# Botticelli - March 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 2, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880 "2018-03-02T12:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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 27, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/261 "2018-03-27T16:31:10Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Marni Nixon sing for you in your best known movie musical? > 2. Did you write the hymn _Come, ye thankful people, come_ and edit and annotate the Greek New Testament? > 3. In David Gerrold’s novel _The Flying Sorcerers_, is the character named Purple a thinly disguised version of you? Not Audrey Hepburn in _My Fair Lady_, dunno, and dunno. > [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a musketeer? > 2. Are you a murine ballerina? Okay, a fictional murine ballerina. Though if you can find a real one, I won’t quibble. > 3. Did you turn a voyeur into a deer? Not Aramis, Ariel or Aphrodite. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Did Robin Williams play you as a Vietnam War radio DJ? > IQ2: Did you defeat the vikings at the Battle of Edington? > IQ3: Did you play Tom Haverford in _Parks and Recreation_? Not Adrian Kronauer (sp?), Aethelred or… dunno. A. 1. fictional 2. human 3. created by American(s) 4. created after 1900 5. appears in more than one written work of fiction ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/262 "2018-03-27T16:54:54Z")
Ariel isn’t murine, she’s syrenian. Angelina Ballerina was the mouse in question. She’s featured on TV as well as books - even in the LOTFAHOTB - so she should be fair game. And it was Artemis rather than Aphrodite who was caught out having a bath. Hence two DQs: 1. Have you been represented in a filmed work of entertainment? 2. Were you created after 1970? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/263 "2018-03-27T16:56:29Z")
IQ: Did you have a hit with _Sk8er Boi_? IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends? IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine? ---
**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 27, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/264 "2018-03-27T17:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Did Robin Williams play you as a Vietnam War radio DJ? > IQ2: Did you defeat the vikings at the Battle of Edington? > IQ3: Did you play Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation? > > Not Adrian Kronauer (sp?), Aethelred or… dunno. correct, Alfred the Great (son of Aethelred) and Aziz Ansari. holding 2 DQs ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/265 "2018-03-27T20:05:36Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ: Did you have a hit with _Sk8er Boi_? > IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends? > IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine? Dunno x3. A. 1. fictional 2. human 3. created by American(s) 4. created after 1900 5. appears in more than one written work of fiction 6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment 7. created after 1970 ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/266 "2018-03-27T21:54:41Z")
DQs 1. Does your authority derive from a moistened bint? 2. Are you the Kingkiller’s nemesis? 3. Are you a French mediaeval philosopher manipulated in puppet form by John Cusack, before he discovers the portal into Malkovich? ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/267 "2018-03-27T21:57:56Z")
It’s bedtime over here, so if you pass on any of those, here’s an IQ: is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written). ---
**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 27, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/268 "2018-03-27T22:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Marni Nixon sing for you in your best known movie musical? > 2. Did you write the hymn Come, ye thankful people, come and edit and annotate the Greek New Testament? > 3. In David Gerrold’s novel The Flying Sorcerers, is the character named Purple a thinly disguised version of you? > Not Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, dunno, and dunno. Correct. #2 was Henry Alford. #3 was Isaac Asimov. DQs: 1. Last name starts with A? 2. Protagonist? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/269 "2018-03-28T12:52:41Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > IQ: Did you have a hit with _Sk8er Boi_? > IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends? > IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine? Avril Lavigne, April from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Anthony Hopkins (“A nice Chianti”). DQ: Are you a main character in a Hollywood feature film (or films)? DQ: Would you be alive if real? DQ: Male? IQ: Are you a large, blonde comedienne who has starred in several Hollywood films? IQ: Was a New York sports arena named after you? IQ: Are you the author of a well-known book on quitting? ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/270 "2018-03-28T13:11:18Z")
What, if any, is the convention here on surnames and forenames? Avril Lavigne would be an L in almost all civilised games of this type. ---
**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 28, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/271 "2018-03-28T13:11:35Z")
> [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](#): > > DQs > > 1. Does your authority derive from a moistened bint? > 2. Are you the Kingkiller’s nemesis? > 3. Are you a French mediaeval philosopher manipulated in puppet form by John Cusack, before he discovers the portal into Malkovich? Those are IQs (indirect questions, asked in order to win a DQ or direct question), not DQs. But I am not Arthur, King of the Britons; dunno, and not… Abelard? > [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](#): > > It’s bedtime over here, so if you pass on any of those, here’s an IQ: is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written). Now I’m confused. This looks like a DQ, and I don’t think you have any earned ones that you haven’t already asked. > [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > … > > IQ: Are you a large, blonde comedienne who has starred in several Hollywood films? > IQ: Was a New York sports arena named after you? > IQ: Are you the author of a well-known book on quitting? Dunno x3. > [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](#): > > What, if any, is the convention here on surnames and forenames? Avril Lavigne would be an L in almost all civilised games of this type. She could be either an “A” or an “L” in this game. You’d have to use a DQ (as **Prof. P.** just did in this round) to find out if her first or last name began with the letter in question. A. 1. fictional 2. human 3. created by American(s) 4. created after 1900 5. appears in more than one written work of fiction 6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment 7. created after 1970 8. first name starts with A 9. not really the protagonist ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/272 "2018-03-28T13:17:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Those are IQs (indirect questions, asked in order to win a DQ or direct question), not DQs. But I am not Arthur, King of the Britons; dunno, and not… Athaenasius? > Now I’m confused. This looks like a DQ, and I don’t think you have any earned ones that you haven’t already asked. Correct. Ambrose. Abelard. It was an advance DQ in case you picked these up yesterday. Can I resubmit it, and hold another in reserve. I don’t know why I labelled some IQs as DQs, I thought I’d grasped the conventions after a quick look at the thread, but clearly got confused at some point. Although the surname thing is still confusing me rather. ---
**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 28, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/273 "2018-03-28T14:02:38Z")
Before your post, I corrected my last answer to Abelard. “Advance DQs” are going to be very confusing - I suggest you not ask them. At this point you have one earned DQ, from your Ambrose IQ. Did you still wish to ask “is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written)” as your next DQ? As to surnames, you may use either the first or last name of a well-known person in this game. George Washington would be either a “G” or a “W,” and Margaret Thatcher would be an “M” or a “T.” You won’t know if the letter the GM has announced for that round is for a first or a last name unless you use a DQ to find out. People with just a single commonly-known name, like Madonna or Bono, will appear just as an “M” or a “B,” respectively, and a DQ will elicit an answer like, “Only name starts with [letter].” People who are always known by three names or initials, like J. Edgar Hoover or John Wilkes Booth, could appear under any of their respective three letters, and again, you’d have to use a DQ to find out which it is. ---
**Author:** ![AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@AlonzoSWhitebeard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlonzoSWhitebeard)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/274 "2018-03-28T14:09:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Before your post, I corrected my last answer to Abelard. Good stuff. > [@](#): > > “Advance DQs” are going to be very confusing - I suggest you not ask them. At this point you have one earned DQ, from your Ambrose IQ. Did you still wish to ask “is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written)” as your next DQ? Yes please. > [@](#): > > As to surnames, you may use either the first or last name of a well-known person in this game. George Washington would be either a “G” or a “W,” and Margaret Thatcher would be an “M” or a “T.” You won’t know if the letter the GM has announced for that round is for a first or a last name unless you use a DQ to find out. People with just a single commonly-known name, like Madonna or Bono, will appear just as an “M” or a “B,” respectively, and a DQ will elicit an answer like, “Only name starts with [letter].” People who are always known by three names or initials, like J. Edgar Hoover or John Wilkes Booth, could appear under any of their respective three letters, and again, you’d have to use a DQ to find out which it is. A comprehensive answer, thanks. It seems very, very odd to me. But all boards have their idiosyncrasies. ---
**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 28, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/275 "2018-03-28T14:24:39Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom _Good Times_ but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase? 2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice? 3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French? ---
**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 28, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/276 "2018-03-28T15:07:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom _Good Times_ but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase? > 2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice? > 3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French? Not John Amos, dunno, and dunno. A. 1. fictional 2. human 3. created by American(s) 4. created after 1900 5. appears in more than one written work of fiction 6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment 7. created after 1970 8. first name starts with A 9. not really the protagonist 10. fiction set in contemporary America (i.e., at the time when it was written) ---
**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 28, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/277 "2018-03-28T15:45:49Z")
DQ: Military genre? holding a 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 28, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/278 "2018-03-28T20:16:53Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom Good Times but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase? > 2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice? > 3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French? > Not John Amos, dunno, and dunno. Correct on #1. #2 was the Biblical patriarch Abraham. #3 was Hans/Jean Arp. DQs: 1. Male? 2. Created after 2000? ---
**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 28, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/279 "2018-03-28T20:28:58Z")
A. 1. fictional 2. human 3. created by American(s) 4. created after 1900 5. appears in more than one written work of fiction 6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment 7. created after 1970 8. first name starts with A 9. not really the protagonist 10. fiction set in contemporary America (i.e., at the time when it was written) 11. not in a military genre 12. male 13. created before 2000 ---
**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 28, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880/280 "2018-03-28T20:41:21Z")
IQs: 1. Are you Bruce Campbell’s best known role? 2. Did you die after your hair was caught in low-hanging branches as you rode under it, separating you from your mount, which allowed the enemy soldiers to dispatch you? 3. Are you the Greek equivalent of the goddess Diana? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2018/809880.md?page=15)