# 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:** 27
**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, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/521 "2016-03-31T19:17:39Z")
IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? Were you a late-19th C. U.S. Attorney General? Did you surrender Vicksburg? ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/522 "2016-03-31T19:19:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you found Kenyon College? > Were you a late-19th C. U.S. Attorney General? > Did you surrender Vicksburg? Take 2 DQs. #3. I am not John Pemberton. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/523 "2016-03-31T19:48:01Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. correct, Douglas Parker, Penny Plunderer (where Batman got the huge penny in his gallery from) DQ: from the movies? 1 DQ left ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/524 "2016-03-31T19:58:17Z")
IQ1: Did you frequently thwart A. Wolf’s get-rich-quick schemes? IQ2: Are you a Metal Man member named Tina? IQ3: Are you a Legion of Super-Heroes member with the alias of Brek Bannin? ---
**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, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/525 "2016-03-31T20:03:05Z")
> [@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? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take a DQ for #1. > #2. I am not the Phantom Stranger (often seen surrounded by fog). > #3. I am not the Yellow Peri. 1 was Pulsar Stargrave (fka Brainiac), who fought Superman in the 20th century and ended up facing Superboy and the LSH in the 30th century. I’m impressed by your valid answers to 2 and 3, though they weren’t who I was thinking of. I will rephrase. IQ1: Are you the given name of an immortal creature of a traditional mythical kind who lived near water and played in the fog? IQ2: Were you a human boy who befriended IQ1? IQ3: Did you have a pet Ox? ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/526 "2016-03-31T20:04:15Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not originally from the movies; not at all remotely best known from the movies; but, yes, appeared in one movie. ---
**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, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/527 "2016-03-31T20:05:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did you frequently thwart A. Wolf’s get-rich-quick schemes? > IQ2: Are you a Metal Man member named Tina? > IQ3: Are you a Legion of Super-Heroes member with the alias of Brek Bannin? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Platinum. I am still not Polar Boy. ---
**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, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/528 "2016-03-31T20:06:28Z")
DQ: Were you the protagonist in the work you first appeared in? ---
**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, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/529 "2016-03-31T20:07:01Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Are you the given name of an immortal creature of a traditional mythical kind who lived near water and played in the fog? > IQ2: Were you a human boy who befriended IQ1? > IQ3: Did you have a pet Ox? 1. I am not Puff the Magic Dragon. 2. I am not Jackie Paper. 3. I am not Paul Bunyan. ---
**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, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/530 "2016-03-31T20:08:45Z")
Previous IQs: Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase, Salmon P.'s grandfather, I believe. Were you a late-19th C. U.S. Attorney General? - Philander Knox, and the only other Philander I know of. Did you surrender Vicksburg? - Yes, John C. Pemberton, to U.S. Grant in 1863. DQs: American? Last name start with P? IQs: Were you Hercules’s trainer in the Disney movie? Was there a bar fight about whether you were the greatest British Prime Minister? Were you the other candidate put forth in that fight? ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/531 "2016-03-31T20:12:08Z")
> [@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? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. I am not Alan Dean Foster’s Pip. > 2. I am not Charles Dickens’s Pip. > Take a DQ for this Pip. 😃 Correct. Correct. Pip indeed, from _The Halloween Tree_. DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction? ---
**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, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/532 "2016-03-31T20:18:44Z")
IQ1; Were you the hero of an adventure novel which was rewritten as a steampunk tale, with you as an immortal alien? IQ2: Were you the author of that revised story? IQ3: Did you accompany #1 in both versions of the story? ---
**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, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/533 "2016-03-31T20:27:49Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not originally from the movies; not at all remotely best known from the movies; but, yes, appeared in one movie 4. Not the protagonist; indeed, there is no protagonist as such 5. Not from a work of prose fiction 6. American in the American version, British in the British version 7. Last name starts with P ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/534 "2016-03-31T20:29:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you Hercules’s trainer in the Disney movie? > Was there a bar fight about whether you were the greatest British Prime Minister? > Were you the other candidate put forth in that fight? I am not Phil. Take 2 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 31, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/535 "2016-03-31T20:30:41Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1; Were you the hero of an adventure novel which was rewritten as a steampunk tale, with you as an immortal alien? > IQ2: Were you the author of that revised story? > IQ3: Did you accompany #1 in both versions of the story? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/536 "2016-03-31T20:45:50Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1; Were you the hero of an adventure novel which was rewritten as a steampunk tale, with you as an immortal alien? > IQ2: Were you the author of that revised story? > IQ3: Did you accompany #1 in both versions of the story? > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Take 3 DQs. Phileas Fogg (_Around the World in Eighty Days_, _The Other Log of Phileas Fogg_). Philip Jose Farmer. Passepartout. DQ: Originally from a comic book? Two DQs reserved. ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/537 "2016-03-31T21:00:46Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not originally from the movies; not at all remotely best known from the movies; but, yes, appeared in one movie 4. Not the protagonist; indeed, there is no protagonist as such 5. Not from a work of prose fiction 6. American in the American version, British in the British version 7. Last name starts with P 8. Not originally from a comic book ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/538 "2016-03-31T22:44:49Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did you frequently thwart A. Wolf’s get-rich-quick schemes? > IQ2: Are you a Metal Man member named Tina? > IQ3: Are you a Legion of Super-Heroes member with the alias of Brek Bannin? > > Take a DQ for #1. > I am not Platinum. > I am still not Polar Boy. Peter Porkchops, aka Pig-Iron DQ: Originally from a TV show? holding 1 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:** [March 31, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/539 "2016-03-31T22:51:51Z")
DQs: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. Not originally from the movies; not at all remotely best known from the movies; but, yes, appeared in one movie 4. Not the protagonist; indeed, there is no protagonist as such 5. Not from a work of prose fiction 6. American in the American version, British in the original British version 7. Last name starts with P 8. Not originally from a comic book 9. Not originally from a TV show ---
**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, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/540 "2016-03-31T23:08:00Z")
IQ1: Are you a Superman foe who is known to break into banks to force the employees to accept money, and who also bought the rights to the English alphabet? IQ2: Did you play Professor Pepperwinkle in the _Adventures of Superman_ TV series? IQ3: Was Jimmy Olsen often the victim of your inventions gone awry (but it worked OK for Elastic Lad)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=28)