# Botticelli - Sept. 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574 "2020-09-02T04:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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 10, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/81 "2020-09-10T12:55:59Z")
Yay! And, yes, I erred with Lee Horsley. The third was Jonathan Hart. Onwards! I am # **F!** ---
**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 10, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/82 "2020-09-10T13:08:35Z")
Good job, **Prof. P**.! Previous IQs: Were you Samwise’s dad? - Hamfast Gamgee, AKA “the Gaffer” Were you sorry to see your pet leave when it got too big and dangerous? - Yes, Hagrid, and his dragon Norbert Were you an Elf of Lothlorien? - Haldir F it is. IQs: Did you head the RNC in the Eighties? Did you command Hill Street Station? Were you the in-the-field reporter for _FYI_? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/83 "2020-09-10T13:16:29Z")
Way to go, **Prof**! IQs: 1. Did you write _The Metamorphosis_? 2. Were you a prolific artist, known for self portraits and your political views? 3. Did you play the main character in a Burton movie based on a Dahl book? ---
**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 10, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/84 "2020-09-10T13:35:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you head the RNC in the Eighties? > Did you command Hill Street Station? > Were you the in-the-field reporter for _FYI_ ? Take 3 DQs. > [@MissTake](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Metamorphosis_ ? > 2. Were you a prolific artist, known for self portraits and your political views? > 3. Did you play the main character in a Burton movie based on a Dahl book? 1. I am not Franz Kafka. 2. I am not Frida Kahlo. 3. That’s gotta be _James and the Giant Peach_, but I don’t know who played James. Take a 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 10, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/85 "2020-09-10T13:41:50Z")
Previous IQs: Did you head the RNC in the Eighties? - Frank Fahrenkopf Did you command Hill Street Station? - Frank Furillo, on _Hill Street Blues_ Were you the in-the-field reporter for _FYI_? - Frank Fontana, on _Murphy Brown_ Frank x3! DQs: Real? Male? Last name start with F? IQs: Were you one of those profiled in the recent joint bio _Scorpions_? Were you a genocidal gaseous alien slain on _Rick and Morty_? Were you Denethor’s younger son? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/86 "2020-09-10T13:58:07Z")
- I am not Franz Kafka. - I am not Frida Kahlo. - That’s gotta be _James and the Giant Peach_ , but I don’t know who played James. Take a DQ. Yep, Yep, and it was Freddie Highmore in _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ DQ: 1. 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:** [September 10, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/87 "2020-09-10T14:07:29Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with F 4. American Even if I’d remembered _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_. I wouldn’t have remembered Freddie’s name. ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/88 "2020-09-10T14:08:01Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you one of those profiled in the recent joint bio _Scorpions_ ? > Were you a genocidal gaseous alien slain on _Rick and Morty_ ? > Were you Denethor’s younger son? Take 3 more DQs. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/89 "2020-09-10T14:11:00Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the leader of a group of young pickpockets and thieves? 2. Did Rami Malek portray you in a recent movie about your life? 3. Were you a cookbook author who had a confectionary company named after you, even though you had no connection to the company? ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/90 "2020-09-10T14:24:11Z")
#1. I am not Fagin. #2. I am not Freddy Mercury. #3. I am not Francis Farmer (??) Take a DQ if I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/91 "2020-09-10T14:27:52Z")
Got’ em all! ---
**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 10, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/92 "2020-09-10T14:43:49Z")
Previous IQs: Were you one of those profiled in the recent joint bio _Scorpions_? - Justice Felix Frankfurter (and three of his colleagues on SCOTUS) Were you a genocidal gaseous alien slain on _Rick and Morty_? - Fart Were you Denethor’s younger son? - Faramir, in _LOTR_ DQs: Living? Best known for the Arts? Born since 1950? IQs: Are you a noted intellectual whose work often appears in _The Atlantic_? Were you shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio in the Thirties? Were you either of a pair of tailors in the Stallone comedy _Oscar_? ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/93 "2020-09-10T15:08:55Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:87, topic:919574”] DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with F 4. American 5. Dead 6. Not known from the Arts 7. Born before 1950 ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/94 "2020-09-10T15:10:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a noted intellectual whose work often appears in _The Atlantic_ ? > Were you shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio in the Thirties? > Were you either of a pair of tailors in the Stallone comedy _Oscar_ ? Take DQs for 1 and 3. I am not Pretty Boy Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/95 "2020-09-10T15:21:06Z")
DQs: 1. Did you act in a show from the 70’s based on a song about a woman who socked it to a PTA? 2. Were you the Queen of Jazz? 3. Did you write “A Good Man is Hard to Find”? ---
**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 10, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/96 "2020-09-10T15:22:35Z")
#2. I am not Ella Fitzgerald. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/97 "2020-09-10T18:21:51Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > - Did you act in a show from the 70’s based on a song about a woman who socked it to a PTA? > - Were you the Queen of Jazz? > - Did you write “A Good Man is Hard to Find”? Fannie Flagg (Harper Valley PTA), correct, Flannery O’Connor DQs: Died before 1980? Known for politics? ---
**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 10, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/98 "2020-09-10T19:19:57Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with F 4. American 5. Dead 6. Not known from the Arts 7. Born before 1950 8. Died after 1980 9. Known for politics ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/99 "2020-09-10T22:01:37Z")
IQs 1. Did Chevy Chase frequently portray your husband on SNL in the 70’s? 2. Also, on SNL, did Jon Lovitz claim on multiple occasions to have married you? 3. US Senator from California? ---
**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 10, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574/100 "2020-09-10T22:08:52Z")
#1. I am not Gerald Ford. #2. I am not Morgan Fairchild. #3. Take a DQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2020/919574.md?page=6)