# Botticelli - April 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714 "2017-04-04T03:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 7, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/41 "2017-04-07T02:54:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQ: Royalty? You said in post 32 you had one DQ reserved, and in post 34 you asked it. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/42 "2017-04-07T03:02:47Z")
Oops. IQs: 1. Are you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? 2. Are you Martin Short’s obese talk show host character? 3. Are you married to Jamie Lee Curtis? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/43 "2017-04-07T12:05:04Z")
I’ll ask it. DQ: Royalty? holding 3 DQs ---
**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 7, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/44 "2017-04-07T15:32:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Are you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? > 2. Are you Martin Short’s obese talk show host character? > 3. Are you married to Jamie Lee Curtis? Not Guy of Gisborne, dunno, and not Christopher Guest. G. 1. fictional 2. male 3. only name starts with G 4. created before 1900 5. not created by an American or Americans 6. from literature, broadly speaking 7. human 8. created by a European author or authors 9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme 10. not created by someone from the British Isles 11. created before 1800 12. not also from visual media (TV, film) 13. from a myth 14. created before 1400 15. from Greek mythology 16. not a hero 17. not known for the Trojan War 18. royalty ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/45 "2017-04-07T17:22:44Z")
IQ: Are you the creator of an untieable knot? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/46 "2017-04-07T17:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > …IQs: > > 1. Are you aka the Sheriff of Nottingham? > 2. Are you Martin Short’s obese talk show host character? > 3. Are you married to Jamie Lee Curtis? > Not Guy of Gisborne, dunno, and not Christopher Guest. Correct, Jiminy Glick, correct. 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 7, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/47 "2017-04-07T18:42:49Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ: Are you the creator of an untieable knot? Ding ding ding! I am indeed King Gordias > **[Gordias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordias)** > > Gordias /ˈɡɔːrdiəs/ (Ancient Greek: Γορδίας, Gordías; also Γόρδιος, Górdios, "Gordius") was the name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia. > The best-known Gordias was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian Knot, and the father of the legendary King Midas who turned whatever he touched to gold. The various legends about this Gordias and Midas imply that they lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC. > In the founding myth of Go... > **[Gordian Knot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot)** > > The cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius. It is thus used as a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem ... Well done, **Knowed Out** - and you didn’t even need to use your sword. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/48 "2017-04-07T19:47:49Z")
Good one, EH! Great job, KO! I was still clueless. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/49 "2017-04-08T15:40:56Z")
OK the new letter is O! ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/50 "2017-04-08T16:24:21Z")
IQs: 1. Are you You? 2. Did you hang around with Churchy LaFemme? 3. Did you write the short story _The Gifts of the Magi_? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/51 "2017-04-08T23:54:41Z")
I am not Knowed Out I am not Howland Owl I am not O Henry ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/52 "2017-04-09T01:58:42Z")
IQ1: Is an international warrant currently issued against you for alleged war crimes committed during your presidency ? IQ2: Did you compose _Carmina Burana_? IQ3: Did you conceive most of Brasilia’s landmarks, including the parliament? ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/53 "2017-04-09T01:59:13Z")
Clean Sweep. IQs: 1. Did you write _Long Day’s Journey Into Night_? 2. Did you get an Oscar for playing Lawrence of Arabia? 3. Are you Titania’s husband? ---
**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, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/54 "2017-04-09T04:28:46Z")
IQs: Have you become a Doper meme in the Made-up Trivia thread? Was this your first name, before Mithrandir, Tharkun or any other? Were you a U.S. Army general after whom a historically-black college was named? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/55 "2017-04-09T14:28:54Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Is an international warrant currently issued against you for alleged war crimes committed during your presidency ? > IQ2: Did you compose _Carmina Burana_? > IQ3: Did you conceive most of Brasilia’s landmarks, including the parliament? Not Barack Obama, not Carl Orff, DQ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/56 "2017-04-09T14:31:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Clean Sweep. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Long Day’s Journey Into Night_? > 2. Did you get an Oscar for playing Lawrence of Arabia? > 3. Are you Titania’s husband? DQ, not Peter O’Toole, not Oberon ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/57 "2017-04-09T14:32:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Have you become a Doper meme in the Made-up Trivia thread? > Was this your first name, before Mithrandir, Tharkun or any other? > Were you a U.S. Army general after whom a historically-black college was named? not Opal, not Olorin, DQ ---
**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, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/58 "2017-04-09T14:51:11Z")
Previous IQs: Have you become a Doper meme in the Made-up Trivia thread? - I don’t think **Opal** has come up at all in that thread, but I’ll rephrase Was this your first name, before Mithrandir, Tharkun or any other? - Yes, Olorin AKA Gandalf Were you a U.S. Army general after whom a historically-black college was named? - Oliver O. Howard DQ: Real? IQs: You are not **Opal** or any other Doper. But have you become a Doper meme in the Made-up Trivia thread? Did Ben Kingsley play you on the stage in late 1985? Did you dig up the floor for a trick shot? ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/59 "2017-04-09T16:44:21Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Clean Sweep. > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Long Day’s Journey Into Night_? > 2. Did you get an Oscar for playing Lawrence of Arabia? > 3. Are you Titania’s husband? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, not Peter O’Toole, not Oberon #1 was Eugene O’Neill. Correct x2. DQ: Male? ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2017/783714/60 "2017-04-09T16:46:38Z")
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