# 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:** 3
### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/41 "2008-05-03T23:54:45Z")
Are you the Prime Minister of Canada?
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/42 "2008-05-03T23:55:36Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I think for this round I’m going to say yes.
[/QUOTE]
Well OK, but your link says otherwise. Just sayin.’
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/43 "2008-05-03T23:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja]
Are you the Prime Minister of Canada?
[/QUOTE]
No, I’m not Stephen Harper.
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### Author:  [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/44 "2008-05-03T23:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
I think for this round I’m going to say yes.
[/quote]
In that case, my question was illegal, unless you consider Seamus Heaney a poet _rather than_ an author.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/45 "2008-05-03T23:57:30Z")
Are you an astronaut?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/46 "2008-05-03T23:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Well OK, but your link says otherwise. Just sayin.’
[/QUOTE]
…
EDIT: I see it now.
OK, the IQ does not have to conform to known facts.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/47 "2008-05-04T00:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=WF Tomba]
In that case, my question was illegal, unless you consider Seamus Heaney a poet _rather than_ an author.
[/QUOTE]
**Contrapuntal** was correct. After re-reading the rules, the IQ does not have to conform.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/48 "2008-05-04T00:01:08Z")
Did you strike fear into running backs’ hearts?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/49 "2008-05-04T00:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja]
Are you an astronaut?
[/QUOTE]
No, I’m not Steven Hawley or Scott Horowitz.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/50 "2008-05-04T00:01:30Z")
never mind.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/51 "2008-05-04T00:02:49Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Did you strike fear into running backs’ hearts?
[/QUOTE]
No, and I don’t know who you mean.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/52 "2008-05-04T00:04:11Z")
Are you a philosopher/ political scientist?
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/53 "2008-05-04T00:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
No, and I don’t know who you mean.
[/QUOTE]
Hall of Famer [Sam Huff.](http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=102)
Direct : Are you an entertainer?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/54 "2008-05-04T00:05:59Z")
[QUOTE=brujaja]
Are you a philosopher/ political scientist?
[/QUOTE]
No, I’m not Samuel Huntington.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/55 "2008-05-04T00:08:36Z")
Pro wrestler?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/56 "2008-05-04T00:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Direct : Are you an entertainer?
[/QUOTE]
By ‘entertainer’ I presume you mean an entertainer by profession, rather than someone by whom people are entertained because of/incidental to his profession.
No, I am not an entertainer.
**SH is…**
[ul][li]Male[/li][li]Not a fictional character[/li][li]Not an artist[/li][li]Not an author[/li][li]Not an entertainer[/ul][/li]
[QUOTE=brujaja]
Pro wrestler?
[/QUOTE]
That’s a DQ. (So was the astronaut one and the Political Analyst one, but I got carried away,)
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/57 "2008-05-04T00:15:04Z")
Ooooops…doin it rong. I got carried away, too.
Carry on.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/58 "2008-05-04T00:15:26Z")
Do you withhold your precious bodily fluids?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/59 "2008-05-04T00:18:58Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Do you withhold your precious bodily fluids?
[/QUOTE]
No, I’m not Sterling Hayden.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli/447932/60 "2008-05-04T00:24:12Z")
**Johnny,** I’ve enjoyed it, but I’m on East Coast time, and the dogs wake me up early in the morning. _Adios!_
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