# Botticelli March 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 29, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512 "2016-02-29T16:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/481 "2016-03-30T12:15:38Z")
IQ1: Are you the Penguin’s alias? IQ2: Are you the subject of a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem and the Greek name of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II? IQ3: Are you Green Arrow’s alias? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/482 "2016-03-30T13:21:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a murdered very vocal atheist ? > 2. Did you play Commissioner Gordon in the movies? > 3. Did you assist Commissioner Gordon on TV? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Ugh, that’s a sweep for you. #1 was Madalyn Murray O’Hair. #2 was Gary Oldman. #3 was Chief O’Hara. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with O? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/483 "2016-03-30T14:18:05Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the Penguin’s alias? > IQ2: Are you the subject of a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem and the Greek name of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II? > IQ3: Are you Green Arrow’s alias? I’m not… Oscar Cobblepot? nor Ozymandias nor Oliver Queen. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/484 "2016-03-30T14:21:18Z")
IQs: 1. Were you known as Tippetarius when you were a boy? 2. Are you known for your very large paintings of very closeup views of flowers? 3. Were you aka President Martin van Buren? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/485 "2016-03-30T14:27:17Z")
I am O: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with O ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/486 "2016-03-30T14:36:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as Tippetarius when you were a boy? > 2. Are you known for your very large paintings of very closeup views of flowers? > 3. Were you aka President Martin van Buren? That’s another sweep, though I’m envisioning Point Break with different president masks now. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/487 "2016-03-30T14:43:02Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you known as Tippetarius when you were a boy? > 2. Are you known for your very large paintings of very closeup views of flowers? > 3. Were you aka President Martin van Buren? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > That’s another sweep, though I’m envisioning Point Break with different president masks now. 1. Ozma of Oz, when she was ensorcelled by the witch Mombi. 2. Georgia O’Keeffe. 3. Old Kinderhook (OK). DQs: 1. Alive? 2. American? 3. 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:** [March 30, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/488 "2016-03-30T17:21:59Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not… Oscar Cobblepot? nor Ozymandias nor Oliver Queen. Oswald I’ll take the DQ this time. 🙂 holding 1 DQ IQ1: Are you the name Gandalf had before Manwë sent him to Middle Earth? IQ2: Are you an evil tree Tom Bomadil serenaded to free Merry and Pippin? IQ3: Did you write accompanying poems for Saint-Saens’ _Carnival of Animals_? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/489 "2016-03-30T17:53:02Z")
I am O: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with O 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Not known for the Arts ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/490 "2016-03-30T17:56:12Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the name Gandalf had before Manwë sent him to Middle Earth? > IQ2: Are you an evil tree Tom Bomadil serenaded to free Merry and Pippin? > IQ3: Did you write accompanying poems for Saint-Saens’ _Carnival of Animals_? Olorin, and two more 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:** [March 30, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/491 "2016-03-30T17:58:47Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the comedian who created _Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius_? 2. Did e. e. cummings sing of you, and call you “glad and big”? 3. Were you a talented Hollywood pianist who was friends with George Gershwin? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/492 "2016-03-30T19:21:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the comedian who created _Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius_? > 2. Did e. e. cummings sing of you, and call you “glad and big”? > 3. Were you a talented Hollywood pianist who was friends with George Gershwin? Another sweep, though I feel like I should know 2, at least. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/493 "2016-03-30T19:36:17Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the comedian who created Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius? > 2. Did e. e. cummings sing of you, and call you “glad and big”? > 3. Were you a talented Hollywood pianist who was friends with George Gershwin? > Another sweep, though I feel like I should know 2, at least. #1 is Steve Oedekerk. #2 “i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or” #3 was Oscar Levant. DQs: 1. Died before 1900? 2. European? 3. Known for politics/military? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/494 "2016-03-30T19:50:19Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the name Gandalf had before Manwë sent him to Middle Earth? > IQ2: Are you an evil tree Tom Bomadil serenaded to free Merry and Pippin? > IQ3: Did you write accompanying poems for Saint-Saens’ Carnival of Animals? > > Olorin, and two more DQs. correct, Old Man Willow, Ogden Nash holding 3 DQs ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/495 "2016-03-30T20:13:15Z")
I am O: 1. Real 2. Male 3. Last name does not start with O 4. Not American 5. Dead 6. Not known for the Arts 7. Died before 1900 8. European 9. Known for politics/military ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/496 "2016-03-30T20:37:15Z")
IQ1: Did Louis de Funes and Sylvester Stallone star in different versions of a film bearing your name? IQ2: Did you write “Younger Than Springtime” and “Ol’ Man River”? IQ3: Did you open a butcher shop in Chicago in the 1880s? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/497 "2016-03-30T21:15:09Z")
IQ1: Did Louis de Funes and Sylvester Stallone star in different versions of a film bearing your name? IQ2: Did you write “Younger Than Springtime” and “Ol’ Man River”? IQ3: Did you open a butcher shop in Chicago in the 1880s? I’m not Oscar. Regretfully, I can’t recall the first names of Rodgers and/or Hammerstein, one of whom I think is #2… so 2xDQ for you. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/498 "2016-03-30T21:35:21Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a 17th Century Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England? 2. Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphosis_? 3. Were you a Superman-like robot who had his own brief series published by Marvel Comics? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/499 "2016-03-30T21:36:22Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did Louis de Funes and Sylvester Stallone star in different versions of a film bearing your name? > IQ2: Did you write “Younger Than Springtime” and “Ol’ Man River”? > IQ3: Did you open a butcher shop in Chicago in the 1880s? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not Oscar. > Regretfully, I can’t recall the first names of Rodgers and/or Hammerstein, one of whom I think is #2… so 2xDQ for you. Correct. Oscar Hammerstein. Oscar Mayer. DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language? DQ2: Died before 1700? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/500 "2016-03-30T22:33:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a 17th Century Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England? > 2. Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphosis_? > 3. Were you a Superman-like robot who had his own brief series published by Marvel Comics? I’m not Oliver Cromwell, nor Ovid, and DQ. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=26)