# Botticelli - October 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 3, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378 "2018-10-03T16:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/121 "2018-10-23T18:10:53Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Not only did he sweep me, he spelled all the names right. > > IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs? > IQ2: Are you head coach of the LA Chargers? > IQ3: Are you head coach of the Miami Dolphins? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/122 "2018-10-23T18:11:53Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name starts with A 4. Living 5. American 6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts 7. Born before 1950 8. Not considered a beauty 9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work 10. Known for a business or product 11. Subject of a song 12. Greatest fame before 1980 13. Not associated with NYC or LA ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/123 "2018-10-23T18:12:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you a rocker with an alliterative name? > Were you a lunar rebel? > Were you the longtime Congressman from Harlem? 1. I am not Adam Ant. 2. I am not Buzz Aldrin (??) 3. Take a DQ. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/124 "2018-10-23T19:13:30Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs? > IQ2: Are you head coach of the LA Chargers? > IQ3: Are you head coach of the Miami Dolphins? > > Take 3 DQs. Andy Reid, Anthony Lynn, Adam Gase DQ: Associated with the self improvement business? (weight loss, job performance, etc) holding 2 DQs ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/125 "2018-10-23T19:18:08Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name starts with A 4. Living 5. American 6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts 7. Born before 1950 8. Not considered a beauty 9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work 10. Known for a business or product 11. Subject of a song 12. Greatest fame before 1980 13. Not associated with NYC or LA 14. Not associated with the self improvement business ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/126 "2018-10-23T20:42:48Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a rocker with an alliterative name? - Yes, Adam Ant Were you a lunar rebel? - Adam Selene, in Heinlein’s _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ Were you the longtime Congressman from Harlem? - Adam Clayton Powell Adam x3! DQs: Rock and roll song? Best known because of the song? Is your name part of the song title? IQs: Did you joke that your codename was the same as your actual name? Were you that person’s dad? Did Chevy Chase appear in a music video about you? ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/127 "2018-10-23T20:52:45Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. First name starts with A 4. Living 5. American 6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts 7. Born before 1950 8. Not considered a beauty 9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work 10. Known for a business or product 11. Subject of a song 12. Greatest fame before 1980 13. Not associated with NYC or LA 14. Not associated with the self improvement business 15. Not a rock & roll song, though a rock & roll version was released by the same artist later 16. Best known because of the song 17. Name is part of the song title ---
**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:** [October 23, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/128 "2018-10-23T20:53:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you joke that your codename was the same as your actual name? > Were you that person’s dad? > Did Chevy Chase appear in a music video about you? #3. I am not Al (well, you can call me Al). Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/129 "2018-10-24T03:57:24Z")
Previous IQs: Did you joke that your codename was the same as your actual name? - Al Gore, who confessed in his 1996 DNC speech that his Secret Service codename was “Al Gore” Were you that person’s dad? - Sen. Al Gore Sr. Did Chevy Chase appear in a music video about you? - Yes, for Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” Al x3! DQs: Male singer? Two DQs reserved. IQ: Did you once serve a bunch of hippies a Thanksgiving meal that just couldn’t be beat? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/130 "2018-10-24T14:34:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Two DQs reserved. > > IQ: > > Did you once serve a bunch of hippies a Thanksgiving meal that just couldn’t be beat? (Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice.) Yes, indeedy, I am **Alice Brock** , made famous by Arlo Guthrie’s song _Alice’s Restaurant Massacree_. Well done, EH! And all you gotta do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar with feelin’. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/131 "2018-10-24T15:38:04Z")
You gotta sing loud if you wanna end war and stuff! Thanks, **Prof. P.** That’s a good one. I always liked that song - I can remember my dad putting the 8-track tape of it on. As suggested, we’ll continue our march through the alphabet with B ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/132 "2018-10-24T16:55:47Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known as The Great Profile? 2. Are you a cartoon character who last had her own cartoon in 1939 but is still popular among teenage girls today? 3. Did you and your horse Starlite save the seven Color Kids? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/133 "2018-10-24T17:25:40Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as The Great Profile? > 2. Are you a cartoon character who last had her own cartoon in 1939 but is still popular among teenage girls today? > 3. Did you and your horse Starlite save the seven Color Kids? Not Lionel Barrymore, Betty Boop or… dunno. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/134 "2018-10-24T18:22:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as The Great Profile? > 2. Are you a cartoon character who last had her own cartoon in 1939 but is still popular among teenage girls today? > 3. Did you and your horse Starlite save the seven Color Kids? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Lionel Barrymore, Betty Boop or… dunno. Correct, Correct, and Rainbow Brite. DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/135 "2018-10-24T19:45:21Z")
_You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant (‘sceptin’ Alice)_ IQ1: Are you head coach of the Houston Texans? IQ2: Are you head coach of the New England Patriots? IQ3: Are you head coach of the New York Jets? ---
**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:** [October 24, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/136 "2018-10-24T21:40:41Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Snuffy Smith’s city cousin? 2. Are you legendarily one of the Three Kings? 3. Have you often reminded us to spay and neuter our pets? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/137 "2018-10-25T01:00:50Z")
And they all kinda moved away from me on the Draft Board bench, there… > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > … > > IQ1: Are you head coach of the Houston Texans? > IQ2: Are you head coach of the New England Patriots? > IQ3: Are you head coach of the New York Jets? Dunno, not Bill Belicheck (sp?), dunno. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Snuffy Smith’s city cousin? > 2. Are you legendarily one of the Three Kings? > 3. Have you often reminded us to spay and neuter our pets? Dunno, not Balthasar, and not Bob Barker. B. 1. real ---
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/138 "2018-10-25T02:13:06Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the father of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace? 2. Were you an American presidential candidate and opponent of the gold standard? 3. Are you the director of _An American Tail_, _The Land Before Time_, _Anastasia_, and other animated films? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/139 "2018-10-25T02:39:15Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the father of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace? > 2. Were you an American presidential candidate and opponent of the gold standard? > 3. Are you the director of _An American Tail_, _The Land Before Time_, _Anastasia_, and other animated films? Dunno, not William Jennings Bryan and not Don Bluth. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378/140 "2018-10-25T06:09:33Z")
IQ1: Did you serve with Jack Kennedy, know Jack Kennedy, and Jack Kennedy was a friend of yours? IQ2: Is confusion over the spelling of your name frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect? IQ3: Do rowdy crowds refer to you as “asshole” every time anyone says your name? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2018/822378.md?page=8)