# Botticelli - February 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983 "2018-02-01T20:57:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/1 "2018-02-01T20:57:04Z")
Happy Groundhog Day. The new letter is O! ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/2 "2018-02-01T21:29:30Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play Deadpool’s blind roommate in _Deadpool_? 2. Did you play Spenser in _Spenser For Hire_? 3. Were you portrayed by both Jackie Coogan and Christopher Lloyd? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/3 "2018-02-02T03:30:03Z")
don’t recall, don’t know, I can only think of Uncle Fester so take a DQ ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/4 "2018-02-02T04:43:29Z")
1. Is your home larger on the inside than it appears on the outside? 2. Did you marry the Empress of the Twenty Universes? 3. Did you own and operate an enamelware factory? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/5 "2018-02-02T08:31:34Z")
Welcome to the game! Nice to no longer be the newbie :). I hate to be that guy (actually, what am I saying - I love to be that guy!) but although our last round did indeed involve N, it was actually based on T. We did O, P, Q, R, S just recently. Now we’ve started I guess we may as well continue, and maybe move back to U thereafter? It’s not like it matters much, anyway. IQ: Did Douglas Adams accuse you of sloppy writing of the sixth line of one of your most famous songs, calling it a “placeholder lyric” but suggesting you couldn’t think of anything better before publication? IQ: Did you appear to drop subtle hints that you were an enemy of the Party in order to entrap somebody else? IQ: Are you the almost universally hated boss of European budget airline Ryanair? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/6 "2018-02-02T12:56:43Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > 1. Is your home larger on the inside than it appears on the outside? > 2. Did you marry the Empress of the Twenty Universes? > 3. Did you own and operate an enamelware factory? Welcome back! Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/7 "2018-02-02T13:00:02Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > Welcome to the game! Nice to no longer be the newbie :). > > I hate to be that guy (actually, what am I saying - I love to be that guy!) but although our last round did indeed involve N, it was actually based on T. We did O, P, Q, R, S just recently. Now we’ve started I guess we may as well continue, and maybe move back to U thereafter? It’s not like it matters much, anyway. Oh shit, you’re right! Sorry everyone. Senior moment. Tim, Prof, DC, keep your 3 DQs. Let’s start over with T! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/8 "2018-02-02T14:29:57Z")
Er… we just did T… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/9 "2018-02-02T14:31:37Z")
Head, meet wall. I am U! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/10 "2018-02-02T15:09:20Z")
U sure? 🙂 For tidiness, the answers to my previous answers were Oscar Hammerstein (referencing “La, a note to follow So”), O’Brien from Orwell’s _1984_, and Michael O’Leary. I don’t wish to claim my DQs though, so: IQ: Are you a recently departed sci-fi author? IQ: Are you a ‘larger-than-life" character portrayed by John Candy? IQ: Were ‘sent back to school’ by your employer in a fairly transparent (and ultimately, amusingly unsuccessful) bid to take more control of pupils’ education? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/11 "2018-02-02T15:58:11Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play Deadpool’s blind roommate in _Deadpool_? > 2. Did you play Spenser in _Spenser For Hire_? > 3. Were you portrayed by both Jackie Coogan and Christopher Lloyd? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > don’t recall, don’t know, I can only think of Uncle Fester so take a DQ I hadn’t realized you’d gone with O. My IQs were directed at U anyway. #1 was Leslie Uggams. #2 was Robert Urich. Correct on Uncle Fester. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/12 "2018-02-02T16:17:21Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > …the answers to my previous answers… It would seem we’re all rather in worlds of our own today! ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/13 "2018-02-02T16:53:36Z")
Last month’s thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846013](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846013) U got it! IQs: Did you star in the post-apocalyptic TV drama _Jericho_? Were you a senior UN official of the Sixties? Were you Igraine’s illicit royal lover? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/14 "2018-02-02T18:16:25Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Female ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/15 "2018-02-02T18:17:34Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ: Are you a recently departed sci-fi author? > IQ: Are you a ‘larger-than-life" character portrayed by John Candy? > IQ: Were ‘sent back to school’ by your employer in a fairly transparent (and ultimately, amusingly unsuccessful) bid to take more control of pupils’ education? not Ursula K. LeGuin, 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/16 "2018-02-02T18:19:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you star in the post-apocalyptic TV drama _Jericho_? > Were you a senior UN official of the Sixties? > Were you Igraine’s illicit royal lover? DQ, not U Thant, not Uther Pendragon ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/17 "2018-02-02T18:29:54Z")
IQs: 1. Are you aka Shoeshine Boy? 2. Are you the villain in Disney’s _The Little Mermaid_? 3. Did you hang around with George of the Jungle? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/18 "2018-02-02T19:46:05Z")
Previous IQs: Did you star in the post-apocalyptic TV drama _Jericho_? - Skeet Ulrich (my own “U” mystery person last time, I think) Were you a senior UN official of the Sixties? - Yes, U Thant of Burma Were you Igraine’s illicit royal lover? - Yes, Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur DQ: Last name start with U? IQs: Were you the heroine of Kate Atkinson’s novel _Life After Life_? Were you the villain of Disney’s _The Little Mermaid_? Did your white bikini in a movie make a, er, big splash? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/19 "2018-02-02T20:10:41Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Fictional 2. Female 3. Only name starts with U ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983/20 "2018-02-02T20:12:15Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you aka Shoeshine Boy? > 2. Are you the villain in Disney’s _The Little Mermaid_? > 3. Did you hang around with George of the Jungle? not Underdog, not Ursula, dunno [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-february-2018/807983.md?page=2)