# Botticelli May 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 8, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571 "2015-05-08T19:13:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/321 "2015-05-22T19:38:04Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > A sweep, well done! > > IQ1: Does the animal of your secret identity prey on the animal of your brother’s secret identity? > IQ2: Are you a king who appears in Shakespeare? > IQ3: Did you gouge out your own eyes? 1 was Owlman, a.k.a. Thomas Wayne, Jr. 2 Third time was the charm! It was Oberon. (_A Midsummer Night’s Dream_) Correct on 3. DQ1: Are you the protagonist in the work for which you’re best known? DQ2: Are you human? Holding two DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/322 "2015-05-22T19:48:07Z")
IQ1: Were you a courtier in _Hamlet_? ---
**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 22, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/323 "2015-05-22T20:10:38Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you a courtier in _Hamlet_? Yep, I’m Osric!. So much for worrying about being too obscure. Congrats, **Tim**! ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/324 "2015-05-22T21:40:25Z")
Yeah, not the most major character but _Hamlet_ tends to be a very well known play, seems fair enough. I am L. ---
**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 22, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/325 "2015-05-22T22:08:08Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a recently added member of the Justice League of America? 2. Did you duel Hamlet with a poisoned sword? 3. Were you the Teutonic Titwillow? ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/326 "2015-05-22T23:10:30Z")
IQ1: Were you a secret agent working for APE? IQ2: Did you work with Moses Horwitz and his brothers? IQ3: Did Donald Johanson name you for a Beatles song? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/327 "2015-05-22T23:24:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a recently added member of the Justice League of America? > 2. Did you duel Hamlet with a poisoned sword? > 3. Were you the Teutonic Titwillow? Ugh, I haven’t followed JLA recently… I’ll wildly guess that Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) joined again? 2. I’m not Laertes. Two Hamlet characters in a row would be too much. And a DQ for 3. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/328 "2015-05-22T23:27:53Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a secret agent working for APE? > IQ2: Did you work with Moses Horwitz and his brothers? > IQ3: Did Donald Johanson name you for a Beatles song? DQs for the first two, but I’m not Lucy. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/329 "2015-05-22T23:50:09Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a secret agent working for APE? > IQ2: Did you work with Moses Horwitz and his brothers? > IQ3: Did Donald Johanson name you for a Beatles song? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > DQs for the first two, but I’m not Lucy. _Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp_. Louis Feinberg, aka Larry Fine. The Horwitz brothers are better known by their stage names: Moe, Shemp and Curly Howard. 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:** [May 23, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/330 "2015-05-23T00:00:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a recently added member of the Justice League of America? > 2. Did you duel Hamlet with a poisoned sword? > 3. Were you the Teutonic Titwillow? > [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > Ugh, I haven’t followed JLA recently… I’ll wildly guess that Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) joined again? > 2. I’m not Laertes. Two Hamlet characters in a row would be too much. > And a DQ for 3. 1. Not GL. Lex Luthor, so they could keep a close eye on him. 2. Correct. 3. Lily von Shtupp, from _Blazing Saddles_. 2 DQs 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 23, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/331 "2015-05-23T00:31:44Z")
congrats …Tim, Some Call Me. IQ1: Are you a hundred-headed serpent who guards the golden apples of the Hesperides? IQ2: Are you an Argonaut and father to Odysseus? IQ3: Did you throw a sling stone hard enough to knock the eye of Balor out of his socket? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/332 "2015-05-23T00:53:33Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a hundred-headed serpent who guards the golden apples of the Hesperides? > IQ2: Are you an Argonaut and father to Odysseus? > IQ3: Did you throw a sling stone hard enough to knock the eye of Balor out of his socket? Ugh, that’s a sweep, 3 DQ for you. I really should remember IQ2. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/333 "2015-05-23T00:54:50Z")
DQs: 1. Real 2. Female ---
**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 23, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/334 "2015-05-23T01:29:14Z")
DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with L? ---
**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 23, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/335 "2015-05-23T01:31:10Z")
IQs: 1. Did you have an exercise show on TV in the 1960’s? 2. Were you a movie star of Westerns who was good with a whip? 3. Are you Marjorie Buell’s best known 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:** [May 23, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/336 "2015-05-23T01:35:03Z")
Congrats, **SCMT**! Previous IQs: Did you jealously slay your wife after being tricked into it by a trusted aide? - Yes, Othello. Was your nickname “Rabbit” while serving as a U.S. Marine? - Lee Harvey Oswald. Were you that person’s foreign spouse? - Marina Oswald. IQs: Did you take a carriage ride with your wife and discuss a visit to California on the day you were mortally wounded? Were you a longtime aide to President Bartlet who died in an auto accident? Are you the general after whom the area was named in which that aide was killed? ---
**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:** [May 23, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/337 "2015-05-23T02:41:45Z")
IQ1: Were you an archaeologist who died of injuries received in a motorcycle accident? IQ2: Did you sing “Looking for Love” and “Cherokee Fiddle”? IQ3: Did you write about Tell, Tyrel, Orrin, and their kin? ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/338 "2015-05-23T03:06:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you have an exercise show on TV in the 1960’s? > 2. Were you a movie star of Westerns who was good with a whip? > 3. Are you Marjorie Buell’s best known creation? Take 3 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/339 "2015-05-23T03:13:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you take a carriage ride with your wife and discuss a visit to California on the day you were mortally wounded? > Were you a longtime aide to President Bartlet who died in an auto accident? > Are you the general after whom the area was named in which that aide was killed? Was that Abraham Lincoln? Take two DQs. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Call_Me.Tim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/340 "2015-05-23T03:15:40Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you an archaeologist who died of injuries received in a motorcycle accident? > IQ2: Did you sing “Looking for Love” and “Cherokee Fiddle”? > IQ3: Did you write about Tell, Tyrel, Orrin, and their kin? No bells are ringing. Take three DQs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=18)