# \[GAME\] Botticelli - Sep 2014

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353 "2014-09-03T12:37:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 4

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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, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/61 "2014-09-06T14:28:35Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play Jason McCord?  
> IQ2: Did you play Laurie and Tracy’s older brother?  
> IQ3: Did you play Adenoid Hynkel?

I am not Chuck “Branded” Connors. Take 2 DQs for the others.

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/62 "2014-09-06T14:38:30Z")

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IQ1) Did you record three Billboard Top 40 hits that were written by Jimmy Webb?

IQ2) Before becoming a huge movie star, did you make your acting debut as a lab assistant in \*\*\*Revenge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon?

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IQ3) Were you the key player on the 1967 “Impossible Dream Team”?

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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, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/63 "2014-09-06T14:42:48Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did you record three Billboard Top 40 hits that were written by Jimmy Webb?
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> IQ2) Before becoming a huge movie star, did you make your acting debut as a lab assistant in \*\*\*Revenge of the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
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> * * *
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> IQ3) Were you the key player on the 1967 “Impossible Dream Team”?

1. I am not Glen Campbell.  
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/64 "2014-09-06T15:36:21Z")

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IQ: Are you in love with the Little Red-Haired Girl, whose name is NOT Heather.

IQ2: Are European-Americans descended from you?

BTW, my “B” IQ was Barbara Billingsley.

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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, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/65 "2014-09-06T15:51:00Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you in love with the Little Red-Haired Girl, whose name is NOT Heather.
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> IQ2: Are European-Americans descended from you?
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> BTW, my “B” IQ was Barbara Billingsley.

1. I’m not Charlie Brown.  
#2 is a really broad question: I’m not Christopher Columbus, for instance. Could you reword that one?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/66 "2014-09-06T16:01:45Z")

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IQ: Were you crowned HRE in 800 AD?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/67 "2014-09-06T16:29:29Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play Jason McCord?  
> IQ2: Did you play Laurie and Tracy’s older brother?  
> IQ3: Did you play Adenoid Hynkel?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> I am not Chuck “Branded” Connors. Take 2 DQs for the others.

Correct.  
David Cassidy, in _The Partridge Family_.  
Charlie Chaplin, in _The Great Dictator_.  
DQ1: Real?  
DQ2: Male?  
IQ1: Did you find yourself in Ireland at the end of your trip from New York to California?  
IQ2: Did you die in a plane crash in Tennessee in the early '60s?  
IQ3: Did you die in a plane crash in Tennessee in the early '60s?

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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, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/68 "2014-09-06T16:42:22Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you crowned HRE in 800 AD?

I am not Charlemagne.

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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, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/69 "2014-09-06T16:43:23Z")

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DQs:

1. Real.
2. Male.

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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, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/70 "2014-09-06T16:45:34Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> Correct.  
> David Cassidy, in _The Partridge Family_.  
> Charlie Chaplin, in _The Great Dictator_.  
> DQ1: Real?  
> DQ2: Male?  
> IQ1: Did you find yourself in Ireland at the end of your trip from New York to California?  
> IQ2: Did you die in a plane crash in Tennessee in the early '60s?  
> IQ3: Did you die in a plane crash in Tennessee in the early '60s?

1. I am not Wrong Way Corrigan.
2. I am not Patsy Cline. Take a DQ for #3.

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/71 "2014-09-06T16:58:46Z")

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IQ: Were you friends with Sundance?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/72 "2014-09-06T16:58:53Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1. I am not Wrong Way Corrigan.
> 2. I am not Patsy Cline. Take a DQ for #3.

Correct.  
Correct.  
Cowboy [Copas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImXasJnRqks), who was in the plane with Patsy.  
DQ: American?  
IQ1: Did you wonder if anybody was going to San Antone?  
IQ2: Were you a fictional RAF colonel who was riding as an observer in an American bomber shot down over Sumatra during WW II?  
IQ3: Have the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of your court just passed by?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/73 "2014-09-06T17:00:30Z")

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IQ: Do you owe Oprah a new couch?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/74 "2014-09-06T17:02:09Z")

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Clint Eastwood was the lab assistant, and Carl Yastrzemski was the star of the 1967 Red Sox “Impossible Dream Team.”

DQ1) American?

DQ2) Alive?

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/75 "2014-09-06T17:04:15Z")

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IQ1) Did you appear on the U.S. $10,000 bill?

IQ2) Are you a US President who was the answer to a crucial trivia question in the movie _ **Die Hard With a Vengeance?** _

IQ3) Did you write _ **The Man Who Was Thursday** _?

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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, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/76 "2014-09-06T17:08:46Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you friends with Sundance?

I am not Butch Cassidy.

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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:** [September 6, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/77 "2014-09-06T17:09:06Z")

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IQ: Did you win an auction to make an uncredited cameo on a popular sitcom?

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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, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/78 "2014-09-06T17:10:55Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you wonder if anybody was going to San Antone?  
> IQ2: Were you a fictional RAF colonel who was riding as an observer in an American bomber shot down over Sumatra during WW II?  
> IQ3: Have the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of your court just passed by?

I know that I know #1 but it won’t come around. Your question for #3 is classic and will be duly enshrined in the Annals of Botticelli.  
Take 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, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/79 "2014-09-06T17:11:56Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Do you owe Oprah a new couch?

Unless this is Tom Cruise (who I am not), take a DQ.

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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, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/80 "2014-09-06T17:13:16Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> IQ1) Did you appear on the U.S. $10,000 bill?
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> IQ2) Are you a US President who was the answer to a crucial trivia question in the movie _ **Die Hard With a Vengeance?** _
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> IQ3) Did you write _ **The Man Who Was Thursday** _?

I am not Chase. I am not Chester A. Arthur. I am not G. K. Chesterton.

BTW, you have another DQ coming, as one of the ones you ask had just been asked by SCAdian.

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