# Botticelli - July 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 5, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465 "2022-07-05T17:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [July 25, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/161 "2022-07-25T18:35:23Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a Civil War general who had a college named after him? - Yes, Oliver O. Howard Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends in Cleveland? - Yes, Oswald Were you the villain in an early piece of _ST:TOS_ fan fiction? - Omne DQ: American character? IQs: Did you and your brother flip a coin before an important undertaking to see who would go first? Were you a British officer who became an important figure in early Israeli history? Did William Shatner play you only once, and not say a word in doing so? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/162 "2022-07-25T18:38:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you and your brother flip a coin before an important undertaking to see who would go first? > Were you a British officer who became an important figure in early Israeli history? > Did William Shatner play you only once, and not say a word in doing so? Respectively: I am not Orville Wright. Take a DQ. I am not Oliver North. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. not originally from a work of prose fiction 4. not American ---
**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:** [July 25, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/163 "2022-07-25T18:57:10Z")
Previous IQs: Did you and your brother flip a coin before an important undertaking to see who would go first? - Yes, Orville Wright Were you a British officer who became an important figure in early Israeli history? - Orde Wingate Did William Shatner play you only once, and not say a word in doing so? - Yes, Lt. Col. Oliver North, in the song “The Mute Marine” DQ: First appeared since 1900? IQs: Are you the bad guy in the works of Lemony Snicket? Were you a cop about whom Arlo Guthrie sang? Were you an Alsatian priest who was the Gandhi of his day? ---
**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:** [July 25, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/164 "2022-07-25T19:25:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you the bad guy in the works of Lemony Snicket? > Were you a cop about whom Arlo Guthrie sang? > Were you an Alsatian priest who was the Gandhi of his day? Respectively: I am not Count Olaf. I am not Officer Obie. I am not Oblerlin. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. not originally from a work of prose fiction 4. not American 5. first appeared before 1900 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/165 "2022-07-25T21:04:58Z")
IQs: 1. Did Robin Williams play you in Kenneth Branagh’s _Hamlet_? 2. Did you write the novel _Butterfield 8_? 3. Are you a member of Ronald-Anne’s support group? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/166 "2022-07-26T13:24:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Robin Williams play you in Kenneth Branagh’s _Hamlet_? > 2. Did you write the novel _Butterfield 8_? > 3. Are you a member of Ronald-Anne’s support group? 1. I am not Osric. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Opus. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/167 "2022-07-26T14:19:13Z")
Correct, John O’Hara, Correct. DQ: Last name starts with 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:** [July 26, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/168 "2022-07-26T14:21:33Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known for a time as Tippetarius? 2. Did Mel Brooks’s character seek your advice in _High Anxiety_? 3. Are you currently in talks to appear with Samuel L. Jackson in Marvel’s _Secret Invasion_? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/169 "2022-07-26T18:47:12Z")
Previous IQs: Are you the bad guy in the works of Lemony Snicket? - Yes, Count Olaf Were you a cop about whom Arlo Guthrie sang? - Yes, Officer Obie Were you an Alsatian priest who was the Gandhi of his day? - Close enough; 'twas John Frederick Oberlin IQs: Are you featured in a large painting in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? Did you once joke, “Ah, to be seventy again”? Did your poem help save the frigate USS _Constitution_? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/170 "2022-07-26T19:02:01Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known for a time as Tippetarius? > 2. Did Mel Brooks’s character seek your advice in _High Anxiety_? > 3. Are you currently in talks to appear with Samuel L. Jackson in Marvel’s _Secret Invasion_? IQs: 1. I am not Princess Ozma. 2. If you’re thinking of whom I’m thinking, the character’s name is Professor _Lill_olman. 3. I am not Oliver Platt? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you featured in a large painting in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? > Did you once joke, “Ah, to be seventy again”? > Did your poem help save the frigate USS _Constitution_? Respectively: Take a DQ. I am not Otto von Bismarck. I am not Ogden Nash. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. not originally from a work of prose fiction 4. not American 5. first appeared before 1900 6. only 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:** [July 26, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/171 "2022-07-26T19:30:03Z")
Previous IQs: Are you featured in a large painting in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, victor of the Battle of Lake Erie Did you once joke, “Ah, to be seventy again”? - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., while in his nineties, when he saw a pretty girl go by Did your poem help save the frigate USS _Constitution_? - His father, the poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: [Old Ironsides (poem) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_(poem)) Oliver x3! DQs: European? First appeared before 1800? Protagonist? IQs: Were you also known as Tharkun? Did you ask a painter to portray you “warts and all”? Were you the naked organist on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/172 "2022-07-26T19:46:22Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you known for a time as Tippetarius? > > 2. Did Mel Brooks’s character seek your advice in _High Anxiety_? > > 3. Are you currently in talks to appear with Samuel L. Jackson in Marvel’s _Secret Invasion_? > > IQs: > > 1. I am not Princess Ozma. > 2. If you’re thinking of whom I’m thinking, the character’s name is Professor _Lill_olman. > 3. I am not Oliver Platt? Correct on Ozma. 2. I remember the character as being Prof. Liddell-Oldman. So, you’re correct. #3 is Olivia Colman. DQ: Originally from a play? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/173 "2022-07-26T19:48:09Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the Moor of Venice? 2. Did e e cummings sing of you, “glad and big”? 3. Is Wednesday named for 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:** [July 26, 2022, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/174 "2022-07-26T20:01:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you also known as Tharkun? > Did you ask a painter to portray you “warts and all”? > Were you the naked organist on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_? Respectively: I am not Olorin. I am not Otto von Bismarck. I am not Onan. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the Moor of Venice? > 2. Did e e cummings sing of you, “glad and big”? > 3. Is Wednesday named for you? 1. I am not Othello. 2. I am not Olaf. 3. I am not Odin. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. not originally from a work of prose fiction 4. not American 5. first appeared before 1900 6. only name starts with O 7. European 8. first appeared before 1800 9. protagonist 10. not _originally_ from a play (but has appeared in one) ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/175 "2022-07-26T20:08:22Z")
Previous IQs: Were you also known as Tharkun? - Yes, Olorin AKA Gandalf Did you ask a painter to portray you “warts and all”? - Not Bismarck, but Oliver Cromwell Were you the naked organist on _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_? - Yes, Onan DQ: From antiquity? IQs: Was your son Telemachus? Did Hamlet berate you? Did you propose the construction of massive L5 space colonies? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/176 "2022-07-26T21:20:38Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Are you the King of the Fairies? 2. Did you write _The Rubaiyat_? 3. Did you write the hymn _The God of Abraham Praise_? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/177 "2022-07-26T21:49:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your son Telemachus? > Did Hamlet berate you? > Did you propose the construction of massive L5 space colonies? Respectively: I am not Odysseus. I am not Ophelia. I am not Arthur O. Clarke. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the King of the Fairies? > 2. Did you write _The Rubaiyat_? > 3. Did you write the hymn _The God of Abraham Praise_? 1. I am not Oberon. 2. I am not Omar Khayam. 3. Take a DQ. DQs: 1. fictional 2. male 3. not originally from a work of prose fiction 4. not American 5. first appeared before 1900 6. only name starts with O 7. European 8. first appeared before 1800 9. protagonist 10. not originally from a play (but has appeared in one) 11. from antiquity ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/178 "2022-07-26T22:03:43Z")
Previous IQs: Was your son Telemachus? - Yes, Odysseus Did Hamlet berate you? - Yes, Ophelia Did you propose the construction of massive L5 space colonies? - Not Clarke (“O.” indeed!), but physicist Gerard K. O’Neill: [The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space) DQ: From Greek or Roman myth? IQs: Did you briefly appear on the street in the political comedy _Dave_? Did you disbelieve yourself into oblivion? Did you supposedly become the South African minister of justice? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/179 "2022-07-26T22:07:23Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you the King of the Fairies? > > 2. Did you write _The Rubaiyat_? > > 3. Did you write the hymn _The God of Abraham Praise_? > > 1. I am not Oberon. > 2. I am not Omar Khayam. > 3. Take a DQ. Correct, Correct, Thomas Olivers. DQ: Human? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2022/967465/180 "2022-07-26T22:09:09Z")
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