# 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:** 16
**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 13, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/301 "2014-12-13T18:07:10Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a harpooner on the Pequod? 2. Were you governor of Syria in the 1st Century A.D.? 3. Are you a dragon that appeared in _The Giant Horse of Oz_? ---
**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 13, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/302 "2014-12-13T18:29:21Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Are you a male medical doctor on television? > IQ2: Are you microscopic, but fly around in a large-to-you ship that is still much smaller than your teammates? > IQ3: Are you a mayor? Ooh, have I started a fictional trend? 🙂 Correct on 1 and 3, IQ2 was the Legionnaire Quislet. Holding 2 DQs. IQ1: Did you tilt at windmills? IQ2: Did you appear in an early JLA/JSA crossover as an antagonist? IQ3: Did you and an Indian friend go on adventures with your father? ---
**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 13, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/303 "2014-12-13T18:47:11Z")
Previous IQs: Did you help James Bond in Jamaica? - Quarrel, in _Dr. No_. Are you Joker’s curvy sidekick? - Yes, Harley Quinn. Did you produce cop shows in the Sixties and Seventies? - Quinn Martin. DQs: First appeared since 1964? American? IQs: Are you the pen name of several mystery writers? Are you the best-known fictional survivor of the loss of the USS _Indianapolis_? Were you Dr. Beverly Crusher’s aged mentor? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/304 "2014-12-13T18:49:25Z")
IQ1: Are you a former VP of the United States? IQ2: Are you an Italian poet who shares part of your name with a bell-ringer? IQ3: Are you the most notable member of the Continuum? ---
**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 13, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/305 "2014-12-13T18:50:32Z")
Welcome back, guylevesque! ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/306 "2014-12-13T20:01:50Z")
DQ roundup 1. Fictional 2. Last name starts with Q 3. Male 4. Best known from a movie or TV 5. First appeared since 1964 6. American ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/307 "2014-12-13T20:02:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a harpooner on the Pequod? > 2. Were you governor of Syria in the 1st Century A.D.? > 3. Are you a dragon that appeared in _The Giant Horse of Oz_? Not Queequeg, DQ x2 ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/308 "2014-12-13T20:04:27Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you tilt at windmills? > IQ2: Did you appear in an early JLA/JSA crossover as an antagonist? > IQ3: Did you and an Indian friend go on adventures with your father? not Don Quixote, DQ, not Johnny Quest ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/309 "2014-12-13T20:06:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Are you the pen name of several mystery writers? > Are you the best-known fictional survivor of the loss of the USS _Indianapolis_? > Were you Dr. Beverly Crusher’s aged mentor? Not Ellery Queen, 2 DQs ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/310 "2014-12-13T20:09:44Z")
> [@guylevesque](#): > > IQ1: Are you a former VP of the United States? > IQ2: Are you an Italian poet who shares part of your name with a bell-ringer? > IQ3: Are you the most notable member of the Continuum? not John Quincy Adams(?), not Quasimodo, not Q ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/311 "2014-12-13T20:11:26Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you tilt at windmills? > IQ2: Did you appear in an early JLA/JSA crossover as an antagonist? > IQ3: Did you and an Indian friend go on adventures with your father? Correct on 1 and 3, the answer for 2 was Johnny Quick from Earth 3. DQ1: Best known from a movie? DQ2: From a science fiction or fantasy genre? Holding one 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 13, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/312 "2014-12-13T20:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a harpooner on the Pequod? > 2. Were you governor of Syria in the 1st Century A.D.? > 3. Are you a dragon that appeared in The Giant Horse of Oz? > > Not Queequeg, DQ x2 1. Correct on #1. #2 was Quirinius. #3 was Quiberon. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/313 "2014-12-13T20:21:37Z")
IQ1: Did you send a child slave off to compete in a spectacle in which many of the participants die? IQ2: Do you run a bar? IQ3: Is your sister the Scarlet Witch? ---
**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 13, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/314 "2014-12-13T20:37:50Z")
IQs: 1. Are you aka Lana Lang? 2. Are you aka Zazzala? 3. Were you editor-in-chief of Marvel comics? ---
**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 13, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/315 "2014-12-13T21:53:56Z")
DQ roundup 1. Fictional 2. Last name starts with Q 3. Male 4. Best known from a movie or TV 5. First appeared since 1964 6. American 7. Best known from a movie 8. Science fiction/fantasy genre ---
**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 13, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/316 "2014-12-13T21:57:58Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you send a child slave off to compete in a spectacle in which many of the participants die? > IQ2: Do you run a bar? > IQ3: Is your sister the Scarlet Witch? 1. DQ 2. Be more specific. I can toss out a name and say it’s somebody who runs a bar where I live. 3. Not Quicksilver ---
**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 13, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/317 "2014-12-13T21:59:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka Lana Lang? > 2. Are you aka Zazzala? > 3. Were you editor-in-chief of Marvel comics? 1. She had an alias? DQ 2. DQ 3. Not Joe Quesada ---
**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 13, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/318 "2014-12-13T22:01:59Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka Lana Lang? > 2. Are you aka Zazzala? > 3. Were you editor-in-chief of Marvel comics? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 1. She had an alias? DQ > 2. DQ > 3. Not Joe Quesada 1. She was an honorary member of the Legion. She had a ring that let her change into various bugs. She called herself Insect Queen. Not her finest moment. 2. Queen Bee. Correct on 3. 4 DQs 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:** [December 13, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/319 "2014-12-13T22:03:24Z")
DQs: 1. From a movie made after 1990? 2. Protagonist? 3. From a sci-fi film? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 13, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/320 "2014-12-13T22:23:01Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you send a child slave off to compete in a spectacle in which many of the participants die? > IQ2: Do you run a bar? > IQ3: Is your sister the Scarlet Witch? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 1. DQ > 2. Be more specific. I can toss out a name and say it’s somebody who runs a bar where I live. > 3. Not Quicksilver 1 was Qui-Gon Jinn, in the worst of the Star Wars movies. Sending children into bloodsports is apparently a Jedi tradition. Okay, on 2: Do you run a bar on a television program? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153.md?page=17)