# Botticelli - August 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 1, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593 "2017-08-01T20:00:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/361 "2017-08-29T22:47:15Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/362 "2017-08-29T22:48:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was perhaps your one redeeming feature your refusal to respect segregation laws? > Were you that person’s wife? > Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland slacker pals in his sitcom? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/363 "2017-08-29T22:53:33Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you associate with William Walker (formerly LT Walker, USCG)? > IQ2: Are Rigel and Betelgeuse associated with you? > IQ3: Were a pair of moons named after you and your royal spouse? 1. I am not Orion. 2. I am not Oberon. Take a DQ for #1. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/364 "2017-08-29T22:59:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you associate with William Walker (formerly LT Walker, USCG)? > IQ2: Are Rigel and Betelgeuse associated with you? > IQ3: Were a pair of moons named after you and your royal spouse? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Orion. > 2. I am not Oberon. > Take a DQ for #1. Odysseus (using the Mycenaean spelling, Odikweos), in S M Stirling’s Nantucket trilogy. Correct. Correct. DQ: Created after 1900? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/365 "2017-08-29T23:01:56Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Created before 1900 ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/366 "2017-08-30T13:29:31Z")
IQ1: Do many of your films focus on controversial American political and cultural issues and conspiracies during the late 20th century and early 21st century? IQ2: Are you the 1st Lord Protector of the UK, nicknamed “Old Ironsides”? IQ3: Did Fawn Hall destroy your documents? ---
**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 30, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/367 "2017-08-30T15:03:10Z")
Previous IQs: Was perhaps your one redeeming feature your refusal to respect segregation laws? - Lee Harvey Oswald would make it a point to sit in the back of the bus in New Orleans Were you that person’s wife? - Marina Oswald Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland slacker pals in his sitcom? - Oswald Oswald x3! DQs: European? Considered a “good guy”? Appeared in more than one work? IQs: Did you politely ask for more gruel? Did Tilda Swinton play you early in her career? Were you “the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/368 "2017-08-30T15:23:08Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Created before 1900 5. European 6. Considered a good guy 7. Only appeared in one work ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/369 "2017-08-30T15:24:15Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Do many of your films focus on controversial American political and cultural issues and conspiracies during the late 20th century and early 21st century? > IQ2: Are you the 1st Lord Protector of the UK, nicknamed “Old Ironsides”? > IQ3: Did Fawn Hall destroy your documents? 1. I am not Oliver Stone. 2. I am not Oliver Cromwell. 3. I am not Oliver North. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/370 "2017-08-30T15:26:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you politely ask for more gruel? > Did Tilda Swinton play you early in her career? > Were you “the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”? 1. I am not Oliver Twist. 2. I am not Virginia Woolf’s gender-shifting Orlando. 3. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ---
**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 30, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/371 "2017-08-30T16:04:37Z")
Swept 'em! Good job. IQs: Did you help train Cal Rodgers for his eventual feat? Did you write that “in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire”? Did you own a yacht named the _Sperm_? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/372 "2017-08-30T16:20:10Z")
IQ1: Did you compose _The Infernal Galop_, which popularized the can-can dance? IQ2: Are you an accident-prone German conductor who had to sit down during performances because you tried to put out a bed fire with camphor? IQ3: Are you credited with unifying Germany in the 19th century? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/373 "2017-08-30T18:16:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Swept 'em! Good job. > > IQs: > > Did you help train Cal Rodgers for his eventual feat? > Did you write that “in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire”? > Did you own a yacht named the _Sperm_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/374 "2017-08-30T18:17:20Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you compose _The Infernal Galop_, which popularized the can-can dance? > IQ2: Are you an accident-prone German conductor who had to sit down during performances because you tried to put out a bed fire with camphor? > IQ3: Are you credited with unifying Germany in the 19th century? 1. I am not Offenbach. Take a DQ for #2. 2. I am not Otto von Bismarck. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/375 "2017-08-30T19:22:26Z")
#2 is [Otto Klemperer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klemperer#His_EMI_period), who is also the father of Hogan’s Heroes actor Werner Klemperer. DQ: Originally from prose fiction? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/376 "2017-08-30T19:41:42Z")
IQ1: Are you currently the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history? IQ2: Were you recently criticized for not opening your church’s doors to flood victims in Texas? IQ3: Were you frequently the grand marshal of Valparaiso Indiana’s Popcorn Parade? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/377 "2017-08-30T20:31:16Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not American 4. Created before 1900 5. European 6. Considered a good guy 7. Only appeared in one work 8. From a play Do plays count as prose, or is drama a separate area? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/378 "2017-08-30T20:32:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you currently the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history? > IQ2: Were you recently criticized for not opening your church’s doors to flood victims in Texas? > IQ3: Were you frequently the grand marshal of Valparaiso Indiana’s Popcorn Parade? 1. I am not Orrin Hatch. 2. I am not Joel Osteen. Take a DQ for #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:** [August 30, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/379 "2017-08-30T20:59:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …Do plays count as prose, or is drama a separate area? Separate, I’d say. Prose, to me, is novels and short stories; drama (or more broadly, the theater) is just the opposite of comedy. Plays are part of the theater. Previous IQs: Did you help train Cal Rodgers for his eventual feat? - Orville Wright, before Rodgers became the first to fly across America “crash by crash” Did you write that “in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., discussing his generation’s Civil War service Did you own a yacht named the _Sperm_? - Uncle Oswald in the Roald Dahl stories DQs: British? Written by a Brit? First name start with O? IQs: Did you long feud with your sister, another actress? Were you an early female member of the U.S. Cabinet? Were you an animal who wanted to be another kind of animal? ---
**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:** [August 30, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2017/792593/380 "2017-08-30T21:11:17Z")
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