# Botticelli - December 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 4, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496 "2021-12-04T14:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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 25, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/181 "2021-12-25T21:20:55Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with S ---
**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 26, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/182 "2021-12-26T17:12:14Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a “mean old puddy-tat”? 2. Are you Snoopy’s brother who lives in a desert? 3. Did you play the wife in _McMillan & Wife_? ---
**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 26, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/183 "2021-12-26T19:52:00Z")
IQs: 1. Are the two (arguably) best-known characters you created\* currently in the highest-grossing movie of the year? 2. Are you one of those characters? 3. Was your memoir _Mi Mundo Adorado_/_My Beloved World_? \*although your much-less reclusive editor also claimed credit ---
**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 27, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/184 "2021-12-27T01:22:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a “mean old puddy-tat”? > 2. Are you Snoopy’s brother who lives in a desert? > 3. Did you play the wife in _McMillan & Wife_? Not Sylvester, Spike or Susan St. James. ---
**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 27, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/185 "2021-12-27T01:23:04Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are the two (arguably) best-known characters you created\* currently in the highest-grossing movie of the year? > 2. Are you one of those characters? > 3. Was your memoir _Mi Mundo Adorado_/_My Beloved World_? > > \*although your much-less reclusive editor also claimed credit Not Stan Lee, or Superman or Spiderman, and dunno. ---
**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 27, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/186 "2021-12-27T01:51:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Stan Lee, or Superman or Spiderman, and dunno. 1 was Steve Ditko; 2 was Spider-man or Dr. Strange; 3 was Sonia Sotomayor. Lee didn’t have an editor but was an editor, and also co-created characters arguably better-known than Dr. Strange, so I think it counts for being wrong. DQs: 1. created by an American or Americans? 2. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television? ---
**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 27, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/187 "2021-12-27T03:54:42Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with S 4. created by an American or Americans 5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television ---
**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 27, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/188 "2021-12-27T13:18:14Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Were you the fictional first king of Corinth who treated travelers badly, and was punished by the gods for it? 2. Are you the stock boasting coward character in the Italian commedia dell’arte? 3. Did James Marsters play you on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? ---
**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 27, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/189 "2021-12-27T15:53:09Z")
Not Sargon, Socello or Spike. ---
**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 27, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/190 "2021-12-27T17:10:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. you the fictional first king of Corinth who treated travelers badly, and was punished by the gods for it? > 2. Are you the stock boasting coward character in the Italian commedia dell’arte? > 3. Did James Marsters play you on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ ? #1 was Sisyphus. #2 is Scaramouche. Correct on #3. DQs: 1. Created after 1950? 2. Unusual first name? ---
**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 27, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/191 "2021-12-27T19:58:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _The Orchid Thief_? 2. Did you play a fictionalized version of the above person? 3. Did you lose an election to Rutherford B. Hayes? ---
**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 27, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/192 "2021-12-27T22:05:56Z")
Not Susan Orlean, Susan Sarandon or Samuel Tilden. ---
**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 27, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/193 "2021-12-27T22:07:01Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with S 4. created by an American or Americans 5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television 6. created before 1950 7. not an unusual first name ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/194 "2021-12-28T03:10:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Susan Orlean, Susan Sarandon or > Samuel Tilden. 2 was Meryl Streep. DQ: from film? ---
**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 28, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/195 "2021-12-28T04:26:52Z")
S. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name starts with S 4. created by an American or Americans 5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television 6. created before 1950 7. not an unusual first name 8. from film ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/196 "2021-12-28T15:05:57Z")
IQs: 1. Did Rick tell you to “Play it again” (or words to that effect)? 2. Did you play Janet in _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_? 3. Did John Lithgow play you on _Third Rock From The Sun_? ---
**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 28, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/197 "2021-12-28T15:54:27Z")
IQs: 1. Were your (alleged) last words about a chicken you owed as a debt? 2. Were you originally going to eat by feeding on energy through a plate in your stomach? 3. Were your three main puppets on a TV show a horse, a lamb, and a dog? ---
**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 29, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/198 "2021-12-29T01:35:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Rick tell you to “Play it again” (or words to that effect)? > 2. Did you play Janet in _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_? > 3. Did John Lithgow play you on _Third Rock From The Sun_? Not Sam from _Casablanca,_ still not Susan Sarandon and not Scott. ---
**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 29, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/199 "2021-12-29T01:36:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Were your (alleged) last words about a chicken you owed as a debt? > 2. Were you originally going to eat by feeding on energy through a plate in your stomach? > 3. Were your three main puppets on a TV show a horse, a lamb, and a dog? Dunno, dunno and not Shari Lewis. ---
**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 29, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496/200 "2021-12-29T02:49:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, dunno and not Shari Lewis. 1 was Socrates; 2 was Mr. Spock. Correct on Lewis. DQs: 1. movie is from after 1930? 2. main character? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2021/955496.md?page=11)