# 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:** 26
**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, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/501 "2016-03-30T22:34:48Z")
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 10. Native speaker of a Germanic Language 11. Died after 1700 ---
**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, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/502 "2016-03-30T22:57:36Z")
> [@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? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I’m not Oliver Cromwell, nor Ovid, and DQ. Correct, Correct, and Omega. DQ: Died after 1800? ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/503 "2016-03-30T23:44:25Z")
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 10. Native speaker of a Germanic Language 11. Died after 1700 12. Died after 1800 ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/504 "2016-03-30T23:47:15Z")
IQ: Were you THE German go-to guy for politics and military affairs of the last half of the 19th Century? ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/505 "2016-03-30T23:57:02Z")
Yep, I’m Otto von Bismarck. Congrats Prof! ---
**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:** [March 31, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/506 "2016-03-31T03:35:35Z")
All right, **Prof. P.**! Congrats yet again. Previous IQs: Was perhaps your only redeeming characteristic your opposition to racial segregation? - Lee Harvey Oswald. While living in New Orleans, he made it a point to sit in the “colored section” of the bus. Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best male pals? - Oswald. Did you unwittingly have sex with a woman suffering from leprosy? - “Uncle Oswald” from the Roald Dahl stories. Oswald x3! ---
**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 31, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/507 "2016-03-31T10:07:32Z")
Obviously, I am P! ---
**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 31, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/508 "2016-03-31T11:16:21Z")
IQ1: Is your sister the Duchess of Cambridge? IQ2: Wer you a silk-winder written about by Robert Browning? IQ3: Did Joy Adamson write two books about 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 31, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/509 "2016-03-31T11:32:03Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your sister the Duchess of Cambridge? > IQ2: Wer you a silk-winder written about by Robert Browning? > IQ3: Did Joy Adamson write two books about you? 1. I am not Pippa Middleton. 2. I am not Pippa Passes. (?) Take a DQ for #3. ---
**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 31, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/510 "2016-03-31T11:51:55Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is your sister the Duchess of Cambridge? > IQ2: Wer you a silk-winder written about by Robert Browning? > IQ3: Did Joy Adamson write two books about you? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Pippa Middleton. > 2. I am not Pippa Passes. (?) > Take a DQ for #3. Correct. Yes, Pippa from “Pippa Passes.” Pippa the cheetah (_The Spotted Sphinx_ and _Pippa’s Challenge_). Pippas - is one enough? Are three too many? 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:** [March 31, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/511 "2016-03-31T11:53:04Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/512 "2016-03-31T12:22:46Z")
IQ1: Are you a purple-skinned foe of Superman who can leech his powers by touching? IQ2: Were you the police chief of Smallville while Clark Kent lived there? IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Batman foe whose criminal activity focused on a certain US coin? ---
**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 31, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/513 "2016-03-31T12:28:19Z")
IQ1: Are you a small dragonlike animal who appears in several SF novels? IQ2: Are you Philip Pirrip? IQ3: Are you a boy in an animated film based on a Ray Bradbury story? ---
**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 31, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/514 "2016-03-31T15:41:54Z")
IQ1: Was your homeworld very hot, and your power related to that? IQ2: Are you Magnetic Kid? IQ3: Are you the Kwisatz Haderach? ---
**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 31, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/515 "2016-03-31T16:40:20Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a purple-skinned foe of Superman who can leech his powers by touching? > IQ2: Were you the police chief of Smallville while Clark Kent lived there? > IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Batman foe whose criminal activity focused on a certain US coin? #1. I am not the Parasite. Take 2 DQs for the others. ---
**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 31, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/516 "2016-03-31T16:41:30Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Are you a small dragonlike animal who appears in several SF novels? > IQ2: Are you Philip Pirrip? > IQ3: Are you a boy in an animated film based on a Ray Bradbury story? 1. I am not Alan Dean Foster’s Pip. 2. I am not Charles Dickens’s Pip. Take a DQ for this Pip. ---
**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 31, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/517 "2016-03-31T16:43:14Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Was your homeworld very hot, and your power related to that? > IQ2: Are you Magnetic Kid? > IQ3: Are you the Kwisatz Haderach? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Pol Krinn. I am not Paul Atreides. ---
**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 31, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/518 "2016-03-31T17:31:31Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Was your homeworld very hot, and your power related to that? > IQ2: Are you Magnetic Kid? > IQ3: Are you the Kwisatz Haderach? 1 was Polar Boy, whose people used cold-generating powers to survive the heat. Correct on the other two. DQ: Male? IQ1: Did you flee into the future to avoid a foe, only to conflict with a much younger version of him who had time-traveled from an earlier point? IQ2: Are you an immortal who played in the fog? IQ3: Were you a child who befriended IQ2? ---
**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 31, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/519 "2016-03-31T18:37:05Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. 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:** [March 31, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/520 "2016-03-31T18:38:06Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Did you flee into the future to avoid a foe, only to conflict with a much younger version of him who had time-traveled from an earlier point? > IQ2: Are you an immortal who played in the fog? > IQ3: Were you a child who befriended IQ2? Take a DQ for #1. #2. I am not the Phantom Stranger (often seen surrounded by fog). #3. I am not the Yellow Peri. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=27)