# Botticelli - January 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 1, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706 "2018-01-01T20:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/261 "2018-01-24T20:35:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you appear in a movie with bird poop on you? > Were you Dracula’s mentally-ill henchman? > Did Johnny Carson go from friend to foe with you? DQ, not Renfield, not Rich Little? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/262 "2018-01-24T20:37:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Droop-a-Long? > 2. Did You Love a Mystery with Jack & Doc? > 3. Did you write _Silent Spring_? not Some Rabbit guy (DQ), DQ, not Rachel Carson ---
**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 24, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/263 "2018-01-24T21:58:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you hang around with Droop-a-Long? > 2. Did You Love a Mystery with Jack & Doc? > 3. Did you write _Silent Spring_? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Some Rabbit guy (DQ), DQ, not Rachel Carson #1 was, indeed, Ricochet Rabbit. #2 was Reggie (from _I Love A Mystery_ old time radio show) Correct on Rachel. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/264 "2018-01-24T22:42:08Z")
DQ: Human? DQ: Born (or, if not a creature, made) on Earth? DQ: Appearing in a futuristic setting? IQ: Are you a world famous architect who is not Frank Lloyd Right :)? IQ: Did you write the music to _Oh What a Beautiful Morning_? IQ: Did you manage a meteoric rise from Third Technician to First Technician? ---
**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 24, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/265 "2018-01-24T22:45:06Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the first “R” in Capek’s play _R.U.R._? 2. Are you #1’s father? 3. Are you one of the Universal Robots? ---
**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 24, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/266 "2018-01-24T23:10:10Z")
Okay, never mind the above IQs, please. IQ: Are you, without out a doubt, the singularly most unfortunate wizzard (sic) on the entire Discworld? ---
**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 24, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/267 "2018-01-24T23:18:19Z")
Uh, exclude the extraneous “out” please. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/268 "2018-01-25T03:00:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Okay, never mind the above IQs, please. > > IQ: Are you, without out a doubt, the singularly most unfortunate wizzard (sic) on the entire Discworld? Yes, I am Rincewind, most cowardly wizard on Discworld! Grats Prof! ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/269 "2018-01-25T11:34:09Z")
Nice one. I was thinking Discworld was quite likely to be the home of this character, but (as has been evident previously) I don’t know the series well enough to get it. My IQ answers were Richard Rogers, Richard Rodgers, and Arnold J Rimmer (from Red Dwarf). ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/270 "2018-01-25T14:16:40Z")
Now I am S. ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/271 "2018-01-25T14:30:22Z")
Haven’t read any of the Discworld stories, so I would never have gotten it, but good job, **Prof. P.**! Previous IQs: Did you appear in a movie with bird poop on you? - Radagast the Brown, one of Gandalf’s colleagues, in the _The Hobbit_ movies Were you Dracula’s mentally-ill henchman? - Yes, Renfield Did Johnny Carson go from friend to foe with you? - Not Rich Little, but Joan Rivers, to whom Johnny never spoke again after she hosted a short-lived rival talk show On to S… IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? Were you his second? Were you his only SECSTATE? ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/272 "2018-01-25T15:05:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? > Were you his second? > Were you his only SECSTATE? I am not Edwin M. Stanton. Take a DQ for the other SECWAR. I am not William H. Seward. ---
**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 25, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/273 "2018-01-25T15:16:56Z")
Previous IQs: Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron Were you his second? - Yes, Edwin M. Stanton Were you his only SECSTATE? - Yes, William H. Seward DQ: Real? IQs: Did a character you played sarcastically ask to borrow someone’s outfit to audition for the role of a “serious firefighter”? Were you first appointed to SCOTUS by Coolidge, and then as Chief Justice by FDR? Are you a TV journalist with a rocky first name and an eight-letter-long last name? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/274 "2018-01-25T15:52:49Z")
DQ: Are you widely regarded as the best violin maker there has ever been? DQ: Are you the best-known lead singer of Fleetwood Mac? DQ: Were you imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit, but on being vindicated still had to remain on the run? ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/275 "2018-01-25T16:48:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a character you played sarcastically ask to borrow someone’s outfit to audition for the role of a “serious firefighter”? > Were you first appointed to SCOTUS by Coolidge, and then as Chief Justice by FDR? > Are you a TV journalist with a rocky first name and an eight-letter-long last name? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/276 "2018-01-25T16:49:37Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > DQ: Are you widely regarded as the best violin maker there has ever been? > DQ: Are you the best-known lead singer of Fleetwood Mac? > DQ: Were you imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit, but on being vindicated still had to remain on the run? 1. I am not Stradivarius. 2. I am not Stevie Nicks. Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 25, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/277 "2018-01-25T16:50:37Z")
DQs: 1. Real ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/278 "2018-01-25T17:42:01Z")
Correct, correct, Sirius Black (from Harry Potter). DQ: Male? IQ: Did you write [forgive me if I don’t get the precise wording] “When I was 21 I was ashamed at how stupid my father was. When I got to be 30 I was amazed at how much he had learned in 9 years.”? IQ: Are you most famous for being in “a close shave”? IQ: Did you find fame a few years ago for ‘just doing your job’, but probably doing it way better than most in your profession would have managed? ---
**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 25, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/279 "2018-01-25T17:45:33Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 25, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/280 "2018-01-25T17:46:33Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ: Did you write [forgive me if I don’t get the precise wording] “When I was 21 I was ashamed at how stupid my father was. When I got to be 30 I was amazed at how much he had learned in 9 years.”? > IQ: Are you most famous for being in “a close shave”? > IQ: Did you find fame a few years ago for ‘just doing your job’, but probably doing it way better than most in your profession would have managed? Take 3 DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706.md?page=15)