# Botticelli - December 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153 "2014-12-02T19:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/181 "2014-12-10T02:37:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > OK big brain, I’m going to have to make these harder. 🙂 > > IQ1: Are you a professional wrestler who died after falling from the rafters in a 1999 event? > IQ2: Are you an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering anti-protons? > IQ3: Are you a Supreme Court Judge for whom a commission was named that investigated US Military Action during the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Plan accomplished, take DQs for 1 and 3! I am not Robert Oppenheimer. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Steve Austin’s boss? > Did you keep the Fanucci Bros. tailors waiting? > Did you jest with a U.S. Customs officer upon your arrival? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/182 "2014-12-10T03:09:15Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a real person who was born without an O-name, yet adopted one under which you did your best-known work? > IQ2: Did you marry into an O-name on your second marriage? > IQ3: Are you a fictional character who was born without the letter O in your name and adopted an O-name for your work? Interestingly vague questions. IQ1: I am not Michelle Obama Take DQs for the second two, I feel like I should be able to figure one out for IQ3 but I’ve spent enough time pondering. ---
**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 10, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/183 "2014-12-10T05:05:09Z")
IQ1: Did you and Dan Seals sing “Meet Me in Montana”? IQ2: Did you kill J D Tippit? IQ3: Are you the protagonist of an erotic novel? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/184 "2014-12-10T07:09:34Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you and Dan Seals sing “Meet Me in Montana”? > IQ2: Did you kill J D Tippit? > IQ3: Are you the protagonist of an erotic novel? Take two DQs, I am not O from _The Story of O_ ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/185 "2014-12-10T09:00:16Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a real person who was born without an O-name, yet adopted one under which you did your best-known work? > IQ2: Did you marry into an O-name on your second marriage? > IQ3: Are you a fictional character who was born without the letter O in your name and adopted an O-name for your work? Michelle Obama isn’t who I was thinking of, but I’ll grant that answer. Jackie Onassis (formerly Kennedy) Ozymandias from Watchmen, born Adrian Veidt. DQ1: Are you originally a character from literature? DQ2: Are you from a work of science fiction or fantasy? IQ1: Are you a male writer who was born without an O-name, yet adopted one under which you did your best-known work? IQ2: Are you the Green Arrow? IQ3: Were you taught that you’ve “Gotta pick a pocket or two”? ---
**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 10, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/186 "2014-12-10T12:13:14Z")
DQ: Protagonist? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 10, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/187 "2014-12-10T13:17:39Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a professional wrestler who died after falling from the rafters in a 1999 event? > IQ2: Are you an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering anti-protons? > IQ3: Are you a Supreme Court Judge for whom a commission was named that investigated US Military Action during the bombing of Pearl Harbor? > > Plan accomplished, take DQs for 1 and 3! > I am not Robert Oppenheimer. Owen Hart, Owen Chamberlain, Owen Roberts holding 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:** [December 10, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/188 "2014-12-10T13:24:25Z")
DQ: Last name starts with O? 1 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:** [December 10, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/189 "2014-12-10T14:34:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you and Dan Seals sing “Meet Me in Montana”? > IQ2: Did you kill J D Tippit? > IQ3: Are you the protagonist of an erotic novel? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Take two DQs, I am not O from _The Story of O_ Marie Osmond. Lee Harvey Oswald. Correct on O. Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Does your epithet derive from your somewhat misanthropic nature? IQ2: Did you have a secretary named Fawn? IQ3: Did you write _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/190 "2014-12-10T15:48:01Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a male writer who was born without an O-name, yet adopted one under which you did your best-known work? > IQ2: Are you the Green Arrow? > IQ3: Were you taught that you’ve “Gotta pick a pocket or two”? Take a DQ on 1, unless this is an Oliver sweep and it happens to be Oliver Wendell Holmes? I’m not Oliver Queen I’m not Oliver Twist > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Does your epithet derive from your somewhat misanthropic nature? > IQ2: Did you have a secretary named Fawn? > IQ3: Did you write _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/191 "2014-12-10T15:55:07Z")
I am O and: 1. Not Real 2. Male 3. Originally from literature 4. Not from science fiction or fantasy 5. Not a protagonist in the vast majority of the works I’m in and known for 6. Last name starts with O ---
**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 10, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/192 "2014-12-10T17:09:56Z")
DQ: Crime/Mystery genre? 2 DQs left ---
**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:** [December 10, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/193 "2014-12-10T17:24:11Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Steve Austin’s boss? - Oscar Goldman, on _The Six Million Dollar Man_. Did you keep the Fanucci Bros. tailors waiting? - Sylvester Stallone in the title role of the Mob comedy _Oscar_. Did you jest with a U.S. Customs officer upon your arrival? - Oscar Wilde, asked if he had anything to declare, famously said, “Only my genius!” Three Oscars! Woohoo! DQs: American character? First appear since 1964? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Did your recorded dialogue arrive too late for inclusion in an Alan Parsons Project album? Were you Mork’s boss? In your first year in a prominent new job, did you make more from book sales than salary? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/194 "2014-12-10T17:30:49Z")
I am O and: 1. Not Real 2. Male 3. Originally from literature 4. Not from science fiction or fantasy 5. Not a protagonist in the vast majority of the works I’m in and known for 6. Last name starts with O 7. Not from a crime or mystery genre ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/195 "2014-12-10T17:43:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > Were you Steve Austin’s boss? - Oscar Goldman, on _The Six Million Dollar Man_. > Did you keep the Fanucci Bros. tailors waiting? - Sylvester Stallone in the title role of the Mob comedy _Oscar_. > Did you jest with a U.S. Customs officer upon your arrival? - Oscar Wilde, asked if he had anything to declare, famously said, “Only my genius!” > > Three Oscars! Woohoo! Hmm… rules quibble, Knowed Out had already asked an Oscar Wilde question prior to your asking of question 3 (He asked “Did your suing the Marquis of Queensbury for libel backfire and lead to your arrest for gross indecency?”) Do you get a DQ in this situation? My impression was no. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/196 "2014-12-10T17:45:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did your recorded dialogue arrive too late for inclusion in an Alan Parsons Project album? > Were you Mork’s boss? > In your first year in a prominent new job, did you make more from book sales than salary? Take a DQ for the first; I’m not Orson I’m not Barack Obama, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/197 "2014-12-10T17:52:51Z")
> [@fanganga](#): > > IQ1: Are you a male writer who was born without an O-name, yet adopted one under which you did your best-known work? > IQ2: Are you the Green Arrow? > IQ3: Were you taught that you’ve “Gotta pick a pocket or two”? Oliver Wendell Holmes was born with that name, but **George Orwell** was born Eric Arthur Blair - It was he I was thinking of in my first set of “Birth-name is not an O-name but pen-name/married-name/superhero-name is”. As you said, Oliver Queen As you said, Oliver Twist ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/198 "2014-12-10T17:57:00Z")
I am O and: 1. Not Real 2. Male 3. Originally from literature 4. Not from science fiction or fantasy 5. Not a protagonist in the vast majority of the works I’m in and known for 6. Last name starts with O 7. Not from a crime or mystery genre 8. I am American (no footnote this time! 🙂 ) 9. My first appearance was published after 1964. 10. I am considered a “good guy”. ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/199 "2014-12-10T18:04:34Z")
DQ: Have you appeared in media other than literature? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/200 "2014-12-10T18:10:54Z")
I am O and: 1. Not Real 2. Male 3. Originally from literature 4. Not from science fiction or fantasy 5. Not a protagonist in the vast majority of the works I’m in and known for 6. Last name starts with O 7. Not from a crime or mystery genre 8. I am American 9. My first appearance was published after 1964 10. I am considered a “good guy” 11. I have appeared in media other than literature [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=11)