# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/21 "2024-12-08T03:43:00Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you convicted of killing your girlfriend in 2013 and again in 2015? > > 2. Did you win your only NBA Championship playing alongside one of the greatest professional basketball players ever? > > 3. Did you recently portray the father of a messiah-type figure from a popular novel? > > Take 2 DQs. > I am not Oscar Isaac (as Duke Leo Atreides.) 1. Oscar Pistorius 2. Oscar Robertson (teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) 3. correct Oscar x 3! 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/22 "2024-12-08T05:42:28Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Now you are become death, destroyer of worlds? > 2. Did you animate King Kong? > 3. Did you perform _Cut Piece_? I am not J. Robert Oppenheimer. I am not… ah, I was thinking of Ray Harryhausen. Take a DQ. Take another DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Have you played the son of both Thranduil and Bootstrap Bill? > Did Tilda Swinton play you in a movie featuring a man playing a queen? > Did one of your songs become a hit during a national crisis in the late Seventies? I am not Orlando Bloom. I am not Orlando. I am not Tony Orlando. I am not a city in central Florida. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/23 "2024-12-08T05:45:24Z")
# O 1. Real. 2. Dead. 3. Male. 4. Not known for the arts. 5. Not American. 6. Died after 1900. 7. First name starts with O. 8. Died before 1970. 9. Not known for politics or military. 10. European. ---
**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, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/24 "2024-12-08T14:45:43Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not J. Robert Oppenheimer. > I am not… ah, I was thinking of Ray Harryhausen. Take a DQ. > Take another DQ. Respectively: 2 was Willis O’Brien (Harryhausen worked with O’Brien on _Mighty Joe Young)_; 3 was Yoko Ono. DQs: 1. died after 1935? 2. known for science? ---
**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, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/25 "2024-12-08T15:09:14Z")
DQs: 1. Are you one of the surviving members of Firesign Theater? 2. Were you Walt Disney’s hit pre-Mickey Mouse cartoon character? 3. Did Paul write to Philemon about you? ---
**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, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/26 "2024-12-08T15:13:36Z")
IQs: 1. Did you star in _Grey’s Anatomy_ and _Killing Eve_? 2. Were you a fossil-hunting paleontologist and rival of Edward Drinker Cope? 3. Were you originally Lyman’s pet? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/27 "2024-12-08T16:16:49Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you one of the surviving members of Firesign Theater? > 2. Were you Walt Disney’s hit pre-Mickey Mouse cartoon character? > 3. Did Paul write to Philemon about you? Take a DQ. I am not Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. I am not Onesimus. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Did you star in _Grey’s Anatomy_ and _Killing Eve_? > 2. Were you a fossil-hunting paleontologist and rival of Edward Drinker Cope? > 3. Were you originally Lyman’s pet? I am not Sandra Oh. Take a DQ. I am not Odie. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/28 "2024-12-08T16:17:18Z")
# O 1. Real. 2. Dead. 3. Male. 4. Not known for the arts. 5. Not American. 6. Died after 1900. 7. First name starts with O. 8. Died before 1970. 9. Not known for politics or military. 10. European. 11. Died after 1935. 12. Known for science. ---
**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, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/29 "2024-12-08T16:27:25Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I am not Sandra Oh. > Take a DQ. > I am not Odie. 2 was Othniel Marsh. DQ: from continental Europe? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/30 "2024-12-08T19:33:15Z")
DQ: Last name begin M-Z? Notable invention named after you? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/31 "2024-12-08T19:35:40Z")
IQs: 1. Were you struck down for being displeasing in the sight of the Lord? 2. Did John C. Reilly portray you in a biopic? 3. Was your son booed while performing his hit single at Madison Square Garden in 1971? ---
**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, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/32 "2024-12-08T19:52:57Z")
IQs: 1. Is a very short and very early (1894!) film of you sneezing? 2. Were you Grimace’s Irish uncle, appearing in McDonald’s commercials to promote the Shamrock Shake? 3. Late last night, when we were all in bed [you] put a lantern in the shed And when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said “There’ll be a hot time, in the old town, tonight” (Fire! Fire! Fire!)? ---
**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, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/33 "2024-12-09T00:13:22Z")
IQ1: Were you the eponymous lead in a pornographic novel and film? IQ2: Did you play Michelle Tanner? IQ3: Did you use the alias “A J Hidell”? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/34 "2024-12-09T00:31:05Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > 1. Were you struck down for being displeasing in the sight of the Lord? > 2. Did John C. Reilly portray you in a biopic? > 3. Was your son booed while performing his hit single at Madison Square Garden in 1971? I am not Onan. Can only think of Dewey Cox. Take a DQ. I am not… Ozzie Nelson? > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Is a very short and very early (1894!) film of you sneezing? > 2. Were you Grimace’s Irish uncle, appearing in McDonald’s commercials to promote the Shamrock Shake? > 3. Late last night, when we were all in bed > [you] put a lantern in the shed > And when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said > “There’ll be a hot time, in the old town, tonight” (Fire! Fire! Fire!)? Take a DQ. I am not… O’Grimace? I am not Mrs. O’Leary. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you the eponymous lead in a pornographic novel and film? > IQ2: Did you play Michelle Tanner? > IQ3: Did you use the alias “A J Hidell”? I am not O (from _The Story of O_). I am neither Mary-Kate nor Ashley Olson. Take a DQ. ---
**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, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/35 "2024-12-09T00:54:26Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you the eponymous lead in a pornographic novel and film? > > IQ2: Did you play Michelle Tanner? > > IQ3: Did you use the alias “A J Hidell”? > > I am not O (from _The Story of O_). > I am neither Mary-Kate nor Ashley Olson. > Take a DQ. correct correct Lee Harvey Oswald One DQ 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 9, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/36 "2024-12-09T01:01:51Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > Take a DQ. > I am not… O’Grimace? > I am not Mrs. O’Leary. 1 was Fred Ott; 2 was Uncle O’Grimacey (close enough?). 1 DQ (maybe 2) reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/37 "2024-12-09T01:03:39Z")
# O 1. Real. 2. Dead. 3. Male. 4. Not known for the arts. 5. Not American. 6. Died after 1900. 7. First name starts with O. 8. Died before 1970. 9. Not known for politics or military. 10. European. 11. Died after 1935. 12. Known for science. 13. From continental Europe. 14. Last name beings with A-L. 15. No notable inventions named after me. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/38 "2024-12-09T01:15:46Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@knoodler](#): > > > > 1. Were you struck down for being displeasing in the sight of the Lord? > > 2. Did John C. Reilly portray you in a biopic? > > 3. Was your son booed while performing his hit single at Madison Square Garden in 1971? > > I am not Onan. > Can only think of Dewey Cox. Take a DQ. > I am not… Ozzie Nelson? Correct Oliver Hardy Correct 1 DQ reserved ---
**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, 2024, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/39 "2024-12-09T04:56:37Z")
Swept me. Orlando x3! IQs: Were you the husband of Keiko and the father of Molly? Were you said to have inspired a politician character on _The Wire_? Were you the young protagonist of _The Point_? ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224/40 "2024-12-09T05:33:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Were you the husband of Keiko and the father of Molly? > Were you said to have inspired a politician character on _The Wire_? > Were you the young protagonist of _The Point_? Take a DQ. I am not… Martin O’Malley? I am not… (maybe) Omar Bradley? Tough triplet! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-december-2024/1011224.md?page=3)