# Botticelli, Sept. 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 1, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748 "2022-09-01T17:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/181 "2022-09-28T00:01:36Z")
**C** 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/182 "2022-09-28T00:02:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender? > IQ2: Were you #1’s great-uncle? > IQ3: Were you #1’s great-grandfather? Not Bonnie Prince Charlie Take 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/183 "2022-09-28T00:10:20Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender? > > IQ2: Were you #1’s great-uncle? > > IQ3: Were you #1’s great-grandfather? > > Not Bonnie Prince Charlie > Take 2 DQs 1, correct 2. Charles II 3. Charles I DQ1: Living? DQ2: American? DQ3: Known for the Arts? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/184 "2022-09-28T00:14:01Z")
**C** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Known for the Arts ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/185 "2022-09-28T00:52:12Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the offspring of Pepin the Short and Bertha Bigfoot? 2. Did you create the character Father Brown? 3. Were you famously interrupted by a gentleman from Porlock? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/186 "2022-09-28T02:02:55Z")
1. Did, as the TV show title indicated, you love Joanie? 2. Were you married to Elsa Lanchester? 3. Were you the star of **The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman**? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/187 "2022-09-28T03:01:51Z")
IQs: 1. Was your nickname “Bombs Away”? 2. Speaking of nicknames, did you get yours from your stepsisters because you lived by the fireplace? 3. Do you share your stage name with a suburb in Maryland? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/188 "2022-09-28T06:55:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you the offspring of Pepin the Short and Bertha Bigfoot? > 2. Did you create the character Father Brown? > 3. Were you famously interrupted by a gentleman from Porlock? Take 2 DQs Not Samuel Coleridge while writing Kubla Khan > [@kitap](#): > > - Did, as the TV show title indicated, you love Joanie? > - Were you married to Elsa Lanchester? > - Were you the star of **The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman**? Not Chachi Not Charles Laughton Not Cicely Tyson > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Was your nickname “Bombs Away”? > 2. Speaking of nicknames, did you get yours from your stepsisters because you lived by the fireplace? > 3. Do you share your stage name with a suburb in Maryland? Take a DQ Not Cinderella Not Chevy Chase ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/189 "2022-09-28T12:26:47Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you the offspring of Pepin the Short and Bertha Bigfoot? > > 2. Did you create the character Father Brown? > > 3. Were you famously interrupted by a gentleman from Porlock? > > Take 2 DQs > Not Samuel Coleridge while writing Kubla Khan #1 was Charlemagne. #2 was Gilbert K. Chesterton. Correct on Coleridge. DQs: 1. Died after 1950? 2. Known for the performing arts? ---
**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 28, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/190 "2022-09-28T12:31:23Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the first woman to co-anchor CBS’s evening news show? 2. Did you, possibly do it in the Conservatory with the Revolver? 3. Were you often heard in the company of Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, windmill-propelled 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Good Show_? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/191 "2022-09-28T13:41:33Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Was your nickname “Bombs Away”? > 2. Speaking of nicknames, did you get yours from your stepsisters because you lived by the fireplace? > 3. Do you share your stage name with a suburb in Maryland? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Take a DQ > Not Cinderella > Not Chevy Chase 1 was General Curtis LeMay. DQ: first name begins with C? IQs: 1. Did you play Kim Jong-Il on _30 Rock_? 2. Did you not believe in God because you didn’t believe in Mother Goose? 3. Did you design St. Paul’s Cathedral? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/192 "2022-09-28T17:15:12Z")
**C** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Known for the Arts 6. Died after 1950 7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer 8. Last name begins with C ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/193 "2022-09-28T17:16:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Were you the first woman to co-anchor CBS’s evening news show? > 2. Did you, possibly do it in the Conservatory with the Revolver? > 3. Were you often heard in the company of Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, windmill-propelled 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Good Show_? Not Connie Chung Not Colonel Mustard DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you play Kim Jong-Il on _30 Rock_? > 2. Did you not believe in God because you didn’t believe in Mother Goose? > 3. Did you design St. Paul’s Cathedral? 2 DQs Not Christopher Wren ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/194 "2022-09-28T17:30:34Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 2 DQs > Not Christopher Wren 1 was Margaret Cho; 2 was lawyer Clarence Darrow. DQs: 1. died after 1990? 2. known for writing? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/195 "2022-09-28T17:35:37Z")
**C** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Known for the Arts 6. Died after 1950 7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer 8. Last name begins with C 9. Died before 1990 10. Known, in part, for writing, although not best known for writing ---
**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 28, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/196 "2022-09-28T18:36:46Z")
Previous IQs: Are you His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, among other nice places? - Yes, Charles III Were you the hapless Prime Minister who succeeded Thatcher in the British _House of Cards_? - Charles Collingridge Were you Lord Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Yes, Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood DQ: Won a top award in his field? IQs: Did your wife sell some of your precious artworks in order to cover her expenses, and you were very angry about it? Were you sent into a combat zone by a general to whom you owed money? Did someone impersonating you appear onstage during the 1979 Supertramp concert in Paris? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/197 "2022-09-28T18:58:34Z")
**C** 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. American 5. Known for the Arts 6. Died after 1950 7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer 8. Last name begins with C 9. Died before 1990 10. Known, in part, for writing, although not best known for writing 11. Did not win a top award in his field ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/198 "2022-09-28T19:06:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > : > > Did your wife sell some of your precious artworks in order to cover her expenses, and you were very angry about it? > Were you sent into a combat zone by a general to whom you owed money? > Did someone impersonating you appear onstage during the 1979 Supertramp concert in Paris? 2 DQs Not Croger Chodgson - or take 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 28, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/199 "2022-09-28T19:37:24Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Were you the first woman to co-anchor CBS’s evening news show? > > 2. Did you, possibly do it in the Conservatory with the Revolver? > > 3. Were you often heard in the company of Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, windmill-propelled 1950’s BBC radio series, _The Good Show_? > > Not Connie Chung > Not Colonel Mustard > DQ Correct Correct Henry Crum DQ: Died after 1970? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748/200 "2022-09-28T20:01:11Z")
IQ1: We’ve established that you weren’t Pepin the Short’s son; were you his father? IQ2: Were three of your four sets of g’grandparents, as well as two of your eight sets of g’g’grandparents, the same two people? IQ3: Was CVN-68 named after you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2022/970748.md?page=11)