# January 2014, Botticelli **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 2, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669 "2014-01-02T00:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/561 "2014-01-30T23:56:41Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you co-write one of the biggest charity relief singles of the 1980s? > IQ2: Are you the alter-ego of Shoeshine Boy? > IQ3: Are you the alter-ego of Principal Benjamin Krupp? IQ1: Midge Ure of Ultravox, who co-wrote _Do They Know It’s Christmas?_ with Bob Geldof. IQ3: Kid-lit favorite Captain Underpants. DQ1: Involved in film or television? (If you consider that a form of visual art that’s already been excluded by DQ9, then ignore this one) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/562 "2014-01-31T00:28:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. Last name starts with U 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1960 8. Not a writer 9. Not known for the visual arts 10. Born before 1980 11. Not European 12. Not known for musical accomplishments 13. Not Asian 14. Born in the southern hemisphere 15. Won major awards, but as part of a group 16. Involved in film and television To my mind visual arts mean paintings, illustrations, sculptures, architecture rather than being allied with the performing arts. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/563 "2014-01-31T00:30:01Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ: Are you a filmmaker whose best-known film involves an empty Coke bottle? I loved _The Gods Must Be Crazy_ but I don’t know the filmmaker’s name. Take a DQ. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/564 "2014-01-31T01:22:13Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I loved _The Gods Must Be Crazy_ but I don’t know the filmmaker’s name. Take a DQ. Correct on the film. It was made by South African filmmaker Jamie Uys. DQ: Australian? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/565 "2014-01-31T03:38:56Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Alive 3. Male 4. Last name starts with U 5. Known for the Arts 6. Not American 7. Born after 1960 8. Not a writer 9. Not known for the visual arts 10. Born before 1980 11. Not European 12. Not known for musical accomplishments 13. Not Asian 14. Born in the southern hemisphere 15. Won major awards, but as part of a group 16. Involved in film and television 17. Australian (well, actually New Zealand, but close enough) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/566 "2014-01-31T03:50:44Z")
New Zealand? Shot in the dark… IQ: Any chance you played a character who interacted with a certain Warrior Princess? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/567 "2014-01-31T04:41:33Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > New Zealand? Shot in the dark… > > IQ: Any chance you played a character who interacted with a certain Warrior Princess? Wow. Yes, indeedy do, I am Karl Urban, who played Julius Caesar on the _Xena_ series (and _Hercule_s). Well done, Spoons! And if that isn’t enough credibility for the actor, he also played: the young agent who got the respect of the senior agents in _Red_, Judge Dredd in the latest (and truly dreadful) _Dredd_, Eomer in the _Lord of the Rings_ franchise, Dr. Leonard McCoy in the last two Star Trek films, and currently stars in the Asimovesque TV series _Almost Human_. Congratulations again to Spoons! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/568 "2014-02-01T00:30:17Z")
“Won major awards, but as part of a group”? ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/569 "2014-02-01T02:34:04Z")
An Oscar for the LOTR cast, I assume? We have, in previous rounds, treated the movies as a visual art, I thought. It is an art form that is looked at. With answer #9, I presumed this was not an actor. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/570 "2014-02-01T03:00:57Z")
Woo hoo! I liked the Xena show. I’ll have another letter tomorrow, and probably a new February thread too. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/571 "2014-02-01T03:25:00Z")
Well, he won a BSFC award as part of the ensemble cast for Star Trek, and it was the Critics Choice Award for an ensemble cast for LOTR. EH, I can see your point about film being a visual artform, but I’d class the filmmakers (directors, cinematographers, makeup, set designers, costumers) as visual rather than actors myself. However, in the interests of the common good, I’ll treat film/TV as visual art in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/572 "2014-02-01T18:47:36Z")
Just to throw my five cents worth in (Canada doesn’t have pennies anymore, so it’s a nickel for my thoughts.), if you’d said “yes” to visual arts, I would have been frustrated once painter, sculptor and mosaicist had been ruled out. I reckon film/TV/theatre ought to be a division of its own. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/573 "2014-02-01T19:05:51Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Just to throw my five cents worth in (Canada doesn’t have pennies anymore, so it’s a nickel for my thoughts.), if you’d said “yes” to visual arts, I would have been frustrated once painter, sculptor and mosaicist had been ruled out. I reckon film/TV/theatre ought to be a division of its own. I think of it as part of the performing arts. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-2014-botticelli/677669/574 "2014-02-02T19:39:15Z")
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