# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/161 "2014-12-09T00:08:40Z")
My letter is \*\* N \*\* and: 1: I am **real** 2: I am **male** 3: I am **dead** 4: I am **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:** [December 9, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/162 "2014-12-09T00:18:16Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Dickens’ novel? 2. Did you direct _3 Men and a Baby_? 3. Did you star in _The Producers_ on Broadway? ---
**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 9, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/163 "2014-12-09T01:00:40Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you one of the inventors of calculus? > IQ2: Did you write _The Integral Trees_? > IQ3: Did you open and operate the Leftorium? Correct on Newton and Flanders, the answer to question 2 was Larry Niven. DQ: Does your first name begin with the letter N? IQ1: Did your forces win at Trafalgar? IQ2: Did you write that God is dead? IQ3: Were you exiled to the isle of Elba? ---
**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 9, 2014, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/164 "2014-12-09T04:44:41Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you Olga, Tatiana, Alexei. and Maria’s father? > IQ2: Are you a kid with a robot pet? > IQ3: Did you play a kid with a robot pet? > [@fanganga](#): > > 1: pass > 2: I am not … Jimmy Neutron? > 3: pass Tsar Nicholas II. Correct on Jimmy Neutron. Noah Hathaway, who played the kid with the robot daggit on the original _Battlestar Galactica_. DQ1: European? DQ2: Died after 1800? IQ1: Did your death lead to a joke about non-floating material? IQ2: Were you the first president of Ghana? IQ3: Did you write about the psammead? ---
**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 9, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/165 "2014-12-09T05:13:20Z")
Previous IQs: Did a cartoonist joke about you having a cute little ladylike gun? - Nancy Reagan, in _Doonesbury_. Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner; his middle name is always used, so I think it’s fair play. Did you have to leave home at a young age, breaking the heart of your surrogate father? - Norbert the dragon, Hagrid’s pride and joy. Three DQs reserved. IQs: Did someone obviously based on you appear in _Gone Girl_? Did you promise “peace in our time”? Did you yearn for Daphne Moon? ---
**Author:** ![fanganga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fanganga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fanganga)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/166 "2014-12-09T10:05:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Dickens’ novel? > 2. Did you direct _3 Men and a Baby_? > 3. Did you star in _The Producers_ on Broadway? I am not Nicholas Nickleby pass pass > [@SCAdian](#): > > Tsar Nicholas II. > Correct on Jimmy Neutron. > Noah Hathaway, who played the kid with the robot daggit on the original _Battlestar Galactica_. > DQ1: European? > DQ2: Died after 1800? > IQ1: Did your death lead to a joke about non-floating material? > IQ2: Were you the first president of Ghana? > IQ3: Did you write about the psammead? Pass pass I am Not E S Nesbit. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Previous IQs: > > Did a cartoonist joke about you having a cute little ladylike gun? - Nancy Reagan, in _Doonesbury_. > Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner; his middle name is always used, so I think it’s fair play. > Did you have to leave home at a young age, breaking the heart of your surrogate father? - Norbert the dragon, Hagrid’s pride and joy. > > Three DQs reserved. > > IQs: > > Did someone obviously based on you appear in _Gone Girl_? > Did you promise “peace in our time”? > Did you yearn for Daphne Moon? I am not … Norma Jean Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe? I am not Neville Chamberlain I am not Niles Crane > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Correct on Newton and Flanders, the answer to question 2 was Larry Niven. > > DQ: Does your first name begin with the letter N? > > IQ1: Did your forces win at Trafalgar? > IQ2: Did you write that God is dead? > IQ3: Were you exiled to the isle of Elba? I am not Horatio Nelson I am not Napoleon Bonaparte but… I am Freidrich Neitzche! Congratulations, O Mighty Enchanter! ---
**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 9, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/167 "2014-12-09T14:56:23Z")
Good job, Tim! ---
**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 9, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/168 "2014-12-09T15:35:42Z")
Way to go, **Tim**! Previous IQs: Did someone obviously based on you appear in _Gone Girl_? - TV court commentator/continuously-outraged person Nancy Grace Did you promise “peace in our time”? - Yes, Neville Chamberlain Did you yearn for Daphne Moon? - Yes, Niles Crane on _Frasier_ ---
**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 9, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/169 "2014-12-09T17:36:24Z")
Thanks all! All my IQs were answered correctly, so… I am O. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/170 "2014-12-09T18:04:27Z")
IQ1: Do you _own_ a television network? IQ2: Did you write a famous collection of grecian/roman myths? IQ3: Should we look upon your works and despair? ---
**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 9, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/171 "2014-12-09T18:07:55Z")
IQ1: Are you a paralympic athlete recently tried for killing your girlfriend? IQ2: Did your suing the Marquis of Queensbury for libel backfire and lead to your arrest for gross indecency? IQ3: Are you known as the “Golden Boy” of boxing, having won 10 world titles in 6 different weight classes? ---
**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 9, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/172 "2014-12-09T19:34:02Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the title character of Ludovico Ariosto’s most famous work? 2. Do you make magic wands? 3. Did you hang around with Churchy la Femme? ---
**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 9, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/173 "2014-12-09T19:37:42Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > IQ1: Do you _own_ a television network? > IQ2: Did you write a famous collection of grecian/roman myths? > IQ3: Should we look upon your works and despair? Take DQs for the first two, I am not Ozymandias, king of kings. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a paralympic athlete recently tried for killing your girlfriend? > IQ2: Did your suing the Marquis of Queensbury for libel backfire and lead to your arrest for gross indecency? > IQ3: Are you known as the “Golden Boy” of boxing, having won 10 world titles in 6 different weight classes? I am not Oscar Pestorious(sp?) I’m not Oscar Wilde I’m not Oscar de la Hoya on the third, I’m guessing mostly because he’s the only Oscar boxer I know of. ---
**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 9, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/174 "2014-12-09T19:42:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the title character of Ludovico Ariosto’s most famous work? > 2. Do you make magic wands? > 3. Did you hang around with Churchy la Femme? Ugh, I’m drawing a blank on this, and I feel like I should recognize the third. Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/175 "2014-12-09T19:42:38Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Take DQs for the first two, I am not Ozymandias, king of kings. The first was Oprah Winfrey who runs OWN and the second was Ovid, who wrote The Metamorphoses. DQ1: Are you real DQ2: Are you male? ---
**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 9, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/176 "2014-12-09T19:50:59Z")
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? ---
**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 9, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/177 "2014-12-09T21:57:08Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the title character of Ludovico Ariosto’s most famous work? > 2. Do you make magic wands? > 3. Did you hang around with Churchy la Femme? > > Ugh, I’m drawing a blank on this, and I feel like I should recognize the third. > > Take 3 DQs. #1 was Orlando, from _Orlando Furioso_. #2 was Ollivander from the Harry Potter books. #3 was Howland Owl from the _Pogo_ comic strip. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 9, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/178 "2014-12-09T22:18:07Z")
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? ---
**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, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/179 "2014-12-10T00:44:48Z")
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? ---
**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, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2014/706153/180 "2014-12-10T02:31:42Z")
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