# Botticelli March 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 1, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525 "2023-03-01T03:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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 11, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/201 "2023-03-11T15:58:11Z")
IQ1: Did you and your brother have a bicycle shop in Ohio in the late nineteenth century? IQ2: Were you the main character in Heinlein’s _Glory Road_? IQ3: Does a British dyke bear your name? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/202 "2023-03-11T16:17:57Z")
1. I’m not Orville Wright 2. Take a DQ 3. While I can’t be positive that there isn’t a lesbian in Britain that has taken my name, I find it highly unlikely so take one more 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 11, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/203 "2023-03-11T16:38:17Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you Popeye’s girlfriend? > > 2. Are you her brother? > > 3. Are you her mother > > 1. I’m not Olive Oyl > take 2 DP > > By the way, quick rules clarification for the future: are only humans or humanoid people allowed? For example in the last game could I have used Zabu (Kazar’s pet saber toothed tiger) as a guess? As SCAdian says above, any character counts. He, she, they or it doesn’t have to human. Correct on Olive. Her brother’s Castor Oyl; her mom’s Nana Oyl. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/204 "2023-03-11T16:40:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > DQs: > > 1. Real? > 2. Male? 1. Fictional 2. Male ---
**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 11, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/205 "2023-03-11T21:14:30Z")
Previous IQs: Did you give your name to an Ohio town? - Ebenezer Zane of Zanesville Did you give your name to a mountain in the American West? - Yes, Zebulon Pike Did you reluctantly help an NYPD cop in a very big hurry? - Yes, Zeus in _Die Hard 2_ Congratulations, **Buck**! O it is. IQs: Were you AKA Tharkun? Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you? Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK? ---
**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 11, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/206 "2023-03-11T23:00:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you and your brother have a bicycle shop in Ohio in the late nineteenth century? > IQ2: Were you the main character in Heinlein’s _Glory Road_? > IQ3: Does a British dyke bear your name? > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. I’m not Orville Wright > 2. Take a DQ > 3. While I can’t be positive that there isn’t a lesbian in Britain that has taken my name, I find it highly unlikely so take one more DQ correct Oscar Gordon Offa DQ1: Originally from prose fiction? DQ2: American creator(s)? ---
**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 11, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/207 "2023-03-11T23:21:21Z")
IQs: 1. Were you the 44th POTUS? 2. Did e. e. cummings sing of you, “glad and big”? 3. Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphoses_? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/208 "2023-03-12T00:05:45Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > - Were you the 44th POTUS? > - Did e. e. cummings sing of you, “glad and big”? > - Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphoses_? 1. Not Obama Take 2 DQs > [@SCAdian](#): > > DQ1: Originally from prose fiction? > DQ2: American creator(s)? 1. Not originally from prose fiction (which I take to mean novels or short stories) 2. American Creation ---
**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 12, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/209 "2023-03-12T02:06:26Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you AKA Tharkun? > Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you? > Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK? Ahem. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/210 "2023-03-12T02:55:31Z")
Congrats, Buck! IQs: 1. Did you observe that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker? 2. Did you perform “Cut Piece”? 3. Were you Cope’s bone-hunting rival? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/211 "2023-03-12T07:02:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you AKA Tharkun? > Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you? > Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK? Sorry, 1. Take a DQ 2. I’m not Oberlin? Otherwise take a DQ 3. Take a DQ > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you observe that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker? > 2. Did you perform “Cut Piece”? > 3. Were you Cope’s bone-hunting rival? 1. I’m not Oscar Wilde? (Otherwise take a DQ) 2-3) Take 2 DQs ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/212 "2023-03-12T07:26:58Z")
IQ1: Are you green and dwell in a garbage can? IQ2: Did 007 quip you were named after your father, perhaps? IQ3: Did you give another form of your name to the middle of the week? ---
**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 12, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/213 "2023-03-12T11:57:13Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > - Were you the 44th POTUS? > > - Did e. e. cummings sing of you, “glad and big”? > > - Did you write _The Art of Love_ and _Metamorphoses_? > > 1. Not Obama > Take 2 DQs Correct on Barack Obama. #2 was Olaf, in a poem. #3 was Ovid. DQs: 1. Last name starts with O? 2. Created after 1900? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/214 "2023-03-12T13:11:59Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Did you observe that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker? > 2. Did you perform “Cut Piece”? > 3. Were you Cope’s bone-hunting rival? > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. I’m not Oscar Wilde? (Otherwise take a DQ) > 2-3) Take 2 DQs 1 was Ogden Nash; 2 was Yoko Ono; 3 was Othniel Marsh. DQs: 1. male? 2. main character? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/215 "2023-03-12T20:10:34Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Are you green and dwell in a garbage can? > IQ2: Did 007 quip you were named after your father, perhaps? > IQ3: Did you give another form of your name to the middle of the week? 1. I am not Oscar the grouch 2. I am not Octopussy? 3. I am not Odin > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Last name starts with O? > 2 Created after 1900? 1. Last name does not start with O 2. Created after 1900. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. male? > 2. main character? 1. Already [asked and answered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/204) (take another DQ). 2. I would say no. His importance in the work probably equivalent to Keiko O’Brien on Deep space 9. DQ’s so far 1. Male 2. FIctional 3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story) 4. American Creation 5. After 1900 6. O is not last name 7. Not really a Main Character ---
**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 12, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/216 "2023-03-12T21:19:07Z")
Previous IQs: Were you AKA Tharkun? - Olorin AKA Gandalf Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you? - Oliver O. Howard Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK? - Ossie Davis, in _Bubba Ho-tep_ DQs: American character? Good guy? First appeared after 1950? IQs: Were you one of Drew Carey’s best sitcom pals? Did you, to your credit, refuse to obey the Nawlins segregation laws? Did you have a yacht called _Sperm_? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/217 "2023-03-12T21:41:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > DQs: > > American character? > Good guy? > First appeared after 1950? > > IQs: > > Were you one of Drew Carey’s best sitcom pals? > Did you, to your credit, refuse to obey the Nawlins segregation laws? > Did you have a yacht called _Sperm_? DQs 1. American Character 2. After 1950 3. I would say he’s a pretty good guy IQs 1. Take a DQ 2. Jesse Owens? 3. Take another DQ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/218 "2023-03-13T01:36:50Z")
IQs: 1. Did you host Saturday Night Live yesterday (not four days ago)? 2. Were you originally Lyman’s pet, until he stopped appearing in the strip? 3. Now you are become Death, destroyer of worlds? DQs: 1. created after 1980? 2. originally from film, TV, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/219 "2023-03-13T02:25:04Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you host Saturday Night Live yesterday (not four days ago)? > 2. Were you originally Lyman’s pet, until he stopped appearing in the strip? > 3. Now you are become Death, destroyer of worlds? > > DQs: > > 1. created after 1980? > 2. originally from film, TV, etc.? 1. Take a DQ 2 Take a DQ 3 I’m not Oppenheimer DQ answers 1. ``` Male ``` 2. ``` FIctional ``` 3. ``` Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story) ``` 4. ``` American Creation ``` 5. ``` After 1900 ``` 6. ``` O is not last name ``` 7. ``` Not really a Main Character ``` 8. ``` American Character ``` 9. ``` Good Guy ``` 10. ``` Created after 1950 ``` 11. ``` Created after 1980** ``` 12. ``` Not originally from film TV etc. ``` ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/220 "2023-03-13T05:37:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > > IQ1: Are you green and dwell in a garbage can? > > IQ2: Did 007 quip you were named after your father, perhaps? > > IQ3: Did you give another form of your name to the middle of the week? > > 1. I am not Oscar the grouch > 2. I am not Octopussy? > 3. I am not Odin Yes Plenty O’Toole, in _Diamonds Are Forever_ Yes DQ: Originally from comics (comic book, comic strip)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=12)