# Botticelli 2009! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311 "2009-01-08T00:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/341 "2009-01-14T13:40:25Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > \*_Does victory dance, waving his hands in the air!_ > > Who da man??\* > > Well, the initials are: > > SH **Worm** , you beat me to the win! :mad: Congrats! šŸ˜ƒ But again with the double initials. ā˜¹ Okayā€¦ Was a (now) very large city named in your honor? Do you have your very own America (where you can be the biggest douche you want to be)? Are you bowdlerized? And, yes, we had quite the thunderstorm. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/342 "2009-01-14T13:49:04Z")
Are you a theoretical physicist ? Are you a Dallas character ? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/343 "2009-01-14T14:34:32Z")
The double initials are mostly worse for me šŸ˜‰ **Seodoa** : Iā€™m not Sam Houston Have a dq (but I can be a douche right here if I want to :D) Was I what? (have another) \*\* Kobal2\*\* Iā€™m not Stephen Hawking Iā€™m not Susan Howard (but sheā€™s an actress, not a character, so have a DQ if Iā€™m off) ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/344 "2009-01-14T14:41:21Z")
Are you a professional football coach who is able to take a kick to the crotch without flinching? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/345 "2009-01-14T14:48:16Z")
**Wash** Absolutely not, have a DQ and please do tell the story. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/346 "2009-01-14T14:57:12Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Have a dq (but I can be a douche right here if I want to :D) > Was I what? (have another) **Sean Hannity** hosts the show _Hannityā€™s America_. Heā€™s contracted out by the government to rinse the Statue of Libertyā€™s nethers, heā€™s such a giant douche. ā€œ **Sam Hill** ,ā€ as in ā€œWhat in Sam Hill?!ā€ a [bowdlerized](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowdlerization) variant of ā€œWhat in Hell!?ā€ šŸ˜› DQs: (letā€™s get the basics out of the way) Are you male? Are you non-fictional? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/347 "2009-01-14T14:58:15Z")
(I was thinking of Sue Helen, but it turns out sheā€™s spelled Sue Ellen so you get a pass) Did you supposedly find the One True Cross ? Are you the main character of a Canadian TV show and share your name with a Beatles song ? Were you an abbess, an author, a linguist, a poet, a naturalist, a scientist, a philosopher, a physician, a herbalist and a composer ? (yes, all that) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/348 "2009-01-14T15:00:29Z")
Are you a fast bowler for Durham and England? Are you a Liverpool centre-back? Are you a pompous writer for the _Guardian_? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/349 "2009-01-14T15:04:35Z")
**Seodoa** Iā€™m neither male nor fictional \*\* Kobal2\*\* Iā€™m not Saint Helena I donā€™t know who you mean - this time you get a DQ for real šŸ˜‰ And Iā€™m not Saint Hildegard ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/350 "2009-01-14T15:07:22Z")
**Dead Cat** Iā€™m not Stephen James Harmison Nor am I Sami HyppiƤ And I donā€™t know any writers for the Guardian, pompous or not - have a DQ ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/351 "2009-01-14T15:07:34Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > **Wash** > > Absolutely not, have a DQ and please do tell the story. FC Dallasā€™ coach Schellas Hyndman, who is a [Combat Ki master](http://www.fanhouse.com/2008/06/20/new-fc-dallas-head-coach-can-take-a-kick/) (hopefully the video at that link works - I have no access to Youtube at work to confirm itā€™s still up) DQ: Are you alive? IQs Are you a Conservative Prime Minster? Did you decline the female lead in a blockbuster movie because the director who made you famous was no longer attached to the project? Are you a Nobel Prize winning poet? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/352 "2009-01-14T15:12:12Z")
**Wash** Iā€™ll have to check the video at home, as it wonā€™t work here. Yes, Iā€™m alive Iā€™m not Stephen Harper And damnā€¦ _ **YES I AM SALMA HAYEK** _ Iā€™m not Seamus Heaney, who got it in -95. Ok, that was a fast one. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/353 "2009-01-14T15:17:24Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > **Wash** > Iā€™ll have to check the video at home, as it wonā€™t work here. > > Yes, Iā€™m alive > > Iā€™m not Stephen Harper > And damnā€¦ _ **YES I AM SALMA HAYEK** _ > Iā€™m not Seamus Heaney, who got it in -95. > > Ok, that was a fast one. Wow, that was quick! Ok, the next letter is **H** , and hopefully someone will get this right by midday Central as thatā€™s when Iā€™m leaving workā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/354 "2009-01-14T15:24:17Z")
Are you a Dutch Renaissance painter? Are you a crazy Colombian goalkeeper? Are you up for consideration of being the most evil man of the 20.th century? Did you clean a stable? Do you have your own underground fief, where you reign supreme? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/355 "2009-01-14T15:28:59Z")
> [@Wash](#): > > Wow, that was quick! > > Ok, the next letter is **H** , and hopefully someone will get this right by midday Central as thatā€™s when Iā€™m leaving workā€¦ Congratulations! šŸ™‚ Are you sleepless in Seattle? Are you an ill-tempered, usually physically abusive chihuahua? Were you a wealthy industrialist and aviator? ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/356 "2009-01-14T15:29:47Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Are you a Dutch Renaissance painter? > > Are you a crazy Colombian goalkeeper? > > Are you up for consideration of being the most evil man of the 20.th century? > > Did you clean a stable? > > Do you have your own underground fief, where you reign supreme? I am not Hieronymus Bosch or Maarten van Heemskerk I am not Rene Higuita I am not Adolf Hitler Possibly, once in 1920? No idea who this is, take a DQ. And another DQ is yoursā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/357 "2009-01-14T15:31:27Z")
Seodoa I am not Tom Hanks I am not Ren Hoek (and I didnā€™t know until now he had a last name) I am not Howard Hughes ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/358 "2009-01-14T15:37:34Z")
Neither Hercules (who cleaned the Aegean stables) nor Hades (ruler of Hades) then. Basics first: Are you male and are you non-fictional? IQ: Did you rule your country through a major war, which you lost after two major impacts? ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/359 "2009-01-14T15:43:16Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Neither Hercules (who cleaned the Aegean stables) nor Hades (ruler of Hades) then. > > Basics first: Are you male and are you non-fictional? > > IQ: Did you rule your country through a major war, which you lost after two major impacts? Allow me to :smack: over Hades. Still not him though. I am not male, and I am most certainly real. I am not Paul von Hindenburg? I donā€™t think he fits properly though, so I probably owe you another DQ. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/360 "2009-01-14T15:46:56Z")
Emperor Hirohito ruled Japan through WW2, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki being the major impacts. DQ: Are you an actress? IQ: Are you married to Seal? IQ: Did you star in a nerd to babe movie, in which you found out about your royal heritage? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=19)