# Botticelli June 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 1, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875 "2023-06-01T14:47:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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:** [June 23, 2023, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/241 "2023-06-23T13:19:42Z")
IQs: 1. Did you hang around with Granny Weatherwax? 2. Were you sometimes known as Tippetarius? 3. Did Robin Williams play you in _Hamlet_? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/242 "2023-06-23T20:36:44Z")
IQs: 1. Did you cause Caspar Weinberger to appear “noticably shaken” after you hacked into _Pravda_ and changed a headline to read “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnips! Buttocks!”? 2. Were you, despite your faintly comic name and country-bumpkin public image, a shrewd and successful Purdue-trained agronomist who hybridized and sold a popular snack food? 3. Did God finally call you home in 2009, 22 years after you announced in 1987 that He would if you didn’t raise $8 million by March of that year? ---
**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:** [June 23, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/243 "2023-06-23T23:57:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you hang around with Granny Weatherwax? > 2. Were you sometimes known as Tippetarius? > 3. Did Robin Williams play you in _Hamlet_? DQ Not Princess Ozma DQ > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Did you cause Caspar Weinberger to appear “noticably shaken” after you hacked into _Pravda_ and changed a headline to read “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnips! Buttocks!”? > 2. Were you, despite your faintly comic name and country-bumpkin public image, a shrewd and successful Purdue-trained agronomist who hybridized and sold a popular snack food? > 3. Did God finally call you home in 2009, 22 years after you announced in 1987 that He would if you didn’t raise $8 million by March of that year? Not Oliver Wendell Jones Not Orville Redenbacher Not Oral Roberts ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/244 "2023-06-24T00:01:10Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Are you the most famous motherfucker in literature? I just had to post my admiration for that clue 😆 IQ: 1. Was your livestock accused of arson? 2. Are you a frequent panelist on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”? 3. Are you married to Titania? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/245 "2023-06-24T00:07:04Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Was your livestock accused of arson? > 2. Are you a frequent panelist on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”? > 3. Are you married to Titania? Not Mrs. O’Leary DQ Not Oberon ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/246 "2023-06-24T02:15:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > Are you the most famous motherfucker in literature? > > I just had to post my admiration for that clue 😆 Thank you. I’m kinda proud of that one myself. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/247 "2023-06-24T03:16:38Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Did you cause Caspar Weinberger to appear “noticably shaken” after you hacked into _Pravda_ and changed a headline to read “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnips! Buttocks!”? > > 2. Were you, despite your faintly comic name and country-bumpkin public image, a shrewd and successful Purdue-trained agronomist who hybridized and sold a popular snack food? > > 3. Did God finally call you home in 2009, 22 years after you announced in 1987 that He would if you didn’t raise $8 million by March of that year? > > Not Oliver Wendell Jones > Not Orville Redenbacher > Not Oral Roberts Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Were you a 19th century inventor who founded an uplifting company? 2. Were you a dragon with one tooth, on a children’s show? 3. Are you a sportswriter who’s been played by Walter Matthau, Jack Klugman, and Matthew Perry? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/248 "2023-06-24T03:31:03Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you a 19th century inventor who founded an uplifting company? > 2. Were you a dragon with one tooth, on a children’s show? > 3. Are you a sportswriter who’s been played by Walter Matthau, Jack Klugman, and Matthew Perry? Not Mr. Otis of Otis Elevator fame Not Ollie? (Kukla, Fran, and Ollie is the first kids show that comes to mind with an O name, but it was way before my time) Not Oscar Madison from _The Odd Couple_ ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/249 "2023-06-24T12:47:43Z")
Previous IQs: Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony? - Eugene Ormandy Does Maurice LaMarche often do your voice? - Orson Welles Have you become a SDMB meme, especially in the Made-Up Band Name thread? - I’ll rephrase DQs: Magic user? Character from the British Isles? IQs: You are not Opal. [Repeat as above] Did you play an elderly JFK? Was perhaps your sole redeeming trait your refusal to obey segregation laws? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/250 "2023-06-24T13:24:32Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Were you a 19th century inventor who founded an uplifting company? > > 2. Were you a dragon with one tooth, on a children’s show? > > 3. Are you a sportswriter whos been played by Walter Matthau, Jack Klugman, and Matthew Perry? > > Not Mr. Otis of Otis Elevator fame > Not Ollie? (Kukla, Fran, and Ollie is the first kids show that comes to mind with an O name, but it was way before my time) > Not Oscar Madison from _The Odd Couple_ Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Are you famous for sports, acting, and murder? 2. Did you invite passersby to look upon your works and despair? 3. Were you a favorite subject of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and painted by John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/251 "2023-06-24T14:12:50Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you hang around with Granny Weatherwax? > > 2. Were you sometimes known as Tippetarius? > > 3. Did Robin Williams play you in _Hamlet_? > > DQ > Not Princess Ozma > DQ #1 was Nanny Ogg, in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. #2 is correct. #3 was Osric. I, too, am in awe of SMV’s great IQ. 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/252 "2023-06-24T18:46:55Z")
**O** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with O 4. From a literary work 5. Not American 6. Would be alive today, if real 7. Written after 1900 8. European author 9. Protagonist 10. From genre fiction 11. From Science fiction or fantasy 12. From book originally written in English language 13. Not a comic character 14. Urban fantasy 15. Male author 16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has some supernatural abilities 17. Character from the British Isles ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/253 "2023-06-24T18:50:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You are not Opal. [Repeat as above] > Did you play an elderly JFK? > Was perhaps your sole redeeming trait your refusal to obey segregation laws? Not Ogg Not Ozzie Davis in _Bubba-Ho-Tep_ Not Lee Harvey Oswald? > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Are you famous for sports, acting, and murder? > 2. Did you invite passersby to look upon your works and despair? > 3. Were you a favorite subject of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and painted by John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse? DQ Not Ozymadias? DQ ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/254 "2023-06-24T19:38:37Z")
DQs: 1. Written after 1970? 2. From a series of books? ---
**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:** [June 24, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/255 "2023-06-24T22:09:00Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the Italian version of the French paladin Roland? 2. Were you a noted woman atheist who was murdered? 3. Were you one of Marvel’s Enforcers, along with Montana and Fancy Dan? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/256 "2023-06-24T23:07:03Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Are you famous for sports, acting, and murder? > > 2. Did you invite passersby to look upon your works and despair? > > 3. Were you a favorite subject of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and painted by John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse? > > DQ > Not Ozymadias? > DQ Correct on Ozymandias, from the Shelley poem. No. 3 was Ophelia, whom Victorian artists loved to [paint](https://smarthistory.org/millais-ophelia/) [floating amongst the flowers.](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Wilhelm_Theodor_Heyser_-_Ophelia.jpg) 1 was Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson, but I’m thinking I perhaps was _too_ oblique and elliptical in my clue - you’d have probably gotten it if I just described him as “football player, actor, convicted felon”. So I’ll let you decide if that’s worth a DQ or no. DQ: 1. British author? IQs: 1. Are you an icon of your type of music, but possessed of an accent so thick many people assume you have a speech impediment? 2. Are you a Bond villain henchman whose actor was nearly electrocuted (and suffered a badly-burned hand) filming your death scene? 3. Are you a popular Marvel actress, playing a long running character, who can bend your thumbs back nearly 90°? ---
**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:** [June 25, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/257 "2023-06-25T07:49:44Z")
**O** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Last name starts with O 4. From a literary work 5. Not American 6. Would be alive today, if real 7. Written after 1900 8. European author 9. Protagonist 10. From genre fiction 11. From Science fiction or fantasy 12. From book originally written in English language 13. Not a comic character 14. Urban fantasy 15. Male author 16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has some supernatural abilities 17. Character from the British Isles 18. Written after 1970 19. Not from a series of books 20. British author That’s 20, so no more IQs. Ask your earned DQs for 9:00 pm PDT Monday 6/26. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2023, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/258 "2023-06-25T07:51:03Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Are you the Italian version of the French paladin Roland? > 2. Were you a noted woman atheist who was murdered? > 3. Were you one of Marvel’s Enforcers, along with Montana and Fancy Dan? DQ Not Madeline Murray O’Hare DQ > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Are you an icon of your type of music, but possessed of an accent so thick many people assume you have a speech impediment? > 2. Are you a Bond villain henchman whose actor was nearly electrocuted (and suffered a badly-burned hand) filming your death scene? > 3. Are you a popular Marvel actress, playing a long running character, who can bend your thumbs back nearly 90°? DQ Not Oddjob Not Elizabeth Olsen > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > So I’ll let you decide if that’s worth a DQ or no. I probably still wouldn’t have gotten it, so take the second DQ. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/259 "2023-06-25T11:49:40Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Are you the Italian version of the French paladin Roland? > > 2. Were you a noted woman atheist who was murdered? > > 3. Were you one of Marvel’s Enforcers, along with Montana and Fancy Dan? > > DQ > Not Madeline Murray O’Hare > DQ 1 was Orlando. 2 is correct. 3 was the Ox. DQs: 1. Written after 2000? 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:** [June 25, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/260 "2023-06-25T14:10:43Z")
Previous IQs: You are not Opal. [Repeat as above] - I was thinking of Orson Bean, but Ogg fits, too Did you play an elderly JFK? - Yes, Ossie Davis Was perhaps your sole redeeming trait your refusal to obey segregation laws? - Yes, Lee Harvey Oswald, in his native New Orleans Hmm. Can’t figure out who this is. Thought it might be a Harry Potter character, but it’s a male author, and not from a series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875.md?page=14)