# Botticelli - September 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 2, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600 "2019-09-02T20:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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 11, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/221 "2019-09-11T14:38:08Z")
I’m going to guess Abraham and Mary Lincoln, but IQ3 could be Lon Chaney. I’m sure he and Leo resembled each other as newborns. ---
**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 11, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/222 "2019-09-11T14:45:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight_? 2. Did you play Paris on the TV series _Mission: Impossible_? 3. Did you play Sally Bowles in _Cabaret_? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/223 "2019-09-11T14:53:21Z")
IQ1: Did you have a sitcom based on a movie with a much longer title? And did you sing the theme to that show? IQ2: Did you start your career with The Stone Poneys? IQ3: Were you a porn actress, the star of perhaps the world’s most famous porn movie? ---
**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 11, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/224 "2019-09-11T17:34:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight_? > 2. Did you play Paris on the TV series _Mission: Impossible_? > 3. Did you play Sally Bowles in _Cabaret_? take 3 DQs ---
**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 11, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/225 "2019-09-11T17:35:25Z")
> [@atimnie](#): > > IQ1: Did you have a sitcom based on a movie with a much longer title? And did you sing the theme to that show? > IQ2: Did you start your career with The Stone Poneys? > IQ3: Were you a porn actress, the star of perhaps the world’s most famous porn movie? not Linda Lavin, DQ, not Linda Lovelace ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/226 "2019-09-11T17:40:41Z")
2 was Linda Ronstadt. DQ: Real? ---
**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 11, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/227 "2019-09-11T17:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight? > 2. Did you play Paris on the TV series Mission: Impossible? > 3. Did you play Sally Bowles in Cabaret? > take 3 DQs #1 was Lonnie Donegan, the Skiffle King. #2 was Leonard Nimoy. #3 was Liza Minnelli. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Last name starts with L? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 11, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/228 "2019-09-11T19:09:25Z")
Previous IQs: Did you work closely with William Herndon? - Yes, Abraham Lincoln - Herndon was his law partner and later biographer Were you the wife of that person? - Yes, Mary Todd Lincoln Did you look a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio in your youth? - Their son, Robert Todd Lincoln: [http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/files/styles/image\_page\_view/public/images/HD\_lincolnR.jpg?itok=flCPyEXo](http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/files/styles/image_page_view/public/images/HD_lincolnR.jpg?itok=flCPyEXo) DQ: Political/military? IQs: Is there a monument to you in Vicksburg, Miss.? Were you only scared once in three books? Did Jack Black play you in a movie filmed, in part, in Greenwich, England? ---
**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 12, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/229 "2019-09-12T01:24:26Z")
DQ Cauldron 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with L 4. Political/Military ---
**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 12, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/230 "2019-09-12T01:31:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Is there a monument to you in Vicksburg, Miss.? > Were you only scared once in three books? > Did Jack Black play you in a movie filmed, in part, in Greenwich, England? DQ, DQ, not R.L. Stein? ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/231 "2019-09-12T02:01:40Z")
DQ: Living? ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/232 "2019-09-12T02:04:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did your puppets include Hush Puppy & Charley Horse? 2. Did you have a hit with _Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody_? 3. Did you and your band have a hit with _This Diamond Ring_? ---
**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 12, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/233 "2019-09-12T04:30:12Z")
Previous IQs: Is there a monument to you in Vicksburg, Miss.? - Gen. John Logan, a senior officer in U.S. Grant’s besieging army there in 1863 Were you only scared once in three books? - Legolas, when he saw the balrog in _LOTR_ Did Jack Black play you in a movie filmed, in part, in Greenwich, England? - Not R.L. Stein, but Lemuel Gulliver DQs: Mostly political? American? Greatest fame since 1950? IQs: Did you sometimes act as bodyguard to President Lincoln? Did you run for reelection to the U.S. Senate and also for VPOTUS in 1988? Did you famously draw an economic projection on a cocktail napkin? ---
**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 12, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/234 "2019-09-12T10:49:45Z")
DQ Cauldron 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with L 4. Political/Military 5. Dead 6. Not an elected official, but has had major political impact 7. Not American 8. Greatest fame since 1950 ---
**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 12, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/235 "2019-09-12T10:51:23Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did your puppets include Hush Puppy & Charley Horse? > 2. Did you have a hit with _Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody_? > 3. Did you and your band have a hit with _This Diamond Ring_? not Shari Lewis, DQ, DQ ---
**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 12, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/236 "2019-09-12T10:53:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you sometimes act as bodyguard to President Lincoln? > Did you run for reelection to the U.S. Senate and also for VPOTUS in 1988? > Did you famously draw an economic projection on a cocktail napkin? 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 12, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/237 "2019-09-12T13:39:18Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did your puppets include Hush Puppy & Charley Horse? > 2. Did you have a hit with Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody? > 3. Did you and your band have a hit with This Diamond Ring? > not Shari Lewis, DQ, DQ #1. Correct on Shari Lewis. #2 was Jerry Lewis. #3 was Gary Lewis. A slew o’ Lewis’s. DQs: 1. European? 2. Died after 1980? ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/238 "2019-09-12T13:53:37Z")
IQ1: Did you sing about a road trip with a dog in the 70s under this name? IQ2: Are you the person who wrote the song under your real name? IQ3: Are you the lead singer for “Last Song” group, Edward Bear? ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/239 "2019-09-12T14:21:00Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Lady Is A Tramp_? 2. Did you write _Solaris_? 3. Did you work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine? ---
**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 12, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/240 "2019-09-12T14:26:48Z")
DQ Cauldron 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name starts with L 4. Political/Military 5. Dead 6. Not an elected official, but has had major political impact 7. Not American 8. Greatest fame since 1950 9. Not European 10. Died after 1980 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600.md?page=13)