# 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:** 19
**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 19, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/361 "2023-03-19T19:40:23Z")
**Chock** is on the right trolley track. ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/362 "2023-03-19T23:00:15Z")
Are you Lady Elaine Fairchild? ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/363 "2023-03-19T23:03:43Z")
Whew! I was beginning to think nobody else’s kids watched _Mr. Rogers Neighborhood_. Yes! I am # Lady Elaine Fairchilde an honest, if mischief-making puppet. [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.4260b6ca87ece7e3ce25eaad5317901c?rik=gQ7OrBU8Pe8Txg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.4260b6ca87ece7e3ce25eaad5317901c?rik=gQ7OrBU8Pe8Txg&pid=ImgRaw&r=0) Take it away, **De\_La\_Rue!** ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/364 "2023-03-19T23:05:02Z")
Ah, I’d forgotten her. Good one, and well done, **DLR.** ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/365 "2023-03-19T23:24:43Z")
I may have watched _Mr Rogers_ once or twice… ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/366 "2023-03-19T23:35:12Z")
OK: I am **T**. ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/367 "2023-03-19T23:41:13Z")
IQs: Did a noted fictional officer get your name as his middle name? Did a noted real officer get your name as his middle name? Was Elessar the first head of this royal house? ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/368 "2023-03-19T23:43:03Z")
IQs: 1. Did you gain fame by starring on _The A-Team_? 2. Are you one of the dead Monkees? 3. Did you write _Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me_? ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/369 "2023-03-20T00:03:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did a noted fictional officer get your name as his middle name? > Did a noted real officer get your name as his middle name? > Was Elessar the first head of this royal house? Respectively: I am not Tiberius. I am not Tecumseh. Take a DQ (is this a person?). > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you gain fame by starring on _The A-Team_? > 2. Are you one of the dead Monkees? > 3. Did you write _Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me_? 1. I am not Mr.T. 2. I am not Peter Tork. 3. I am not Augustus Toplady. ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/370 "2023-03-20T00:56:48Z")
Well done De-La\_Rue IQ’s 1. Are you one of two french detectives who were identical in appearance and homo-phonically. 2. Are you the other one. 3. Are you their friend the young world traveling reporter? ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/371 "2023-03-20T01:10:56Z")
Swept me! I have to get new material. IQs: 1. Did you write the short story _The Night The Bed Fell In_? 2. Did you propose to Miss Vikki on TV? 3. In the movie _Field of Dreams_, did the other ball players refuse to let you play with them? ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/372 "2023-03-20T01:26:19Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ’s > > 1. Are you one of two french detectives who were identical in appearance and homo-phonically. > 2. Are you the other one. > 3. Are you their friend the young world traveling reporter? 1. I am not Thomson. 2. I am not Thompson. 3. I am not Tintin. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the short story _The Night The Bed Fell In_? > 2. Did you propose to Miss Vikki on TV? > 3. In the movie _Field of Dreams_, did the other ball players refuse to let you play with them? 1. I am not James Thurber? 2. I am not Tiny Tim. 3. I am not Ty Cobb? ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/373 "2023-03-20T04:05:56Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. I am not Thomson. > 2. I am not Thompson. > 3. I am not Tintin. All correct. IQs: 1. Were you an early innovator in electronic music, making futuristic arrangements of classical music pieces for synthesizer. 2. Did you author three trilogies set in the world of the true game? 3. Were you a young adventurer in the early 20th century who gave his name to a type of pun. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/374 "2023-03-20T14:11:34Z")
IQ1: Were we exhorted to give you the ball and just look at you go? IQ2: Are you #1 under a different name? IQ3: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/375 "2023-03-20T14:18:44Z")
Swept again! IQs: 1. Did you have a hit with _Black Horse And The Cherry Tree_? 2. Were you a stereotypical Irish character on the radio series _The Fred Allen Show_? 3. Did you play Toto in the 1939 _The Wizard of Oz_? ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/376 "2023-03-20T14:29:00Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Are you one of two french detectives who were identical in appearance and homo-phonically. > 2. Are you the other one. Nitpick: Belgian detectives . ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/377 "2023-03-20T14:45:10Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you an early innovator in electronic music, making futuristic arrangements of classical music pieces for synthesizer. > 2. Did you author three trilogies set in the world of the true game? > 3. Were you a young adventurer in the early 20th century who gave his name to a type of pun. 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. “I am not Tom Swift,” said De La Rue slowly. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were we exhorted to give you the ball and just look at you go? > IQ2: Are you #1 under a different name? > IQ3: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter? IQ1: Take a DQ. IQ2: Take a DQ. IQ3: I am not Thompson. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Black Horse And The Cherry Tree_? > 2. Were you a stereotypical Irish character on the radio series _The Fred Allen Show_? > 3. Did you play Toto in the 1939 _The Wizard of Oz_? 1. Take a DQ. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not Terry. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Nitpick: Belgian detectives Nitpick of a nitpick: certainly Tintin and Haddock are Belgian, but I don’t believe Thompson and Thomson are ever confirmed to be. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/378 "2023-03-20T14:52:11Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were we exhorted to give you the ball and just look at you go? > > IQ2: Are you #1 under a different name? > > IQ3: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter? > > IQ1: Take a DQ. > IQ2: Take a DQ. > IQ3: I am not Thompson. Mr Touchdown Mr Team correct DQ1: Real? DQ2: Male? ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/379 "2023-03-20T16:56:50Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > 1. Did you have a hit with _Black Horse And The Cherry Tree_? > > 2. Were you a stereotypical Irish character on the radio series _The Fred Allen Show_? > > 3. Did you play Toto in the 1939 _The Wizard of Oz_? > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. I am not Terry. #1 is K. T. Tunstall. #2 was Titus Moody. Correct on Terry. DQ: Last name starts with T? 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 20, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/380 "2023-03-20T17:12:50Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Were you an early innovator in electronic music, making futuristic arrangements of classical music pieces for synthesizer. > > 2. Did you author three trilogies set in the world of the true game? > > 3. Were you a young adventurer in the early 20th century who gave his name to a type of pun. > > 1. Take a DQ. > 2. Take a DQ. > 3. “I am not Tom Swift,” said De La Rue slowly. 1. Isao Tomita 2. Sheri S. Tepper 3. Correct 2 DQ’s reserved pending answers to previous DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=20)