# \[GAME\] 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\
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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, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/81 "2014-09-06T17:14:16Z")

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1. Real.
2. Male.
3. Not American.
4. Dead.

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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, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/82 "2014-09-06T17:15:17Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Did you win an auction to make an uncredited cameo on a popular sitcom?

Take a DQ.

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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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/83 "2014-09-06T17:20:54Z")

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Yes, Tom Cruise.

That’s Conan O’Brien. He was on How I Met Your Mother

DQ: European?

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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, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/84 "2014-09-06T17:28:27Z")

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1. Real.
2. Male.
3. Not American.
4. Dead.
5. European.

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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, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/85 "2014-09-06T17:35:18Z")

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IQ: Are you an explorer, who explored much of the Great Lakes region during the Age of Discovery?

IQ2: Are you a “Family Affair” actor, who shares his last name with #1?

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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, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/86 "2014-09-06T17:42:59Z")

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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?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 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.

Charley [Pride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzVC3JeEOE).  
Col John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke (aka Tarzan).  
Would the original version of my question - “Could Maj Gen Stanley have told us every detail of your Uniform?” - have been easier? [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3s0joFeajk).

DQ: Known for the Arts, by our usual definition?  
Two DQs reserved.  
IQ1: Did you play a sports star named Jonathan E?  
IQ2: Are you a Venezuelan terrorist?  
IQ3: Did you star in _Bloodsport_?

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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, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/87 "2014-09-06T18:24:01Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Are you an explorer, who explored much of the Great Lakes region during the Age of Discovery?
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> IQ2: Are you a “Family Affair” actor, who shares his last name with #1?

I am neither John nor Sebastian Cabot.

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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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/88 "2014-09-06T18:25:57Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> Charley [Pride](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYzVC3JeEOE).  
> Col John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke (aka Tarzan).  
> Would the original version of my question - “Could Maj Gen Stanley have told us every detail of your Uniform?” - have been easier? [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3s0joFeajk).

Nope, I only know Rolf Harris for _Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport_ so thanks! (Now to show it to the rest of the family,)

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> IQ1: Did you play a sports star named Jonathan E?  
> IQ2: Are you a Venezuelan terrorist?  
> IQ3: Did you star in _Bloodsport_?

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, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/89 "2014-09-06T18:26:57Z")

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1. Real.
2. Male.
3. Not American.
4. Dead.
5. European.
6. Known for the Arts.

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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, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/90 "2014-09-06T18:35:35Z")

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IQ: Were you a “Little Tramp”?  
IQ2: Are you the namesake of the body of water that divides New York State and Vermont?

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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, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/91 "2014-09-06T18:45:43Z")

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IQ: Did you famously ask guests on your talk show “5 Questions”, with subjective questions having a definite correct answer.

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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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/92 "2014-09-06T18:51:53Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play a reporter kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il in 30 Rock? — Elizabeth Banks  
> IQ2: Did William Shatner’s character in Boston Legal have a real doll version of you made? — Candice Bergin  
> IQ3: Did you play Henry Hill’s wife in Goodfellas? — Lorraine Bracco
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> Holding 4 DQs

> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ2: Are you the namesake of the body of water that divides New York State and Vermont?

Someone covered Chaplin.

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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, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/93 "2014-09-06T19:06:10Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you a “Little Tramp”?  
> IQ2: Are you the namesake of the body of water that divides New York State and Vermont?

I am not Chaplin. Take a DQ for the 2nd one.

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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, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/94 "2014-09-06T19:07:10Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Did you famously ask guests on your talk show “5 Questions”, with subjective questions having a definite correct answer.

I am not Steven Colbert.

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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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/95 "2014-09-06T19:10:56Z")

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That’s Champlain.  
That’s Craig Kilborne.

DQ1: Died after 1950?  
DQ2: Best known for movies?

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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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/96 "2014-09-06T20:56:52Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Did you play a sports star named Jonathan E?  
> IQ2: Are you a Venezuelan terrorist?  
> IQ3: Did you star in _Bloodsport_?

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Take 3 DQs.

James Caan, in _Rollerball_.  
Carlos the Jackal.  
Jean-Claude Van Damme.  
DQ1: Native speaker of a Romance language (French, Romanian, &c)?  
DQ2: Born in a non-Warsaw Pact country?  
One DQ reserved.  
IQ1: Are you known for paintings of water lilies?  
IQ2: Did you paint _The Hay Wain_?  
IQ3: Are you known for Venetian landscapes?

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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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/97 "2014-09-06T21:15:22Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> IQ1: Are you known for paintings of water lilies?  
> IQ2: Did you paint _The Hay Wain_?  
> IQ3: Are you known for Venetian landscapes?

I am not Claude Monet. I am not John Constable. I am not Canaletto.

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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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/98 "2014-09-06T21:19:20Z")

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1. Real.
2. Male.
3. Not American.
4. Dead.
5. European.
6. Known for the Arts.
7. Died after 1950.
8. Not best known for movies.
9. Not a native speaker of a Romance language.
10. Born in a Warsaw Pact country.

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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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/99 "2014-09-06T21:40:43Z")

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IQ: Were you “the man of a 1,000 faces?”

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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, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-botticelli-sep-2014/697353/100 "2014-09-06T21:44:37Z")

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> [@etv78](#):
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> IQ: Were you “the man of a 1,000 faces?”

I am not Lon Chaney, Sr.

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