# 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:** 8
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/141 "2023-04-20T21:30:02Z")
I. 1. fictional 2. created before 1920 3. first name begins with I 4. created by a European author or authors 5. last name does not start 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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/142 "2023-04-20T22:29:58Z")
Pfui, I shoulda read the DQs better. Ah, me. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/143 "2023-04-21T04:33:47Z")
1. Are you one of the Mandrell sisters? 2. Did you work for U.N.C.L.E.? 3. Are you the heroic young prince in **Rinkitink in Oz**? ---
**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 21, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/144 "2023-04-21T13:35:01Z")
IQ1: Were you the first person to claim the title of tsar of Russia? IQ2: Were you the first person to be crowned tsar of Russia? IQ3: Did Solzhenitsyn tell us about one day in your life? ---
**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 21, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/145 "2023-04-21T13:54:45Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Sir Walter Scott novel? 2. Were you a comic and musician on Kay Kyser’s radio show? 3. Did the BBC name you “Woman of the Millennium”? ---
**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 21, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/146 "2023-04-21T15:52:57Z")
DQ 1. Were your first words a request to call you by your name? 2. Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess? 3. Did Neal Stephenson write a ponderous trilogy of historical fiction centered around you? ---
**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 21, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/147 "2023-04-21T16:47:15Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@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. Ian Dury of Ian Dury and the Blockheads Yes, Ian Holm Ian Hunter, lead singer for Mott the Hoople Ian x3 DQ1: From a prose work? DQ2: Creator from the British Isles? ---
**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 21, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/148 "2023-04-21T18:01:23Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you one of the Mandrell sisters? > 2. Did you work for U.N.C.L.E.? > 3. Are you the heroic young prince in **Rinkitink in Oz**? Not Iris, not Ilya Kuryakin (sp?), not Iira. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the first person to claim the title of tsar of Russia? > IQ2: Were you the first person to be crowned tsar of Russia? > IQ3: Did Solzhenitsyn tell us about one day in your life? Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, and not Ivan Denisovich. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Sir Walter Scott novel? > 2. Were you a comic and musician on Kay Kyser’s radio show? > 3. Did the BBC name you “Woman of the Millennium”? Not Ivanhoe, dunno and dunno. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > DQ > > 1. Were your first words a request to call you by your name? > 2. Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess? > 3. Did Neal Stephenson write a ponderous trilogy of historical fiction centered around you? Dunno, not Isis and not Iphegenia. I. 1. fictional 2. created before 1920 3. first name begins with I 4. created by a European author or authors 5. last name does not start with I 6. from a prose work 7. creator from the British Isles ---
**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 21, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/149 "2023-04-21T19:27:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Isis and not Iphegenia. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Were your first words a request to call you by your name? > 2. Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess? > 3. Did Neal Stephenson write a ponderous trilogy of historical fiction centered around you? Dunno, not Isis and not Iphegenia. 1. “Call me Ishmael” -Moby Dick 2. Questionable, Egypt isn’t Mesopotamia, but Isis was also a fertility goddess whose worship may have extended to that region and who legend may have derived from the goddess I was thinking of so I’ll redirect. 3. Neal Stephenson may have written some books in which Iphegenia played a role but I don’t think he wrote a trilogy centered around her. I was thinking of Isaac Newton, the central character in his Baroque Cycle. 2DQs reserved until I have time to think about them. Redirect which probably gives it away: Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess whose name was used in the title of an (IMHO highly underrated) Dustin Hoffman film. ---
**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 21, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/150 "2023-04-21T20:57:18Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, Do we let him get away with this? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/151 "2023-04-22T01:49:08Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > 1. Are you one of the Mandrell sisters? > 2. Did you work for U.N.C.L.E.? > 3. Are you the heroic young prince in **Rinkitink in Oz**? Irleen, correct, Prince Inga. DQs: 1. Protagonist? 2. Male? ---
**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, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/152 "2023-04-22T03:47:15Z")
I’m not Ishtar, **Buck.** > [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, > > Do we let him get away with this? I vote yes. 😉 ---
**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, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/153 "2023-04-22T03:48:22Z")
I. 1. fictional 2. created before 1920 3. first name begins with I 4. created by a European author or authors 5. last name does not start with I 6. from a prose work 7. creator from the British Isles 8. antagonist, of sorts 9. female ---
**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, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/154 "2023-04-22T14:20:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Sir Walter Scott novel? > > 2. Were you a comic and musician on Kay Kyser’s radio show? > > 3. Did the BBC name you “Woman of the Millennium”? > > Not Ivanhoe, dunno and dunno. Correct on Invanhoe. #2 was Ish Kabibble. #3 was Indira Gandhi. DQ Created before 1800? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/155 "2023-04-22T14:21:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, > > Do we let him get away with this? I’ve gone around with EH a couple of times over this. When he hosts, he gets to decide these things, it would appear. The best answer I’ve got is to ask politely for full names. ---
**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, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/156 "2023-04-22T19:22:50Z")
Sure. Not Ivan the Terrible, and not Ivan the Terrible. One of ‘em’s probably right. ---
**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, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/157 "2023-04-22T19:23:39Z")
I. 1. fictional 2. created before 1920 3. first name begins with I 4. created by a European author or authors 5. last name does not start with I 6. from a prose work 7. creator from the British Isles 8. antagonist, of sorts 9. female 10. created after 1800 ---
**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, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/158 "2023-04-22T20:42:39Z")
DQ: Created after 1860? ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/159 "2023-04-22T22:13:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the first person to claim the title of tsar of Russia? > > IQ2: Were you the first person to be crowned tsar of Russia? > > IQ3: Did Solzhenitsyn tell us about one day in your life? > > Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, and not Ivan Denisovich. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Ivan the Terrible, and not Ivan the Terrible. One of ‘em’s probably right. Ivan III correct (Ivan IV) correct One DQ reserved. ---
**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 22, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-april-2023/982093/160 "2023-04-22T22:25:08Z")
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