# 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:** 24
**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 27, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/461 "2017-05-27T23:35:46Z")
IQ1: Is what you tell us three times true? IQ2: Did your intimate friends call you ‘Candle Ends’? IQ3: Could you only kill beavers? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/462 "2017-05-28T00:42:45Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > DQ1: Real? > [@SCAdian](#): > > Psst – the Prof already asked that one… Ah, missed that. I’ll ask my DQs once I know if we’re aiming for a real person or not. ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/463 "2017-05-28T02:54:00Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a fictional classical composer offspring created by Peter Schickele? > 2. Did you play Rick (the hero) in the last series of Mummy movies before Tom Cruise’s? > 3. Were you a short, round blue cat who hung around with Top Cat? Not P.D.Q. Bach, Brendan Frazier or dunno. > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Heisman-winning running back who played your entire NFL career with the Detroit Lions until 1998? > IQ2: Are you a deep-voiced crooner of R&B love songs? > IQ3: Are you a falsetto-voiced singer of 70’s disco songs? Dunno x3. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is what you tell us three times true? > IQ2: Did your intimate friends call you ‘Candle Ends’? > IQ3: Could you only kill beavers? Not Beetlejuice (?), dunno x2. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with B ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/464 "2017-05-28T03:24:58Z")
DQ1: Is your first appearance as a character in a novel? DQ2: Are you American? DQ3: Have you ever been portrayed in a movie? ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/465 "2017-05-28T03:33:26Z")
IQ1: Did you have hits singing about Detroit City as well as a voodoo witch? IQ2: Did you have a hit walking the streets of Bakersfield? IQ3: Did you Walk Tall as a no-nonsense southern sheriff? ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/466 "2017-05-28T11:59:00Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Is what you tell us three times true? > IQ2: Did your intimate friends call you ‘Candle Ends’? > IQ3: Could you only kill beavers? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Beetlejuice (?), dunno x2. The Bellman. The Baker. The Butcher. (If you’ve never read _The Hunting of the Snark_, you really, really need to.) DQ1: First appeared after 1950? DQ2: Would/Could be alive today, if real? Four DQs reserved. ---
**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 28, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/467 "2017-05-28T12:16:56Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a fictional classical composer offspring created by Peter Schickele? > 2. Did you play Rick (the hero) in the last series of Mummy movies before Tom Cruise’s? > 3. Were you a short, round blue cat who hung around with Top Cat? > Not P.D.Q. Bach, Brendan Frazier or dunno. Correct, Correct, and Benny the Ball. 1 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 28, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/468 "2017-05-28T12:24:47Z")
> [@](#): > > IQ1: Are you a Heisman-winning running back who played your entire NFL career with the Detroit Lions until 1998? > IQ2: Are you a deep-voiced crooner of R&B love songs? > IQ3: Are you a falsetto-voiced singer of 70’s disco songs? > > Dunno x3. Barry Sanders, Barry White, Barry Gibb Barry x 3! holding 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 28, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/469 "2017-05-28T12:29:30Z")
IQs: 1. Were you a French Impressionist painter whose best known work is of Monet, Renoir, Manet and Zola together in your studio? 2. Are you the character Michael Weatherly is currently portraying in a TV series? 3. Did you write and illustrate the _Madeline_ children’s books? ---
**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 28, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/470 "2017-05-28T23:57:05Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ1: Did you have hits singing about Detroit City as well as a voodoo witch? > IQ2: Did you have a hit walking the streets of Bakersfield? > IQ3: Did you Walk Tall as a no-nonsense southern sheriff? Dunno x2; not Buford Pusser. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Impressionist painter whose best known work is of Monet, Renoir, Manet and Zola together in your studio? > 2. Are you the character Michael Weatherly is currently portraying in a TV series? > 3. Did you write and illustrate the _Madeline_ children’s books? Dunno x3; not Ludwig Bemmelmans (sp?). B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with B 4. first appeared as a character in a novel 5. American 6. has been portrayed in a movie 7. first appeared before 1950 8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/471 "2017-05-29T00:45:58Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ1: Did you have hits singing about Detroit City as well as a voodoo witch? > IQ2: Did you have a hit walking the streets of Bakersfield? > IQ3: Did you Walk Tall as a no-nonsense southern sheriff? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno x2; not Buford Pusser. Correct on Buford Pusser (would also have accepted Joe Don Baker) IQ1 is Bobby Bare (the voodoo witch was his song _Marie Laveau_) IQ2 is Buck Owens DQ1: Are you the protagonist of the novel/movie? DQ2: Are you considered a comedic character? ---
**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 29, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/472 "2017-05-29T03:19:34Z")
DQ1: Movie made before 1960? DQ2: Genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c)? Two GQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/473 "2017-05-29T04:03:38Z")
IQ1: Were you the star of a hit TV series, but every time your title character showed up, another actor took your place? IQ2: Was the stated reason for your demise listed as “death by acne” when in actuality it was caused by driving your Ferrari into a cactus at high speed after freebasing Tender Vittles? IQ3: Are you the person responsible for IQ2? ---
**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, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/474 "2017-05-29T12:56:01Z")
mmmmm… Tender Vittles… ---
**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, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/475 "2017-05-29T14:29:02Z")
> [@](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Were you a French Impressionist painter whose best known work is of Monet, Renoir, Manet and Zola together in your studio? > 2. Are you the character Michael Weatherly is currently portraying in a TV series? > 3. Did you write and illustrate the Madeline children’s books? > Dunno x3; not Ludwig Bemmelmans (sp?). #1 was Frederic Bazille. #2 is Dr. Bull on _Bull._ Correct on Ludwig Bemelmans. 3 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, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/476 "2017-05-29T17:37:10Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ1: Were you the star of a hit TV series, but every time your title character showed up, another actor took your place? > IQ2: Was the stated reason for your demise listed as “death by acne” when in actuality it was caused by driving your Ferrari into a cactus at high speed after freebasing Tender Vittles? > IQ3: Are you the person responsible for IQ2? Dunno, not Bill the Cat, and not Berke Breathed. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with B 4. first appeared as a character in a novel 5. American 6. has been portrayed in a movie 7. first appeared before 1950 8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely 9. protagonist of the novel/movie 10. not considered a comedic character 11. movie made before 1960 12. not a genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c) ---
**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, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/477 "2017-05-29T19:43:50Z")
DQ: Created before 1900? 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 29, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/478 "2017-05-29T19:57:16Z")
DQ: Was novel written by a man? 2 DQs reserved ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/479 "2017-05-29T21:47:50Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > IQ1: Were you the star of a hit TV series, but every time your title character showed up, another actor took your place? > IQ2: Was the stated reason for your demise listed as “death by acne” when in actuality it was caused by driving your Ferrari into a cactus at high speed after freebasing Tender Vittles? > IQ3: Are you the person responsible for IQ2? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Bill the Cat, and not Berke Breathed. Correct on the (Ack! Thpppt!) Bloom County items. IQ1 is Bill Bixby (with Lou Ferrigno playing the titular Hulk) DQ: Has your character appeared in 3 or more books written by the same author? ---
**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, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506/480 "2017-05-30T01:49:30Z")
Ah, good one about Bill Bixby, **divemaster**. B. 1. fictional 2. male 3. last name starts with B 4. first appeared as a character in a novel 5. American 6. has been portrayed in a movie 7. first appeared before 1950 8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely 9. protagonist of the novel/movie 10. not considered a comedic character 11. movie made before 1960 12. not a genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c) 13. created after 1900 14. novel written by a man 15. character has not appeared in 3 or more books written by the same author [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2017/785506.md?page=25)