# Botticelli - September 2015

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 4, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916 "2015-09-04T17:19:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/421 "2015-09-20T12:59:01Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Female
3. First name starts with K
4. American

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/422 "2015-09-20T13:02:16Z")

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> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> IQ1: Are you in a band with Jack Black?  
> IQ2: Are you friends with Stan, and sort of frenemies with Eric?  
> IQ3: Did you play Paul Atreides?

Not Kyle Glass, not Kyle Broflovski, not Kyle McCaughlin

Kyle x 3!

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**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 20, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/423 "2015-09-20T15:10:58Z")

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DQ1: Living?  
DQ2: Known for the Arts?  
One DQ reserved.  
IQ1: Did you star in _Bringing Up Baby_?

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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/424 "2015-09-20T15:20:52Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Not Kyle Glass, not Kyle Broflovski, not Kyle McCaughlin
> 
> Kyle x 3!

All correct! (with a few minor misspellings)

IQ1: Do you serve as a county clerk?  
IQ2: Did you suffer from anorexia?  
IQ3: Did you pause a successful acting career to become a presidential advisor?

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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:** [September 20, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/425 "2015-09-20T16:13:08Z")

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IQ1) Did your father give you a name he said meant “stay” in the Mandinka language?

IQ2) Did you play an airline magnate who died over lunch in the movie version of _ **Bonfire of the Vanities** _?

IQ3) Was Walt Frazier and Willis Reed’s team named after you?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/426 "2015-09-20T19:08:12Z")

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DQ Roundup

1. Real
2. Female
3. First name starts with K
4. American
5. Living
6. Not known for the arts

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/427 "2015-09-20T19:09:30Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you star in _Bringing Up Baby_?

not Katherine Hepburn(?)

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/428 "2015-09-20T19:12:30Z")

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> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> IQ1: Do you serve as a county clerk?  
> IQ2: Did you suffer from anorexia?  
> IQ3: Did you pause a successful acting career to become a presidential advisor?

There’s lots of answer to IQ1, so narrow it down a bit plz  
not Karen Carpenter  
not Kal Penn

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/429 "2015-09-20T19:14:44Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did your father give you a name he said meant “stay” in the Mandinka language?
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> IQ2) Did you play an airline magnate who died over lunch in the movie version of _ **Bonfire of the Vanities** _?
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> IQ3) Was Walt Frazier and Willis Reed’s team named after you?

not Kunta Kinte(?), dunno, not Mr. Knight(?)

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**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 20, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/430 "2015-09-20T19:36:53Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you the protagonist in a series of novels by Lionel Fenn?
2. Are you considered by most to be the first abstract painter?
3. Were you the “Tracer of Lost Persons” on Old-Time Radio?

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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/431 "2015-09-20T19:44:31Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> There’s lots of answer to IQ1, so narrow it down a bit plz  
> not Karen Carpenter  
> not Kal Penn

I don’t think asking me to narrow it down is one of your allowed options… if the criterion is ambiguous, you can provide any answer that fits.

The other two are correct.

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**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 20, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/432 "2015-09-20T19:51:14Z")

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> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> I don’t think asking me to narrow it down is one of your allowed options… if the criterion is ambiguous, you can provide any answer that fits…

Correct.

Previous IQs:

Have you played characters named Elizabeth, Cecilia and Domino? - Keira Knightley, in _Pride & Prejudice, Atonement_ and _Domino_.  
Were you (perhaps unfairly) the villain in _Breaker Morant_? - Lord Kitchener.  
Were you the best-known Mudhens fan? - Yes, Klinger from _M_A_S_H\*.

DQs:

Best known for politics/military?  
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Are you married to a musician and have a child named after a point of the compass?  
Are you that musician?  
Did you spoof the Seebees’ motto?

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**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 20, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/433 "2015-09-20T21:20:33Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you star in _Bringing Up Baby_?

> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> not Katherine Hepburn(?)

Correct.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/434 "2015-09-20T23:12:17Z")

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> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#):
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> I don’t think asking me to narrow it down is one of your allowed options… if the criterion is ambiguous, you can provide any answer that fits.
> 
> The other two are correct.

Actually, I had a brain fart. I forgot about her profession. Yes, I am Kim Davis! She recently made headlines for defying a federal court order to issue same-sex marriage licenses.

Congrats Tim!

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**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 21, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/435 "2015-09-21T00:03:14Z")

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Good job, Tim!

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**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 21, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/436 "2015-09-21T00:46:28Z")

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I thought that might be her. Good one, and congrats, **SCMT**!

Previous IQs:

Are you married to a musician and have a child named after a point of the compass? - Kim Kardashian.  
Are you that musician? - Kanye West.  
Did you spoof the Seebees’ motto? - Henry Kissinger, who joked, “The impossible we do right away; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/437 "2015-09-21T03:00:33Z")

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Nice, though getting one that early always involves a healthy dose of luck. 🙂

This time I am M.

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**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 21, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/438 "2015-09-21T11:22:55Z")

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IQs:

1. Were you one of the Monkees?
2. Were you another one of the Monkees?
3. Did you play the Saint on TV?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/439 "2015-09-21T11:28:13Z")

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Professor P holds the record for guessing me on the very first turn.

IQ1: Did you write _Don Quixote_?  
IQ2: Have you played abrasive federal investigators in _Twin Peaks_ and _NCIS: Los Angeles_?  
IQ3: Are you the first Puerto Rican fighter in history to win a world title in four different weight classes?

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**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2015/729916/440 "2015-09-21T15:22:32Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Were you one of the Monkees?
> 2. Were you another one of the Monkees?
> 3. Did you play the Saint on TV?

1. Mickey Dolan
2. DQ, though I’m pretty sure I’ll remember it when I read it…
3. DQ

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