# Botticelli - Sept. 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 1, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651 "2016-09-01T13:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/101 "2016-09-15T03:55:19Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a costar of _The Man from U.N.C.L.E._ original TV series? - Yes, Robert Vaughn Did Naomi Watts play you in a political thriller? - Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame Are you a top female aide to President Obama? - Valerie Jarrett DQs: First appeared in a novel? British? IQs: Did you play Edward Scissorhands’s kindly creator? Did Don McLean famously sing about you? Were you a plucky robot in _The Black Hole_? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/102 "2016-09-15T12:05:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Will Camila Mendes play you in the upcoming series _Riverdale_? > 2. Are you a former President of Mexico who does not care for Mr. Trump? > 3. Will Kelly Overton star as you in an upcoming TV series? Not Veronica, DQ, not Vanessa Helsing. (And I can’t decide if either of those shows look interesting enough to watch yet.) > [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Did you play Edward Scissorhands’s kindly creator? > Did Don McLean famously sing about you? > Were you a plucky robot in The Black Hole? No to Vincent Price and Richie Valens, take a DQ for the robot. 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Last name starts with V. 4. Not American. 5. First appearance before 1964. 6. European. 7. First appeared in written media. 8. First appearance before 1900. 9. Did not first appear in a novel. 10. British. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/103 "2016-09-15T14:39:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did you play Edward Scissorhands’s kindly creator? - Yes, Vincent Price. Did Don McLean famously sing about you? - I’ll rephrase. Were you a plucky robot in _The Black Hole_? - VINCENT (voiced by Roddy McDowell) DQ: First appeared in short story? IQs: You are not Richie Valens. Did Don McLean famously sing about you? Did Julie Andrews play you in a movie? In the same movie, did she play you, too? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/104 "2016-09-15T14:57:13Z")
1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Last name starts with V. 4. Not American. 5. First appearance before 1964. 6. European. 7. First appeared in written media. 8. First appearance before 1900. 9. Did not first appear in a novel. 10. British. 11. First appeared in a short story. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You are not Richie Valens. Did Don McLean famously sing about you? > Did Julie Andrews play you in a movie? > In the same movie, did she play you, too? I am neither Victor nor Victoria, but I only know one Don McLean song, so DQ. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/105 "2016-09-15T15:41:06Z")
Previous IQs: You are not Richie Valens. Did Don McLean famously sing about you? - Vincent van Gogh: [Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk) Did Julie Andrews play you in a movie? - Yes, Victor. In the same movie, did she play you, too? - Yes, Victoria! DQ: Appeared in more than one short story? IQs: Did Ed Harris play you in _The Abyss_? Did your colleagues suspect you “screwed the pooch”? Were you an ancient poet? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/106 "2016-09-15T15:47:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did Ed Harris play you in _The Abyss_? > Did your colleagues suspect you “screwed the pooch”? > Were you an ancient poet? I am not Virgil “Gus” Grissom\* or Virgil the poet, and I suspect Ed Harris played a guy named Virgil in _The Abyss_ but I can’t remember, so one DQ. 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Last name starts with V. 4. Not American. 5. First appearance before 1964. 6. European. 7. First appeared in written media. 8. First appearance before 1900. 9. Did not first appear in a novel. 10. British. 11. First appeared in a short story. 12. Appeared in more than one short story. - I would never have remembered that moment in _The Right Stuff_, if it hadn’t been my introduction to the phrase. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/107 "2016-09-15T17:48:23Z")
Yes, Virgil all around. Harris’s character was nicknamed “Bud” but his estranged wife knew that his actual first name, of which he was not proud, was Virgil (great movie BTW). IQs: Were you a bratty little girl who toured a chocolate factory? Were you pals with an astronaut nicknamed “Stinky”? Were you one of the Scooby Gang? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/108 "2016-09-15T17:57:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a bratty little girl who toured a chocolate factory? > Were you pals with an astronaut nicknamed “Stinky”? > Were you one of the Scooby Gang? Not Violet Beauregard or Velma Dinkley, DQ for the stinky question. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/109 "2016-09-15T18:04:54Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a bratty little girl who toured a chocolate factory? - Good answer, but I’ll rephrase. Were you pals with an astronaut nicknamed “Stinky”? - Valentine Michael Smith, in Heinlein’s _Stranger in a Strange Land_. A Dr. Mahmoud had that nickname. Were you one of the Scooby Gang? - Yes, Velma, whose last name I didn’t even know before! DQ: Lead character in those short stories? IQs: Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory? Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence? Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/110 "2016-09-15T18:20:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory? > Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence? > Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates? I am not Veruca Salt and no, Virginia, that’s not my name either. I am also not Linus Van Pelt. 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Last name starts with V. 4. Not American. 5. First appearance before 1964. 6. European. 7. First appeared in written media. 8. First appearance before 1900. 9. Did not first appear in a novel. 10. British. 11. First appeared in a short story. 12. Appeared in more than one short story. 13. Lead character. You also still have one DQ reserved, unless my guessing on the third Virgil doesn’t count as a DQ. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/111 "2016-09-15T20:18:05Z")
Correct on Veronica Lodge; Vincente Fox was President of Mexico; correct on Vanessa Helsing. I don’t plan on watching either. IQ: Are you the title character in a Penny Dreadful Victorian series about a vampire? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/112 "2016-09-15T21:39:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Are you the title character in a Penny Dreadful Victorian series about a vampire? Yes! I am Varney the Vampire! Congrats, Prof. P!! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/113 "2016-09-15T23:19:19Z")
He’s been guessed (and not just by me) in a lot of “V” rounds. I’m not surprised he actually got a turn. So, 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:** [September 16, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/114 "2016-09-16T04:03:45Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory? - Yes, Veruca Salt Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence? - “Yes, Virginia…” Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates? - I was actually thinking of Violet, but either of the Van Pelts will do. Good job, **Prof. P.**! On to W… IQs: Did you see to it that your organization finally got a building of its own? Did you once say in an interview that you wore Fat Boy Jeans as a kid? Did the Pope give you a special flag for a particular project of yours? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/115 "2016-09-16T13:49:40Z")
1. Were you once married to a musketeer? 2. Were you known by the code name “Targeter” during the Galactic Civil War? 3. Did you play Mork and Mindy’s son? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/116 "2016-09-16T18:32:28Z")
IQ’s: 1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer who played his entire 21-year career for the Pirates at left field and later at 1st base ? 2. Were you Bush 41’s anti-Dukakis poster child? 3. Are you the boy who won’t fall asleep? ---
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/117 "2016-09-16T22:17:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory? - Yes, Veruca Salt > Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence? - “Yes, Virginia…” > Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates? - I was actually thinking of Violet, but either of the Van Pelts will do. > > Good job, **Prof. P.**! > > On to W… > > IQs: > > Did you see to it that your organization finally got a building of its own? > Did you once say in an interview that you wore Fat Boy Jeans as a kid? > Did the Pope give you a special flag for a particular project of yours? 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:** [September 16, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/118 "2016-09-16T22:18:50Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Were you once married to a musketeer? > 2. Were you known by the code name “Targeter” during the Galactic Civil War? > 3. Did you play Mork and Mindy’s son? 1. I am not Milady de Winter. Take a DQ for 2. (Something about Winter, one assumes.) 2. I am not Jonathan Winters. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/119 "2016-09-16T22:19:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > IQ’s: > > 1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer who played his entire 21-year career for the Pirates at left field and later at 1st base ? > 2. Were you Bush 41’s anti-Dukakis poster child? > 3. Are you the boy who won’t fall asleep? #3. I am not Wee Willie Winkie. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651/120 "2016-09-17T00:31:45Z")
1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer who played his entire 21-year career for the Pirates at left field and later at 1st base? Willie Stargell. 2. Were you Bush 41’s anti-Dukakis poster child? Willie Horton. 3. Are you the boy who won’t fall asleep? Correct, Wee Willie Winkie. DQ’s: 1. Male? 2. Real? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2016/764651.md?page=7)