# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 29
**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 30, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/561 "2009-01-30T21:10:00Z")
Heh, I was gunning for Lee Harvey Oswald, didn’t expect Oliver Stone 🙂 And the other two were Norman Osborn (a.k.a. Green Goblin) and [Daniel “Oz” Osbourne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)) of Buffy fame. DQs : Are you an artist ? Are you American ? IQs : Are you a one-eyed ornery old bastard who keeps a pair of crows as pets ? Do you watch the ships roll in, then watch them roll away again ? Did you save the lives of many Jews during WW2 ? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/562 "2009-02-01T10:12:42Z")
Have you become Death, destroyer of Worlds? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/563 "2009-02-03T19:53:13Z")
Sorry about the delay – I lost my Internet connection Friday afternoon and couldn’t get on line again until yesterday, when I had to catch up on what I had let accumulate during the weekend. Anyway… **Worm** : I did not get my fame from politics, though I was tangentially involved in that field. I’m not Odin. **Johnny Q** : I’m neither Laurence Olivier (who gave the advice to Dustin Hoffman, as I recall) nor J. Robert Oppenheimer. **Kobal2** : I’m not an artist, but I am American. I’m still not Odin (Question #1). I’m also neither Otis Redding (#2) nor Oskar Schindler (#3). SUMMARY: Real American person born in nineteenth century Not alive Not female Not an artist Not famous for politics, but tangentially involved (more than a mere voter) ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/564 "2009-02-03T20:58:13Z")
So we’re back on track 🙂 Lemme see… Were you a Seminole leader? Are you a Japanese who has won a literature prize in Stockholm? Did you win a fancy prize you get in Oslo? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/565 "2009-02-03T21:41:10Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > So we’re back on track 🙂 > > Lemme see… > > Were you a Seminole leader? > Are you a Japanese who has won a literature prize in Stockholm? > Did you win a fancy prize you get in Oslo? I’m not Osceola. I’m not Kenzaburo Oe. And I’m not Lord Boyd Orr. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/566 "2009-02-03T23:47:32Z")
Are you the jurist who talked about yelling fire in a crowded theater? ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/567 "2009-02-03T23:57:23Z")
Did you oversee the peaceful split of two countries? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/568 "2009-02-04T21:26:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > Are you the jurist who talked about yelling fire in a crowded theater? I’m not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. **Worm** : I’m about to oversee your asking of a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/569 "2009-02-04T22:48:58Z")
So you’re not Oscar II of Sweden, who in 1805 saw Norway split peacefully from Sweden. DQ: Are you an industrialist? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/570 "2009-02-05T18:58:13Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > DQ: Are you an industrialist? Yes. SUMMARY: Real American industrialist born in nineteenth century Not alive Not female Not an artist Not famous for politics, but tangentially involved (more than a mere voter) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2009, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/571 "2009-02-08T05:34:14Z")
Are you Al Capone’s Irish competitor? Are you a surreal Irish humorist and civil servant? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/572 "2009-02-10T19:43:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > Are you Al Capone’s Irish competitor? > > Are you a surreal Irish humorist and civil servant? I’m not Myles O’Donnell (Question #1). As for the humorist, I doubt you mean Oscar Wilde, so take a DQ after identifying whom you had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/573 "2009-02-10T19:48:38Z")
Are you the wealthiest man in a very big country? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/574 "2009-02-10T20:16:24Z")
You’re not Dion O’Banion or Flann O’Brien. DQ1: Is your business entirely legal? DQ2: Are you of Irish descent? IQ: Are you a self deprecating piano player? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/575 "2009-02-10T22:12:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > You’re not Dion O’Banion or Flann O’Brien. > > DQ1: Is your business entirely legal? > DQ2: Are you of Irish descent? > > IQ: Are you a self deprecating piano player? Just because I didn’t answer with the Irish gangster you had in mind doesn’t mean I was wrong. Al Capone’s competitors did include [Myles O’Donnell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Activity_in_Cicero.2C_Illinois). So I’ll answer one DQ by saying that I was truly a legitimate businessman, although I did face legal action at least once in my life. And since I don’t know the self-deprecating piano player, I’ll add that I am not of Irish descent as far as I can recall. Hey, you forget stuff when you’re alive – why would that change once you’re dead? 😃 **Worm** : I’m not Oleg Deripaska, who is (by many accounts) Russia’s richest man. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/576 "2009-02-10T22:26:21Z")
I was going for Oscar Levant, but I may not have been accurate in my description. DQ: Were you based in Chicago? IQ: Did you and your brother reach new heights? IQ: Are you a popcorn magnate? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/577 "2009-02-11T19:02:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > DQ: Were you based in Chicago? > > IQ: Did you and your brother reach new heights? > IQ: Are you a popcorn magnate? I was not based in Chicago. I am neither Orville Wright nor Orville Redenbacher. SUMMARY: Real American industrialist born in nineteenth century Not alive Not female Not an artist Not famous for politics, but tangentially involved (more than a mere voter) Legitimate businessman Not of obvious Irish descent ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/578 "2009-02-12T03:00:51Z")
Did you experience many ups and downs with your most famous invention? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/579 "2009-02-12T17:42:16Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Did you experience many ups and downs with your most famous invention? I am not Elisha Otis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=28)