# \[GAME\] Botticelli Oct 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044 "2014-10-01T01:41:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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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:** [October 2, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/61 "2014-10-02T12:47:31Z")

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IQ1: Did Sitting Bull call you “Watanya Cicilla?”  
IQ2: Are you the first woman justice on the Supreme Court?  
IQ3: Are you the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

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**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:** [October 2, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/62 "2014-10-02T12:59:23Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you sing “Please Mr Please” and “Let Me Be There”?  
> IQ2: Were you “the other reindeer”?  
> IQ3: Are you and your sister the only pair of siblings to have won lead/actor/actress Oscars?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Olivia Newton-John. I am not Olive. I am not Olivia de Haviland.

Correct on all three.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/63 "2014-10-02T14:04:04Z")

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Guitarist Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash, while trying to “buzz” the tour bus in which Ozzy Osbourne was sleeping.  
DQ) Born after 1900?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/64 "2014-10-02T14:06:21Z")

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IQ) Did the Eumenides pursue you relentlessly?

IQ2) Did you coin the famous phrase, “Smile when you say that”?

IQ3) Did you provide the voice of the mysterious Robin Masters on _ **Magnum PI** _?

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**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:** [October 2, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/65 "2014-10-02T14:22:11Z")

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Previous IQs:

Although best known as a Yankees player, were you very helpful to the Indians? - Pitcher Orel Hershiser  
Did you say that you had “done the state some service, and they know it”? - Othello, in Shakespeare’s play, just before committing suicide  
Were you late submitting your work to the Alan Parsons Project? - Orson Welles submitted his taped narration by mail too late for inclusion in the original _Tales of Mystery and Imagination_; it was included in subsequent versions of the album: [A Dream within a Dream - Alan Parsons Project - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZyNKrYo9I4).

DQs:

American?  
Born since 1900?  
Last name start with O?

IQs:

Did your creator write only the novel in which you appeared?  
Did you provide Gandalf’s voice on TV?  
Were you Andy’s son?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/66 "2014-10-02T14:32:00Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ) Did the Eumenides pursue you relentlessly?
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> IQ2) Did you coin the famous phrase, “Smile when you say that”?
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> IQ3) Did you provide the voice of the mysterious Robin Masters on _ **Magnum PI** _?

Ignore #3- that was Orson Welels, who has already been done.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/67 "2014-10-02T16:14:08Z")

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IQ: Does your dad have an unfortunate middle name?

IQ2: Are you #1’s younger sister?

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/68 "2014-10-02T16:25:05Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. American
5. Born after 1900
6. Last name starts with O

EH: take 2 more DQs as your first two had already been asked.

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/69 "2014-10-02T16:26:09Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Did Sitting Bull call you “Watanya Cicilla?”  
> IQ2: Are you the first woman justice on the Supreme Court?  
> IQ3: Are you the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

I am not Sandra Day O’Connor. Take 2 DQs for the others.

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/70 "2014-10-02T16:27:54Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ) Did the Eumenides pursue you relentlessly?
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> IQ2) Did you coin the famous phrase, “Smile when you say that”?
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> IQ3) Did you provide the voice of the mysterious Robin Masters on _ **Magnum PI** _?

I am not Orestes.  
#2’s from _The Virginian_, but I don’t know the character’s name, so take a DQ.  
I am not Orson Welles.

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/71 "2014-10-02T16:29:50Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> IQs:
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> Did your creator write only the novel in which you appeared?  
> Did you provide Gandalf’s voice on TV?  
> Were you Andy’s son?

Take 2 DQ’s. I know Orson Bean voiced Bilbo and Frodo, but I don’t recall him voicing Gandalf.  
I am not Opie Taylor.

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/72 "2014-10-02T16:30:53Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Does your dad have an unfortunate middle name?
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> IQ2: Are you #1’s younger sister?

I am neither Natasha nor Malia Obama.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/73 "2014-10-02T16:59:15Z")

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IQ: Were you an actress known for “Wuthering Heights”?

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/74 "2014-10-02T17:07:01Z")

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> [@](#):
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> IQ1: Did Sitting Bull call you “Watanya Cicilla?”  
> IQ2: Are you the first woman justice on the Supreme Court?  
> IQ3: Are you the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?
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> I am not Sandra Day O’Connor. Take 2 DQs for the others.

Annie Oakley, Elinor Ostrom

DQ: Known for the arts?

Saving a DQ

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/75 "2014-10-02T17:13:30Z")

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IQ1: Did you play Jane to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan?  
IQ2: Did you play Vivian Leigh’s mother in _Gone With The Wind_?  
IQ3: Are you the character IQ2 played?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/76 "2014-10-02T17:57:43Z")

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DQ) Born after 1950?  
PS Owen Wister wrote “The Virginian.”

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/77 "2014-10-02T18:02:33Z")

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IQ1) Did you legally change your last name to a mistranslation of your uniform number?

IQ2) Did you hit 2/3 of your 511 homers at the Polo Grounds?

IQ3) Did you write your group’s first hit song about a girl who’d stood you up for a New Year’s date?

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/78 "2014-10-02T19:32:55Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you an actress known for “Wuthering Heights”?

I am not Merle Oberon.

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/79 "2014-10-02T19:33:59Z")

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DQs:

1. Real
2. Female
3. Dead
4. American
5. Born after 1900
6. Last name starts with O
7. Not known for the Arts
8. Born before 1950

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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:** [October 2, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-oct-2014/700044/80 "2014-10-02T19:35:22Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play Jane to Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan?  
> IQ2: Did you play Vivian Leigh’s mother in _Gone With The Wind_?  
> IQ3: Are you the character IQ2 played?

1. I am not Maureen O’Hara.  
It’s been too long since I last saw GWTW. Take 2 DQs.

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