# Botticelli October 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977 "2023-10-02T01:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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 6, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/61 "2023-10-06T19:33:39Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the novel _Blonde_? 2. Are not one but two car brands named after you? 3. Were you played by Brendan Fraser in the 1999 version of _The Mummy_ and following sequels? ---
**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 6, 2023, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/62 "2023-10-06T19:37:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Are you the renamed Bird of Death? > > IQ2: Do you love trash, anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty? > > IQ3: Did your boyfriend tell you to get to a nunnery? > > #1. Take a DQ. > #2. I am not Oscar the Grouch. > #3. I am not Ophelia. Count Orlock, renamed from Dracula in the silent _Nosferatu_, as the film makers did not have the rights to Stoker’s novel Correct, correct DQ: Female? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/63 "2023-10-06T21:17:42Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Should we just call you Angel of the Morning? > > 2. Were you a blonde actress who became a sex symbol on the '80s sitcom _It’s A Living_? > > 3. Do you warn people that they might be a redneck? > > Not Juice Newton > DQ > Not Jeff Foxworthy Finishing up the last round, No. 2 was Ann Jillian. So, on to O! 1. Did you highlight your youth (unusual for your position) by beginng your first day at your new job with a little dance as you went into your new office? 2. Were you a fertility god, usually depicted as a green-skinned boy, who was killed and dismembered by your brother, but resurrected when your wife found the pieces of your body and bound them together? 3. Are you part of one of the earliest and most famous interracial marriages, that unfortunately did not end well? ---
**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 6, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/64 "2023-10-06T21:47:35Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Last name begins with O 3. 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:** [October 6, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/65 "2023-10-06T21:49:49Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you played by Brendan Fraser in the 1999 version of _The Mummy_ and following sequels? Well, that was very quick. I am, indeed, # Rick O’Connell, hero of the Mummy movies franchise. I’m very surprised. Take it away, De La Rue! ---
**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 7, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/66 "2023-10-07T02:17:57Z")
OK: I am W. ---
**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 7, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/67 "2023-10-07T04:13:19Z")
Way to go, **DLR**! Previous IQs: Were you a nude organist? - Onan, on _Monty Python_ Were you the Biblical figure after whom he was named? - Likewise Onan Were you AKA Tharkun? - Olorin AKA Mithrandir AKA Gandalf, in Tolkien’s writings On to W! IQs: Were you the borderline-treasonous mayor of NYC in 1861? Are you a non-porn actor rumored to be very well-endowed? Late in life, did you get a black limo with orange trim? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/68 "2023-10-07T16:20:06Z")
Well done, **DLR**! Speedy, too. Just to finish up with _O_: > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Did you highlight your youth (unusual for your position) by beginng your first day at your new job with a little dance as you went into your new office? > 2. Were you a fertility god, usually depicted as a green-skinned boy, who was killed and dismembered by your brother, but resurrected when your wife found the pieces of your body and bound them together? > 3. Are you part of one of the earliest and most famous interracial marriages, that unfortunately did not end well? 1. was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2. was the Egyptian god Osiris, and 3. was Othello. So, **W**. 1. Were you a politician mocked by bumper stickers that read, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot”? 2. Did you scandalize the music industry by releasing an album whose cover depicted you pressing a microphone cord between your labia? 3. Were you the recipient of the first known telephone call? ---
**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 7, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/69 "2023-10-07T18:02:33Z")
IQs: 1. Did you host _Tic-Tac-Dough_ and _High Rollers_? 2. Did your company first sell manufactured Christmas Tree ornaments? 3. Did you create the idea of “15 minutes of fame”? ---
**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 8, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/70 "2023-10-08T00:05:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the borderline-treasonous mayor of NYC in 1861? > Are you a non-porn actor rumored to be very well-endowed? > Late in life, did you get a black limo with orange trim? Respectively: I am not William Williams. I am not Willem Defoe. I am not William Howard Taft. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you a politician mocked by bumper stickers that read, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot”? > 2. Did you scandalize the music industry by releasing an album whose cover depicted you pressing a microphone cord between your labia? > 3. Were you the recipient of the first known telephone call? 1. I am not George W. Bush. 2. I am not Wendy O. Williams? 3. I am not Watson. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you host _Tic-Tac-Dough_ and _High Rollers_? > 2. Did your company first sell manufactured Christmas Tree ornaments? > 3. Did you create the idea of “15 minutes of fame”? 1. I am not Wink Martindale. 2. I am not the Williams in Williams-Sonoma? 3. I am not Andy Warhol. ---
**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 8, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/71 "2023-10-08T02:23:19Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the borderline-treasonous mayor of NYC in 1861? - Fernando Wood Are you a non-porn actor rumored to be very well-endowed? - James Woods Late in life, did you get a black limo with orange trim? - Woodrow Wilson (those are Princeton U. colors) Wood etc. x3! DQs: Male? Real? American? IQs: Did you often refer to “Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? Were you a smelly pet in a popular kids’ books? Were you a noted labor leader after whom a US senator’s dog is named? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/72 "2023-10-08T17:29:49Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Were you a politician mocked by bumper stickers that read, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot”? > > 2. Did you scandalize the music industry by releasing an album whose cover depicted you pressing a microphone cord between your labia? > > 3. Were you the recipient of the first known telephone call? > > 1. I am not George W. Bush. > 2. I am not Wendy O. Williams? > 3. I am not Watson Swept me again! IQs: 1. In the 1860 campaign, was the aforementioned Copperhead mayor of New York, Fernando Wood, your campaign manager? 2. Are you an American photographer known for taking unusual photos of your dogs? 3. Were you a liberal Republican (back when that was a thing) senator from Connecticut? ---
**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 8, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/73 "2023-10-08T22:10:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you often refer to “Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? > Were you a smelly pet in a popular kids’ books? > Were you a noted labor leader after whom a US senator’s dog is named? Respectively: I am not Walter Winchell. I am not Walter the Farting Dog. I am not Walter Chavez. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. In the 1860 campaign, was the aforementioned Copperhead mayor of New York, Fernando Wood, your campaign manager? > 2. Are you an American photographer known for taking unusual photos of your dogs? > 3. Were you a liberal Republican (back when that was a thing) senator from Connecticut? 1. Take a DQ. 2. I am not William Wegman. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. male 2. real (EH’s second question can also be answered by Willem Dafoe, so I am not accepting a third DQ.) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/74 "2023-10-08T22:54:25Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. In the 1860 campaign, was the aforementioned Copperhead mayor of New York, Fernando Wood, your campaign manager? > > 2. Are you an American photographer known for taking unusual photos of your dogs? > > 3. Were you a liberal Republican (back when that was a thing) senator from Connecticut? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. I am not William Wegman. > 3. Take a DQ. 1. was William H. Seward, who lost the Republican primary to Abraham Lincoln, whose Secretary of State he eventually became. 2. is correct. 3. was Lowell Weicker, who just died in June. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? ---
**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 9, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/75 "2023-10-09T02:53:51Z")
DQs: 1. male 2. real 3. dead 4. American ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/76 "2023-10-09T15:26:16Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you host _Tic-Tac-Dough_ and _High Rollers_? > > 2. Did your company first sell manufactured Christmas Tree ornaments? > > 3. Did you create the idea of “15 minutes of fame”? > > 1. I am not Wink Martindale. > 2. I am not the Williams in Williams-Sonoma? > 3. I am not Andy Warhol. Correct, F. W. Woolworth, and Correct. DQ: Last name starts with W? ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/77 "2023-10-09T15:29:02Z")
IQs: 1. Did you compose the five-part Dada Trilogy? 2. Were you the announcer for the highly acclaimed quantum-scented 1950’s all-popcorn BBC Radio Series _The Goon Show_? 3. Did your character step in to succeed Coach’s on _Cheers_? ---
**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 9, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/78 "2023-10-09T18:10:30Z")
Previous IQs: Did you often refer to “Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? - Yes, Walter Winchell Were you a smelly pet in a popular kids’ books? - Yes, Walter the Farting Dog Were you a noted labor leader after whom a US senator’s dog is named? - Walter Reuther, not Chavez (and it’s Sherrod Brown’s dog) Walter x3! DQ: Died since 1900? IQs: Did you play Puddy? Were you the most famous volleyball in movie history? Were you the best-known Lord Admiral of the Cinque Ports? ---
**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 9, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/79 "2023-10-09T19:15:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you compose the five-part Dada Trilogy? > 2. Were you the announcer for the highly acclaimed quantum-scented 1950’s all-popcorn BBC Radio Series _The Goon Show_? > 3. Did your character step in to succeed Coach’s on _Cheers_? 1. I am not Mason Williams. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Woody. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you play Puddy? > Were you the most famous volleyball in movie history? > Were you the best-known Lord Admiral of the Cinque Ports? Respectively: I am not Patrick Warburton. I am not Wilson. I am not Admiral Wilsonburton. DQs: 1. male 2. real 3. dead 4. American 5. first word of stage name begins with W ---
**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 9, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977/80 "2023-10-09T20:53:00Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play Puddy? - Yes, Patrick Warburton, on _Seinfeld_ Were you the most famous volleyball in movie history? - Yes, Wilson, in _Cast Away_ Were you the best-known Lord Admiral of the Cinque Ports? - Winston Churchill (one of his lesser-known titles, late in life - and sorry, I got the title slightly wrong: [Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Warden_of_the_Cinque_Ports)) You didn’t answer this previous DQ: Died since 1900? To which I’ll now add: Best known as a stage actor? IQs: Were you the patsy in “The Red-Headed League”? Were you a top U.S. arms control negotiator in the Eighties? Did you and your horse figure in a short story by Susanna Clarke? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-october-2023/990977.md?page=5)