# Botticelli - December 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446 "2015-12-04T19:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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 12, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/81 "2015-12-12T16:37:11Z")
OK, the next letter in line is C! ---
**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 12, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/82 "2015-12-12T17:05:43Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Debbie Reynolds’s daughter? 2. Are you a captain of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch? 3. Are you aka Condo Arlik of Phlon? ---
**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 12, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/83 "2015-12-12T18:24:13Z")
IQs: Were you Simon Kerslake’s key rival? Did you record “letters” home to your sister in Boston? Were you an imposing early president of Oberlin College? ---
**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 12, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/84 "2015-12-12T19:18:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Debbie Reynolds’s daughter? > 2. Are you a captain of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch? > 3. Are you aka Condo Arlik of Phlon? not Carrie Fischer, not Captain Carrot, DQ ---
**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 12, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/85 "2015-12-12T19:21:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Simon Kerslake’s key rival? > Did you record “letters” home to your sister in Boston? > Were you an imposing early president of Oberlin College? DQ, not Charles Emerson Winchester III, 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 12, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/86 "2015-12-12T19:42:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Carrie Fischer, not Captain Carrot, DQ Correct on Ms. Fisher and the Carrot. #3 is Chemical King. DQ: Real? ---
**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 12, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/87 "2015-12-12T21:20:27Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional ---
**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 12, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/88 "2015-12-12T22:00:51Z")
IQs: 1. Are you also known as Kris Kringle? 2. Are you the first vampire most American children hear about? 3. Did Aegisthus take you as a lover while your husband was away at the war? ---
**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 13, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/89 "2015-12-13T00:23:59Z")
IQ1: Were you the second captain of NCC-1701? IQ2: Are you the fifth Baron Haden-Guest? IQ3: Did you play an Austrian naval officer, a German army officer, and a British field marshal? ---
**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, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/90 "2015-12-13T03:12:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you also known as Kris Kringle? > 2. Are you the first vampire most American children hear about? > 3. Did Aegisthus take you as a lover while your husband was away at the war? not Santa Claus, not Count Chocula or the Count from Sesame Street, not Clytemnestra? ---
**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, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/91 "2015-12-13T03:13:59Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the second captain of NCC-1701? > IQ2: Are you the fifth Baron Haden-Guest? > IQ3: Did you play an Austrian naval officer, a German army officer, and a British field marshal? not Christopher Pike, not Prince Charles?, not Christoph Waltz? ---
**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 13, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/92 "2015-12-13T06:33:42Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the second captain of NCC-1701? > IQ2: Are you the fifth Baron Haden-Guest? > IQ3: Did you play an Austrian naval officer, a German army officer, and a British field marshal? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Christopher Pike, not Prince Charles?, not Christoph Waltz? Correct. Christopher Guest. Christopher Plummer (_The Sound of Music_, _The Night of the Generals_, and _Waterloo_). DQ1: Male? DQ2: 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:** [December 13, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/93 "2015-12-13T13:07:42Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not from prose fiction ---
**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 13, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/94 "2015-12-13T13:12:53Z")
IQ1: Are you also called Tarzan? IQ2: Were you the best swordsman on two planets? IQ3: Did you travel to Amtor and become Tanjong of Korva? ---
**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, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/95 "2015-12-13T14:59:36Z")
Correct on all three. (I had in mind Count Count from Sesame Street.) IQs: 1. Were you one of Jesus’s 12 apostles? 2. Did you play Capt. Hook on Broadway opposite Mary Martin? 3. Are you the fat kid on South Park? ---
**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, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/96 "2015-12-13T19:50:46Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you also called Tarzan? > IQ2: Were you the best swordsman on two planets? > IQ3: Did you travel to Amtor and become Tanjong of Korva? forgot his name, not John Carter, DQ ---
**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, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/97 "2015-12-13T19:53:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. (I had in mind Count Count from Sesame Street.) > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of Jesus’s 12 apostles? > 2. Did you play Capt. Hook on Broadway opposite Mary Martin? > 3. Are you the fat kid on South Park? DQ, DQ, not Eric Cartman ---
**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 13, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/98 "2015-12-13T19:59:25Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you also called Tarzan? > IQ2: Were you the best swordsman on two planets? > IQ3: Did you travel to Amtor and become Tanjong of Korva? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > forgot his name, not John Carter, DQ John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke. Correct. Carson Napier, aka Carson of Venus. Edgar Rice Burroughs x3! DQ: Last name begins with C? One DQ 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, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/99 "2015-12-13T20:12:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Correct on all three. (I had in mind Count Count from Sesame Street.) > > IQs: > > 1. Were you one of Jesus’s 12 apostles? > 2. Did you play Capt. Hook on Broadway opposite Mary Martin? > 3. Are you the fat kid on South Park? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, DQ, not Eric Cartman #1 was Cephas, also known as Simon and Peter. #2 was Cyril Ritchard. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. From film? 2. Protagonist? ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446/100 "2015-12-14T02:14:09Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Simon Kerslake’s key rival? - Charles Seymour in Jeffrey Archer’s _First Among Equals_. Did you record “letters” home to your sister in Boston? - Yes, Charles Emerson Winchester on _M_A_S_H\*. Were you an imposing early president of Oberlin College? - Charles Grandison Finney. Charles x3! DQs: American? Would be alive today, if real? IQs: Is this an alternative name of the new Pope in _The Shoes of the Fisherman_? Were you a hero of Little Round Top? Are you the dweeb accountant on _Archer_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2015/739446.md?page=6)