# Botticelli - December 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 5, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224 "2024-12-05T22:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 12
**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 31, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/221 "2024-12-31T19:44:41Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. I am not Zelda Scott Fitzgerald > 2. I am not Guiseppe Zagra? Zagara? (May be a DQ) > 3. I am not the Cowardly Lion? Take a DQ if he has another name. Close enough on Giuseppe Zangara; 3 was Zeke, the farmhand. DQ: created after 1990? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/222 "2024-12-31T19:49:16Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 3 was Zeke, the farmhand. Zeke! Good one! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/223 "2024-12-31T19:49:50Z")
**Z** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. American 4. First appeared after 1945 5. Main character 6. First name starts with Z 7. Not from TV or movies 8. Created after 1970 9. First appeared in print 10. Considered a “good guy” 11. Created before 1990 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/224 "2024-12-31T20:54:39Z")
IQs: 1. Were you banished to the Phantom Zone with two fellow supervillains? 2. Did you leave the family show business act and represent your better-known brothers? 3. Are you a co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Orlando City SC? ---
**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 31, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/225 "2024-12-31T21:03:57Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the Cool Ghoul? 2. Did you light a grail-shaped beacon? (Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil you!) 3. Did you headbutt a fellow soccer player at the World Cup? > [@knoodler](#): > > Zeke! Good one! The published screenplay for _The Wizard of Oz_ I’ve seen (at the house of an _Oz_-loving neighbor) uses the names of the Kansas characters for their Oz counterparts in dialogue attribution and directions, which may be unique to that edition (it’s not in [this one](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4771408W/The_wizard_of_Oz?edition=key%3A/books/OL2183523M), for example). ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/226 "2024-12-31T22:17:04Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you banished to the Phantom Zone with two fellow supervillains? > 2. Did you leave the family show business act and represent your better-known brothers? > 3. Are you a co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Orlando City SC? 1. I am not Zod 2. I am not “Zeppo” Marx 3. Take a DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you the Cool Ghoul? > 2. Did you light a grail-shaped beacon? (Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil you!) > 3. Did you headbutt a fellow soccer player at the World Cup? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Zoot 3. I am not Zidane ---
**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 31, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/227 "2024-12-31T22:30:46Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Take a DQ > 2. I am not Zoot > 3. I am not Zidane 1 was Zacherley. DQ: first appeared in prose? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/228 "2024-12-31T22:38:18Z")
**Z** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. American 4. First appeared after 1945 5. Main character 6. First name starts with Z 7. Not from TV or movies 8. Created after 1970 9. First appeared in print 10. Considered a “good guy” 11. Created before 1990 12. Not appeared in prose ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/229 "2024-12-31T23:24:32Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > > [@SunUp](#): > > > > 1. Were you banished to the Phantom Zone with two fellow supervillains? > > 2. Did you leave the family show business act and represent your better-known brothers? > > 3. Are you a co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Orlando City SC? > > 1. I am not Zod > 2. I am not “Zeppo” Marx > 3. Take a DQ Correct on #1 and #2. #3 was Zygmunt Wilf. DQ: First appeared in a song? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/230 "2025-01-01T03:30:46Z")
**Z** DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. American 4. First appeared after 1945 5. Main character 6. First name starts with Z 7. Not from TV or movies 8. Created after 1970 9. First appeared in print 10. Considered a “good guy” 11. Created before 1990 12. Not appeared in prose 13. Did not appear in song ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/231 "2025-01-01T10:12:57Z")
IQ1: Was your uncle an early member of Walden Commune? IQ2: Are you that uncle? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/232 "2025-01-01T13:56:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did you run the Stanford Prison Experiment? 2. Were you a Wonder Twin? 3. Do you host _The Allusionist_? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/233 "2025-01-01T15:14:52Z")
DQ: Known from a comic strip? IQs: 1. Are you the pants-less star of your own comic strip? 2. Are you the pinheaded star of your own comic strip? 3. Are you Beetle Bailey’s clueless fellow soldier? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/234 "2025-01-01T16:24:45Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the younger male lead in _Number of the Beast_? 2. Did you write _Riders of the Purple Sage_? 3. Did you play the human antagonist in a blockbuster movie where the main antagonist was an iceberg? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/235 "2025-01-01T16:43:06Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was your uncle an early member of Walden Commune? > IQ2: Are you that uncle? 1. I am not Zeke 2. I am not Zonker > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you run the Stanford Prison Experiment? > 2. Were you a Wonder Twin? > 3. Do you host _The Allusionist_? 1. Take a DQ 2. I am not Zan 3. Take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/236 "2025-01-01T16:45:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the pants-less star of your own comic strip? > 2. Are you the pinheaded star of your own comic strip? > 3. Are you Beetle Bailey’s clueless fellow soldier? **YES!** **I am ZIPPY THE PINHEAD!!** Good work Prof! ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/237 "2025-01-01T18:08:01Z")
Are we having fun? ON to the New Year’s thread! > [@Botticelli - January 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2025/1012448): > > Happy New Year! I am C! Last month: [Botticelli - December 2024 - #236 by knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/236) ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/238 "2025-01-02T03:50:34Z")
Good job, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Did you have a mountain named after you? - Zebulon Pike, he of the Peak Did a movie director wordlessly put a book on your desk to let you know he wanted you to write some music for him? - Hans Zimmer, by Denis Villeneuve, for the proposed _Dune: Part Three_ Were you a credentialed alien character on an animated show? - Zim had no credentials that I know of; this was Dr. Zoidberg on _Futurama_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224.md?page=11)