# Botticelli - Sept. 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 6, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843 "2024-09-06T03:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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 30, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/221 "2024-09-30T15:18:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you trip the light fantastic with me on _The Sidewalks of New York_? 2. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French minion in the highly acclaimed, often imitated, never-improved-upon, lavishly decorated, light-tripping, somewhat condescending 1950’s BBC Radio series _The Goon Show_? 3. Did you trip a little light fantastic in _Mary Poppins Returns_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/222 "2024-09-30T15:31:30Z")
# M 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with M. 3. Human. 4. Female. 5. Created after 1950. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/223 "2024-09-30T15:34:38Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have “binders full of women”? > 2. Did you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? > 3. Are your notebooks still radioactive? I am not Willard Mitt Romney. I am not… Muhummad Ali? I am not Marie Curie. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you trip the light fantastic with me on _The Sidewalks of New York_? > 2. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French minion in the highly acclaimed, often imitated, never-improved-upon, lavishly decorated, light-tripping, somewhat condescending 1950’s BBC Radio series _The Goon Show_? > 3. Did you trip a little light fantastic in _Mary Poppins Returns_? Take 3 DQs. That _Goon Show_ trivia is _still_ tripping me up… ---
**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 30, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/224 "2024-09-30T15:36:49Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you trip the light fantastic with me on _The Sidewalks of New York_? > > 2. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French minion in the highly acclaimed, often imitated, never-improved-upon, lavishly decorated, light-tripping, somewhat condescending 1950’s BBC Radio series _The Goon Show_? > > 3. Did you trip a little light fantastic in _Mary Poppins Returns_? > > Take 3 DQs. That _Goon Show_ trivia is _still_ tripping me up… #1 is Mamie O’Roarke. #2 is Jim “Greasepants” Moriarty. #3 is Lin-Manuel Miranda. DQs: 1. American creator? 2. Best known from TV or movies? 3. Protagonist? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/225 "2024-09-30T15:39:25Z")
# M 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with M. 3. Human. 4. Female. 5. Created after 1950. 6. American creator. 7. Best known from TV/movies. 8. Protagonist. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/226 "2024-09-30T15:50:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you start your own production company with your husband? 2. Did your father appear in an eponymous TV show? 3. Are you Moose’s girlfriend? ---
**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 30, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/227 "2024-09-30T17:27:30Z")
DQ: Best known from TV? ---
**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 30, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/228 "2024-09-30T17:28:39Z")
IQs: 1. Have you been portrayed by both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Darryl Hannah? 2. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? 3. Did you star in _Teen Wolf_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/229 "2024-09-30T19:15:49Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Did you start your own production company with your husband? > 2. Did your father appear in an eponymous TV show? > 3. Are you Moose’s girlfriend? I am not… Mary Tyler Moore? I am not… Marlo Thomas? I am not Midge. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Have you been portrayed by both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Darryl Hannah? > 2. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? > 3. Did you star in _Teen Wolf_? I am not… MIchelle the Mermaid? I am not Michael Landon. I am not Michael J. Fox. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/230 "2024-09-30T19:16:29Z")
# M 1. Fictional. 2. First name starts with M. 3. Human. 4. Female. 5. Created after 1950. 6. American creator. 7. Best known from TV/movies. 8. Protagonist. 9. Best known from TV. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/231 "2024-09-30T19:30:16Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Bangladesh’s new interim head of government? 2. Did you once get a fit of inappropriate giggles at a funeral? 3. Did your movie career as a leading man begin by playing a drunken cowboy? ---
**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 30, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/232 "2024-09-30T20:19:33Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Have you been portrayed by both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Darryl Hannah? > > 2. Did you star in _I Was A Teenage Werewolf_? > > 3. Did you star in _Teen Wolf_? > > I am not… MIchelle the Mermaid? > I am not Michael Landon. > I am not Michael J. Fox. #1 was Morticia Addams. Daryl in a badly done TV remake, and Catherine in _Wednesday_. Correct on the other two. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/233 "2024-09-30T20:21:35Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you start your own production company with your husband? > > 2. Did your father appear in an eponymous TV show? > > 3. Are you Moose’s girlfriend? > > I am not… Mary Tyler Moore? > I am not… Marlo Thomas? > I am not Midge. All correct. IQs: 1. Did you relocate to Minneapolis after your fiance left you? 2. Are you a widow with three children, one of which is a theoretical physicist at CalTech? 3. Did you suffer a very public nervous breakdown on TV? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/234 "2024-09-30T21:10:33Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Are you Bangladesh’s new interim head of government? > 2. Did you once get a fit of inappropriate giggles at a funeral? > 3. Did your movie career as a leading man begin by playing a drunken cowboy? Take a DQ. I am not Mary Richards. I am not… Melvyn Douglas? > [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Did you relocate to Minneapolis after your fiance left you? > 2. Are you a widow with three children, one of which is a theoretical physicist at CalTech? > 3. Did you suffer a very public nervous breakdown on TV? I think this is Mary Richards again. If not, take a DQ. Big Bang Theory, right? Take a DQ. I am not… Murphy Brown? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/235 "2024-09-30T21:17:23Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Did you relocate to Minneapolis after your fiance left you? > > 2. Are you a widow with three children, one of which is a theoretical physicist at CalTech? > > 3. Did you suffer a very public nervous breakdown on TV? > > I think this is Mary Richards again. If not, take a DQ. > Big Bang Theory, right? Take a DQ. > I am not… Murphy Brown? 1. Yes, I missed the previous question. 2. Correct 3. Mary Hartman - she broke down on _The David Susskind Show_ and was institutionalized 3 Marys! 1 DQ reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/236 "2024-09-30T21:20:06Z")
Note, should be 2 DQs reserved - even though I got the show correct, I have no idea about character name. I’m guessing Mary Leonard, now, though? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/237 "2024-09-30T21:42:44Z")
Okay, I understand. I was confused by question #1. 2 DQs reserved And I think it’s still Mary Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/238 "2024-09-30T21:44:14Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Are you Bangladesh’s new interim head of government? > > 2. Did you once get a fit of inappropriate giggles at a funeral? > > 3. Did your movie career as a leading man begin by playing a drunken cowboy? > > Take a DQ. > I am not Mary Richards. > I am not… Melvyn Douglas? 1. is Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (which I only know because I heard an interview with him on NPR this morning). 2. is indeed Mary Richards. 3. was Lee Marvin, whose first lead role was the drunken gunslinger Kid Shelleen in _Cat Ballou_. DQs: Last name begins “A” - “M”? Comedic actor? More IQs: Did your presidential campaign spread and establish that most ubiquitous Americanism, “OK”? Did you claim to drive off the devil by throwing shit at him, a claim later bowdlerized to throwing ink? Were you an 12th c. Irish saint, supposed author of a series of prophecies about future popes, that most historians think was a 16th c. forgery? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/239 "2024-09-30T22:12:00Z")
IQs: 1. Do you dote over your second-born son, much to the consternation of his older brother? 2. Did you trade sexual favors to a client for, among other things, free Omaha Steaks? 3. Did you weigh over 200 lbs. in high school? ---
**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 30, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843/240 "2024-09-30T22:15:37Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you have “binders full of women”? > 2. Did you “fly like paper, get high like planes”? > 3. Are your notebooks still radioactive? > [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Willard Mitt Romney. > I am not… Muhummad Ali? > I am not Marie Curie. 2 was rapper M.I.A. DQ: created after 1980? IQs: 1. Were you a major on the hunt for the elusive “Puppet Master” in _Ghost in the Shell_? 2. Were you chief of the SIS? 3. Did you have an early role in _All About Eve_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-sept-2024/1006843.md?page=13)