# Botticelli Round 24

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [June 15, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971 "2008-06-15T01:47:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/21 "2008-06-15T05:57:14Z")

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Are you a highly elastic superhero?

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/22 "2008-06-15T06:38:33Z")

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Did you stuff your mount?

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/23 "2008-06-15T10:42:14Z")

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Did you appear in the films ‘The Longest Day’ and ‘The Professionals’?

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/24 "2008-06-15T10:45:54Z")

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Were you one of the architects on the Pompidou Centre?

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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/25 "2008-06-15T11:07:18Z")

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Do you work at a newspaper under a boss whose son was once a werewolf?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/26 "2008-06-15T13:17:40Z")

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Not Robert “Longest Day” Ryan

Not Reed “Mr. Fantastic” Richards

Not J Jonah Jameson’s pal “Robbie” Robertson

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/27 "2008-06-15T13:20:03Z")

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Not Roy Rogers.

I don’t know the architect, so glee gets a DQ

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/28 "2008-06-15T13:38:15Z")

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Are you a San Francisco-born concert violinist with a foreign-sounding name?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/29 "2008-06-15T13:46:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
Are you a San Francisco-born concert violinist with a foreign-sounding name?  
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Ask a DQ- I don’t know this one.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/30 "2008-06-15T13:55:24Z")

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The concert violinist is **Ruggiero Ricci**.

Are you a character from films?

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/31 "2008-06-15T17:13:03Z")

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[Richard Rogers](http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we_made_this/2008/01/richard-rogers.html) helped design the Pompidou Centre.

Were you created within the last 50 years?

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/32 "2008-06-15T17:20:37Z")

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Did you marry the (totally gorgeous 🙂 ) actress who played one of your brides?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/33 "2008-06-15T17:39:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
The concert violinist is **Ruggiero Ricci**.

Are you a character from films?  
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No.  
Summary:  
Fictional character  
Did not appear in a novel  
Not a movie character

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/34 "2008-06-15T17:41:00Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
[Richard Rogers](http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we_made_this/2008/01/richard-rogers.html) helped design the Pompidou Centre.

Were you created within the last 50 years?  
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No.

Summary:

Fictional  
Not in a novel  
Not a movie character  
Not created in past 50 years

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/35 "2008-06-15T17:42:04Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
Did you marry the (totally gorgeous 🙂 ) actress who played one of your brides?  
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I don’t know who you mean- ask a DQ

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/36 "2008-06-15T18:24:06Z")

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[Richard Roxborough](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746896/) played Dracula in ‘Van Helsing’ and married (in real life) one of his screen brides: [Silvia Colloca](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3498482432/nm1278926). 😃

Are you a comic book character?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/37 "2008-06-15T18:47:32Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
[Richard Roxborough](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746896/) played Dracula in ‘Van Helsing’ and married (in real life) one of his screen brides: [Silvia Colloca](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3498482432/nm1278926). 😃

Are you a comic book character?  
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No

Summary:

Fictional character  
Not in a novel, movie or comic book  
Not created in past 50 years

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/38 "2008-06-15T18:59:02Z")

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Did you direct a movie with a killer who totes his guns around in a guitar case?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/39 "2008-06-15T19:25:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]  
Did you direct a movie with a killer who totes his guns around in a guitar case?  
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Not Robert (my fellow Austinite) Rodriguez (whose daily comic strip, “Los Hooligans,” I used to read in the University of Texas daily newspaper).

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-24/452971/40 "2008-06-15T19:51:09Z")

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Are you “The Nightstalker”?

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