# Botticelli - April 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 3, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093 "2023-04-03T16:37:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/121 "2023-04-18T20:17:50Z")
No clue, in all likelhood I’ve never heard of this person but if by some miracle I can think of someone who fits the description before tomorrow noon I might post again. ---
**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 19, 2023, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/122 "2023-04-19T00:31:06Z")
Eureka! Are you John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/123 "2023-04-19T02:36:13Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ: Are you James Ross, of Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf fame? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I am not. Drat – just realised he was ruled out by DQ 14. Oh, well… ---
**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 19, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/124 "2023-04-19T14:01:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Eureka! > > Are you John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Alas, I am not. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/125 "2023-04-19T15:08:08Z")
Probably not Joe Schmoe, either… ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/126 "2023-04-19T17:12:34Z")
I got nothin’ ---
**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 19, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/127 "2023-04-19T18:40:37Z")
Time’s up. I am the Alsatian priest and peacemaker, considered by some the Gandhi of his day, # Johann Friedrich Oberlin For more: [J. F. Oberlin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._Oberlin) Checking past Botticelli threads, I see I’ve mentioned him 11 times before, including as recently as last month. ---
**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 19, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/128 "2023-04-19T19:40:17Z")
In the future I must remember to ask if any of your choices has an Ohio connection. My former boss’s daughter went to Oberlin College, so, yes, I’ve heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/129 "2023-04-19T19:53:05Z")
I’ve heard of the college. Probably heard of the man, too, if only in EH’s posts. ---
**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 19, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/130 "2023-04-19T20:22:30Z")
Thanks! Our next letter is # I ---
**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 19, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/131 "2023-04-19T20:27:17Z")
IQs: 1. Did I kill your father and should I prepare to die? 2. Did you preach naked and barefoot for three years? 3. Did you do stage designs for Ben Jonson? ---
**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 19, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/132 "2023-04-19T20:43:03Z")
I’m not Inigo Montoya, Ignatius or Inigo Jones. ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/133 "2023-04-19T21:15:18Z")
Correct on the Inigos. #2 was the prophet Isaiah. DQ: Real? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/134 "2023-04-19T22:11:04Z")
I’ve heard of the college and knew it was named after someone named Oberlin (to the point of incorrectly guessing him when I was Oliver Wendell Jones) but didn’t know his first name began with a “J”. My only consolation is that I thought that Religious might have been the category we missed, Germany was probably his origin and was wracking my brains for all of the Johann’s I could think of. DQs: 1. Were you the title character of the first comic strip by the artist who would eventually reach fame and fortune with his “Wimpy kid books” 2. Were you dispatched with a high velocity squash. 3. Did you share the title role in a 70’s kid’s show with Shazam? ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/135 "2023-04-20T12:31:11Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Under the Net_? 2. Were you the female lead on _Your Show of Shows_? 3. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/136 "2023-04-20T16:57:53Z")
IQ1: Should I hit you with my rhythm stick? IQ2: Have you portrayed a hobbit, an android, and Napoleon? IQ3: Did you sing about all the young dudes? ---
**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 20, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/137 "2023-04-20T20:04:57Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > [I]Qs: > > 1. Were you the title character of the first comic strip by the artist who would eventually reach fame and fortune with his “Wimpy kid books” > > 2. Were you dispatched with a high velocity squash. > > 3. Did you share the title role in a 70’s kid’s show with Shazam? Not Iggy, dunno and not Isis. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _Under the Net_? > 2. Were you the female lead on _Your Show of Shows_? > 3. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? Dunno, not Imogene Coca and dunno. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Should I hit you with my rhythm stick? > IQ2: Have you portrayed a hobbit, an android, and Napoleon? > IQ3: Did you sing about all the young dudes? Dunno, not the late lamented Ian Holm (in _LOTR, Alien_ and _Time Bandits_), and dunno. I. 1. fictional ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/138 "2023-04-20T20:13:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > [I]Qs: > > > > 1. Were you the title character of the first comic strip by the artist who would eventually reach fame and fortune with his “Wimpy kid books” > > 2. Were you dispatched with a high velocity squash. > > 3. Did you share the title role in a 70’s kid’s show with Shazam? > > Not Iggy, dunno and not Isis. 1 Incorrect, the correct answer is Igdoof. Kinney wrote it for the University of Maryland school paper where I was a grad student. IMHO it was absolutely dreadful but some people seemed to like it. 2. Ichabod Crane of the legend of Sleepy Hollow who was taken out by a hurled pumpkin. 3. Correct. DQs 1. created after 1920? 2. First name begins with I? ---
**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 20, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/139 "2023-04-20T20:22:04Z")
I. 1. fictional 2. created before 1920 3. first name begins with I ---
**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 20, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/140 "2023-04-20T21:26:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you write _Under the Net_? > > 2. Were you the female lead on _Your Show of Shows_? > > 3. Did you have a hit with _At Seventeen_? > > Dunno, not Imogene Coca and dunno. #1 was Iris Murdoch. Correct on Imogene Coca. #3 was Janis Ian. DQs: 1. Created by a European author or authors? 2. Last name starts with I? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093.md?page=8)