# Botticelli May 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 29, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458 "2016-04-29T22:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 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 5, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/61 "2016-05-05T14:38:47Z")
No, I remember him. Good one! And thus I’ve earned my headsmack… > **[Necronomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred)** > > The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City". Among other things, the work contains an Oth... ---
**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 5, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/62 "2016-05-05T15:42:28Z")
OK, doing the alphabet thing again, so next letter is B! ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/63 "2016-05-05T16:28:18Z")
Yeah, good one. I don’t read Lovecraft, but I have heard of Alhazred. IQs: 1. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #2? 2. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #1? 3. According to legend, were you a king who brought the infant Christ a gift? ---
**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 5, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/64 "2016-05-05T22:51:38Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #2? > 2. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #1? > 3. According to legend, were you a king who brought the infant Christ a gift? Not Bing Crosby, not Bob Hope, not Balthazaar ---
**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 5, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/65 "2016-05-05T23:30:52Z")
Right on all three. Have to get a bit tougher, here. 1. Is your painting, _Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash_ one of the foremost examples of artistic Futurism? 2. Did you write the poem _To A Louse_? 3. Did you accompany Super Snooper in a series of Hanna-Barbara cartoons? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/66 "2016-05-06T00:12:39Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No, I remember him. Good one! And thus I’ve earned my headsmack… > > [Necronomicon - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred) Really good! I was close(-ish). I was on to H.G. Wells…had I but known… 🙂 But I only seem to recall (at least from the books) that his name was Abd Alhazred (and yes, I’ve read the wiki entry). ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/67 "2016-05-06T00:24:49Z")
I was also looking in toward the end but not actively participating, and I had a somewhat similar thought. A science fiction-ish novel published in the first half of the twentieth century by a very prominent author… I was trying to remember A names of characters in Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ when I realized he didn’t fit the American Author DQ response. ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/68 "2016-05-06T00:52:35Z")
IQ1: Were you also known as Timber Wolf? IQ2: Did you write and direct _Fritz the Cat_? IQ3: Were you called the Lucky Number? ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/69 "2016-05-06T01:00:30Z")
[And, in a boxed board game called _Swords & Sorcery_ one of the pre-rolled characters was an evil cleric named Unamit Ahazredit.] ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/70 "2016-05-06T01:13:29Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Right on all three. Have to get a bit tougher, here. > > 1. Is your painting, _Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash_ one of the foremost examples of artistic Futurism? > 2. Did you write the poem _To A Louse_? > 3. Did you accompany Super Snooper in a series of Hanna-Barbara cartoons? DQ, not Percy Bryce Shelley(?), DQ ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/71 "2016-05-06T01:15:10Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you also known as Timber Wolf? > IQ2: Did you write and direct _Fritz the Cat_? > IQ3: Were you called the Lucky Number? not Sitting Bull, not Ralph Bakshi, DQ ---
**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 6, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/72 "2016-05-06T01:29:21Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Right on all three. Have to get a bit tougher, here. > > 1. Is your painting, _Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash_ one of the foremost examples of artistic Futurism? > 2. Did you write the poem _To A Louse_? > 3. Did you accompany Super Snooper in a series of Hanna-Barbara cartoons? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, not Percy Bryce Shelley(?), DQ #1 is Giacomo Balla. [http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/futurist/dogleash.jpg](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/futurist/dogleash.jpg) #2 was Robert Burns. #3 was Blabber Mouse. DQs: 1. Real? 2. Male? 3. Last name starts with B? ---
**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 6, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/73 "2016-05-06T02:11:25Z")
> [@Some\_Call\_Me.Tim](#): > > IQ1: Were you also known as Timber Wolf? > IQ2: Did you write and direct _Fritz the Cat_? > IQ3: Were you called the Lucky Number? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > not Sitting Bull, not Ralph Bakshi, DQ Hmm… I wasn’t aware Sitting Bull had that alias, but I’ll take your word for it and rephrase. Correct on Bakshi, and Bilbo Baggins was lucky number fourteen. Holding one DQ. IQ1: Are you the real name of the superhero Timber Wolf? IQ2: Did you write _The Postman_? IQ3: Was your co-host Huntley? (And are you both difficult to rhyme with ‘contrapuntally’?) ---
**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 6, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/74 "2016-05-06T03:41:05Z")
IQs: Was your mom far more concerned about getting all of her daughters married off than was your dad? Were you her elder (and supposedly prettier) sister? Were you named after a much-less-well-known ornithologist? ---
**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 6, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/75 "2016-05-06T10:52:44Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the God of the North Wind? 2. Did you and Kratos chain Prometheus to a rock? 3. Are you the Roman version of Dionysus? ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/76 "2016-05-06T12:07:02Z")
DQ Roundup 1. Real 2. Female 3. Last name starts with B ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/77 "2016-05-06T12:09:58Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the real name of the superhero Timber Wolf? > IQ2: Did you write The Postman? > IQ3: Was your co-host Huntley? (And are you both difficult to rhyme with ‘contrapuntally’?) DQ, DQ, not David Brinkley (or succinctly, Brinkley) ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/78 "2016-05-06T12:11:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Was your mom far more concerned about getting all of her daughters married off than was your dad? > Were you her elder (and supposedly prettier) sister? > Were you named after a much-less-well-known ornithologist? wag… not Charlotte Bronte, not Emily Bronte, not Harvey Birdman ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/79 "2016-05-06T12:12:37Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the God of the North Wind? > 2. Did you and Kratos chain Prometheus to a rock? > 3. Are you the Roman version of Dionysus? DQ, DQ, not Bacchus ---
**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 6, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458/80 "2016-05-06T12:13:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you the God of the North Wind? > 2. Did you and Kratos chain Prometheus to a rock? > 3. Are you the Roman version of Dionysus? > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > DQ, DQ, not Bacchus #1 was Boreas. #2 was Bia. Correct on Bacchus. DQs: 1. Living? 2. American? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2016/753458.md?page=5)