# Botticelli March 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 26, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124 "2024-02-26T22:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [February 28, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/21 "2024-02-28T18:52:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. I am not John Roberts. > 2. I am not Raphael. > 3. I am not Kathy Reichs. A clean sweep! IQs: 1. Do you voice Linda on _Bob’s Burgers_? 2. Did you paint _The School of Athens_? 3. On _Bones_, did Bones write mysteries starring you? ---
**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:** [February 28, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/22 "2024-02-28T19:45:39Z")
IQs: 1. Did you suggest a new translation of the Bible to King James? 2. Were you Athos’s son? 3. Is the point of your story the same as the goal of a round of Botticelli? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/23 "2024-02-29T14:49:08Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you voice Linda on _Bob’s Burgers_? > 2. Did you paint _The School of Athens_? > 3. On _Bones_, did Bones write mysteries starring you? 1. Take a DQ. I’m going to guess someone named Roberts. 2. I am not Raphael. 3. I am not Kathy Reichs. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you suggest a new translation of the Bible to King James? > 2. Were you Athos’s son? > 3. Is the point of your story the same as the goal of a round of Botticelli? Take 3 DQs. ---
**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:** [February 29, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/24 "2024-02-29T14:58:32Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Take a DQ. I’m going to guess someone named Roberts. > 2. I am not Raphael. > 3. I am not Kathy Reichs. 1 was John Roberts; I did a question with (the painter) Raphael, then realized there were other people who shared the other two names, and couldn’t resist. DQ: from Norse mythology? ---
**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:** [February 29, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/25 "2024-02-29T15:24:38Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did you suggest a new translation of the Bible to King James? > > 2. Were you Athos’s son? > > 3. Is the point of your story the same as the goal of a round of Botticelli? > > Take 3 DQs. 1 was John Rainolds (aka Reynolds). 2 is Raoul de la Fere. 3.is Rumplestiltskin (guess my name). 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/26 "2024-02-29T15:32:39Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > 1 was John Roberts; I did a question with (the painter) Raphael, then realized there were other people who shared the other two names, and couldn’t resist. Yeah, I saw what you were doing, and thought it was pretty clever. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 3.is Rumplestiltskin (guess my name). So was this. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/27 "2024-02-29T15:33:18Z")
DQs: 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Only name starts with “R”. 4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology. 5. Not an American creator. 6. Not from Classical mythology. 7. Divine. 8. Heroic 9. Not from Egyptian mythology. 10. Not from Norse mythology. ---
**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:** [February 29, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/28 "2024-02-29T17:00:57Z")
DQ: From a fictional world (e.g., Tolkein’s Middle Earth or Lovecraft’s Cthulhu)? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**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:** [February 29, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/29 "2024-02-29T21:09:25Z")
IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? Did you sell a special anthracite pudding mix in a British comedy show? Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long before you died, to the disgust of many? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/30 "2024-02-29T22:37:12Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? > Did you sell a special anthracite pudding mix in a British comedy show? > Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long before you died, to the disgust of many? 1. I am not Radagast the Brown. 2. Take a DQ. 3. I am not …Ronald Reagan? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/31 "2024-02-29T22:38:29Z")
DQs: 1. Not real. 2. Male. 3. Only name starts with “R”. 4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology. 5. Not an American creator. 6. Not from Classical mythology. 7. Divine. 8. Heroic 9. Not from Egyptian mythology. 10. Not from Norse mythology. 11. Not from a fictional world. ---
**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:** [February 29, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/32 "2024-02-29T22:56:08Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write _Stiff_, _Gulp_, and _Packing for Mars_? 2. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff? 3. Were you Wendy’s emo boyfriend on _Gravity Falls_? ---
**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 1, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/33 "2024-03-01T14:10:54Z")
DQ: From an Asiatic mythology? 1 DQ reserved. ---
**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 1, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/34 "2024-03-01T14:21:27Z")
Previous IQs: Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Yes, Radagast the Brown, in Tolkien’s writings Did you sell a special anthracite pudding mix in a British comedy show? - Cardinal Richelieu, as mentioned on _At Last the 1948 Show_ (anthracite, or hard coal, of course not being an ideal ingredient for pudding!) Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long before you died, to the disgust of many? - Not Reagan, but Rush Limbaugh Two DQs reserved. IQs: Are you a Hindu religious figure mentioned in the title of a book by Arthur C. Clarke? Were you able to kill an entire roomful of Reavers and not be killed yourself? Were you the best-known president of the Pullman Railway Car Co.? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/35 "2024-03-01T14:43:57Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs > > 1. Did you write _Stiff_, _Gulp_, and _Packing for Mars_? > 2. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff? > 3. Were you Wendy’s emo boyfriend on _Gravity Falls_? 1. I am not Mary Roach. 2. I am not Rahm Emmanuel. 3. Take a DQ. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Are you a Hindu religious figure mentioned in the title of a book by Arthur C. Clarke? > Were you able to kill an entire roomful of Reavers and not be killed yourself? > Were you the best-known president of the Pullman Railway Car Co.? I am not River Tam nor A. Phillip Randolph, but yes, I am the Hindu mythological figure **Rama** , seventh avatar of Vishnu, demigod and hero of the _Ramayana_. Congratulations, **EH**! Next round is yours. ---
**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 1, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/36 "2024-03-01T15:14:18Z")
Thanks! Good one, **SMV**. Correct as to River Tam, but Robert Todd Lincoln was Pullman president - Randolph was head of the porters’ union, I believe. And of course I was thinking of Clarke’s _Rendezvous with Rama_. Our next letter will be # H ---
**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 1, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/37 "2024-03-01T15:14:52Z")
Just updated: [Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #117 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-the-letters-weve-used-so-far/619048/117) ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/38 "2024-03-01T15:27:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Thanks! Good one, **SMV**. > > Correct as to River Tam, but Robert Todd Lincoln was Pullman president - Randolph was head of the porters’ union, I believe And of course I was thinking of Clarke’s _Rendezvous with Rama_. > > Our next letter will be > > # H Thanks. But it did raise a question, that I’ll throw out to all the players: Is a deity or demigod real (for the purpose of the game)? I had to think about it, when I got the first DQ. Rama (or Thor, or Quetzalcoatl, or Zeus) is clearly not real the same way that, say, Raphael the painter is. But he’s not fictional, the way Raphael the Ninja Turtle is, either; millions of devout Hindus would say that he is indeed real. That’s why I answered that first DQ as “Not real” rather than “Fictional”, and why I tipped my hand by saying he came from mythology in the fourth DQ. Thoughts? ---
**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 1, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/39 "2024-03-01T15:36:01Z")
You played it right, I’d say. Unless someone is _universally_ accepted as real - George Washington, Indira Gandhi, Ivan the Terrible, Jane Austen - I think the answer “not real” or “fictional” is appropriate. That includes all religious, supernatural and mythological individuals (although there is contemporary historical evidence that Jesus existed, his divinity is obviously not universally accepted). ---
**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 1, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124/40 "2024-03-01T15:38:09Z")
I tend to solve that problem by avoiding using names whose reality is, er, ambiguous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-march-2024/998124.md?page=3)