# 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:** 28
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/541 "2016-03-31T23:23:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 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)? Take a DQ for #1. I am not Phil Tead. I am not Prof. Pepperwinkle (oh, wait, I am, but that’s not this character). ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/542 "2016-03-31T23:31:05Z")
IQ1: Are you represented by a purple piece? ---
**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, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/543 "2016-03-31T23:40:24Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Are you represented by a purple piece? Boy, you’re good. Yes, I am Prof. Plum from Clue (or Cluedo). ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/544 "2016-04-01T00:20:35Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Are you represented by a purple piece? Applause. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/545 "2016-04-01T00:37:42Z")
Nice one, I was pretty baffled by 6 until I started thinking outside (inside?) the box. The trouble with guessing P is that now I must be Q. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/546 "2016-04-01T01:52:49Z")
IQ1: Was Umslopogaas one of your associates? IQ2: Were you a DADA teacher who wore a purple turban? IQ3: Did you come after James and James, and before Andrew and Martin? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/547 "2016-04-01T02:59:52Z")
IQ1: Did Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky write detective fiction under your name as an alias? IQ2: Are you a vice president who who had trouble spelling a certain tuber? IQ3: Are you a Norwegian ruler whose name because synonymous with traitor? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/548 "2016-04-01T03:18:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was Umslopogaas one of your associates? > IQ2: Were you a DADA teacher who wore a purple turban? > IQ3: Did you come after James and James, and before Andrew and Martin? 3 DQs for you. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/549 "2016-04-01T03:20:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky write detective fiction under your name as an alias? > IQ2: Are you a vice president who who had trouble spelling a certain tuber? > IQ3: Are you a Norwegian ruler whose name because synonymous with traitor? DQ, I’m not Dan Quayle, and I’m not Vidkun Quisling. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/550 "2016-04-01T03:43:30Z")
IQ1: Did you survive the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, and 30 years later make your living as a shark hunter for hire? IQ2: Did you ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? IQ3: Are you (most likely) Starling City’s wealthiest vigilante? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/551 "2016-04-01T04:22:09Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > IQ1: Did you survive the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, and 30 years later make your living as a shark hunter for hire? > IQ2: Did you ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? > IQ3: Are you (most likely) Starling City’s wealthiest vigilante? DQ, I thought that was Brodie in Mallrats but I can’t get a Q out of his name, and I’m guessing the Question on the third as I can’t remember what city he operated out of. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/552 "2016-04-01T04:33:27Z")
Crap. I flubbed my IQ2, but a quick rephrase will fix it: IQ2: Did YOUR BUDDY ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/553 "2016-04-01T05:00:15Z")
Good job, **SCMT**! Previous IQs: Were you Hercules’s trainer in the Disney movie? - Yes, Philoctetes AKA Phil. Was there a bar fight about whether you were the greatest British Prime Minister? - Lord Palmerston, on _The Simpsons_. Were you the other candidate put forth in that fight? - Pitt the Elder, ditto. On to Q… IQs: Did Andrew Jackson think you and Henry Clay ripped him off? Did you help James Bond on Jamaica? Were you one of “the rude mechanicals”? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/554 "2016-04-01T06:30:23Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Crap. I flubbed my IQ2, but a quick rephrase will fix it: > > IQ2: Did YOUR BUDDY ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? Hmm… I’m blanking on that guy’s name, was initials but I don’t remember the Q on him either, alas. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/555 "2016-04-01T06:34:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Good job, **SCMT**! > > Previous IQs: > > Were you Hercules’s trainer in the Disney movie? - Yes, Philoctetes AKA Phil. > Was there a bar fight about whether you were the greatest British Prime Minister? - Lord Palmerston, on _The Simpsons_. > Were you the other candidate put forth in that fight? - Pitt the Elder, ditto. > > On to Q… > > IQs: > > Did Andrew Jackson think you and Henry Clay ripped him off? > Did you help James Bond on Jamaica? > Were you one of “the rude mechanicals”? I’m not John Quincy Adams, nor Q, and a DQ for you. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/556 "2016-04-01T10:57:10Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Was Umslopogaas one of your associates? > IQ2: Were you a DADA teacher who wore a purple turban? > IQ3: Did you come after James and James, and before Andrew and Martin? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > 3 DQs for you. Allan Quatermain, from the books by H Rider Haggard. Professor Quirrell, from the first Harry Potter book. John Quincy Adams (preceded by Madison and Monroe, followed by Jackson and Van Buren). DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? DQ3: American? (I asked about Adams first, so I’ll claim the DQ. :)) ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/557 "2016-04-01T11:45:24Z")
IQ1: Were you a supporting character who took over a book series about a boy and his dog? IQ2: Were you a TV medical examiner? IQ3: Will everybody jump for joy when you arrive? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/558 "2016-04-01T11:58:45Z")
Welcome, bordelond! Glad to have you with us. IQs: 1. Are you secretly El Kabong? 2. Did you have a rivalry with Quake? 3. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a novel by Sir Walter Scott? ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/559 "2016-04-01T12:03:22Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky write detective fiction under your name as an alias? > IQ2: Are you a vice president who who had trouble spelling a certain tuber? > IQ3: Are you a Norwegian ruler whose name because synonymous with traitor? > > DQ, I’m not Dan Quayle, and I’m not Vidkun Quisling. Ellery Queen holding a DQ ---
**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:** [April 1, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/560 "2016-04-01T12:10:03Z")
IQ1: Did John Hurt play you in _The Naked Civil Servant_? IQ2: Was your screenplay for _True Romance_ the launching point of your directing career? IQ3: Did you illustrate many of Roald Dahl’s books? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=29)