05:14Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with F
4. Born after 1900
5. Not known for prose
6. Not American
7. Known for the arts
8. Not known for music
9. First name begins with N to Z
10. European
11. Known from Movies and TV
12. Living
13. Actor
14. Native English speaker
15. Last name begins with Fn - Fz
16. Known more for Movies than TV

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/253 "2024-11-16T18:50:38Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
>
> > [@knoodler](#):
> >
> > IQs:
> > 
> > 1. Did you appear in both _Cargo_ and _Fargo_?
> > 2. Did you create, with the help of your brother, America’s first commercially produced yeast?
> > 3. Were you considered by George Lucas for the voice of C3PO?
> 
> 1. Take a DQ.
> 2. I am not Mr. Fleishchman.
> 3. Take a DQ.

1. Martin Freeman
2. Correct (Charles Louis Fleischmann)
3. Stan Freberg

2 DQs reserved

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/254 "2024-11-16T19:03:56Z")

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DQ:

Known for comedy?  
Born after 1970?

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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 16, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/255 "2024-11-16T19:32:51Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with F
4. Born after 1900
5. Not known for prose
6. Not American
7. Known for the arts
8. Not known for music
9. First name begins with N to Z
10. European
11. Known from Movies and TV
12. Living
13. Actor
14. Native English speaker
15. Last name begins with Fn - Fz
16. Known more for Movies than TV
17. Known for comedy
18. Born after 1970

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/256 "2024-11-17T00:48:23Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you appear with your frequent collaborator Simon Pegg in a comedy/horror movie?
2. Did you appear with Hugh Laurie in a British sketch show called _Saturday Live_?
3. Did Emma Watson once refer to you as “her soulmate”?

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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 17, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/257 "2024-11-17T02:42:33Z")

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> [@knoodler](#):
>
> Did you appear with your frequent collaborator Simon Pegg in a comedy/horror movie?

# Yes! I am Nick Frost!

Good job, **knoodler**.

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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 17, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/258 "2024-11-17T03:05:15Z")

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Ah, good one. Well done, **knoodler**!

Previous IQs:

Are you Dame Judi Dench’s daughter? - Finty Williams  
Did you play Howard Beale? - Peter Finch, in _Network_  
Were you the RNC chair in the Eighties? - Frank Fahrenkopf

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/259 "2024-11-17T04:05:03Z")

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Thanks Prof!

The other two were Stephen Fry and Tom Felton.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-november-2024/1009446/260 "2024-11-17T04:09:17Z")

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