# 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:** 21
**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 21, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/401 "2023-03-21T14:05:12Z")
IQs: 1. Did you sometimes write under the pen name Boz? 2. Did you found the American Red Cross? ---
**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 21, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/402 "2023-03-21T14:16:06Z")
IQ 3: Did the sparrow kill you with a bow and arrow? ---
**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 21, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/403 "2023-03-21T16:52:23Z")
IQs: 1. DId you store Japanese buisinessmen in your Bedroom furniture to make extra money? 2. Did you get your name because of the pockets of jacket? 3. Were you born and did you die in the year of Hailley’s comet. ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/404 "2023-03-21T17:24:13Z")
**C** 1. Fictional ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/405 "2023-03-21T17:26:04Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Is your actual last name Mapother? > 2. Did you write _Piranesi_? > 3. Did you unsuccessfully predict the Rapture in the 21st century? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you sometimes write under the pen name Boz? > 2. Did you found the American Red Cross? > 3. Did the sparrow kill you with a bow and arrow? Not Charles Dickens Not Clara Barton? Not Cock Robin > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. DId you store Japanese buisinessmen in your Bedroom furniture to make extra money? > 2. Did you get your name because of the pockets of jacket? > 3. Were you born and did you die in the year of Hailley’s comet. Not Cosmo Kramer DQ Not Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/406 "2023-03-21T17:43:13Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Is your actual last name Mapother? > 2. Did you write _Piranesi_? > 3. Did you unsuccessfully predict the Rapture in the 21st century? > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Take 3 DQs 1 was Tom Cruise; 2 was Susanna Clarke; 3 was evangelist Harold Camping. DQs: 1. first name begins with C? 2. male? 3. originally from prose? ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/407 "2023-03-21T17:49:52Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. DId you store Japanese buisinessmen in your Bedroom furniture to make extra money? > > 2. Did you get your name because of the pockets of jacket? > > 3. Were you born and did you die in the year of Hailley’s comet. > > Not Cosmo Kramer > DQ > Not Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain 1. Correct 2. Captain Kangaroo 3. Correct DQ: Originally from Movies, theater or TV? ---
**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 21, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/408 "2023-03-21T17:57:41Z")
IQ1: Were you an English earl whose name is used for an article of clothing? IQ2: Are you a Doper who also uses that name? IQ3: Were you a 19th-century British politician who was also the Marquess of Londonderry? ---
**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 21, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/409 "2023-03-21T18:07:35Z")
Swept me! 1. Did you create the character E. L. Wisty? 2. Did you write _The Man Who Was Thursday_? 3. Did you create Plastic Man? ---
**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 21, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/410 "2023-03-21T18:40:14Z")
IQs: 1. Has the English community of Poundbury been designed after your principles, including traditional architecture, mixed-use development, and less dependence on cars? 2. Did you create _The X-Files_? 3. Are you a mysterious and morally ambiguous deal-making denizen of the Infinity Train, voiced by Kate ~~Mulgrowl~~ Mulgrew? ---
**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 21, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/411 "2023-03-21T19:01:51Z")
IQs: 1. Were you originally a barbarian, later elected to prime minister, then pope, and finally ascended to the moon with a sphere of gold only to fall from grace and become a simple bar keep? 2. Were you the previous character’s arch nemesis who ran a feminist totalitarian state? 3. Did you break Lou Gehrig’s iron man record? ---
**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 21, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/412 "2023-03-21T20:48:47Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an English earl whose name is used for an article of clothing? > IQ2: Are you a Doper who also uses that name? > IQ3: Were you a 19th-century British politician who was also the Marquess of Londonderry? Take 3 DQs > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you create the character E. L. Wisty? > 2. Did you write _The Man Who Was Thursday_? > 3. Did you create Plastic Man? Not Peter Cook Take 2 DQs > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1. Has the English community of Poundbury been designed after your principles, including traditional architecture, mixed-use development, and less dependence on cars? > 2. Did you create _The X-Files_? > 3. Are you a mysterious and morally ambiguous deal-making denizen of the Infinity Train, voiced by Kate ~~Mulgrowl~~ Mulgrew? Not King Charles III ? Not Chris Carter Not Cat > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > 1. Were you originally a barbarian, later elected to prime minister, then pope, and finally ascended to the moon with a sphere of gold only to fall from grace and become a simple bar keep? > 2. Were you the previous character’s arch nemesis who ran a feminist totalitarian state? > 3. Did you break Lou Gehrig’s iron man record? 2 DQs Not Cal Ripken, Jr. ---
**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 21, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/413 "2023-03-21T20:51:12Z")
**C** 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with C 3. Male 4. Not originally from prose 5. Originally from Movies, theater or TV ---
**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 21, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/414 "2023-03-21T21:07:35Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > Not King Charles III ? > Not Chris Carter > Not Cat A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Were you eventually given the first name “Veritably”? 2. Did you play Egon Spengler’s daughter in _Ghostbusters: Afterlife_? 3. Are you best known for going missing in 1930? ---
**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 21, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/415 "2023-03-21T21:23:27Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. Were you originally a barbarian, later elected to prime minister, then pope, and finally ascended to the moon with a sphere of gold only to fall from grace and become a simple bar keep? > > 2. Were you the previous character’s arch nemesis who ran a feminist totalitarian state? > > 3. Did you break Lou Gehrig’s iron man record? > > 2 DQs > Not Cal Ripken, Jr. 1. Cerebus (a comic that is started out as brilliant but later devolved into self important drek. 2. Cirin. 3. Correct. DQ: 1. Created after 1970? 2. Animated character? ---
**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 21, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/416 "2023-03-21T21:37:15Z")
**C** 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with C 3. Male 4. Not originally from prose 5. Originally from Movies, theater or TV 6. Created before1970 7. Not an animated 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 21, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/417 "2023-03-21T22:06:29Z")
Way to go, **CFOHG**! Previous IQs: Were you a Jewish biomedical scientist in the cloning novel _Joshua Son of None_? - Thor Bitterbaum Were you the Dwarven blacksmith who forged Elendil’s sword Narsil? - Telchar Were you the grumpy cashier at the Krusty Krab? - Yes, Squidward Tentacles, on _SpongeBob_ On to C… IQs: Did Van Dyck create a painting that showed three views of your face? Were you a Tory grandee in the Jeffrey Archer political novel _First Among Equals_? Did you succeed Margaret Thatcher as PM in the original _House of Cards_? ---
**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 21, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/418 "2023-03-21T23:01:48Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you an English earl whose name is used for an article of clothing? > > IQ2: Are you a Doper who also uses that name? > > IQ3: Were you a 19th-century British politician who was also the Marquess of Londonderry? > > Take 3 DQs Lord Cardigan Cardigan Lord Castlereagh IQ1: Originally from TV? IQ2: American creator(s)? One DQ reserved. ---
**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 21, 2023, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/419 "2023-03-21T23:19:46Z")
**C** 1. Fictional 2. Only name begins with C 3. Male 4. Not originally from prose 5. Originally from Movies, theater or TV 6. Created before1970 7. Not an animated character 8. Not originally from TV 9. Non-American creator(s) ---
**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 21, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525/420 "2023-03-21T23:20:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did Van Dyck create a painting that showed three views of your face? > Were you a Tory grandee in the Jeffrey Archer political novel _First Among Equals_? > Did you succeed Margaret Thatcher as PM in the original _House of Cards_? Not Charles I Take 2 DQs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2023/980525.md?page=22)