# 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:** 29
**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, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/561 "2016-04-01T13:40:13Z")
_ **Previously-submitted IQs** _ IQ1: Did you survive the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, and 30 years later make your living as a shark hunter for hire? Quint from _Jaws_ (1974) IQ2: Did YOUR BUDDY ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? T.S. Quint from _Mallrats_ (1995) IQ3: Are you (most likely) Starling City’s wealthiest vigilante? Oliver Queen, the alter-ego of the Green Arrow … If I’m following this correctly, from posts #551 and #554 above, I have three DQs. I will withhold them until the number of DQs I have is confirmed. ---
**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, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/562 "2016-04-01T14:23:47Z")
I am Q: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. American ---
**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, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/563 "2016-04-01T14:27:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > 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? DQ, Quincy, and DQ. ---
**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, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/564 "2016-04-01T14:28:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 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? That’s a sweep. 3DQ 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, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/565 "2016-04-01T14:31:19Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > 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? DQ, Quentin Tarantino, and DQ. ---
**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, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/566 "2016-04-01T14:32:29Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > _ **Previously-submitted IQs** _ > > IQ1: Did you survive the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, and 30 years later make your living as a shark hunter for hire? Quint from _Jaws_ (1974) > IQ2: Did YOUR BUDDY ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? T.S. Quint from _Mallrats_ (1995) > IQ3: Are you (most likely) Starling City’s wealthiest vigilante? Oliver Queen, the alter-ego of the Green Arrow > > … > > If I’m following this correctly, from posts #551 and #554 above, I have three DQs. I will withhold them until the number of DQs I have is confirmed. Yep, that’s a total of 3 DQ for you. Green Arrow I thought was Star City, but I guess they changed that over the years. The ‘most likely’ part is just in case Batman comes to town. 🙂 ---
**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, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/567 "2016-04-01T14:39:20Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > > That’s a sweep. 3DQ for you. #1 was Quickdraw McGraw. #2 was Quisp. #3 is Quentin Durward. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**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, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/568 "2016-04-01T15:02:06Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Green Arrow I thought was Star City, but I guess they changed that over the years. It’s “Starling City” in the TV series _Arrow_, and was “Star City” in various DC comics. Hmmm … not so great of an IQ. Sorry, **Tim**. ---
**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, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/569 "2016-04-01T15:12:58Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > It’s “Starling City” in the TV series _Arrow_, and was “Star City” in various DC comics. Hmmm … not so great of an IQ. Sorry, **Tim**. Nah, that sort of thing is totally fine, the Arrow TV series is probably more valid pop culture than the comics these days, I’m just making lame excuses. 🙂 ---
**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, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/570 "2016-04-01T16:04:39Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > I am Q: > > 1. Fictional > 2. Male > 3. American OK … three more DQs: 1. Are you known primarily through one or more movies? 2. Are you known primarily through one or more television programs? 3. Are you Jonny Quest? ---
**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/571 "2016-04-01T16:14:11Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > OK … three more DQs: > > 1. Are you known primarily through one or more movies? > 2. Are you known primarily through one or more television programs? > 3. Are you Jonny Quest? Though it hasn’t come to that lately, the questioners as a whole get only 20 DQs in total before we go to a sort of phase 2, where you can’t ask any more IQs and the only allowed DQs are in the form of #6 above. At this stage, questions like that should probably be asked as IQs, as they’re sort of free that way and don’t count toward the group’s total of 20. So, that’s a longwinded way of saying that I’m going to count #6 above as an IQ. I’m not Jonny Quest. I’m going to answer the other two as DQs below, you still have one DQ remaining to you bordelond, and may also ask up to another 3 IQs. (If it’s unclear, each player may have up to 3 IQs outstanding; once an IQ has been responded to one way or the other you may ask new ones again to the 3 limit.) ---
**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, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/572 "2016-04-01T16:18:02Z")
I am Q: 1. Fictional 2. Male 3. American 4. Not known primarily through movies, though I appeared in one 5. Known primarily through one or more television programs ---
**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, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/573 "2016-04-01T16:19:09Z")
> [@](#): > > 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? > > DQ, Quentin Tarantino, and DQ. Quentin Crisp, correct, Quentin Blake Quentin x3! DQ: From an adventure series? holding 2 DQs ---
**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, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/574 "2016-04-01T16:21:44Z")
IQ: Are you a former psychiatrist who went insane and now henches for the Joker? ---
**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, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/575 "2016-04-01T16:23:01Z")
Thanks, **Tim**. I went with the Jonny Quest DQ as an attempt at “solving the puzzle” (to borrow _Wheel of Fortune_ parlance). So … when someone feels they know the answer … do they use a “banked” DQ to solve, or do they just blurt out the “solving question”, whether or not they’ve got a DQ to use? I had sussed out most of the ground rules by reading through the thread … but I didn’t know about the “20 DQ” limit. Thanks for tipping me off. ---
**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, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/576 "2016-04-01T16:29:02Z")
OK … I went back and looked at how O and P were solved … they were actually solved with IQs. Somehow, I missed that. OK, I understand now. ---
**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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/577 "2016-04-01T16:35:04Z")
If you suspect you know who the mystery person is, **bordelond** , best to phrase it as an IQ until 20 DQs have been asked and answered. If you are correct, the GM must say so. Previous IQs: Did Andrew Jackson think you and Henry Clay ripped him off? - Yes, John Quincy Adams. Did you help James Bond on Jamaica? - Q wasn’t in _Dr. No_; that was Maj. Boothroyd, the armourer. I was thinking of Quarrel. Were you one of “the rude mechanicals”? - Peter Quince, in _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_. DQs: First appeared in or before 1964? First name start with Q? IQs: Were you the Shatneresque captain of the starship _Protector_? Did you twice dress as a post-WWIII judge? Were you a mystery writer’s pen name? ---
**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, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/578 "2016-04-01T16:35:19Z")
DQ: From a children’s show? ---
**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, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/579 "2016-04-01T16:41:52Z")
Yes, technically “are you X” is a valid DQ, just not a wise one at this stage. Basically, if you ask a question for which the target is a valid response, and I don’t know another valid response to give, I have to admit I’m that target and give you the win. You can infer that every time I award a DQ the target doesn’t match the question. Oh, and during the game I’m allowed to read up specifically about my chosen target for purposes of being sure that I follow the rules and answer correctly; I’m not to research more generally for IQs nor are you all, otherwise this would just be a google search game. ---
**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, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512/580 "2016-04-01T16:41:59Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > … you still have one DQ remaining to you bordelond, and may also ask up to another 3 IQs. DQ: Does your surname begin with Q? … IQ1: Do you and Race Bannon (along with two boys and a dog) tool around the world solving mysteries and foiling criminals? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2016/747512.md?page=30)