# Botticelli - April 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 4, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808 "2018-04-04T14:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 22, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/101 "2018-04-22T03:39:18Z")
K. 1. fictional 2. last name starts with K 3. created by an American author or authors 4. created post-1945 5. human 6. male 7. not originally from a work of prose fiction 8. created before 1980 9. originally from TV or movies 10. protagonist 11. not originally from a TV series 12. not from a comedy 13. not an unusual last name 14. created after 1960 15. not from a work of fantasy or science fiction 16. created after 1970 17. set in contemporaneous time 18. not from an action/adventure film ---
**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 22, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/102 "2018-04-22T13:59:07Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a character in a movie whose wife leaves him, and who then learns how to take care of their son on his own, only to have her return and fight him for custody? 2. Did Marlon Brando play you in _Apocalypse Now_? 3. Were you a Catholic priest who wrote detective stories as well as translating the Vulgate into English? ---
**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 22, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/103 "2018-04-22T18:29:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a character in a movie whose wife leaves him, and who then learns how to take care of their son on his own, only to have her return and fight him for custody?.. Yes, I am indeed Ted Kramer As played by Dustin Hoffman, protagonist of the 1979 drama _Kramer vs. Kramer_: [Kramer vs. Kramer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer) Good job, **Prof. P.**! ---
**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 22, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/104 "2018-04-22T22:10:11Z")
Thang Q. Now, I am R! ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/105 "2018-04-23T04:59:24Z")
IQs: Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral? Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house? Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform? ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/106 "2018-04-23T16:56:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral? > Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house? > Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform? #1. I am not Rudolph Valentino. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 23, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/107 "2018-04-23T17:40:23Z")
Previous IQs: Did enormous crowds attend your 1920s showbiz funeral? - Yes, Rudolph Valentino Did the Young America Foundation buy your vacation house? - Ronald Reagan Did James Garfield fight you over patronage and civil service reform? - Sen. Roscoe Conkling DQs: Real? Male? IQs: Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project? Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death? Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge? ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/108 "2018-04-23T18:06:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > Real? > Male? > > IQs: > > Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project? > Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death? > Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge? DQs: 1. Real 2. Female Take 3 DQs for the bridgebuilders. ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/109 "2018-04-23T18:21:47Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the designer and first chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction project? - John A. Roebling Were you his son, who succeeded him after his untimely death? - Washington Roebling Were you his daughter-in-law, who often assisted her husband in his duties and was the first to walk across the completed bridge? - Emily Roebling DQs: First name start with R? Living? Best known for the Arts? IQs: Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?” Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds? Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser _MacArthur_? ---
**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 23, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/110 "2018-04-23T19:02:38Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with R 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts ---
**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 23, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/111 "2018-04-23T19:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?” > Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds? > Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur? #1. I am not Roseanne Barr. (That’s a guess.) #2. I am not Radagast the Brown. Take a DQ for #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 23, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/112 "2018-04-23T20:15:14Z")
Previous IQs: Did you once say, while eating a candy bar, “Why don’t I just apply this directly to my hips?” - Not Roseanne, but Rhoda Morganstern, on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ Were you an Istari with a particular affinity for birds? - Yes, Radagast the Brown Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser _MacArthur_? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s _The Mote in God’s Eye_ DQs: American? Political/military? IQs: Did Pontius Pilate say he would free you? Did he say he would free you, too? Did you own the Cafe Americain? ---
**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 24, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/113 "2018-04-24T01:56:11Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with R 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Naturalized American 7. Not known for Politics/Military ---
**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 24, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/114 "2018-04-24T01:57:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Pontius Pilate say he would free you? > Did he say he would free you, too? > Did you own the Cafe Americain? I am not Woger. I am not Wodewick. I am not Rick Blaine. ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/115 "2018-04-24T05:22:40Z")
You wascal, you swept my questions. I shall have you thwown to the fwowr - and vewy woughwy, too! IQs: Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official? Did you write the _Dred Scott_ decision? Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch? ---
**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 24, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/116 "2018-04-24T12:43:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You wascal, you swept my questions. I shall have you thwown to the fwowr - and vewy woughwy, too! > > IQs: > > Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official? > Did you write the _Dred Scott_ decision? > Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch? #1. Take a DQ. #2. I am not Roger Taney. #3. I am not King Ralph (??) ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/117 "2018-04-24T14:02:16Z")
Previous IQs: Have you played both Iago and a senior MI6 official? - British actor Rory Kinnear, in the RSC’s _Othello_ and in three recent James Bond films Did you write the _Dred Scott_ decision? - Yes, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Were you a lounge singer who briefly became a monarch? - Yes, the title character (John Goodman) in _King Ralph_ DQ: Best known as an athlete? IQs: Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for? Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes? Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor? ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/118 "2018-04-24T14:53:43Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with R 4. Dead 5. Not known for the Arts 6. Naturalized American 7. Not known for Politics/Military 8. Not best known as an athlete. ---
**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 24, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/119 "2018-04-24T14:54:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for? > Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes? > Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor? #1. I am not Basil Rathbone. #2. I am not Ratatouille (??) Take a DQ for #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 24, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808/120 "2018-04-24T18:20:35Z")
Previous IQs: Did Nicol Williamson and Jeremy Brett both play a role you are also well-known for? - Yes, they and Basil Rathbone all played Sherlock Holmes Did you once hide in a sudsy sink full of dishes? - Not Ratatouille, but Roger Rabbit Were you Clinton’s Secretary of Labor? - Robert Reich DQs: Best known for a single incident? Naturalized as a child? IQs: Does Sterling Archer once use this name when undercover? Was Stannis your brother? Was Stannis your brother, too? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2018/811808.md?page=7)