# Botticelli - April 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723 "2020-04-13T20:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 13, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/1 "2020-04-13T20:15:26Z")
Last month’s thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891165](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891165) Our new letter is F Bring 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 13, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/2 "2020-04-13T21:46:32Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Geppetto’s pet cat? 2. Are you one of Merryweather’s sisters? 3. Were you Ebenezer Scrooge’s employer at one time? ---
**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 13, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/3 "2020-04-13T22:20:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Geppetto’s pet cat? > 2. Are you one of Merryweather’s sisters? > 3. Were you Ebenezer Scrooge’s employer at one time? Not Figaro, dunno, and not Fezziwig. ---
**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 13, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/4 "2020-04-13T23:04:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Geppetto’s pet cat? > 2. Are you one of Merryweather’s sisters? > 3. Were you Ebenezer Scrooge’s employer at one time? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Figaro, dunno, and not Fezziwig. Correct, Either Flora or Fauna, Correct. DQ: Real? IQs: 1. Did Dickens’ base you character on Ikey Solomon? 2. Did you write _The Riftwar Saga_? 3. Are you the title character in the Broadway musical that featured the song “A Little Tin Box”? ---
**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 13, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/5 "2020-04-13T23:09:21Z")
IQs: 1. Do you pal around with Blake, Dinkley, Rogers, and Rogers’ dog? 2. Have you voiced the above character since 1969? 3. Did you write _The Book of the Damned_, “a procession of data that Science has excluded”? ---
**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 14, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/6 "2020-04-14T03:26:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dickens’ base you character on Ikey Solomon? > 2. Did you write _The Riftwar Saga_? > 3. Are you the title character in the Broadway musical that featured the song “A Little Tin Box”? Not Fagin, dunno, and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you pal around with Blake, Dinkley, Rogers, and Rogers’ dog? > 2. Have you voiced the above character since 1969? > 3. Did you write _The Book of the Damned_, “a procession of data that Science has excluded”? Dunno x3. F. 1. fictional ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/7 "2020-04-14T07:33:27Z")
1. Were you an extremely fussy neat freak who drove your roommate crazy? 2. Were you a CIA agent who was a friend of James Bond’s? 3. Are you Oliver Queen’s soulmate? ---
**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 14, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/8 "2020-04-14T12:46:13Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Dickens’ base you character on Ikey Solomon? > 2. Did you write The Riftwar Saga? > 3. Are you the title character in the Broadway musical that featured the song “A Little Tin Box”? > Not Fagin, dunno, and dunno. Correct on Fagin. #2 is Robert E. Feist. #3 is Fiorello La Guardia. The musical is _Fiorello!_ DQs: 1. American in origin? 2. Male? ---
**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 14, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/9 "2020-04-14T13:13:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x3. 1 (pals around with Blake, Dinkley, Rogers, and Rogers’ dog) was Fred Jones; 2 (has voiced Fred since 1969) was Frank Welker; 3 (wrote _The Book of the Damned_) was Charles Fort. IQs: 1. Were you a bongo-playing physicist whose autobiography is subtitled _Adventures of a Curious Character_? 2. Was an animated series in the '90s about _The Twisted Tales of_ you? 3. Are you the pseudonymous author of _My Brilliant Friend_? DQs: 4. created between 1920-1970? 5. from a film or TV show? 6. main character? ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/10 "2020-04-14T18:33:25Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you an extremely fussy neat freak who drove your roommate crazy? > 2. Were you a CIA agent who was a friend of James Bond’s? > 3. Are you Oliver Queen’s soulmate? Not Felix Unger, Felix Leiter or Felix… Smith? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a bongo-playing physicist whose autobiography is subtitled _Adventures of a Curious Character_? > 2. Was an animated series in the '90s about _The Twisted Tales of_ you? > 3. Are you the pseudonymous author of _My Brilliant Friend_?.. Not Dr. Feynman, not Ian Fleming and dunno. F. 1. fictional 2. not American in origin 3. male 4. not created between 1920-1970 5. not from a film or TV show 6. not the main character ---
**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 14, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/11 "2020-04-14T18:49:06Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the lead in _Oz the Great and Powerful_? 2. Did you play Neil Darrell (sp?) on _The Bold Ones_? 3. Did you play the female lead in _Saturn 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 14, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/12 "2020-04-14T21:23:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the lead in _Oz the Great and Powerful_? > 2. Did you play Neil Darrell (sp?) on _The Bold Ones_? > 3. Did you play the female lead in _Saturn 3_? Not James Franco, James Franciscus or Farrah Fawcett-Majors. ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/13 "2020-04-14T22:24:52Z")
Swept me! IQs: 1. Did you play Max in _The Great Race_? 2. Did you and Wagnalls put out editions of unabridged English dictionaries? 3. Did James Cagney reprise his role as George M. Cohan in a movie about you starring Bob Hope? ---
**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 14, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/14 "2020-04-14T22:25:53Z")
dupe ---
**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 15, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/15 "2020-04-15T03:02:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Dr. Feynman, not Ian Fleming and dunno. 2 was Felix the Cat; 3 was Elena Ferrante. IQs: 1. Did you design a line of rainbow-hued stickers and school supplies, made by the company named after you? 2. Is _Why Not Me_? the account of your political campaign and ensuing 144-day presidency? 3. Are you the most famous fictional son of a Genevan syndic? DQs: 4. created before 1920? 5. from prose fiction? ---
**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 15, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/16 "2020-04-15T04:19:22Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Max in _The Great Race_? > 2. Did you and Wagnalls put out editions of unabridged English dictionaries? > 3. Did James Cagney reprise his role as George M. Cohan in a movie about you starring Bob Hope? Dunno, not Funk, and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you design a line of rainbow-hued stickers and school supplies, made by the company named after you? > 2. Is _Why Not Me_? the account of your political campaign and ensuing 144-day presidency? > 3. Are you the most famous fictional son of a Genevan syndic?.. Dunno, not Al Franken, and dunno. F. 1. fictional 2. not American in origin 3. male 4. not created between 1920-1970 5. not from a film or TV show 6. not the main character 7. created before 1920 8. from prose fiction ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/17 "2020-04-15T10:49:49Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Were you an extremely fussy neat freak who drove your roommate crazy? > 2. Were you a CIA agent who was a friend of James Bond’s? > 3. Are you Oliver Queen’s soulmate? Correct, correct and Felicity Smoak. I ran out of Felixes. DQ: Created after 1850? ---
**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 15, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/18 "2020-04-15T11:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Max in The Great Race? > 2. Did you and Wagnalls put out editions of unabridged English dictionaries? > 3. Did James Cagney reprise his role as George M. Cohan in a movie about you starring Bob Hope? > Dunno, not Funk, and dunno. #1 was Peter Falk. Correct on #2. #3 was Eddie Foy. DQ: First name starts with F? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 15, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/19 "2020-04-15T17:00:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Al Franken, and dunno. 1 (designer of rainbow-hued stickers and school supplies) was Lisa Frank; 3 (most famous fictional son of a Genevan syndic) was Victor Frankenstein. DQs: 1. created by a European? 2. from a novel? IQs: 3. Did you write _Seduction of the Innocent_? 4. Are you the protagonist of the _Half-Life_ video game series? 5. Was your most famous role played by Naomi Watts in a 2005 remake? ---
**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 15, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723/20 "2020-04-15T18:18:37Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Seduction of the Innocent_? > 2. Are you the protagonist of the _Half-Life_ video game series? > 3. Was your most famous role played by Naomi Watts in a 2005 remake? Dunno x3 F. 1. fictional 2. not American in origin 3. male 4. not created between 1920-1970 5. not from a film or TV show 6. not the main character 7. created before 1920 8. from prose fiction 9. created before 1850 10. only name starts with F 11. created by a European 12. from a novel [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2020/851723.md?page=2)