# Botticelli - September 2019

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600>\
**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:** 6

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**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 6, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/101 "2019-09-06T01:56:11Z")

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Would you rather have X?

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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 6, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/102 "2019-09-06T01:58:06Z")

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Huh, okay.

IQs:

1. Are you a short, bald, fat guy with a one-panel comic strip?
2. Are you the star of another comic strip that’s usually alphabetically right after #1?
3. Did you film JFK’s assassination?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/103 "2019-09-06T02:02:51Z")

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Not Ziggy, not Abe Zapruder, take a DQ on 2.

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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 6, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/104 "2019-09-06T02:05:24Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Huh, okay.
> 
> IQs:
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> 1. Are you a short, bald, fat guy with a one-panel comic strip?
> 2. Are you the star of another comic strip that’s usually alphabetically right after #1?
> 3. Did you film JFK’s assassination?

> [@atimnie](#):
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> Not Ziggy, not Abe Zapruder, take a DQ on 2.

Correct, Zippy the Pinhead, correct.

DQ: Real?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/105 "2019-09-06T02:08:30Z")

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1. Real

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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 6, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/106 "2019-09-06T11:03:22Z")

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IQs:

1. Did you create Esperanto?
2. Were you known as “the Father of Television”?
3. Did you voice The Spellbinder on _Electric Company_?

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**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 6, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/107 "2019-09-06T13:25:25Z")

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Take 3 DQ’s.

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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 6, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/108 "2019-09-06T13:48:50Z")

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Wonder of atimnie will remember my Z IQs if I reuse them?

IQ1: Did Jason Sudeikis voice you in a 2017 Fox sitcom that combined live action and animation?  
IQ2: Did you play Mary Jane in _Spider-man: Far From Home_?  
IQ3: Do you play the snotty passive-aggressive host of _Between Two Ferns_?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/109 "2019-09-06T14:01:20Z")

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Take 3 DQ’s. Think this will be a quick game.

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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 6, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/110 "2019-09-06T14:07:25Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Did you create Esperanto?
> 2. Were you known as “the Father of Television”?
> 3. Did you voice The Spellbinder on _Electric Company_?

1 was Ludwig Zamenhof.  
2 was Vladimir Zwarykin, creator of the cathode ray tube.  
3 was Zero Mostel.

DQs:

1. Male?
2. Living?
3. American?

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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 6, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/111 "2019-09-06T14:09:06Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you aka Don Diego de la Vera?
2. Were you a painter known as “the Spanish Caravaggio”?
3. Are you the title character in the only novel by Max Beerbohm?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/112 "2019-09-06T14:12:50Z")

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1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. American

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**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 6, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/113 "2019-09-06T14:14:21Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you aka Don Diego de la Vera?
> 2. Were you a painter known as “the Spanish Caravaggio”?
> 3. Are you the title character in the only novel by Max Beerbohm?

Not Zorro, take 2 DQ’s.

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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 6, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/114 "2019-09-06T14:17:57Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you aka Don Diego de la Vera?
> 2. Were you a painter known as “the Spanish Caravaggio”?
> 3. Are you the title character in the only novel by Max Beerbohm?

> [@atimnie](#):
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> Not Zorro, take 2 DQ’s.

Correct, Francesco Zurbaran, Zuleika Dobson.

DQs:

1. Known for the Arts?
2. Born before 1960?

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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 6, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/115 "2019-09-06T14:20:01Z")

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IQs:

1. Are you a Swiss printmaker known for “breastscapes”?
2. Did Josh Brolin play you in _Men In Black 3_?
3. Are you the Flash’s greatest archenemy?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/116 "2019-09-06T14:20:18Z")

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1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. American
5. Known for the arts
6. Born after 1960

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**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 6, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/117 "2019-09-06T14:22:32Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> IQs:
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> 1. Are you a Swiss printmaker known for “breastscapes”?
> 2. Did Josh Brolin play you in _Men In Black 3_?
> 3. Are you the Flash’s greatest archenemy?

Agent Z for 2? Take 2 or 3 DQs.

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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 6, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/118 "2019-09-06T14:26:54Z")

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> [@atimnie](#):
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> Agent Z for 2? Take 2 or 3 DQs.

Correct on Z (or Zed).  
#1 was Anders Zorn.  
#3 is Prof. Zoom, the Reverse Flash.

DQs:

1. Known for the Arts?
2. Born before 1980?

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**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 6, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/119 "2019-09-06T14:29:15Z")

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1. Real
2. Female
3. Living
4. American
5. Known for the arts
6. Born after 1960
7. Born in 1980

Already asked 5, take another DQ.

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**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 6, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2019/839600/120 "2019-09-06T15:32:27Z")

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> [@atimnie](#):
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> Next: I am **Z**
> 
> Yes, again. I think you’ll get this one.

Yeah, think I’m going to sit this one out. I was already straining to come up with “Z” people, and I feel it would somehow be cheating to recycle my IQs from the last round.

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