# 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:** 6
**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 10, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/101 "2018-01-10T13:37:26Z")
IQ1: After the Trinity test, did you remark “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”? IQ2: Did you play X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in Star Wars VII and VIII? IQ3: Are you a Mexican-American boxer who won world titles in 6 different weight divisions? ---
**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 10, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/102 "2018-01-10T14:26:57Z")
I am not Robert Oppenheimer (guess), don’t know, and I am not Oscar De La Hoya (guess). ---
**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 10, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/103 "2018-01-10T15:23:33Z")
So people can see at a glance in reviewing the thread, our next letter is O IQs: Was perhaps your only virtue your opposition to segregation in New Orleans? Were you that person’s spouse? Were you one of Drew Carey’s buddies on his sitcom? ---
**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 10, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/104 "2018-01-10T15:41:55Z")
IQs: 1. Did you direct and star in _Citizen Kane_? 2. Did you star opposite Katherine Hepburn in _The Lion In Winter_? 3. Did Dickens serialize his somewhat-biography in telling your tale? ---
**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 10, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/105 "2018-01-10T16:15:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > So people can see at a glance in reviewing the thread, our next letter is > > O > > IQs: > > Was perhaps your only virtue your opposition to segregation in New Orleans? > Were you that person’s spouse? > Were you one of Drew Carey’s buddies on his sitcom? Thanks - sorry for missing the formatting. You have swept me with your questions, 3 DQs to you. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct and star in _Citizen Kane_? > 2. Did you star opposite Katherine Hepburn in _The Lion In Winter_? > 3. Did Dickens serialize his somewhat-biography in telling your tale? I am neither Orson Welles nor Oliver Twist, but take one DQ. ---
**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 10, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/106 "2018-01-10T16:39:54Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I am not Robert Oppenheimer (guess), don’t know, and I am not Oscar De La Hoya (guess). correct, Oscar Isaac, correct DQ: Real? ---
**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 10, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/107 "2018-01-10T16:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you direct and star in Citizen Kane? > 2. Did you star opposite Katherine Hepburn in The Lion In Winter? > 3. Did Dickens serialize his somewhat-biography in telling your tale? > I am neither Orson Welles nor Oliver Twist, but take one DQ. Correct, Peter O’Toole, Correct. DQ: 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 10, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/108 "2018-01-10T17:09:26Z")
IQs: 1. Did Iago convince you to kill your wife? 2. Are you a main character in the comic strip _Bloom County_? 3. Were you a sharpshooter with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show? ---
**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 10, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/109 "2018-01-10T17:19:01Z")
I am not Othello (I think - haven’t actually read/seen it, so I could have the wrong play entirely!), but you can certainly have 2 DQs as I cannot guess the others. 1. Real 2. Male ---
**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 10, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/110 "2018-01-10T17:28:53Z")
IQ1: Are you one of the Lancre Order witches from Discworld? IQ2: Are you the Discworld crocodile-headed god of rivers? IQ3: Are you a past patrician of Ankh-Morpork who forbade creative exaggeration and metaphors, and was killed by a disgruntled poet to prove the pen was indeed mightier than the sword? ---
**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 10, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/111 "2018-01-10T18:39:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Iago convince you to kill your wife? > 2. Are you a main character in the comic strip _Bloom County_? > 3. Were you a sharpshooter with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show? > [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > I am not Othello (I think - haven’t actually read/seen it, so I could have the wrong play entirely!), but you can certainly have 2 DQs as I cannot guess the others. Correct on Othello. #2 is Opus the penguin #3 was Annie Oakley. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with O? ---
**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 10, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/112 "2018-01-10T19:35:09Z")
Previous IQs: Was perhaps your only virtue your opposition to segregation in New Orleans? - Lee Harvey Oswald, who always made it a point to sit in the back of the bus with the black passengers Were you that person’s spouse? - His expatriate Russian wife, Marina Oswald Were you one of Drew Carey’s buddies on his sitcom? - Oswald Oswald x3! DQs: American? Born since 1950? Best known for the Arts, broadly defined? IQs: You are the wizard Gandalf; you originally went by what name? Were you husband to Keiko and father to Molly? Early in your career, did you describe yourself as a skinny guy with a funny 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 10, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/113 "2018-01-10T23:06:54Z")
KO and EH can have three more DQs each. I’m kicking myself about Annie Oakley, and also that I haven’t read nearly enough Discworld. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with O 5. American 6. Born before 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts ---
**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 11, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/114 "2018-01-11T00:01:01Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you one of the Lancre Order witches from Discworld? > IQ2: Are you the Discworld crocodile-headed god of rivers? > IQ3: Are you a past patrician of Ankh-Morpork who forbade creative exaggeration and metaphors, and was killed by a disgruntled poet to prove the pen was indeed mightier than the sword? Nanny Ogg, Offler, Olaf Quimby II DQ: Best known for sports? holding 2 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 11, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/115 "2018-01-11T00:05:48Z")
IQs: 1. Did you recently give a well-received speech at the Golden Globes? 2. Did Edward Fitzgerald gain fame translating your poem? 3. Were you the star of the comic strip _Thimble Theatre_ before Popeye came along? ---
**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 11, 2018, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/116 "2018-01-11T05:37:33Z")
Previous IQs: You are the wizard Gandalf; you originally went by what name? - Olorin Were you husband to Keiko and father to Molly? - Miles O’Brien (Colm Meaney), of ST:TNG and ST: DS9 Early in your career, did you describe yourself as a skinny guy with a funny name? - Barack Obama DQ: Born before 1850? Won a top award in your field? One DQ reserved. IQs: Did you voice the main character in Pixar’s _Ratatouille_? Are you the current President pro tem of the U.S. Senate? Did you say that a giant Jesus once appeared to you? ---
**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 11, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/117 "2018-01-11T09:50:37Z")
My apologies, I have a slightly embarrassing correction to make to the below - I am BRITISH, not American. I feel it is only fair to state this rather than simply “not American”. Hopefully this hasn’t seriously affected the game, as we haven’t narrowed it down too much yet. 1. Real 2. Male 3. Dead 4. First name starts with O 5. [del]American[/del] British 6. Born before 1950 7. Not best known for the Arts 8. Not best known for sport 9. Born after 1850 10. Has won top awards in his field > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you recently give a well-received speech at the Golden Globes? > 2. Did Edward Fitzgerald gain fame translating your poem? > 3. Were you the star of the comic strip _Thimble Theatre_ before Popeye came along? I am not Oprah Winfrey, Omar Khayyam (guess, sp?), or Olive Oyl (guess, sp?). Take DQs as appropriate if I have guessed incorrectly. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you voice the main character in Pixar’s _Ratatouille_? > Are you the current President pro tem of the U.S. Senate? > Did you say that a giant Jesus once appeared to you? Not Owen Wilson (guess), don’t know, Ozzy Osbourne (guess) - take 1-3 DQs, in addition to your reserved one. Nicely done with Obama - as you may have noticed, I too enjoy questions that clue a really famous person in an oblique (but fair) manner :). ---
**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 11, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/118 "2018-01-11T13:59:20Z")
DQ: Best known for politics? 1 DQ left ---
**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 11, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/119 "2018-01-11T14:08:24Z")
IQ1: Are you a British philanthropist who founded the colony of Georgia? IQ2: Did Jimmy Smits play you in _Revenge of the Sith_? IQ3: Are you Luke Skywalker’s uncle? ---
**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 11, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706/120 "2018-01-11T14:35:53Z")
Thanks! Previous IQs: Did you voice the main character in Pixar’s _Ratatouille_? - Patton Oswalt Are you the current President pro tem of the U.S. Senate? - Orrin Hatch Did you say that a giant Jesus once appeared to you? - Oral Roberts DQs: Born after 1900? Knighted? Best known for a single incident? One DQ reserved. IQs: Were you Mork from Ork’s boss? Did you recently leave your job at the Trump White House? After early reluctance, did you date a coworker and eventually marry that person? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-january-2018/805706.md?page=7)