# Botticelli - Dec 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225 "2020-12-04T19:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/381 "2020-12-20T16:47:21Z")
Congrats, Prof.! IQs: 1. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_ and were part of the Rock Bottom Remainders? 2. Did you have a sign on your desk that said “The buck stops here”? 3. Did Nancy Reagan pose for a picture on your lap, with you dressed as Santa Claus? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/382 "2020-12-20T16:50:36Z")
IQ1: Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? IQ2: Are you an Alabama senator who used to coach the Auburn Tigers? IQ3: Are you the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy while playing at the University of Florida? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/383 "2020-12-20T17:09:06Z")
IQ1: Did a woman die in your car when you drove off a Massachusetts bridge? IQ2: Were you and your son awarded posthumous Medals of Honor over fifty years apart? IQ3: Were you a real-life murderous maths professor who figured in S M Stirling’s “Emberverse” series? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/384 "2020-12-20T18:19:27Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > IQs > > 1. Were you a cartoonist and short story writer, who often characterized men as being fairly ineffectual? > 2. Did you write _The Snob Papers_ ? > 3. Is your archnemesis a 10 year old boy? Take 3 DQs. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write _The Joy Luck Club_ and were part of the Rock Bottom Remainders? > 2. Did you have a sign on your desk that said “The buck stops here”? > 3. Did Nancy Reagan pose for a picture on your lap, with you dressed as Santa Claus? I am not Amy Tan. I am not Harry S Truman. Take a DQ for #3. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? > IQ2: Are you an Alabama senator who used to coach the Auburn Tigers? > IQ3: Are you the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy while playing at the University of Florida? > > I am not Tess Trueheart Tracy. Take 2 DQs. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did a woman die in your car when you drove off a Massachusetts bridge? > IQ2: Were you and your son awarded posthumous Medals of Honor over fifty years apart? > IQ3: Were you a real-life murderous maths professor who figured in S M Stirling’s “Emberverse” series? I am not Ted Kennedy. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/385 "2020-12-20T19:03:24Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Did a woman die in your car when you drove off a Massachusetts bridge? > > > > > IQ2: Were you and your son awarded posthumous Medals of Honor over fifty years apart? > > > IQ3: Were you a real-life murderous maths professor who figured in S M Stirling’s “Emberverse” series? > > I am not Ted Kennedy. > Take 2 DQs. ✅ Teddy Roosevelt. TR Jr 2001 (San Juan Hill), TR III 1944 (D-Day) Ted Kaczynski. Ted(dy) x3! DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/386 "2020-12-20T19:10:37Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/387 "2020-12-20T19:15:13Z")
IQ1: Did you co-write a song inspired by a neon sign? IQ2: Were you noted for cartoons of girls and ponies? IQ3: Were you really Josip Broz? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/388 "2020-12-20T19:23:13Z")
Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/389 "2020-12-20T19:28:08Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you co-write a song inspired by a neon sign? > IQ2: Were you noted for cartoons of girls and ponies? > IQ3: Were you really Josip Broz? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Tommy James (“Mony Mony”). Norman Thelwell. Tito. DQ1: Originally from prose fiction? DQ2: American creator(s)? DQ3: First appeared in or after 1950? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/390 "2020-12-20T20:28:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@MissTake](#): > > > > > 1. Were you a cartoonist and short story writer, who often characterized men as being fairly ineffectual? > > > 2. Did you write _The Snob Papers_ ? > > > 3. Is your archnemesis a 10 year old boy? > > Take 3 DQs. James Thurber, William Makepeace Thackeray, Robert Terwilliger (aka Sideshow Bob) DQs Last name begin with T? Protagonist? If real, would they be alive today? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/391 "2020-12-20T22:18:43Z")
IQ1: Are you a fictional rock star, patterned on Joan Jett, that appeared in the comic strip _Bloom County_? IQ2: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? IQ3: Do you live in a moai at 122 Conch Street? ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/392 "2020-12-20T23:42:26Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originally from prose fiction 4. Not an American creator 5. First appeared before 1950 6. First name begins with T 7. Secondary character 8. If real, he would be dead now ---
**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:** [December 20, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/393 "2020-12-20T23:43:22Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you a fictional rock star, patterned on Joan Jett, that appeared in the comic strip _Bloom County_ ? > IQ2: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? > IQ3: Do you live in a moai at 122 Conch Street? And me a big fan of Opus & Co.: Take a DQ. I am not the freaky falsetto Tiny Tim. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/394 "2020-12-21T00:09:35Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Amy Tan. > I am not Harry S Truman. > Take a DQ for #3. 3 (dressed as Santa for photo with Nancy Reagan) was Mr. T. DQ: created before 1900? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/395 "2020-12-21T00:29:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > IQ1: Are you a fictional rock star, patterned on Joan Jett, that appeared in the comic strip _Bloom County_ ? > > > IQ2: Did you tiptoe through the tulips? > > > IQ3: Do you live in a moai at 122 Conch Street? > > And me a big fan of Opus & Co.: Take a DQ. > I am not the freaky falsetto Tiny Tim. > Take a DQ for #3. Tess Turbo of Tess Turbo and the Blackheads. Played a [benefit concert](https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1983/11/03) for the Meadow Party and later burned off all of Steve Dallas’ chest hair while shooting a music video. Yes Squidward Tentacles DQ: European creator? Holding the second DQ for now. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/396 "2020-12-21T02:05:29Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:392, topic:927225, full:true”] DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originally from prose fiction 4. Not an American creator 5. First appeared before 1950 6. First name begins with T 7. Secondary character 8. If real, he would be dead now 9. Created before 1900 10. European creator ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/397 "2020-12-21T02:56:43Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you Dick Tracy’s wife? > IQ2: Are you an Alabama senator who used to coach the Auburn Tigers? > IQ3: Are you the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy while playing at the University of Florida? > > I am not Tess Trueheart Tracy. Take 2 DQs. correct, Tommy Turberville, Tim Tebow TT x 3! DQ: Created before 1800? holding a DQ ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/398 "2020-12-21T03:12:04Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Originally from prose fiction 4. Not an American creator 5. First appeared before 1950 6. First name begins with T 7. Secondary character 8. If real, he would be dead now 9. Created before 1900 10. European creator 11. Created after 1800 ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/399 "2020-12-21T04:02:13Z")
Second DQ: Prose work originally written in English? ---
**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:** [December 21, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-dec-2020/927225/400 "2020-12-21T13:33:40Z")
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