# Botticelli - Rd 28
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [June 28, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539 "2008-06-28T03:27:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/1 "2008-06-28T03:27:17Z")
I am A.D.
Have at you!
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/2 "2008-06-28T03:35:17Z")
[QUOTE=Wargamer]
I am A.D.
Have at you!
[/QUOTE]
Were you Muhammad Ali’s corner man?
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/3 "2008-06-28T04:59:43Z")
Are you Burt Bacharach’s ex-wife?
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### Author:  [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/4 "2008-06-28T05:01:38Z")
Do you have five names, one of them Brian?
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/5 "2008-06-28T05:03:54Z")
Did you catch the public eye for tutoring Ben Affleck in poker?
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/6 "2008-06-28T05:23:15Z")
Did you choreograph Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and “Rodeo”?
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/7 "2008-06-28T05:45:38Z")
Were you a long-serving Cold War ambassador?
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### Author:  [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/8 "2008-06-28T06:27:29Z")
Were you a component of the greatest computer ever built, who managed to escape its destruction?
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### Author:  [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/9 "2008-06-28T07:03:04Z")
Are you a comedian who was thrown off of the Jimmy Kimmel show for groping a billionaire’s daughter?
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### Author:  [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/10 "2008-06-28T12:04:48Z")
Do you have Gordon Brown’s old job?
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### Author:  [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/11 "2008-06-28T14:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=astorian]
Were you Muhammad Ali’s corner man?
[/QUOTE]
No, I’m not Angelo Dundee.
[Quote=Biffy]
Are you Burt Bacharach’s ex-wife?
[/QUOTE]
I’m not Angie Dickinson. (At least, I THINK that’s who you mean. If I’m wrong, a DQ for you.
[Quote=tim314]
Do you have five names, one of them Brian?
[/quote]
No idea who you mean. DQ for you.
[Quote=Leaper]
Did you catch the public eye for tutoring Ben Affleck in poker?
[/quote]
No I’m not Annie Duke.
[Quote=astorian]
Do you have five names, one of them BrianDid you choreograph Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” and “Rodeo”?
[/quote]
No idea. DQ away.
[Quote=Elendil’s Heir]
Were you a long-serving Cold War ambassador?
[/quote]
I’m not Alexei Dobrinin.
[Quote=tim314]
Were you a component of the greatest computer ever built, who managed to escape its destruction?
[/quote]
I’m not Arthur Dent. (Although I almost was. He was my second choice.)
[Quote=Wooden Taco]
Are you a comedian who was thrown off of the Jimmy Kimmel show for groping a billionaire’s daughter?
[/quote]
Not sure who you mean. DQ for you.
[Quote=ErinPuff]
you have Gordon Brown’s old job?
[/quote]
No idea who has Gordon Brown’s old job. DQ for you.
DQs for **astorian, tim314, ErinPuff** and **Wooden Taco**.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/12 "2008-06-28T14:47:45Z")
The choreographer was Agnes DeMille
DQ: Are you a fictional character?
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/13 "2008-06-28T14:55:16Z")
Correct on Angie Dickinson.
Did your “affair” lead to you doing time on Devil’s Island?
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### Author:  [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/14 "2008-06-28T14:58:41Z")
[QUOTE=astorian]
The choreographer was Agnes DeMille
DQ: Are you a fictional character?
[/QUOTE]
Yes, I’m a fictional character.
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#):
>
> Did your “affair” lead to you doing time on Devil’s Island?
I’m not Albert Dreyfuss.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/15 "2008-06-28T15:11:15Z")
Was a site near your childhood home chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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### Author:  [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/16 "2008-06-28T15:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=Wargamer]
No idea who has Gordon Brown’s old job. DQ for you.
[/QUOTE]
[Alistair Darling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Darling).
DQ: Are you male?
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/17 "2008-06-28T15:31:50Z")
Are you the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
ETA: Oops, I missed that you were fictional. If I’d realized this wasn’t a possibility, I wouldn’t have made it such a softball!
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### Author:  [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/18 "2008-06-28T16:01:21Z")
[QUOTE=tim314]
Do you have five names, one of them Brian?
[/QUOTE]
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, of the Harry Potter books.
DQ: Did you first appear in the 20th century? (Meaning when the character was written, not the time in which the fictional story was set.)
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/19 "2008-06-28T16:28:25Z")
Did you “kill the beast”?
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### Author:  [@WoodenTaco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WoodenTaco)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-rd-28/454539/20 "2008-06-28T17:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=WoodenTaco]
Are you a comedian who was thrown off of the Jimmy Kimmel show for groping a billionaire’s daughter?
[/QUOTE]
This is the perpetually unfunny [Andy Dick](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc0CYi1QeKs).
IQ: Did you coin the famous motto “_un pour tous, tous pour un_?”
Waiting on the DQ until the other answers are given.
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