# 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:** 17
**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 29, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/321 "2023-06-29T12:35:49Z")
I’d say prose fiction is novels, novellas and short stories. Kids’ books are a gray area. IQs: 1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus? 2. Did you write _The Drawing of the Dark_? 3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in _The Unsinkable Molly Brown_? ---
**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 29, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/322 "2023-06-29T13:02:24Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”? 2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries? 3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/323 "2023-06-29T13:33:27Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you hang out with Spinelli, Gretchen, Gus, etc. at recess? > 2. Are you an alternate universe daughter of Nightcrawler and one of the original Exiles? > 3. Did your father have binders full of women? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 2 DQs > Not Tagg Romney 1 was TJ, in the cartoon _Recess_; 2 was Talia Josephine “TJ” Wagner. DQs: 1. created after 1950? 2. has appeared in film and/or TV? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/324 "2023-06-29T13:39:59Z")
IQs: 1. Are you one of the three people mentioned in the Stan Freberg song “The Conspiraski Theory”? 2. Are you another? 3. Were you a co-worker of the third? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/325 "2023-06-29T15:21:24Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Speaking of Honey Wheeler, were you her neighbour and best friend? > > IQ2: Did you steal a pig and run away? > > IQ3: Was the Dragon Lady a regular antagonist for you? > > DQ > Not Tom, Tom, the piper’s son > DQ Trixie Belden correct Terry, from _Terry and the Pirates_ DQ: Could be alive today, if real? One DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/326 "2023-06-29T15:28:10Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > > > …PS: as a general rule, what does prose fiction include? is it just short stories and novels or does it include anything else, like graphic novels or children’s picture books? > > > > I would say definitely the first two, but not the last two, as the pictures are at least arguably more important than the words in those kinds of books. > > I’d say yes on the first two, no on graphic novel, no on a play, and it depends on children’s book. A Richard Scarry book - no, Dr. Seuss - yes. Probably depends on the word to picture ratio. Also no for poetry, even if it’s an entire book written as a poem, like _Out of the Dust_. ---
**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 29, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/327 "2023-06-29T15:33:48Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > > > > > …PS: as a general rule, what does prose fiction include? is it just short stories and novels or does it include anything else, like graphic novels or children’s picture books? > > > > > > I would say definitely the first two, but not the last two, as the pictures are at least arguably more important than the words in those kinds of books. > > > > I’d say yes on the first two, no on graphic novel, no on a play, and it depends on children’s book. A Richard Scarry book - no, Dr. Seuss - yes. Probably depends on the word to picture ratio. > > Also no for poetry, even if it’s an entire book written as a poem, like _Out of the Dust_ Where would epics like _Beowulf_ or the _Illiad_ or _The Divine Comedy_ fall, then? In my mind, there’s a distinction between even a long poem like _The Rime of the Ancient Mariner_, and a verse epic like _The Inferno._ ETA: that is, I wouldn’t think of, say, Sir Lancelot from _Le Morte d’Arthur_ as a “character from a poem”. ---
**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 29, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/328 "2023-06-29T15:36:22Z")
,and plays aren’t prose either. Poetry is poetry. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/329 "2023-06-29T15:39:49Z")
IQ1: Did you sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”? IQ2: Did you sing “Sixteen Tons”? IQ3: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”? ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/330 "2023-06-29T16:19:43Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created after 1900 4. First name begins with T 5. Originally from prose fiction 6. Main character 7. Created before 1980 8. From science fiction/fantasy 9. Created by an American 10. Created after 1950 11. Has appeared in film and/or TV 12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable, given lifestyle choices. ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/331 "2023-06-29T16:23:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus? > 2. Did you write _The Drawing of the Dark_? > 3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in _The Unsinkable Molly Brown_? 3 DQs > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”? > 2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries? > 3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach? DQ Not Zachary Taylor Not Tantalus > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Are you one of the three people mentioned in the Stan Freberg song “The Conspiraski Theory”? > 2. Are you another? > 3. Were you a co-worker of the third? 3 DQs for you > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”? > IQ2: Did you sing “Sixteen Tons”? > IQ3: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”? Not Tammy Wynette 2 DQs ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/332 "2023-06-29T16:29:28Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > 3 DQs for you Tara Lipinski, Theodore Kaczysnki, and (co-worker of Monica Lewinsky) Linda Tripp. DQs: 1. created after 1965? 2. human? 3. has appeared in film (but not TV)? ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/333 "2023-06-29T16:33:46Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created after 1900 4. First name begins with T 5. Originally from prose fiction 6. Main character 7. Created before 1980 8. From science fiction/fantasy 9. Created by an American 10. Created after 1950 11. Has appeared in film and/or TV 12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable if human, given lifestyle choices., but given the answer to #14, who can say? 13. Created before 1965 14. Not human 15. Has appeared in both film and TV EDITED #12 after answering #14 ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/334 "2023-06-29T16:35:48Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”? > > 2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries? > > 3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach? > > DQ > Not Zachary Taylor > Not Tantalus No. 1 was Thomas Telford, some of whose bridges and roads are still in use today. Correct on Taylor and Tantalus. DQ: Known for poor lifestyle habits (i.e., smoking, drug use?) IQs: 1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking? 2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard? 3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in-universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring? ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/335 "2023-06-29T16:37:22Z")
**T** 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Created after 1900 4. First name begins with T 5. Originally from prose fiction 6. Main character 7. Created before 1980 8. From science fiction/fantasy 9. Created by an American 10. Created after 1950 11. Has appeared in film and/or TV 12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable if human, given lifestyle choices., but given the answer to #14, who can say? 13. Created before 1965 14. Not human 15. Has appeared in both film and TV 16. Known for poor lifestyle habits (i.e., smoking, drug use?) ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/336 "2023-06-29T16:38:02Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking? > 2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard? > 3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in-universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring? Not Andrew Tate Not Greta Thunberg Not Thomas Covenant ---
**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 29, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/337 "2023-06-29T16:49:26Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > 1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking? > > 2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard? > > 3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring? > > Not Andrew Tate > Not Greta Thunberg > Not Thomas Covenant Correct on all three. IQs: 1. Are you the youngest of your party, once called a fool by the angel leading it? 2. Are you the creator of IQ 1? 3. Are you an insect-based superhero whose catchphrase involves cutlery? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/338 "2023-06-29T16:49:49Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a fictional male main character originally from science fiction/fantasy prose fiction created by an American after 1900 but before 1950, because you’re the protagonist of _The Marvelous Land of Oz_? 2. Were you ironically nicknamed “the Georgia Peach”, given your personality? 3. Were you ~~Summer’s ovine friend~~ a stinking mind parasite? ---
**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 29, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/339 "2023-06-29T17:17:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > ….Poetry is poetry. Logically unassailable. ---
**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 29, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875/340 "2023-06-29T17:18:38Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus? > > 2. Did you write _The Drawing of the Dark_? > > 3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in _The Unsinkable Molly Brown_? > > 3 DQs #1 was Toby Tyler. #2 is Tim Powers. #3 was Tammy Grimes. 3 DQs reserved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2023/984875.md?page=18)