# Botticelli
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [May 3, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932 "2008-05-03T21:23:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/201 "2008-05-05T02:09:14Z")
[QUOTE=HongKongFooey]
Margaret Atwood
[/quote]
Ah. Heard of her; didn’t know she was Canadian.
> [@](#):
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> Are you a political figure?
Already asked.
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### Author:  [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/202 "2008-05-05T02:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Psst. **HKF**. See above. 😉
[/QUOTE]
:smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack:
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/203 "2008-05-05T02:11:06Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko]
EXACTLY!
They played with the rule that you only needed the Initial of the Last Name. Does that help or hurt the game?
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I’ve only ever played it with both initials. It’s easier that way.
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/204 "2008-05-05T02:13:30Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
IQ: Are you a Russian sculptor who created a Faustian statue?
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No, and I don’t know who you mean.
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### Author:  [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/205 "2008-05-05T02:15:13Z")
Are you in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/206 "2008-05-05T02:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba]
No, and I don’t know who you mean.
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Mark Antokolski sculpted _Mephistopheles_.
DQ: Did you die within the last 50 years?
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/207 "2008-05-05T02:20:40Z")
Are you a British detective fiction writer?
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/208 "2008-05-05T02:25:48Z")
[QUOTE=HongKongFooey]
Are you in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
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No, and I don’t know who you mean.
> [@Johnny L.A.](#):
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> DQ: Did you die within the last 50 years?
I did not.
**MA is** [ul]
[li]male[/li][li]not alive[/li][li]not fictional[/li][li]not an actor[/li][li]not a political figure[/li][li]not associated with sports[/li][li]not a person who died in the last 50 years[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/209 "2008-05-05T02:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=Fretful Porpentine]
Are you a British detective fiction writer?
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No, and I don’t know who you mean, although I have a feeling this will be a head-slapper . . .
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### Author:  [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/210 "2008-05-05T02:32:01Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba]
No, and I don’t know who you mean.
[/QUOTE]
Marcus Allen
Are you a scientist?
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/211 "2008-05-05T02:33:21Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba]
No, and I don’t know who you mean, although I have a feeling this will be a head-slapper . . .
[/QUOTE]
I was thinking of Margery Allingham, although there may well be more of them.
DQ: Are you European?
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/212 "2008-05-05T02:42:16Z")
> [@](#):
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> Are you a scientist?
I am not a scientist.
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> Are you European?
Yes! I am European.
**MA is** [ul]
[li]male[/li][li]not alive[/li][li]not fictional[/li][li]not an actor[/li][li]not a political figure[/li][li]not associated with sports[/li][li]not a person who died in the last 50 years[/li][li]not a scientist[/li][li]European[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/213 "2008-05-05T02:42:52Z")
Are you currently a part-time Mets outfielder?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/214 "2008-05-05T03:01:03Z")
Are you an Italian Renaissance painter who was influenced by Raphael?
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/215 "2008-05-05T03:02:02Z")
Were you Roger Moore’s love interest in two different James Bond films?
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### Author:  [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/216 "2008-05-05T03:51:40Z")
Do you you love long black dresses and men who who are francophiles?
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/217 "2008-05-05T03:59:01Z")
[QUOTE=astorian]
Were you Roger Moore’s love interest in two different James Bond films?
[/QUOTE]
I didn’t know he did gay necrophilac porn. 😛
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/218 "2008-05-05T04:09:19Z")
Are you a noted left-handed Irish snooker champion?
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### Author:  [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/219 "2008-05-05T05:38:05Z")
Mackenzie Astin, brother to Sean Astin.
DQ: Were you alive during the American Revolutionary War?
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/220 "2008-05-05T13:01:38Z")
**divemaster** , **Johnny L.A.** , **astorian** , **as\_u\_wish** , and **Elendil’s Heir** , you all get DQs.
I was not alive during the American Revolutionary War.
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