# Botticelli - May 2017 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 29, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506 "2017-04-29T16:43:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/1 "2017-04-29T16:43:58Z")
April thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823178](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823178) Starting off May with the letter **[SIZE=“6”]R**[/SIZE] ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/2 "2017-04-29T17:18:19Z")
IQs: Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser _MacArthur_? Did you own the Cafe Americain? Were you Samwell Tarly’s very cold-hearted father? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/3 "2017-04-29T17:36:36Z")
IQ1: Are you the primary antagonist in Stephen King’s _Dark Tower_ series? IQ2: Are you a Tom Clancy character who’s been portrayed by by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski in film? IQ3: Are you an actor whose first name is an action verb, last name is the past tense of that verb, and who appeared on the _Larry Sanders Show_? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/4 "2017-04-29T18:57:14Z")
IQs: 1. Do you write the Percy Jackson series of books? 2. Did you star in the TV sci-fi sitcom _Quark_? 3. Were you a Swiss philosopher who argued for the benefits of being a Natural Human? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/5 "2017-04-29T19:04:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser _MacArthur_? > Did you own the Cafe Americain? > Were you Samwell Tarly’s very cold-hearted father? 2 DQs, not Randyll Tarly > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you the primary antagonist in Stephen King’s _Dark Tower_ series? > IQ2: Are you a Tom Clancy character who’s been portrayed by by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski in film? > IQ3: Are you an actor whose first name is an action verb, last name is the past tense of that verb, and who appeared on the _Larry Sanders Show_? DQ, not Jack Ryan, not Rip Torn ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/6 "2017-04-29T19:07:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you write the Percy Jackson series of books? > 2. Did you star in the TV sci-fi sitcom _Quark_? > 3. Were you a Swiss philosopher who argued for the benefits of being a Natural Human? Not Rick Riordan, DQ, not Jean-Jacques Rousseau ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/7 "2017-04-29T19:09:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Do you write the Percy Jackson series of books? > 2. Did you star in the TV sci-fi sitcom _Quark_? > 3. Were you a Swiss philosopher who argued for the benefits of being a Natural Human? > [@guylevesque](#): > > Not Rick Riordan, DQ, not Jean-Jacques Rousseau Correct, Richard Benjamin, Correct. DQ: Real? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/8 "2017-04-29T19:11:17Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a Trickster God enemy on the TV series _The Magicians_? 2. Was one of your radio characters Junior the Mean Widdle Kid? 3. Was your deputy Droop-Along Coyote? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/9 "2017-04-29T22:02:30Z")
IQ1: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”? IQ2: Did you command a British light infantry company used mainly for reconnaissance during the French and Indian War? IQ3: Did you write about Fritz Brenner and Dol Bonner? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/10 "2017-04-29T23:11:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Trickster God enemy on the TV series _The Magicians_? > 2. Was one of your radio characters Junior the Mean Widdle Kid? > 3. Was your deputy Droop-Along Coyote? DQ, not Red Skelton, DQ > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”? > IQ2: Did you command a British light infantry company used mainly for reconnaissance during the French and Indian War? > IQ3: Did you write about Fritz Brenner and Dol Bonner? Not Randy Travis, 2 DQs E 1. Real ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/11 "2017-04-29T23:12:48Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you the primary antagonist in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series? > IQ2: Are you a Tom Clancy character who’s been portrayed by by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski in film? > IQ3: Are you an actor whose first name is an action verb, last name is the past tense of that verb, and who appeared on the Larry Sanders Show? > > DQ, not Jack Ryan, not Rip Torn Randall Flagg Props to the Prof for the Magicians reference. I really dig the books and the SF series. DQ: Male? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/12 "2017-04-29T23:18:47Z")
IQ1: Are you a heavy metal vocalist who fronted Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne left? IQ2: Are you a porn actor nicknamed “The Hedgehog?” IQ3: Are you one of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/13 "2017-04-30T00:39:59Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a Trickster God enemy on the TV series The Magicians? > 2. Was one of your radio characters Junior the Mean Widdle Kid? > 3. Was your deputy Droop-Along Coyote? > DQ, not Red Skelton, DQ Thanks for the props, KO! #1 is Reynard the Fox. Correct on Red. #3 was Ricochet Rabbit. DQs: 1. Alive? 2. Last name starts with R? ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/14 "2017-04-30T01:10:48Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a heavy metal vocalist who fronted Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne left? > IQ2: Are you a porn actor nicknamed “The Hedgehog?” > IQ3: Are you one of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash? Not Ronnie James Dio or Ron Jeremy, DQ R (finger slipped and I wrote “E” last post, I apologize for the typo) 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/15 "2017-04-30T01:27:27Z")
IQs: 1. Did you play the Sundance Kid opposite Paul Newman? 2. Are you a former news anchor for the CBS Evening News? 3. Did you play with Dan Hamilton and Joe Frank Carollo? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/16 "2017-04-30T03:06:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > …IQ2: Are you a Tom Clancy character who’s been portrayed by by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski in film?.. Nitpick: Krasinski _will_ play him on TV, but has never played him in film. Previous IQs: Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser _MacArthur_? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s classic first-contact sf novel _The Mote in God’s Eye_ Did you own the Cafe Americain? - Rick Blaine, in _Casablanca_ Were you Samwell Tarly’s very cold-hearted father? - Yes, Randyll (the SDMB software recognizes “Randall” as being a misspelling in this context!) Tarly DQs: American? Born since 1964? IQs: Does a lisping Pontius Pilate order your release? And yours? Although famous for something else, did you once appear as an extra in an opera’s party scene with a good friend and colleague? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/17 "2017-04-30T04:52:35Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”? > IQ2: Did you command a British light infantry company used mainly for reconnaissance during the French and Indian War? > IQ3: Did you write about Fritz Brenner and Dol Bonner? > [@guylevesque](#): > > Not Randy Travis, 2 DQs Correct. Robert Rogers (Rogers’s Rangers). Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe’s chef and one of his part-time assistants). DQ: Known for the Arts? One DQ reserved. ---
**Author:** ![guylevesque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@guylevesque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guylevesque)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/18 "2017-04-30T05:24:08Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you play the Sundance Kid opposite Paul Newman? > 2. Are you a former news anchor for the CBS Evening News? > 3. Did you play with Dan Hamilton and Joe Frank Carollo? Not Robert Redford, not Dan Rather, DQ > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Does a lisping Pontius Pilate order your release? > And yours? > Although famous for something else, did you once appear as an extra in an opera’s party scene with a good friend and colleague? 3 DQs 1. Real 2. Male 3. Alive 4. Last name starts with R 5. Not American 6. Born before 1964 7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else Also, any reason 1964 is used as a birth year for DQs? I’ve seen it a few times and it seems a little arbitrary. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/19 "2017-04-30T12:40:44Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a heavy metal vocalist who fronted Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne left? > IQ2: Are you a porn actor nicknamed “The Hedgehog?” > IQ3: Are you one of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash? > > Not Ronnie James Dio or Ron Jeremy, DQ Ronnie Van Zant Ron x 3! DQ: European? I’ve also wondered why EH chooses 1964, but I assumed it’s his birth year. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/20 "2017-04-30T12:52:34Z")
IQ1: Are you a 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas and the NFL’s leading rusher in 2002 with the Miami Dolphins? IQ2: Are you a Country Artist known for 1983’s _Highway 40 Blues_? IQ3: Are you a British comedian who hosted the Golden Globes from 2010-2012 and is known for laughing hysterically at your own tasteless jokes? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=2)