# Botticelli, April 2012 - Le Ministre de l'au-delà, chooser; initial Q **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 30, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325 "2012-03-30T21:21:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 30, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/1 "2012-03-30T21:21:50Z")
Welcome to the next round of Botticelli. For those unfamiliar with the game, here’s a very good summary - [Botticelli](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli_%28game%29). A couple of specific things to add - 1. No research is allowed - this includes all search engines and internet encyclopediae. This is on the honour system, naturally. 2. Please mark your questions clearly as to whether they are Indirect Questions (IQs) or Direct Questions (DQs) 3. It does speed up the game to ask more than one question in the same post; however, we’ve found that it works best to adopt a limit of 3 questions at a time from each participant. 4. Initials can be from first, last or middle names. (And which name the initial represents is a good DQ, by the way.) So far, we have used all the letters of the alphabet at least once, except for Q, X and Y. So, as I lucked into correctly guessing the identity of our last round of Botticelli, I have the honour to be the chooser for this round. My initial is **Q** ---
**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:** [March 30, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/2 "2012-03-30T22:06:12Z")
IQ1: Are you a shark hunter and survivor of the sinking of the _USS Indianapolis_? IQ2: Are you a cartoon character known for corruption, philandering, and speaking in a manner similar to that of JFK? IQ3: While picnicking in a British colony in the 1920s, did you explore some caves and become hysterically frightened? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/3 "2012-03-30T22:26:08Z")
IQ1: Are you a treacherous Scandinavian cretin? IQ2: Are you a foul-mouthed (foul-penned?) writer of fast-paced dialogue? IQ3: Is everybody gonna jump for joy upon your arrival? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/4 "2012-03-30T22:42:49Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Are you a shark hunter and survivor of the sinking of the _USS Indianapolis_? > > IQ2: Are you a cartoon character known for corruption, philandering, and speaking in a manner similar to that of JFK? > > IQ3: While picnicking in a British colony in the 1920s, did you explore some caves and become hysterically frightened? 1: No, I’m not Quint from Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’. 2: No, I’m not Mayor Quimby of Springfield, from ‘The Simpsons’. 3: I’m stumped; take a DQ. > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a treacherous Scandinavian cretin? > > IQ2: Are you a foul-mouthed (foul-penned?) writer of fast-paced dialogue? > > IQ3: Is everybody gonna jump for joy upon your arrival? 1. No, I’m not Vikdun Quisling (who has come up in the CanaDoper Café thread in the last day or so…) 2. No, I’m not… Ellery Queen? I wouldn’t have described his work as that foul-mouthed, though. If I’m wrong, take a DQ for this one. 3. Stumped; take a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/5 "2012-03-30T23:02:36Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > 1. No, I’m not Vikdun Quisling (who has come up in the CanaDoper Café thread in the last day or so…) > > 2. No, I’m not… Ellery Queen? I wouldn’t have described his work as that foul-mouthed, though. If I’m wrong, take a DQ for this one. > > 3. Stumped; take a DQ. For #2, I was thinking of Quentin Tarantino, who’s most decidedly foul-mouthed. The third was Bob Dylan’s [Quinn the Eskimo](http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/quinn-eskimo-mighty-quinn). DQ1: Are you male? DQ2: Are you alive? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/6 "2012-03-30T23:39:31Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ3: While picnicking in a British colony in the 1920s, did you explore some caves and become hysterically frightened? > [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > 3: I’m stumped; take a DQ. Adela Quested, who was a character in E.M. Forster’s _A Passage to India_. DQ: Are you fictional? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/7 "2012-03-30T23:55:58Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > DQ1: Are you male? > DQ2: Are you alive? > [@Spoons](#): > > DQ: Are you fictional? Arrgh! 1. I am not male. 2. I am fictional. **Enginerd** : Now that you know that I am fictional, I’ll let you ask a different DQ if you wish. Or, if you feel that information would be more helpful than any other questions that now come to mind, I can tell you whether or not I am alive. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/8 "2012-03-31T00:34:43Z")
IQ1: Is your name longer than one letter? IQ2: Have you appeared in a movie? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/9 "2012-03-31T00:39:36Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > **Enginerd** : Now that you know that I am fictional, I’ll let you ask a different DQ if you wish. Or, if you feel that information would be more helpful than any other questions that now come to mind, I can tell you whether or not I am alive. Thanks - let’s try again. DQ: Are you human? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/10 "2012-03-31T01:22:12Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Thanks - let’s try again. > > DQ: Are you human? Yes. **Summary - Q** 1. Not a male. 2. Fictional. 3. Human. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/11 "2012-03-31T01:25:57Z")
> [@AHarris](#): > > IQ1: Is your name longer than one letter? > IQ2: Have you appeared in a movie? Umm, are you sure you mean those as Indirect Questions? Just about anyone I can think of will have a name longer than one letter, and there are a lot of names with ‘Q’ who have appeared in a movie, both actors and roles. I could name two, but doing so would eliminate them from this round, and ‘Q’ names are pretty scarce as it is… You may want to make your IQs more specific. If those are meant as DQs, I’m afraid you haven’t stumped me to earn that information yet, and so, it must remain a state secret. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/12 "2012-03-31T02:53:01Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Umm, are you sure you mean those as Indirect Questions? Just about anyone I can think of will have a name longer than one letter, and there are a lot of names with ‘Q’ who have appeared in a movie, both actors and roles. I could name two, but doing so would eliminate them from this round, and ‘Q’ names are pretty scarce as it is… You may want to make your IQs more specific. > > If those are meant as DQs, I’m afraid you haven’t stumped me to earn that information yet, and so, it must remain a state secret. 🙂 I can retract them if you want, but they were pretty specific to the character I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![AHarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@AHarris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHarris)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/13 "2012-03-31T02:54:21Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Umm, are you sure you mean those as Indirect Questions? Just about anyone I can think of will have a name longer than one letter, and there are a lot of names with ‘Q’ who have appeared in a movie, both actors and roles. I could name two, but doing so would eliminate them from this round, and ‘Q’ names are pretty scarce as it is… You may want to make your IQs more specific. > > If those are meant as DQs, I’m afraid you haven’t stumped me to earn that information yet, and so, it must remain a state secret. 🙂 I can retract them if you want, but they were pretty specific to the character I was thinking of. It probably makes more sense if I rephrased the first one as: Is your name one letter long? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/14 "2012-03-31T03:10:48Z")
IQs: Are you a noted record producer? Did you take on a role that an elderly Jewish man was best known for? Were you the mentor of a noted fictional doctor? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/15 "2012-03-31T07:43:27Z")
IQ: Did you and your friends put on a hilariously bad production of Pyramus and Thisby? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/16 "2012-03-31T08:56:20Z")
IQ: Do you have balls of steel and an obsession with strawberries? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/17 "2012-03-31T10:59:48Z")
nevermind ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/18 "2012-03-31T11:57:03Z")
> [@AHarris](#): > > Is your name one letter long? Ahh. No, I’m not ‘Q’ from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a noted record producer? > Did you take on a role that an elderly Jewish man was best known for? > Were you the mentor of a noted fictional doctor? No, I’m not Quincey Jones, Grammy award winning producer of Michael Jackson (and a great jazz musician in his own right). I’m stuck on the other two - take two DQs (and call me in the morning). 🙂 > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Did you and your friends put on a hilariously bad production of Pyramus and Thisby? No, I’m not Peter Quince, from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Do you have balls of steel and an obsession with strawberries? No, I’m not Captain Queeg from ‘The Caine Mutiny’. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/19 "2012-03-31T15:14:10Z")
IQ1: Did you host Prince Hal and his friends in your inn? IQ2: Can you help lovin’ dat man of yours? IQ3: Did you frequently stow away on aircraft–until you had the misfortune to sit next to Van Heflin? ---
**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:** [March 31, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/20 "2012-03-31T15:29:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: Did you host Prince Hal and his friends in your inn? > > IQ2: Can you help lovin’ dat man of yours? > > IQ3: Did you frequently stow away on aircraft–until you had the misfortune to sit next to Van Heflin? 1. I’m not Queenie from ‘Showboat’. Number three stumps me, but it’s all irrelevant because I am Mistress Nan Quickly from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Well done, **Spoons**!! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325.md?page=2)