# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/141 "2012-04-08T12:18:03Z")
OK, let’s try the letter **O**. Have at me! ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/142 "2012-04-09T00:40:32Z")
IQ1: Are you King of Kings? IQ2: Did you battle Peter Parker? IQ3: Are you a U.S. Supreme Court justice who placed limits on the first amendment? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/143 "2012-04-09T00:59:18Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > IQ1: Are you King of Kings? > IQ2: Did you battle Peter Parker? > IQ3: Are you a U.S. Supreme Court justice who placed limits on the first amendment? IQ1: No, I am not Ozymandius. IQ2: No, I am not Doc Octopus. IQ3: FIRE! (IQ3: I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes. Nor, does this appear to be a crowded theater.) ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/144 "2012-04-09T02:25:33Z")
IQ1: Were you publicly removed from your job so the former holder could have it back? IQ2: Are you often credited with writing the poem “The Catsup Bottle”? IQ3: Is your belt your most famous article of clothing? ---
**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:** [April 9, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/145 "2012-04-09T02:29:40Z")
Congrats, **Wargamer** , on your win! Just to clear these up: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you half of a famous legal directory pair? > Did perhaps your best-known movie character have an eye problem? > Were you the Swiss-born governor of a New England state? Martindale-Hubbell is a well-known U.S. legal directory. Mads Mikkelsen played the bad guy in the 2006 _Casino Royale_ remake; he bled from the eyes now and then. Madeline Kunin was Governor of Vermont in the Eighties, and later a Clinton Education Department top official. New round IQs. Did you get the perfect hollow sound in a toilet bowl? Did you once give voice to Mithrandir? Did you scandalously dance in widow’s weeds? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/146 "2012-04-09T03:52:01Z")
Congrats, **Wargamer**! > [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Russian mathematician who worked on random processes? In case anyone was curious, this was Andrey Markov. IQ1: Are you a complex motherfucker? IQ2: Did you play tuba in Deathtöngue? IQ3: Are you a recently deceased NFL Hall of Fame defensive lineman, commentator, and 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:** [April 9, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/147 "2012-04-09T06:34:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Martindale-Hubbell is a well-known U.S. legal directory. I guess I need to expand my knowledge. (I was wondering about that one.) Thanks for the answer! (IQs to come tomorrow.) ---
**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:** [April 9, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/148 "2012-04-09T07:16:12Z")
Oh, what the heck, I’ll have a few IQs now. IQ1: Is Felix always cleaning up after you? IQ2: Did you very nearly win the Masters golf tournament this year? IQ3: Did you join Marcia and Greg, _et al._, towards the end of their run? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/149 "2012-04-09T13:19:24Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1: Were you publicly removed from your job so the former holder could have it back? > IQ2: Are you often credited with writing the poem “The Catsup Bottle”? > IQ3: Is your belt your most famous article of clothing? No idea on these, take 3 DQs and call me in the morning. > [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Did you get the perfect hollow sound in a toilet bowl? > Did you once give voice to Mithrandir? > Did you scandalously dance in widow’s weeds? No clue on the first two, but I am not Scarlett O’Hara dancing with Rhett Butler for the third. > [@enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a complex motherfucker? > > IQ2: Did you play tuba in Deathtöngue? > > IQ3: Are you a recently deceased NFL Hall of Fame defensive lineman, commentator, and actor? Again, I don’t know 1 and 2, but I am not Merlin Olsen for number 3. > [@spoons](#): > > IQ1: Is Felix always cleaning up after you? > > IQ2: Did you very nearly win the Masters golf tournament this year? > > IQ3: Did you join Marcia and Greg, et al., towards the end of their run? 1. I am not Oscar Madison 2. I am not Louis Oosthuizen, noted shooter of albatrosses. 3. I am not Cousin Oliver. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/150 "2012-04-09T14:44:55Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you a complex motherfucker? > IQ2: Did you play tuba in Deathtöngue? 1. [Oedipus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus) 2. Bloom County’s [Opus the Penguin](http://ongcore.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dscf3500.jpg) DQ1: Are you real? DQ2: Are you male? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/151 "2012-04-09T17:33:20Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > 1. [Oedipus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus) > 2. Bloom County’s [Opus the Penguin](http://ongcore.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dscf3500.jpg) > DQ1: Are you real? > DQ2: Are you male? Oedipus! :smack: 1. I am not real. 2. I am male. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/152 "2012-04-09T18:38:52Z")
IQ1: Are you become death, the destroyer of worlds? IQ2: Are you a litigious dentist _cum_ real estate agent _cum_ lawyer? IQ3: Are you a wizard who’s just a crazy old man? ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/153 "2012-04-09T18:42:02Z")
IQ1: Did you spend time at Chateau Roissy IQ2: Where you adopted by your great-uncle? IQ3: Were you attacked by Canadians at Cornell? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/154 "2012-04-09T21:13:10Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Are you become death, the destroyer of worlds? > IQ2: Are you a litigious dentist _cum_ real estate agent _cum_ lawyer? > IQ3: Are you a wizard who’s just a crazy old man? 1. I am not Robert Oppenheimer. 2. In lieu of suing me, would a DQ satisfy you? 3. Nope, I’m not Ben Kenobi AKA Obi-Wan Kenobi. > [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > IQ1: Did you spend time at Chateau Roissy > IQ2: Where you adopted by your great-uncle? > IQ3: Were you attacked by Canadians at Cornell? I have no idea on any of these. (Well, I have an idea on #2, but I don’t think you’re after Little Orphan Annie.) So 3 DQs for Mr. P. Dent. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/155 "2012-04-09T22:43:21Z")
> [@Pixel\_Dent](#): > > IQ1: Did you spend time at Chateau Roissy > IQ2: Where you adopted by your great-uncle? > IQ3: Were you attacked by Canadians at Cornell? > [@Wargamer](#): > > I have no idea on any of these. (Well, I have an idea on #2, but I don’t think you’re after Little Orphan Annie.) So 3 DQs for Mr. P. Dent. > > 1. I am not real. > 2. I am male. IQ1: O from “The Story of O” IQ2: Octavian who was adopted by his great uncle Gaius Julius Caesar and later became the emperor Augustus IQ3: Oliver Barret IV from “Love Story” who was beat up by Cornell’s Canadians while playing on the Harvard hockey team. DQ1: Are you a character from a book? DQ2: Are you an adult? DQ3: Are you human? ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/156 "2012-04-09T23:18:08Z")
Summary 1. I am not real. 2. I am male. 3. No, I am not a character from a book. 4. Hmm, I have to say yes, I am an adult. 5. I am not human. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/157 "2012-04-09T23:33:17Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > 1. In lieu of suing me, would a DQ satisfy you? I won’t sue, but I can make no promises on behalf of the batshit insane [Orly Taitz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Taitz). DQ6: Are you an animal? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/158 "2012-04-10T01:04:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you get the perfect hollow sound in a toilet bowl? > Did you once give voice to Mithrandir? > Did you scandalously dance in widow’s weeds? Orson Welles had a sound guy unscrew a Mason jar in the bowl of a toilet to simulate the top of the Martian spacecraft coming off in his notorious _War of the Worlds_ radio broadcast. Orson Bean provided the voice of Gandalf AKA Mithrandir in the TV cartoon of _The Hobbit_. Yes, Scarlett O’Hara. > [@Enginerd](#): > > …IQ1: Are you a complex motherfucker?.. Love this! DQs: Were you created since 1960? Did you first appear in a book? IQs: Were you commendably persistent in trying to date an older woman at your workplace? Did you suspect your #2 guy of not trying hard enough? Did your boss change clothes when his big plan went awry? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/159 "2012-04-10T01:46:59Z")
IQ1: Did you score the Stanley Cup winning goal in 1970? IQ2: Do you use a bowler hat as a weapon? IQ3: Did you once compare cucumbers in the supermarket with the Dean’s wife? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325/160 "2012-04-10T04:26:07Z")
Answers: 1. Orion, whose belt is among the brighter stars in the night sky. 2. Conan O’Brien, who had to return his time slot to Jay Leno. 3. Ogden Nash, credited with the poem ‘The Catsup Bottle’; first a little, then a lottle. I’m not sure if he’s the original writer, but he is most frequently credited with it. DQs: Were you created in the 1900s? Are you mythological? Did you appear in the works of Shakespeare? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2012-le-ministre-de-lau-dela-chooser-initial-q/617325.md?page=9)