# 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:** 2
**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 8, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/21 "2023-12-08T16:29:12Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > DQs > > 1. Was your brother Eric a very popular singer in the '60s? > 2. For that matter, are you Eric as he is more commonly known? > 3. Were you the last Grand Duke of Finland? 1. DQ. 2. DQ. 3. I am not…Grand Duke Nicholas? I dunno, I’m just guessing. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Among other things, did you investigate and prosecute counterfeiters in your position as Master of the (UK) Royal Mint? > 2. Do you investigate stranger things with Steve, Jonathan, and Robin in Hawkins, Indiana? > 3. Did you write _1602_, reimagining familiar Marvel characters in the Elizabethan Era? 1. I am not the noted alchemist Isaac Newton, who was very concerned with finding the dimensions of the Temple in Israel, and also dabbled a bit in physics. 2. DQ. Nathaniel something? Just guessing, I’ve never seen _Stranger Things._ 3. DQ. ---
**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 8, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/22 "2023-12-08T17:12:34Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not the noted alchemist Isaac Newton, who was very concerned with finding the dimensions of the Temple in Israel, and also dabbled a bit in physics. > 2. DQ. Nathaniel something? Just guessing, I’ve never seen _Stranger Things._ > 3. DQ. 2 was Nancy; 3 was Neil Gaiman. DQs: 1. European? 2. died before 1900? ---
**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 8, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/23 "2023-12-08T17:29:08Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did your adventures in a fantasy land usually end in you falling out of bed? > > 2. Were you a laconic, deadpan monotone comic of the 30’s and 40’s? > > 3. Are you the short, fat, Welsh protagonist usually at the center of whatever story was taking place on the COVID-free, antihistamine-laden 1950’s BBC Radio series _The Good Show_? > > 1. I am not Nemo. > 2. Hmm. DQ. > 3. Another DQ. Correct. #2 was Ned Sparks. #3 was Neddy Seagoon. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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 8, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/24 "2023-12-08T17:52:39Z")
DQs: 1. Real. 2. Not living. 3. Male. 4. First name starts with “N”. 5. Not American. 6. Died before 1980. 7. European. 8. Died before 1900. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 2 was Nancy; 3 was Neil Gaiman. Wait, there’s a Neil Gaiman novel I’ve missed?! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/25 "2023-12-08T19:08:35Z")
IQ: 1. Did you try to sue twitter because of the bad things your mom and your cow said about you? 2. Are you a Russian mathematician whose main claim to fame is a song falsely accusing you of plagerism? 3. Did you stomp to bits a remote controlled car that was being sold by a street vendor as part of your method acting for playing an angry character? ---
**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 8, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/26 "2023-12-08T19:23:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did you divorce your parents in a 1994 Rob Reiner movie? 2. Are/were you a member of One Direction (given the band’s current hiatus)? 3. Are you a former queen of Jordan? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Wait, there’s a Neil Gaiman novel I’ve missed?! It came out in [2003](https://www.marvel.com/comics/series/489/1602_2003_-_2004). ---
**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 8, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/27 "2023-12-08T20:43:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. Did you try to sue twitter because of the bad things your mom and your cow said about you? > 2. Are you a Russian mathematician whose main claim to fame is a song falsely accusing you of plagerism? > 3. Did you stomp to bits a remote controlled car that was being sold by a street vendor as part of your method acting for playing an angry character? I. I am not Devin Nunes, nor am I his cow. 2. DQ. 3. DQ. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you divorce your parents in a 1994 Rob Reiner movie? > 2. Are/were you a member of One Direction (given the band’s current hiatus)? > 3. Are you a former queen of Jordan? I. DQ. 2. I am not…Nick Jonas? 3. I am not Queen Noor. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > Wait, there’s a Neil Gaiman novel I’ve missed?! > > It came out in [2003](https://www.marvel.com/comics/series/489/1602_2003_-_2004). Wait, there’s a Neil Gaiman novel that I’ve missed for _twenty years?!_ ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/28 "2023-12-08T21:18:58Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > IQ: > > > > 1. Did you try to sue twitter because of the bad things your mom and your cow said about you? > > 2. Are you a Russian mathematician whose main claim to fame is a song falsely accusing you of plagerism? > > 3. Did you stomp to bits a remote controlled car that was being sold by a street vendor as part of your method acting for playing an angry character? > > I. I am not Devin Nunes, nor am I his cow. > 2. DQ. > 3. DQ. 1. Correct 2. [Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjYirSH34CDAxUDnokEHam2A4gQtwJ6BAgMEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgXlfXirQF3A&usg=AOvVaw0ZXoIvXg-raNjjjrizlJUi&opi=89978449) 3. Nicholas Cage DQ: Known as a political/military leader? 1DQ 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 8, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/29 "2023-12-08T21:27:39Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > I. DQ. > 2. I am not…Nick Jonas? > 3. I am not Queen Noor. 1 (Reiner movie) was North; 2 (One Direction) was Niall Horan. DQs: 1. from the British Isles or Ireland? 2. died after 1700? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Wait, there’s a Neil Gaiman novel that I’ve missed for _twenty years?!_ Yo, did you read [his run on the Eternals](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Eternals_Vol_3)? ---
**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 8, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/30 "2023-12-08T22:09:57Z")
1. Real. 2. Not living. 3. Male. 4. First name starts with “N”. 5. Not American. 6. Died before 1980. 7. European. 8. Died before 1900. 9. Not known as a political/military leader. 10. Not from British Isles or Ireland. 11. Died before 1700. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/31 "2023-12-09T02:06:49Z")
DQ: Known primarily for academic work in arts and sciences (including philosophy, mathematics, history etc.) IQ: 1. Did the time bandits steal your prosthetic hand. 2. Were you a Canadian indigenous person and subject of one of the earliest motion picture documentaries. 3. DId you steal your dad’s Winnebago to escape with the woman you’ve been pining for for years before she got married to another 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 9, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/32 "2023-12-09T04:14:47Z")
IQs: 1. Were you Hagrid’s secretly-kept pet dragon? 2. Are you the former leader of UKIP? 3. Nwere you Lisa from Temecula on _SNL_? ---
**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, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/33 "2023-12-09T15:36:36Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > DQs > > > > 1. Was your brother Eric a very popular singer in the '60s? > > 2. For that matter, are you Eric as he is more commonly known? > > 3. Were you the last Grand Duke of Finland? > > 1. DQ. > 2. DQ. > 3. I am not…Grand Duke Nicholas? I dunno, I’m just guessing. David Nelson Ricky Nelson technically correct, though he’s much better known as Tsar Nicholas II ---
**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, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/34 "2023-12-09T15:54:26Z")
DQs (for real this time): 1. Native speaker of a Romance language (Spanish, Romansh, Romanian. Italian, &c)? One DQ reserved. Nitpick: Ireland is one of the British Isles – the second-largest, in fact. ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/35 "2023-12-09T16:33:41Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Did the time bandits steal your prosthetic hand. > 2. Were you a Canadian indigenous person and subject of one of the earliest motion picture documentaries. > 3. DId you steal your dad’s Winnebago to escape with the woman you’ve been pining for for years before she got married to another man? 1. DQ. 2. I am not Nanook of the North. 3. DQ. Dustin Hoffman’s character in _The Graduate_? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Were you Hagrid’s secretly-kept pet dragon? > 2. Are you the former leader of UKIP? > 3. Nwere you Lisa from Temecula on _SNL_? 1. Pure guess, but I am not Nigel? 2. I am not Nigel Farage. 3. DQ. ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/36 "2023-12-09T16:39:17Z")
1. Real. 2. Not living. 3. Male. 4. First name starts with “N”. 5. Not American. 6. Died before 1980. 7. European. 8. Died before 1900. 9. Not known as a political/military leader. 10. Not from British Isles or Ireland. 11. Died before 1700. 12. Not known primarily for academic work in arts and sciences (including philosophy, mathematics, history etc.) 13. Not a native speaker of a Romance language. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Nitpick: Ireland is one of the British Isles – the second-largest, in fact. Say that to an Irishman in a pub and see what happens, bub. I think a patriotic-but-precise Irish person would say that Ireland is the second largest island of the Britannic/Northwestern European Archipelago. ---
**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 9, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/37 "2023-12-09T17:28:16Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Pure guess, but I am not Nigel? > 2. I am not Nigel Farage. > 3. DQ. 1 was Norbert; 3 was Ego Nwodim. DQs: 1. died before 1200? 2. known for religion? ---
**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, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/38 "2023-12-09T19:08:08Z")
IQ: Also known as Kris Kringle? ---
**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 9, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/39 "2023-12-09T19:38:49Z")
1. Real. 2. Not living. 3. Male. 4. First name starts with “N”. 5. Not American. 6. Died before 1980. 7. European. 8. Died before 1900. 9. Not known as a political/military leader. 10. Not from British Isles or Ireland. 11. Died before 1700. 12. Not known primarily for academic work in arts and sciences (including philosophy, mathematics, history etc.) 13. Not a native speaker of a Romance language. 14. Died before 1200. 15. Known for religion. ---
**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, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2023/994134/40 "2023-12-09T19:43:45Z")
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