# Botticelli - May 2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 1, 2014, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433 "2014-05-01T13:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/261 "2014-05-29T17:06:59Z")
DQ: Original appearance published after 1970? IQ1: Did you conceal your master under a turban? IQ2: Were you introduced with the sound of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard? IQ3: Did the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of your death end up on the cover of a Rage Against The Machine album? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/262 "2014-05-29T17:09:05Z")
1. Quasimodo 2. Olaf Quimby II 3. Questor DQ1: Are you supernatural in nature? DQ2: Is your author still alive? DQ3: Are you in more than one book? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/263 "2014-05-29T18:29:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Scottish archer in a novel by Sir Walter Scott? > 2. Were you a mysterious detective in short stories by Agatha Christie? > 3. Were you at one point editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics? Dunno any of these three, either. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > … > IQ1: Did you conceal your master under a turban? > IQ2: Were you introduced with the sound of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard? > IQ3: Did the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of your death end up on the cover of a Rage Against The Machine album? Not Prof. Quirrell; dunno the other two. Q. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character 4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me 5. story did not take place in the 19th century 6. last name starts with Q 7. from literature 8. set in the 20th century 9. not the protagonist 10. original appearance published before 1970 11. not supernatural 12. author now deceased 13. in more than one book Although the other books/stories are not all sequels, as such. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/264 "2014-05-29T18:56:09Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a Scottish archer in a novel by Sir Walter Scott? > 2. Were you a mysterious detective in short stories by Agatha Christie? > 3. Were you at one point editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics? > > Dunno any of these three, either. #1 is Quentin Durward, from the book of the same name. #2 is Mr. Harley Quin. #3 is Joe Quesada. DQ: Set in the second half of the 20th Century? 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:** [May 29, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/265 "2014-05-29T19:07:07Z")
Q. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character 4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me 5. story did not take place in the 19th century 6. last name starts with Q 7. from literature 8. set in the 20th century 9. not the protagonist 10. original appearance published before 1970 11. not supernatural 12. author now deceased 13. in more than one book 14. set in the second half of the 20th century ---
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/266 "2014-05-29T20:24:21Z")
IQ: Did Humphrey Bogart play you in _The Caine Mutiny_? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/267 "2014-05-29T23:57:42Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ1: Did you conceal your master under a turban? > IQ2: Were you introduced with the sound of fingernails scraping on a chalkboard? > IQ3: Did the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of your death end up on the cover of a Rage Against The Machine album? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Prof. Quirrell; dunno the other two. 1: Correct on Quirrell. 2: _Jaws_ shark hunter Quint, played by Robert Shaw 3: Self-immolating Vietnamese Buddhist monk Quang Duc DQ: Author American? I’ll reserve the second one for now. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/268 "2014-05-30T02:00:47Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQ: Did Humphrey Bogart play you in _The Caine Mutiny_? Not Capt. Queeg. Q. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character 4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me 5. story did not take place in the 19th century 6. last name starts with Q 7. from literature 8. set in the 20th century 9. not the protagonist 10. original appearance published before 1970 11. not supernatural 12. author now deceased 13. in more than one book 14. set in the second half of the 20th century 15. American author ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/269 "2014-05-30T03:26:40Z")
IQ1: Are you alien with a propeller on your head that has your own cereal? IQ2: Are you a supporting character in 20 James Bond films? IQ3: Are you a video game character that jumps on cubes and makes them change color? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/270 "2014-05-30T16:04:36Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you alien with a propeller on your head that has your own cereal? > IQ2: Are you a supporting character in 20 James Bond films? > IQ3: Are you a video game character that jumps on cubes and makes them change color? Not Quix, Q the MI6 weapons and gadget guy, or Qbert (after whom Cletus Spuckler on _The Simpsons_ named one of his kids): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2nFjgm6Ac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2nFjgm6Ac) ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/271 "2014-05-30T17:00:01Z")
DQ: Antagonist? One DQ reserved. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/272 "2014-05-30T19:24:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Quix, Q the MI6 weapons and gadget guy, or Qbert (after whom Cletus Spuckler on _The Simpsons_ named one of his kids): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2nFjgm6Ac](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm2nFjgm6Ac) Actually, the first one is Quisp. DQ: Is the author Robert Jordan? ---
**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:** [May 30, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/273 "2014-05-30T19:37:14Z")
Q. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character 4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me 5. story did not take place in the 19th century 6. last name starts with Q 7. from literature 8. set in the 20th century 9. not the protagonist 10. original appearance published before 1970 11. not supernatural 12. author now deceased 13. in more than one book 14. set in the second half of the 20th century 15. American author 16. antagonist 17. author is not Robert Jordan ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/274 "2014-05-31T02:20:22Z")
Fictional male, last name starts with Q, antagonist of more than one book, set in the second half of the 20th Century. At least one movie from the books. The author is deceased, was American. …and EH reads voraciously… DQ: Mystery or spy genre? IQs: 1. Are you Brainiac 5’s lesser known identity? 2. Were you a ghost who haunted children, a gypsy-cursed werewolf , a faux Edward Rochester, the subject of a Dorian Gray-like painting, and, oddly enough, one of the good guys? 3. Did Gene Wilder play you in one his earliest starring vehicles? 4. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/275 "2014-05-31T04:08:14Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > … > IQs: > > 1. Are you Brainiac 5’s lesser known identity? > 2. Were you a ghost who haunted children, a gypsy-cursed werewolf , a faux Edward Rochester, the subject of a Dorian Gray-like painting, and, oddly enough, one of the good guys? > 3. Did Gene Wilder play you in one his earliest starring vehicles?.. I ought to know those, but you got me. Take three DQs. Q. 1. fictional 2. male 3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character 4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me 5. story did not take place in the 19th century 6. last name starts with Q 7. from literature 8. set in the 20th century 9. not the protagonist 10. original appearance published before 1970 11. not supernatural 12. author now deceased 13. in more than one book 14. set in the second half of the 20th century 15. American author 16. antagonist 17. author is not Robert Jordan 18. not in the mystery or spy genre At least as those genres are typically thought of; I understand that the original book in which this character appears has a somewhat mysterious element to it (although, truth be told, I’ve never read it). ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/276 "2014-05-31T14:28:38Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you Brainiac 5’s lesser known identity? > 2. Were you a ghost who haunted children, a gypsy-cursed werewolf , a faux Edward Rochester, the subject of a Dorian Gray-like painting, and, oddly enough, one of the good guys? > 3. Did Gene Wilder play you in one his earliest starring vehicles? > > I ought to know those, but you got me. Take three DQs. #1 is Qwerl Dox. #2 is Quentin Collins from the old TV soap opera _Dark Shadows_. #3 is Quackser Fortune from the very forgettable _Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx_. DQ: from a children’s book? 2 DQs reserved. IQs: 1. Are you playing the lead in the upcoming remake of the musical movie _Annie_? 2. Are you the cat-owning detective in the mystery series: _The Cat Who…_? 3. Did you stalk Lolita and Humbert Humbert? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/277 "2014-05-31T22:28:48Z")
IQ1: Are you a Marvel comics character that was formerly named Marvel Boy? IQ2: Are you a goalie for the LA Kings? IQ3: Do you stalk Humbert Humbert? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/278 "2014-05-31T22:36:51Z")
Gah, got question-stealed again… IQ3 Resubmit: Are you a Charles Dickens character, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/279 "2014-06-01T01:54:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …3) Did you stalk Lolita and Humbert Humbert? I won’t bother answering the others, because yes, I am Clare Quilty from Vladimir Nabokov’s _Lolita_. Well done, **Prof. P.**! And **Knowed Out** was not far behind 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:** [June 1, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433/280 "2014-06-01T02:40:32Z")
Great choice, EH! (Actually, I thought Nabokov was Russian-English, but checking AFTER the fact I find he’s Russian-American, so I’m surprised.) #1 is Quvenzhane Wallis. #2 was James Qwilleran. I’ll think about it and start the next game tomorrow in a June Botticelli thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2014/687433.md?page=15)