# Botticelli, Aug. 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 1, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030 "2011-08-01T13:26:32Z")\ **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:** [August 11, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/101 "2011-08-11T01:51:51Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > Mr being his first name. Dunno. I assume that’s official Python (Ltd.) stuff. > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Do you get No Respect? No, I’m not Rodney Dangerfield. > [@astorian](#): > > When not singing hard rock, do you travel through the Amazon with a group called the Jungle Studs? No, I’m not… Rick Springfield? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/102 "2011-08-11T04:33:01Z")
IQ: Were you named after the doctor who delivered you when you were born on a train in Panama? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/103 "2011-08-11T08:35:05Z")
IQ: Can we smell what you’re cooking? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/104 "2011-08-11T09:16:25Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I think it’s a fair win - I knew of the character (and his name, though I suppose the tricksy bit was knowing (or thinking) that “Mr” was his actual first name) and I’m by no means a Python fan. It was certainly guessable, if we’d done a better job or been luckier with the DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/105 "2011-08-11T10:55:50Z")
IQ: Did you parachute into Scotland during WW2, in an unauthorised attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with the UK? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/106 "2011-08-11T14:40:24Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you named after the doctor who delivered you when you were born on a train in Panama? Dunno. Ask a DQ. > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Can we smell what you’re cooking? No, I’m not Randy the Macho Man. > [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > IQ: Did you parachute into Scotland during WW2, in an unauthorised attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with the UK? No, I’m not Rudolf Hess. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/107 "2011-08-11T16:24:12Z")
IQ: Were you inspiration for the poem Ozymandias? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/108 "2011-08-11T17:09:44Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > IQ: Were you inspiration for the poem Ozymandias? I thought that was Tutankamen? Dunno, then. Ask your DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/109 "2011-08-11T18:33:27Z")
On the right track, it was Rameses II. Tutankamen died before he could achieve anything. DQ: Are you European? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/110 "2011-08-11T19:22:20Z")
Do you refer to your better half as “She WHo Must Be Obeyed”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/111 "2011-08-11T19:23:21Z")
Did you have your sister interred while she was still alive? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/112 "2011-08-11T19:24:29Z")
Of all pitchers with 20 or more career decisions against the New York Yankees, do you have the highest winning percentage? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/113 "2011-08-11T20:11:42Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > …DQ: Are you European? 1. Dead 2. Not European > [@astorian](#): > > Do you refer to your better half as “She WHo Must Be Obeyed”? No, I’m not Horace Rumpole. > [@astorian](#): > > Did you have your sister interred while she was still alive? No, I’m not… Romano Borgia? > [@astorian](#): > > Of all pitchers with 20 or more career decisions against the New York Yankees, do you have the highest winning percentage? You got me there. Ask a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/114 "2011-08-11T20:15:52Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ: Can we smell what you’re cooking? > No, I’m not Randy the Macho Man. Sorry, the correct answer was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. DQ: Are you real or fictional? IQ: Are you a crazed Vietnam Vet who became the symbol of our military policy? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/115 "2011-08-11T20:40:21Z")
The guy who buried his sister alive was Roderick Usher, from Edgar Allan Poe’s “Fall of the House of User.” And… before he became an outfielder for the Yankees, Babe Ruth was a stellar pitcher for the Red Sox. And he OWNED the Yankees. DQ1: Does your last name start with “R”? DQ2: Are you a fictional 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:** [August 11, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/116 "2011-08-11T23:44:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > …DQ: Are you real or fictional? > > IQ: Are you a crazed Vietnam Vet who became the symbol of our military policy? No, I’m not John Rambo. Or Ron Kovic. 😃 > [@astorian](#): > > …DQ1: Does your last name start with “R”? > > DQ2: Are you a fictional character? **Johnny Q** had just asked if this person is real, so ask another DQ if you wish. 1. Dead 2. Not European 3. Real 4. First name starts with “R” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/117 "2011-08-12T00:01:27Z")
IQ: Were you the head general in an insurrection against the United States? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/118 "2011-08-12T00:22:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > IQ: Were you the head general in an insurrection against the United States? No, I’m not Robert E. Lee. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/119 "2011-08-12T03:51:29Z")
Okay, substitute DQ: Were you born in the 20th century? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030/120 "2011-08-12T03:56:15Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > IQ: Were you named after the doctor who delivered you when you were born on a train in Panama? Dr. Rodney Cline delivered Rodney Cline Carew, one of the great baseball hitters of all time. DQ: Are you a political figure? IQ: Were you the actor in a classic scene in which a woman asked you, “More cold duck for Smitty?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-aug-2011/591030.md?page=7)