# Botticelli - April 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 1, 2019, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852 "2019-04-01T13:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 2, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/21 "2019-04-02T14:52:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’m not Holden Caulfield, dunno, and not Howard Carter. Correct, George Chapman (immortalized in Keats’ poem _On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer_), Correct. DQ: Created after 1899? ---
**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 2, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/22 "2019-04-02T15:22:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia? > 2. Were you Pinocchio’s conscience in the 1940 film? > 3. Did you play #2? Not Jimmy Carter, Jiminy Cricket or… d’oh, I should know that, but I forget. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with C 4. not originally from film 5. created by an American author or authors 6. originally from literature 7. created after 1899 ---
**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 2, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/23 "2019-04-02T15:34:39Z")
DQ: Protagonist/good guy? 1 DQ left ---
**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 2, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/24 "2019-04-02T15:36:38Z")
C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with C 4. not originally from film 5. created by an American author or authors 6. originally from literature 7. created after 1899 8. not protagonist/good guy ---
**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 2, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/25 "2019-04-02T20:05:05Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Earl Der Biggers’ best known character? 2. Were you the Catman in the rock group KISS? 3. Are you currently playing Queen Victoria in the BBC series _Victoria_? ---
**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 2, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/26 "2019-04-02T20:22:36Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Earl Der Biggers’ best known character? > 2. Were you the Catman in the rock group KISS? > 3. Are you currently playing Queen Victoria in the BBC series _Victoria_? Dunno, not Peter Criss, and dunno. ---
**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 2, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/27 "2019-04-02T20:44:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Earl Der Biggers’ best known character? > 2. Were you the Catman in the rock group KISS? > 3. Are you currently playing Queen Victoria in the BBC series _Victoria_? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Peter Criss, and dunno. #1 was Charlie Chan. Correct on #2. #3 is Jenna Coleman. DQs: 1. From genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)? 2. Created after 1969? ---
**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 2, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/28 "2019-04-02T20:47:52Z")
IQs: 1. Did you fall victim to a wafer thin mint? 2. Are you Scott Summers’s superhero alter ego? 3. Were you Minnie Bannister’s boyfriend on the highly acclaimed 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/29 "2019-04-02T21:04:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Jimmy Carter, Jiminy Cricket or… d’oh, I should know that, but I forget. 3 was Cliff Edwards. IQs: 1. Did you play the mysterious woman pursuing Jake and Elwood in _The Blues Brothers_? 2. Did you have a hit in 2011 with “Call Me Maybe”? 3. Were you a radical temperance activist who went into bars and smashed bottles with a hatchet? DQ: created before 1960? ---
**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 3, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/30 "2019-04-03T02:18:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you fall victim to a wafer thin mint? > 2. Are you Scott Summers’s superhero alter ego? > 3. Were you Minnie Bannister’s boyfriend on the highly acclaimed 1950’s BBC radio series _The Goon Show_? Not Mr. Creosote, dunno, and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the mysterious woman pursuing Jake and Elwood in _The Blues Brothers_? > 2. Did you have a hit in 2011 with “Call Me Maybe”? > 3. Were you a radical temperance activist who went into bars and smashed bottles with a hatchet?.. Dunno, not Carlie Ray Jepsen (sp?), and not Carrie Nation. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with C 4. not originally from film 5. created by an American author or authors 6. originally from literature 7. created after 1899 8. not protagonist/good guy 9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.) 10. not created after 1969 11. not created before 1960 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/31 "2019-04-03T10:58:44Z")
IQ1: Were you murdered in the bath by a gladiator? IQ2: Are you a club-footed ruler whose life was fictionalized in two novels by Robert Graves? IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxer who famously converted to Islam? DQ: Are you countercultural? ---
**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 3, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/32 "2019-04-03T11:13:44Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you fall victim to a wafer thin mint? > 2. Are you Scott Summers’s superhero alter ego? > 3. Were you Minnie Bannister’s boyfriend on the highly acclaimed 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show? > Not Mr. Creosote, dunno, and dunno. Correct on #1. #2 is Cyclops. #3 was Henry Crun (voiced by Spike Milligan). 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 3, 2019, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/33 "2019-04-03T12:05:09Z")
DQ: Adapted into film or TV? IQ1: Were you The Doctor before Jodie Whitaker? IQ2: Were you IQ1’s first companion? IQ3: Do you play Daenerys Targaryen on _Game of Thrones_? ---
**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 3, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/34 "2019-04-03T13:33:47Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Were you murdered in the bath by a gladiator? > > IQ2: Are you a club-footed ruler whose life was fictionalized in two novels by Robert Graves? > > IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxer who famously converted to Islam?.. Not Commodus, Claudius or Cassius Clay. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > … > > IQ1: Were you The Doctor before Jodie Whitaker? > IQ2: Were you IQ1’s first companion? > IQ3: Do you play Daenerys Targaryen on _Game of Thrones_? Dunno, dunno and not Emilia Clarke. Mrowwrrrr. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with C 4. not originally from film 5. created by an American author or authors 6. originally from literature 7. created after 1899 8. not protagonist/good guy 9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.) 10. not created after 1969 11. not created before 1960 12. not what would usually be called countercultural\* 13. adapted into film or TV \*Given the examples provided in the opening paragraph here: [Counterculture - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/35 "2019-04-03T14:08:45Z")
IQ1: Are you the first American novelist of international reputation? IQ2: Are you the writer of whom Hemingway said “All modern American literature comes from one book by [you] called…"? IQ3: Are you a Spanish woman whose divorce from her Anglo-Welsh husband led to far-reaching changes in English law and culture? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/36 "2019-04-03T15:37:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Carlie Ray Jepsen (sp?), and not Carrie Nation. 1 was Carrie Fisher. IQs: 1. Aside from your acting and directing career, were you mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA? 2. Is your favorite cereal Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs? 3. Were you a paleontologist and rival of Othniel Charles Marsh in the Bone Wars? DQ: from fantasy/sci-fi? ---
**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 3, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/37 "2019-04-03T18:37:22Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Were you The Doctor before Jodie Whitaker? > IQ2: Were you IQ1’s first companion? > IQ3: Do you play Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones? > > Dunno, dunno and not Emilia Clarke. Mrowwrrrr. Peter Capaldi, Clara Oswald - I wanted the 3rd IQ to be about Jenna Coleman, the actress who played her, but she was already used upthread. DQ: Did you die in the original story? holding a DQ ---
**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 3, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/38 "2019-04-03T19:00:44Z")
DQ: considered a bad guy/villain? 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 3, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/39 "2019-04-03T20:30:42Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQ1: Are you the first American novelist of international reputation? > > IQ2: Are you the writer of whom Hemingway said “All modern American literature comes from one book by [you] called…"? > > IQ3: Are you a Spanish woman whose divorce from her Anglo-Welsh husband led to far-reaching changes in English law and culture? Not Samuel Clemens, or Willa Cather, and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Aside from your acting and directing career, were you mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA? > 2. Is your favorite cereal Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs? > 3. Were you a paleontologist and rival of Othniel Charles Marsh in the Bone Wars?.. Not Clint Eastwood, not Calvin (or Hobbes), and dunno. C. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with C 4. not originally from film 5. created by an American author or authors 6. originally from literature 7. created after 1899 8. not protagonist/good guy 9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.) 10. not created after 1969 11. not created before 1960 12. not what would usually be called countercultural 13. adapted into film or TV 14. not from fantasy/sci-fi 15. did not die in the original story 16. not considered a bad guy/villain in the story ---
**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 3, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2019/831852/40 "2019-04-03T23:04:02Z")
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