# Botticelli - January 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391 "2013-01-07T20:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 16, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/101 "2013-01-16T00:12:01Z")
My DQ, obviously, was meant to be _Did you first appear in print (novel/short story/poem)?_ Stupid time limit… ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/102 "2013-01-16T01:16:02Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ2: Are you a guitarist who created your band’s first hit single’s signature distorted sound by slicing your amp with a razor blade? Dave Davies of The Kinks > [@Spoons](#): > > Another :smack: moment. The answer cannot be Elton John. Another DQ for you, **ChockFull**. No, but it could be Reginald **D** wight, Elton John’s real name. I had assumed that’s what you meant and you just had a brainfart while typing your reply. No DQ taken. I’ll save my other one until I see the answer to SCAdian’s DQ. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/103 "2013-01-16T03:26:53Z")
Yes, Professor Higgins filled Eliza Doolittle’s mouth with pebbles during her elocution lessons. She was my first thought actually. > [@SCAdian](#): > > **DQ:** > > Did you first appear in pront (novel/short story/poem)? No, I did not first appear in print. Summary for D: 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. American. 4. Last name does not start with D. 5. First appeared since 1950. 6. Been portrayed on screen. 7. Did not first appear in print. > [@](#): > > **IQs:** > > Did you ask a punk if he felt lucky? > Did you play an explosives expert in the Aegean, a legendary British spy and a multi-tasking butler? > Did you and three of your brothers play for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? For the first, I’m not Dirty Harry Callahan. For the second, I’ll guess Daniel Craig. If I’m wrong, a DQ for you. For the last, no idea. Definitely a DQ here. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/104 "2013-01-16T03:31:30Z")
IQ: Are you a horndog DA working the graveyard shift? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/105 "2013-01-16T05:52:01Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > IQ: Are you a horndog DA working the graveyard shift? I’m not Dan Fielding. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/106 "2013-01-16T06:06:11Z")
IQ1: Do you habitually make enormous sandwiches? IQ2: Are you a paranoid Texan exterminator and conspiracy theorist? IQ3: Are you a fictional PI who stars in a series of books written by another fictional character? ---
**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 16, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/107 "2013-01-16T11:37:46Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Did you ask a punk if he felt lucky? > Did you play an explosives expert in the Aegean, a legendary British spy and a multi-tasking butler? > Did you and three of your brothers play for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? > [@Spoons](#): > > For the first, I’m not Dirty Harry Callahan. > For the second, I’ll guess Daniel Craig. If I’m wrong, a DQ for you. > For the last, no idea. Definitely a DQ here. Correct on Dirty Harry. Dusty Miller, from _The Guns of Navarone_. (Who’s Daniel Craig?) I was thinking of Neale Daniher, but of course his brothers Chris, Anthony and Terry would also have been correct answers. **IQs:** Did you and your associates fly from Shangri-La to Tokyo? Were you the first person to receive a Medal of Honor for Vietnam? Did you sing about the colours of your life? DQs to come, after I get home from work… ---
**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 16, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/108 "2013-01-16T16:18:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Is a currently-playing major motion picture based, in part, on your book? > Did only one of your two brothers ever say anything? > Is Swiper your nemesis? Spielberg bought the movie rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s _Team of Rivals_, which provided him with quite a bit of material for _Lincoln_. Yes, the Darryls from _Newhart_. Dora the Explorer. Two DQs reserved for now. Hmm. “On screen” is ambiguous, methinks. Does that mean movies for sure, or do we need to use a DQ to specify movies or TV? IQs: Was your weapon a metaphor for a persistently dangerous state of affairs? Did your realm seek full status with others through a technological stunt? Did you break the story of Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/109 "2013-01-16T19:05:51Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Do you habitually make enormous sandwiches? > IQ2: Are you a paranoid Texan exterminator and conspiracy theorist? > IQ3: Are you a fictional PI who stars in a series of books written by another fictional character? IQ1: I’m not Dagwood Bumstead. IQ2: No idea. DQ for you. IQ3: All I can think of here is Ellery Queen, but that can’t be it. DQ for you. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/110 "2013-01-16T19:10:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Who’s Daniel Craig? He played British spy James Bond. I don’t think he played the others, but he was the best I could think of. > [@](#): > > **IQs:** > > Did you and your associates fly from Shangri-La to Tokyo? > Were you the first person to receive a Medal of Honor for Vietnam? > Did you sing about the colours of your life? IQ1: I was unaware that Shangri-La even had a landing strip. Didn’t _Lost Horizon_’s Conway and company crash outside and hike in? Anyway, DQ for you. IQ2: No idea. DQ for you. IQ3: Argh. I know the song by the Seekers, but I nave no idea who sang lead. DQ for you. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/111 "2013-01-16T19:13:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Hmm. “On screen” is ambiguous, methinks. Does that mean movies for sure, or do we need to use a DQ to specify movies or TV? Is that a DQ? 😃 > [@](#): > > IQs: > > Was your weapon a metaphor for a persistently dangerous state of affairs? > Did your realm seek full status with others through a technological stunt? > Did you break the story of Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan? Three DQs. ---
**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 16, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/112 "2013-01-16T22:03:56Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Did you ask a punk if he felt lucky? > Did you play an explosives expert in the Aegean, a legendary British spy and a multi-tasking butler? > Did you and three of your brothers play for Essendon in the '80s and '90s? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Correct on Dirty Harry. > Dusty Miller, from _The Guns of Navarone_. (Who’s Daniel Craig?) > I was thinking of Neale Daniher, but of course his brothers Chris, Anthony and Terry would also have been correct answers. Arrrgh. That’ll teach me to try writing things when I have to get up even more ungodly early in the morning than usual - the correct answer to my second question was **David Niven** , who played Dusty Miller in _The Guns of Navarone_, James Bond in the 1967 _Casino Royale_, and Priory in _[Candleshoe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candleshoe)_. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Did you and your associates fly from Shangri-La to Tokyo? > Were you the first person to receive a Medal of Honor for Vietnam? > Did you sing about the colours of your life? > [@Spoons](#): > > IQ1: I was unaware that Shangri-La even had a landing strip. Didn’t _Lost Horizon_’s Conway and company crash outside and hike in? Anyway, DQ for you. > > IQ2: No idea. DQ for you. > > IQ3: Argh. I know the song by the Seekers, but I nave no idea who sang lead. DQ for you. After Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo, launched from the carrier USS _Hornet_, FDR told a reporter that the aircraft had flown from Shangri-La. Capt Roger H C Donlon. The incredibly wonderful Judith Durham. (They’re doing another string of concerts this May - wish I could go, but a trip to Australia is totally outside my budget…) **DQs:** If you were real, would you still be alive now? Are/Were you an artist, IAW the usual definition thereof? Three DQs 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:** [January 17, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/113 "2013-01-17T00:27:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your weapon a metaphor for a persistently dangerous state of affairs? > Did your realm seek full status with others through a technological stunt? > Did you break the story of Prince Harry’s deployment to Afghanistan? The Sword of Damocles. The title character in the Jerry Pournelle novel _King David’s Spaceship_. Matt Drudge. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …Hmm. “On screen” is ambiguous, methinks. Does that mean movies for sure, or do we need to use a DQ to specify movies or TV?.. > [@Spoons](#): > > Is that a DQ? 😃 … Oh, all right. DQs: First appeared in a movie? First appeared since 1980? If real, would be alive today? IQs: Were you all wet, and always wet, in a kid’s sf adventure show? Did you not like to pick people for a particular task whose eyes were too close to their noses? Were you the fictional counterpart of the person just referred to? ---
**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 17, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/114 "2013-01-17T00:50:21Z")
Psst - EH… > [@SCAdian](#): > > If you were real, would you still be alive now? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > If real, would be alive today? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/115 "2013-01-17T02:26:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > **DQs:** > > If you were real, would you still be alive now? > Are/Were you an artist, IAW the usual definition thereof? > > Three DQs reserved… If I was real, I’d be alive today. I am not an artist. Summary for D: 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. American. 4. Last name does not start with D. 5. First appeared since 1950. 6. Been portrayed on screen. 7. Did not first appear in print. 8. If I was real, I’d be alive today. 9. Not an artist. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/116 "2013-01-17T02:32:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > First appeared in a movie? > First appeared since 1980? Yes, first appeared in a movie. No, first appeared prior to 1980. Summary for D: 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. American. 4. Last name does not start with D. 5. First appeared since 1950. 6. Been portrayed on screen. 7. Did not first appear in print. 8. If I was real, I’d be alive today. 9. Not an artist. 10. First appeared in a movie. 11. First appeared prior to 1980. > [@](#): > > If real, would be alive today? This duplicates a DQ that **SCAdian** asked before you, so since I have already answered it, take another DQ. > [@](#): > > IQs: > > Were you all wet, and always wet, in a kid’s sf adventure show? > Did you not like to pick people for a particular task whose eyes were too close to their noses? > Were you the fictional counterpart of the person just referred to? I got nuthin’ for any of these. Three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/117 "2013-01-17T04:44:32Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > IQ1: Do you habitually make enormous sandwiches? > IQ2: Are you a paranoid Texan exterminator and conspiracy theorist? > IQ3: Are you a fictional PI who stars in a series of books written by another fictional character? 1. Dagwood is right. 2. Dale Gribble of _King of the Hill_ 3. Derrick Storm, the main character in a series of novels written by Richard Castle in the TV show _Castle_ DQ: Have you appeared in multiple films? DQ: Are you a military/mercenary kind of guy? ---
**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 17, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/118 "2013-01-17T04:47:21Z")
IQ: Did your company commander call you 'Private Bullshit"? Still reserving three DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/119 "2013-01-17T05:49:32Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > 1. Dagwood is right. > 2. Dale Gribble of _King of the Hill_ > 3. Derrick Storm, the main character in a series of novels written by Richard Castle in the TV show _Castle_ :smack: I should have known Dale Gribble; I’ve watched enough episodes of King of the Hill. > [@](#): > > DQ: Have you appeared in multiple films? > DQ: Are you a military/mercenary kind of guy? I have appeared in multiple films. I would not say that I am a military/mercenary kind of guy. Mainly, I work for myself and my friends. 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. American. 4. Last name does not start with D. 5. First appeared since 1950. 6. Been portrayed on screen. 7. Did not first appear in print. 8. If I was real, I’d be alive today. 9. Not an artist. 10. First appeared in a movie. 11. First appeared prior to 1980. 12. I have appeared in multiple films. 13. Mainly, I work for myself and my friends. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391/120 "2013-01-17T08:42:20Z")
DQ: Would the genre of your films fall under the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror umbrella? IQ1: Are you the king of the surf guitar? IQ2: Were you adopted by the US Ambassador to Italy and Great Britian, then temporarily by the US President, then your uncle, before eventually becoming the US Ambassador to Great Britain yourself? IQ3: Did you famously have a green light at the end of your dock? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2013/646391.md?page=7)