# Botticelli - December 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 5, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134 "2023-12-05T13:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 22, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/201 "2023-12-22T23:01:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an actor who also studied under Sigmund Freud? > 2. Were you a TV producer who was also the voice of Carlton the Doorman? > 3. Have you played a demon clown, a drag queen and a French artist? #1 was Peter Lorre. #2 was Lorenzo Music. #3 was John Leguizamo (in Spawn; To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, and Moulin Rouge). 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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 23, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/202 "2023-12-23T04:27:59Z")
IQs: 1. Did you co-found Google? 2. Were you a felicitous gangster? 3. Did you appear with Penn & Teller in “Barbecue Death Squad from Hell”? ---
**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 23, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/203 "2023-12-23T21:26:07Z")
Not Larry Whatshisname; dunno x2. L. 1. fictional 2. holiday-related 3. male ---
**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 23, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/204 "2023-12-23T21:41:07Z")
DQs: 1. From TV or movies? 2. Created after 1970? 3. First name starts with L? ---
**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 23, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/205 "2023-12-23T21:43:16Z")
IQs: 1. Didst thou slay Hamlet? 2. Are you renowned for your boomerang fish act? 3. Did you write _Happy Xmas (War Is Over)_? ---
**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 23, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/206 "2023-12-23T22:11:52Z")
Not Laertes this time either, dunno, and not John Lennon. L. 1. fictional 2. holiday-related 3. male 4. from TV or movies 5. created after 1970 6. last name starts with L ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/207 "2023-12-23T23:23:43Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you co-found Google? > 2. Were you a felicitous gangster? > 3. Did you appear with Penn & Teller in “Barbecue Death Squad from Hell”? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Larry Whatshisname; dunno x2. 1 was Larry Page (and you got the “L” name right, so I believe it counts); 2 was “Lucky” Luciano; 3 was Lydia Lunch. DQs: 1. from movies? 2. created before 1990? ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/208 "2023-12-24T00:24:56Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > Congrats! > > IQs: > > 1. Did you co-write the Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries with your wife? > 2. Did you write, among other books, **Day of the Drones**? > 3. Did you write, among other books **Drinking Sapphire Wine**? Richard Lockridge, A. M. Lightner, Tanith Lee. 3 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 24, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/209 "2023-12-24T15:54:11Z")
Correct on Laertes and Lennon/ Lew Zealand (third-tier Muppet) has the boomerang fish act. 1 DQ reserved. IQs: 1. Are you Rudolph’s country cousin, a redneck reindeer? 2. Did you play Catwoman in the 1960’s Batman movie? 3. Did you create the characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/210 "2023-12-24T17:22:42Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a porn actress who later claimed your then-husband forced you to perform at gunpoint at times, calling your most famous move “the film of my rape?” 2. Did you play a struggling divorced single mom who worked as a waitress in a diner, alongside a ditz and a sassy redheaded Texan? 3. Are people often surprised to hear that in complete contrast to your most famous role as a military doctor, you were actually a kind, generous, and friendly man? ---
**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 24, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/211 "2023-12-24T17:29:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you run against Ginny in _Doonesbury_? 2. Did a character in _The Lone Gunmen_ use a name that was an anagram of yours? 3. Speaking of _Lone_ things, did you do the comedy bit-turned-animated-short “Thank You Mask Man”? ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/212 "2023-12-24T20:42:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Are you Rudolph’s country cousin, a redneck reindeer? > 2. Did you play Catwoman in the 1960’s Batman movie? > 3. Did you create the characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser? Not Larry, Lee Meriwether or Fritz Leiber. ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/213 "2023-12-24T20:44:01Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a porn actress who later claimed your then-husband forced you to perform at gunpoint at times, calling your most famous move “the film of my rape?” > > 2. Did you play a struggling divorced single mom who worked as a waitress in a diner, alongside a ditz and a sassy redheaded Texan? > > 3. Are people often surprised to hear that in complete contrast to your most famous role as a military doctor, you were actually a kind, generous, and friendly man? Not Linda Lovelace, Linda Lavin or Larry Linville. LL x3! ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/214 "2023-12-24T20:47:01Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you run against Ginny in _Doonesbury_? > 2. Did a character in _The Lone Gunmen_ use a name that was an anagram of yours? > 3. Speaking of _Lone_ things, did you do the comedy bit-turned-animated-short “Thank You Mask Man”? Not Leroy, not Lee Harvey Oswald and dunno. ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/215 "2023-12-24T20:47:55Z")
L. 1. fictional 2. holiday-related 3. male 4. from TV or movies 5. created after 1970 6. last name starts with L 7. from movies 8. created after 1990 ---
**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 24, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/216 "2023-12-24T20:59:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Leroy, not Lee Harvey Oswald and dunno. 1 was Lacey Davenport; 3 was Lenny Bruce. DQs: 1. from a live-action movie? 2. main character? ---
**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 24, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/217 "2023-12-24T22:17:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you Rudolph’s country cousin, a redneck reindeer? > > 2. Did you play Catwoman in the 1960’s Batman movie? > > 3. Did you create the characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser? > > Not Larry, Lee Meriwether or Fritz Leiber. #1 was Leroy, the Redneck Reindeer. The others are correct. 2 DQs reserved. Merry Christmas! ---
**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 24, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/218 "2023-12-24T23:52:31Z")
To you and any other Dopers who celebrate it, as well! 😌❄🎁🎶🎄🎅 L. 1. fictional 2. holiday-related 3. male 4. from TV or movies 5. created after 1970 6. last name starts with L 7. from movies 8. created after 1990 9. from a live-action movie 10. a significant but not main character YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/219 "2023-12-25T04:25:20Z")
DQs: 1. Caucasian? 2. From a comedy? One DQ reserved. Merry Christmas! ---
**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 25, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/220 "2023-12-25T14:25:36Z")
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