# 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:** 28
**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 30, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/541 "2015-05-30T16:33:05Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you a Mexican War general better known for politics? > IQ2: Were you a pseudonym used by the authors of one of Stratemeyer’s most popular series? > IQ3: Were you the reptilian star of a series of kids’ books that were turned into a TV show? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Franklin Pierce, dunno x2 Correct. The Hardy Boys books were written by “Franklin W Dixon.” Franklin the Turtle. Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Does your cat put you out at night? IQ2: Did someone say that you, George Washington, and his horse would conduct the entire revolution by yourselves? IQ3: Were you the hero of Li’l Abner’s favourite comic? ---
**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, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/542 "2015-05-30T17:43:14Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name starts with F ---
**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, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/543 "2015-05-30T17:44:19Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > IQ1. Are you the inspiration for a character whose career was boosted thanks to an offer that couldn’t be refused? > IQ2. Was your middle name McFeely? > IQ3. Are you a lead singer of an experimental band who is never seen in public without his oversized papier-mache head? dunno x2, not Michael Fassbender (saw him on the Colbert Report) ---
**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, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/544 "2015-05-30T17:45:21Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Does your cat put you out at night? > IQ2: Did someone say that you, George Washington, and his horse would conduct the entire revolution by yourselves? > IQ3: Were you the hero of Li’l Abner’s favourite comic? dunno x2, not Fearless Fosdick ---
**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, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/545 "2015-05-30T18:14:29Z")
IQs: 1. Did you write the Kent Montana series? 2. Did Chevy Chase repeatedly mention how dead you are? 3. Are you a member of the Warriors Three? ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/546 "2015-05-30T18:15:01Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunno x2, not Michael Fassbender (saw him on the Colbert Report) IQ1. Are you the inspiration for a character whose career was boosted thanks to an offer that couldn’t be refused? **Frank Sinatra** , inspiration for Johnny Fontaine in the Godfather series. IQ2. Was your middle name McFeely? **Fred McFeely Rogers** , who would surely forgive you for forgetting him. IQ3. Are you a lead singer of an experimental band who is never seen in public without his oversized papier-mache head? Also acceptable is **Frank Sidebottom** or just **Frank** , played by **Michael Fassbender** who, because of his live in-character performances, is also technically correct here. (The best kind of correct.) DQ. Character first appeared in a book? DQ reserved. ---
**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 30, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/547 "2015-05-30T20:10:17Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Does your cat put you out at night? > IQ2: Did someone say that you, George Washington, and his horse would conduct the entire revolution by yourselves? > IQ3: Were you the hero of Li’l Abner’s favourite comic? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > dunno x2, not Fearless Fosdick Fred Flintstone. Benjamin Franklin. (One of John Adams’s lines in _1776_). Correct. IQ1: A fictional American? IQ2: Created by an American? Two DQs reserved. IQ1: Did you play a person in search of the left-handed boy? IQ2: Did you sing “Lipstick on Your Collar”? IQ3: Did you write _Little Lord Fauntleroy_? ---
**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, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/548 "2015-05-31T00:44:19Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name starts with F 4. Character first appeared in a book 5. Not a fictional American 6. Not created by an American ---
**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, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/549 "2015-05-31T00:45:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the Kent Montana series? > 2. Did Chevy Chase repeatedly mention how dead you are? > 3. Are you a member of the Warriors Three? dunno, not Francisco Franco, not Fandral the Dashing ---
**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, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/550 "2015-05-31T00:47:30Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a person in search of the left-handed boy? > IQ2: Did you sing “Lipstick on Your Collar”? > IQ3: Did you write _Little Lord Fauntleroy_? take 3 DQs ---
**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, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/551 "2015-05-31T01:47:11Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you write the Kent Montana series? > 2. Did Chevy Chase repeatedly mention how dead you are? > 3. Are you a member of the Warriors Three? > dunno, not Francisco Franco, not Fandral the Dashing #1 was Lionel Fenn. Correct on the other two. DQ: First created after 1900? ---
**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, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/552 "2015-05-31T01:54:02Z")
IQs: 1. Were you head clown for many years with Ringling Brothers Circus? 2. Did you play Crazy Guggenheim on the _Jackie Gleason Show_? 3. Did Joe Regalbuto play you on _Murphy Brown_? ---
**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 31, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/553 "2015-05-31T02:16:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you play a person in search of the left-handed boy? > IQ2: Did you sing “Lipstick on Your Collar”? > IQ3: Did you write _Little Lord Fauntleroy_? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > take 3 DQs Genie Francis (_General Hospital_). Connie Francis. Frances Hodgson Burnett. DQ1: Created by a European? DQ2: Protagonist? DQ3: Still alive when last heard from? One 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:** [May 31, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/554 "2015-05-31T05:02:59Z")
Previous IQs: Were you a famous black Scottie dog? - Fala Were you his owner? - FDR Did your future wife first lay eyes on you as you walked down the street, eating a loaf of bread? - Benjamin Franklin, when he first arrived in Philadelphia. DQs: European character? Would probably be alive in 2015? Considered a “good guy”? IQs: Did you play Audrey Van Horne? Were you the first admiral in the U.S. Navy? Did you write about Riverworld? ---
**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, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/555 "2015-05-31T12:01:43Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name starts with F 4. Character first appeared in a book 5. Not a fictional American 6. Not created by an American 7. First created after 1900 8. Created by a European 9. Protagonist 10. Still alive when last heard from 11. European character 12. Would not be alive in 2015 13. Considered by many but not all to be a “good guy” ---
**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, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/556 "2015-05-31T12:03:50Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you head clown for many years with Ringling Brothers Circus? > 2. Did you play Crazy Guggenheim on the _Jackie Gleason Show_? > 3. Did Joe Regalbuto play you on _Murphy Brown_? take 3 DQs ---
**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, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/557 "2015-05-31T12:05:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Did you play Audrey Van Horne? > Were you the first admiral in the U.S. Navy? > Did you write about Riverworld? not Sherilyn Fenn, dunno, not Phillip Jose Farmer (?) ---
**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, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/558 "2015-05-31T14:18:34Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you head clown for many years with Ringling Brothers Circus? > 2. Did you play Crazy Guggenheim on the Jackie Gleason Show? > 3. Did Joe Regalbuto play you on Murphy Brown? > take 3 DQs #1 was Felix Adler. #2 was Frank Fontaine. #3 was Frank Fontana. 3 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/559 "2015-05-31T17:58:57Z")
DQ. Character created by someone from the British Isles? IQ1. Were you played by Jackie Coogan and Christopher Lloyd? IQ2. Did you pretend to be an airline pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, and a high-school French teacher? IQ3. Were you rescued from cannibals by a shipwrecked sailor? ---
**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, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571/560 "2015-05-31T19:56:02Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Male 2. Fictional 3. Last name starts with F 4. Character first appeared in a book 5. Not a fictional American 6. Not created by an American 7. First created after 1900 8. Created by a European 9. Protagonist 10. Still alive when last heard from 11. European character 12. Would not be alive in 2015 13. Considered by many but not all to be a “good guy” 14. Character created by someone from the British Isles [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2015/719571.md?page=29)