# December Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 30, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169 "2013-11-30T23:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/101 "2013-12-08T15:29:54Z")
And that brings us to… I am R! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/102 "2013-12-08T16:47:03Z")
IQ1: Did you play a character named Johnny Hooker in a 1973 film? IQ2: Did you use a gun to frighten off a shoplifter in “The Blues Brothers” movie? IQ3: Does Indiana want you? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/103 "2013-12-08T16:47:44Z")
IQ: Did your hubby broker peace between Egypt and Israel? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/104 "2013-12-08T17:59:36Z")
IQ1: Is your best friend a gunslinger called Hipshot? IQ2: Were you Lord of Annandale before becoming king? IQ3: Is your love deeper than the holler? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/105 "2013-12-08T20:45:42Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a character named Johnny Hooker in a 1973 film? > IQ2: Did you use a gun to frighten off a shoplifter in “The Blues Brothers” movie? > IQ3: Does Indiana want you? Not Robert Redford. Take a DQ for #2. Not R. Dean Taylor. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/106 "2013-12-08T20:46:49Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Did your hubby broker peace between Egypt and Israel? Take a DQ. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/107 "2013-12-08T20:48:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your best friend a gunslinger called Hipshot? > IQ2: Were you Lord of Annandale before becoming king? > IQ3: Is your love deeper than the holler? If #2 is Robert the Bruce, take 2 DQs. Otherwise, three. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/108 "2013-12-08T21:01:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Not Robert Redford. Take a DQ for #2. Not R. Dean Taylor. Correct on Robert Redford and R. Dean Taylor. Number 2 was looking for Ray Charles, who played the owner of Ray’s Music Exchange. DQ: Male? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/109 "2013-12-08T21:04:38Z")
Way to go, **Prof**.! Previous IQs: Are you a cartoon canine whose initials appear on his collar? - This was Scooby Doo. Are you best friends of that canine? - Shaggy, natch. Were you a cartoon character with a three-syllable name, the last of which was an abbreviated nickname for a kind of pet? - Snagglepuss. On to R… IQs: Were you an early baseball great who had the same last name as a later pop music star? Did you serve as a young aide to Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant? Did you and one other music-mad colleague, although amateur actors, appear in a crowd scene of a professionally-staged opera? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/110 "2013-12-08T21:24:22Z")
That was Rosalynn Carter. DQ: American? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/111 "2013-12-08T21:24:27Z")
DQs: 1. Male 2. Not American ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/112 "2013-12-08T21:26:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you an early baseball great who had the same last name as a later pop music star? > Did you serve as a young aide to Lt. Gen. U.S. Grant? > Did you and one other music-mad colleague, although amateur actors, appear in a crowd scene of a professionally-staged opera? #2. I’m not Robert Todd Lincoln. Take 2 DQs (or 3 if I’m wrong). ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/113 "2013-12-08T21:50:14Z")
IQ: Were you a martyred Israeli PM? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/114 "2013-12-08T22:00:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your best friend a gunslinger called Hipshot? > IQ2: Were you Lord of Annandale before becoming king? > IQ3: Is your love deeper than the holler? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > If #2 is Robert the Bruce, take 2 DQs. Otherwise, three. Rick O’Shay. Correct on Robert the Bruce. Randy Travis. DQ1: Real? DQ2: Living? IQ1: Was Marcel Marceau a frequent guest on your show? IQ2: Are you probably Jim Kjelgaard’s best-known creation? IQ3: Were you Germany’s Foreign Minister in the early 1940s? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/115 "2013-12-08T22:09:30Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Were you a martyred Israeli PM? I’m not Itzhak Rabin. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/116 "2013-12-08T22:10:37Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was Marcel Marceau a frequent guest on your show? > IQ2: Are you probably Jim Kjelgaard’s best-known creation? > IQ3: Were you Germany’s Foreign Minister in the early 1940s? I am not Red Skelton. Take two more 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:** [December 8, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/117 "2013-12-08T22:11:39Z")
DQs: 1. Male 2. Not American 3. Real 4. Dead ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/118 "2013-12-08T22:38:27Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was Marcel Marceau a frequent guest on your show? > IQ2: Are you probably Jim Kjelgaard’s best-known creation? > IQ3: Were you Germany’s Foreign Minister in the early 1940s? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Red Skelton. Take two more DQs. Correct on Red Skelton. Big Red, the Irish setter. Joachim von Ribbentrop. DQ1: European? DQ2: Known for the Arts? IQ1: Were you Henry and Eleanor’s son? IQ2: Was your body found under a car park last year? IQ3: Were you allegedly poisoned, shot, and clubbed before being thrown into a river? ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/119 "2013-12-08T23:58:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Henry and Eleanor’s son? > IQ2: Was your body found under a car park last year? > IQ3: Were you allegedly poisoned, shot, and clubbed before being thrown into a river? #1. I’m not Richard. #3. I’m not Rasputin. Take a DQ for 2. ---
**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:** [December 8, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/december-botticelli/675169/120 "2013-12-08T23:59:43Z")
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